#memory fabricators

[2aceofspades]

I don’t know if you’re still doing those angsty prompts but maybe try 22 if you get the chance? No characters come to mind instantly, so I’m curious to see what you could think up

I am, indeed 😌

22.) "...you knew?"

In honor of a year since posting ✨this comic✨, I chose to go with Leo and Cassandra.

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Thank you for your submission! 🙌✨

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[tj-crochets]

The memory quilt is washed and ready to be mailed out with all four bears! I really love how the bears and the quilt look together

[leguin]

also. and yes i did just rewatch the finale. when louis admits (in his own head) what actually happened over lestat’s body, and it becomes clear that actually he’s just inventing things wholecloth. he’s just putting words in claudia’s mouth, which means she could’ve said anything. lestat could’ve done anything. louis could’ve done anything, and we barely know what he did do because he’s a lying liar who lies! maybe there were only 10 true seconds in the whole interview! maybe not even that! it’s insane and the flip happens in about .2 seconds, which is even more insane. just like that.

[neonhellscape]

gay tech priests standing by a computer, colourised

[whollysensei]

We've been trying to contact you regarding your car's extended warranty

anyways was brainstorming ideas. look what i came up with he sits again

[psalm40speakstome]

Lovely Runner. Episode Fourteen

HE remembers even when he doesn’t. She is written into the fabric of his life and a little thing like them not meeting and rewriting it all could never change that.

He will ALWAYS remember her.

[kidcore-nostalgia]

[abirddogmoment]

If anyone was wondering what happened to Mav's kitty cat, don't worry, it survived the move and still endures daily torment

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hm ok so for a while i was thinking that Wally, for the most part, only perceives reality as "Home", the neighborhood. that's his entire world, it's all he knows

but then i slapped myself and went wait. the Live Interview. Wally has been outside of Home, and has interacted with humans (presuming that the interview did actually happen, of course). and through Wally's interactions - or rather, attempt at interactions with Us, the QA, and the WHRP, it can be strongly assumed that he knows that there's an Elsewhere. there are places outside of Home. maybe he doesn't quite understand that there's another reality of sorts, but there's no way he's unaware that there's more than just the neighborhood out there

(and then of course there's the fact that Clown has said that humans are deeply involved (not a direct quote, im paraphrasing) in Welcome Home. maybe Wally interacted with them / regularly interacted with them. there could have been an adjustment period after he gained consciousness where humans helped him learn how to walk/talk/fine motor skills - this could be why he has such a seemingly inherent / desperate trust in Us & the WHRP & the QA... humans made him and cared for him. it's possible he could view them as a sort of higher power to trust & have faith in

& maybe he's been off-set or could go off-set. i mean, the houses' rooms were all different sets - the buildings themselves were empty husks, right? who's to say Wally wouldn't physically walk to the individual set pieces whenever he went over to someone's house (but then that leads me into speculation on how the puppets' consciousness works and how multiple copies of them could co-exist and wondering which is the - im getting off track. but there's all of that and then the two part "you're okay!" art pieces of Wally & Eddie, which are technically canon - dont quote me on that - and that's Another ramble/theory post i could go on about & have strong feelings on. Anyway!)

"but wait," i hear someone protest, "what about Barnaby? he was in the Live Interview too"

but was he? was he really? was that Barnaby, or was that a person in a suit playing the character Barnaby B. Beagle? i mean, if it was Barnaby, there had to be some memory fuckery going on that prevented him from either fully comprehending/realizing the situation, or just made him forget as soon as it was over.

and actually wait, Wally has to be aware of the reality discrepancy. because it was certainly him in the Interview as himself. He had to have understood on some level that either that wasn't really Barnaby, or that Barnaby wouldn't remember the interview.

(there's a connection in my head between all of this & how he would view an apple pie. "it isn't the same anymore. something's different". but i can't pin it down for the life of me.)

and with the Talking Telephone calls, Wally explicitly tells Us that he's not going to tell anyone who was behind the calls. i remember listening to the "original" prank call audio tests, which while were very similar to the canon in-website ones, have a few changes. one of which was Wally - in the tests - saying that the others weren't ready to meet Us yet. now in canon that tidbit has been swapped out for "You have to go too. You have work to do" but i think it's still implied through Wally's purposeful withholding-of-information that he doesn't think the others are ready to know. or he straight up doesn't want them to know

i mean, one little theory i previously had is that Wally wants them all to catch on to the nature of their reality and situation, but he doesn't want to - or Can't - tell them outright. they have to figure it out. and that can't was either something keeping him quiet, or because if they learned too soon / inorganically, their little puppet heads would pop into confetti like Red Guy's in dhmis 4

However my views have Changed and i'm pretty sure Wally is purposefully not telling anyone to maintain the illusion that everything is fine and can continue on as it always has. maybe it comes from a place of protectiveness, of love? whatever the motive i think he wants them all to keep being unaware and dare i say, Complacent while he "fixes" their situation.

which is delusional, but we all know Wally is digging his metaphorical claws into a desperate bid to keep everything the same / return it to its original state, leaving bloody scratches in something already rotted. or something like that!

all this to say i think it's interesting how it seems that he's the only one aware of humans / an outside/other world, yet he's so determined to stay in his lane. he wants connection & communication yet he doesn't want to leave or change. he wants help in keeping things the same (some could say in keeping Our reality & his separated) but in the process he's dooming everyone/everything and tearing down those walls himself

(Wally: i'm going to stay where i am, and you're gonna stay where you are, and we're gonna help each other keep me and my friends where we're meant to be. anyway i wonder what this sledgehammer does)

[kappaology]

human knight doodles, this time trying out krita's fill brush. more under the cut!

i don't often see knight fanart that showcase human headcanons of him so i am feeding myself and other enthusiasts </3 his character design really intrigues me because he's mainly defined by his "absence," so it was a fun challenge to imagine what he'd look like without shedding his original personality and such.

i also like how he canonically tries to be more modern as well (even to the point of wanting to be pink) so it opens up more design possibilities. that being said. have a comfy gamer knight

[b1gwings]

"scam made hermie a teen because he thought it was the funniest time for a person to be alive" is simultaneously the funniest and most evil thing mr likely has ever done

[desertsportshipping]

Juat give that man the custom jacket xD.

It's too late, he is already in a Joann's.

Etsy - the Prequel

[mamawasatesttube]

ttk is such a cool superpower.

i generally imagine that as he grows and practices and comes into his own, kon gets better and better at using it in more unorthodox ways. he can touch something and manipulate it in any way with his aura, right? like, we already see him doing things like "touching the ground and making it erupt several meters away" when he is a freshly hatched lil guy.

okay, well. he's standing on the ground, his aura is extending down into the ground, and oops! that secret underground bunker under this little hill or what have you isn't all so secret anymore. teehee!

not only is it incredibly hard to sneak up on him because of the kryptonian superhearing: the second anything comes into the area his aura can manipulate, he is aware of it. of course, that's a lot of information at any given time, so i'm sure cass can still pop up and startle him when they're just hanging out (maybe pregnable can be their always <3), but on the battlefield? good luck with any sort of stealth, ever. an adult, fully realized kon who's gotten enough practice honing his ability to process all that information is a force to be reckoned with.

like, man. his spatial awareness has got to be out of this world. (and that has some pretty fun rammys to play with!)

[cryptocism]

I was looking at the character trees and comparing them and I noticed Bart is the only one with freckles. Was that intentional?

it is, yeah! i figure the rest of the clones havent had any natural sunlight exposure, even though they've got Bart's genes, he's still the only one who's been outside. presumably the clones would get freckles too if they got any sun

[jazzzzzzhands]

Inktober 2023 Yr 8. Day 7: Drip Clean up on Isle R̴̡̨̲̼̹̘̰̝̫̣̳̝̟̠̠̗̘̗̋̌̅́̽̈́́̑̊͒̌́̀̀̌̐̽̇͐̉͆̈́̏̔̈́̀̅̍̏̉̌̎̒̓̈́͋̉̏͐̄͋́̕͘͘̕͠Ȩ̴̨̢̛̫̲̝̝̳̼͔̼̺̩̼̺̼͎͕͎̫̥̥̻̄̀͊͂͒͐̈́̈̍̊́̀̇͊͗͂̇͂̓̆̈͌̒́̓̽̀̀͛̒̒̐̕͘͝͝D̶̨̨̢̟͎̺̲̳̻͎̜͍̤͓̼̭̥̦͚͕̟̤̼͕͖͇͔̣̎̉̋̎͋̍͋̆̃̀̈́̅̎͆̂̎̔̌̽̉͂̈́͋̏̾͘̚ͅẢ̷̡̡̡̛̞͓̠͙̬̝̬̟͓̣̩̮̳́́̆̊͆̅̆̐̒̀̆̋̃̂͑͌̈́͛̐̑͋̏̈̈́̏̄͆͗͂̎͌̇͌̈̕̚̕̚̚͘͝͝C̷̟͖͇̦̫͍͓̼͈͎̯̖̮̘̬͈̭̦̙̱̦̲̼̰̰̘͉͔̺̟̫̘̜̯͍̎̀̊̈̽̽̌́́̔̿͘͘͜͜ͅͅT̷̛̟͓͚̯̤̹̮͓͖̖̦̠̜̱̩̈́̀́̏͋͑̿͋̅̅̇͊̐̿̈́̎̈́͋͋͗̊̈́̔̽̾̿̒̒͆͊̓͌̅͌̚͝͝Ȩ̶̡̢̨̛̼͙͉̰̗̭̱̪͚̣͈̝̙̜̗͍̥͓͎̝̺̥̳̜̪̜̹͙̩̙̥͍͇͍̀͊̒͛̀́͑̈́̎̏̋̓̐̆̃̅̓̒̈́͒̀̐̃̽̊̋̆͑̑̒̔̾́̉́̍͌̃̋͒̅̐̇́̃̚͝͝͠D̸̗̲͕̥̭̗͕̠͍͚͉͊̾͐͌̑̂̀̈́͆̀́͘!

[thefirstknife]

THOUGHTS

My thoughts are that I am insane right now!!!!!!!!

I was in a raid when this happened and then just like a few friends alerted us to come see the channel and we straight up did not believe them. TFS teaser THIS EARLY?? And then they also ofc said "Cayde is there" so we were convinced that they're messing with us.

But then we watched it and like, Cayde being there is the least of my concerns tbh. THE ENVIRONMENT???? It's the other side of the portal! It means we go through at some point in the next two seasons! This was expected of course, but I didn't think we would see anything about it until the actual campaign, definitely not this early. Like, seeing what it looks like on the other side is a huge teaser. I genuinely did not think we'll see a single glimpse before TFS, not even maybe during reveals and trailers later.

But Cayde being there is actually also important. He's not looking right! He has a weird glow on his eyes and other places, including the way Ace of Spades looks; some sort of weird gashes of light-ish tint, almost Taken in nature? But brighter. Kinda reminds me of the way time rifts look on Mars.

The fact that he has Ace in the first place is also suspect; we have Ace. Like, that was very much a huge plot. He can't have it back, not broken up like this, unless some truly WILD shit goes down in the next two seasons and YW like... dies or something. This, alongside the weird lights on him and the gun, seems to be indicating that he's not real. Like, he's obviously him and he is corporeal in some form and he speaks the same and knows who he is, but I think he's a memory that Ikora can access. (more under for length)

Which ties into the place they're at. Me and others have speculated before that what lies on the other side of the portal is the original garden from Unveiling, or some sort of a similar place outside of space and time. This can be neatly tied in with what we know about the Darkness and what has been the most important plot thread since Lightfall: Darkness is memory, emotions, psychic. It's history and time. I've spoken a lot about this recently. Lore has been focusing on it as well, most notably with Inspiral lore book from the raid that showed us two different ancient species that were capable of using the Darkness to access the collective consciousness and the memory of their civilisation, but this has also been brought up before, for example with the Psions who communicate in a psychic way and have an ancient religion that allowed them to contact their ancestors.

This is also heavily reiterated this season with Ahsa who has a similar power, as well as the Pyramid ships, the portal and the Veil who can all affect people's consciousness and give them access to their memories. One particular interesting bit is the ship from this season called Akashic Revelation. In it, we see the Titan, Joxer, making an attempt to pass through the portal. As he gets near, he goes through a massive whiplash of spacetime distortion and ends up having flashes of memories of his life before being a Guardian. The memories continue as he passes through, but we know what happens to him later. He is found outside, bent and broken, fused with his ship and dead. But the portal triggered a flash of memories of his past. Not only that, but the name of the ship is important as well: it refers to something called akashic records, an occult concept of there existing a compendium of everything that ever happened in the universe: all of past, present, future, all memories, events, emotions and people. Joxer seemingly accessed it as he touched and passed through the portal. This is absolutely a wild word to use here, given what we know of the Veil being the "mind and memory of the universe" and everything else I've mentioned.

What I'm trying to say is that the best way to tease about us gaining access to the source of the history of the universe is by showing Ikora speaking to a dead character who only exists as an imprint in the history of the universe. The potential here, if we're on the right track is huge. Not only is this super exciting on its own (a connection to everything that ever happened!), but it also brings the potential that other dead characters might also appear in some shape or form, to help us or tell us more.

It's also wild that this is a teaser. Meaning this is the least spoilery they could get and it's already so wild that it's making me lose my mind. I would definitely advise people not to expect Cayde (or other dead characters) to suddenly "come back" in the sense they expect them to. I don't think he or anyone else will be properly "alive." So in that sense, I don't think he's "back" the way people may think. He'll obviously have a presence in the story, and that makes sense if the story is focused on Ikora. Ikora has never truly recovered from his death and if there was a memory she would access (consciously or not), it would probably be his. She has already involuntarily accessed him as a nightmare.

But given how much we're focusing on the psychic aspects of the Darkness, including right now in this season which is pretty much all about the psychic bond between an ancient creature that has the power to show people visions of the past and the future and Sloane, a bond we have to strengthen to learn more about what's coming and what our enemy really is... The fact that the whole campaign and post-campaign and all lore and quests were focused on explaining the metaphysical properties of Darkness and its connection to the mind, the psychic, the consciousness, the emotions and the mind of the entire universe... Well. It's building up to something. And us being able to communicate with people long dead is not only useful, but might be necessary to understand how to defeat our enemy.

All of this is ofc purely wild speculation. It's way too early to say anything conclusive, outside of just trying to gauge which aspects of the lore Bungie wants us to pay attention to and which aspects of the lore are being focused on. The Veil and the memory of the universe seems to be this year's theme leading us into the Final Shape so for now, that's the direction to go into.

Full reveal will be on 22nd of August, which is the start of the next season. We'll definitely know more then, especially since Deep will be done and most of the new Ligthfall quest audio logs will likely be done too. Until then, I know people will go into wild directions and speculation, mostly because it's Cayde. In the same way that I advise people not to think that he'll suddenly be alive, I'd also ask people not to be too negative about what may happen because we literally don't know. Cayde's presence is not an indicator of either good or bad. I'd also like for people to focus more on the actual important background stuff rather than zero in on a single character, but I know that won't happen lmao.

In a way, I wish Cayde didn't overshadow the completely insane scene of Ikora sitting in a garden-like place on the other side of the portal that nobody has been able to go through before (and those that tried suffered violent deaths after being having visions of everything that ever happened). Because to me, that's the true teaser here. I can't wait to find out more and I'll definitely be looking at the upcoming lore from Deep in a different light. Things are building up and I hope people will pay attention to the background stuff that's been going on about the Veil, memory, history and consciousness.