#shes probably 11/12 in this

[sick-ada]

what a sweet young octoling i hope nothing profoundly traumatic happens to her

[yuwuta]

twin aus are fun bc sukuna is sooooo ugly and yuuji is soooooooo pretty and beautiful and lovely <3 completely understand why sukuna ends up the deliquent loser twin bc why would anybody choose him when <3yuuji<3 is right there

[tricksterlatte]

There's something absolutely ironic and even compelling to me about the domino effect regarding Akechi and Sae's interactions. Akechi had to deceive everyone, including his coworkers. Sae in particular was closely tied to the investigations of the crimes he was committing, so of course appearing as non-threatening or even annoying as possible to her was in his best interests.

However, his petty but arguably feeble masquerade is what led to his cognitive self in Sae's brain presumably being easy for the Phantom Thieves to tie up? He was too good at deception and it led to Sae's perception of him being sopping wet cat, which was easy for the Thieves to subdue, so the threatening, real Akechi wouldn't stumble upon Sae's cognition of him as he went to murder Joker.

I know people usually discuss Shido's cognitive Akechi and the implications regarding Akechi's presentation of himself and his layers of deception, but Sae's is the direct contrast to Shido's, and it's very interesting to look at how being a petty little asshole to your stressed out hot lady coworker about her skincare routine can also contribute to her thinking of you a a nuisance at best (until it was almost too late for everyone involved, but hey, it worked out for the best? I think).

I love the layers of Akechi's deception because he was cunning to a fault. Sometimes I wish we could have seen how the Thieves interacted with Sae's cognition of him, because both Sae and Shido had a very biased perception of him, and it makes me wonder who really knew Akechi at all. I'm rambling here, but it's been on my mind for ages. I would love to see if her cognitive Akechi changed after 11/20, considering he went from annoying junior detective to a dangerous murderer in just one day for her, and she doesn't remember any of third semester or even 12/24 when he was there.

[spydoclovr69420]

OK new horrible Doctor Who theory.

So we know that whoever's face the Doctor sees first in a new regeneration has an impact on how that Doctor is. We know that from the 11th Doctor's regen episode.

10's first face was Rose, 11's was Amy, 12's was Clara, 13's was (presumably) Grace.

Now if Grace had just been a one-off no other mention character I would ignore this probably. But in her first episode, Grace dies. The first person the Doctor saw died, the same day.

When 11 regenerated he made a big deal about Amy being the first face that face saw, and the trend of that person being extremely important to the Doctorin that regeneration.

Theory: the 13th Doctor's nervousness throughout the series is partially because of the loss of the first face she saw, especially because she stayed with the family of this person. Losing a person you've anchored yourself to while trying to deal with a danger to those people would hurt anybody, but it would especially impact someone who had a deep connection with that person.

Because of the shocking and sad way this ended up, the 13th Doctor didn't develop the same way after regeneration that other Doctor's had because the first face they saw was consistent for them.

[henrysglock]

S4 Victims: Story by Proxy?

Okay so. In spitballing with Em...something stuck in my head.

So we all know how serial killers leave crumbs because deep down they want to be caught/want the truth to be revealed? Well what if the Duffers, or even current Henry, are doing the same thing. That is, leaving breadcrumbs.

This mainly has to do with the S4 victims, their stories, and the order in which they're chosen.

So, it goes like this:

Chrissy: Abusive mother who resembles Virginia

Fred: Eaten alive by the guilt of being responsible for the accidental death of an innocent.

Max: Suicidal over guilt about Billy's death and her response to it. Billy, who died saving her/while she was saving herself from the Fleshflayer, a regenerated form of the Mindflayer.

Patrick: Abusive father, not much else told.

Max (again): Suicidal Ideation, dies, soul taken, but was revived by El. She's now in some limbo-state, where her body lives but her identity/mind is elsewhere. She will likely be brought back entirely by El in S5.

It almost feels like a story by proxy if we piece it together.

So, let's piece it together:

Person with an abusive mother...feels responsible for the death of an innocent...a sibling who was killed while this person was trying to save themselves from a monster which came from Hawkins lab, which leaves them suicidal...and this person lives in a situation with an abusive father figure. This person becomes suicidal, and their suicide attempt was not entirely successful. They were revived by El, and end up in a limbo state. They may or may not be brought back by El later.

Now, let's collect details about our serial killer:

Abusive mother? Check. (No matter how we frame it, Virginia was not a good mother.)

Innocent died? Check. (Henry has nothing bad to say about Alice, which we know he would if she were not innocent, since he does this with every other victim.)

Sibling died as a result of saving oneself? Check. (The Creel massacre was a situation where Henry was, with whatever intentions we may assign for the other family members' deaths, trying to save himself from Virginia and by extension the lab.)

Ended up with an abusive father figure? Check. (Well...an abusive Papa, one might say.)

Brought back by El multiple times? Check. (El was the one who took Soteria out and brought Henry back from being powerless. El was the one who put Henry in the UD/limbo state. El was the one who opened the gate for his return to the RSU.)

IT ALL ALIGNS. So let's put it together with all the feelings involved:

Citations (I guess? Explanations?) are in the tags listed by number!

Henry had an abusive mother who was at least trying to have him shipped off to the lab, if not actually trying to kill him outright. This situation builds and builds, him wanting to be left alone (1), putting out subconscious and conscious cries for help (2), and her targeting him about it, until March 25th, 1959.

Virginia starts it, attacks, and this time she's out for blood (3). Henry defends himself (4). Virginia, being the parent with powers (5), doesn't actually die (6). Victor, Alice, and Henry go for the door (7). Virginia's on the stairs (8). She's got to finish what she started, since her original plan was botched (9). Henry puts his energy into trancing Victor (10), protecting him from Virginia, since logically two people can't occupy one person's mind.

This leaves good, innocent Alice to fend for herself, standing directly in front of the staircase. She's a loose end (11). Virginia kills her, but can't kill Henry or Victor while the trance is occurring. She figures Henry's going to run himself into the ground (12). She figures she can call Brenner in to collect Henry, like they planned (13). If she disappears, she figures it'll go into the news something like this:

"World War II veteran kills entire family in deranged fit of insanity. Wife missing, presumed dead. Son dies in hospital."

And on both counts, she's essentially right. It does basically go into the papers that way. Victor is taken in for murder, and Henry is taken by Brenner, but not before he sees that Alice was caught in the crossfire (14).

Henry ends up with Brenner, the abusive Papa. He's got the guilt about Alice's death, something that makes him sad and angry. Brenner, maybe, decides to push this in order to increase Henry's powers, but it backfires. Henry's powers increase, but he does...something. He lashes out, he snaps, maybe he even tries to kill himself. He's Brenner's prized pet, though, so Brenner can't let that happen. He seals Henry's powers away with Soteria. It's a death for Henry's entire identity, so far as to have him under the name Peter Ballard. Then comes along 011. She removes Soteria from Peter Ballard...and revives Henry Creel. She then exiles him to the Upside Down in 1979, only to eventually bring him back in 1983 when she opens the Mothergate.

All this to say: It could be his own story, told through the stories of his victims.

Breadcrumbs, or maybe...obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Below the cut is where I speculate into motivations for his actions after Soteria's removal, so...not required reading for this particular analysis.

Years of MKUltra torture warp Henry's guilt about the situation into a bastardized, violent, brutal, unethical savior complex based in the notion that he's a predator by nature, but a predator for good. He "saves" the lab kids from a future like his own, filled with nothing but torture. He "saves" El from her ignorance about the lab and intended to have her join him, thereby attempting to "save" her, technically his little sister, from the lab entirely.

He "saves" his s4 victims from their guilt and suffering, which so closely mirror his own, which no one saved him from. I could even go so far as to say he was "saving" Will, who is set up to be so much like him, from a world of horrible people who (from Henry's viewpoint based on his lived experiences) would only serve to abuse and betray him.

This of course isn't to say any of it is right. None of it is right or good...but it makes sense. It follows a pattern. It coheres. The math...maths.

[ghstslut]

it's 11:11 u all better wish for a kiss from me or smth

[cestacruz]

Ushiwaka <3

[gobbluthbutagirl]

so i knowwww the first rule of tv show timelines is, we don’t think too deeply about tv show timelines, but like…regarding the righteous gemstones…a) in the season 2 interlude episode, taking place in 1993, eli says he has “two teenagers.” yet in 2000 judy is still in high school. so how does that work. and then b) how old is gideon? because presumably season 1 takes place in 2019. and you’d think he was probably about 17/18 during the prayer power convention scene which took place(i think) in 2018…so the year 2000 should be about the time he was born, right? also c) when aimee-leigh is pregnant with kelvin she says she’s due in july. and then later kelvin says his birthday is really close to christmas. so what happened there!!! and then d) this one isn’t really timeline-related But. in season one when they’re talking to the nancys amber says she was raised in “a rural part of the state.” so you assume she’s still from south carolina just one of the asscrack nowhere parts. and then in season 3 they say she’s from kentucky which is of course a completely different state. so???

[oh-meow-swirls]

wait in 3 nate doesn't have whapir or baku, just kittylumbus. kittylumbus can't absorb sleepiness seemingly. either a) baku just permanently made it so nate Literally Never Feels Sleepy (does not sound healthy-), b) kittylumbus does do that also, or c) nate is just past the need for sleep. idk which i prefer honestly-

[corneille-moisie]

there i go beating dq11 for the 3rd time

[calcescarp]

sorry i'm gonna do more anime posting later because i haven't watched inuyasha in a decade and i'm gonna come back later to scream about all the things i forgot or misremembered

[skiitter]

Hmmm yes let us ring in 2023 with a minor dr who era. Why not. Might as well fucking happen.

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

Kid me had a slightly warped idea of what the average human lifespan was and how likely it was to survive cancer. The first funeral I ever went to was from someone who died at 102 and the second human funeral was someone who died from cancer so I just assumed that cancer was a death sentence and that if you didn’t die from disease or an accident, dying of “old age” meant you were at least 99 😑

[zaddyazula]

whenever i see people with brand new phones like the iphone 15 pro max ultimate child labour special i am always shocked because not only how do you have the money to buy that but why the fuck do you need the newest phone they come out like every two weeks at this point

[kuiinncedes]

hhrrnddbffhd

[astrxealis]

unsure what i want for my theme tbh