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i love how mushishi can look at the same topic, like grief, but from two opposing perspectives as we go from episode to episode. the series is so versatile and has so much to say and has so much empathy for everyone.

episode 21 portrays grief as destructive when parents cling to a parasitic mushi posing as their lost child. it weaponizes their love, requiring the parents to accept their loss to avoid being consumed by grief in the way that they did.

episode 22, however, explores a society where mushi actually do enable loved ones to return as new, blank-slate versions of themselves. here, the cycle of rebirth is a pleasant thing. we can cope in different ways. resisting or adapting to life’s changes.

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This actually further supports the Winners Arcana agenda cause Joel's clearly The Chariot

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Well you know who the favourites are

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The cat stays nyanbinary 🫡

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I'm sorry but I can only read this like it's one of those DJ Khaled clips

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Ok fine let's do theory time. This will be mostly about Session 7 and Gem's task. Now, I got two big points here, (a) The End/The Void is an entity that is independent of The Watchers and (b) Gem's task and, by extension, she herself came from that entity's will.

Now the obvious connection is obvious, yeah yeah who opened the End portal, but this goes farther. So, uh, remember episode 1? Specifically, when Gem and Lizzie found pumpkins and formed an alliance of sorts? Pumpkins, that's right. They became kind of a big deal. Since then, Gem and Lizzie had been consistently connected to The End. When Lizzie got the hard task to get everyone to sleep, first thing she thought of? The End. But then, why did she die to the very thing she was intertwined with.

Well, Scott of course. Scott has consistently been the most resistant to influence from cosmic entities. He actively spit in the faces of The Watchers multiple times now, after all. He was meant to die in the void. But not just because of his own aspect, but because Lizzie hasn't fully assimilated to her new connection. She didn't wear a pumpkin. The End had to shoot blindly, and with Scott's aura of negation he wasn't gonna be the one hit.

Now let's have an aside about what The End's intentions are in this series. Cause all cosmic entities gotta have one right? Well, The Watchers designed the games to be a feast of discord, war, betrayal, all of the fun stuff. The End, on the other hand, seeks to, well, end the games, as fast as possible. How were the first two reds created? Now, it's probably not exactly a humanitarian motivation from The End here. Whether it's merciful oblivion or just a thirst for finality, it still creates war and brutality, just not in the same way as The Watchers. The Watchers want the feast to stretch for as long as possible, as the payoff will be that much sweeter. The End wants to finish everything as fast as possible. You could argue that the Boogie curse has origins in The End, with Skizz as the catalyst, but I don't feel like going into that atm.

Ok, finally, how does that connect to Session 7's events? Well, as mentioned before Lizzie died when she wasn't meant to, with overwhelming feelings of rage and a desire for revenge against (most of) the server. In addition, two other reds, mumbo and jimmy, died to a forced hard task from grian and etho. So, all the reds except The Watchers' special boy Martyn are gone. Not awesome if you want everything to return to dust quickly. But, mainly, Lizzie's, uhhhh, let's call it curse, people like that word, transferred to Gem in the form of a hijacked task. I mean, it doesn't function according to any of the rules set by the Secret Keeper. And neither did Gem's end portal task, really, if you think about. Oh abd neither did Bdub's free the end. Wait. Bdub's? Free the End? And hey, would you look at that, he's also the first infected. And who's next? Impulse, Pearl? Ain't that our little end fighting army? (Also, Bdubs was the first ever person to get the Boogie curse but again, not getting into that. So, uh yeah, basically The End, an entity in opposition to The Watchers, has hijacked the task system, and possibly brought Gem in, in order to free itself and then end the series as quickly as possible. A desperation move, really, but it makes sense, this season's torture was gonna be especially prolonged.

Essentially my first theory, and I don't have too much knowledge on lore and stuff, but sometimes words are in your head and you have to get them out somehow.

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need people to stop splitting non binary people into "guy enby" and "girl enby" and start sorting them into the real dichotomy: "fucks" and "doesn't fuck"

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Okay hbomb getting to play decked out is awesome and I'm stocked to see that but I absolutely need to see like an hour of him going around being in awe of everyone's bases and checking out TCG and all of that

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Ain't no way

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*Cool youth pastor voice*

I tell you what, God is based! And we shall sing his praises and we shall thank Him for our graces! Thank You Based God!

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It's actually crazy to me that this channel has less than a 1000 subs. Like, this is "featured on nebula" level shut right there. Feel like I uncovered a holy book of a small cult (but like, the nice kind of cult that's just a religion but smaller?" Idk. This is so good

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tbh I do really want new members in life smp, not necessarily cause of any decent reason, just because if 5 more people join, then there will be 22 total members over the course of the series and then some artist will draw them all as tarot cards and it'll be the greatest thing in existence for at least 4 business days

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Someone’s washed up.

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✨ the Love and Gravity cover art, without text ✨ Also, sketch -> final

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I think we need to make Lenore a Tumblr Sexyman.

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Video essays about games and Lena Raine Resurrections name a better duo

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i respect you fellow human welcome to tumblr

hey, yeah, thank you for having me, it's been a long time coming anyways