#malevolent kellen

[that-little-artist]

Kellen :D

He’s so wonky lmaoooo. It’s been so long since I’ve done anything traditional so pity me I guess ✨🧍✨

#malevolent fanart #malevolent #malevolent kellen #malevolent podcast #just a sketch lol #i love him so much #my bbg <3 #he

[justaferalguy]

Season 2 malevolent I’m missing my favourite little guy

#malevolent podcast #malevolent #Kellen malevolent #art #podcast

[millenianthemums]

what if they were all furries.

sorry this is so rough, i fell on my wrist and it’s hurting a bit so i’m trying to go easy. i had to get these ideas on paper though. cat john is of course inspired by @trans-arthur-lester ‘s art of him (hope that’s ok!)

#malevolent #arthur lester #john doe malevolent #kayne malevolent #yellow malevolent #kellen malevolent #larson malevolent #the butcher malevolent #milleniart #blood

[throatofdelusion12]

started listening to Malevolent and I think John is Hastur

#malevolent #Kellen my beloved

[panicroomsammy]

The problem with Malevolent as a person with synesthesia is that there’s the King in Yellow, but then the names Lester, Kayne, Larson, and Kellen all just happen to be yellow to me too so I cannot tell the characters apart when I’m thinking about them

#malevolent #synesthesia #king in yellow #arthur lester #kayne malevolent #wallace larson #kellen malevolent

[theood]

Every Malevolent Epsiode Arthur should recap the previous happenings as John goes "No Arthur that's wrong" and Arthur goes

"no this happened."

"it didn't Arthur. I saw it."

"we BOTH saw it John. And anyways (plot point)."

"No, Arthur. It went (Johns wild crazy theory)"

"You're literally just making that up John."

"You don't know that."

#Malevolent #love the story so far I'm having so much fun. I am back with Kellen in terms of knowing whats what #me and my boy Kellennnnnnn love you Kellen Malevolent

[bone-apple-teeths]

seeing a cover of plastic jesus trending as a tiktok sound is so funny like yes for you that is the perfect aesthetic touch for your slideshow about childhood nostalgia but for me? personally? all i can think of is a gas-mask wearing murderer who hears voices in his head singing it tone deaf as he drives his terrified blind hitchhiking passenger to a remote unfinished cabin deep in the woods. the duality of music amiright?

#sorry this is so niche lol #malevolent #malevolent podcast #plastic jesus #kellen malevolent #arthur lester #john doe malevolent

[larwisko]

I asked my cousin to name malevolent characters. She didn't disappoint me (tbh she did with the first one /hj)

Later she also called Hastur "golden line of life" 😭???

And John was "that face from memes when you become evil" (???)

she's mentally ill /j

but so am I

#forgive her for kinda broken english #it's not her first language #malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur malevolent #arthur lester #john malevolent #malevolent john #john doe #arthur lester malevolent #malevolent kayne #kayne malevolent #malevolent kiy #kiy malevolent #kiy #the king in yellow malevolent #malevolent king in yellow #the king in yellow #kellen malevolent

[isuckatbeinghappyallthetime]

“he can’t hear me—hey! Kellen, your mothers a whore” i kinda love him

#malevolent podcast #idk if i spelt kellen right

[sun-3-160]

I love when my podcast man gets hurt and he goes ahh oughhhh ughh ouhhh

#YES ARTHUR KILLLLLL KIIILLLLLLLLL #at ep 4 at the part where he stabs kellen #malevolent

[the-girl-from-another-place]

Malevolent eps 11-12 liveblog

ooh jeez. that was intense

John literally gives the shitiest pep talks but somehow I feel like they'd work on me

Are they thinking what I'm thinking? Disguise time?

ook so John had something to do with the cult/the king in yellow in the past

who dis? Does he have an eyeball demon as well?

What the Fuck!?

we're in big trouble now boys I can feel it

Doug the cult leader. I love it

Hey! Are those like. the questions that the patreon gets to vote on or whatever??

Petulant child!!! you're one to talk buddy

oh my goddd the monsters in this show fuck so hardd

Arthur is now wearing a thigh length cultist robe. btw.

Laundry chutes coming through as always

Ready for our boys to Sam Gamgee this fucker. but like, if Sam had a gun.

oh. oh my god. not to me. not if it's you. i'm gonna fucking die. these two will be the death of me.

somebody's jumpy

he's facing the other way! Such an idiot I love him

*turns on phonograph* hello Jo(h)n

Kellen!!!

ooh dreamlands!! Fun!

the audio distortions when the doctor is talking are creepy as fuck

it's a riddle about the mirrors dummy. Ok they got it

God that's so creepy, I love it. Doing nothing for my fear of elevators

ahhhhh so coool something something lost carcosa

John eat a snickers. John.

the sounds this man is making

ewww gross

Cassilda!!! Hey queen!!

buddy they're not talking to you

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH etc

the power of love wins as always, tho they're probably fucked now. Also listening to this while trying to stay quiet and not wake my roommate was physically painful

#malevolent #malevolent liveblog #arthur lester #john doe #this fucking show man

[justaferalguy]

He’s just a funny little guy

#kellen malevolent #malevolent #kellen holeman #he’s my everything #the king in yellow #my little boy #art

[merrinpippy]

thoughts on "the detective" thus far - i only got 15 mins in!

conversation about agency! this is necessary! i'm glad it's happening and it's so good!

arthur's stutter over "yes" irt John asking about separation my beloved

i wonder if the butcher will show up again. he must, right? he's too interesting not to. if KELLEN keeps being brought up the butcher certainly will. and it's not as if harlan would have trouble bringing back a particular one off voice actor or anything lol

YOO he tell the truth to noel! he include john in the relationship as a direct amendment for how isolated john felt with oscar!

"i've been waiting for you" eh???? you whatt?

"with respect I was asking john" oh fuck yeah!!!!! i'd actually seen a post about this before i ever decided to start listening to malevolent and it's even better in context! god they're so baffled and touched

arthur speaking john's words<3 love this for them and also me <3

#malevolent liveblog

[philipronans]

john ‘eldritch being from another dimension’ malevolent when faced with the possibility of kellen knowing he’s in arthur’s head and can hear him, “your mom’s a WHORE!!!!!!!!!!”

#malevolent podcast #vic.txt #i am obsessed with him thank you

[honeydewmelan]

Malevolent ep 7

okay so if John gains control every time Arthur kills someone (his partner, that guy, the lighthouse keeper) and he didn’t when kellen(?) “died” does that mean kellen can come back?

(names are really hard for me sorry)

#malevolent spoilers #malevolent podcast #melanevolent

[skayafair]

Questions and theories

Alriiiight then, are we going to talk about a few things that stand out ESPECIALLY after the episode?

Firstly, John.

The hints he actually used to be a human were scattered here and there throughout the whole show, and this episode just gave another one. Namely, a poem. Arthur never recited it, it was John who remembered the last line first, for Arthur to tell him that it was a poem. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923. The year when the action takes place is circa 1934. John’s been bound to the book for the last 10 years, so it was about 1924 when he got separated from the King. I have A LOT of questions. How did he learn that poem? Where did he hear it? Next, the song. You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) was first recorded in 1931. Arthur apparently doesn’t listen to the radio much so he didn’t even hear it. Why does John say it sounds familiar then? How could hee hear it if he was in the Dark World when it was released? Something doesn’t add up. And, lastly, there’s a name. He said it was familiar. It doesn’t even has to be HIS name, maybe it belonged to someone he used to treasure but forgot.

We know the dates in the show don’t exactly correspond to the real world. Plastic Jesus was out in 1967, so unless Kellen wasn’t from the future (which cannot be excluded completely, in full honesty) it was impossible for him to know it.

It’s either there ought to be some timey-wimey with the Dark World and John’s existence there (he did say he lived countless lives there, didn’t he?), or I don’t get it.

But the thing is, John didn’t really change only AFTER the coma. It was him who told Arthur to pull to a stop because there was an abandoned car. He didn’t say a word against making baby’s well-being their top priority despite the fact that they clearly had more pressing matters at hand. He shows a wide range of eemotions right from the beginning. Coma and what followed after expedited the process, true, but it didn’t start it. I don’t think Arthur exactly teaches John humanity, because John had it right from the start. He just needed a nudge in the right direction, and while Arthur isn’t ecaxtly the best guide, he does the most importantt thing - he challenges John all the time, constantly pulling him into moral dilemmas, conflicts, fights, all his messy inner world. Human world. Which John seems to remember pretty easily even after he lost his memory - Yellow was very curious of the world around despite all odds.

(I have to make a separate note about Yellow and this whole memory loss deal here. I was sort of perplexed as of why it should have been such a tragedy. Loss of memory isn’t exactly a time travel. John already changed, so even if he didn’t remember some important period, he should have remained himself. And guess what, he did. Most of shows and books I’ve seen seem to dive the “like time travel” path, sadly, but Malevolent sets quite a high bar with characters developement, so I had some hope. Considering how fast things were progressing, I was about right and very delighted with what we got. So I wasn’t really surprised Yellow was so... not-evil-god.)

So, all in all, while I like the “person not human” idea the most, this is clearly not where the show is going, and it’s okay. But I’m really curious how this whole thing fits into time frame. I’m inclined to think the Dark World is yet to play an important role in the explanation, but would be happy to discuss other options.

Next, the loose ends.

I’ve started listening to the whole podcast for the 3rd time in a row, so some things stick out. First, it was the symbol the hag drew on a baby. Luckily we got somee crumbs of info 20+ episodes later, yay! Next, in Stanczyk house the corpse had a pendant taken from from it. Now we encounter a similar situation in Larson’s house, only the pendant here is in its place and has the same symbol. Soooo were Stanczyks involved in any way? Is everyone in Arkham and around in some kind of a cult?

Oh! Nearly forgot! When the hag abducted the baby, there was a dead woman, too. I genuinely thought she was the girl’s mother. Was it just me? Or is it some kind of a retcon?

We also have no info on how Kellen’s sister head ended up the way it did. There HAD to be some rituals, right? Or no... But they both heard voices, and Kellen told he’s been to Dreamlands. What connection do they have to all this?

Also, THE KNIGHTS. I really hope to get some closure! We were so close to at least ONE answer and... well, the guys are still in the mansion - or the mines, doesn’t matter much - so we can probably get it in a few episodes.

Next, either it’s still a mistery or I didn’t catch because the 1st arc is really blurry to me even after 3 times I’ve listened to it - who sent the book to Arthur? Who wrote the journal they read in the library?

And now there are two whole new cults apparently - of the Black Stone (yaaay I’ve read the book’s plot but it didn’t really help) and of the Fallen Star? I need to relisten @_@ But why is John so interested in it? Hope he’ll tell about it in the nearest episodes.

The Play

I didn’t see this discussed yet, but I’m just 2-3 weeks into the fandom, so forgive me if it was talked about already. So looking at the source material - The King In Yellow books - we have all elements mentioned, but one. The sign, the King, the mask, Carcosa (btw I didn’t catch - was it the undeground city, or the one they met Kayne in, or we’re yet to get there?) - everything was either used in the plot or mentioned. The only thing that wasntt is the play itself. 

However, what we heard were quotes from it. And - Kayne’s words that everything is predetermined. He knows Arthur’s whole life - how?

My hypothesis is that the whole story lind of is the play, and the gods can watch it inacted in what’s real life for Arthur. And the cultists, too, maybe - or they have to make do with bits and pieces. That would explain how they knew about Arthur and John’s journey in details.

I have to say I really like the take on fate and free will here though. Kayne says it all: everything is predetermined, but it also has always been Arthur’s choice on what to do. It’s even stressed with John’s constant “It’s your call”. Because Arthur doesn’t know the script, and he makes his own decisions, predetermined or not. It’s like these two concepts are on different levels, so they don’t get in each other’s way, and I think it’s beautiful.

I probably forgot something but whatever, I’ll just make another post.

I’m eager to discuss, everyone is welcome!

#Malevolent podcast #spoilers #Arthur Lester #John Doe #john malevolent #theories #I NEED TO TALK OKAY