#jacob (lost)

[ivebeendressingforrevenge]

Happy Valentine's Day 🩷🩷

[merelyspecters]

Lost: The Minecraft Server

AKA Lost doesn't happen, "The Island" is just the survival server these guys play on. 

Jack is the guy who tries to organize the server and hopelessly fails. I cannot emphasize this enough, Jack is not good at Minecraft. He doesn't even really enjoy it. He's just playing out of obligation to the server owner Jacob who dragged him in as a mod.

Locke is the guy who goes off to defeat the Ender Dragon alone and reads the whole end poem weeping. He disappears for extremely long stretches of time. Sometimes, he's mining, and sometimes, he comes back with an elder guardian head.

Sawyer just griefs at first… But then he realizes he enjoys Minecraft more than he’d like to admit. And what’s more? He loves the thrill of fighting mobs more than griefing. He begrudgingly becomes the protector of spawn/new members.

Everything Kate holds dear fits in her ender chest. Her idea of a house is a two-block-high hideaway carved into the side of a mountain. She initially isn’t invested in the game, either… until she gets emotionally attached to her horse.

Sayid used to be a part of an anarchy server and quit the game for a while. He normally just messes around in creative mode, but after getting dragged into playing on the server, he makes redstone farms. An Ethoslab-type.

Jin fishes for hours at a time. No autoclicker or anything. He finds it relaxing. Sun's the farmer and makes endless fields of wheat. The two of them like Minecraft more because they're playing together rather than the actual game mechanics. They eventually leave the server to play Stardew Valley, instead.

Shannon is initially a builder/griefer—she'll terraform other people's builds to make her own stuff, and then be like "oh i thought you abandoned that house, sorry xoxo."

Charlie and Claire are both builders who make cute little houses in the flower forest together. Charlie is super into Minecraft and gets Claire into it by proxy.

Michael is originally the person who builds infrastructure around spawn. He’s not particularly into it—he plays to connect with Walter, who’s a huge fan of Minecraft YouTube. Specifically Mumbo Jumbo. After Michael leaves the server, Jack attempts to take over his responsibilities and fails miserably.

Hurley is not good at building, but he'll drop off gifts in front of people's bases and build them the most atrocious looking wool statues you've ever seen (like the YouTuber Skizzleman). He’s one of the OG Minecraft fans of the bunch.

Desmond logs onto the server accidentally. Honestly, he’s not even sure how he got here. The concept of video games baffles him. There’s a solid three weeks where he glitches into bedrock—Locke finds him on a mining expedition and saves him.

Penny isn't whitelisted on the server, either; Desmond fights to get her added.

Ben does not place or break a single block. He just steals from people’s chests. He gets the Diamonds! achievement before Stone Age.

Juliet is one of the best builders of the bunch. She and Sawyer create a hidden base in the Nether that they live in together.

The server owner Jacob will sometimes build bedrock obelisks. Genuinely for no reason. Just because.

Richard is a mod in creative mode. He breaks said obelisks.

[szyszkasosnowa]

Lost + text posts

(part 1)

[saudrag]

wip. the next character? probably locke. haven’t decided yet. yall can help me choose tho

[untilnextchapter]

I'm just in the last episodes of the final season of Lost (2004) and I'm so thirsty for fanfictions buuuuuuut I can't find any on Tumblr (maybe 2 or 3 at most).

Do you know any author who write for Lost? Any character x OC or reader?

I haven't many hope but, fingers crossed 🤞

[thegunssawyerstole]

lost hit their blond man representation on the head. there's three blond men and all three capture the spectrum of blond men perfectly.

1 — sleazy mc connor, if youre lucky he's got a heart of gold hidden under all that sleaze

2 — asshole with the guitar™

3 — manipulative blond man who has Secret Plans™ for you

[sayidsjarrah]

Sayid should have been his own worst enemy off the island...

Just like Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sun were miserable off the island because of their own internal struggles – Sayid should have been the one to ruin his relationship with Nadia, he should have been too swept up in his own self-hatred and his "evil" complex that he pushes her away, too haunted by the island, too consumed by the guilt of leaving people behind and sacrificing them for his own escape that it makes him feel "evil" and undeserving of his happiness.

Maybe he does feel this way... but the show is never really interested in Sayid's inner turmoil because, well, the writers don't really care about him as anything more than a plot device after the first season. He's a serial killer and he feels bad about it, but the show is never really interested in how he actually feels post-island.

The show refuses to actually show us any of Sayid's "happiest 9 months of his life," it's obvious him and Nadia are never meant to be together because, well, why was he a candidate? Why would he be on the island if he was in fact headed to his happily ever after in L.A with Nadia when Jacob doesn't take candidates out of a happy existence? Sayid says that it was only by leaving the island that he found happiness... why did he have to come back?

Sayid's arc is all about him needing to move on from the past... and Nadia is a physical manifestation of this past. The obsession and search for her for the past 7 years should have been his to sabotage because the fleeting joy he found on the island is supposed to be the greatest joy the characters find in their lives... why was Sayid different?

Sayid was the only one who supposedly found any lasting "happiness" off the island and instead of self-sabotaging or creating his own self-imposed anguish it's Jacob – and Mr Widmore – who take it away? (you could argue Jacob was saving Sayid but... Jacob has never saved any of his other candidates, so why is Sayid different? And he was willing to relieve Kate of her candidacy for becoming a mother, but not Sayid for finding love... or did Jacob know that Sayid's "happiness" would only be fleeting?)

The writers dropped the ball so badly with Sayid and from such an early point where his arc of needing to move on from Nadia and start a new life is wholly complete by the time Shannon dies... and then once she's dead, the writers had nothing to do with him... He follows our white leads around with no internal motivation, he fixes things when the plot demands it and he kills people that our white leads are too morally pure to kill (*cough* Ben) and any arguments he ever has with Jack or Kate or Locke never go anywhere because the man refuses to stand on business with them.

It's sad that the only happiness the island ever offers Sayid is Shannon and the show takes her from him so early...

[thornieta]

Funfact‼️ The name ‘Benjamin’ can be traced to Old Testament, to mean ‘Son of Jacob’.

Do with this information what you will :)

[lost-inanotherlife]

Just wanted to say how much I hate Jacob's flashbacks in "The Incident". I hate them all but I particularly hate Kate's, Sawyer's, Sayid's and Jack's flashbacks. Did I say that I hate those scenes? Yeah.

[ladynecropolis]

[locke-esque-monster]

Who was going to tell me Mark Pellegrino has a small part as a FBI agent in National Treasure?

I turned it on for background noise and happened to look up and briefly see his face as he walked through a shot. Before immediately checking his acting credit history to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

Like excuse me, that is Lucifer! That is Jacob from Lost!

You should be some absent figure with insane cosmic powers utterly screwing up regular humans' lives. Not the most generically named Agent Johnson playing a bit part in investigating Nic Cage stealing the Declaration of Independence.

[rattydearest]

Oceanic airlines

[szyszkasosnowa]

Lost + the books that appear in the series

[ivebeendressingforrevenge]

[asexual-squidward]

I keep seeing debates about the whole Ben confrontation with Jacob, wondering why Jacob said “what about you?”

And a lot of people say it’s Jacob trying to show Ben the error of his ways, or trying to show him Locke was the monster - but I really don’t agree. I think people assume Jacob is all-knowing and incapable of being wrong because if the MIB represents ‘evil’ Jacob represents ‘good’.

But imo that’s only what Jacob sees himself as - he is selfishly playing games with the lives of these people to prove a philosophical point to the MIB, and in trying to prove that humanity as a whole are good, he mistreats the individual people (especially those so desperate for his approval and attention. Ben was manipulated, Richard was given immortality he didn’t want, and Ilana exploded when she was no longer of ‘use’.)

Jacob wanted Ben to somehow magically choose the ‘correct’ option and be good after a lifetime of abuse and manipulation, and Ben apparently didn’t pass the test because he stabbed him.

Either:

a. He was being honest and he didn’t care at all about Ben (plausible)

b. He was trying to make a point as in ‘and what choice are you going to make?’ (Which, see above)

c. He did it to purposefully provoke Ben to stab him (which again is using his constant neglect of Ben as a tool for his own ends)

(IMO it’s either A or C, the tone was wrong for it to be B. The point of the scene is Ben to realise Jacob doesn’t care.)

Jacob couldn’t see the forest for the trees and tried to prove humanity as a whole were good while not caring about them as individuals - which is why Hurley will be a much better Protector than him.

To quote The Good Place: “The point is, people improve when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't?”