*hands you a him*

Spoilers for “Thanks to Them” (Season 3 - Episode 1)

I'mma just talk about TOH stuff real quick, don't mind me :)

So, I've been rewatching the latest episode like mad, and I've come to realize something

Caleb wasn't a real witch hunter, not like how everyone expected. It was outright said that he and Phillip were orphans that moved to Gravesfield at the height of the witch trials, so I have no doubt that they were just trying to fit in when they first arrived. Of course, being an orphan and an older brother to someone like Phillip, there's no way that Caleb wasn't stressed out of his goddamn mind, and adding in the violence and paranoia the town was probably putting on everyone with the threat of witches, it just made it worse

Now, when you're hella stressed, have no one to turn to, and need an escape, what's something any reasonable person would do? Look for an outlet! And yes, things were no doubt harder back in the 1600s, but this is also a cartoon, so Caleb probably found a witch at some point. Instead of killing/reporting this witch (who is now known as Evelyn) Caleb was "whisked away by her magic and tales of another world". As the oldest brother (probably well into his teens) Caleb most likely didn't rouse any suspicion when he up and left out of the blue at random times, but it would def be sus to Phillip. 

As the younger brother, Phillip def took the witch-hunter thing more seriously. It was the perfect outlet for him, and gave him a shit load of freedom to do some stuff, so when he found out Caleb was talking to a witch, he probably flipped out on him.

So, when Caleb did leave, Phillip knew exactly where he was going and followed in an attempt to save his brother. It really did start out as saving Caleb, since Phillip most likely believed that Evelyn cast a spell on him, but when Caleb tried to tell Phillip about how wonderful this new world was, Phillip outright flipped and a fight started

This is where those paintings in Belos's mind come into play. We can see the life of the two as time went on, and eventually, Phillip holding a knife while looking at Caleb. The next one is Caleb hugging Phillip, so we have to assume Caleb believed Phillip understood his stance on magic, but with outside knowledge, we know otherwise. It's either during the hug or right after that Phillip stabbed Caleb, officially killing his brother, but time had def passed before that happened since Phillip had a beard in the hug painting but was clean-shaven in the story that the guide was telling on the hayride. So that gave Caleb more than enough time to fall in love with the Boiling Isles and Evelyn, and for him to earn his Palisman (Flapjack). Sometime after that is when Luz and Lillith went back in time and met Phillip, as we see literal bones in the tent he's staying in at the end of that episode. 

Any way, my point is Caleb wasn't a witch hunter like Phillip was, he was just masquerading so he could fit into the new town without being an outcast--

ALSO, CALEB HAD BROWN EYES

NOT BLUE LIKE PHILLIP

SEE

When Hunter first touched the Belos goop with his cut finger, he saw Belos's figure immediately after there was literally no pause between it. That means that Belos could literally take control at any time after that (unless he needed to gain magic, but that doesn't make sense cause Hunter didn't have his own magic since he's a grimwalker. Even with Flapjack, he's got mega limitations) so that'd just leave the fact that he was biding his time with Hunter, waiting to strike at any time he wanted. He most def didn't know about the rebus when it was first mentioned, and the hallucinations only really started kicking up a few notches when the titan's blood was mentioned. That means that Belos probably had a different plan on using Hunter as a puppet, but only changed his mind when he realized there was an infinitely easier option for getting back to the Isles. That also means that he probably expected Hunter to die when he de-possessed his body since I don't see any other way Belos could have left that wouldn't have incapacitated Hunter in some way. But that also means that Hunter can't be a full grimwalker any more now that Flapjack has essentially merged with him in a way, cause Hunter's eye color changed to look more like Calebs than any other shade of brown (it looked like Luz's eye color cause of the lighting from the portal door, and the color of Caleb's eyes in the mirror from above is probably desaturated cause of distant memories being faded in a way or because of the way Caleb had been living at that point in time)

Also, if Palismen are inspired by Familiars, then they can be passed down from witch to witch. That means that if Flapjack wasn't created for Caleb, he was def gifted to Caleb by Evelyn, whose family is known to be adept in carving Palismen (it also explains why Flapjack and all those other Palismen were able to bond with another witch after they were found by the Bat Queen)

OH AND In the first ep of season 3, the group finds a literal secret code from Caleb and Evelyn. That means the two of them were in contact for a long fucking time to develop a code/map system that they could understand and create portal doors that work when activated (even hundreds of years later), so that just sells the point that Caleb really needed a positive outlet if he kept such a hard grasp on understanding and connecting with magic/witches

Edit: This is a chart I made trying to figure out Hunter's new eye color, since it's def different from what we've seen so far--

Are you a believe in V2 and Mirage Yuri robots? I have to see.

i endorse robot yuri

Shout out to One Piece: Strong World for showing us once again that zosan are perfectly in sync and would be quite literally unbeatable if they pulled their heads out of their asses long enough to realise it.

Me, now that the Shadow and Bone season 2 teaser trailer came out:

Rewatching "Our Man Bashir" and completely forgot about this. WHO DID THIS AND WHY.

carmy and sydney's dynamic is so interesting because they're so similar but yet so different. they both have histories in the food industry, but carmy succeeded and sydney failed. they're both shown to suffer under kitchen hierarchies, but sydney is willing to push back and carmy isn't. syd kept her love of food through her struggles while carmy became more cynical. they're more similar than they are different though, which is why syd comes back. the way carmy snaps at syd and marcus in episode seven is the same way syd snaps at richie. sydney has her notebook, carmy has his brother's logbook. they both have nightmares about their pasts. they even both have 111111 as their phone passwords. their narrative parallels make them like catnip to me and i cannot wait to see them attempt to run a restaurant together in season two.

I finally watched The Amazing Digital Circus after seeing all the hype about it (and it's STILL no.1 on trending. Wild) and now I have been struck by the curse of theme song stuck on repeat in brain. Help

...Gangle and Zooble and Kinger too, Ragatha, Jax and there's Kaufmo (woo-hoo!!!) Day after day after day after day after day--

last post complaining about genshin's writing for the month Anyway i think blorbofication happening in canon is the best way i could describe a lot of the problems i have with it ex. kaeya's relationship with diluc (or klee) is almost the only focus we get on him now, other than his brief appearance in the sumeru archon quest which was just saying his backstory basically with very little actual reaction or characterization on his part OR dainsleif's (also a problem i have in the albedo homunculus reveal in shadows amidst snowstorms). i haven't done his hangout because i. don't care enough to sit through an hour for each route with the quality of content hoyoverse puts out but looking at the ending options i feel like. they missed the opportunity to expand on things we already had for kaeya in favor of Oh he babysits klee! Oh albedo is here! Spend money to pull albedo!Venti cameo! What do you mean him and amber have a complicated dynamic. What do you mean he's apparently beloved by the elderly of mondstadt and the one who wraps up all the incidents there. What do you mean bennett trusts him as an omniscient big brother according to his official cn character profile. We made him talk to diluc again isn't that enough kaeya for you? and it sucks because kaeya feels like a rubik's cube with an onion's layers and like one of their best character personalities in content where he's actually kaeya and not just diluc's brother who is sad and also pretty! we never see anything about his relationship with jean, who he is the Most Trusted Aide of, or mondstadt at large! because every day we get closer to fanon kaeya being canon kaeya and it's just. You can have canon kaeya and fanon kaeya will follow but if fanon kaeya is at the forefront you're just immediately losing all that depth and it's going nowhere

aaron tveit cast as sweeney todd. sat on the silent floor of my university library. dry heaving. convulsing. in a cold sweat. hands clamming up. struggling to breathe. hands shaking. 2000 word assignment due. unable to think. no thoughts head empty only aaron tveit as sweeney todd

6 stages of grief, Merlin edition:

Watch the show

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Go to step 1 to feel happiness again

nova is suspecting there’s some libi + trav dynamic going on 😏

thinking about pilot draft dean harrison again

I know what you are...

ATTACHED

i'm sorry but i'm still stuck on frank's and bill's first kiss. the tension in the air, the unspoken i see you, the there is no girl, frank reaching out with a promise of safety and support while bill was trembling beneath his hands.

so many first kisses we see on tv are a result of pent-up sexual tension, the metaphorical explosion of feelings that developed over episodes and seasons. but this one, this one, was so simple but yet meant so much more than they could have ever explained with words. they barely knew each other, spent one meal together, but somehow their kiss contained more emotions than half the kisses on tv.

imagine Solar Flare having a tail, but being completely expressionless . like they don't express any type of emotion, nobody knows what they're felling, except their tail gives them alway all the time.

They can gave you the most dead stare of your life, while their tail is just wagging behind them.

AOAIAYAGAHAGAJAHANSS ISAC. ISACCCCC OH MY STARS THIS IS THE CUTEST FUCKINF THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE OMG!!!!!!!!! THIS IS EVERYTHING. THIS IS EVERYTHINGGGGG I AM CRADLING THIS SO CLOSE W MY CHEST RN.

THIS WHOLE CONCEPT IS UTTERLY DELIGHTFUL ON ITS OWN BUT THE ADDED BONUS OF THE TAIL BEING THE MAIN INDICATOR OF HOW THEY FEEL HAS ME ON THE FLOOR AAOAUAUGGGHH THIS IS SO CUTE. I ALWAYS LOVE YOUR IDEAS THIS IS GUNNA LIVE WITH ME FOREVER