Season 1 got me feeling a bit for De Witt when he started telling his backstory with how he has to keep pretending to be human for centuries past and for all the centuries to come all while not being able to feel what humans feel and never truly connecting with them.

Then, in season 2, him as Ned... I did wonder a few times if he really felt nothing. Because in season 1, there were glimpses of his inner world already. And i was so ready to give up in the finale but then B-side Human hit me.

WHAT IS WITH ME AND FEELING SO MUCH FOR MONSTER MEN!!!!

Ned was trying so hard to connect and he's like "I don't understand pain" but, you don't have to feel pain to know you don't want others to go through it.

Please tell me he gets to be their buddy in season 3, please!!!

Bill Tyler

I think I need to make a separate post on Bill because... I GET it. He sees some really weird shit going on in the county, and he wants to keep everyone safe. As much as he can - he's very much aware he's just a guy and can't do much on his own. He's been working with Morrison for quite a while as it seems. Morrison, on the opposite, DOES have power, knowledge, experience and money to deal with both supernatural and natural cases. Bill really thinks high of him, as it looks to me, and he has reasons for that. But because of that he closes his eyes to a lot of shady things Morrison does.

Kate: It means that you need to stop making excuses for everyone! For all the shit you let slide! First you don’t quit when Morrison tells you to kill your own partner and now you’re making excuses for Ned cracking a bartender’s skull? Out of nowhere, for no reason? Bill: Kate please, it isn’t – K: It isn’t what? You clearly don’t trust him, not half as much as you pretend to. And if you don’t even realize that… Well, I don’t know what to do with you. B: He’s my partner, Kate. I have to trust him. K: Stop making excuses! You work with a needlessly violent man for a needlessly violent man, and that means I can’t trust you to be any better than the two of them. Not until you wise up.

Bill's hands are tied. If he doesn't comply with Morrison, there's no one to deal with all the supernatural shit going on, and after the April clusterfuck it seems all hell broke loose in Oslow. If Bill doesn't trust his partner - he doesn't, btw, not as much as he wants others and himself to think - how is he supposed to work? They are supposed to have each other's backs, with current situation especially.

Besides, there's always this underlying "there has to be an explanation, maybe I just don't know smth and this isn't as bad as it seems". This is painfully familiar to me. Bill tries his best not to jump to conclusions and often ends up giving too much credit to people who shouldn't really have it.

I think Bill is the idealist who still believes a police officer is someone who's job is to keep people safe. He breaks the rules only when he sees they are going against the very things they are supposed to work for. Killing Sam was against the rules - he wasn't dangerous, he wasn't even an outlaw, he just found himself in a situation, and Bill knew a bit about it. Bill is supposed to protect people, care for them, not blindly follow orders from people who are supposed to know better. So he goes against the order and hides Sam.

And now his world is coming apart. His boss seems to be a merciless monster and a mastermind pulling the strings Bill wasn't aware of, his new partner is just another kind of some weird entity AND was working with Morrison all along... Bill can't trust the very people who are the foundation of his job, of his calling. His on his own now, with no one to trust but Maria and Sam. And damn this is tragic.

I know naivety can be lethal and is considered to be a bad thing, but the world needs people who genuinely care and see the best in others. Doesn't deserve, but really-really needs. And it's soul-crashing to witness one of them, even fictional - fiction is based on real life one way or another after all - to have his beliefs destroyed like that. This is probably personal for me. I remember the feeling, and I wasn't half as good. It feels so unfair, so unjust.

Kate is right that he needs to wise up, but this is still sad.

I think Bill needs a good vacation after all this. He's too good of a person to be mixed up in such stuff and I think the only one in the cast who deserves to have him as anyone at all, as a friend in this case, is Sam. And Robert since he's still putting up with his boyfriend's stubborn desire to think of some people better than they deserve. I think he's the true miracle of this supernatural story 😄

Is it time for us to eat another prime minister?

Paper dreams - by Susan de Witt (1947), Canadian/American

Imena de Barros by Carsten Witte

Lola De Witte by Omar Coria

Thuis - 2023-12-14

Susan de Witt, Revealed

from here

I told you there would be a new legacy. I warned you.

So welcome to my take on @samssims' Princess Legacy!

This is Eirlys De Witte, also known as Snow White to her closest friends. She lives in Cordelia's Secret Cottage in Henford-on-Bagley, and longs to be a Country Caretaker. Her traits are Neat, Loves Outdoors, and Animal Enthusiast.

Johan de Witt

TST Old Notes Re: Ep 4 A Momentary Crimson

Giles' story about a golem. I think De Witt is a golem, too, judging by the fact that their legs were still forming from clay when they gained their consciousness, but a different kind. The golem Giles met was suffering and wanted to die - which is why it came out to people, to an army camp, where a grenade killed it, and it was thankful (and had human eyes, crying, according to Giles). De Witt wants to live more than anything though. I wonder what's the difference between them. De Witt is ancient, they woke up as a person before the Roman Empire. They knew little about the world and learnt about it mostly through literally absorbing living beings, shaping themselves after people's images. Nothing can really hurt or kill them. Giles' golem was disfigured, couldn't talk and was barely walking, and apparently died after being blown by a grenade. Was this golem someone's failed attempt to recreate De Witt? Maybe by someone who met them and recognized them as a miracle? Then again golems are a part of mythology… which could come from beings like De Witt. Are there more of them? "Natural" golems? Did they just "wake up" once upon a time, like De Witt, on their own, or were they created by someone unknown even to them? If De Witt had a creator, they never talked about it.

"You ever wonder where the line is - you know, between human and not?"

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers,  c.1672 Jan de Baen

Uwe de Witt, Magik

Cultuurtheater ‘De Witte Lely’ Utrecht, Netherlands

Imena de Barros by Carsten Witte