#malevolent spoilers

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

This season I want John to use his projecting powers/his arm to kill again, but this time I don't want it to be out of hatred, I want it to be out of devotion to Arthur, so devoted he becomes unrecognizable in a way we've never seen before. I want him to become utterly visceral. Out of so much devotion that it doesn't even cross Arthur's mind that this could be remanence of The King in Yellow, John's his own now, I want him to blur the lines between John and something else entirely, something worse. 

[jouxlskaard]

just finished the first season of Malevolent and this show is like TMA on fucking steroids. why are they already quarreling like an old married couple and why has Arthur nearly gotten himself killed every single episode. I love it

[pencildragons]

who up in the meat cavern with the black maggots feasting on human bones haha

[luvkirby4ever]

Do we count the ladder breaking as falling into a hole because I need to know if I can check the "hole" square off on my season 5 bingo card

[aro-geo-turtle]

Relistening to the first Malevolent episode is fun because a lot of the exposition John gives Arthur is blatantly wrong.

Of course there's the "Arthur was the one to kill Parker" thing, which was a malicious lie meant to manipulate him into trusting him.

But then we've got the bit where John explains where he came from. He certainly got the multiverse thing spot on. But he claims that he started out in this or some similar timeline, then died and wound up in the Dark World. Then, in the Dark World, he was bound to the book and somehow the book made its way back to Earth and to Arthur.

But obviously we later learn that what really happened was the King getting split in two and John winding up on Earth in that basement, where he was bound into the book/the Dark World (perhaps the book just sends people to the Dark World? we still don't really know how it works).

I think the best explanation for this is that John was just trying to patch together his splintered impressions and memory pieces into a cohesive narrative and getting some bits in the wrong order, considering he was still trying to hide his amnesia from Arthur.

But it still brings into question how much we can believe what John says about the Dark World. In part 1 he's very clear about it being the only afterlife out there, saying "all of these worlds have one, singular, exit." But later on (I don't remember when but it definitely happened) he says that he doesn't know if everyone goes there when they die or just a certain kind of being (like him).

We know that he was there when he was trapped in the book, and that the King had the power to casually toss him back there, and then (presumably) Kayne tossed the King in there himself to produce a terrified and amnesiac Yellow. We know that it's horrible and chaotic and really really sucks and time doesn't exist there.

But it could be one of many afterlives, we have no idea if Parker, Faroe, Bella, ect. are actually there. Hell, how do we know it's an afterlife at all??? Maybe its just the place a lot of bound, imprisoned, and discarded beings wind up in. I'll bet getting chopped in half felt a hell of a lot like dying.

anyways its an absolute power move to start your lore-heavy cosmic horror podcast with a bunch of exposition only to prove that the character giving it is amnesiac and has no clue what he's talking about

[evil-but-refined]

What choices were made on the patreon that lead Arthur to finger a cave wall??

[depress03xpress0]

Learning The Alphabet With Malevolent: Day 16

A is for: AOUGHHHHHHHHH and Arthur, obviously

B is for: Bath :)/Bathtub:D

C is for: Cannibalism

D is for: Dreamlands

E is for: Entity

F is for: Fuck :)

G is for: Gold

H is for: Hole/Holes

I is for: I have your Fucking eyes

J is for: John

K is for: Kayne

L is for: Live, laugh, and Lynch Larson/ Lighter

M is for: Move!

N is for: Noel

O is for: Oscar

P is for:

[springypaws]

There’s so much in Malevolent to be devastated over so why am I the most sad about the way things turned out with Yellow

Like, Yellow is John’s other half— the half that had been the main villain, threat, and danger for so many episodes now. And then, one day, POOF!! His memories were gone, and he was put into the same situation that John was in when he first met Arthur. I know it would have taken so extremely long, and may never have happened, but I keep imagining what it would have been like if Arthur helped Yellow feel some humanity, too. What would have happened if both Yellow AND John were changed for the better? Would the King in Yellow as a whole no longer be some evil Erdrich god, torturing souls for the heck of it?

Them beating Yellow in the finale of season 4 is one of the saddest parts to me, because it’s made very clear that Yellow wants to be cared for; he wants the bond and change that John had. Yellow goes so far as to ask John how he had made it so that Arthur would love John and care for him as much as he did, and what made John more lovable than himself. But he never receives it. Perhaps he simply can’t.

I just find it so sad— like this man is definitely not great, very far into the dark grey area of the moral spectrum, but he had so much opportunity to be good, even if it was taken away in the end. And I mean, perhaps he never could have changed, since John explained that Arthur cared for him because John cared for Arthur, which implies that Yellow couldn’t do the same, but the thought that he, once, might have been able to… he at least deserved someone to care about him, instead of trying to use him like Larson :(((

[noxisabsolutelyinsane]

his ass is getting tetanus

[aphemorpha]

every now and then I think about how the lake monster wasnt in Hastur's plan. That Just Happened to John and Arthur.

[ganem-ouchie]

"what the fuck is wrong with you?" "I don't know. I- I don't know." hahahaha lol lmfao lmaoo lmfao lol laughing my ass off LMFAOOOOO hahahahahhahaahha lol loooool

[keykidpilipili]

Looking at the voting statistics on the Malev wikia and cackling so hard over the chapter 201 poll choices being Passive/Agressive.

[lilithvibeplace]

agh fuck the idea of having a finger be wooden and the roots entangle with the palm of my hand is such a fucking unfathomable “need” in my life like that would fix me in so many ways. meld me to the earth itself yesssss i need this as badly as becoming a lighthouse keeper

[mintyfangirl]

Was supposed to be really serious but it's lil goofy instead oh well

[demekii]

Big John was my favourite part of the episode

[godwaltz]

hi guys , i drew the scene. horrified by hearing him mad. [despite the 12 kaynes on this page i am actually his #1 hater]