things from The Halloween Update that are concerning me more than i already am about Eddie:
his Frankenstein's Monster costume turning his face (and hands. ha, hands, like the hands on a-) half yellow half blue/purple like the clocks & Sally's door. that's fucking me up a little ngl
Eddie tacks "A bit of a moral conundrum-" onto his description of Frankenstein's Monster, who he's costumed as. which seems out of place with the rest of his description. he could've said "bolts" or "white streak in his hair" or another physical trait. nope. Moral Conundrum (one could also describe his costume as "two-faced"...). and the fact that he's dressed specifically as someone who was "brought back from the dead" makes me 👁️👁️. kinda reminds me of a certain set of artworks from Clown's tumblr a while back...
Eddie, despite his whole schtick being "bad memory", was the only one to accurately recognize Sally's costume as pedrolino from the Commedia dell'arte. could be a little 'inside joke', might be something else. i suspect it's something else due to his... ah... Everything.
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'Trapped in the end!' said Sam bitterly, his anger rising again above weariness and despair. 'Gnats in a net. May the curse of Faramir bite that Gollum and bite him quick!'
'That would not help us now,' said Frodo.
Sword in hand Sam went after him. For the moment he had forgotten everything else but the red fury in his brain and the desire to kill Gollum. But before he could overtake him, Gollum was gone. Then as the dark hole stood before him and the stench came out to meet him, like a clap of thunder the thought of Frodo and the monster smote upon Sam's mind.
Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey – for vengeance. If once he could go, his anger would bear him down all the roads of the world, pursuing, until he had him at last: Gollum. Then Gollum would die in a corner. But that was not what he had set out to do. It would not be worth while to leave his master for that. It would not bring him back. Nothing would.
Sam and vengeance in today's entry
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Seeing how many eyes Ludwig has in his beastly form, I really like the headcanon that he was one of the few Hunters who reached a high insight without going insane. Like, on top of trying not to be overtaken by the cursed blood, he also at some point began to see things which shouldn't exist, horrible creatures that would shatter any sane mind.
And yet, through all of this, he clung to his tiny ray of light, stayed strong for his fellow Hunters, fighting alongside them for the sake of his people. Of course, we all know how his story eventually ended, but I find it lovely that even in his final moments, Ludwig remembered fellow Hunters, and hoped their fates to be far kinder than his.
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feels really awful not drawing my red energon necklace on me anymore. it also feels awful when I do draw it though, like i used to feel rly happy bc it's a reminder of how loved TF made me feel but now it's just a reminder that i've lost it and i'm! always! scared i'll never get that back! i keep trying to imagine starlight would want me to wear it but its so fucking hard to imagine him being kind towards me when i have months of trauma and abuse that have convinced me the exact opposite. that's why im making so much fanart instead of self ship. thats why i still only doodled one (1) ship art w/ ken and i'm facing away from the camera bc i cannot stand to draw myself with or without the necklace. i hate thinking about it i hate lingering over that empty area. i hate missing him. i fucking hate missing him. im not supposed to miss any of those characters like this. this was never supposed to happen to me. i didn't deserve ANY of that shit my abuser put me through. i just want everything taken away from me to finally be mine again
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Daisy I will never never understand the desperation in this fandom for Louis to be 24/7 signaling the lgbtq+ community. They're now calling the SIBWAWC lights pride representation when they're just multicolored lights. Pride representation is the pride flag he had on stage. The apple tshirt he wore. His triangle. He has signalled before but 80% of what they say just isn't true. It wouldn't bother me if it was now and then but it's all the time. Also the need to make every song of his queer. I understand having a queer interpretation but they treat it as fact. His songs are about a wide range of topics and not only about his sexuality. Where does this desperation come from?
Super interesting question, anon 💕
Firstly I think there’s a lot of anxiety around Louis, perhaps more so now than there has been in a while, likely due to the documentary and how he chose to present himself in it. It feels like people are looking for more signs as some kind of reassurance that Louis is still who they think he is.
Another thing is that honestly I think some people just don’t really look into things too much, they just go with whatever’s the most popular interpretation on their dash or timeline. Which, related: just because Big Popular Blog says something it doesn’t make it true.
I think people like to think Louis’ signalling all the time because it makes them feel like they’ve got a better read on him than other people and / or it makes them feel part of something. A secret. A code. The queer community have always used signals and codes to communicate with one another, but there’s a fine line between interpreting an intentional signal and reverse-engineering a code to fit in with what you’d like it to be telling you so that it fits the narrative you already believe. I loved seeing the fan’s pride flag on stage the other night sticking out of the speaker stacks, and the fact that it had Louis’ name on it too felt like a statement. But there’s also things we don’t know about how that flag came to be on stage. Louis doesn’t set up the stage himself, it’s likely a roadie or engineer put it there. We don’t know if Louis wanted it there. I think Louis is part of the queer community but I don’t pretend to understand his motivations or feelings about things that happen around him.
I don’t have as much of an issue with people interpreting songs as queer. Lyrics mean different things to different people. What I do have an issue with, when it comes to song lyrics, is people who are desperate to convince others that their interpretation is the only interpretation and that everyone else is wrong.
I feel that way with the SIBWAWC lights as well but to a lesser extent. It’s either “I believe this and you have to believe me otherwise you’re an anti” (which I’m not) or there’s an underlying anxiety that leads to people needing to convince as many people as possible that their interpretation is correct because it’s one of the threads they’re clinging onto in their bid to prove something about Louis.
One other thing I wanted to mention was how this type of thing becomes “lore”. I’ve talked about this before; the way present-day interpretation of something becomes fact to fans who weren’t around at the time. “I’m gay it’s unfortunate” is a good example of this - you’ll still see folk on here and on Twitter talking about this as fact, when it was debunked years ago. He didn’t say that, and yet there are folk who think he did. They haven’t read a debunk so they take it as fact. It’s the same when people make posts saying “Remember when XYZ happened, yeah me too” and it isn’t about something factual, just their interpretation. It becomes Something that Definitely Happened. And I think that’s quite scary to be honest because it shows that people have no problem presenting a personal interpretation as fact. When you apply that in a wider sense, you start to wonder what other things you’ve read over the years could have been presented in the same way just because you were only following people with one specific viewpoint.
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wondering about Frank and insects but specifically about how it looks like the WH insects are highly stylized, so does Frank even know anything about real butteflies/insects?
& if he saw a real one, would he recognize it? are all of the species names he applies to the WH bugs real, or are they all made up like "Vibrant Eyespot" or "Fluttering Heartwing"?
and then there's the question - does the neighborhood have some of the more 'undesirable' bugs like moths, worms, roaches, spiders? does it have bugs outside of the generic groups of beetles and butterflies? like are there mantids? leafbugs? dragonflies? weevils? or are those too specific/complex/not-cute for the Playfellow Workshop to have included?
and then there's the question of what are the bugs? props? puppets? are they alive or do the neighbors just perceive them as such? Do they even exist outside of art, storybooks, and animated segments? I highly doubt they're alive like the neighbors are, since in the gif of Frank's head spinning, the framed butterflies' wings are moving. which is kind of horrifying if you think about it for more than a second.
just... the critters Frank loves so so so much being a complete fabrication... every piece of knowledge he prides himself on / delights in knowing being utterly Untrue... oof
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"Good children's television lets the child characters learn lessons for themselves. Adults can provide inspiration or help, but the children should take initiative for their own discoveries and come to conclusions based on their experiences.
Bad children's television has the adults tell the children all the lessons and information they should learn. The children are only there as stand-ins for an audience that the writer wants to preach this information to and passively absorb the lessons rather than taking an active role in their own story."
I find it quite ironic when a genre becomes exactly what they were trying to act as an alternative for.
Because the point of children's entertainment is that it educates in a more entertaining and engaging way than school, you know by letting the kids enjoy fun adventures. Kids don't like being lectured or talked down to, either in school or in their television. It's why they love kid heroes.
You can so very much tell when a children's show is written by someone who remembers what it's like to be a child and respects children as human beings, and when it's written by someone who thinks it's their duty to Educate The Youth so they become Knowledgeable Adults. A children's show has to understand that the audience is already smart before they can begin to teach them anything.
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