#look out film theory

[lightsonpls]

of all my years on tumblr, never has my art gotten attention TvT

ANYWAYS

i have once again made myself paranoid for the week sooo

WALTEN FILES THEORY

the narrative of the story is “ding dong, sophie, your folks is dead” right? but it’s forgiving towards felix. i say that mainly because of the line “he is so sorry for what he did to them, but there is nothing he can do, remember that.” in Lucky You. Guess who’s in that video, not as an animatronic, but as a little drawing?

(yall its storming again if these lights go out while im writing this-)

we can take from the subtitles in the Bunny Farm mistranslating molly’s comfort toward felix turnin to “it’s all your fault” that felix does feel guilty. martin also liked the comment below, confirming my belief. of course he does, though. i think he is good deep down, he’s maybe scared of disappointing folks, maybe he doesnt like when people are mad at him. i personally will lie if i think ill get yelled at so-and no i dont kin felix kranken. just so you know.

anyways. felix obviously, at least at one point, felt guilty for all that he’s done. but like evan hansen, hes too deep to see the light. so then bunny farm happens. now as far as im aware- let me check the wiki- yeah he’s still living- but that works. you know why? showbear isn’t an animatronic. hes always been drawn, either in a cutout, game, or animation.

okay ken, so showbear might not be an animatronic, so felix is alive and feeling worse than bo burnham? so what?

well, though jack and showbear favor a bit, i think i can say that jack isnt showbear. will i be later making a theory saying he is? yeah but it wont be as thought out as this. felix designing showbear to fit jack’s face in order to talk to sophie makes muuuch more sense to me. i mean, how else would the web be so complex if felix wasnt the spider? jack doesn’t know what they were saying moments before the crash. jack, more than likely, didnt kmow the details of linda leaving felix, thus giving felix some sort of branch of an excuse. jack couldnt tell you where they were buried. but you know who could? felix. it’s so obvious that i might be wrong.

ive also noted that in bunny farm’s credits, felix doesnt get a voice actor- and he most definitely talked. every other character, im sure, got a va. so why didnt felix? or is it…his va was already mentioned for another character? no, ken, that cant be it. two characters were voiced by martin, martin was mentioned both times. well, i refuse to believe that was an honest mistake. because in guilty, he doesn’t get a va.

also i just realized the facility is built on top of ed and molly- foul for that one martin.

anyways, to wrap this up. felix feels guilty about what he’s done to the waltens. i mean, them and the restaurant were all he had left. so he uses showbear to gently narrate the story of what happened to her forgotten family to sophie.

what do i think, following this theory, would happen next? well i think if sophie can reach felix, shell confront him. i think she may also stop taking her pills, or take more. that depends on why she takes them in the first place. maybe jenny will die. maybe felix will finally own up to what he’s done. maybe hell gaslight her, using her pills which leads her to abandoning them. who knows? other than martin and his associates.

maybe he’s using showbear to make her remember so shell investigate, die, and he can be sure all the loose end are taken care of.

thats all for today. im gonna go play minecraft lol

[neuvettel]

i saw someone say that he's probably out and about to shop (to replace his stolen backpack)

guess where the only lululemon location in switzerland is 💀

[dear-kumari]

It’s kinda odd to see ppl defend Legendary Disaster’s lion swap in 2022.  I get that there were interesting meta reasons behind it but like, we do all remember that “let’s have the paladins match their lions and then switch them all up to match their original 80s placements for the nostalgic appeal” was arguably the genesis for all the worst choices in VLD’s narrative and visual design, right

[gimbapchefs]

Jin as the main character between worlds

[themountainsays]

Still thinking about the fact Mirabel's prophecy begins by telling her she must follow a yellow butterfly which leads her to her sister who should help her save the family and in cien años the yellow butterflies are what always lead Meme to her forbidden secret lover who is killed in front of her when they're caught together by her controlling mother, unraveling the eventual downfall of her home and bloodline

[screamsinsilver]

via quadrant.gg

[unproduciblesmackdown]

will roland as winston in billions 5x08

[seventeengoingunder-archive]

i think the lover promo was a big mistake in the sense that easter eggs weren’t just a fun thing for the fans to find later on anymore but an essential part of the marketing for the album. and it wasn’t a mistake becauase it wasn’t fun it was a mistake because now, for the rest of her career, fans will expect easter eggs and find them where there aren’t any because we were right about the calendar that one time, and it is going to lead to problems even more so than it is right now.

[phineasandferbtheories]

Baljeet doesn’t become a professor but instead becomes an actor and the role of professor is just what he decided on in Act Your Age

[cliveguy]

gen blurry wife theory is probably cos of social distancing rules 😭

[wernerherzogs]

@ your timothee seemingly playing paul in the trailer the same as he did hal in the king: i couldn't agree more!! this dude can churn out great performances he really can, but what is just not fitting him so far is the Chosen One, The King narrative; he somehow just doesn't really make it work? tbh the king made him way too emotionless but also too emo, somehow lol. it just doesn't feel authentic when he plays that kind of role.

LISTEN the king was an uneven film with a lazy script in general so maybe that had contributed to timotay's performance in there BUT maybe you're right and the fact that he still pretty much looks like A Little Boy is responsible for the fact that no matter what he does he can't Sell a certain type of character akjdjf (also A Married Man in little women...... A MESS)

[loonahours]

I wonder if they're finally gonna use yeojin's lore

[theheadlessgroom]

https://beatingheart-bride.tumblr.com/post/185399207912/theheadlessgroom-beatingheart-bride

@beatingheart-bride

“Oh, I have a feeling you two would make the most incredible opera singers,” Randall grinned brightly at the idea, scooping up his daughter (at which she squealed in delight) before looking to Emily and Lon, saying, “What do you think, darling? Erika as an alto, I’m thinking, but what about Lon? Baritone or a tenor, like his father?”

“What’s a barry-tone?” Lon asked, curling on his mother’s lap as he looked at his father with curious eyes, at which Randall laughed, saying, “A baritone has a very, very deep singing voice-usually they play bad guys in operas because of it. I’m not a baritone, I’m a tenor, which means my voice is not so deep.”

“Oh,” the boy nodded, bobbing his head up and down in an effort to show he understood, before proclaiming, “I wanna be a tenor!”

[dear-kumari]

Sometime last year I read that Mamoru Hosoda’s BELLE got a minutes-long standing ovation at a prestigious film festival (Cannes iirc).  Now that I myself have finally watched this highly anticipated cinematic masterpiece w/ subtitles and in high quality, I’d just like to say, from the bottom of my heart: I don’t get it

[spiritcc]

I wrote quite a Chunk about An Ordinary Miracle for the jebsus theory and then realised that all of it is actually irrelevant to the conspiracy at hand. Sure enough it’s gone from the main text but since I already kind of wrote it anyway, why not drop it here. Tldr I talk about how the film portrays the journey of a writer suffering from the good ol’ writer’s block and how it still resonates with many writers irl.

The main point of the movie is ofc the brincess otp, but all of Yank’s arc, in my opinion, at least, is all about a writer’s journey, I bet a lot of you can even relate. At first he’s really excited, literally cannot wait for everything to kick off, proudly announces the plot points and the characters, all giddy and thoroughly proud. Then sooner or later, something about the story just starts to go wrong, or maybe stale: cannot think of how to proceed, how to finish a scene, how to come up with a satisfying solution or an end. Yank in particular has a scene with the Bear since Yank planned for the Bear to really jump into the shitshow and make the Princess suffer and crack his own head open on dat Love Shit, which Bear doesn’t do so the Wizard takes the piss out of him saying he never really loved her in that case. To which Bear responds that he gave it all up PRECISELY because he loves her, because not getting together IS the option that will keep her away from a tragedy – and the Wizard despises this decision, and he is pissed with that to such an extent that he literally bans the Bear from like the entire country and rejects him altogether and abandons it all, which leads to that Give Up year for everyone.  

I described this all because this is that kind of example of a writing block where just,,,,this suddenly, a character does a completely different thing from what you were actually planning to do. And since it’s so different, you fucking hate it, and you hate the entire story now, and yourself, and everything. Whatever the reason, basically, at some point this amazing story of yours totally deflates in your eyes and you abandon it. 

Then it’s that abandonment period where you feel really shitty about it all, like it’s a shame it all went this way, a shame it all halted, and halted on such a note. In Yank’s case though, his characters now just routinely come into his house uninvited and share boring updates on their lives: they find it boring, the Wizard finds it boring, but they keep coming and talking about this shite, and no one gets any excitement whatsoever. Like, despite driving it all away, trying to forget your work altogether, it still comes back to kind of haunt you. All these characters you were once so proud of, all that potential it all had and still has – you kinda mourn everything it could’ve been, but it’s been so long now. You forgot the details, you lost all that mood and direction it was supposed to have, you just lost the actual will to be involved in your work, simply burned out. You drove yourself into a corner with your original ideas, like THE BEAR HAS TO TURN BACK INTO AN ANIMAL SO THAT MAKES AN ORIGINAL DARK TALE!!! and that’s it, you just would not bulge in any other direction because you just decided it will end like that one day. But in the end…does he really have to?

So a whole year later, when everything was ready to die for real, this one final episode of excitement bursts in, and puts an end to it all. The Bear….does not need to turn back into anything. Him and the Princess have suffered, they have given up a lot, and they still love each other as much as they did when they first met – they will kiss, and they will be happy. Nothing will happen to them today. It makes an ordinary ending for them – sure, but it is a happy ending they deserve.  

That was again no theory relevant to us, but it’s my theory that if the Yank managed to finish his story off beautifully like that after a nasty writer’s block, so can you. Go out there, the Wizard of your own works, make your miracle happen.

[thesoftboiledegg]

What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.