#these have been haunting my inbox for a while now

[alllgator-blood]

WAIT A DAMN MINUTE !!

It's been quite I while since I bullied you with my art friend,so I think it's time you can escape from me im too slow:)

I like when people call my oc spooder shamura ,they're both sillies, live ur shamura they're the silliest:)

Don't mind how crappy the drawing is :(

AHHHHHHHH SPOODER SPOTTED- tbh I am still haunted by forever ago when I called them "shamura" on an ask you sent, so I'm just glad it was more funny than a cardinal sin.

This is a rare sighting of shamura when they're NOT silly but that changes pretty quick when a small, cute creature is introduced, and the protective big sibling instinct takes over. Also I would never draw the bishops being actually mean to anyone in an ask even if they're evil demon creatures, I would feel too bad :')

I sometimes think about that comic you said you were working on last year with spooder + my shamura, but I know projects don't always get finished (sweeps my 93843243 sketched, unfinished comics/animations under the rug and coughs) so I didn't want to make you feel obligated to finish it! It was cool seeing these two in my inbox after all this time cause I was like HEY! I REMEMBER THEM! Comics are really hard and there's a reason most of em aren't generally colored + background'ed and most comic artists will straight up beg you to use shortcuts instead of doing everything the hard way....ME INCLUDED. So like I said don't sweat it if it stays as a WIP, just wanted to mention that I still remember that project!

....also I have no idea what that smoothie is. It's probably full of dark evil energy and might imbue you with demonic powers if drank. IIRC the premise of your comic was spooder was going to shamura for a specific purpose, like to ask them a question or try to gain something, so I guess now they're leaving with some kind of eldritch magic???

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

Along with the widow and the cultists in the mine, there's also the repeating in season 5 a few times of cultists/ acolytes as victims. The witch was raised as an acolyte to Mother Darkness and some of her language about her doesn't paint Mother Darkness as the best mom. The townspeople had a hungry being living in the woods around them, who they could either feed every so often or risk one of their own being pulled in whenever Horig wanted. Evrard tells of his father wanting to understand the world beyond his and how he died, how he spent his childhood in a castle haunted by his family's history and worship. Lillith is implied to have been indoctrinated a bit.

Then at the end of season 5 there's the reveal about the Lesters. And as you mentioned (and I touched on in the tags), that kind of paints picture that they were also preyed upon and lured into it. We've talked about the poem in 20 before; I initially thought that perhaps the issues there were probably the tendency for depression and alcoholism that Arthur seemed to inherit. Perhaps it's both. Maybe they were in bad place and they turned to faith to aid them.

ALSO your tags are amazing:

#ooh yay i'm so glad u matched my energy lol i was nervous sending that ask like. is this anything. is this nothing

honestly the biggest reason I didn't answer this ask right when I saw it was because I couldn't think of anything to add. I agreed with everything and was like "what do I say just 'yeah' and hit post???" did think of some more to say but I am in complete agreement.

#BUT YES. GOD.#''revenge against a figure similar to ones who have hurt him and a way to end the man he's wanted dead for 10 years'' lies down forever#god. if lesters/larsons parallels become any stronger i will simply have to. fuck i don't know. do Something. they're so. oouughg.#why don't you become the most vicious and violent version of yourself to kill this guy who is the worst parts of you#while also simultaneously being the parts of your parents you've never gotten to be fully angry about bc you still loved them#in an attempt to get revenge for a innocent victim that is also your daughter and also the hurt-scared-child version of yourself#what the FUCK man. insane!! like literally!! how the fuck am i supposed to be normal about that!!!#thinking again abt how larson said addy's key virtue was being ''faithful'' vs. ''to me you were the sun''

become the most violent version of yourself to kill this guy who is the worst parts of you while simultaneously being the parts of your parents you've never gotten to be fully angry about because you still loved them! getting revenge for both an innocent victim who is also your daughter and also your child self??? yeah how are we to be normal about that. (and he forgot???? he forgot about that??? do you think he may be remembered a bit when Larson talked about sacrificing Addison?) and yeah faithful and to me you were the sun. Ooooghg

and lastly:

#also re: the key difference being lillith's presence. just gonna. put the larsons-worshipped-nyarlathotep theory down here. again.

WHAT

okay so. Yeah that does .. amHM>MM???? aokay.

so. Yeah. Blackstone. Kayne's presence in season 3. Hatred of Wally. Um. I was thinking that you know that was Azathoth in general - fallen stars being Azathoth's 3 stones - with some yog-sathoth sprinkled in (since the Creature is described similarly to the Creature in the Dunwich Horror or whatever it's called and that one was Yog-sathoth's kid as well) but um. huh. thinking about this now and OH What that adds to that part of 40???? Taht's possibly his god? and the "please" and then "WHO FUCKING CARES" (get rekt Wally) but also!!! that's his god. saying he hates him. Oh! Hmm! I want to hear more about this expect an ask in your inbox that's basically me going ??? in 2 minutes

okay this is such a tiny niche thought but re: the "arthur was meant to be sacrificed to lillith" theory and specifically him being a parallel to addison. i've never known whether it was intended but i've always been very fond of the fact that Arthur Lester and Andrew Larson have the same initials, as like, another narrative nod to their connection.

...you know who else has the initials AL, though...

if you take into consideration the fact that andrew is an alias, a mask, it could also be considered a way to signal that the parallel arthur sees between them is mostly his own invention/projection and not necessarily an accurate representation of reality. BUT... addison. is not. an alias.

anyway idk i need to sleep but i just thought that was interesting maybe. lillith sacrifice arthur theory good yes.

oh I love this

I've also liked that Larson's fake name had the same initials as Arthur's. A.L. And Arthur sees Larson as a reflection of himself, two sides of the same coin, cut from the same cloth, two men who killed their daughters. Andrew being a fake name does nicely pair with it being a false reflection and mirror and parallel. Arthur at his lowest point sees someone the slightest bit similar to him and composed of everything he hates about himself and the world in one single body and views killing Larson as a way to give Addison(Faroe) justice, revenge against a figure similar to ones who have hurt him and held power over him, and a way to finally end the man he's wanted dead for ten years.

But its a fake name. A mask. Addison is not. Wallace Larson is nothing like Arthur. Addison...

It adds a little something to the "Lesters were going to sacrifice Arthur" theory. Trusting sweet little Addison, the last of her siblings, alone in an empty house with a father driven to the Order by grief and wants, who was sacrificed so Larson would live and have power. And the lillith sacrifice theory works well with the "another pair of devotees asking things beyond them to grant their wishes" or however Kayne phrased it and "She spares you, Artie. What kindness!" (Don't need the transcript for that). Religious overbearing parents, (possibly mentally unwell), a young trusting child (to me you were the sun), and a god asked to grant a wish. The difference is Lillith (and her issues with her dad) instead of I don't know Yog Sathoth or someone.

[veevil]

charle puss? :c

yes honey i got it, you want charle puss