#starri theories

[starriwonderland]

Hear me out,

Malleus:

Has dark/black hair

Ruler of the night and darkness

Has been associated with evil

Silver:

Has white hair

MOST LIKELY is Lord of the day

Uses light magic and has been associated with good by others in school

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Theory: Hannah's Birth Led to Steph's Mom Dying

Okay, this is a bit of a wild journey, but I promise it's at least somewhat thought-out if you're willing to bear with me for a bit. (Theory under the cut!)

I'm endlessly fascinated by the absence of the Church of the Starry Children (not a random opener, I promise). We're told multiple that times that "nothing that dies in Waylon Hall ever truly dies," and we learn that the Waylons put a spell in place to essentially resurrect anyone killed on the house's property. We also learn that the Waylons and their followers all died in the house in 1979. So... where are they? Max was a singular teenager, and within two weeks he had the entirety of Hatchetfield whipped into a panicked frenzy. Surely an entire cult of evil zealots brought back from the dead and imbued with insatiable bloodlust would be even more noticeable. At the very least, their Number 1 Fan Roman and remaining widow Sheila would know that they were still out there, which is clearly not the case. So it's pretty undeniable that, despite their safety-measures, the Waylons and their followers are no longer around.

There are multiple potential reasons for this. The Hatchetmen have experience with such people. Perhaps they got around the spell by taking the Cult's bodies to the Witchwood and burying them there, though that doesn't seem hugely likely. Or maybe Miss Holloway took care of the Waylons back in the 80s. That timeline arguably kinda' sorta' works--Miss Holloway gave up her life as a pop star to become an immortal witch just a handful of years after the Waylons' deaths.

But then we have Solomon in Nerdy Prudes Must Die, who has the Black Book, but says that he will never touch it "ever again." This statement heavily implies that Solomon once summoned the Lords in Black, and the absence of Steph's mother implies that she was the price he paid. (Nick and Matt also give A LOT of credence to that theory in the Hatchetfield Halloween livestream.) Solomon also knows A LOT about Max, the spell that created him, and how to put an end to it. And sure, this could be second-hand knowledge passed down from previous mayors or Miss Holloway. But what if it's not? What if, in an eerie foreshadowing of his own daughter's future actions, Solomon Lauter was the one to summon the Lords in the Black and sacrifice the love of his life to stop the resurrected Waylons?

There's an obvious problem with this theory--the timeline. Judging by Max, it's likely that a whole cult of monstrous and monstrously powerful ghosts on the loose for 25 years would have been Apocalyptic long before the timelines had the chance to shatter.

So what if they weren't around? What if the Waylons' spell was not automatically triggered upon their deaths, but instead required activation? Perhaps, in their cult-y arrogance, Mathias and Agatha never imagined that every single one of their followers would be wiped out alongside them. Maybe the Starry Children were supposed to return to the Hall upon the Waylons' deaths and activate the magic. With the Cult massacred, there was no one left with the knowledge to complete the ritual and resurrect the dead, leaving them in limbo.

And then Hannah enters the scene, born the same year that Solomon performs his Summoning. We know from Wilbur that Hannah is basically a nuclear power plant. What if her birth, together with the massive burst of energy as Lex activated her powers to save her sister, (and also maybe PEIP's portal playing whatever role it played,) was enough to do for the Waylons as Hannah would later do for Willabella Muckwab? What if Hannah's nuclear battery existence automatically served to complete the Waylons' spell, activate the house (leaving it primed for Max's return from the grave), and release the Waylons onto the unsuspecting town? Leaving Solomon, town Mayor, sentinel at the gates of hell, to work alongside Miss Holloway and her Black Book, discover the truth of the Waylons, and summon the Lords in Black for help. And maybe Miss Holloway, still in the middle of her own deal, was unable to make another, separate one, leaving Solomon to give up what he treasured most...and murder Steph's mother.

(And maybe the little girl she left behind is nothing but a reminder of his loss and his guilt.)

(Update: lmao @thatdelusionalnerd just described this as "far-fetched but still makes quite a bit of sense" and I just wanted to acknowledge that because I feel like that's my sweet spot with Hatchetfield theories. Arguments that are absolutely bananas and almost definitely not true, but to my own consternation kinda' work nonetheless.)

[sunnyyflowerrs]

every new thing i learn about itafushi makes me sick but i am still sane because i believe they will pull through (im delusional)

[staring-at-a-blank-pagee]

My boy is making his debut.. meet resident stargazer and sticker hoarder, Starry Dee! He's still pretty young and doesn't know much other than what he sees in the sky, and has to constantly be told not to wander away in search of the next great sight.

[melverie]

Obviously, Lilith's lover is Nightbringer

[stellarstarryyy]

I love Paul Petscop and all his transmasc swag

[pokotho]

so if all the original members were killed then who restarted the church after that? and when?

bc the house was built in 1910 but the waylons weren't the first people to settle on the island, the hatchetmen were. and the honey festival started in 1945 so when was the mass murder

also the only direct connection we know of from the og members to the new members is sheila young, so did she start the honey festival? because she wasn't on the festival planning committee with roman, she was wandering around the festival on her own. did she even attend the 2020 sacrifice? why wasn't she part of the original cult when her husband was and obviously shared the secrets with her? does roman and the cult even know that sheila uses their powers too? bc miss holloway uses their powers too and i'm preeetty sure she isn't part of the cult, at least not in the present time

[redshift-13]

tumblr book club, March 13, 2024

My recent-ish posts about the night aren't just an aesthetic exploration. I've been wanting to get a better handle on light pollution, a growing problem affecting astronomical research, human health, the climate, and wildlife.

Ah, libraries...

For those who prefer seeing lightning bugs in a field to the garish architectural lighting of McMansions in a new suburban sprawl, or staring in wonder at the Milky Way instead of an orbiting SpaceX billboard advertising Coca-Cola, preserving darkness is an urgent priority requiring much higher public awareness and political action.

When light pollution is too much, lovely rituals of deep evolutionary time like that below are rendered impossible:

Dark Sky International is the umbrella organization for a worldwide effort to conserve the night sky. There's a growing chapter in my state of Minnesota called Starry Skies North.

Dad still sends me birthday money, and I still spend it on books:

[starriwonderland]

That's it y'all we're toast. Although it's probably not necessary for Malleus to leave considering he's literally king of thorns but he can be... irrational sometimes and probably will pull and "Endless Halloween" and trap everyone on campus—again.

[variousqueerthings]

I’m reading Persistance: All Ways Butch And Femme and lemme tell you it’s doing wonders for everything -- feelings about gender, politics, language, relationships 

every time I think I’ve come at some unknowable concept about myself that nobody could possibly understand and I’m totally alone (or at the very least I’m something new and fragile), reading about other queers makes me understand that actually it’s existed possibly forever and I can calm tf down and stop being so angsty, it’s not fragile at all, it’s years of others living these things into reality!

anyway, us lonelies under 30 (and over 30 too quite probably) who think we’ve reinvented the wheel and nobody could possibly get it, we need to read this sort of stuff to get out of our own heads and to respect where we came from and maybe all the fucking discourse can chill out and we won’t be so afraid of changes and concepts that already exist and have done for a lot of years!

[starry-eyedblog]

hello thereee! :D

I've been scrolling through the app and was hoping to find some few posts about the COD characters reaction/answers when their beloved attempts to try the orange peel theory on them just like the one that's been trending all over tiktok! (look, i know it was trending many weeks ago but i just couldn't help but to think of it yk?😭)

I'd really wish for you to be the first person to actually write this down sooo pretty please? just this once😖👉🏼👈🏼

hello!! someone has actually wrote it before, it’s by ri :)

click here to read it !!

i hope you enjoy, they did a great job with the orange peel theory for the men of task141 !!

[melverie]

constantly staring at Simeon’s profile picture. You know. The Miss Em dark version that Mammon created after MC returned to the human world. That profile picture

[stellarstarryyy]

My theory for rapid eyes is that radio is the player's inner coach (positive inner voice) and that red eyes is their inner critic (negative inner voice). The green text is just the voice of reason and logic. The story to me is that the player is battling with their inner critic which is putting them down due to the death of their father causing them to pause work on rapid eyes

[starryluminary]

I did not watch the rise and fall of the Trans Marco theory in real fucking time for people to LIE that it was supposed to be canon but Disney didn’t allow it

At MOST what Disney didn’t allow was the princess Turdina doll with trans colors. At MOST they were going to allude at her POSSIBLY being trans. None of this was ever on purpose or planned from the start