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If you guys liked the whole "Stephs flannel matches Peter's suspenders and bow tie" thing then this costuming detail is in tgwdlm gonna fuck you up.

When we get our first scene with Paul and Emma, the two are dressed in their respective main outfits. These are the ones people tend to associate with them.

But throughout the show, as they get closer and bond, their outfits become more and more similar. Pretty soon Emma's lost the apron

Then at the professor's house, Paul loses the jacket

and by the time McNamara is infected, Paul has his sleeves rolled up and Emma's bow tie has come undone.

At this point, the two are at their most aesthetically similar, and also the closest they've been the entire show. This is moments before the helicopter crash and their failed kiss. They remain this way for a good chunk of time...until Paul comes back

It's like some fast-paced foreshadowing. Emma remains in her changed state, the same as her character, but Paul is back to square one. He's wearing the same outfit he was when they met, and they no longer align. She doesn't know who he is anymore.

I don't know if this was intentional (and if it was, no one explained it to Jon) but it plays out so damn well.

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I need to revamp my profile it's been. Years.

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I have a body and a mind and honestly that's a lot to be in possession of

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overthinking? uh yeah very over it [zones out for nine hours straight]

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RIP Tilly Evans you would've loved Brennan Lee Mulligan

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going off wikipedia, in the warriors movie the gang reaches the park and ajax aggressively approaches a lone woman who turns out to be police. on the concept album, during the park at night, the girls are harassed by a policeman in disguise who keeps spitting textbook sexist rethoric at them (you'd look prettier if you'd smile) and ajax decides to take matters in her own hands and beats him up. said policeman is actually played by movie ajax and by attacking him, musical ajax, who's a woman, sets the record straight on a meta-narrative level: she calls out her male counterpart for his violence against a fellow woman, punishes him, avenges her- by doing this, she seeks absolution for her own self.

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What they think girls want to read: ilysm

What girls really want to read: ttprtwyamadlyh(w)nilt...a...a

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I need to write a 2k word college level essay on how having undiagnosed ocd affected the way I used tumblr in middle school because thinking back I was. Having SUCH a time /lh/neg

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RIP Tilly Evans you would've loved Brennan Lee Mulligan

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We should talk about The Lords in Black I'm gonna do that right now because I wanna talk about their trope subversion and symbolism and shit.

So obviously The Lords in Black are a subversion of Cosmic/Eldritch horror and I'm gonna explain how using an ant metaphor

So the classic ant metaphor for cosmic horror is to imagine that you're an ant encountering a piece of human technology, right? I believe it's usually a circuit board. The whole point is you're witnessing something deeply incomprehensible and unfamiliar.

The ant metaphor for the Lords in Black is: imagine you're an ant and a teenager starts burning you with a magnifying glass.

It's still incomprehensible, but not in the way the complexities of a circuit board is. If you were suddenly stricken by a scalding beam of light, the only way you could rationalize that is that it was an act of a god. You and your ant colony would invent and fear this god.

The Lords in Black each represent a kind of strange and inscrutable cruelty that the modern world offers, the cursed lasers that cut into our souls, from places we have no power over.

Wiggly is obviously the idol of capitalism. Animalistic desperation, commodity fetishization, and the exchange of money, products, and emotions. All of the things that the other Lords represent stem from elements of capitalism, hence why Wiggly is THE Lord in Black, the leader of his brothers. What Wiggly offers will never be enough. He is what leaves you always unsatisfied.

Nibbly is the idol of the consumption of human beings as products. Obsession with self image and presentability, trends of all kinds, and the beauty and fitness industries. People in the modern age are desperate to be consumable, and some would go to any lengths to do so. This is an attitude that especially impacts women, who feel that they need to wear make up every day just to earn respect. And when we feel the need to change to be respectable, the need to look appealing and to be consumable, the bourgeois eat well. Our quest to look special makes us like any other customer, filling. It's no mistake that the two leads of Honey Queen are women desperate to be noticed and respected. It makes them all the more eager to be eaten.

Tinky is the idol of infinity and repetition. Dead end jobs, middle class suburbia, and the inability to escape one's circumstances. It's no coincidence that the first time we see Tinky is at a wedding, a ceremony dedicated to eternal commitment, or that he's associated with CCRP, a company in which most of the workers do useless busywork all day. When you look at the life you have ahead of you, it can feel crushing. Will you ever have a real career to be proud of, or will you be stuck at this job until you die? Will you ever not struggle to make rent? Will you really love your spouse forever? What if you don't? Isn't it just easier to continue the routine than to address the problem? After Ted is driven to insanity by the Bastard's Box, after he discovers that he can't escape the person he's become, he becomes homeless, one of the most terrifying eternities a person can find themselves in, fully dependent on random acts of kindness to survive while your situation drives you further into insanity.

Blinky is the idol of the panopticon. Gossip, public drama, and unwanted attention. One of the first things Blinky does on screen is sexually objectify a girl who's fresh out of high school, and this plainly displays a consequence of living in a content driven world. There is constant scrutiny and interpretation given to your every action. At any moment, you could have over a thousand eyes on you, whether you want them there or not. The panopticon we live in captures us in moments of time, and turns the person we were in that moment into an object deserving anger, embarrassment, lust, admiration, judgement, or anything else a watcher might assign. But Blinky also targets another fear, the fear that we feel when we can't see the danger, and cannot protect ourselves or those we love. Alice's anxiety that Deb might cheat on her when she's not around are made manifest in Watcher World, and Bill's frustration at not being let into Alice's life are used against the family. We are inclined to both want and fear the panopticon. We hide, and we seek, and we expose.

Pokey is the idol of tyranny. Complacency, sedation, and obedience. The world revolves around the few and uses the many in service of this. We are all expected to fill some role in service to the rich, to work for a corporation and to buy the products of those corporations, and when we cannot fill these roles we are at risk of starving, or being kicked out of our homes. We must join them in their quest for profit, or die. But we must also accept their pacifiers or we will be driven insane. We must choose between complacency or despair in confronting our place in the world as a pawn, as an ant in the colony. Isn't it easier to accept the comforting lies? Your job is important. Corporations give people what they want. People in power deserve their power. People in power are using it well. We are happy. America is great.

These are the magnifying glasses that are being used to torment us, that we cannot make reason out of, that we've made dark gods out of. But this isn't the first time humanity has encountered scorching light from the heavens. When the people of ancient Greece witnessed burning rods of light, falling viciously from the heavens, they invented Zeus.

But we know where lightning comes from now. We know the science behind electricity and its place in the world. We know what keeps lightning away and what attracts it. We can protect ourselves from it.

But there's an important difference. Lightning is natural. It's existed long before we have and it will continue when we're gone.

The unorthodox cruelty of being alive today is not natural. We cannot logic our way into surviving it because it does not operate under a sound logic. But we can make things a little more bearable by focusing on what is sound, understandable and natural.

There is humanity. There are families friends and lovers who would go to the ends of earth to protect each other. As long as we have this humanity, we have hope.

That's why Miss Holloway's deal with the Lords erases her from living memory after her temporary deaths. To have the powers that she does she gave away the power most important to have under the Lord's rule: human connection. The only real thing we have left.

Alice and Bill escaped Blinky's manipulation through the love they have for each other

Emma survived the longest out of any character in tgwdlm because of the genuine hope Paul gave her of a better future

Lex snapped Tom out of Wiggly's control by reminding him of what his son really means to him

Ted couldn't escape Tinky's plan for him because he was too jaded to make a genuine connection with a woman.

Linda was eaten by Nibbly because she didn't have a loving connection with her father, because her father always made her believe that she was never good enough, because this mindset led her to take for granted the connections she did have in her life.

The world no longer cares about us. We have to care for each other. It's the only thing we have left

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holy SHIT I just realized why one line in npmd seemed so random but oh my god the IMPLICATIONS

I was just watching someone react to Honey Queen and chat was saying Roman probably raised Linda to be a future Honey Queen candidate and right after they said that it got to the scene where we see Nibbly eat Linda and he goes “Yum Yum!” and I was like oh fuck I’ve heard that before in NPMD

When the Lords appear during the Summoning Blinky and Tinky say ominous things to Grace and Pete but Nibbly just says “Stephanie! Yum Yum!” and everyone including myself seems to be like lol why was that all she got but holy fuck

Mayor Lauter is raising Stephanie to be a potential Honey Queen and Nibbly knows it. “Next time you cheat, do it like a Lauter and don’t get caught.” “I don’t care who you kill, you just had to go and do it in that house.” He’s training her to be the hungriest woman in Hatchetfield so she can be offered up to Nibblenephim one day. Maybe that’s what he gave up that he cherished most - his own daughter. That’s why he keeps her so distant and hates her. That’s why he’s “never touching that book again!” And Nibbly? Nibbly is looking forward to his feast.

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I don't normally post but. These caught me so off guard what. What. Hello?? /lh

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Hello, I’ve noticed you’ve taken an interest in MHTP. If you need links to watch the shows(I have both 2014 and 2016) or just talk about it, I’m your guy

I’m not entirely sure how to really approach, I just desperately need more people to talk with about this show

Raghhhh I love this show sm

I will warn I'm like. Almost never on tumblr so I prolly am not the besttt to hold a conversation with and for that I apologize but I will try !!

On that note I think the one I watched was the 2016 one? I didn't even know about the 2014 run lol I'd love to see it :O

Thanks for the ask I love it when people have the same interests as me :D

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A very real convo that would happen between them

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Oh my god I thought you were making fun of me when you liked my post sorry but I’m glad I looked at your blog to find you actually are just also interest in AIDT

!!! I love AIDT!!!! I was def not making fun of you anon dw /gen

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Alright yall I haven't posted in a while but I've been scrolling through tumblr a bit and??? I'm not the only one who remembers adventures in drowsytown??? I loved that show sm growing up I'm so glad to see other people trying to uncover bits of it I haven't heard anyone talk about it in yearsss 😭

That said, I always really liked the blue one. A lil scary at times but I think he's the reason I've always been so into music lol. Does anyone remember a semi-live-action segment where he'd like. Teach music with a journal or something though?? I swear that was a thing it was like my favorite part even though it was only in a couple episodes. I can try and dig up some pics from that segment within the week if anybody is willing to confirm :))