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[aerynlallaboso]

theory post:

(spoilers for AW1/AN/AW2)

AW2 Zane is not the original Zane; he is a new version of Tom Zane that has overwritten the original, both in the Dark Place and in the real world.

Part One: Contradictory realities

The idea that this version of Zane has been written into reality and displaced the original Zane is, I think, pretty much textual - I'm very interested in the fact that despite the fact Zane the poet wrote himself out of the world, he did still exist in certain places e.g. in the memory of Cynthia Weaver, who kept that memory alive by writing newspaper articles about Zane (dismissed as urban legend by everyone around her), in actual physical evidence via the shoebox loophole that he created himself (the box of books in the cabin, which are real copies of books that don't exist), and in the memory of the Dark Place (Diver's Cabin at the bottom of the lake). When Zane dismisses the poet/diver as 'a beloved character I played in one of my films', that may be what he now believes (I think he's either not fully aware of the disconnect or doesn't particularly care), but it hasn't always been the truth. There was a real poet called Thomas Zane, and there wasn't: two contradictory truths.

Besides the box of books in the cabin in AW1, the most compelling evidence that reality has been rewritten is the existence of the manor that became Valhalla Nursing Home. Cynthia Weaver's journal indicates she still retains her memories of the original Zane and is very confused when people start referring to him as a filmmaker. She also has in her room a photograph of Zane and Jagger standing in front of Diver's Cabin, which is an object that absolutely should not exist - Zane was never a diver, right? In the basement of the nursing home, you can find a newspaper article with an identical photograph of Zane and Jagger, this time standing in front of their newly purchased manor home. The manor did not exist in the original version of reality as it is in AW1; Norman has dialogue referencing this ('Isn't it strange that I've lived in Bright Falls my whole life and I can't remember this house?'), which Mandy-May refutes ('The house has always been here') just as Saga's memories of her original reality are refuted throughout the game. The manor and the cabin are, similar to the filmmaker and the poet, the same building in different versions of reality, occupying the same role in the history of Bright Falls, which is why the Writer's Room exists in both of them. The same place, the same person - but different.

(Jesse Faden's therapy tape referencing Zane the poet in Control is an additional piece of evidence similar to Cynthia's memories - I assume that Polaris's influence protected Jesse from the effects of that reality rewrite.)

Okay. So Zane was rewritten into reality as a filmmaker. By who?

Part Two: Who else?

This part is more speculative, but it makes so much sense to me that I don't even feel like it's reaching too far 😭. Alan Wake is constantly writing drafts. Constantly cycling through loops that even he's forgotten. He wrote Thomas Zane into Departure as a way to free himself from the cabin, as a guardian angel for himself who would feed him manuscript pages and lead him to the end of the story. It seems almost impossible that over the course of 13 years, it wouldn't occur to Alan to try that again. Bring Zane back, rewrite him for his purposes, maybe as a collaborator this time? American Nightmare provides some excellent context for this, since the final piece Alan needs to rewrite reality and kill Scratch at the end is Alice's short film - you could say he's collaborating with her in absentia. Their two pieces of art strengthen each other, similar to the idea Zane presents to Alan in Initiation 5 of 'your magnum opus, Return, and its companion piece, my film'.

It feels natural (to me!) that Zane the filmmaker was created to fulfill this role of collaborator in a different medium, down to the way he describes himself as a fellow 'celebrated auteur'. He's here to help Alan get out. But as Alan forgets his own actions after a certain amount of time, Zane's role becomes murkier - Alan no longer trusts his intentions, no longer wants to give up control of his story, and the new Thomas Zane is left adrift in the Dark Place with little besides the desire to create to escape (with Alan). Again more speculative, since Zane's objectives are left relatively ambiguous throughout the game, but I do believe his desire to help Alan get out is sincere (even if his motivations for it are unclear). What this will mean if/when he escapes the Dark Place himself is another story :)

Side note: why does the new Zane look like Alan?

I don't know if this is a question everyone has? I do, because I'm not sure as to the current canonicity of the photographs of the original Zane in This House of Dreams, but those appear to show a blonde man with a different build to AW2 Zane, and Alan himself questions why Zane looks like him. Frankly, if we're going by the 'Alan created him' theory and given Scratch's existence as his evil doppelganger, I don't think that Alan would have intentionally written the guy to look like him - Zane's appearance feels like a reflection of the fact that this is Alan's dreamscape, a 'performance the Dark Place [is] putting on' which is 'all about me, but I [have] no control over it'. I also think that Zane is a reflection of the traits Alan would value in a collaborator, and that Alan Wake has a hard time letting anyone but himself write his story... You see where that could go.

Theorising more about this one would require going deep into my beliefs about Wake and Zane as reflections of each other in a creator/creation loop paradox that continues from the first game and fulfillers of the same archetypal Creator/Hero role within a larger metanarrative of the Story of Cauldron Lake (hence why various important characters refer to Alan as 'Tom') and I don't have time for that right now but probably the true answer has to be. They wanted to give Ilkka Villi a guy to play without dubbing. And I could listen to that man talk forever so alright post is over thanks for coming

(Side note 2: Self-promotion

I wanted to write a full 'setting out theory' post about this but I did also incorporate a lot of it into my fanfiction. Which you can read if you want to if you're interested in edging for creative inspiration 🙂)

[ritz-regrezzez]

hi hi! just promoting my new self-care kit account @cozy-kit-cafe !! i worked really hard on it and i think it came out pretty cute :3 send me a request if you'd like!

[unkn0wn-n0n4rt1st]

i think i've accidentaly lost my sanity for a brief moment y'know how I made the warsman icon that I fucked up? yea so I learnt from it and made not 1, not 2, but 7 goddamn kinnikuman pfps, again yeaaaaahhhhhhh I decided to make something with the promotional artwork and I made 7 icons from the devil choujin (my beloveds btw) ig i kinda did like these.........

buffaloman!!!! yayyyy, this was the first one I did and I kinda fucked up the lines in this one but i think I made a good job compared to the warsman one....

black hole!!!!! this one was a biiiit tricky because of the position he's in (I had to stretch the picture in order of the icon to look good...) but this one's the one i think i'm the most proud of how it looks:D

springman!!! he didn't suffer bh's problem though, this time it was positioned perfectly for an icon lol, actually, i also fucked up the lines with this one but I didn't commit the same mistake with the rest

atlantis!!!!!!!!! (ik these all look the same but I still kinda suck at making pfps please have patience.....)) from him is where I began having problems with how the characters were positioned, but I managed to find a way to make it look decent ig

the mountain!!!!!!!! i swear to you guys i was thinking of adding hello kitty things in this one, this is not a joke i genuinely thought of that..... didn't do it though:(( this one also made me think about probably making an account based around making kinnikuman icons...... that would be cool, as long as I have any manga panels or anime screenshots I could try to see how can I work with 'em.... i really wanna make something like that since my icons don't take too long to make but also i have ibis on pc so I only have an hour to make icons.... sadge:(

mister khamen!!!!! idk what to say he just looks fancy in an icon like that

and finally stecasse king!!!!! this time I really didn't have a good angle to make this one:(( but i do like how it looks so idrc too much aaaaaand those are all the icons i've made, i wanna keep making more but it's gonna take a long while because i can only make these in an hour, just one, lol too embarrassed to add tags so I will just leave this in my profile and wait until anyone finds them XD maybe i'll post them on pinterest too????? idkkkkkkkk i also wanna make icons for the six devil knights but maybe i'll do it later OOOKAAAAYYYY too much rambling, sorry, have a nice day:D

[digitaldva]

ೃ⁀➷ ❜ ...~ IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GAME AND WHAT YOU FLAUNT ~ ... ❛

Hi! what's up? I'm Nalu! Nalu Spring! I'm 24, a streamer, and I am SUPER duper cool, you should totally come say hi to me! ;P What else can I say... OH! I decided to hop on here for funsies! Maybe find some different ways to promote my streaming, yakknow, all that cool stuff! :3 Hm... I play games, obviously! I also do some music here and there... Not singing or whatever, I just work on video game music tbh :P!! OH!!! I also really really really really like Stardew Valley. :]!! Minecraft is cool, Pokemon is super cool, my favorite is probably Skitty... My streaming platform is @digitaldva! Follow me, I'm super awesome! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! ANYWAYS! I use she/her pronouns... I'm maybe bi? I dunno yet! Labels are kinda weird lolol. Feel free to ask more!

im so fweaking lazy... so im just doing tags for now!! YAYYYY!!

Right, right... Tags...

|🎮| ~ 𝑴𝑶𝑫 𝑻𝑨𝑳𝑲𝑺! - This is me talking!! :3 |🎮| ~ 𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑴 𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑴𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑺! - Replies to asks, you know how it is. |🎮| ~ 𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑼'𝑺 𝑨𝑫𝑽𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑬𝑺! - POOKIE talking to people! Yay! |🎮| ~ 𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑼'𝑺 𝑹𝑨𝑴𝑩𝑳𝑬𝑺! - Random yapping she does, reblogs... etc. |🎮| ~ 𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑴 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑺𝑶𝑶𝑵! - We'll see, maybe a call for interactions?

[mrsgiovanna]

hello bria ! it's really nice to see another giogio self ship blog ( i am one too :D gio simps unite lolol ) . i love your work so much and your dynamic with gio suits him so well . i should probably stop gushing and get to the point >///< , but uh , how do i exactly get started on here ?? i'm a gio centric blog , do i need to write something or just promote ? - jingfei / feifei

Hi sweet Feifei☺️👋

Yayyyy more love for the golden Don 🥺🤲🐞 hahahaha. Aaaaaaa omg, 😩🥰 I... That's so sweet tysm, my heart!

I'm by no means an expert lol, but when I started I just wrote, liked and shared things that were relevant to my blog, and that I wanted to see/read, and I made it clear that my space this safe, happy, pink cloud for Giogio simps to fetch their daily juice lolol. Tag appropriately so that your creations appear in the tags and people start getting exposed to your work. Follow others in the shipping and writing community (being mindful of their rules of course). Set out all your rules from the beginning and just go cray cray with it.

It's your very own little universe that you're creating, so just have fun with it. Lol oh gosh idk if that helps 🤔🙈😅 either way, welcome, I'm stoked to see all the Giogio ships, pls he deserves all the love ♥️🐞😍😊🌟🤲👋 feel free to chat at anytime.

Have the best day my sweet ❤️🌟🐞♥️💐

[purplesurveys]

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survey by voicedance16

name yourself: Robyn

name (one of) your best friend(s): Angela; she’s for keeps.

name 3 things in your fridge/freezer: I don’t think I opened the fridge at all today, but if I had to guess...eggs, bread, and our pad thai leftovers from dinner earlier.

name a color you're wearing currently: Green.

name the last thing you ate: I treated myself and ordered spicy tuna salad tonight because I had a shit shift. It’s been a while since I felt a little burned out with my job, but it happened today and it wasn’t very pleasant.

name the last store you went to: I never go out these days...does online shopping count? I’m always browsing through Shopee, if anything lol.

name the song you're listening to: ON - BTS.

name the artist of that song: BTS.

name your favorite animal: Dogs or elephants.

name what pets you have, if any:  Two dogs. Kimi, Cooper.

name the town/state you live in: No thanks. I live near Manila though, which is probably the only city most people know from the Philippines anyway so that should suffice.

name something commonly ordered at Starbucks: I think my usual is a pretty common order – caramel macchiato.

name the last person you talked to in person: Not sure. I think it may have been Nina? I was just jokingly asking her if her bias recognized her again on a VLive, since her comments have been read by her favorite group recently, and she tells me they even laugh at them :( Perks of liking a smaller, more underground group for sure; pigs would have to fall from the sky before anyone from BTS notices me lol.

name the last person you talked to on the phone: My mom. I didn’t hear her calling for dinner last night, so she ended up having to call me from downstairs while I was hanging out at the rooftop.

name the current day of the week: Tuesday.

name the current month: May.

name the current time: 10:22 PM.

name the last movie you watched: I have not watched an entire movie since i’m thinking of ending things back in September. I did watch a snippet from Portrait of a Lady on Fire a few weeks ago, though. That’s the closest thing I’ve got to watching any film recently.

name the last book you read: This one I’m even more uncertain about.

name a place you've been on vacation: South Korea.

name a place you'd like to go on vacation: Malta or Turkey.

name 3 things you can see from where you're sitting: It’s pretty dark so I technically can’t ‘see’ anything, but based on what I know I brought up to the rooftop tonight I have my phone, my salad, and my vape pen.

name your favorite musical: Miss Saigon, if anything. I’m not a big fan of musicals.

name an animal (any): Turtle was the first that came to mind.

name a fruit: Mangoes.

name a vegetable: Lettuce.

name a common breakfast food: Pancakes. They’d sound so good rn, too.

name a color: Grey.

name a type of flower: Dandelions.

name a type of tree: Uh...mango again? HAHA I’m not very good with trees.

name a city: New York.

name a state: Indiana.

name a country: India.

name a continent: Asia.

name a planet: Jupiter.

name a girl's name: Jessica.

name the last person to comment you on Facebook: Angela. She tagged me on this post that was promoting a local shop that makes customized face pillows and she told me we should order a Taehyung one for me and a Seokjin one for her, hahaha. The concept is definitely cute but it wasn’t my style, so I showed her another shop that also makes face pillows, but prettier.

name a clothing store/brand: Thom Browne.

name the last book you got at the library: If I remember correctly, it was History of the Filipino People which, coincidentally, my great-uncle wrote.

name a restaurant: Yabu but eugh, haven’t eaten there since the breakup. I should order from them soon to commemmorate moving on heheh.

name a grocery store: Can I just name a local one? SM.

name an iPhone app: YouTube.

name an actor: Eddie Redmayne.

name an actress: Emma Stone.

name a music group: BTS.

name your favorite/lucky number: It used to be 4, but I’m now going with 7.

name something you've accomplished: Continued from...last night, I think? I have no concept of time anymore. I managed to survive this week so far considering how deadly my schedule was.

name something you'd like to accomplish: Get a promotion once I’ve proven myself capable.

name someone who makes you laugh: Hans can make anything funny.

name something exciting coming up soon: Some of my online shopping orders arriving I’m guessing by later today, yayyyy.

name a song that makes you emotional: Oh man, there are a lot. O by Coldplay is probably the one that hits the worst, though; I still can’t listen to that song completely to this day. Recently, I also can’t really avoid being sad whenever I listen to Butterfly by BTS.

name one of your pet peeves: Overly slow drivers.

name someone you know who is an amazing singer: Hannah.

name someone who is the same religion as you: JM.

name a holiday you celebrate: Christmas.

name the last 4 digits of your phone number: That’s too many, lmao.

name one of your cousins: My cousin Lei from my dad’s side.

name a book you loved when you were younger: The entire Septimus Heap series. I must’ve reread Magyk (the first book) a hundred times.

name a song you loved when you were younger: Let’s go withhhhh Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne. Making sure there were no adults around whenever I sang along to “I’m a motherfucking princess” as an 8 year old was always a thrill.

name your favorite movie: Two for the Road.

name a popular book series: Percy Jackson.

name a musical instrument: Saxophone.

name a language: French.

name what other tabs you have open: Archive of our Own, Dailymotion, Bzoink.

name 3 things on the walls of the room you're in: The walls of the rooftop are bare.

name your house number 4.

name your high school: Nope.

name your college, if applicable: UP.

name your middle school See high school.

name your elementary school: See high school.

name the college you wish you went to/hope to go to: I was able to qualify for the university and degree I wanted to attend.

name your favorite teacher: My music teacher in high school.

name the color of your backpack: Hm, don’t really use backpacks anymore but the main one I had in college - at least until I switched to a simple handbag (aka my senior year when I started to not care lol) - was a pink Herschel backpack.

name a dessert: Leche flan.

name a famous landmark: Statue of Liberty, only because of the question after this.

name a place you might go in NYC: Tiffany’s.

name an inventor: Nikola Tesla.

name an article of clothing: Jeans.

name an ice cream flavor: Pistachio.

name a religion: Islam.

name an emotion: Resentment.

name a room in your house: Mine.

name a website: Twitter.

name a car: Hyundai Palisade.

name something you need to do today: It’s a holiday today so I technically should be off work, but since it’s a holiday squished in the middle of the week that’s just another way of saying my dayoff will be a scam lmao. That said, I need to draft an article today for a client.

name someone you admire: My dad.

name someone you miss: My two best friends.

name a part of the body: Thighs.

name the last youtube video you watched: It was a Taehyung-focused compilation.

name a quote you love: “If you really love to be loved, it’d be good to show those who love you how much you’ve changed.” There’s some background context obviously playing around in here and most people might not recognize the weight it holds if they’re unfamiliar, but it’s a quote that really means a lot to me and came to me during a time I needed to hear it.

[buckyreaderrecs]

Bucky Barnes x Reader fic writers on Tumblr: List 6/?

@chloerinebarnes

@peter-parkourwrites

@scarhades

@buckthegrump

@captain-kelli

@xetoilerouge

@heartopen-testify

@jbbarnesnnoble

@certifiedskywalker

@ofheroesandvillains

@fantastic-fantasy-fanfics

@sinner-as-saint

@all1e23

@afewmarvelousthoughts

@sociallyeneptbarnes

@softlybarnes

@johnmotherfuckingshelby

Another day, another list of beautiful human beans that understand the constant pain of loving Bucky Barnes. Enjoy! And, don’t forget to come visit me and read my stufffffff. Yayyyy self-promotion. xo Rhi P.S. Sorry if I tag ya on multiple lists! 

List 1/? - click. List 2/? - click. List 3/? - click. List 4/? - click. List 5/? - click.

[wwe-fluff-fic]

Dean Ambrose - I Wouldn’t Miss It For The World

Dean Ambrose - He is dating a girl who is also an athlete/sports personality but she is a soccer player not a wrestler.

Request for - Anon

Warnings - Swearing, maybe some fluff

Word Count - 894 Words. 

Being in relationships - with family, friends and lovers with your job as an international soccer player was hard enough; the busy schedules of travelling all over the world meaning you barely had time to see people until the season was over. But some how you and your current boyfriend Dean Ambrose made it work (mostly), and yes that is THE Dean Ambrose; WWE’s intercontinental champ and resident lunatic.

However, your schedules didn’t always work or coincide nicely together and this seasons final was a prime example of that. Tonight was set the be the biggest game of your entire career and an historical moment for your small town team who had never even made it to the quarter finals; let alone the actual final. In fact if you won this match your team would be promoted to a much better league and to say you were nervous yet excited was a huge understatement. However, you did feel a hint of sadness knowing non of your family could make it and Dean obviously had wrestling commitments. But you just kept pushing those thoughts to the back of your mind with a ‘the show must go on’ mentality.

You were sat in the rather grubby looking changing room with all of the girls as you all psyched ourselves up, each girl performing their own individual ritual. As soon as the team heard their cue you began the short walk to the pitch; you all had that nervous buzz settling in on every fibre of your beings; the overbearingly loud roars of your home fans vibrating the entire stadium filling you with adrenaline even before the match was underway. The home team advantage giving us even more confidence as you marched your way into the middle of the pitch. 

We all stood in our signature huddle circle giving each other some mumbled and damn near incoherent pep talk. The team broke the circle with a loud shout just as the whistle blew and the most important match of the teams short career. 

It was around 75 minutes into the game and the score was one - nil to the away team and you could feel the tense atmosphere of the stadium weighing down on your shoulders; even the hardcore fans had withered in their stances as only fifteen minutes remained to score two goals. Oh and to top it off your best shooter had been subbed off with injury.

You had just started to lose the hope you’d gained from the atmosphere, just as you went to collect the ball from the corner you heard a familiar shout; somehow sounding way above the din of the thousands in attendance. You cocked your head slight to see Dean standing right up close to the barrier, screaming his head off. You giggled upon seeing your shirt stretched over his muscular frame as he continued to shout words of encouragement; chants of positivity erupting from the crowd like a volcano. You smirked launching the ball at Abi, a girl with one of the most successful header rates in the whole of women’s football and sure enough the ball rocketed into the back off the net. The entire fanbase of your team let out a fusillade of screams - chanting all sorts of support.

Although the score was now one all, there was still an air of nervousness as time just slipped through your fingers. It was then in the 89th minute you saw the perfect spot; the goal was completely unattended hardly any players serving as obstructions yet your were just past the halfway pitch mark. 

Almost everything happened in slow motion as you threw all caution to the wind and punted the ball with your strongest foot; it seemed like the whole arena held its breath as the ball barrelled towards the goal. The ball pummelled into the top left corner of the goal just as the goalie mad an arbitrary reach for it.

Once again every single fan stood on their feet and cheered as the whistle blew and the small town team secured their place as the winners of the cup. You ran straight over to where Dean was standing and threw yourself at him, tumbling over the flimsy barrier, his powerful arms capturing your frame in a tight hug as he placed a sloppy kiss on your temple.

“I am so fucking proud of you babe, I love you so fucking much” Dean continued to hold you in his tight embrace.

“How did you make it here? You’re mean’t to be on tour” you muttered, pushing his hair out of his face - completely forgetting about the thousands of people surrounding you.

“Babe I wasn’t going to miss the biggest moment in your career for the world when you’ve been there for all of mine. All I did was talk to the big boss and move some shit around; you know me and Vince are buds” he smirked nudging your side with his elbow. “Anways, how about you go and have your celebration with your girls and then I’ll whisk you away for our own celebration” he wiggled his eyebrows at you making you giggle.

“Sounds perfect” you giggled as you placed another kiss on his lips before hopping back over the barricade; just to be lifted straight up on to your team mates shoulders.

Tag Friends: @m-a-t-91​ @irish-newzealand-idian-dutch​ @youhoebag​ @yalikejazzzzz​ @drarry--love

A/N: Finallyyyy another fic. We’re so sorry for being inactive and I’m afraid its about to get worse as Nikkii and I dive head first into exam season (yayyyy -.-) anywayyy hope you enjoy ~ Moxxii