#familiar theory

[sburbian-sage]

Native Witch of Breath here, also been a Witch of Might and Witch of Void, though currently a Heir of Hope. I gotta say, I personally put a lot of stock in familiar theory! I just don't think it applies to every Witch in every session, and the was that cherub was doing it was pretty crazy.

It can be part of the progression of a cryptical class, I think. Witches can be hard to understand, so they in turn get something that's usually not even the same species, or thinks very differently to them, that *they* have to deal with not being able to understand. (Not sure if Mages have an equivalent? Maybe they do and it's just not as obvious.)

It also ties into the whole "Witches usually prototype something terrible" thing. Often the sprite actually is the familiar- a familiar doesn't need to stay with you the entire game, just long enough for the game to try and get the point across.

My first session, I prototyped my pet bird that died. It was a very touching reunion, but it was SO eager to leave, and I had to keep convincing it to stay, until I eventually realized that sprites leaving was part of the game, and that as a Breath player I shouldn't be restricting something's freedom anyway, even if it was to much of a birdbrain to really explain itself.

In the session I was a Witch of Might, it was admittedly a little more metaphorical. I was going out of my skull trying to understand the "Might is water" thing, and so I took the glitch FAQ's advice, and went to stare at an ocean.

And then after doing that for an hour I lost it because I was under a lot of stress in general and this was the last straw and blew up the beach (bombkind FTW). But after I was done, I saw all the water, pooling in the craters I left, flowing together to join the whole, and suddenly something clicked. After that point, it was really hard to conceptualize water as NOT being alive, an ever-present being in the vapor around me, that I had to learn how to ask for help. Like how the water could only pool once I made the craters for it, I needed to figure out that same kinda stuff for other situations.

...And than as the Witch of Void, I didn't have one. Which, I guess makes sense, but I HAVE heard of Void Witches that do have a familiar, so whatever.

So yeah, I guess I don't have any solid proof here, I get that any of these things could have happened to any player- but my point is, it's how Witches RELATE to these things, that's different. Every player has a sprite that leaves them, but a Witch may find that it's oddly related to their aspect. Every player has to figure out their aspect and listen to it's whisperings, but as a Witch I practically saw it as another player in it's own right. And then sometimes maybe it just doesn't happen, I dunno.

Finally, I think this is a stretch, but it might even be part of why Witches get that weird crazy boost to gardening? Plants are also living things that are different from you, so a plant could be your familiar, and it would be bad if it died or never got planted before it could fulfill it's role?

Very interesting. Or because you discussed plants, intreesting.

If I'm interpreting this correctly, it seems like Familiar Theory doesn't relate to an actual game construct, so much as it refers to a sort of (para)psychological event, not unlike the Third Man Factor. It's not that Witch players somehow gain access to special pets when that's normally impossible, it's that the cryptical nature of Witches is isolating, being deliberately obtuse and interacting with the game in such a manner that no other player could relate to the Witch even if it wasn't mechanically penalized. So the Witch, in a way, conceptualizes a companion or other meaningful relationship who they can relate to (alleviating the isolation) and who communicates with them or otherwise imparts meaning in an obtuse, nonobvious, or cryptic manner (acting as a Witch to the Witch, as you said, or perhaps being a Class-analogue of the normally Aspect-oriented Whispers).

If anything, this seems somewhat comparable to the various SBURB mental disorders. Not to imply that you're a repeated sufferer of mental delusions, mind, only that it's a special psychological phenomenon that could only really be understood in the context of SBURB. Not to mention that the mental disorders are all deleterious in nature (hence "disorder"), while Familiar Theory seems mostly positive.

Emphasis on mostly, because as we know the Cherub Witch of Hope is off her rocker. With all of this in mind though, I wonder if it's possible to "diagnose" her, in a way. She called her brother "a beast to be tamed", said that "controlling him was [her] only hope", and that he was her "reward" for making it through the session. She's not currently a Witch of Hope, I think, that's her Native Title and I don't know what she is currently (her brother's Native Title is unknown but he's currently a Mage of Rage). A fair amount of this boils down to her believing that her brother is innately evil or destructive (even though he seems pretty pleasant), but how much of this relates to Familiar Theory? "Reward" implies a certain amount of possessiveness, less like she's the student and he's the teacher, more like she's the owner and he's the pet. As far as "Familiar Theory as the Third Man Factor" goes, SBURB is already stressful, and a duo session would be doubly stressful at least. Especially because only one "side" is active at a time, halving the rate at which progress is made, and depriving an already loney Witch of anyone she could possibly talk to. I think I have two theories now.

Theory #1 is that she underwent a sort of stress meltdown in her first session, and underwent "Familiar Theory" towards her brother as a coping mechanism. She ascribes negative intention to him, and felt like she was their only chance at survival, with him as a malicious millstone. As an active harbinger of complexification, wielding rejection, she began putting up a facade of saccharine disposition, and adopted a drive to sublimate her alter ego. A strengthening of willpower that let her fully embody active Hope, pushing against the odds and rejecting any undesired outcomes, including those of an unsuccessful session, and her brother achieving dominance (or equilibrium). Of course, abusers derive power from mistreating others, so she isn't letting her "Familiar" go unless she can be forced to. This theory accounts for everything, of course. His needing to be tamed (malicious intentions ascribed), controlling him is her only hope (internalizing rejection), her reward (someone she has power over), and the material conditions for a Witch to seek a Familiar.

Theory #2, of course, is that she isn't even understanding Familiar Theory correctly, and is instead interpreting it uber-literally. This theory accounts for her being a skeevy weirdo with a loose grip on reality, because she is the Cherub Pet Gal.

#sburb #replay value au #witch class #familiar theory #cherub #coplayer drama

[perpetualcontrolleddrowning]

Something something the way that Crowley introduced himself to Aziraphale the first time they met in the garden and reacted as if they had never met before. Something about him later behaving as if he did actually have those memories of their time in Heaven together and trying to pass it off as being someone different now. Something about Heaven's way of punishing angels that go against the plan by erasing their memories. Something about Crowley seeing Gabriel without his memory and saying "ask him properly." Something about "remember it now" "it hurts, to remember. my head isn't built for that" "I know. Do it anyway"

Something about "I know. Looking at where the furniture isn't"

Something about I know

#gomens #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens s2 #good omens spoilers #fan theory #all i'm saying #is that crowley seemed REALLY familiar with the process of losing and regaining memory when it's been taken #and i think it would be fun to make it even more angsty #if crowley pushed himself again and again until he was able to remember aziraphale #and now he remembers heaven and all that it was #and he wants nothing to do with it #and Aziraphale is going back

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones) #i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people) #i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways! #aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/ #aro media

[samwise1548]

I love how tma had this one essentially prophesized child (Jon) that ended the world, marked from the beginning, as well as a few other separate failed cases to do something similar (Anges and Gerry).

And in contrast, the little we know about tmagp has to do with testing many children, one of which included Gerry. I'm wondering if this was meant to go similarly where they were trying to find a child they could raise to end the world for them. Or if just a whole building of prophesized children was the ritual itself so to speak.

I don't know. Just some speculations

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp thoughts #tmagp theory #Nobody better come at me for talking about rituals and stuff in tmagp. Ik all the fear stuffs meant to be totally different in this universe #I can still use words we are familiar with until we're given some actual new info

[quasi-normalcy]

#it's never natural. it's always artificial. #It's always asking yourself ''is that too much? is that too little? is my tone right here? should i be smiling?'' #''Does this person actually want to know? How long should I listen to this person talk about something I don't care about?'' #''Is it reasonable to leave yet? Will I miss out? Will I appear creepy if I linger?'' #''How familiar should I be? Am I giving away too much about my emotional state? Am I giving away too little?'' #Obsessively trying to guess what the other person wants and is thinking so you don't weird them out. #Obsessively trying to remember what you know about the other person so you don't seem indifferent? #''No theory of mind.'' Fuck you. I wish I had no theory of mind #I wish I didn't have to waste mental capacity thinking about it.

[lesbianredhoodedmercenary]

CGs from the tgs teaser that we haven't seen in game yet

These first two were actually posted on their twitter too so I was able to grab cleaner versions of them from there. the rest are all stuff i screengrabbed from this teaser

these are all probably cropped from cgs that'll appear in their chapters, since that was the case for gregor, rodya, and sinclair's.

#limbus company #project moon #i am going to be so real with you all i am not tagging all the characters #sorry ifthe images are bad i scrubbed through the video frame by frame but some of them never stop being blurry #i am not familiar with all of the stories but i can pinpoint that meursault is at his mother's funeral (walking behind the hearse) #and heathcliff is at catherine's funeral (this also supports my “catherine is in the bodysack ego” theory)

[spiciestmarinara]

John Watson, professional podcaster: - and we got requests to make a tumblr!

Me, who been on the fandom side of tumblr since 2010:

#Sherlock and co #I don’t think it’s a bad idea in theory but people get way too familiar with creators on here as is and start doing weird shit #you’re basically going ‘well the monkies enjoy what we’re doing we can probably just walk right into the habitat no problem’

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

saw some speculation on FranklyDear in relation to the audios and i want to toss my two cents in

so all the thing's i've been seeing have been people talking about how they're a couple, but they're not acting like it, so that must be Playfellow's influence making them put distance between each other

but i immediately interpreted it as - they're not there yet. there might be feelings, but they aren't Together. cause in the 14 bug audios, i feel like it's pretty clear that these are snapshots of the neighborhood outside of the show. cameras aren't rolling, there are no influences, it's the neighbors just Existing on their own dime

'cause the conversations are more natural! the characters seem more nuanced! there aren't any sound effects! so if FranklyDear is already established, wouldn't we have "seen" that in their shared audio 8-14? wouldn't Eddie have just called Frank Frank, without the immediate (and somewhat flustered) correction to Mr. Frankly? and wouldn't Frank call him Eddie instead of Mr. Dear? plus, idk about y'all, but that scene was a lil romantically charged. a little flirty - especially from Frank's side. the kind of tension you get from budding emotions, not fully-realized ones

they just seem to be in a before state. the beginning stages. and anyway, i remember Clown saying that revealing FranklyDear as an endgame couple was sort of an Accident? i think we were meant to watch it evolve and figure it out along with the characters, the way we will with any other relationships (that we Definitely are not aware of / confident about yet).

we're still only in the prologue of the story, so it'd make so much sense if Frank and Eddie are not yet Involved. we're on this journey With them

#in a parallel universe there are people arguing over whether or not frank & eddie are a Thing #im kinda thankful that's not our reality lol #i think it's going to be fun just sitting back Fully Aware and watching these two Go Through It #i just highly highly HIGHLY doubt they're already together #plus how much more fun would it be to watch it Happen? #to see them experience the conflict and feelings and realizations and how their interactions will likely Change Accordingly #homebogging #welcome home theory #welcome home speculation #before the audios i had a feeling that it would be eddie being the more up-front flirty go-getter of the two #based on clown's art of them & such #but then with the audios eddie is a little more... reserved isnt the right word.... #polite? restrained? trying to keep things Amicable and Professional? #cause in 8-14 frank was the more relaxed teasing one while eddie was a bit of a flustered mess #which might've been because of the bug #but yk... he Did rush to correct himself on how he addressed frank... #and the way frank spoke... idk it just sounded like a slightly different Tone than what they usually speak with #more of a casual drawl. more forward - there was a Weight to it #and the 'you don’t need to be that familiar with them in order to get to know them better' #imo that line stuck out as a kind of a wink wink nudge nudge thing #like a Hey. We Could Get To Know Each Other. #twas a classic 'talking about one thing while saying another' phrase - again imo #oh and also its just occurring to me #if the bug audios are 'present day' like i suspect #its entirely possible that franklydear can only 'now' develop bc theyre - well theyre not exactly Free #but playfellow is no longer 'ruling' over them. the influence and pressure - no matter how subconcious it was - is no longer there #freeing them up just enough to maybe... just maybe... truly Feel and perhaps Express interest in each other #just a thought! #that would be another tally in the box explaining why their interaction in the 8-14 audio was Different #there isn't anything holding them back anymore beyond their (possible) own internalized biases & fears & expectations etc

[radioroxx]

favourite genre of uty fanart is when ppl draw a silly little clover with their hyperrealistic gun

also gonna show off the gun i painted cuz??? i think she looks good

#undertale yellow #uty clover #gun #roxx art #i guarantee most of yall r guilty of this too

[uncanny-tranny]

My best advice for trans people who are interacting with transphobes is to not delve into your personal experiences with dysphoria, childhood, sexual experiences, literally anything.

When I was a younger trans person, I thought I could prove my humanity to transphobes by delving into those aspects of my life. I genuinely thought that the more personal information I put out about my transness to transphobes, I could awaken something in them and make them realize "holy shit, I'm talking to a human being and not an abstraction of a 'person'".

What I learned, though, is that all I did was give those transphobes power over me. Transphobia often relies on unfalsifiable "theory" - that means that you cannot prove their theories of transness wrong. By playing their game, all you do is set yourself up to feel humiliated and degraded. By playing this game, you have already lost because they will cheat the game as many times as needed because they are going in with inherent bad faith.

You, in fact, do not owe your life story to transphobes. Their theory about transness is, simply put, that trans people can never be correct about our experiences. There will always be an ulterior motive for trans people in their eyes, because that is all they see. Don't give them that over you.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #the information i put on this blog isn't to prove my humanity and it's for other trans people first and foremost but... #...transphobes have tried using it against me which is always more funny to me than anything else #think about the 'theories' about transness to see how they RELY on being unfalsifiable... #...because unfalsifiability is ALL they have. that is the ONLY thing that gives them 'credibility' #one of the most famous instances of this is probably the first one you thought about if you're at all familiar with transphobic 'theory' #but anyway... baby trans people (affectionate) you owe people NOTHING #you don't owe your life story/your asab/your gender/your sexuality/NADA. NOTHING. ZILCH. #basically transphobes would make freud cry tears of pride because of the unfalsifiable narratives they push #i have definitely talked about this before but it bares repeating

[beansprean]

He deserves to pull pranks and also to pine with no judgement. Well, almost no judgement.

My Familiar's Ghost AU Masterpost

(ID in alt and under cut)

ID. 1a. Close up of Ghost Guillermo doing a talking head to camera, his lower third reading 'Guillermo, ghost, familiar. Offscreen, the camera person asks, "So...do you wanna talk about what you got up to while you were invisible?" Guillermo, hands folded in front of him, trails his gaze away uncertainly and says, "Well..." 1b. Flashbacks. Colin sitting on the edge of his bed, back straight, hands on his knees, apparently in hibernation. Ghost Guillermo floats by him, invisible, grinning mischievously and holding a sharpie which he has just used to draw a penis on Colin's forehead. 1c. Guillermo watches as a letter labeled "familiar application" comes through the mail slot in the front door. 1d. Guillermo shoots blue lasers from his eyes and catches the letter on fire before it even hits the ground. 1e. Laszlo stands holding a vihuela and frowning as he tries to tune it, saying to himself, "Why does this bloody thing keep losing tune?" In the background, Guillermo just smiles widely. 1f. Back to the present, Guillermo shrugs at the camera with a nervous little smile, continuing, "Oh, you know...cleaning." 1g. One more flashback, Guillermo leaning against the back of a couch, chin buried in his folded arms as he looks sadly down at Nandor, who is laying sideways on the cushions with his knees curled up and his hands tucked under his head. Nandor looks forlorn and sighs aloud, murmuring "Guillermo..."

(caption)

2. Ghost Guillermo floating angrily behind the Nadja doll, fingers curled up in frustration as he shouts, "You could see and hear me the whole time??" Dolly keeps her back to him, hands in her lap and expression passive as she replies, "Of course I could, I was just ignoring you." /end ID

#wwdits #nandermo #mlm #ghost Guillermo #nadja doll #what we do in the shadows fx #what we do in the shadows #my art #fanart #image described #ask me about my colin hibernation theory #my familiars ghost

[cornyflow3r]

you can pry sneeg, ranboo and charlie are canon friends in generation loss from my cold, dead hands. when sneeg remembers himself with the help of the Bad Hat, he runs to ranboo, links both hands into the chain of the fence to get as close to him as possible, and assures him he’ll come back for him. when ranboo and charlie are awake in the mall, they call each other by name and have an instinctive desire to keep each other safe, even if they don’t know anything about what’s happening to them. these three have a history, i’m sure of it, and it’s heartbreaking that showfall keeps letting them get close and then breaking them apart.

#gl!sneeg #his acting in the Bad Hat moment? #one of my favourite moments in the whole show #sublime #sneegsnag #you legend #charlie slimecicle #gl!charlie #slimecicle #ranboo #ranboolive #gl!ranboo #generation loss #genloss #generation loss spoilers #i actually couldn't tell you how sneeg and charlie are connected #aside from both being in the cabin together #but they speak about each other with such familiarity in that episode #if anyone has theories on them #feel free to add

[pinkpruneclodwolf]

I have a theory that Ace's Unique Magic may be in retaliation to Malleus's rather than one that compliments Deuce's [in the traditional sense].

This mostly goes with the fact that Malleus and Ace actually oppose one another in many ways—where Ace is Yuu's first friend, Yuu is Malleus' first friend.

This isn't even getting into the fact that Ace had words for Malleus during Spectral Soiree.

And what I meant by Ace's UM not complimenting Deuce's in a traditional sense is due mostly in part by Malleus' Overblot. Malleus is absorbing nature and the dormant magic around him and converting it to fuel his Overblot.

Deuce's UM hinges on dealing someone's attack back at them ten fold. He is absorbing magic and throwing it back at his opponent. A bit similar to what Malleus is doing.

Going off of Malleus' Unique Magic—"Fae of Maleficence" in which he puts people to sleep and encases them in thorns I wonder if Ace's UM has something to do with reality? [or maybe it's Sebek, due to his association with time].

Either way, I bet the change in my pocket that his Unique Magic's name is "Ace's Up" "Ace High" or "Bad Beat Jackpot."

"Ace High" is the highest card gand you can get followed by "Queen/King-high" it also indicates that a flush or straight has Ace as its highest contributing card. Ace high straights are quite literally the best possible straights and Ace high flushes are the best possible flushes.

"Ace's Up" just means two pair of cards one of which are Aces, so like, you have AA and a QQ [queen] card.

"Bad Beat Jackpot" refers to a hand in which a player with the strongest cards loses. It usually occurs when a player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes a poor call that wins with any subsequent dealing to complete the hand. It usually happens when 'four-of-a-kind 5's' are beat out by a higher four-of-a-kind.

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst theory #twst yuu #malleus draconia #ace trappola #deuce spade #Ace u are not beating the time loop allegations sawrii #i am NOT familiar with card games outside of uno so please forgive me

[thegoldenhoof]

Izzy dies, not as Izzy but as Blackbeard and that is not fair

(Not just to Izzy but to the writing jn Ep 4-7)

I wasn't able to articulate it properly until I was writing a longer meta about the death of the mentor trope but another reason why Izzy's death felt jarring (other than the lack of plot common sense) was that Izzy died as Blackbeard.

Izzy did not create Blackbeard. Inspite of the misinterpretations of Jenkins last moment inspiration, Izzy did not train Blackbeard. Inspite of the extremely ridiculous dialogues shoved into Ricky's mouth we *know* Izzy was not the bains behind Blackbeard.

Izzy says he fed Blackbeard's darkness, not created, not forced, but fed. However we may interpret this the Burden of Blackbeard has been on both of them. One of them wanted to shed it because it was boring (and he was depressed) the other wanted to keep it because it was security, their way of life and his life's work.

And yet Izzy alone has to die as Blackbeard. Izzy gets to take all the burden of Blackbeard on himself and die for the symbolic release of Ed.

And in so far as you consider everything till Episode 2 or even Episode 3 this is perhaps fine. But Izzy who was the half of Blackbeard is already dead after that. He'd shot him in the head. By Episode 4 Izzy broken and purposeless asks himself who he was anymore.

Izzy lets go of Blackbeard in what Jenkins has called his moment of divorce from Blackbeard. Izzy gets to grow and learn about kindness and community. He learns to give back. He gives his approval for Ed letting go of his leathers and he does that from the experience of having let go of Blackbeard himself. (If Ed was indeed seeking such approval we are not shown that)

And yet...

Izzy dies as Blackbeard. All of this, all of his journey is rendered meaningless not because he dies, but because his role in Blackbeard was elevated narratively to serve as a vessel externalizing Ed's self-loathing. Izzy as a person recedes to the background.

Izzy had found healing and family over the season but he doesn't get to die as Izzy, he gets to die as Blackbeard. He dies with only Ed by his side and all the people he formed bonds with this season away, audience to the tragic spectacle because in that moment he is only Blackbeard, not Izzy.

Izzy never had a single hope of redemption because no matter what he did *he* could never shed his past. Stede's love is enough to save Ed from Blackbeard but apparently the crew's love was never going to be enough to save Izzy because Ed needed him to *be* the Blackbeard who died so he could be the Ed who lived.

Perhaps the lesson here is you have to get ahead in that redemption race because if you straggle behind you are fucked even if you try.

#izzy hands #ed teach #ofmd meta #ofmd #ofmd critical #the narrative puts Blackbeard on Izzy and lets him die in Ed's place so it can give Ed the “family” Izzy earned. #that does sound familiar. #i would have been impressed if it didn't decide to dump a season of character growth to do that #again leading my back to my theory that Izzy's death was a decision made before they knew what they were doing with the rest of the season #and smushed in with the rest of the season #and the cracks are showing

[pinkeoni]

Peter Pan Parallels: Is The Upside Down Neverland?

Lately I've been thinking about Petergate and I came up with what possibly could be another angle to the already complicated Peter situation— what if the name Peter is a reference to Peter Pan?

I don't think this is the only reason that the name Peter becomes prominent, although the show itself does seem to contain other references to Peter Pan, and even creates a correlation between the Upside Down and Neverland.

Peter Pan as a character has origins in early works from author J.M. Barrie, and the Peter Pan story as known today originated in a play written by Barrie before being adapted into a book and subsequently several film adaptations. The story of course being about a young boy named Peter who brings some kids to a magical land where they can never grow old.

It's written very small, but Peter Pan is on the season 4 DNA board!

There are a few instances about never growing old in the show, and they usually come from Will or involve Will.

The first instance is from season 3 during the rain fight, where Mike exclaims that they "aren't kids anymore" and they can't "play games for the rest of their lives." This is then brought up again by Will in season 4, but in a much more hopeful lens.

And then we have the Upside Down, a magical land that appears to be somewhat stuck in time.

I say "somewhat" because I'm honestly unsure if the UD actually frozen in time, or if there is just an impression of Hawkins the night that Will was taken. However, the emphasis this season on clocks as well as Nancy's mention of being in the past does at least allude to the idea of being frozen in time.

Does the UD actually function like Neverland and keep someone from aging? Will was only trapped in there for a week, not enough time to see if there was any anti-aging going on. Henry was in there for a few years, however since he changed so much physically it's hard to tell if he aged at all (and given that he was in his 30s, any aging wouldn't have been very apparent)

ALTHOUGH there could be a point to be made about the fact that Will and Henry were both able to survive in the Upside Down for as long as they did in the first place, maybe it has to do with both of their powers, but perhaps the UD was preventing them from dying?

Starting with Will, we know that he was in the UD for a week without any food or water. The body can survive that long without food, but water is another thing. The show makes a point to have Erica say this in season 3:

—which leads me to believe that they want to draw attention to the fact that Will was miraculously able to survive for so long in a place without any water. Perhaps the UD was able to keep him alive?

Something similar happens with Henry, too. It seems like his body was adapting to the new environment overtime, but still the details of his survival are vague and his ability to stay alive after all that time is still rather anomalous to say the least.

There's an indirect reference to the UD as Neverland in season one, when Troy states that "Will is in fairyland now with all the other little fairies." and while YES he means this in a derogatory way, the dialogue is still a way to point at the fact that Will really is in a magical land, and possibly even a hint at his powers.

Notice as well how Will's light magic bares a resemblance to pixie dust from the Disney movie.

Between Henry and Will, we can see both of them as being Peter Pan-like. Henry as Peter as in the one who lures children into his magical fantasy land, or Will as Peter the boy who doesn't want to/has trouble growing up.

Another aspect of Peter Pan is his shadow, which is detachable and seems to have a mind of its own. Which reminds me a lot of this:

Barrie's intentions behind what the shadow represents is pretty vague, although it has been tied to the idea of wholeness, Peter's attachment to the human world as well as duality, wholeness, and lightness within dark and darkness within light. (more to come later)

#this will likely be a multi-part theory post #this part is mostly my initial thoughts observations #will have to do more research as im only familiar with the disney movie #although that could be their main mode of inspiration #feel free to take these elements and place them in your own interpretations theories how you like #stranger things #stranger things theory #stranger things analysis #my analysis #my theory #will byers #one stranger things #vecna stranger things #henry creel #will byers has powers #byler #<- target audience #not byler related

[crunchycrystals]

do y'all think lydia and kalina did the spies tongue curse thing together and thats why kalina can only say ragh's name???????

#crunchyposts #bc obviously its not ragh its lydia thats more relevant bc of bakur so then why cant she say lydias name. spies tongue curse????? #d20 #fh #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high junior year spoilers #dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #pls share your thoughts w me i need to know if im onto something or not #WAIT WOULD THAT ALSO BE THE REASON WHY THEY LEARNED WHAT IT WAS FROM CASSANDRA??????? BC HER AND/OR HER FAMILIAR DID IT????? #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #lydia barkrock #<- please i need people to see this i need to know if i got something i havent seen anyone else mention yet #edit look at the replies !!! someone had a really good theory that kalina's talking about porter #edit after ep 17. hey. hey. hey. hows it going. read the replies