Hi its me again. Rambling on.
Spiral! Michael but! An actual avatar, not an amalgamation of the Distortion and Michael Shelley.
Also known as my attempt to make his story less heartbreaking. Soothe the pain some of my mutuals like to put me through. As one does.
god forbid a turkey has hobbies 🦃😔
*grabbing mlm shippers by the shoulders* guys nobody needs to be the twink. nobody needs to be the sub. nobody needs to be the femboy. they can both be big fat hairy men who bask in each others masculinity or they can both be unspeakable monstrous creatures with inhuman genitalia it’s okay I’m holding your hand. Let me show you the way
Sure idk
Reblog/tag game idea! You can tag whoever, or no one, you just have to type something
like um a bird you like or your favorite color or one of these :]
‼️IMPORTANT‼️only rules are you can’t put pictures and it has to be one continuous reblog chain. I don’t know what the limit is, but it would be cool if this was extremely long, so go look at the reblogs to find the most recent one (if this gains traction)
I wanna pet my cats
ooh. Reblog chain. Procrastinating on homework right now.
I love my polycule.
I miss my partner...
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Popopjgfghh
Dirt and worms ice cream is tasty
uhhh kiss girls 👍
Yuri and yaoi supremacy!
Oh look a buzz saw!
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so if a group of crows is a murder, than would a bunch of groups of crows be a massacre?
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c!Karlnap supremacy.
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WE NEED A QSMP AND CRK COLLAB!!! I WOULD GET THOSE SPECIAL COOKIES LIKE MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT GUYS!! PLEASE I WANT PACTW AS A COOKIE
I'm the toe tickler :3
I like the color green
*inhales* GAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY BIIIIIITTTTTTCCCCHHHHEEEEESSSSSSSSS
@kelpseahorse @redfur-the-cat @the-sys-of-puppets @the-starry-lycan +open tags :3
*breakdances gently* I will find you Shelly @missdrawer @asktimy @llllllemmom @emmeraldthesilly @redfur-the-cat idk who else to tag and my brain is not thinking correctly.
I got the ref, Emm
The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.
Darn you- /silly
I don't like playing reblog chains because I'm really shy but uhh...
I had pizza for breakfast :D
@aciddbandyeentrio + Open tags?
I don't know who else to ping :c
Did I do this already who knows, anyways STRAWBERRIES!!!
@thegraincharacter @lunathetunaaa @manilovefudge @mossymenaces @wistriverside @violet-rosie-cookie-aphrodite @versatilefloof and anyone else i didn't pute :D
flying is nice. With my wings .
Open tags it dosent matter
I'm gonna shred that pretty man
HAVE YOU FOLLOWED @spidrsharks? YOU SHOULD. THEYRE GREATER THAN FROSTED FLAKES.
i don’t want to ever have to knit with jumbo yarn again; this shit is straight up cartoonish
+ whoever
Hey op did you ever get the tattoo? Do you still like it?
Fuck this is a wild one to see again, especially as someone now about 3 weeks away from officially making it past 25:
- I remember 2016 as being the worst year of my fucking life, in ways it’s gonna be hard to beat and the universe better not fuckin try
- since 2016, I’ve gotten a degree in a field that I love, been in a toxic relationship, had a toxic relationship end, been in a kind but ultimately not what we wanted relationship, had that end too, been single for a while, learned I’m trans, started hrt, gotten in a different lovely proudly queer relationship which I’m very happy in, made friends, lost friends, mourned friends, made new friends, gotten a job I liked, made manager, quit, got another job that lets me do a bit of good in the world, gotten top surgery, travelled, swam shirtless in the warm sea, written half a dozen zines and a poetry chapbook, performed poetry, accepted I’m probably never gonna make a career out of poetry alone, gone on and off and on again various mental health treatments and hopeful that this one will stick for as long as it needs to, walked probably a thousand or more cumulative miles wearing through the soles of half a dozen or more boots, laughed, cried, rested, collapsed from fatigue, crawled back out again
- if I could reach back to the kid making this post… buddy, I’m not gonna say it’ll all be alright, because that’s pat and trite and diminishes the very real struggles of growing. But we cut our hair and change our name and grow a beard and we’re not Quite out of the shitty little hometown but we’re getting there. I think you’d like the jumper I’m wearing. I saw mcr live and I know you’d kill me with jealousy for it. I took you with me, as much as I could. I still think you’ve got great taste in movies, and I’ve got some new recs for you.
- I now have 4 tattoos! None of them are the ones I thought I’d have, but that’s okay. The first one is not an art style I’d choose today but the design holds a ton of meaning for me, and always will, and I don’t regret it. The other 3 are a more cohesive art style - maybe I could have changed the placement or tweaked some details, but I don’t need to, they’re part of me now and they’re beautiful for it. I’m excited to get more and to live long enough to reflect on them like this again and again and again
- 25 felt impossibly old to you. Right now it feels both impossibly old and impossibly young. I’m glad I got to see what it brought me, even the shit parts
- I’ll put aside a slice of cake next month in your honour
I’m glad I asked. I’m glad you’ve made it this far. I hope we both make it another 10 years and it keeps being worth it.
I have a question. Why does this exist?
I don't think I like this either .
episode 161 - okay, what the hell is going on in here
i’m guessing this is some kind of false reverie
or, y’know, a real one, which just happened to be recorded on tape for some reason
elias calling jon “archivist” in the happy birthday somg took me OUT
was he always this unsubtle?
okay, it’s a real recording from the past
so they’ve been holed up in here and jon’s been listening to the tapes that were sent here
jon isn’t sleeping - this is probably a manifestation of his avatarhood and not a consequense of ? time not existing?
he can sense the fear that’s going on around
jon’s been blaming himself, as is his way
gertrude recorded a tape to her successor - she thought this would be sasha
i’m guessing elias took this and hid it so jon didn’t know what was going on
damn, she’s good at this exposition stuff
how different would this story be if jon got his hands on this?
she’s got a plan involving jurgen - she wants him to move a gas main under the institute
but if she’s just about to burn down the institute, why ask him to move the gas pipe? in case she failed and didn’t die?
now that the world’s ended, people don’t need to eat
martin hopes to reverse the change
so they’ll be chilling here a bit longer, then heading out
jon never started recording - they’re still being monitored, it’s not over yet
why is that not a good thing? more observation means more manipulation means more story means maybe martin’s right
episode 162 - another gertrude tape, with gerard here
she’s joking about the tunnels - so they weren’t common knowledge to gerard at least
so we know that natural laws don’t work anymore
people may not be able to die? except i would think that the end could make people die? or think they do??? no, that’s ridiculous. surely the end can kill people. but surely people aren’t having babies in the midst of the apocalypse?
they’re rewinding her denial of the idea that the world could be un-changed repeatedly
another flashback
THE STAPLER
you aren’t supposed to staple archival documents. sasha - THE COMPETENT ONE - is going around STAPLING DOCUMENTS
THEY’RE SAYING SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROMOTED WHILE SHE IS ACTIVELY STAPLING DOCUMENTS TOGETHER
I HAVE HEARD THIS ONE IN ADVANCE AND IT’S STILL TAKING ME OUT
ah, good times, back when people had fun
“the ill-advised hookup, the awkward aftermath, and the gradually rebuilt friendship” all happened before jon was promoted
sasha was feeling disconnected from the paranormal world - a pity she didn’t survive the incident that really brought her into it
THEY KEEP GOING ON ABOUT THE FUCKING STAPLING OMFG
ooh, sasha had an inkling that gertrude was keeping the archives disorderly on purpose
literally collapsed to the floor at “i’m unforgettable!” wow. fuck. how awful. i love it and it’s beautiful. i think i might need to go have a breakdown at some point
unsurprisingly, jon isn’t taking it well
the cabin is like the blanket - it never actually protected the ones hiding in it
worse than the blanket, actually
the rain is salt tears - good thing people don’t need to drink it
jon’s done something, Seen something - the eye wants this, wants him, he’s useful
they’re planning to go confront elias - and yeah, i’m going to keep calling him elias. i’ve decided just now
martin is fully prepared
episode 163 - that ground sounds unpleasantly squishy
wait, a precise measurement of time
the journey’s going to be the same no matter how they make it
the panopticon is visible everywhere
of course he knows all this stuff
oh, that’s not great
“they won’t hear you, martin, they’re all too busy waiting to die”
they’ve gotten more dreamlike - no longer confined by their interactions with reality
ewwww i hate rust
warped, broken, shoved into roles, pain, blood, edges too sharp to move
so many people at once - i bet jon’s finding all this extra tasty
bones melting - yikes
this the avatar?
and no death, true enough
martin’s gone for a walk? jon’s supposed to be here, too, but martin’s behind
there’s a phone
martin hasn’t answered it
episode 164 - leading right off with the description - lovely
they pretend to be happy, say they love it here
they don’t know if any of the others are sick? so they’re driven apart, small in-groups against those outside
the concept of pretending everything is normal…
all three of the places we’ve seen so far have to do with some idea of “us against them”… that will change, eventually.
white clothes and gloves over lacings of wrong in yellow and purple and blue
blooms
martin’s called his recording a guidebook - how unexpectedly accurate
basira’s okay, not trapped in a domain, tracking basira
he can’t see the actual future
it doesn’t hurt - it better damn well feel fucking good and he hates himself for it
he still can’t see melanie, but georgie too?
“something between a pilgrim and a moth”
the phone user was probably annabelle? definitely someone of the web
why can’t he see annabelle?
the entities can’t be destroyed or put back - can they be put somewhere else? the answer sure isn’t that definite no
helen’s shown up
helen is claiming that she prefers the name helen to the distortion, and jon is claiming that she’s lying
she’s needling him
she claims to want to be friends with them… it seems more likely that she’s after support from jon
she can’t shortcut jon, because he’s too powerful
“maybe she’s right.” “i am not, nor have i ever been, adorable.” “okay, not true.”
jon is probably having some complicated feelings about martin’s willingness to hang out with cruel, vicious monsters
episode 165 - time for something to turn i guess
a carousel half a mile wide - and the unknowing music! yay!
the riders are the victims
jon has enjoyed a carousel ride in the past
oh. oh, this is not-sasha’s domain, isn’t it.
and nikola is confirmed dead… boo…
that is a strange one alright
i wonder if his eye powers are clashing somehow with the stranger ambiance
so identities merge and are stolen
faces torn off clung to followed and yanked from desperate skulls
mmm… lovely
martin wants to analyze the poetry
oh, great! not-sasha’s here! with a bizarrely normal voice. how odd. presumably she’s no longer misaligned with the world at large in the way that (seems to) cause the weird tape noises
jon is feeling oddly optimistic
because he’s such a powerful avatar
ooh, she’s antagonizing him - bad move
he. um. seems to have gotten a little carried away
whoa. beautiful
so avatars aren’t supposed to feel the fear they create. and jon’s now got elias’ trick of putting knowledge into people’s minds. and he used it to make her understand her own wrongness? to make her doubt herself?
we don’t get to know what happens to a domain without an avatar
episode 166 - helen’s shown up again, for some reason
she’s being helpful
there’s a very strong distinction between the feared and the afraid - what jon did was make not-them into a victim
jon’s having a moral crisis; martin thinks he should go right ahead and kill whatever crosses his path
unsurprisingly, the victims in the buried domain are underground
there’s no day-night cycle, we know for sure
hunger
no word on whether they’re physically changed or still the same - it doesn’t matter
working their way towards the light
and the rain comes and they slide back down in the choking mud
we can hear the singing
again, people put against each other
martin’s off on a walk
there’s a spade
another phone!
annabelle?
she’s being cryptic and cool!
and she claims to want to help! awesome!
episode 167 - they’re still in the marsh wetlands
martin’s recounting his encounter
jon still can’t see annabelle. why not? i mean, the obvious answer is “she planned ahead and found some kind of thing to hide herself” but what? i bet we’ll find out.
they’re taking a nice little break
jon does not believe gertrude would be doing this well
the previous previous archivist was angus stacey, during the time jonah was richard mendelson
and he was bold; too bold
only one of his assistants survived; a fiona whose last name i can’t make out
she survived because she was prone to fainting - no point killing someone not awake enough to be afraid
and gertrude recruited eric, who we already know, and emma harvey
emma tried to figure fiona out by putting her in danger
and she lasted decades even put in the most situations possible
until the coffin
and this affiliated emma with the web - makes sense
then micheal got recruited, and she decided to keep him clueless as to what was really going on
eric disappeared; sarah carpenter got recruited; emma decided to break her
gentle nudges, plausible deniability
and when gertrude was off taking micheal to die, sarah died as well
gertrude went to agnes
and emma’s house burned down with her in it
there were no more assistants
during this time, martin has been held a captive audience
the panopticon is, technically speaking, jon’s domain… what’s elias doing ruling it, then? does he have another backup dain tucked away somewhere? or is he the same as jon somehow?
the death of an archivist releases their assistants - a bit late for that now, but still valuable information!
episode 168 - martin doesn’t particularly want to go wandering off in these “corpse roots”
oliver banks’ domain! yay
jon doesn’t want to kill oliver
this one’s all fancy and formal
so people walk along these roots
this hypochrondiac is going somewhere crowded with life to die
“it has always been too late”
conscious for several minutes, to be afraid
they know where they’re going; they can’t stop
so the end really can kill people - that’s bad. that’s very bad, actually.
and new people can’t get born, for a reason he doesn’t know
so the changed world will die
and the end can’t be killed first, because the other entities will realize what’s going on and fear it? that sounds… like a lot
“you cannot ask. you may only take.”
lovely! the world is doomed. but, well, it’s not like it ever wasn’t
episode 169 - martin’s freaked out by this one
there’s a lot of fire
jon is suggesting they walk through the burning building - it won’t do permenant damage
it goes in phases - people need to have something to lose to fear its loss
it’s jude perry’s domain
and also arthur nolan’s - he has a part of it, it’s huge
they can share domains, sort of - fascinating
again, jon wants martin to choose for him
aw, we don’t get to hear them yelling with pain
it’s quieter now
a nice little acknowledgement of how other fears can come into homes to roost
loss of stability
and suddenly it’s everywhere at once, as unpredictable as it is utterly constant
relief, in order to bring greater dread
the gas from the sink is a lovely touch
martin’s calling for jon
jude’s here!
martin’s coughing - jon and jude don’t care
jude claims not to have known that the mark would be useful - believable
she doesn’t much like the eye
and she doesn’t believe he would hold hard feelings - pain is just part of the game
sounded different - less painful, or she knew how to work through pain better
or maybe it’s because the desolation isn’t as different from the eye as the stranger
i suppose we may find out
episode 170 - that’s not a clock
martin’s not doing too well
he’s talking to the tape recorder for the sake of having someone to talk to
and he’s looping
there’s static - someone’s doing something
he can’t remember jon. where’s jon? jon’s supposed to be keeping him safe
he can’t remember his mother
all the rooms are the same, someone’s in the mirrors
he’s calling out for jon
“it’s good to have someone to talk to” he says, yet again
his mother… ow
easier to let them slip away
no faces
he can remember not-sasha’s face, at least
he can remember jonah’s eyes
he’s calling out again
and back again he goes
he can’t remember his poetry
when he was nine, his grandfather died and he couldn’t remember his face?
“no one real ever listens to me anyway” aaah
he’s seen someone else - thin and grey and melting into the fog and being forgotten
thousands of them
he’s remembering jon
doing some affirmations
jon’s here!!
jon took so long to find him because martin couldn’t remember himself
comforting, but not a good kind - i know that feeling well
episode 171 - oh, those aren’t great noises /lying
i’m guessing this one’s the flesh’s
“you sound like you think they’re beautiful.” “don’t you?” long silence - asdfghjkl yessss
oh, great, more speech i can’t understand. oh joy
it’s slightly easier here than in the distortion, at the very least
definitely no accident that jon’s going for all the people who marked him
jared doesn’t fear unmaking
he wants jon to talk about the flesh
“and that they must always and forever be more”
i think i understand look outside better now
so it’s called the mortal garden
mmm
a pain you can’t let yourself stop clinging to
to change oneself, to make oneself better
caught within, without, between
knowing that there is nothing more than what is
it is very beautiful - they all are
he’s very calm
jon’s trying not to have a crisis
that felt… pointless
martin is no longer so confident in the kill bill strategy
episode 172 - back to the regular trek at last
that’s a very odd noise
drugs and hooks
the script is a gorgeous format
there’s a spider here, possibly only one
inevitability, but the illusion of being able to leave
the spider’s been eating well
struggling only gets you further in
and of course, this is all your fault
and everyone’s watching, and no one’s on your side
does the grin mean it has teeth? is it of that particular size?
a music box - a dance
they see jon? they know jon’s here in the audience
the drugs are spiders
“the doomed marionette’s strings”
on to the next one?
oh, good, martin’s interrupted
martin went exploring and isn’t certain if he actually chose to
the more you defy the web the more you deify the web
jon can see the trees but not the forest
martin declines to doubt himself - a wise choice
episode 173 - jon’s not enjoying the darkness
“i’m fine.” “no, try again.”
children’s fears are less nice? but surely this makes animal fears even less so. where are the animals? surely they’re on both sides of the dichotomy
children can age? how very odd
and they’re getting all antsy because children are supposed to be better somehow. irritating
oh, it’s the guy who maxwell rayner didn’t transfer to
he doesn’t seem to be doing super awesome - no fucking wonder
martin is upset about the children. jon is resigned to not being able to make a difference
everything full of potential
stories shared and believed and made real in the endless possibility
he’s his friend - mmm
the promise that you could keep them away, if only you could do just a little bit better
“her mother is downstairs, but she is part of the sofa now. she won’t stop staring at the television and laughing - laughing and laughing.”
controversial opinion: what is it that is supposed to make a child better than any other person? i’ve never quite understood it. is it because they might have more time to do more things? or is it because they have done fewer things? do people genuinely believe that existing in the world corrupts people in some way? or do they believe that potential is equal to future reality, and any good that can be done will be done (if only you try a little harder, give it a hundred and ten percent, pull yourself up by your bootstraps)?
and what does it say about the state of us that we glorify the very people we take every possible step to un-person, to keep young and innocent forever, to do no harm even if it means thay’ll do no good, either? probably nothing good.
episode 174 - it’s windy out here
these people think things are normal
impossibly far off, coming all unknowing to accidentally destroy everything
the people are props
everything and everyone they’ve ever known is nothing, tiny and meaningless
they’re all put together into a giant thing
out in open space
since it’s a vast domain, it’s subjectively quite large
it’s simon fairchild’s domain
right, he’s never met jon
he’s named the great beast junior?!? asdghjkl
he’s so great… i hope jon doesn’t kill him
he likes jon
yay! he hasn’t been killed
helen wanted him to kill him - i think they call it a sport
jon doesn’t want to kill people - good for him
helen’s leaving in a smiling huff because their definitions of fun don’t align
martin is confirmed properly incapable of navigating on his own
episode 175 -
holding on, trying to keep from change - is this the extinction?
all that remains is the hurt
this place has no history that matters
blame in all the wrong places
don’t worry; there was never anything anyone could have done
something meant to be here
all there’s ever been is pain
martin’s taking a break, and wants jon to as well
the extinction definitely exists, as much as anything can
the world is always ending
when he says reality, does he mean the universe? the multiverse?
i’m inclined to think the universe - he can’t see the future, and the multiverse is (at least in part) in the future
they’re going to meet basira and daisy! yay!
episode 176 - jon isn’t doing great
this domain is about fear of betreyal
there’s less distinction between entities now
basira also hasn’t been doing well
jon’s got to do his thing
whoa
really hits home on today’s tumblr
slow, measured
isn’t that always how it goes
martin’s feeling antsy
someone’s here! it’s trevor, isn’t it?
not a hunter?
what?
daisy killed julia?
bait
and basira’s here now
of course there’s no way they can prove it’s them
she seems to know where she’s going
episode 177 - ew, tiled flooring
basira has not been doing terribly well
daisy’s out of the area
and basira blames jon for the apocalypse
that song is really getting to me
so daisy killed julia, then basira followed trevor following daisy until jon and martin showed up
again, they’re moving in narrative space and not regular space - they have to experience things in order to proceed
a mental health facility?!? no wonder it’s so fucked already
what is it with you people and kids, honestly
basira’s sticking around for the statement
aaaaugh, beautiful
lovely format, very… present
things are different here
there’s stranger-type stuff going on here, in addition to the obvious spiral themes
doctor david is apparently switching faces
telling people they’re *not* crazy - and because it’s not an outside influence it’s all their fault
someone’s torn something
“satisfied?” “…fuck.”
it’s sort of like gaslighting but in reverse, apparently
and there’s a door dripping blood! fantastic
they’ve found daisy’s victim
basira knows this person - i don’t think we’ve met a noah thompson, and they don’t seem to recognize the name
oh, helen! lovely!
helen’s offering to take basira to daisy - that doesn’t seem wise
basira has declined the offer
episode 178 - apparently a lot of the people here are props
martin is not best pleased by this
we probably don’t know this avatar
the tools in the cupboard are unpleasant
who wouldn’t want to be useful?
they wear masks - their faces are irrelevant
they’re squeaking like they’re made of machinery
at least it’s clean here
the feeling of not being good enough, again - lovely
go on, make yourself right for those around you
noooo
oh, daisy’s killed someone else here
the narrative journey involves basira recognizing the victims
it’s true that the eye’s people have never been the best at subtlety in the narrative
still, ham-handed or not, it’s at least working
basira is at least capable of killing daisy - because it makes sense
episode 179 - the ground is ground again! yay
and jon’s already gone off on his own to do his thing
burning their daughter’s toys
they’re to stay quiet
reminiscing
oh, hey, daisy’s coming!
turns out jon properly snuck away from basira, in order to keep her from hearing about daisy killing this guy
jonathan sims is most assuredly not sneaky
those are some noises alright
basira’s hiding to shoot her - will that even work?
it hasn’t worked yet - basira’s waiting
dasiy’s noticed them
she’s bitten? jon
she recognizes basira - that’s not great. that means basira thinks she’s still in there
got him in the leg? ow. it’s a good thing they’re not moving in real space
daisy is calling basira to come into the hunt with her
and she’s shot her. it’s now quiet
now she’s going off on her own. for some fucking reason. needs to go have her emotions in private, away from us. screw the apocalyptic hellscape
right, martin packed bandages in his bag of things
of course daisy could hurt jon
basira’s come back, but only in order to properly say her goodbyes to the adventuring party
her voice got kind of funny there. anything serious?
we may never know
episode 180 - a necropolis… fascinating
they’re feeling better enough to goof off
jon can’t see what’s coming next! neat! we’ll get to learn at least one thing that does that
he’s gotta go do his thing
nihil something
not allowed to dislike the dead
expected; bound and chained by others, by the need to fit in
not real grief, but an image
desperate lies are not enough
jon and martin have reached something
upton house; someplace important
and none of all this has touched it
they’re approaching
a music box?
annabelle?!? and an unknown other person
she’s helping whoever out, making herself useful - in more ways than one, i bet
hunger and sleep can still reach this place
oh, no, it’s a piano, my bad
mikaele salesa?!?
how would he know they were coming? is one of his miscellanea responsible for this? WE FINALLY GET TO MEET ANNABELLE OMFG
episode 181 - mikaele’s seen the tape recorder and realized jon and martin were coming in
it’s been over a day
the tape recorders can still appear, even though they probably shouldn’t be able to get past the outer boundary? neat
jon’s mistrustful of annabelle
she came over and stayed; mikaele isn’t stressing over it
jon is not at all used to people being able to not answer his questions
mikaele is even more fun in person
annabelle makes sinister monologues?!? please please please do we get to hear at least one?
mikaele’s prepared, and happy that it means something
annabelle is still powerful enough to deal with an insect thing of some kind
“blood money” - cute
so he fit himself into a narrative archetype…
he was preparing for a single ritual, not all of them at once, but hey
the same broken camera as the one from the island? the island the vast attacked as soon as they took it off?
so it hides, rather than actually supressing - the tape recorder thing makes more sense now
so the actual world still exists… underneath? the domains? he was able to travel through it
now here’s one guy who isn’t afraid of his own mortality - good for him! everyone’s super obsessed with it for some reason
they’re leaving after a few days - jon is still an avatar, and so not doing great without the eye
annabelle’s been avoiding any important conversation
why is she still doing so well, if the camera makes jon starve? is this a subtlety thing? the eye’s people are most assuredly Not Subtle
oh gosh she’s so cool
she’s busy and not at her best, so she says
she says they’ll meet again - lovely! awesome!
although they may not be able to find their way back
out of the affected area, jon is feeling great
he’s also losing memory of the things that happened - interesting
episode 182 - “it’s the next stop on our journey.” “of course it is.”
the avatar here is one of the placeholder names
whoa… neat
janey here wants a statement
wait, last content in 2013? what an awful scale they must use
they don’t have faces under their masks
they don’t ever bother taking their gloves off
they say the things that seem about right to say
the outdated medical humors are a nice touch
it is called an operating *theater*
oh, ew, wonderful
wrong tools, wrong words, wrong hands
unreliable
it’s breekon! he’s the janitor! he’s still around and sort of okay! yay!
and he wants to see jon…
of course he wants to
still “we’re” - that’ll never go away until he does
and now he has.
episode 183 - there’s some kind of twisted building ahead
it’s made of one of smirke’s buildings
helen’s back!
she looked for them while they were at upton house
jon is amusing himself not telling her
“it’s very simple, as lomg as you don’t think about it.”
they’re going to go through MARTIN’S DOMAIN?!? he has a domain?!? i suppose the stuff that happened didn’t quite count as rejecting the lonely in the same way as melanie rejected the eye
well, of course there aren’t many
the people here are looking for a place, a pattern, a way out
trusting themselves in the past
i’m quite fond of these lists of directions
granite, obsidian, limestone, basalt, slate - is this why they’re looking for marble?
how does martin have a domain?
he wasn’t snatched away, i suppose, but i always thought the cabin got them
his domain is about no one remembering the people within it
so there’s no actual distinction between “this one is an avatar” and “this one isn’t an avatar”, until now
basira’s able to travel because of daisy being able to travel, and is sort of eye-aligned at the moment
this means well for my micheal theory, at the very least
of course it takes longer without going through places and people they already know
episode 184 - jon’s already headed off to do his thing
“they are past the place where numbers have meaning”
awesome
corruption and buried
this one was once an avatar, but isn’t now? what happened?
there are so people who like ants
john ameherst “shriveled away to nothing after only a few years”
the ants are in charge here
jon has some kind of idea for what to do about jordan kennedy
what’s he doing?
an avatar?!? he can do that?!?
“i don’t want to scare people.” “no. but you’ll learn.”
it’s difficult for avatars to leave their domains, if they can at all. helen can wander around, but the distortion’s always been more mobility-focused. annabelle presumeably has a domain somewhere which she is neglecting in favor of staying at mikaele’s. presumeably martin will be able to leave his domain, once they arrive at it. so it could be an ants thing, or even a buried thing, or a new avatar thing, or something else completely.
definitely a new avatar thing that he can’t outright kill him, though. there’s still enough of him to survive no longer being one.
episode 185 - ooh, this one starts off with a content warning! lovely
again, the time before is sort of blurred
“right and wrong and other luxuries”
and outside everything is fine. things are going on. it’s only you
all known
the laws, he says, have changed
jon’s had plenty of time martin hasn’t to get used to being an avatar
someone who knows martin is here? a police officer from when they arrested elias?
jon’s doing his thing - this guy’s faked evidence?
they’re leaving him
beautiful
oh, sound’s doing something funky
martin’s now in his domain… without jon. uh-oh~
episode 186 - martin is not a huge fan of his place
oh, fantastic, he’s talking to himself now
other!him seems better adjusted, calmer
i think everyone wants a rest
because this is his domain, he’s got some tea
“there’s only so much we can do, what with the new world and everything. even the good things get tinged with memory.”
martin is feeling guilty about things
because the alternative to guilt is not caring at all, and that’s worse in some indefineable way
other!him doesn’t believe that things will be okay after they go off and save the world… gotta say, i’m with him there. they’re all set up to wreck themselves achieving a passable ending for everyone else
“being a real manipulative prick” i knew i liked him for a reason!
would killing jon actually do anything? the entities are already there, i don’t think killing him would do anything to get them off of reality
martin can’t see or interact with the people in his domain - if he could he would try to do the wrong things
directly after saying that one of them happens to be named tim he says that he doesn’t know their names. dream-logic or lies?
whoa… beautiful
regret
physically near each other, but they cannot see or know of each other
that same continuance of ordinary life - they were always alone
this one cuts deep - being unknown among others, happy or pretending to be happy, pretending it’s all worth it
martin is considering eventual suicide - it’s always the best of people that don’t feel the need to go on existing
Environmental storytelling or something like that
Interesting how the transfeminine version got marked mature literally *as* I posted it, very clearly hitting some sort of automated filter, while the cis version was untouched by the filter even though it was otherwise identical
