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egophiliac · 7 months
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so on the subject of the "Crowley is secretly Revaan/Laverne/Levin/please Twst give us his name" theory, I think my feelings are best summed up as "I don't really buy it, but it's funny". like, in all seriousness, I'm not opposed to it; I have enjoyed the writing in Twst so far and I'm willing to trust that whatever happens will, you know, make sense and not be terrible. but I'm just not really convinced by the current evidence! maybe that'll change once we learn more, we'll see!
with that said, may I propose a few alternate theories about the possible Crowley/Revaan connection:
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#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#on this installment of things nobody asked but i'm going to talk about anyway#disclaimer that this is mostly a joke please don't get mad at me#(legit no shade to anyone) (speculation is one of the fun things about an ongoing fandom and you never know what'll turn out to be true!)#more seriously i do think there may be some connection that just isn't clear yet#but the more little breadcrumbs we get about what revaan was like the more i think crowley just doesn't act like him#i adore crowley don't get me wrong#(yes he's a dipshit. this is a feature not a bug.)#but like.#not to harp on the scene about lilia's nrc invitation (i am absolutely going to harp on it)#i do not believe that crowley would go through the trash to fish out the pieces and put them back together and save them#just because it was lilia's. just because lilia might want it again someday.#crowley can ✨yasashii✨ all he wants but we know what he's like#and i REALLY do not believe that lilia wouldn't recognize him. i didn't believe it before and i extra don't believe it now.#then again i do tend to be incredibly off about speculation so! who knows! i will trust the writing for now!#i do 100% believe that meleanor would fall in love with the world's biggest dumbass and then double down super hard. that part tracks.#that said i have decided that ambrose being revaan is actually the funnier option just because it would make crowley SO mad#it wouldn't make sense for him to be mad about it and that would just make him madder
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blue-mood-blue · 9 months
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Rio’s request for Miles, before everything went way, way off the rails, was to take care of her little boy when no one else would - treat him kindly and remind him that he belongs
How literally do you think Miles is going to take that
Miles (1610): I just want you to know, if nobody else told you today… I love you
Miles (42): No
Miles (1610): I appreciate you and how talented you are at punching things
Miles (42): No shut up
Miles (1610): And even though you’re not a spidey and were prevented from your fate of becoming a spidey due to circumstances outside of your control in a cosmic mistake that only made your life worse, I want you to know… you belong
Miles (42): Shut up shut up shut up I hate you
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infinitecyanroses · 2 months
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It's funny how in the promo for this prison event, they made it look like they were locking everyone up for legitimate crimes when really what happened was the Feds realized they need to keep the islanders away from the eye workers so they wouldn't spill any secrets to them or cause anymore trouble while they tried to do damage control but they already ran out of options to relocated them to. Egg island was hijacked by a cyclops that traumatized and forced the islanders to kill each other and after that they probably realized any other remote location they could send them to could be compromised as well. So what secure space do the Feds have left to send the islanders to? One max security prison. Yeah that might be screwed up and certainly kill any credit they have left with the islanders but hey, at least it's secure! The islanders were already calling the original island a prison anyway, might as well show them what a real one is like! Plus what better way to closely monitor them all and conduct experiments on their psyches then by committing to the bit with security guards, prison jumpsuits and everything! Besides, with all the available islanders securely locked up, none of them can kill more workers or infiltrate their offices. Might as well keep the eggs there too so they aren't a security risk and bring back egg tasks so the islanders are more invested to stay in the prison to provide for their eggs
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franklyimissparis · 2 months
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what do you mean ‘what happened in india between john and paul?’ THIS is what happened in india between john and paul
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trek-tracks · 1 year
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The funny thing is, I think the Kobayashi Maru is a very odd test, psychologically, depending on what it’s actually trying to determine. It changes over time.
Particularly after it’s been around for a while, you know it’s unwinnable going into it. Not only does that promote a sense of fatalism, but it paradoxically absolves the participant of any responsibility. If you can’t win, then you can rest secure that it wasn’t your fault, your choices didn’t matter, and the system was rigged against you. It’s not an especially good lesson to teach, though I suppose it does get you ready for evil Starfleet admirals and bureaucracy.
In a way, what Kirk did was more than change the conditions of the test for himself; by opening up the possibility of winning, he changed the psychological value of the test for everyone who came after him.
This raises the question: what is the Kobayashi Maru test really trying to measure, and what kind of captain is Starfleet really looking for? Someone who will accept an unwinnable situation with grace, or someone who knows the situation can’t be won, but fights anyway?
…or, possibly, someone who can change the parameters of a situation before it even happens?
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unexpectedstormy · 3 months
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Okay in so this scene in the LU comic "Miss Her"...
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Time is challenging Sky to separate himself from what makes him a hero and think about what makes him a good person. I can't help but wonder if this is going to be foreshadowing for whatever Sky's story arc will be in the comic. Will there be a point when he has to choose between doing what a hero would do and what a good man would do? (Like Frodo's choice between kill Gollum and have mercy on Smeagol.)
I also love how in the last 2 panels Sky is looking up at the sky and seeing 2 random birds, but it symbolic of his and Sun's loftwings.
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serpentface · 10 months
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Uhrwal and Tiviit, two diverse groups of semi-aquatic pterosauroids
Caelin and delkhin are the only drakes still extant on land in any significant numbers. While their close relatives, the dragons, are all but gone, their distant aquatic relatives prosper. The two main groups are uhrwal and tiviit.
Uhrwal are midsized predators of fish that primarily live in coastal waters, as well as some rivers. They possess whiskers to assist with the detection of prey, and hooked tongues to hold slippery prey items. Their flippers sport small claws, seemingly vestigial but are used to better grip a partner during mating, and are more developed in males. 
The spread and size of uhrwal is constrained by their remaining ties to land- must occasionally drag themselves ashore to dig nests and lay eggs, up to a couple dozen per female. Their offspring hatch en-masse and most uhrwal provide no direct form of parental care. Very few survive their first year.
Of note are the river uhrwal (bottom left), which may live its entire life in freshwater, probing murky riverbeds with their long , whiskered beak for prey items. They are an exception who provide close parental care to their young. Mothers remain in the stretch of river where they lay their eggs (a much smaller clutch, usually 4-10 eggs), and will respond to the calls of their hatching offspring and assist in shepherding them to the water and providing them with food.
Tiviit are a highly successful group of shore'birds'. They can be found along  every coast of the supercontinent and in a few freshwater settings, and are comprised of over a hundred distinct species. They are flightless and walk quadrupedally, (though are somewhat clumsy on land). Most hunt fish, though some species specialize in larger prey (including other tiviit). The smaller species usually live in large colonies, while the larger species live in pairs or small family groups. 
The varkheshi (bottom right) is a tiviit that lives in tightly knit packs which coordinate hunts to take down large prey, including uhrwal. Their beaks are sharp with a serrated edge, and they lacerate the bodies of prey and chase them until they are exhausted by their wounds and blood loss. 
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filurig · 5 months
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new creature dropped (totally not harpy harpies)
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Love how the Transformers fandom created the concept of seeker trines. We took Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker, gave them very distinct personalities, and assigned them a very complex emotional bond. The actual nature of that bond varies depending on who you ask, but everyone agrees it is spark-deep and very special.
We did all of this for three characters that probably only exist because some suits at Hasbro (or Takara-Tomy) in the 80s were like hmmmmmmmm how do we sell the same toy three times and get 3x the profit out of one character design
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amphibious-thing · 1 year
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People who don’t like Lucius are wild. ‘He had sex in public’. The ship is his home. He doesn’t have a room!
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sunderwight · 6 months
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I like to think Michael and Uriel in GO have a same-but-opposite version of Hastur and Ligur's friendship. Or the enemy version of Aziraphale and Crowley's bond.
Proximity and their jobs brought them together, they share almost identical outlooks, and if it was at all permissible they would claw one another's faces off like feral cats. Circumstances and their similar views on morality and divine administration have produced a noxious set of interactions which make everything about them worse. If they had to separate with the potential of never seeing one another again it would be the happiest day of their respective existences. Six thousand years of working towards similar goals in a high pressure environment has led to a pure and abiding hatred that will still exist even after time itself no longer does.
They would both sell one another down the river for a single corn chip, and neither of them know what a corn chip is or why anyone would want it.
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sugar-konpeito · 1 year
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One thing that kind of really bothers me about watching Sailor Moon in the 2020s (and outside of Japan), is how much context is missing. Sailor Moon was designed as a multi-media franchise and the information is distributed through multiple mediums that run along side each other. A lot of this media is no longer accessible. What's bothering me about this specifically is Tuxedo Mask's title is never established in the anime, but it was in the hero shows (live performances put on in public areas like malls).
Tuxedo Mask's title is a "tuxedo-wearing pretty guardian of love and beautiful people", but this is never really established in the anime. It just kind of expects you to know this already from the hero shows. This becomes an issue when people watch Sailor Moon today, in English, and Tuxedo Mask makes his speech about something like "protecting beauties". Viewers misinterpret it as him being a ladies' man when I'm pretty sure it's gender neutral most (if not all) of the time and literally his job as a guardian.
It also probably has a lot to do with why he waxes eloquent about the beauty of the objects, places, or people that are currently under attack. They have to be within his area of protection. (It's also why he has a tendency to bring up how the thing he's protecting "helps people be beautiful". Viewers who hear this without context oftentimes assume he's being shallow or sexist.)
He seems to be a guardian of beauty in the sense of the artistry of beauty, with the technique and discipline that go into it. Meanwhile, the beauty Sailor Venus protects refers more to attractiveness and natural good looks. This makes sense for a guardian based off, well, Venus.
(Edit: this is a big part of the reason he's so perpetually graceful and elegant once transformed too :>)
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It is truly fascinating how the common tumblr narrative around John and Paul somehow makes the guy who literally got violent multiple times over people insinuating he was queer appear more "on board with the whole gay thing" than the guy who said some awkward/dated stuff in interviews a couple of times.
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carnivalcarrion · 10 months
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everybody stay with me im shifting back into speculation & analyzing mode, this time about everybody's favorite pair of besties. ill put this under the cut for everyone's sakes
and please, take all of this with a Hefty grain of salt.
so ive been... thinking about a thing. a maybe-possibility. which if this has some merit, the part of me that loves characters having a good time and feeling good feels is screaming in fear. but the louder part of me that loves angst and hurting characters is rubbing its little fly hands together.
short version: i think Barnaby is going to emotionally distance from Wally, if not outright grow to resent him. maybe temporarily, maybe not.
full version: *cracks knuckles* strap in folks. so.
first of all, an entire chunk of Barnaby's bio is dedicated to his character relation to Wally. everyone else only has one-off lines dedicated to their relationships to other neighbors - even Frank & Julie just have single sentences about each other (note that they're described as "partnered with" and "depicted with" respectively. more on that soon). even Wally's bio has his Barnaby mention tacked onto the end of his first paragraph instead of being its own dedicated section
and then there's their character designs - their bios explicitly point out that they share characteristics; color schemes, hearts on their soles, similar outfits.
they were made to be best friends. literally. this quote is what made me start turning this theory over in my mind (sourced from @ /theneighborhoodwatch's collected & absolutely fascinating livestream trivia)
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it appears that Barnaby literally did not have a say in whether or not he and Wally are friends. their bios even say "illustrated pages note that they were best friends multiple times." they have to be best friends.
which brings us back to Frank & Julie. they briefly reference each other in their bios, but they aren't described as best friends. it's incredibly likely that they were meant to be a romantic couple - i briefly covered that theory in this post (dont read the first one i was going insane) but they managed to avoid that. Frank and Julie defied the script and chose to be best friends instead.
and then in the trivia document a few more character relationships are briefly touched on, like how Howdy considers Barnaby a close friend, and Sally considers either Barnaby or Poppy as her closest friend, etc.
everyone else seems to be choosing who they're close with. they're forming their own opinions and dynamics and relationships. & its interesting that Barnaby is stated for both of these - as if implying that he may return the friendship feelings, or at the very least he's developed enough of a relationship with them to earn their affection
Barnaby and Wally... i doubt they ever got that. they were best friends from the start, no development, no choice. it's written into them.
and then there's how their relationship has been portrayed so far. i believe i saw an ask where Clown stated that Barnaby is very polite to Wally, which struck me as odd. have you ever had a polite relationship to your best friend? have you ever seen best friends be polite? i'd be surprised!
best friends mess with each other! they tease and rib and roast! what is a best friend for if not mutual tomfuckery?! jesting around? playfully pushing boundaries? a Polite best friendship... that's a straight up oxymoron. no such thing. that sounds boring and exhausting.
not only that, but the fact that Barnaby is often used for Wally's painting segments, and is the go-to guy for teaching Wally something new, is kind of concerning. it gives me the vibe that a big part of Barnaby's literal reason for existing is to be Wally's friend & guide.
which would make the fact of him being described as polite to Wally make sense. of course he's not going to push their relationship or try to deepen it - he's forming his own dynamics with the other neighbors. with Wally... it's already established. that is how they are with each other. that is what they are to each other.
and it's not like Wally can be the one to introduce nuances. i don't mean that as a slight or anything - he's just the way he's been described and the things stated about him that make me think that he wouldn't really... know how to? it just wouldn't occur to him. he probably thinks his and Barnaby's relationship is what a best friendship is and is how it should be.
but they have to hang out. they have to refer to each other as best friends. and while i believe that Wally does wholeheartedly think that they're best friends, close as can be... i doubt Barnaby feels the same. like - yes, he probably does care about Wally. everybody likes Wally.
but it's gotta be frustrating for Barnaby, especially as time goes on and he becomes more himself as a person over just being a character playing a part. it probably stunts his relationship growth with others, since his ~best friend spot~ is already taken and who would want to encroach on that? especially since its taken by Wally mcfuckin Darling?
their friendship might become less of a role and more of a responsibility. Barnaby might grow to feel obligated to stick with Wally as his "best friend". someone invites Barnaby to hang out and/or help with something? sorry, he has to pose for Wally's painting. Barnaby is trying to do his own thing? sorry, Wally is knocking on the door and asking for help with something.
i wonder if Barnaby ever hopes that Wally will go to someone else, or feels relief when he does. and then does he feel irritation/guilt over that denied hope or that granted relief? then does he get angry at himself for those emotions?
how would this effect how he treats Wally and acts around him? this confusing muddle of emotions and this strange growing resentment for his painfully earnest friend who only ever means well, if he means at all.
it makes me curious whether or not this theory has merit. and how this could come to a head. what would Barnaby, in this situation, do if/when he discovers that they're puppets on a set, and he's literally written to be Wally's bestie while everyone else changed their scripts and chose their own relationships.
personally, i don't think he'd be happy, and i doubt he'd handle it well.
#holy Shit this was tough to translate from my brain#i literally wrote it all out in my head while in the shower#and then i went to get it down on 'paper' and it was Tangled To Hell And Back#*taking a break from art*#brain: soooooo we're bored now. lets overthink and share these thinkings#welcome home theory#welcome home speculation#SERIOUSLY THOUGH IM SCARED FOR BARNABY AND WALLY#mainly for wally bc Ouch it would hurt him to have their relationship sour#barnaby getting resentful and wally not understanding why his best friend is acting differently towards him#and PLEASE keep in mind that im mostly talking outta my ass here#but like.... ugh#barnaby looking at wally walking over one day and feeling the urge to turn away or groan in irritation/exasperation#him posing for a painting and wishing he were anywhere else.#him wanting to be closer with other puppets but unable to bring himself to try bc of the Guilt#everywhere he turns hes called 'wallys best friend' and asked 'wheres wally? hes usually with you' when hes alone#and hearing 'if you want to find wally/barnaby go look for barnaby/wally. if you see one the other isnt far away'#that has GOT to get on his nerves over time#this constant stagnation of their relationship while everyone else is evolving and growing. hes Stuck.#even julie & frank who were written to be together find a way to circumvent that and add so much depth and uniqueness to their relationship#if you want a happy side of this. it could lead to barnaby & wally being really truly besties#barnaby could have an arc about thinking 'holy shit it was all fabricated. Fuck that and Fuck you[wally]'#and then going 'holy shit i Do actually love and care about him[wally] and i want us to develop a real meaningful friendship'#BUT WHO KNOWS who knows not me!#also it must be tiring to constantly have to explain his jokes and so many other things#bc wally Is a curious guy! he wants to learn!#but maybe barnaby just wants to have an uninterrupted conversation but he Cant bc wallys just built different#not said as a bad thing At All.#just... people are complicated. sometimes we have mean thoughts/emotions that conflict with what we really think/feel and our morals#we're only human. everyone is mean sometimes if only in our heads.& yeah theyre technically Puppets but lets not get caught up on semantics
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ferretwhomst · 1 year
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Holy Shit I Just Realized Something (toh finale spoilers and Badly Structured, Massively Long Rant up ahead)
when we first meet willow in early s1, she's in the abomination track and as we all know she is Struggling. abomination magic just doesn't come as naturally to her as plant magic, which is fine, but it isn't being addressed by the school.
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soon enough she gets switched over to the plant track as she wishes- i don't remember the exact details of the episode, it's been a little while, but iirc principal bump shows up after willow covers the entire inside of the school in vines and basically goes "no, i'm not punishing you, instead i'm switching you to the plant track because you're clearly more skilled at this type of magic."
which none of us really thought about, right?? maybe some of us were like "hm, that was a bit abrupt" but we didn't think too much of it because we didn't have much of an idea of bump's character yet.
not much later, it's revealed that bump himself is a part of the abomination coven. (it's not exactly Discussed but his sigil is visible in some shots, like this one.) he is bound by sigil to be restricted to abomination magic and nothing else.
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one slightly less relevant detail that i find interesting is how he doesn't Look like an abomination coven member, and so he seems a lot less invested in his status as an abomination witch. now you may be thinking: ferret, that's a moot point because 1. not every magic user is going to have their preferred type of magic/coven/track whatever implemented into their design and 2. princy b wears his Principal Robes every time we see him up until the finale, so it would be difficult to implement those details into his design anyway.
now, that second point is actually, uh. Fair. but as for the first point, allow me to explain
here are two prominent abomination coven members, darius deamonne and alador blight
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both of them are pretty obviously abomination coven members right off the bat. darius, being a coven head, has a Shit ton of purple in his design to indicate this (and that's not even including his hair). with alador, this is toned down, but it's still obvious by the permanent abomination goo stains on his coat (and also by the fact that he apparently doesn't wash his hands after working on the abomatons /lhj). these two are specialists, in different ways, of course, but ultimately their skills lie in abomination magic, and neither of them have expressed a wish to try other types of magic at this point.
but here's the thing. as far as i can tell, bump is Not a specialist. while he is a skilled abomination witch, we rarely see him make use of the fact except for during fight scenes- he doesn't seem very invested in it. plus, when we see him during the epilogue, he's enjoying a new hobby, which is...
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...plant care, much like willow! :)
(side note i love the holes in his hat for frewin's horns)
now, of course you could interpret this as bump simply discovering a New hobby between where wad left off & the epilogue. but to me, this says that all this time he was held back from his passion for plant care for multiple reasons, for example his job as the principal of hexside definitely put a strain on him in terms of how much time he could spend doing things for himself. but now that he's retired, and the coven system has been dismantled, he can spend more time doing things that bring him joy, just like many others in the epilogue.
this means that when he saw what willow was capable of back in s1, and transferred her to the plant track, he was really saying "i see you're struggling, and i won't let you go through what i went through by forcing you to go down a path that isn't yours." and god he means so much to me for that.
anyways end of rant, if you're here reading this i sincerely congratulate you for getting this far without passing away . i am very unnormal about hieronymus bump and it shows.
(also, PLSPLSLSS reblog this if you agree i spent like an hour here sitting here typing this all up on my phone at 1am AHDKDJFJE)
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lenoeninade · 2 months
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read a really cool fanfic and couldn't just not draw fanart for it
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