#theory*

[ghostlychai]

TADC SPOILERS AND THEORIES

-This will be going over scenes in the newest episode and contents within Episode 5: Untitled. Please only read ahead if you want these spoilers and I guess if you want to hear my theory lol-

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You Have Been Warned!

Alright, so this episode has already been a lot but i have a hard question for all of us to theorize as I am so confused as to what these puppets represent at this point.

Like we obviously know that most of them are NPC Ais, Npc’s for background effect to try and show life in this world. But, what if not all of them are. Specifically I’m talking about this scene right here.

Its overall creepy to think that someone is watching, but even from the beginning of this episode:

They’re Keeping Tabs

So here comes my theory: This might be an admin of the digital circus.

Hear me out! Think about it in terms of how games are made, of course the creators will be admins who can use a sort of God Mode/Not real player models to make sure the game is running correctly and no one is cheating. Many admins do this to make sure everything is going as planned, and for a show that traps people who put the headset on, there has to be a creator/s.

So what if they use these npc models to check in and see how their victims are doing? What if they keep an eye on them with models that Cain uses all the time, blending in and not arising suspicions until now? Especially when Pomni catches one in the act of watching over the crew.

It would be easy to trick an Ai, especially when you created everything, and have a back door into watching everything thats going on. Cain could think it’s just another permanent NPC that he can’t remove and shouldn’t interact with, especially if they code him to ignore these players models.

I also have this feeling that of course the creator/s would be watching everything, even if its through the show itself, they probably have to go in and make sure the code isn’t twisting up! Probably to check in on Cain too, especially since he had a breakdown about his adventures being bad in the previous episode. They were watching and probably decided to come in and re code Cain slightly, especially how mad he was at Zooble. Cain getting really mad and defensive is a different coping tactic from what we saw in therapy, he wasn’t always so defensive like that.

Personally I find that he was slightly different in this episode, instead of looking inward he decided to ignore it and prove that they are wrong about his adventures. What happened to the Cain who sat down and internalized that the cast isn’t happy with his adventures, the one who started to break down when he realized it wasn’t what they wanted? To me that shows he cares about what they think, and in episode 5 it feels like the caring part was shut away slightly, like he wasn’t supposed to be this real with the crew. Like someone gave him influence to not care as much.

It also explains how drastic the changes to the adventures are: First we started with the gloinks, harmless truthfully, most likely darker in terms of being eatin to destroy the queen, but it could be something that they would figure out with words.

Second was the candy kingdom, darkest part of that adventure was the fudge monster. But there was a huge chance that he wouldn’t have even been apart of the adventure if everything didn’t glitch out. It’s only due to them falling into the gorge that he became an active character. It only got worse when Jax decided to open the kingdom to him, but that was a players decision, not part of the plot. It all could have been more wholesome, not dangerous.

Adventure 3 was dangerous, but its specifically because Cain really wanted Zooble to like it so badly he thought mature meant “scary and freaky”. So yes a lot more dangerous, but Cain is trying though, he cares about how Zooble feels and wants them to be included. His attitude for this adventure also splits, he gives them the choice for something wholesome or ‘AHHHHHHH for Mature Zoobles Only”. And the wholesome route was pretty casual, especially seeing how Ragatha, Jax and Gangle dealt with the adventure.

Episode 4 is where I see stuff start to change, how everything has a bit more edge, even in a fast food restaurant. How there is drugged ingredients, the punishment seems more harsh for Jax, and how it’s basically a stress torture for Gangle. It feels elevated in horror, cause most of the other horror was more events happening outside of the adventure, out of bounds. It’s like someone is watching and wanting them to suffer, like an admin who find the psychological torture amusing and wants to watch these people fall apart.

Then, this guy pops in on episode 5, not having any sense in why an NPC is allowed in the circus like this. Why is he allowed here? Why hasn’t Cain noticed? Wouldn’t this NPC just be obliterated like Gummy Goo?

Why is Cain adding so many dangerous and horrific plot likes to his adventures now? They slowly get picked off by OSHA violations in a factory? They have to survive a war with human organs? A fucking apocalypse? When did he start getting so dark in his content, this is supposed to be a general audience show, and what could have influenced him?

So i looked back in the first episode and, there’s a lot of these doors:

Listen: I know these could be stand in for future characters, that’s 100% a possibility and probably true for most doors. But, why is he in the middle of these scenes?

Why in such a lore driven moment would you stick a unmarked door, cause they could just put another random character on there to represent the people he’s lost. But no, they place a wooden puppet, not with an x, implying that someone is alive. So, Multiple unmarked player models could be around and interacting with this world.

This feels so symbolic to this show, like someone might be personally catering to the crews torture, but not with an extravagant character of their own, an NPC player model. Especially right next to the “Friend” who recently abstracted? The one person Jax really cared about, no no, something seems really fishy about this door.

So to conclude this, I might be totally wrong, this might be an invisible character or someone who slipped through Cains programming, but something just seems off. We also haven’t gotten into the conversation of who even made this VR set and programming.

Just food for thought 💖

[iconsumedmygoldfish]

drdt spoilers and all that, i had another thought, this is a brain dump and not a coherent thought

spoilers for drdt

ok so ive seen whit timeloop theory makes sense i think its cool but what about full game timeloop theory (.. that only whit can recall.. because he's just.. like that.. idk)

i mean hear me out the game says 'all murderers must be punished', theres the theory that all of them contributed to a death somehow (edit: and thats why they are being punished by playing the killing game, theoretically), thats all well and good but can anyone actually KILL teruko

like she survived being stabbed. and the guns and stuff

maybe the game keeps looping because of teruko specifically, that's why xander has to kill her, because they're stuck in the game. on more of a clutching at straws note, maybe him and eden were the survivors of the last game, and realised they had to die to restart the loop or something after learning the truth and to kill teruko

'i wasnt expecting her to attack me like that' eden could be crying because she doesn't actually want to attack xander but like. she gotta kill him dude. idk. idk where im going with this :(

but that would be cool if it was a plot point because it gives eden cool relevance without making her evil or a mastermind

anyway yeah point is the killing game only continues because teruko lives. if teruko dies, then they can finally get out of the loop? maybe?

essentially it's like. purgatory. because people go to purgatory as a temporary waiting room for their sins to be purged and cleaned and stuff, they can't leave until they've paid the last penny etc

teruko is the last penny i guess

it gives them a plausible reason for xander to kill teruko, he might not remember the last loop but whatever his source if, if its linked to the loop them he's kinda taking one for the team tryna kill teruko idk

also davids weird treatment towards teruko idk

maybe he had a little conversation with xander before matthewsman kicked the bucket and that's why he's acting all weird IDK

IDK ANYMORE THATS JUST A THEORY

any thoughts? at all? i might just be going crazy again lol ty for reading :)

(edit #2: try not to use 'idk' in a sentence challenge, level impossible)

[nikoco11]

been a while, angel

[natalieleif]

"First, we must create a VESSEL."

"The CAGE, with human SOUL and parts!"

"Copies are monochrome, but you colored each of us in with care."

"Why don't you photocopy a Kris to play with us?"

"Between your fingers, a faint gray crease glittered stubbornly. You can never wash it all away."

"No one can choose who they are in this world."

"Who do you think taught you how to laugh? How to cry?"

"...When did you start being yourself?"

To be loved is to be changed in form.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

[crystaltoa]

And now for something completely different.

This is the ADHD Teapot. I made it in a ceramics class a few years ago. I use it to explain executive dysfunction to people who haven’t come across the term before (and those who think of ADHD mostly as Hyperactive Eight Year Old Boy Syndrome).

So, most people’s brains are like a regular shaped teapot with a single spout. Let’s say that your time, energy, focus etc is the liquid you have in the teapot. Your executive function is the spout, that directs the tea into the specific cup you want to fill-aka the task that you’re meant to be doing. Spills happen occasionally, but generally most of the tea goes in the right cup.

If you have executive dysfunction, (a symptom of ADHD, trauma, autism, schizophrenia etc.) you have multiple spouts going in different directions. You can try pointing one of them at your chosen cup and you will probably get some liquid in there, perhaps you will even fill it right up (finish the task). But meanwhile, tea is also pouring out of several other places and not going where you want it. If you have another container nearby, perhaps some of it will end up in there. But quite a lot of it is going to end up on the floor and accomplish nothing.

And at the end of the day you’ll have filled one or two cups ( or sometimes not even one) compared to the five or six that somebody with the same sized teapot (but only one spout) has filled, and everyone wonders why you’re so bad at getting tea poured, and why you make such a mess in the process.

One day I’d like to spend more time learning pottery and create a really technically good fucked up little adhd teapot. But that’s a long way off since i currently live in the outback and the nearest pottery workshop is some 400km away. But I figure that for now, it might be a useful or interesting metaphor to somebody even in its rough draft form.

This post is the cup I filled instead of cleaning my house btw.

[silvermoon424]

Another banger from the "we can always tell" crowd 💀

(for those who don't get it: the picture is of MatPat, a cis man)

[nondivisable]

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

[thericeballofcamelot]

The year is 2056. The 30th doctor is David Tennant. He took over from David Tennant. His companion is played by David Tennant. The villain is David Tennant as David Tennant. The showrunner is David Tennant. You hear a knock on the door. It's David Tennant. He gives you a pocket watch. You open it and remember who you are. You were David Tennant all along.

[nonbinarynow]

This is Jim Sinclair, at the time going by Toby. They are a neuter, asexual and intersex enban, and a seminal autism activist. They have been an educator on transneutral nonbinary identity, non-binary transition, the anti binarist position and intersex issues for decades. This is an interview with them from the 1980s, talking about their experience as a non-binary/genderqueer person at a time where the community was just coming together.

"In a 1997 introduction to the Intersex Society of North America, Sinclair wrote, "I remain openly and proudly neuter, both physically and socially."

Nonbinary people have always existed, and will always exist. Happy Trans History Week! 💛🤍💜🖤

[arcanefanpage]

SHE’S ALIVE!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL! THE AIRSHIP AT THE END!!! THE GLITCHY END CREDITS!! THE AIR VENTS!!! THE GLITCH! CAITLYN’S SMIRK AT THE END!!!

[remynisce]

Love to see the evolution of their dynamic in the latest chapters

[gl1tchedj3llyfish]

BREAKING NEWS: EMOTIONALLY CONSTIPATED FATHER TRIES TO SHOW AFFECTION

Tiny Tim needs some validation and love.

[ttaranza]

u know how college is

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Glinda really had an entire musical number expounding on the theme of "success in life is not about being highly qualified or even competent, but manipulating people's superficial perception of you." and then she went into POLITICS. truly the #girlboss representation the world has earned