#i'm talking about weed

[1-800-roflmao]

✨Titty Sprinkles✨

[autisticrosewilson]

Um if you write Jason having to get drugs for Catherine I want you dead btw. Not only does it tell me you assume the average drug dealer would give the hard shit to a very small child and then not supervise them at all (classist stereotype that all drug dealers are inherently evil + lazy writing with no grasp on reality) and you genuinely think that Catherine was CONSTANTLY high, as if that's even possible without overdosing far sooner than she did. That's without even getting into the bad mom Catherine propaganda.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

I know you don't like discussing the muses but i love your takes and perspectives and i had to ask you about this. after listening to ttpd, did you have the impression that she really loved matty more than any of her exes/previous relationships?. And listening to the whole album as a whole would you call it the ''matty album'' or do you think there are more prominent themes in there than their period together?. (hope this doesn't bother you, feel free to delete if you don't feel like answering it)

hey anon! You're right, I don't really like to get into the muses as I don't really think there's anything to add to the conversation at this point, and ultimately I don't think it matters.

That being said, and with the caveat that I am not Taylor and I do not know Taylor so I cannot speak to her thoughts and can only make relatively educated guesses based on being an avid consumer of her work and a student of the human condition (lol), no I do not think Taylor loved Matty more than anyone else. I think there was maybe a brief period in the thick of things where she *thought* she did because she was not thinking clearly and was in full-on denial, but to me the message that is loud and clear in the album (and more or less explicitly stated in the epilogue) is that it was not any kind of real love affair. It was certainly infatuation and lust and the promise of something more, and there may have been some love as well, but he was in no way the love of her life by any measure.

I would call it a "Matty album" insofar as they're about events in which he was present, sure. But I feel it much more as a Taylor album, if that makes sense, even though I know that's a cop out because every album is to a degree. I can't explain it well, but I don't see TTPD as a Matty (or Joe) album in the way that I would maybe say Red is a "Jake" album or 1989 may be a "Harry" album or even Lover being a "Joe" album whatever, because even if they don't figure in all the songs, that kind of heartbreak permeates so much of the material.

The thing about TTPD and the Matty situation is that the Matty situation is really a Joe situation (which in some ways is actually partially a Jake situation). I always say I hate treating Taylor like a character so I hate speaking about her and her work in this way, but you don't get the Matty situation without the Joe situation precipitating it. It's @taylortruther's now-infamous donut vs. hole analogy. The reason Taylor makes the choices she does with Matty is directly tied to what happened with Joe that made her feel she needed to. Which is not to say Taylor isn't responsible for her own actions or doesn't have agency in her own life, but I mean it in that the situation in which she found herself with Joe, and the pain it caused, is what made the alternative so comforting and perhaps even necessary in her mind. It's why it makes it so hard to "paternity test" the album, because the stories are inherently intertwined and you don't get the former without the latter.

The major "theme" of the album to me is the loss of a very specific, very personal dream, and the way in which she lost it, and the way in which grieving that loss drove her to make the choices she did. We're all talking very delicately about it because it's a sensitive topic, but it's late on Friday and few people are going to see this, so I'm going to say it: it's the give you my wild, give you a child of it all. The yearning she expresses both overtly and sub-textually for having a family in the album is palpable in a very iykyk kind of way, and it's the realization that those plans are not going to come to fruition in the way she had once imagined that drives a lot of the pain she experiences, and makes her jump at the chance to find that again with someone else.

I started a draft post about the theme of womanhood and motherhood on TTPD three months ago that I never finished because I ran out of time and ran out of steam, but it was the most striking thing to me on the album, not because I didn't know that she wanted those things because that's been obvious for years (definitely since Lover, and again, peace put it all on the table), but because the vulnerability she expressed about it on the album is incredibly moving, and it's so generous of her to trust listeners with those feelings and experiences.

Again, it's the thirtysomething of it all.

She is in relationship A which she at one point believes is forever, one which she at one point believes is going to lead to marriage and children. She is so committed to that dream that she either ignores or tries to fix serious issues that may otherwise lead others to think the two people in the relationship are incompatible, both because she loves the person deeply and because she feels that this is meant to be the way she achieves that dream. She gives it her everything, and it still dies a slow, painful, onerous death, and she feels like it may take her along with it. The dream of getting married and presumably having a family gets taken off the table: how we don't know and will likely never know because that is private between the parties involved. All that matters in the context of the album is that those plans never come to fruition and never would.

Then you have relationship B, an old flame who knows just enough buttons to push both to trigger and to flatter. A person who she presumably trusts with very sensitive, personal information as her life slowly crumbles, and this person is telling her all the things she wants to hear because he knows about what is happening in relationship A because she's told him. Person in relationship B doesn't get an "in" with her and sell her this dream unless what happens in relationship A precedes it. It's not a grand love affair for the ages, it's not a mutual decision on building their own dream together. It's Person B learning about what is happening with Person A and saying "I can do that!" even if he can't or doesn't. The dream he sells her is a rental car; it's not his own, he's just borrowing it from someone else and selling it back to her.

And the reason she falls for it is because it is what she aches for the most in her personal life, and she is grappling with it disintegrating, so she (unfortunately for her) falls for the easy way out, and in turn sells herself a story about how this must be fated, and this must be meant to be, because this person wants all the same things she does and she didn't even have to bargain for it! Well, yes, because she fed him the dream in the first place. (Like a mark falling for a sleeper cell spy.) It's too good to be true because it isn't true. IMO Person B doesn't come running out of the gate with the marriage/baby/dream life promises unless he knows that is what she most desires. But what's left unsaid out of all of it is that: those dreams were her dreams because they were her dreams with Person A. It was a whole life they had together, and a whole life they had planned for in some fashion, and a whole life that has to be dismantled in the aftermath.

So all this to say, yes, on the surface, Matty is a "main character" on the album, but truly he's a side character to Taylor as the narrator and person experiencing it and Joe as the ghost bit-player-who-haunts-every-scene. (Again, I hate referring to real people as characters, it gives me the absolute ick, but in this case it's the only way to answer the question.) I jokingly call it the Matty album for shorthand or when I want to say something out of pocket, but really, it's a disservice to the album to say that because it's not a muse album as in it's about the romance (like, say, Red often is), it's about a soul-crushing heartbreak that goes beyond it. The romance is the symptom, not the cause.

The loss of youth is tied in with all this: she's not 22 anymore. She isn't even 32 anymore. She had a very specific idea of what her life was going to look like at this point and had planned for that life, and it goes up in smoke. But again, to bring the womanhood into it all: there is, unfortunately, a deadline for these things. You're with someone for over half a decade you think is going to be your life partner and father of your children and and then he's not. You spent half a decade building this relationship for it to crumble, but now you're in your mid-30s and you don't necessarily have another half-decade to build that trust and faith in someone else before being ready to start a family. And maybe you're scared that anyone else who may become your partner will need that much time to build that trust and faith, because that's kind of all you've ever know in relationships. But lo and behold, someone comes into your life you once had feelings for and maybe now do again and is offering you everything you want and thought you'd have by this point in your life right now. It feels like an elixir that as we find out is actually poison.

That youth is not just the chance for motherhood, but it's also the hopes and idealism and belief in the future that often gradually erodes as we age. But for Taylor as well, it's also tied into the trauma of what she went through particularly in 2016, which kicks off a lot of things on the album as well (her retreat, her relationship with Joe, the pivoting in her career, etc.). That event caused a pretty clear before/after in her life (like a few other events, I suspect), and another major theme in the album is her finally grappling with the full weight of that. They're all different branches of the same tree of the story of TTPD and her life.

I could talk about this stuff forever, but I'm going to stop here because it's long enough and I should save stuff for one of the dozens of drafts I have half-baked lol. But this is just something I needed to get off my chest perhaps.

[skrunksthatwunk]

actually i'm still thinking about the moral orel finale.

he has a cross on his wall. do you know how much i think about that bc it's a lot.

a lot of stories ((auto)biographical or fictional) centering escape from abusive/fundamentalist christianity result in the lead characters leaving behind christianity entirely. and that makes complete sense! people often grow disillusioned with the associated systems and beliefs, and when it was something used to hurt them or something so inseparable from their abuse that they can't engage with it without hurting, it makes total sense that they would disengage entirely. and sometimes they just figure out that they don't really believe in god/a christian god/etc. a healthy deconstruction process can sometimes look like becoming an atheist or converting to another religion. it's all case by case. (note: i'm sure this happens with other religions as well, i'm just most familiar with christian versions of this phenomenon).

but in orel's case, his faith was one of the few things that actually brought him comfort and joy. he loved god, y'know? genuinely. and he felt loved by god and supported by him when he had no one else. and the abuses he faced were in how the people in his life twisted religion to control others, to run away from themselves, to shield them from others, etc. and often, orel's conflicts with how they acted out christianity come as a direct result of his purer understanding of god/jesus/whatever ("aren't we supposed to be like this/do that?" met with an adult's excuse for their own behavior or the fastest way they could think of to get orel to leave them alone (i.e. orel saying i thought we weren't supposed to lie? and clay saying uhhh it doesn't count if you're lying to yourself)). the little guy played catch with god instead of his dad, like.. his faith was real, and his love was real. and i think it's a good choice to have orel maintain something that was so important to him and such a grounding, comforting force in the midst of. All That Stuff Moralton Was Up To/Put Him Through. being all about jesus was not the problem, in orel's case.

and i know i'm mostly assuming that orel ended up in a healthier, less rigid version of christianity, but i feel like that's something that was hinted at a lot through the series, that that's the direction he'd go. when he meditates during the prayer bee and accepts stephanie's different way to communicate, incorporating elements of buddhism into his faith; when he has his I AM A CHURCH breakdown (removing himself from the institution and realizing he can be like,, the center of his own faith? taking a more individualistic approach? but Truly Going Through It at the same time), his acceptance (...sometimes) of those who are different from him and condemned by the adults of moralton (stephanie (lesbian icon stephanie my beloved), christina (who's like. just a slightly different form of fundie protestant from him), dr chosenberg (the jewish doctor from otherton in holy visage)). his track record on this isn't perfect, but it gets better as orel starts maturing and picking up on what an absolute shitfest moralton is. it's all ways of questioning the things he's been taught, and it makes sense that it would lead to a bigger questioning as he puts those pieces together more. anyway i think part of his growth is weeding out all the lost commandments of his upbringing and focusing on what faith means to him, and what he thinks it should mean. how he wants to see the world and how he wants to treat people and what he thinks is okay and right, and looking to religion for guidance in that, not as like. a way to justify hurting those he's afraid or resentful of, as his role models did.

he's coming to his own conclusions rather than obediently, unquestioningly taking in what others say. but he's still listening to pick out the parts that make sense to him. (edit/note: and it's his compassion and his faith that are the primary motivations for this questioning and revisal process, both of individual cases and, eventually, the final boss that is christianity.) it makes perfect sense as the conclusion to his character arc and it fits the overall approach of the show far better. it's good is what i'm saying.

and i think it's important to show that kind of ending, because that's a pretty common and equally valid result of deconstruction. and i think it cements the show's treatment of christianity as something that's often (and maybe even easily) exploited, but not something inherently bad. something that can be very positive, even. guys he even has a dog he's not afraid of loving anymore. he's not afraid of loving anyone more than jesus and i don't think it's because he loves this dog less than bartholomew (though he was probably far more desperate for healthy affection and companionship when he was younger). i think it's because he figures god would want him to love that dog. he's choosing to believe that god would want him to love and to be happy and to be kind. he's not afraid of loving in the wrong way do you know how cool that is he's taking back control he's taking back something he loves from his abusers im so normal

[heavencasteel420]

Nancy in Fanon: Jonathan, I am so disappointed that you started smoking pot after I nobly taught you that poetry is just another way to rap! I must flee for the arms of Robin Steve?? Eddie???! a guy named Spencer or Grant and he has a watch and an office and a trashcan and a little basketball hoop on it and he plays as hard as he works. Because dammit, he deserves to blow off a little steam!

Nancy in Canon: Get in, loser, we’re going shopping to uncover a government conspiracy and drink vodka and have sex in a bunker! You won’t even know who Vonnegut is by the time I’m through with you!!!

[vulto-cor-de-rosa]

Do you think that Jonah went through withdrawal when he took over Elias body or did he just keep smoking?

[immediatebreakfast]

Gotta love how the locals ALL react to Jonathan. They see him head to the wolf's jaws, one who is known for his taste for youth and go "oh that's a baby... I must give up my OWN good luck charm for this kid!"

Jonathan's whole beginning is such innocence facing its first big experience. Very first step out of the hearth.

It also juxtaposes with Jack, Quincey and Arthur, who are experienced men who have had many adventures overseas already!

Jonathan being a child in the eyes of the locals is something that has been discussed a lot, but I still feel for them. Because in a way, Jonathan is still a child, he is away from home, fresh from exams and with a fiancee, to have his first job in the field.

So the locals see this young man who doesn't even speak their language, but is polite, and has the kind of freshness that only inexperienced young people have in his eyes. They don't think much of it until he tells them (in broken german) where exactly he is going. Then, after Jonathan's revelation what the locals only see is a walking corpse, or worse another young soul trapped for eternity.

What the inkeepeer's wife sees is a lonely mother in a candle lit home, waiting and waiting for any kind of news of her son, looking at the window for hours so she doesn't miss the arrival of that young man she raised, and sent to a foreing land.

What the locals see is another victim. It seems that horrible being lost the fascination for the taste of their young (or has already devoured so many), and now he is bringing more innocent young people to his cursed tomb of a castle.

So they try, and try to keep that young man away, but he is a stubborn english man (it's his first job he can't mess it up).

They see the determination of his eyes (or desesperation and confusion), and let him go.

Maybe if they give him some protections he can put the clues together, and survive (it's impossible). Maybe if the coachman goes faster than that devil he can make the young man wait for tomorrow.

Compare Jonathan to these charming men, older than him, who had already seen so much more. The three of them have the kind of "mindset" that Jonathan lacks when it comes to danger. However, I think that even with all of their experience, none of them would have survived what Jonathan has been through in the course of these days.

I know it sounds unbelievable, or even cruel. Still, based on their characters, and the kind of masculine archetype that each of them represent, would Arthur, Quincey and Jack see through Dracula? Absolutely they aren't fools. Would they survive the kind of game that Dracula has been playing with Jonathan? I don't think so.

[eruditegeek]

I had to share this edit that came to me in a prophetic haze.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Something I've noticed.

Solar seems to have more of Sun's personality in him. Eclipse seems to have more of Moon's personality in him.

Thus why both of them are so different.

[namira]

Cold take I know but the Steven Universe discourse on this site was so insane to behold. Idk I never really watched through the show I just saw a few episodes and a lot of gifsets and my takeaway was that it's a cute kid's show about the power of love and friendship etc with some fun music. And people were sending each other death threats about it.

[monachopism]

being jewish with zero affiliation to israel and rather a generational line of activists for palestine is a hard line to walk and sometimes i wish i could just fall off

[circusballoon]

It's my 29th birthday today!! I typically try to draw something self indulgent but I had NOO idea which character I wanted to draw for me this year because I was torn between a whole bunch. So I decided maybe the best option was to just draw that whole bunch of characters, so I did!

This past year has been a wild combo of highs and lows, but boy, I'm super proud of how much work I've put towards my mental health and acceptance of myself. I'm in a vastly different and better spot this year and I'm really grateful for all the past iterations of me that got me to where I am today.

Here's to another year of leaning more into the wild and messy chaos of being me!!

[completeoveranalysis]

just to let you know, there is a prn bot which tags their explicit videos as "sakura" and when i swap down from full view of your images, tumblr shows me their vid (reported and blocked of course)

and now I'm thinking this could be related to the problem you had of tumblr flagging some of your posts? maybe tumblr banned some bots that used similar tags to yours and you got swept into the mess?

(I personally think it is criminal to tag any of that as sakura)

Oh quite possibly! That would certainly explain why the whole blog was just secretly banned from all search results for such a long time.

Tumblr is wild.

[onebighappyaftonfamily]

FNAF lore cannot stop screwing itself over huh

[yesmissnyx]

are you okay with transmascs? i’m very much a boy but i still like the idea of my breasts sometimes

At the risk of sounding sappy (or worse, fake and pandering), I want it known that I love all varieties of transness and trans bodies.

I love queerness and androgyny. I love when men have soft breasts and women have wide shoulders. I love when bodies are worn with love and freedom and pride and self-expression.

I love it. I love to see it.

It makes me happy 💓💓💓

[reading-sometimes]

I was thinking. What are your Paw Patrol headcanons? If you want to say them obvious.

Hmm, I have a lot of headcanons.

Chase:

Ryder found him first and they talked about setting up the PAW Patrol together. Chase was really jealous of Marshall at first when he joined the PAW Patrol, because he saw Marshall being there as evidence that he wasn't good enough for Ryder. He also hated Marshall's jokes at first, since he's very professional and expected everyone else to be like that, too. 

He has GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) even though he probably also has trauma/PTSD from his time in Adventure City. He deals with it by clinging to his routines really hard. He frets a lot about not feeling good enough and is really perfectionistic. 

He's a theater kid (this is based mostly on that one episode, Pups Save a Show, where Chase was really into it lol).

He tries to hide his symptoms whenever he's sick and acts like he's fine until it's obvious that he's not. He doesn't like resting when he's sick because it makes him feel "lazy". He's also a hypochondriac and goes to Marshall begging for examinations all the time, though. He only pretends that nothing's wrong when he's actually sick.

He likes to pretend that he has no emotions in public but everyone knows that he does. He's the type to try to hide that he cries at movies and stuff. 

He doesn't hang out with the other pups that often. He's mostly a loner. He hangs out with Marshall and Skye sometimes but that's about it. He only really opens up around Marshall or Ryder. 

He doesn't know how to feel about Zuma. They get along, but they're so different that they're kind of distant with each other. Chase really admires Zuma's relaxed nature and wishes that he could be a little more like that, though.

He wakes up at like 5 or some early hour and goes for a run. He's really disciplined, but the rest of the pups think that it's weird. 

Chase and Skye were in a relationship (based mostly on the first season in general when they were pushing Skase hard) before they realized that they were gay/lesbian respectively and broke up on good terms. It was awkward for both of them afterwards for a while, though. 

When he told Ryder that he was gay, he was really scared and thought that Ryder was going to think that he was weird or something. But Ryder was completely fine with it.

Chase is a history nerd (this is likely because I am a history nerd, lol). 

He tends to like muscular pups but he likes dating Marshall (a certified twink) because he can feel like he's the big buff pup.

He has trouble sleeping sometimes because he worries about practically everything.

Chase doesn't believe in jail and thinks that criminals need rehabilitation instead.

He's very polite to everyone when he's on missions, calling them sir or ma'am.

Marshall:

Marshall's the "therapist" of the pups since they all need one. He frets a lot about his abandonment issues (based mostly on Pups Save a Friend, the episode where Marshall left the PAW Patrol). 

Marshall and Skye watch rom-coms (Hallmark movies, ect.) together. 

Marshall's a psychology nerd and tends to diagnose everyone with something even if they only show some of the symptoms or if it's really mild (likely because I am a psychology nerd, lol).

Marshall mostly hangs out with Skye and Zuma. He tried really hard to include everyone, though. He has to fix Zuma and Skye pretty regularly after they nearly fracture their legs trying to hanglide or something.

Chase and Marshall have been together for around a year and a half and they're by far the most stable of the pups relationship-wise. They hardly ever argue because they know how to communicate with each other, and if they do it's over small stuff like cleaning their puphouses or something.

Chase hardly ever comes to Marshall's puphouse because he has "scary" dental supplies in there (not that a real ambulance would have that but Marshall needs a little bit of everything in there).

Marshall questions if he's gay or if he's bi and is mostly gay-leaning. It's not a big deal to him to put a label on it, though.

He likes to hate-watch Grey's anatomy and complains at the TV over all the medical inaccuracies. Chase hates watching cop shows because of all the inaccuracies.

Marshall really likes it whenever Chase wears his uniform.

Rocky:

Everyone else (except Ryder) has no clue what he's talking about 50% of the time. He'll talk about quarks or something without explaining anything and just expect the pups to keep up. 

He's a loner, a lot like Chase. He spends most of his time building stuff with Ryder. 

He hates talking about his feelings and tends to ignore them. 

He's in an on-again, off-again relationship with Zuma. Rocky just likes Zuma's bad boy energy. 

He has a garden, where he grows vegetables (he's very practical, he wouldn't grow flowers). He's also vegan. 

He has a kind of half-friendly rivalry with Chase over whether Chase or Rocky is Ryder's favorite pup. (If any of the pups asked, Ryder would say that he doesn't have a favorite, but is that really true?)

He reads scientific articles for fun.

He didn't like Zuma at first just because he didn't like water. 

When Rocky first came to the PAW Patrol, Marshall tried to be really friendly, but he went over-the-top with it and Rocky thought that it was a little annoying. Rocky barely talked to anyone except Ryder for a few months after he joined the PAW Patrol. He's not shy, he just didn't feel the need to.

He probably has autism.

He's gay, but he doesn't see it as a big deal. 

When it's raining, Zuma cuddles with him under a blanket sometimes, since he's scared of the rain.

The only time that Rocky and Skye interact is when Skye needs something for her helicopter.

Zuma:

Zuma's the type to flirt with everyone for fun and not really mean it. He's allergic to committed relationships. Rocky's fine with them being polyamorous, even though Rocky wouldn't date anyone else, but he keeps breaking up with Zuma because he feels like Zuma doesn't really care about him.

Zuma and Skye listen to One Direction and stuff like that sometimes (since all of their vehicles have radios, according to the episode Pup Pup Boogie). 

Everest and Zuma like hanging out doing adrenaline junkie stuff together (with Skye, sometimes). Zuma likes Jake because he smokes weed.

Zuma never really properly came out as bi, everyone just figured it out really quickly through context. 

Zuma and Wildcat have a kinship. 

He thinks that Chase is uptight and needs to loosen up, and that Marshall is boring now since he spends most of his time with Chase. 

He likes partying a lot. 

He regularly stays up until around 3 AM and sleeps in until noon or so.

He's jealous that Chase gets to go on so many missions and makes passive-aggresive jokes about how Chase is Ryder's favorite. 

Zuma's really bad at accepting his feelings. He's quasi-accepting of other's feelings, but he just doesn't like thinking too deeply about that kind of stuff.

Skye:

She feels a little like an outsider among the PAW Patrol because she's the only girl. 

She calls everyone "girl" like how Zuma calls everyone dude and they just have to deal with it. Marshall and Zuma take it in stride, but everyone else gets a little weirded out by it, especially Chase. 

The PAW Patrol pups had to take college-like classes taught by Ryder before they got their jobs, and Skye had to take a lot of classes on meteorology and physics and stuff (which actual pilots don't have to do but oh well). Chase didn't have to take as many classes as the others, since he just did police academy training, but he took a lot of English and History classes afterwards. Rocky got an Environmental Engineering degree while Zuma barely passed his classes and that was only because Rocky helped him. Marshall had to basically become proficient at everything in the medical field (he's an EMT but basically does the work of a doctor, so he has to know his stuff).

Skye has a crush on Sweetie purely because of her accent, she's well aware that Sweetie's horrible lol. 

Everyone tends to come to Skye for romance advice, and she revels in the drama and gossip. 

Skye loves it when she gets sick because she gets attention and sympathy. She plays up minor symptoms a lot lol.

She's probably the pup who's the least close to Ryder. She just doesn't talk to him a lot.

Skye would be the most likely pup to growl, but it would sound really high-pitched. It doesn't sound intimidating at all, but none of the pups tell her that. 

Ryder:

He's so bad at relating to people his age or younger because he just doesn't understand them. 

He's either graduated from high school  really early or he's taking self-paced online classes (he's the type to call a year's worth of schoolwork easy and do it all in like two weeks right before the deadline). 

He volunteered at an animal shelter before finding Chase. He hated that he couldn't take all of the dogs there home with him, though.

Ryder brings in pups that he finds on the side of the road or hurt pups to the Lookout constantly. He fixes them up (it's mostly Marshall) and then gives them a home somewhere in Adventure Bay.

He probably wanted to be a vet or a scientist or something like that when he was a little kid.

The PAW Patrol was really poor when they started out (since Ryder said in the movie that they made their funding off of merch sales), and was probably initially funded by tax money. 

He has a PAW Patrol official Instagram or Twitter account. He mostly uses it to post cute pictures of the pups every once in a while. 

He stays up until 3 AM practically every night and subsists off of coffee and energy drinks. He eats very sporadically because he loses track of time (Rocky does this too, even though he's a little better at Ryder at eating, usually). He might have autism like how Rocky does, and if he does he's definitely a savant.

Ryder keeps a spreadsheet on what pups have been on what missions to try and keep everything fair. 

Ryder's an atheist (based on that Halloween special in season one where Ryder keeps saying that there has to be a logical explanation when the pups are scared of ghosts). If he was religious, Chase would probably be too, though.