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fireflysummers · 9 months

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Final Thoughts on GO S2

I'm probably gonna pull back on discussing S2, at least publicly, after this. I did actually like a lot of the season, but it's triggering some of my religious trauma and also the fandom is already stressing me out. So here, let's have some final thoughts.

First and foremost: I am not a Gaiman simp. I've read a decent amount of his work: comics, short stories, essays, and novels. Aside from Good Omens, I've liked Coraline and The Graveyard Book the best by far, whereas American Gods just. Did Not Connect with me, even though it's should have, given the stuff I tend to enjoy.

However. Regardless of whether I like a given work (or even like how he adapted it, a la parts of The Sandman TV series), he is a veteran writer who has proven that he does, actually, know how to write a story with consistent characters.

Beyond that, I do actually believe that he's trying to do right by Pratchett, and loves and respects the story and characters they created together. He's generally shown up as an ally to a variety of social causes, and directly and respectfully responds to fans on Tumblr. While no saint, I feel that there is cause to give the benefit of the doubt that things will resolve satisfyingly in S3, and that there is Intention about some of the things in S2.

This, of course, does not absolve it of being "bad," but even here I think we need to articulate better the different types of "bad" that people are reacting to. There seems to roughly be three camps here: 1) People who thought it was "bad" because of how it ended, with the breakup and a lot of unresolved plot threads; 2) People who thought it was "bad" because it struggled on a technical level with its set, lighting, directorial choices, editing, etc; 3) People who thought it was "bad" because they felt the characterization was significantly off and that the internal logic of the series had been violated.

With regards to Point One, the only solution is to Wait and See. Judgement should be reserved until the story is properly finished--easier said than done, especially considering the current media landscape, and the number of series or franchises that fail to live up to their promises.

Point Two isn't something I understand well enough to contribute meaningfully, except that I suspect the pandemic affected this aspect the most and am willing to give it a bit more mercy. That aside, I for the most part I don't find it bad so much as not as good as S1. Except for the parts with epilepsy warnings, surely there could've been a better way to do that.

Point Three... that's the stumbling block for me, and I find it interesting that most of the folks who struggle with this point in particular are long time fans of the book.

I trust that instinct.

There are two different directions to go from here. The first is the assumption that these problems are a result of ego, carelessness, or lack of skill from the showrunners/writers/director. It's cynical but not unjustified. The second is the belief that the breaks in lore or characterization were intentional, building towards a much grander conspiracy. Of course, even in this case I don't think it forgives the lack of signposting that would indicate that this is a choice rather than an accident. It just makes it feel clumsy and poorly constructed, a major risk on a show that hasn't had its third season confirmed.*

However, regardless, it still feels salvageable. I've enjoyed reading a lot of meta on all this, and I've pulled some things from others (particularly That Theory by @ariaste), but I don't really want to put forth a single, defined theory myself. Instead, here's some questions I've got, why those questions are important (to me, at least). Actual theorizing comes after, and anybody who snidely mentions Sherlock in the comments or tags is going to get auto-blocked. Like seriously, I'm aware that some stuff is a stretch, but it's fun??? To theorize????? And I'm here for me and my peace of mind rather than trying to argue a point.

*I have some suspicions here, particularly with Gaiman stating that the decision from Amazon would come much faster than The Sandman's second season (which was four months). I don't know enough though to say if that's actually significant.

Questions

Who the fuck is telling this story?

This is the most important piece, in my opinion. There's this assumption when reading books (or research papers, newspapers, etc...) that the narrator who is writing the words is a non-presence, Neutral and objective. That's not the case, and an important part of literature critique is figuring out who the narrator is, and what their goals are. Oftentimes, the narrator and the author are the same person, but with Pratchett's work, particularly on Good Omens and Discworld, the Narrator was its own unique character.

This is why people struggle adapting Discworld to live action--that medium requires a Reason for having a Narrator, and especially in the age of method acting that's often considered immersion-breaking. Good Omens worked so well because they not only kept the Narrator, but they made Her God.

This added some really interesting new dimensions, such as the scene where Crowley speaks to God about his fall and the destruction of humanity. He doesn't receive an answer, but we're watching from God's perspective, so we as the audience know that She's listening.

Another advantage of making God the Narrator is that it justifies all the goofy little asides we get into the lives of minor characters (i.e. Leslie the Mailman), without losing focus. It helps the world feel like it’s full of people, rather than characters and plot contrivances, and the theme that individual people and their choices are important. The Narrator is such a central character of Good Omens that without it, the story struggles to stay focused.

It also highlights a key difference in the writing styles of the two authors. Pratchett’s work tends to introduce four or five totally unique plot threads that feel completely disjointed until the last act (if not even later), when it turns into a Chekhov’s Firing Squad. Plot twists around secret identities and backstabbing and schemes are relatively rare, as the omniscient Narrator doesn’t lie about the intentions of people or their actions.

Gaiman’s writing is typically not like that, to my knowledge. He buries characters in misdirection and hints, and you never know the true identity or motives until all the chips are down. It’s a perfectly valid way to approach storytelling, but it makes it jarring to see it in S2. The lack of a Narrator is a huge reason why S2 doesn’t feel like Good Omens to some folks.

My gut feeling is that the decision to shift from the original Narrator was highly intentional. It helps to obscure the thoughts and intentions of people, and it also muddles the insights that we’re supposed to take away. (I would have loved hearing God monologue about what’s going on in Jim’s head. I think it’d do a lot to make him seem less.... obnoxiously stupid.)

More than that, it brings up a reasonable potential plot point of: Where did God go? Why isn’t She present in the story? Even in her early appearance in the Job flashback, she doesn’t sound like the narrator for last season. After the first part of her speech (which Gabriel later quotes), her tone turns casual and condescending, which might line up with her being a bit of an asshole, it doesn’t line up with the whole “dealer of a mysterious card game who is always smiling”).

Also, I don’t think it’s safe to assume that nobody is telling the story either. Just because they’re not making their presence known doesn’t mean they aren’t there, and in a story like Good Omens, that’s concerning.

Wait, where's Satan?

Another person I saw while scrolling the tags pointed out that Satan is nowhere to be seen this season. He's really only mentioned in reference to a bet God made in Job, but then Crowley is the one on the ground causing mischief. There's no Hail Satan among demons (like Hastur and Ligur did at the start of S1).

That's might be because the writers didn't want us to think it was important (a la Hastur), but that feels off. Given that Satan speaks directly through the radio to Crowley in S1, complimenting him on his work, it's safe to say that he was at least aware of and involved in the goings-on in Hell. The fact that he wasn't even an worry for Beelzebub in abandoning their post? Feels weird.

(Also if you know where that post is, I'll happy credit + link)

What is Maggie?

Look, I love cute lesbians in love as much as the next queer, but I don't like Maggie. I don’t think she’s a person. Contextually, she’s a plot device, but I agree with That Essay that she might be an actual Plot Device.

Her characterization is simple and relatively shallow—a bit of an airhead, ray of sunshine that’s supposed to remind you of Aziraphale. When she describes her past to Nina, it’s almost robotic (also, her story implies it was Mr. Fell who first rented to her ancestor, not Mr. Fell’s great-grandfather like Nina implied). Her emotions are over-dramatic and seem to be turned on and off at random (scenes with her crying to Aziraphale about her woes had my “manipulator” senses going off for some reason).

When asked about a song, she not only IDs the song, its singer, and its year, but how and on what it was distributed. (Honestly thought this would’ve been something interesting, because she’s been pretty ditzy so far, it’d be interesting if she had like... an insane memory for music history.) And then she’s the one that sets Aziraphale on his little investigation by giving him the transformed records, while also planting the seed about her love troubles with Nina. Later, her advice to Crowley is... not awful, but feels insincere and a bit too forward, given her own self-proclaimed lack of relationship experience.

I don’t know what she is (a demon, hastur with amnesia in disguise, a literal plot device inserted by the current storyteller, etc...), but there’s something not right with her.

(Also the joke of “who listens to records anymore, it’s so old fashioned” just doesn’t land, lots of people buy records, and I’m saying this as somebody who has worked at a record store before.)

What's going on with Aziraphale?

There’s something Off about Aziraphale, and it’s not his choices at the end of the season. That makes total sense if you read him as somebody with severe religious trauma getting dragged back into the abusive system because other people need him and he’s been promised the ability to change things.

But I do think something is happening to his memory. Nearly all the flashbacks are from Aziraphale’s point of view and retelling, which means that they’re less reliable than God’s version of events in the previous season. Many of them don’t make logistical sense (post-church scene in 1941), depict Crowley as meaner or more sinister than we know he is, or frame events... weirdly. The scene with him trying food for the first time feels Really Bad, especially when the series has previously established that he’s a) prim and proper and b) his interest in food is one of the beautiful things that connect him to humanity, not some kind of gluttonous sin. Also he turns down alcohol.

Their meet-cute at the start of the universe also doesn’t line up with their reactions to each other in Eden, or the fact that knowing each other Before has never come up or been hinted at anywhere ever. I don’t know what’s causing this to happen, only that Aziraphale repeatedly looks pensive when coming out of flashbacks, and Crowley is never there afterwards to corroborate said memories.

His actions also seem pretty inconsistent with what we know of him—i.e. I refuse to believe he would ever mistreat his books, even if they’re just old encyclopedias. Also, he feels a bit too...forceful in trying to get Nina and Maggie to fall in love? I mean, he didn’t exert that much direct influence on even Warlock, when he was actively hoping that the boy would turn out angelic rather than neutral.

I don’t think this removes his agency in that last decision, so much as explains how he was in such a vulnerable place at all. He still needs to apologize and fix things, because he messed up, and even if he hadn’t he still seriously hurt Crowley.

What's going on with Crowley?

There’s something Off about Crowley. The most obvious thing, of course, is his memories. At multiple points in the present day, characters state that they remember him or have met him before, only to be met with confusion. This is especially concerning given that he has a nigh photographic memory for faces (something mentioned in the book when he immediately IDs Mary Loquacious, 11 years after a 30 second conversation).

Overall, he seems to be better known by other supernatural entities this season, in ways that often tie him back to his angelic identity (i.e. saying they fought together in the war, Aziraphale stating he knew the angel he used to be, etc...). This doesn’t feel right, because S1 we see that Hell is largely apathetic towards his schemes, and definitely does not defer to him at any point in any capacity.

Then there’s the issue of his power level. It’s always been speculated that Crowley was a powerful angel prior to falling, when he mentions in S1 his involvement with star making, his seemingly unique ability to freeze time, and creating a pocket universe for Adam before the confrontation with Satan. He also has a tendency of breathing life into inanimate objects, like his plants or car. He also has the regular demonic skillset: miracles that can adjust physical appearance; the ability to change inanimate objects (like paintball guns into real guns); the ability to manifest clothing and similar items; and summon hellfire to his fingertips. This, plus the way he monologues to God with a degree of familiarity rather than reverence seems to indicate that he was Somebody Powerful and Important Before.

But in S2, his skills are significantly expanded upon. The miracle he and Aziraphale summon sets off alarms in heaven and hell, and it’s powerful enough to mask Gabriel from the Archangels. He summons a miniature sun to rain fire on Job, which is way bigger and flashier than anything we’ve seen him summon in S1. (If he needs fire, he alters the course of a dropping bomb, without creating one himself.)

Yet he’s able to cloak his presence so well he goes wholly unnoticed in heaven, or in front of heavenly agents on earth (i.e. the Job flashback). Muriel can’t clock him as a demon, or even as another supernatural being, despite their auras usually being pretty significant, such Aziraphale immediately sensing the archangels when they arrive. He’s able to interfere with files that Muriel claimed required clearance (although I feel like that might just be a snark about Obeying Without Thinking? I would really need a Narrator to know.)

I might be misremembering, but I don’t think we’ve seen angels or demons transmogrify living beings before either. In the book, Crowley brings Aziraphale’s dove back to life after the failed magic show, and occasionally sinks ducks, but he doesn’t alter them? Not even Adam demonstrates that skill in S1. But he has no trouble turning Job’s children into lizards, however temporarily. Boy that would’ve been convenient during the flood. Or when the guard stopped then from getting to the air strip.

I don’t have any real issues with his characterization in the present day parts of S2, but there’s something weird happening with Crowley.

Where's all the people?

I really like a lot of the new characters, but how were there only like, 2.5 new humans named in the present day? Flashbacks don’t count bc the humans are all dead and can’t affect the story.

As much as I like Nina, she and Maggie don’t drive the story beyond being an occasional and awkwardly inserted plot contrivance? Both are actively robbed of their agency at several points, forced into situations that they could not have avoided or escaped. I’m not really sure what growth they’re expected to experience other than deciding not to date each other after everything. I literally can’t tell you anything about Nina other than that she remembers her regular’s orders, runs a coffee shop, and has a textbook abusive partner we never see. The only meaningful interactions they have are between those two, or in conversation with Aziraphale and Crowley.

Compare that to S1, where Anathema gets hit by Aziraphale and Crowley, but her primary relationships are with Newt, Adam, and Agnes Nutter (I think that counts as a relationship). We know that she’s got a wealthy family back in Puerto Rico, and that she was literally raised to save the world, and that she isn’t happy under all that pressure. Newt on the other hand is connected to not just Anathema, but Shadwell and Madame Tracy. He never even directly interacts with Aziraphale and Crowley. We know about his hobbies, his struggle to hold down a job, and his almost supernatural ability to destroy any electronics he touches. I don’t necessarily like how their relationship came together, but they were both very, very well fleshed out characters with unique backstories and goals. They weren’t just... waiting around to give Aziraphale and Crowley a new questline.

And while there’s no requirement to include a large cast of human characters that are exerting influence over the story, the lack of it is another aspect that makes this season feel not like Good Omens.

Also, it's just. Really weird to me that the events of S1 aren't really referenced at all? Like, Adam isn't mentioned, nor is Warlock. I don't expect them to keep track of the humans they met on the airfield for 20 minutes, but none of it is ever specifically referenced as far as I can tell, beyond Crowley threatening Gabriel. Like, I get that it's been a few years, but the pair caused a big enough disturbance that you'd expect some kind of ripples in their supernatural communities.

Promised by the Narrative (Obvious Chekhov's guns that I will be legitimately upset over if they do not go off)

A sincere apology from Aziraphale to Crowley that doesn't come with the expectation that Crowley will come back to him, but because he deserves an apology, even if the choices Aziraphale made were done with good intentions. Aziraphale does not expect forgiveness, and is shocked when Crowley grants it without hesitation.

A clear declaration of love from Aziraphale, which can't be rationalized away by either of them.

An "I'm Sorry" dance between Aziraphale and Crowley, but with greater sincerity and gravity. The most important piece is that they end up dancing together, which signifies a mutual apology and dedication to come together.

Since kissing is on the table, I expect an actual joyful, mutual kiss between these two assholes.

A shared cottage in South Downs.

Predictions/Theories (just some fun thoughts I've had)

When Adam declared that Satan was not his father, he didn't make himself not the antichrist, but accidentally crowned his human dad the King of Hell. Nobody knows this, because Adam doesn't have a good measure for "normal" supernatural situations, and Mr. Young because he's so "normal" that he explains away all the magical bullshit that's started going down.

When Adam declared that Satan was not his father, he erased Satan altogether. However, this left a vacuum in both power and reality. The defection of both Gabriel and Beelzebub only widens that crack. In an attempt to Fix things, reality is warping the story. Crowley has become leagues more powerful between S1 and S2, as the narrative is trying to force him into the role of his previous boss. Aziraphale is unknowingly being pulled into a similar version on the Other Side, perhaps to replace Gabriel or perhaps to replace God herself, who has been fairly absent in all this. The alterations to their memories or past have come about to keep the narrative running smoothly.

When the Metatron asks Nina whether anybody has ever asked for death, he was actually referring to Death, the sole remaining rider of the apocalypse.

If Maggie is indeed a Plot Device, it would be a fascinating exploration of Free Will to see her become aware of this (cue existential crisis), and then fall in love with Nina on her own terms, rather than because she was written that way.

Hastur will be back. Somehow.

The reason why S2 focuses so much on the supernatural characters is because S3 will be about how the events in S1 have changed the political landscape of heaven and hell. Angels are questioning their roles, demons are yearning for something more. It's scaring upper administration, and then the two most reliable folks in employment run away to alpha centauri. Recruiting Aziraphale and getting him back in line prevents him from becoming a martyr, control the range of his influence. The series reasserts its theme of choice and agency by highlighting that Aziraphale and Crowley aren't that special, they've just had the chance to live and grow, and that the others have free will too, if they want it.

The reason why they wanted to separate Aziraphale and Crowley, is not to get Aziraphale on his own, but to get Crowley on his own. He literally stopped time and made a pocket universe in front of Satan last season. He's powerful and dangerous and somebody wants to see that reigned in.

Wishlist (stuff I desperately want to see)

Crowley getting an audience with God and an opportunity to ask his questions, only to refuse to do so because he's found his own Answers and he no longer needs hers

Aziraphale and Crowley growing more into their book incarnations. Aziraphale becomes confident in his sense of morality, which he developed the hard way through millennia on earth besides humanity. He slowly learns what it means to be loved, unconditionally, but also is better at asserting and maintaining his boundaries. Crowley, still anxious and unwinding, works through his fear of abandonment, providing him opportunities to be kind and gentle and nurturing--all traits that he's aggressively hid since being a demon.

Hand holding. I know that Gaiman was referring to Ineffable Bureaucracy, but I still feel like we'd benefit from meaningful hand holding, especially since that got cut from the adaptation of the book.

Shifted focus away from the supernatural shenanigans, and back onto the humans that actually drive the story.

Cameos from S1 characters (if not a more substantial appearance).

The Four Other Riders of the Apocalypse.

Cursed Thoughts (why I shouldn't be allowed a social platform)

Ineffable Bureaucracy turns up in season 3 because Beelzebub got Gabriel pregnant somehow.

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niuniente · 22 days

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Saw your little thing about ask you anything, and I'm sure you've been asked this before but I haven't seen it... HOWEVER, what pieces of media do you think have inspired you the most to make your ocs and the comics that go with them?

A though question. I don't think I have anyone as a direct inspiration as "I want to draw like this artist" or "I want to create stories like this author". I'm certain that the majority of my inspiration is subconscious or runs around certain favorite tropes or themes, like punk and cyperbunk, as well as lots of music, too.

If I narrow this down to media which has really inspired me when I have encountered it the first time, then the inspiration list will be the following:

Comics by Petri Hiltunen. Some of his works have been translated to English, like Anabasis. I can't remember anymore what happened in the comic Asfaltitasanko (An Asphalt Field) but I remember that it really hit me the right way when I was 13.

Sláine series by Simon Bisley. It's still running and I read every new book. This is actually a feminist barbarian comic, which is a great combination and you will see echoes of that in Alrick.

Hob Gandling's story in The Sandman series. Oh I wish I could experience again the time when I read the story for the first time. I was mind opening for a 13 year old.

Vintage manga from 70's and 80's, as well as anime from 90's and early 2000 (like Slayers Next below). Expressions were very prominent back then and I do generously use that whenever possible. I was SUPER happy when I started watching Jujutsu Kaisen and it had those really big expressions!

I think that from anime, I should perhaps mention Bleach, because Grimm is inspired by Bleach series Grimmjow. Who is, by the way, also a cat (a panther).

Alrick, the whole premise of Death-Head Organization and the generous use of black, solid masses gets all its inspiration from a manga Sun-Ken Rock. Especially from the protagonist Ken Kitano, who is the best positive masculine example in any media I have ever encountered. Also, Algoth looks is inspired by Ken's right hand man, Benito Armani:

For the animals and animal parts of the characters in DHD, I LOVE kemonomimi! For other series, inspiration comes from game series Bloody Roar and from a comic series Blacksad. Rena is inspired by Bloody Roar's Mitsuko the Wild Boar.

We simply can't forget fashion! Metal, punk, cyberpunk, kinksters, and other dark dressed underground people. I'm asked at times why everyone seems to dress up the same and my answer is that since the comic is black and white, with black outfits I get to add some contrast to it. Alexander McQueen is awesome!

Other mentions to practice keeping mind open, which allows stories to be formed without judgment or thinking that I have no base for this: - Jeffrey Burton Russell's books about the Devil and religious history - Conspiracy theories (as what kinds of things people believe in and how they find evidence for it to support their views, including opposing conspiracy theories like Moon landing was fake VS Moon landing did happen but we haven't gone back because of aliens on the Moon) - Quantum physics

I'm certain you can pick up more things which have inspired me from my stories and drawings. But, if we speak ONLY about Death-Head's Deal, then underground fashion, Sun-Ken Rock, 80's and 90's vintage manga&anime, and Blacksad are the ones.

#ask niu

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utilitycaster · 9 months

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Honestly I keep thinking about that Good Omens/conspiracy theories in fandom post I reblogged yesterday and like, genuinely, where did this idea that writers are infallible come from? Like, I haven't rewatched Battlestar Galactica in a decade but it was essentially a running joke that "and they have a plan" was a complete lie, and the writers, who were incredibly skillful in many other ways, did not actually know how to end the series. People fuck up all the time, and also, people just have different preferences in storytelling. I happen to be a big fan of how Good Omens S2 ended and I think the people whining are primarily entitled children with no sense of story structure and who want everything to be conflict-free domestic fluff (topical!) but like...there were clumsy moments in the writing, just as there are clumsy moments in Sandman or in some of the Discworld books. Creators are people and, even if you strip away executive meddling and budget constraints (in the case of a TV show, anyway) you are still left with their personal idiosyncrasies and gaps in their knowledge and experience and weak spots. Like you're allowed to dislike these things, because the audience is also made up of people with personal preference! It's the same entitled childish coin to say "leave if you don't adore every decision made" as to say "the artist is infallible and this must be A Ruse;" people who say the former will shift to the latter or blame some nebulous external evil and keep watching when they're the unhappy ones. But where the fuck did this come from because it feels relatively new.

#i think GO 2 stuck the landing but sometimes it was simply eh on the way to that end!#good omens spoilers #anyway bc this is a cr blog i should add that if someone is like bUt ThE cAsT lIkEs It you know you're dealing with a grade a moron and lia #not that the cast doesn't like the thing they're talking about - just that they conveniently forget this when THEY don't like something

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unolvrs · 2 years

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NOVEMBER COMEBACK UPDATES!

as promised, my college exams have finally ended and while i still have so much to do, i’m itching to write again so here are the following updates that will be out soon during the third week of november through the fourth week. they’re probably going to be updated all in the same day or the same week.

SURE UPDATES:

frog in a well ━━ chapter 49

rain on my parade rewrite ━━ chapter 1

sunday without god ━━ chapter 5

commissioned!naruto oc-insert ━━ chapters 1–4

commissioned! naruto, sakura reincarnated to modern times au ━━ one-shot

commissioned!begonia ━━ chapter 3

commissioned!froggie, todoroki conspiracy theories about kugifushi ━━ one-shot

commissioned!the bell of mīdera ━━ chapter 2

commissioned!sunday without god, mc in jujutsu tech timeskip ━━ chapter 1

commissioned!katekyō hitman reborn r27 ━━ one-shot

private commission!percy jackson

TENTATIVE UPDATES

today, i, too ━━ chapter 3

kill the goose ━━ chapter 2

abalone on the shore ━━ extra chapter, post-ending ft. fushiguro megumi

house of the dragons ft. oc ━━ chapter 1

sandman ft. genderfluid (it’s complicated) ━━ chapter 1

NOVEMBER COMMISSIONS

commissions will come back for november and will be received around the same month or december at most. i have lots of time now so i’ll be able to work on them quickly :D details will be posted when i start updating again!

ETC.

i really missed writing during the months that i was absent and thank you for all the wonderful messages and comments! i read every single one of them even though i haven’t replied to a great majority of them. i’ll do my best to reply to comments & messages :D thank you for being patient with me!

i’ll be deleting the original rain on my parade chapters to replace it with newly-written ones, but if you still want a copy of the original work, you can dm me for the copy when i post the new chapter!

#私 ━━ etc #uno comeback??#frog in a well back at it again #this time about to end bc froggie has been a mammoth of 200k words #idk how i did that in less than a year #rain on my parade rewrite bc i actually hate rain

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zaphffayrkunialofphinsfable · 8 months

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my inspirations for my Worldbuilding project Heritage (if you have any suggestions, please comment/ask/reblog!)

Adventure Time, Akira, Aliens, Alternative History Iceberg by AlternateHistoryHub, Amphibia, Apex Legends, Atlas Shrugged, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Back To The Future, Berserk, Blade Runner, Blood Meridian, Borderlands, Breaking Bad, Chainsaw Man, Chaos Walking Trilogy, Clarence, Classic Horror Movies Verse, Conan The Barbarian, Conspiracy Theory Iceberg by Wendigoon, Coraline, Cowboy Bebop, Creepypasta, Cryptids, Cyberpunk, DC, Dead Poets Society, Dead Space, Demon Slayer, Destiny, Discworld, Doctor Who, Donnie Darko, Doom, Dragon Age, Dragonlance, Dune, Eberron, Elric, Escape From New York, Exandria, Fall Out, Forgotten Realms, Frostpunk, Game Of Thrones, Gods And Demons Wiki Fandom, Good Omens, Gorillaz, Gravity Falls, Greyhawk, Grzybjek OC’S, Harry Potter Timeline Up Until Marauders, Hellboy, Helluva Boss, His Dark Materials, Horizon, Hyperion, Hyrule, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Image Universe, Inside Job, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Kingverse, Kipo And The Age Of The Wonderbeasts, Life Is Strange, Local 58, Love And Monsters, Lovecraft Mythos, Love Death + Robots, Madmax, Magic The Gathering, Marvel, Mass Effect, Maze Runner, Men In Black, Merlin, Middle Earth, Monstergarden, Monsterverse, Mortal Engines, Multiverse Tales PopCross Studios, Mystara, Mystery Flesh National Park, Nimona, Nowhere On Air, Olivers Antics irl OC’s, Osemanverse, Outlaw Star, Overwatch, Owl House, Oxenfree, Planet Of The Apes, Power Puff Girls, Preacher, Predator, Punk Rock Jesus, Radiant Citadel, Ravenloft, Resident Evil, Rick And Morty, Runeterra, Sandman Slim, Schoolbus Graveyard, Scooby Doo, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, SCP, She Ra, Skyrim, Snowpiercer, Solar Opposites, South Park Band AU, Spelljammer, Star Trek, Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil, Star Wars Canon & Legends (Sequel Trilogy = Star Wars - How To Kill A Franchise by The Closer Look), Stranger Things, Sunflowers And Lavender, Sweet Tooth, Tales From The Loop, Tank Girl, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Backrooms, The Blooming Dead, The Boys (only show), The Breakfast Club, The Creator, The Crow, The Dark Crystal, The Hunger Games, The Lands Between, The Last Kingdom, The Last Of Us, The Magnus Archives, The Matrix, The Monument Mythos, The Road, The Sandman, The Squidder, The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, The Umbrella Academy, The Walking Dead, The Yaetuan Sagas, Threads, Toastchild OC’s, Transmetropolitan, V For Vendetta, Warhammer 40k, Warhammer AoS, War Of The World’s, Willow, Witcher, Y The Last Man

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scifrey · 1 year

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I'm so far down the Sandman Dreamling rabbit hole right now that all I can think of is how Hob would react if he saw these conspiracy theory articles stating that Anne Hathaway and her husband Adam Schulman are reincarnations of William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway.

#dreamling #the sandman #sandman #morpheus #dream #hob gadling

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I don't know why so many Sandman fans make a big deal about Hob not aging as if that's some sort of mistake. I think some of you guys got too used to cruel and cynical depictions of people wishing to never die, like some cruel genie in a Wishmaster movie saying "I said you wouldn't die! I said nothing about aging! Mwahaha!" Come on. This cheesy "Be careful what you wish for and how you word things" trope was done to death when Aladdin The animated series addressed it with one of Genie's former masters. In regard to Hob not aging, Hob was in his forties. After middle aged we're no longer growing up or into adulthood. Now aging is the result of slow deterioration. Wrinkling, hair going white... This is the result of a sort of organic depletion that eventually leads to Death. It's Death on a cellular level. That IS Death's territory. So why do you think Death shouldn't be able to stop a mortal's aging if she wanted to? She's Death. She literally halts the aging process in a whole other way all the time.Also what would the wager have mattered if Hob wasn't physically able to experience the eternal life he had been granted? It's like Faust in Goethe's Faust. Mephisto's bargain with him was until Faust had the moment he'd want to never end- the ultimate life experience. How could he do that as an old man? That's why right after Faust signed his contract, Mephisto took him to a witch to get a vitality potion to help him regain some of his youthful vitality and younger appearance. In The Sandman, yes, Death likely believed Morpheus needs a friend and chose Hob for his not wanting to ever die. No, I do not buy into the conspiracy theory that Time was helping Death to give Morpheus a friend. For starters Time isn't that nice of a guy. He's kind of self-absorbed and aloof. He doesn't do favors (See The Sandman: Overture). Also he didn't exist yet as a character.

#Hob #The Sandman #Sandman #Neil Gaiman #Hob Gadling #Morpheus #Dream of The Endless

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Still not over the fact that The Sandman had a whole-ass secret bonus episode that they dropped 2 weeks after the rest of the series. It contained some pretty big name actors, yet as far as I know there were no leaks or rumors before the release.

It makes me think about when I was in the Sherlock fandom back when a portion of the fandom became absolutely convinced that there was going to be a secret bonus episode released after S4 that would vindicate all their shipping conspiracy theories. Of course this was nonsense. The idea of a marquee TV show making a whole extra episode but not publicizing it or even allowing the slightest hint to escape was preposterous. Now, of course in Sherlock there was never a secret episode, no conspiracy, nothing but queerbaiting from the showrunners and a bunch of fans who lost touch with reality and made fandom a less fun place for everyone else. But then Sandman really did do a surprise bonus episode. Wild! (Note that there may well be other shows that have managed surprise bonus episodes, but not ones I personally follow.)

Now I'm imagining the chaos if there really had been a secret fourth episode to S4 of Sherlock, but it had consisted of half a case about a human trafficking victim in which Sherlock himself only appeared for a few minutes at the end, and half animated Cat!lock AU.

#the sandman #sandman episode 11 #a dream of a thousand cats/calliope #even after all these years i am still not mentioning the name of that fan conspiracy because i don't need any nonsense in my notes

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i-am-bitterly-jittery · 2 years

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On Death's Doorstep (pt 11/?)

[<<First],,,,[<Prev],[Next>] [ODD Masterlist]

Word Count: 967

Rating: Teen

Pairings: none in this part

Warnings: allusions to a bad home life (nothing specific), conspiracy theories(?)

~~~START~~~

Remy was ecstatic, her first outing as a superhero went great!

Well… not great, the bad guy got away with the stolen goods… and she’d completely forgotten about his goggles when she’d tried to knock him out with her sleeping powder… and she hadn’t managed to land a single attack...

But other than that!

She hadn’t gotten hurt, or caught, or anything! And in the vigilante hero business, not getting caught was the name of the game.

Even high off her victory, Remy took extra care to make it back to her makeshift hideout unnoticed. She didn’t know how supervillains did it, come out in their flashy costumes and then make it all the way back to wherever they came from without being spotted; that’s why she’d chosen her costume carefully, she just looked like any other sixteen-year-old girl!

(Well, that was partially why she’d chosen the outfit she had, the other reason was that she couldn’t sew, and couldn’t afford to have anything custom-made. But hey, she’d scored big time finding this nice leather jacket so cheap at a thrift shop!)

Her hideout was little more than an abandoned apartment building downtown. It was condemned long ago, but no one had wanted to spend the money it would take to get it torn down, so there it sat, empty. The first few floors were littered with graffiti and junk that squatters had left behind, but the upper floors? The elevators were broken, the staircase from the third floor to the fourth floor was completely rotted and would give way as soon as anyone put their weight on it, and the staircase from the fourth floor to the fifth was gone completely, making it nearly impossible to get to the fifth floor and above without some kind of flight powers.

Flight powers which Remy had in spades.

Good thing too, because she really didn’t trust the floors of this building not to just give out from under her, so floating above them was the way to go. Plus, that meant no one on the lower floors could hear her moving about — an ability that came in handy at home, too.

She changed quickly, swapping all of her clothes with the ones she’d stored in her backpack in the cupboard of a long-abandoned kitchen. She swapped her leggings for an artfully torn pair of jeans, her leather jacket for a gray hoodie, her combat boots for sneakers, and her sunglasses for a different pair of sunglasses — her aesthetic was her aesthetic, so sue her. Finally, she took out her braids and replaced them with a single ponytail, completing her transformation from superhero to regular teenager.

After she was back in her civilian attire, she glanced out the window for any potential witness, then — spotting none — flew herself down to the alley below, moving fluidly from window to window so that if anyone did happen to see her, it would just look like she was really good at parkour. With still no one around to see her, she quickly turned and started heading in the direction of her father’s house.

If there was one thing she regretted from today, she mused as she walked — other than that Dr. Frankenstein had gotten away, of course — it was that she’d never gotten to reveal her hero-name. She’d spent a long time thinking about it, and she was pretty proud of what she’d come up with, and he hadn’t even asked her!

Well just you wait, Frankenstein, she thought, the Sandman will stop you next time!

Just maybe… not with sand.

It was starting to get dark by the time Remy made it home — she may or may not have been taking the scenic route — so it was easy enough to fly up to her bedroom window without her neighbors noticing.

Once inside she continued to hover barely more than an inch above the floor. She grabbed her backpack from where she’d thrown it on her bed upon getting home from school, and sat at her desk, finally allowing gravity to take a hold of her once more.

She meant to write her English paper, she really did, but instead she found herself doodling in the margins of her notebook. She’d thought about becoming a superhero when she was a child — even telling her mom that she was going to be like Fyrebrand when she grew up — but then the divorce happened, and high school, and even with her blooming powers, being a superhero became some sort of fantasy. It wasn’t until Atlas died, Knightcaster disappeared, and the supervillains started their uninterrupted crime spree that Remy picked up her childhood dream again.

She glanced down at her notebook and realized that she’d drawn a full-page sketch of Knightcaster’s battle with Dr. Frankenstein in Washington park last summer. She’d been people-watching in the park at the time and managed to watch most of the battle before the police, who’d been clearing the area, found her and made her leave.

Knightcaster was her favorite superhero — Fyrebrand had fallen from favor in Remy’s eyes when it became clear that she was a homophobe — and she may or may not have been coming up with some theories about what happened to him and Atlas since he’d gone missing. Her favorite theory being that he was on a secret mission to avenge his fallen comrade; but her most realistic theory was that he’d just retired quietly — it wasn’t great timing, but it happened sometimes.

Still though, the retirement theory didn’t sit right with her: he hadn’t made any public statements, or appearances, he hadn’t even gone to Atlas’s funeral! He just vanished!

No, something was strange about this whole thing, and Remy just knew that if she stuck with the hero game, she’d find the answer.

…Somehow.

~~~END~~~

Sorry it took so long, but I wrapped up a different fic and then I didn’t really feel like writing for a while

This arc might end up being more Remy!centric than Logan!centric, but frankly it’ll probably be about even. It’s the Logan-Remy arc

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linkspooky · 1 year

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*comes crashing down from your celling*

I heard you like Spider-man, hehehe…

*pulls out whiteboard with all the spider-movies*

Got any opinions on the original trilogy? My fav from that trilogy is the third one due to how bat-shit insane it got. It’s always such a fun time to watch a burning train wreck, hehe.

What about the Amazing Spider-man movies? Opinions on the Tom Holland trilogy? I think the third one sort of dropped the ball character development wise but that’s probably just me.

Oh! What’s your opinion on “Into the Spider-verse”?! Personally that’s my favorite one out of all of them. Albeit, I am bias since I do have a soft spot for animated films.

*pulls microphone out of nowhere and points it at you*

Well?

The original spiderman movies are what got me into comics in the first place. I would probably be a normal human being if I never saw them.

Opinions on the original trilogy: These are going to be bullet points since I have a lot of them but no cohesive thoughts.

Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane Watson is really good? People don't tend to like her, and I don't get why besides "she gets kidnapped." Well, sorry she's not a black belt in Kung Fu. Mary Jane is just the best comic book love interest of all time and the reason why is that she's her own person outside of Peter. Her life does not revolve around him. She is the girl next door, she is outgoing, she is confident, she's Peter's friend, but she doesn't just wait around for him. Mary Jane in these movies embody that because she is Peter's next door neighbor but has an entire life outside of him, her father is terrible and she wants to get out of the house, she wants to be an actor but she's bad at it, when Peter doesn't want to commit she dates other men. The upside down kiss is one of the most romantic scenes of all time you can't see this movie does a bad job of making their relationship work.

I think they should have cast someone else besides James Franco for Harry, but they also got the character right with how poorly his father treats him and how obviously Norman favors Peter.

Willem De Foe's Norman Osborne is perfect, the Green Goblin personality slowly taking over makes him such a compelling character but Norman wasn't even that great of a person to begin with he makes weapons for the military and yet he's super sympathetic as he loses his mind.

Otto Octavius is just the best. I honestly like the movie's take on Otto Octavius more than the comics one, and you can tell it had an impact because Insomniac's Spiderman game he's way more like movie Otto.

The Sam Raimi films are like the only marvel movie that actually feels like a comic book movie. Spiderman saves people! I don't understand why that's so hard to get right.

Venom sucks. I genuinely do not get why people like venom so much. If they had just let Raimi do the storyline with Sandman (the only compelling villain character) and Harry returning as Goblin we would have had a good movie. I also don't think the third movie is that bad, because the non-venom parts are good.

Tobey Macguire is the best spiderman. Spiderman is supposed to be unattractive and uncharismatic. I like Andrew Garfield too, but I'm like "This is not a kid who gets bullied in High School." They kept trying to make him younger and more hip.

Amazing Spiderman

This isn't the Spiderman I grew up on so I have less thoughts about it.

Andrew Garfield's spiderman is good no complaint there, but the whole trying to make a conspiracy theory about why Peter's parents died was just dumb. There's no conspiracy there the whole point of Peter Parker is he's just some guy.

Spiderman 2 suffers from the same problem as Spiderman 3. You just can't shove too many villains in the same movie, it loses all focus.

The villains aren't good. I think Jamie Foxx does a good performance though, I'm just not really into Electro.

Gwen Stacy, one of my other favorite comic book love interests (Gwen is a really good character she just dies) is done well in this one, and her chemistry with Peter is off the charts. There are people who think she should not have died, I think it was just rushed. If they wanted to make Electro the villain of the second movie they should have let their take on Green Goblin have his own movie. There's just so much rushed decisions in these movies they kind of feel like they were made so Sony could keep the license.

Spiderman Disney / Marvel Movies

The first two are just bad. Connecting Peter Parker to Tony Stark just doesn't work and ruins the character. He's the FRIENDLY NEIGHBHORHOOD SPIDERMAN what is this boy doing hanging out with the avengers? That being sad...

Zendaya's MJ is amazing. Proof you don't need a 1:1 adaptation of the character. She's just got charisma and she calls Peter out on his shit, and once again what makes MJ a good character is she is entirely her own person outside of Peter.

Ned is a really good friend to Peter too.

No Way Home is the only one in this trilogy I like, and surprise surprise it's a fanservice movie with fans of the previous movies and returning actors. However, this is the only one that feels like a Spiderman movie because it's all about the fact that Spiderman saves people. The whole conflict of the movie revolves around the fact if there is a chance to save his villains, Peter will take it. Also OTTO AND NORMAN OSBORNE. The ending scene of the movie where Peter chooses helping a sick man over taking personal vengeance against him is the only Marvel movie that actually feels like a superhero movie. Becuase one more time SUPERHEROES SAVE PEOPLE. I don't get why that's hard.

INTO THE SPIDERVERSE

I actually think these are the best too, but once again I didn't grow up on them, and Miles isn't my area of expertise (I stopped reading spiderman comics before he became a thing but I'm planning on picking them up soon).

Spidergwen x MIles Morales is my ship. There's so many iconic scenes in this movie, the leap of faith, the part where his father tells him about the spark (that literally had me crying).

I know spidergwen is a thing in the comics but this Gwen just goes to show that Gwen Stacy is a good character on her own. It's not even the superpowers, she's just spunky, has a lot of personality, self confident likes to tease miles but is still a teenager dealing with a lot of grief and loss (part of original gwen's character too).

SHE'S A SUNFLOWER, I THINK HER LOVE WILL BE TOO MUCH.

The nuance of Miles Morales as a character, he's literally just a mixed race kid in a special private school who doesn't really want to be there because it's a high pressure environment. He's a super complex character and that's where the emotional stakes of his character come from. THe fact he has super powers is kind of secondary.

Peter B Parker, Miles, and Spider-Gwen are all amazing characters. Though part of me wishes they wouldn't try to shove every single alternate universe spiderman ever in these movies, because I'm eternally worried the sequel is going to suffer from trying to keep too many balls in the air juggling. (Spiderham, spidernoir, and penny are already kind of pointless in the first movie).

KINGPIN!!! no comment there I just like him.

#askspookies #spiderman asks #spiderman #spidermeta

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krankittoeleven · 1 year

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I was tagged by @aeide, thank you!

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Last song you listened to:

Ghost in Your Stereo by The Midnight

Currently reading:

Rereading the Sandman graphic novels. Been catching up on podcasts while I'm working so no audiobooks at the moment.

Last movie:

I honestly don't even know. LOL I rewatched the Arrival awhile ago but I think that was the last real movie I watched.

Last show:

Vikings: Valhalla S2

Craving:

was craving hot chocolate but I made one before filling this out so not craving anything at the moment.

What are you wearing right now:

"pajamas" which is just a random shirt and thin loose shorts

How tall are you:

5'10"

Piercings:

None anymore, took them out because I am boring lol. But I did have 5 in my ears and one in each nip at one point.

Tattoos:

One

Glasses? Contacts?

Contacts most of the time but I have glasses also.

Last thing you ate:

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Favorite color:

Green

Current obsession:

Vili & Ubba are really ruining my (probably imagined) reputation for being sensible about things. xD

Also the Chilluminati Podcast has been really doing it for me lately. Its about a variety of weird happenings from UFOs, Aliens, hauntings and conspiracy theories (not the dangerous Pizzagate kind) to more fact based stuff like serial killers etc and while I don't think 99% of what they talk about is real, the escapism is nice. It really is like listening to short fiction stories sometimes.

Any pets:

None unless you count the mice that have been coming in this winter. LOL

Favorite fictional character:

Ok this is actually an easy one for me. Favorite all time is Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The last place you traveled:

Seattle and sadly not for anything good (funeral for ex's friend). Before that was pre-covid to Chicago and Ohio (ugh) for cousins' weddings.

I've seen some of you tagged already so I'll try not to double ping. I will tag @mini-uzzy @theinkandthesea @troublemakingrebel @ainulindaelynn @liminalspacecowboah @vdk-hellscape @erzsebetrosztoczy and anyone else that wants to!

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bi4bihankking · 2 years

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Sometimes... I think about this panel in a JSA Files and Origins comic.

A few comics guys have told me that when JSA (1999) was coming out, there was a theory that Sandy was going to turn out to be gay. It might have only been a few people but when I was reading through this issue I suddenly remembered it because

Well, clearly, Hank is outlined in the stars in his future dream. Every other relevant character is in person, but Hank is... stars, like maybe you're not even supposed to notice him first time through, but bigger than anyone else, and if that's his symbol in the panel where Bones is lifting Sandy up... taking over the entire dreamscape.

Obviously I know that they interact later, and that Hank is the one who puts Sandy's mind back together when he becomes Sandman, but in that issue he hardly feels relevant. The most relevant character to Sandy's recovery is Kendra. Hank is barely a footnote, and his role in the story definitely isn't enough to warrant this foreshadowing.

The fact that this issue was written when Goyer was still on the book, and the issue with Hank and Sandy was written when Johns was the only writer on the book is a bit odd, so my conspiracy theory is that Goyer was gonna do Hank/Sandy, but Geoff didn't want to, and the specifics of the storyline were changed.

Anyway, I know that if I was a JSA writer trying to keep the Kyle writers away from Hank, I would give him a boyfriend lol

#henry king jr #brainwave jr #brainwave #sanderson hawkins #jsa #goyer's gonna come in like "yeah actually the way the story played out was exactly what i wanted

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polvillodecanela · 1 year

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He compartido 2059 publicaciones este 2022

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He etiquetado 400 publicaciones en 2022

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#dream is overly aware of the nature of hob's desire and since the dreaming and awaking are the same then he thinks he's not only dating hob

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Ok...look.

We like to think of dream as somebody who is aloof and confident but... Well. Sorta like capitain holt ... And that leads me to this shit post

Do you remember that b99 episode when Holt got ENGAGED™ with cwazy cupcakes (candy crush)? Well I bring you this.

In one of his visits (weekly not centennial mind u) hob was ranting about an student playing candy crush in his class.

When dream ask about it, hob just... Innocent as an angel shows him since he has it in his phone and Dream just loses it.

He acts so aloof and cool but two week after there is Matthew frantically searching for hob bc dream HASN'T STOPPED since he went to the dreaming.

He's right now in level 4000 and every time he lost his five lives he goes to whatever dream when someone is using a phone and made them send him lives.

There is also a conspiracy theory on internet about how playing the game is an instrument of the government and such but that's another thing.

The thing is now that Dream is obsessed and there's a lot of nightmares and dreams related to the game. Hob is amused/concerned.

Cue to death... Also playing in between work...

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Hob has this as his ringtone since he had the chance to personalize ringtones.

Matthew listens to it once (one time) and yearns for a cellphone.

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Hob: *experiences a minimum inconvenience*

Dream: *to Despair and Desire* keep fucking around and you will find out.

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Hob: *grading papers*

Dream:

Hob: *looks at Dream*

Dream: *blinks slowly*

Hob: I love you too, darling.

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Jonathan: *lives the most horrific and traumatic experience known to humankind and manages to escape with barely his life*

Also Jonathan: Sister Agatha, please write my boss that I was a good boy™ and my job was done, but I'm a tiny bit tired so I will rest here for a while (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)

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I tagged 124 of my posts in 2022

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Facts:

Ice pick Joe talks about going back home to his wife A LOT, but we never see her face

Or hear her name

We know his FILs name. We know where she grew up. We know she hates apples. (MARKET SCENE FORESHADOWING) But there's something purposefully withheld.

In the cathedral scene, where IPJ is murdered on the steps of the church he was married at, the glass from his shattered pocket watch obscures her face in the photograph until all you can see is her wedding dress and brown hair

Who else is most famous for wearing white, with brown hair? (stick with me)

Sofia

She's introduced straight after ice pick joe returns to goncharov with blood on his pick, an intentional contrast of what he says he wants and what he does

She's only ever acknowledged by Katya and Andrey - rewatch the dinner scene, goncharov never refers to her even when they're in the same room

I've said before that Ice Pick Joe is a mirror for Katya and Andrey to realise that their dedication to Goncharov will have a dark end

Crazy conspiracy theory: Sofia either IS or REPRESENTS his wife, the woman left behind

Trying to choose Sofia is what leads Katya to betray Goncharov, which causes their downfalls

Sofia as ice pick Joe's wife represents an idyllic past that can no longer be reached because hes choosing goncharov

As Katya's lover she represents an idyllic future that can never be reached because, even though she betrays him in the third act, Katya has still chosen Goncharov, cannot turn away from that

Andreys actions in the final moments of the film have been analysed to death. He is a man haunted by what could have been between him and Goncharov, what Goncharov never would've chosen

Ice Pick Joe is the unreachable past you can never go back to because you chose blood and loyalty

Katya is the unobtainable future you can never reach because you've too much blood on your hands even as your loyalty has finally changed

Andrey is the unrealised present; he's been deluding himself that Goncharov is other than he is, that they could have something

ice pick joe dies. Sofia haunts Katya.

Katya is put out of commission (whether she died or not is another theory). Sofia haunts Andrey.

Andrey betrays Goncharov. Sofia is seen no more, her part in the narrative is over.

Why is such an important character not on the poster? Because then they'd have to name her, Sofia Morelli, and the jig would be up.

Conclusion:

If the cigarette scene had gone further, and Katya really did undress Sofia... would there have been an ice pick wound above her heart?

6 notes - Posted November 22, 2022

Where is Billy to arrest the Lizzo girls for murdering the tune.

12 notes - Posted November 25, 2022

Everytime I see someone with a DNI I want to examine them like a bug. How did you exist in this ecosystem, where people actively want to go back to porn being all over your dash and you were only able to filter tags with a specialised extension. How do you think using the wrong pride flag, being transphobic, and liking Homestuck are all offences worthy of being sent to the naughty corner. How have you grown up thinking this is how the world works.

12 notes - Posted September 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

The fact that Joe Morelli is so minor that every poster identifies him by his weapon and yet his themes ARE the films themes, the fact that he's playing the stereotypical 'one last job' career killer but with actual depth because dammit he loves and is fundamentally unable to say no to goncharov, the fact that his theme has leitmotifs from katyas and andreys because he, on the basest level, mirrors their unwillingness to say no to the beastly man that made them all who they are (for better and for worse, in sickness and in health), the fact that he - as one of our two actually italian characters in this italian mob film - is killed on the steps of the cathedral he was married in (cmon you guys why are you sleeping on the intersection of faith and deceit), the fact that it was his father in laws fucking ice pick-

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