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merry christmas from linagram!

merry christmas everyone.. merry christmas.. you get these guard plushies as a present. blessed miki plushie that says she forgives you and she will do anything to save you and cursed eiji and hinode plushies that drink your pepsi and say you're guilty and use the amnesia machine on you

this drawing in particular has t1 eiji and miki here but it's okay. it's okay

you can read the christmas special vd under the cut! also yes it's canon actually.

Hinode: So.. Christmas, huh?

Miki: .. Hm? Is it Christmas already?

Hinode: Well, if this calendar is to be believed..

Hinode: I've never imagined myself celebrating Christmas in a prison, haha.

Miki: .. Right.

Hinode: Is everything okay, Miki-san? You're not.. um, in a holiday mood?

Miki: .. I guess.

Hinode: Wait, what are these? So many boxes..

Miki: O-oh, I'm wrapping presents for the prisoners.

Hinode: Really? Did they ask for something?

Miki: I've asked them to write down what they want for Christmas and this morning I had everything prepared. I just need to make these things look.. well, like presents.

Hinode: You still want them to have a nice Christmas even though they're in prison.. You are so kind, Miki-san.

Miki: W-well, that's just a part of my job as this prison's goddess..

Hinode: "Goddess"?..

Miki: Never mind.

Hinode: O-okay.. So, what did everyone ask for?

Miki: Let's see..

Miki: Miyagawa-san asked for a diary. His head injury is slowly getting better, but his memory still isn't the best at the moment and he wants to write everything down so that he won't forget about it. He also just finds making notes useful.

Miki: This diary here has a lock too. Miyagawa-san will have to come up with a password..

Hinode: W-what if he forgets the password too?..

Miki: .. Well, that won't be my problem.

Miki: Aimi-chan asked for more cute hairclips. I have a lot of them here..

Miki: Though she actually asked for them not because she wants to use them for herself, but because she wants to do my hair.

Miki: She said that my hair looks really messy these days.

Hinode: To be honest, I can't help but agree with her. And what about your pigtails?

Miki: .. I can't be bothered to take care of that.

Miki: Ishizu-san asked for this anime figure. It looks pretty detailed.

Miki: I find it interesting how he remembered the character's name, the title of the anime she's from, what this particular figure is called..

Miki: His memory really works well when it comes to things he likes.

Miki: Chiba-san didn't know what to ask for at first, but then she wrote that her request might be a little bit too specific..

Miki: And she asked for a small glass figure of a cat.

Hinode: That's.. actually quite specific.

Miki: When I asked her about it, she said that she just misses her cat a lot. I offered to get her a plushie or something else that could remind her of her cat, but she said that she would like to have a glass figure specifically.

Miki: She said that she used to.. collect them? But I don't remember her ever mentioning something like that..

Hinode: .. I think you should remember that detail just in case.

Hinode: Prisoners requesting something they wouldn't request in a different setting or situation should be considered suspicious.

Hinode: I mean.. I've heard about what Riku did during the first trial.

Miki: .. Maybe you're right. I'll keep that in mind.

Miki: Now, Kei-san..

Miki: Kei-san asked for... spray paint?

Hinode: What is it with everyone suddenly getting new interests and hobbies..

Miki: When I asked him about it, he just went..

Miki: "Come on, Miki! I just want to make our prison more pretty! I want to make it more colorful! Everyone looks so sad these days.."

Miki: We can't ask Eiji-san about it right now, but I really doubt Kei-san really just.. "wants to make this prison more pretty".

Hinode: He's.. an interesting individual, that's for sure.

Miki: Now, Yoshioka-san..

Miki: Yoshioka-san asked for some new earrings and even described how she wants them to look like. She said that she just "kinda wants to try something new".

Miki: .. Even though it sounds like something she would ask for, I can't help but feel worried.

Hinode: Really? Why?

Miki: Yoshioka-san mentioned once that she got the earrings she wears now from her father. And if I'm not wrong, she has a very good relationship with her father.

Miki: So why would she.. suddenly want to get new earrings if these ones are so special to her?

Hinode: Huh..

Hinode: Well, Miki-san, I'm not sure what to say here, but..

Hinode: Usually something like that happens when a person gets disappointed in their family member and doesn't want to think about them.

Miki: ...

Miki: Also, Asahi-kun..

Miki: Asahi-kun's request was.. Here, let me read it.

Miki: "You know those stuffed animals that have stuff like candy or chocolate hidden inside and you can get it out when you unzip them? Yeah, I want one. Doesn't matter what it looks like, I care about the candy more anyway."

Hinode: His request is very in character for him, haha.

Hinode: But why would he ask for a plushie specifically? He can just ask for candy or whatever he wants to eat.

Miki: I don't know.

Miki: Maybe that's just him wanting to have something that he can play with. He's still a child after all.

Hinode: Oh, you're finally smiling. He really is important to you, isn't he?

Miki: .. Ahem.

Miki: So, Maruyama-san wrote..

Miki: "Whatever. Just give me whatever you want. Getting a gift from our savior is enough of an honor anyway."

Hinode: .. Yeah, the last part is definitely supposed to be sarcasm.

Hinode: So, what did you decide to give her?

Miki: Well, here's the thing..

Miki: We never had to get whatever the prisoners asked for ourselves, we just.. had to ask everyone about their requests first and then write a list of the things we needed and everything appeared on the next day after that, we just had to bring everything to them.

Hinode: Actually.. How does this work?

Hinode: Does that mean someone else is.. buying these things for them? Or getting them from somewhere?

Hinode: Imagine if we had to go shopping for all these items. *laughs*

Miki: I don't know how this works.. And I'm not sure that I want to know.

Miki: But anyway, this morning, when I checked everyone's presents, I noticed that Maruyama-san's present was..

Miki: A letter.

Hinode: A letter?..

Miki: *nods*

Miki: I think it's also supposed to be from her.. manager?

Miki: It's signed too..

Miki: "Kanasawa Takame".

Hinode: Have you read the rest of the letter?

Miki: No, I didn't. To be honest, I just.. don't really care about their relationship.

Miki: I just want to know more about her crime and that's all.

Hinode: Hmm.. Well, we also can't be sure that this letter really was written by her manager.

Hinode: Maybe it's just someone who works here pretending to be her.

Hinode: *laughs* Imagine them writing this. That would be so funny.

Miki: If Maruyama-san realizes that this letter isn't actually from her manager..

Miki: .. I think she won't take it well.

Hinode: Well, that's what we have these things for, right?

Miki: .. Hinode-san, I will use these only when the prisoner is about to hurt someone or when it's okay to return their memories to them.

Hinode: Okay, okay. You're so strict.. You really are a perfect guard.

Hinode: .. I wonder what my brother has asked for.

Miki: His request actually wasn't that unique or out of the ordinary for him.

Miki: He just asked me for some hair dye again.

Hinode: Again?.. I thought he had already dyed his hair after the second trial. Wasn't it his first request after getting voted guilty?

Miki: He said that I got the wrong color for him.

Hinode: Oh..

Hinode: And what color did he actually want?

Miki: Black.

Hinode: Going back to his natural color, huh..

Miki: Finally, Himura-san..

Miki: .. She asked for a voice recorder.

Hinode: .. Are we even allowed to give her that?

Miki: Well, it's one of the presents, so.. I guess we are.

Miki: Listen, if I was allowed to give your brother a knife, I think voice recorder is more than okay.

Hinode: Well, I don't think whoever is in charge of this prison cares that much about the prisoners' safety, but if these prisoners find out something they weren't supposed to..

Miki: .. Whatever Himura-san does with this thing is none of my business.

Miki: A-anyway, I'm done with wrapping presents. Let's go, we shouldn't keep them waiting.

Miki: "I hope Eiji-san is doing okay.. I wish I could bring something to him as a present.."

***

???: Man, these prisoners are weird.

???: Spray paint? A cat glass figure?

???: I expected more from them.

???: To be honest, I have a bad feeling about this.

???: Really? Why?

???: I don't know, it's like..

???: Almost all of them are planning to use their presents in some way?

???: Why would someone request a voice recorder? Why would someone request spray paint?

???: .. Are you telling me the third prisoner's gonna try to kill someone with an anime girl figure?

???: Do I look like I know what's going on inside his head?!

???: True.

???: Anyway, do you think you've done a good job with that letter?

???: I-I don't know. I've tried my best.

???: Well, now a poor lovestruck girl's mental health fully depends on how good you are at copying someone's handwriting, so..

???: If she snaps, that's gonna be on you~

???: Look, I'm already under too much pressure!..

???: Ehehe, it's okay. Come here, come here~

???: S-stop, this is embarrassing..

???: Also, do you think that girl.. you know.. has already watched the video I asked Jackalope to show her?

???: Well, judging by her suddenly asking for new earrings..

???: I think she's starting to understand something.

???: Do you think they will be mad at us?

???: Well, even if they will, who cares?

???: After all..

???: I am the real goddess of this place.

#hopefully color-coded question marks make it easier to say who's talking in the endjdkdkdk #it will take. a while before i can reveal these characters' names #one of them will most likely not even get their name revealed for. Reasons #it's okay guys kei is just getting backdraft as his t3 cover <3 (he's not)#anyway yeah. linagram lore reveal: there are two silly guys (gender-neutral)#and whenever a prisoner requests something they go to buy these things or make them themselves /hj #“so eiko-” what about eiko :)#🎤 voice dramas! 🎤#🗡️guard 001: sanada eiji 🗡️#🌼guard 002: andou miki 🌼#❤️‍🩹guard 003: kuroki hinode❤️‍🩹#milgram #milgram oc #milgram project #ocgram

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daytura · 1 year ago

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Dream #3

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"For the more troubling and by far most terrifying Dream #3, Mia Haven and Lance Slocum team up together to ply the curvatures of that strange stretch of imaginings. Unlike #1 and #2, this dream is particularly difficult to recount even in 400 pages and requires that careful attention be paid to the various temporal and even tonal shifts. An outline of key "shifts" shall have to suffice.

Navidson wakes up in a dark hull of a ship. He can just make out that it is raining outside. His head is pounding. He is suffering from a hangover and his body is covered in mysterious welts.

A few moments later he is standing on the deck of the ship, which he now understands is called the The Burrow. It is still raining outside and Navidson is still incapacitated, his normal gait cast down into a stagger. The ship is absolutely deserted. As Navidson calls out for help or answer into the sky, great echoes return. One echo of note is the following, in response to "What is going on?!": "Going on!"

In the next few moments Navidson discovers that the rain is only on the port side of the ship, while the starboard side of the ship is bathed in blazing sunlight. Given the crippling darkness of the rainy half and the blown out highlight of the sunlit half, he is unable to determine which side of the ship he is on. He has the sense that the ship is balanced between the two extremes, though he realizes that if he could just find a way to move from the port side to the starboard side he would surely find rescue. He attempts to cross, but he finds the soles of his shoes somehow nailed to the deck. A great wave hurtles over the deck, crashing onto Navidson.

When Navidson comes to awareness again, he is in the hold of the ship. He is in a tub of water, which is the same temperature as his body. He is surrounded by seven or eight extremely thin old men, who are in turn surrounded by a multitude of empty bottles. One of them speaks to Navidson, “You're a long way from home, young man."

Navidson finds himself on the deck of the ship again. This time he is standing on the starboard side. He can see a lifeboat off in the distance. “It’s okay,” he hears someone say. “It’s okay.” This same person pushes him from the deck, and he falls headfirst into the warm ocean. Bubbles flutter up to the surface of the water as he screams.

Navidson wakes up on the tongue of a great animal. He is far from the teeth and only a stone's away from the dark throat of the animal. Navidson tries to strike the inside of the animal's mouth, but it does not budge. Now quicker to resign, Navidson takes a deep breath, exhales, and begins to crawl on all fours down the length of the tongue.

Navidson wakes up in a large living room, curled up in a fetal position on the floor. Navidson cries out again, but it is a low noise more befitting an animal than a man. The room is dark. Moments later, an indistinct figure opens the door and steps in. They light a small lamp, which illuminates the doorframe and a portion of the doorknob. Before Navidson can see who the person with the light is, he wakes up in real life.

Haven takes the first stand and explains the ship, of course, is the house. Haven even goes so far as to suggest that the name The Burrow has no other etymology than the house itself, though she is unsure whether or not the name is to be interpreted as a verb or a noun. [389—-Translator’s note: Haven’s original German text employs the word “denke,” which means “to think,” though “to burrow” is also a legitimate translation. — Ed.] As Haven points out, the rainstorm on one half of the ship mirrors the darkness that continues to grow within the house, and the unbearable sunlight on the other half mirrors the summer heat that has followed Navidson, his family, and even the house well into the autumn months.

Slocum takes over and builds on his colleague's realistic analysis. He explains that the ship’s duality is more than just a mere reflection of the house's duality, but a two-toned "amplification" of the house. Slocum is particularly taken with the idea that the ship is balanced between night and day, where Navidson's frantic attempts to escape only bring about a further deterioration. Slocum pushes forward the idea of a double abstraction, such that if the Great Hall of the house was indeed an extraordinary hull, then this ship in Navidson's dream is the house enlarged to a massive scale. Innate dualities of civilization and tribalism, light and darkness, the individual and the collective, are now magnified. Slocum conjectures that Navidson's attempt to cross from the shadow to the light was doomed to fail, because it "rests on the assumption light is always good when this could be no further than the truth. For creatures of the night or the deep sea, light blinds; and sunlight eats whole swathes of newspaper and books when outside a home".[200—Haven and Slocum, Oceans of the Mind, 199X, p. 251]

Haven returns to address the old men in the hold who surround Navidson. She notes the possible biblical reference to the seven or eight prophets of the Old and New Testaments. But Haven remarks that the old men could also be interpreted as "the people of the house", or even "the ancestors of the house", and she speculates that the fact Navidson is sitting in a tub of water means he is at peace with the house for the first time, and that the men are even encouraging him to remain there. With this in mind, the lifeboat becomes a more sinister symbol. It is visually the last chance for Navidson to be saved, but Haven suggests that in reality the lifeboat is the last chance for the house to hold on to Navidson, and that being tossed overboard means the house has finally lost him.[201—Oceans of the Mind, p. 254-5]

Slocum proceeds to the sixth shift, where Navidson is on the tongue of a great animal. Surprisingly, Slocum rejects the notion that the animal is the house, and instead claims the animal is what the house has become after the Navidson family and their contacts have explored it. Therefore, just as the mouth of the animal is a derivative of the house, Slocum proposes that the dark throat of the animal leading into its stomach is an additional but necessary derivative that allows Navidson to come back to the reality of everyday life. "Abstractions upon abstractions seem to expand, but more often than not they simply pop," he says.

Finally, Haven and Slocum converge on a final interpretation for the seventh shift of the dream. They both agree that this darkroom [202—Typo. Should be "dark room", with a space. —JT] exists outside of the ship and beyond the labyrinth of the house; however, they disagree on how to interpret the significance of the dream. Haven regards the dream as an obscure warning to Navidson, where the dimness of the lamp reflects Navidson's waning spirit as he is separated from Karen and his children. "The door is shut and will remain shut", she says. Meanwhile, Slocum considers it a more positive sign for Navidson and reifies the implied movement of the figure. While it is true that the light of the lamp is a "small but essential sign of the future" the true significance of this dream is that this figure is opening the door to check on Navidson and see that he is alright. Navidson waking up before seeing the face of his sentinel is a consequence of his sleep cycle, not of thematic finality. "The dream," Slocum concludes, "ends in the very same way it began. Navidson waking up in the dark, but this time with hope."

Just before it seems like Haven and Slocum will burn the page with their competing interpretations, they have the mind to admit to each other that they still a hard time understanding what this section of the dream means, if it means anything at all. "We could put our glasses down and just accept it as it is," Haven begins. "Navidson on the floor could just be Navidson on the floor. The lamp could just be a lamp. The figure could be any one of Navidson's family or friends. The problem with this part of the dream is that it 'feels' so real, which means it has much more in common with the mundanity of our daily lives than spirits, monsters, and gods of literature." Slocum returns the sentiment. "It's nihilistic without even trying. It's so real it seems to have no meaning at all — only one we can make of it, though I suppose that's what we've been doing all this time." [203—Oceans of the Mind, p. 398] Ultimately, they agree that it is, at the very least, a curious and almost peaceful way to end the dream; and that Navidson has much work to quell his own waves and traumas."

#house of leaves #fanfiction #dreams #haven-slocum theory #for transparency i would like to mention that i did write this with the code-davinci-002 base model #but given the postmodern and post-structuralist theme of the work i think that's more than appropriate #these half-pages are glued into the book w/ **repositionable** glue so they won't damage the original pages #like Johnny's own appends i see this as another addition and not a replacement. updating > deleting

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