#i'm gonna believe this theory

[violetriorsons]

i can't believe i'm only just now thinking of this, but what if dain lied about not being willing to save violet at threshing bc he didn't want to admit to xaden — his wingleader — about any possibility of him ever breaking the codex? especially not where violet's involved. and especially when he had just been accusing xaden of the very same thing

xaden had his shield up through the whole convo so he wasn't reading him, and he not only expected dain's answer but wanted it, so he wouldn't have thought to question it. but unfortunately for dain, violet believed it too

it also explains dain's attempt at damage control later on, cause he tells violet "You have to know that I would do anything to save you, Violet, to keep you safe" but vi doesn't really give him a chance to finish

[eddiezpaghetti]

Okay, so my experience with Stranger Things is a weird one.

I didn't care when it first came out, started to watch it out of "might as well" in 2020, wasn't interested in it enough to make it past S2, forgot about it outside of going "oh, hey, cool, there's a lesbian in it now, I guess," in S3, got really annoyed when "Running Up That Hill" got popular from it because it was a song I listened to on fucking loop after one of my best friends died in high school and I fully expected its appearance in the show to ignore the whole survivor's guilt theme of the song (and was very happy to learn later that it did the exact opposite of ignoring the lyrics), saw people drawing Eddie, suddenly got a lot more interested, watched just the fourth season like a fucking psychopath because I was seriously only there for Eddie, then got interested enough to start the show over properly, having mostly forgotten what I did watch of the show before.

And let me tell you something from the perspective of someone who started with the complete fourth season, who wasn't there from the start, who wasn't tainted by ship goggles or this internal battle of hope and despair, who wasn't theorizing about what the painting could be or expecting Mike and Will to kiss when Volume 2 happened or rooting for Mike and Eleven's relationship to go down in flames or whatever the fuck. Just someone who went blind into Season 4.

It's really fucking obvious that Will and Mike are gonna be endgame.

Like holy fuck. It's so fucking blatant I don't even know why people are nervous.

No sane fucking person would shoot this scene this way if they wanted the audience to care about El and Mike as a couple. Despite being all blurry in the background, Will's reaction to what's happening here is smackdab in the fucking middle, clearly showing that the important part is what's going through his head here. What he's feeling. It's like the opposite of that scene from Kingdom Hearts II where Sora and Riku reunite and Kairi just fucking vanishes into the aether while it's happening because, despite the fact that she was standing between them when the scene began, she doesn't matter to the scene, so she's just kind of gone when the camera angle changes. Will could have been behind one of their heads, or so far in the distance he blends in with the background, but he's not. He's so obvious that despite being massively blurred out, he's still the first goddamn thing you look at. What, you think that's an accident? You think he's in the middle of this dramatic fucking scene because of a mistake? He basically has a big flashing neon arrow pointing at him with "THIS IS THE POINT" being screamed through a megaphone.

And then this?

They're paired up like they're taking fucking prom pictures. Each one of these pairs is so fucking close to one another and so fucking far from everyone else. It's not, "Oh, they're standing vaguely near each other in a group shot," it's fucking Noah's Ark out here. Again, there's no way to take this as an accident. It's not just a framing issue. If they wanted to make the shot look balanced while still not hiding anyone else behind El, they would have scattered people around much more naturally. Even if they wanted to keep Nancy with Jonathan and Hopper with Joyce, there's so much room on that hill for three people to stand on El's left and three on her right. But they didn't do that. They put Mike and Will together on purpose in the most obvious way possible.

Like I get that coming up with crackpot theories is fun in and of itself and I'm not blaming anyone for having fun. I totally get the appeal of arguing a point and reaching for every stupid little thing to pull into it because it's like a game, okay? I've done that. But if you're trying to actually convince someone (whether it's someone who wants to believe or someone who's pissed at the very idea that Mike and Will could be in love), stay away from blue and yellow lights, stay away from costume design, stay away from the existence of closets in backgrounds. And don't worry about whether Mike's gay or bi when he's in love with Will either way. I'll give you a little tip about persuasion: You're only as strong as your weakest argument. Even if you've got strong stuff in there, too, the person you're trying to convince is going to dismiss anything you say as complete insanity the second you start going on an entire tangent about the shape of a character's fucking pocket.

Sometimes, clothes are just clothes. Sometimes, there's a closet in the background because it helps establish that a character is in a bedroom. Sometimes, blue and yellow are just a couple of colors that look nice together. And sure, it might be set designers and costume designers and cinematographers smirking and winking at the audience from behind the camera. But if the show was just those things, instead of those things in the context of everything else, they wouldn't be saying anything of note.

But this?

This tells a story all on its own. Someone with no context can look at this and automatically assume that each paired person is standing with someone they care about deeply, seeking comfort as they watch some sort of disaster unfold. And yeah, romantic couples usually come in twos, and we live in an amatonormative society, so that's going to be the first association anyone makes seeing a bunch of people paired off.

It's the same reason you look at this

And go, "Oh..."

"Those two are probably a couple."

And I genuinely don't understand how people could have watched S4 Vol. 2 and gotten scared. Because as someone who went in with no investment whatsoever, I just looked at these two--

--and went, "Oh, those two are a couple. Good for them." And I moved on. Shut up about the trees for five seconds and just see the forest for what it is.

Oh, and if you're still nervous? Little thing from a storyteller here: You don't leave a hanging thread like "Will confessed his romantic feelings for Mike by projecting them onto El, but Mike either didn't understand or at least didn't say he understood," without coming back to that later. That's Chekov's gun hanging on the wall, babes. It's gonna fire at some point. If Mike was going to reject Will's feelings, if they weren't relevant, they would have had that discussion in Argyle's van. There'd be no reason to leave you in suspense.

[softesttangerines]

As someone who LOVES a good old time travel au, and after seeing amazing fanart of kid!Mihawk i have to let it out!!

I just wanna read a time travel fic where baby Mihawk wakes up and finds himself in the world of adult Mihawk and he's like wtf is going on?

And word goes around that a kid that looks exactly like Hawkeyes and carries the same cross knife as him is roaming around this island and rumors say it's the son he abandoned to fend for himself.

And so, marines and every pirates he ever wronged come after him for revenge and the little guy is just thinking why is everyone trying to get me? While doing his best with his cross dagger to rid of them.

And Shanks, good ol' shanks could have sworn that if his old rival had an 9years old, he would know about it (also he refuses to let the bitter taste in his heart take over unless his own eyes see) so he's skeptical about the whole thing and that's the only thing that gets him to leave his hideout in a reclused ghost island waiting for whatever is his big plan to take place.

News say Red Shanks is on the move after being mia for a few years and everyone got their panties in a twist, what could have raised the emperor from the dead.

He follows from island to island because apparently the young boy knows how to avoid the marines and pirates coming after him.

Till one night, on their stop at some bar on an island that wasn't really on the plan, he sees the boy. Just outside the bar in an alley, where he went to empty his guts from the booze overfilling his body, there stood bloody faced, cross dagger in one hand, a tiny version of his old rival with a bounty hunter's body at his feet.

The boy furrows his eyebrows even more at the new arrival and strikes another pose in case the new guy tries something funny. But Shanks, drunk ass Shanks, who knows his rival by heart is a 100% sure the little guy is in fact his rival for whatever magical reason, there he stands in front of him in the form of an 9years old and Shanks giggles at that -to which the child takes great offense- and just say "hey kid, i'm a friend of your dad's, want me to take you to him?"

[annoyingfobbie]

making fun of "pick-me girls" set feminism back so far. toxic masculinity being rebranded as straight girls having "icks" set feminism back so far. "girl dinner", "girl math", "explaining _____ for the girls" set feminism back SOOOOOO FAR.

[makorragal-312]

I know this is rare for me given I'm a hardcore Buddie shipper, but am I the only one who wasn't really bothered by that "moment" between Tommy and Buck.

To me, it just gave off the vibe of "Hey. You're alright, man." That's honestly what it gave off to me.

THAT BEING SAID...

If Tommy does end up playing a role in Buddie possibly becoming canon, it better be for Buck and/or Eddie to realize their queerness and THAT'S IT.

No crushing. No flirtation ship. No spontaneous kisses. No dates. NONE OF THAT.

[imminent-danger-came]

was thinking of hollow knight lmk AU and realized another vessel parallel Bai He and LBD she was BEGINNING to fail as a vessel until she possessed Wukong but even then she was still stretched out too thin I feel like this means something but idk what

The body or "vessel" being too weak to contain her power....sounds a bit familiar doesn't it:

If I had a nickle for every time a main antagonist cracked apart while fighting a monkey demon, I'd have two nickles—which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

But here is the thing—Jade Emperor Azure also parallel's Possessed Wukong. So we have 2 instances of successful containers (Mei for the Samadhi fire and Wukong with LBD's power), and we also have 2 instances of failed containers (The little girl for LBD's power and Azure with the Jade Emperor's power).

And you know who else is struggling to be a container for their power?

[currentlylurking]

So A Glitch in Time, and in particular the end, feels really set up-like. And little while ago, we had that tiktok from david kaufman where he said he'd just recorded some voice lines for Danny.

anyway my conspiracy theory is that we're getting a season 4 or movie and this was the bridge between the rest of the series and it.

[avephelis]

ummm. wakes up in a cold sweat. hey in light of the doppelgilly shenanigans what if gillion's age not lining up between the black sea prequels and main campaign wasn't a retcon actually.

[pochapal]

tomorrow i will have been reading umineko for one whole year

[danthropologie]

I am losing my mind about Daniel and the RB seat, honest to god. I finally caved and made a blog after anonymously lurking for MONTHS because the delusion became too much. And now we haven’t even had ONE FULL RACE in the AT and I find out they’ve given him Seb’s “just you wait sunshine” person??? Who has experience winning WDCs??? Meanwhile Checo bins it three minutes into FP1 and denies Max the ability to get to grips with the new upgrade AND exposes the brand new floor for everyone with an F1TV subscription to see??? I feel like I’m going to go feral by the end of the season

first of all, welcome!! love this for you!!

second of all, I KNOW 😭 every single time i think we've reached the threshold of just how fucking insane our collective delusions can be, somehow the goalposts move!!! a year ago it would have been crazy to think that daniel would go back to red bull in ANY capacity....but then it happened. then it was crazy to think that he could get a seat with them.....and then it happened. so it's like...yeah the idea of him being back in a red bull only a year after the worst year of his career SEEMS crazy when you say it like that.....but........😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[rotisseries]

it's a little funny when some of you say you're gonna leave the fandom if it takes too long to get new content because you can't just keep talking about the same thing forever, and I'm not judging, I don't completely blame you, my fixation on byler is burning out and I'll probably be lost to you all forever once I have the new zelda game in my hands, but it DOES make me wonder what you guys plan on doing when season 5 is over

[makerofmadness]

Welp, there goes the "HP = HoPe" theory????

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Adulthood in this century is, among many other things, the ever-increasing realization that your civilization started sometime in the middle of the twentieth century not only to stop making deposits in the future but also to spend all of the accumulated wealth of centuries for a single lifetime’s worth of easy living

Boomers decided to cash in the chips in spite of every subsequent generation and we are Feeling It

[willandmichael]

ended up talking to people about stranger things again today and ofc byler comes up in conversation and this one guy that we have classes with was like "mike and will are gonna end up together, like, i really want them to be together even though i'm afraid mike is gonna end up w eleven. if they (duffer bros) don't do it they're gonna be so dumb, cause imagine it ends with a gay couple? iconic" BRO i didn't even have to say anything ??? he just said it out of nowhere when we were talking about will being gay. i was floored lmfao my other friend that i mentioned in my other post was like "iza was talking to be about this the other day, she converted me into believing they're gonna get together" LMFAOOO

[fedyaplushie]

chapter 101 spoilers

As mentioned in the tags of this post, I believe Chuuya and Fyodor are almost guaranteed to be safe ... People are so worried that Chuuya (and by extension Fyodor) are gonna drown, as if Dazai isn't using the situation to provoke Fyodor into using his ability, which seems to be some big secret, to save himself and Chuuya.

EDIT 22/11/2022: My girlfriend and I wrote a lengthy theory regarding Fyodor and his ability, with mentions of Chapter 101 at the end! Read it here if you’re interested!

Why else would he need to reach the control panel to continue with his plan? To taunt him, obviously. It's not like he has any control over the water or anything, so there's no other reason why he needed to be here.

[bonesrbleaching]

had the most braindead repetitive conversation/argument with my parents. buzz cuts are too masculine but if you dye a design on it it become effeminate which is bad because then you look weak and if youre weak then society falls apart (all societies ever that have fallen apart for any reason are actually because of feminine men) and we start sacrificing babies. and also all mental illness is invented because only 4 people had anxiety in the 90s and covid was made up so that we would all become gay and trans and then the government can control us better and be joe biden's little sex slaves. and also i need to keep my hair long because my father finds it attractive. what