#coraline theory

[wormturned]

Ok I watch Coraline recently bc of course it's October and I realized -

Wybie said he took the doll from his Grandma, which implies that the Beldam modified it to look like Coraline, and then left it in his house? I feel like it's generally assumed that the Beldam has power over the Pink Palace, but the thing with the doll and Wybie makes me wonder if she has power outside the house?? And how much?? How did the doll even get there?

Because we see her making it at the beginning of the movie but then it's in Wybie's house?

I'm sure somebody's caught this and there's a theory on this somewhere but I'm so curious

[jet-a-door]

I just rewatched coraline and a thought occurred to me. Forcible and Spink have 3 dogs and all of the winged ones are organized in 3s. This made me think maybe they were once triplets and one got stolen.Because of that they were never able to leave the house, either because of thr other mother or to protect future children. And Mr b has his jumping mouse circus but and he clearly has the skills to be part of a real circus and probably was, until his brother or son got taken and the trauma made him unable to ever move from that house. I say brother or son because mr b isnt as old as forcible and spink so idk what would make sense age wise for him to be missing There are 3 other children coraline saves, one is wybies great aunt, I think one is the missing triplet and Mr b's brother/son. Like how wybies grandma continues to be the landlord there.

PLUS forcible and spink seems to have a 3 fates vibe. With match with the motif of strings/webs.

[viennavellichor]

A friend and I are watching Caroline

And in the book there's 13 chapters

When you go to the movie theres a countdown!

There's 13 mushrooms in the fae circle in scene 1,

12 windows in scene 2

11 bugs scene 3

10 candles on the cake in scene 4

9 on the cards in scene 5

8 mice canons in scene 6

7 guys on the ship in scene 7

6 umbrellas and canes on the chandelier scene 8

5 pieces of food in the bad sack in scene 9

4 blue eating flowers in scene 10

3 eyes found in scene 11

2 people in the web in scene 12

1 snow globe or family or key in scene 13

[readnscreen]

I made a podcast!! It's really just me rambling about all the books I've read, only one episode so far but I'm hoping to use it as a log for my tbr, I have it strewn all over the floor and would like to talk about them somewhere and keep track of everything i read!

Here's a link if anyone is interested in some bookish background noise, it will get better i promise.

[kp-studios]

This popped out of my shower thoughts, but she must be redeemed.

[wisegirl25]

Forever looking for the Ekko to my Jinx, Percy to my Annabeth, Tombo to my Kiki, Wybie to my Coraline, Keefe to my Sophie, Magnus to my Alex, Dina to my Ellie, Amy to my Sheldon, Gilbert to my Anne, Howl to my Sophie, Anthony to my Kate, Cardan to my Jude, Ron to my Hermione, Zuko to my Katara…

[punkeropercyjackson]

I wanna believe Ghostflower monoshippers when they say they don't ship it just because it's a black guy and a white girl but they keep comparing it to every black guy x white girl ship even when the characters aren't Miles-coded and Gwen-coded at all and are literally just a black guy and a white girl so-

[strawberrynida]

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[citrineaura]

Sally's Monster Allegory

The Halloween update gave us some insight on Playfellow Workshop AND the Restoration Team. And as always, I'm here to theorize on that.

Firstly, Sally's "Macabre Menagerie of Monstrous Mischief Making". A menagerie is a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition. Sally tells a story about "visitors" these unknown creatures which wander around the forest at night, hungry and unsatisfied but that's a rare instance.

I feel like Sally's Halloween idea and her story go hand in hand.

The story sounds like a subtle hint towards Playfellow Workshop being power hungry, thus the menagerie. Let's be hypothetical: Pretend the animals are actually the neighbors being KEPT and TRAINED (like a puppeteer working a puppet) for the exhibition or rather the show.

But also, an exhibition is a public display of art. Just like the rooms that the Restoration Team uses to place remnants of the show upon the walls and floors.

What I'm saying is, besides Playfellow Workshop being the antagonists, I heavily believe that the Restoration Team aren't saints either. Only that ONE member I keep referencing, that Wally tries to talk to. Like I said, the black sheep of the team.

The updates (News page) on the website, do you ever notice how odd the WHRP sounds sometimes? They talk as if they're Playfellow Workshop. They are merely the founders of the project, not the company itself but why do they talk like they are? (They're not, but it's still weird)

On February 25th, there was an update as we all know but did you notice this at the end?

So this definitely comes full circle to Sally's Halloween idea. I did make a theory stating if Sally knew she was in a show, she would want the show to go on (even though it didn't) as a puppet, she's powerless in this situation. But that doesn't mean she can't have an opinion on it...

And yes, this makes WHRP suspicious.

And then the narrator telling the story is able to interact with the neighbors AND THE NEIGHBORS CAN HEAR. I was under the impression that it was a silly thing of "creator interacts with the creation" but hearing the way the narrator laughed like that at the end? That was...TOO scary?

Because who's spending all their money to invest in a whole museum just for some old children's show remnants that hardly anybody knows of to this day? Opening up a museum, according to research, costs 100k-500k. They're quite rich.

Sally also said in her story that you can hear the monster outside but you can't see it. So some of the neighbors can hear beyond their reality, they just can't see what's going on (except Wally to an extent because he has reality-eating eyes)

[scarletgemstone]

same coin theory songfic dreaming

(baby stan and ford are seen sleeping as the wind blows the citrines as euclid and scalene eainter they both look like ghost as the world turns grey their bodies are glitch and damaged they look at the twins)

Euclid” making up a song about Stanley He’s a peach he’s a doll (stan grabes euclid’s finger as scalene rocks the cradle)  he’s a friend to me “

(stan and ford are seen playing as euclid and scalene watch)

Euclid” he’s as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on stanley”

Scalene”when he comes around exploring we will try to never ever make it boring”

(stan and ford are seen playing at the beach euclid and scalene berfile see a image of bill over stan)

Euclid” my eyes will be on stanley”

(they watch stan grow up)

Both” dreaming”

(they see stan and ford at prom)

Both” dreaming”

(the twins are seen at the princabels office as ford gets a pamflint)

Both” dreaming taking you away now”

(stan and ford are seen on the swing set stan is seen at the science fair)

Both” dreaming”

(stan breaks and trys to fix ford’s project)

Both” dreaming”

(stan is kick out of his house and drives away scalene and euclid follow him)

Both”dreaming”

(stan is seen doing his scams than his seen sleeping as euclid and scalene watch over him euclid pats his hair)

Euclid” dreaming i got you now”

Both” dreaming dream on”

(stan and ford are seen fighting over the journal and turning the portal on)

Both” it’s too late now”

(ford is pushed into the portal and stan try’s to trun it on)

Both” dream on “

(scalene and euclid can’t seem to know why stan reminds them of bill as they try to comfort him)

Both” i am here for you now”

(they see stan giving torus)

Both” go through the door”

( they see the times they watch over stan and ford)

Both” dreaming dreaming it’s too late now”

(they remember their home)

Both” dreaming oh i’ve got you now”

(they are seen remembering bill)

(they than look at stan)

Euclid” making up a song about stanley”

Scalene”he’s my peach”

Euclid” he’s my doll”

(they remember the fire burning euclydia and the portal incident)

Euclid” he will never be free”

(they see stan with dipper and mabel)

Scalene” he’s as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on stanley”

(they see ford come back through the portal)

Both” when he comes around exploring (they got into the woods) we will try to never ever make it boring”

(they find two statues of themselves)

Both” our eyes will be on stanley”

[freakenomenon]

OKAY. I FINALLY HAVE ANOTHER ESSAY RANT THING BUT ITS NOT IHNMAIMS SADLY.

I find it so interesting how REAL the desperation in the delivery of other mother saying "DONT LEAVE ME, ILL DIE WITHOUT YOU." is,, of course within the nature of the beldams character you'd find yourself questioning the honesty of this statement.

i mean duh we're not the 11 year old hurriedly rushing away from an entity we'd briefly been attached to and found solace in. from the start, other mother seems eerie and just. OFF. but i find it endlessly interesting how progressively desperate other mother is for coraline to stay with her. its incredibly vague what other mother does to the previous children in the movie. most people interpret it as her LITERALLY eating the children or eating their souls. but it seems like there is genuine attachment there, although incredibly unhealthy. its there.

while talking with the cat, not only does it comment that it thinks the mother simply wants something to love other than herself. but i noticed coraline literally walks away from the abhorrent situation she's left to deal with, only to end up right back where she started. which I think is a representation of how unhealthy coralines escapism through this world is. she is being neglected of attention and rather than branch out, she retreats to a world that seems much more welcoming. but is just as unhealthy as the last. walk around the world.

this is coralines world. at this age, her house, her parents, her. attachments. thats her whole world, and even as she detaches from it. humans are creatures of habit, so she ends up in practically the same place. and personally i think that says a lot about the other mother as well. confined to the pink palace apartments, she seeks out children who are unhappy and gives them everything they want in exchange for them blinding themselves to their pasts and being entirely dependent on her. and with each child, they sew the buttons and allow her to literally love them to death. its all she has, she exists for this soul purpose. or at least that's what shes convinced herself. the gap she has between reality, tragedy and triumph, to carve something she believes as perfection to appease others is all she is.

and as each other child shattered beneath the weight of her affection and bent to her charm, coraline falters. she refuses. she DARES to believe shed rather go back to her real parents, to realize shes not too far gone. its unpredictable, it breaks that mask of delusion SHES blinded herself. BLINDED OTHERS with. and brings her back to the cold reality that is the blank void she's been confined to. between reality. where she can only create half baked imitations of what's around her and pretend that what shes made is better. but who else is there for her to impress? to help. to play with.

just like with coraline, now that shes moved and lost her friends. her parents are all she has left to cling to.

BUT IDK thats just my interpretation

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[cherryyy-bombx]

Rewatching Coraline and the cat going behind the sign makes me think Coraline DID escape but the magic isn’t gone/because the cat can “come and go as he pleases” the other world is still open and active. She escaped but didn’t get rid of the other world fully and the cats telling us this. It’s really all up to interpretation

[lxversvalk]

In all seriousness . credits to : @kmwilllose for this . - GENERATION LOSS THEORY . So I've seen two images that look .. similar .

niki . - GENLOSS

coraline . - Coraline -- I might have some suspicions about these two . In genloss , the masks cause mind control . which is when you're in one world , but you're in another as well . In coraline , the stitched doll eyes cause to sew ones two worlds . And as you can see in the pictures , coraline and niki . Both look like they're crawling through the same tube .

this is only something I've seen just now , and thought about for some time . It's for the funny bit you know :)

BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY ! . A FILM THEORYY !

[churchandmouse]

coraline theory

#TheGreatImpersonator reminds me of Coraline in the sense that C wants everything she “doesn’t have” (fame/notoriety) & searches for it somewhere else (other world), finds it’s not as it seems, w/ the Eye finds what she wants

“hidden in plain sight”

“it’s good for lost things”

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The Beldam being the consequences of decisions naively made. I’ll fight harder bc my pride/ego are too high to lose Modesty was never on the table; I am deserving whether I earned it or not #EGO #h5

Getting in way too over your head but don’t realize it until you’re neck deep

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[tomiokagiyuufirststan]

Does people still know coraline ?

Cause it's my fav show