I think one of my favorite parts of the tma universe is how hard it is to put the fears in specific boxes. There are so many things that are still hard to contain into specifics and I love that. Sometimes I like to think of kinda vague ones just to try and think on what they could be. Like, being lost in a mall for example. There are so many different things it could be! You gotta get not the real specifics, what part of it is making you afraid, to put it into a category. Are you afraid of the being lost, not knowing where you’re going or how o get out? Are you afraid of the openness, how big the building is? Are you afraid of the not knowing where the people you came with are, maybe finding yourself without anyone with you? Even something simpler like being hit by a car! Are you scared of the possible death or the brutality of it?

anyways I just think it’s neat :]

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I know this has probably already been said but here is what I got from the new ep:

Whatever this universe's equivalent of the fear distinction, which I was previously thinking and hoping wasn't as clear cut as in tma (so it can still work ig), the OIAR regulates the amount that each entity gets in the hopes that none prevails and screws the fear balance.

It can be that this universe is simply divided in vague influences (so benevolent as Lena said) and their "avatars" would try and take power over others, maybe even with rituals, and institutionalising avatar activity this is avoided and order is kept, so they don't find themselves dealing with people like tma-universe Magnus causing havock and trying to disrupt the world. Maybe Magnus was doing something similar in this universe and they, well, stopped him permanently.

Someone should take this app from me

Who would win: the silt verses pantheon, or smirkes fourteen?

I can see a couple outcomes happening:

(Explanations for the options below the cut!)

1. They do not coexist.

The fears and the tsv gods fight bitterly. The deities frequently attempt to wrest control of their domains from the foreign ones, and most things are in upheaval.

2. They can coexist.

The two pantheons kind of just exist in the same place, with one set just more focused on fear. Cults exist on both sides, and the entities involved create avatars and angels and creatures and saints, after all.

3. They merge in the tsv gods' favor.

The fears come together in forms much similar to the tsv gods than what they were before. For example, the Eye and the Corruption are absorbed into the Waxen Scrivener, or simply become The Ceaseless Watcher and The Crawling Rot, deities of observing for the purpose of obtaining knowledge and of rot, decay, and scavenger insects.

4. They merge in the fears' favor.

The tsv gods become part of the fears, potentially as individual cults like the church of the lightless flame, or fears of their own along the color wheel. For example, The Beast That Stalks In The Long Grass and The Elk Of Birch And Bone become part of the Hunt, and The Cairn Maiden becomes part of the End, whereas the Saint Electric becomes something such as the Spark, possibly representing a fear of electricity or the power it represents.

They could also go in more of a desire direction like the fears are theorized to have done in protocol, such as The Cairn Maiden representing a desire to have comfort and support in death.

Fear avatars your guys

Choosing who’d be what was outrageous

MISSPELT LONELY

New TMA fear entity categorization system just dropped

Sooo my friend bullied me into drawing self indulgent art of me as an avatar of the web and Gerard Keay 👁👁 I've never shipped myself with anyone before, so this is new to me

consider this. i don't know what it is, but i want you to consider it.

the eye - paranoia

the spiral - delusion

the stranger - capgras syndrome

the slaughter - trauma

the dark - dissociation

the hunt - projection

the lonely - depression

the vast - hypomania

the end - existential dread

the corruption - intrusive thoughts

the flesh - body dysmorphia

the desolation - destructive behavior

the web - addiction

the buried - burnout

I just had the dumbest thought and I absolutely need to share it

What if people in the TMA universe treated the fears as aesthetics like people in the real world do. And there was lots of discourse about whether or not it's okay/appropriate/dangerous/whatever

Like what if someone in the TMA universe posted a ~Spiralcore~ moodboard or whatever on Tumblr and got cancelled for it. Someone has a seventy page long callout doc written about them because they said they said Slaughter avatars are hot on Twitter. Imagine the possibilities

tma in-universe eyepocalypse memes!

yeah i think this is stupid enough for tumblr to see

I don't care what canon says I need to organize The Fears. They may be unknowable eldritch horrors To You but I'm going to know them. There's so many ways you can organize this shit. Put them together. Split them up. "Opposing" fears can combine and clash and both. "Complimentary" fears can be complete opposites. Forget canon, you think of your own Fears and categorize those. And every single fear can present as a different Entity depending on how it shows up for you. A dozen people with the same fear can have different entities because of How they're afraid of it. We need to get insane about this. Analyze every fear you can think of and how it can fit into any given entity. It's amazing!! You can ponder so much on this. You can make so many characters with this. There's a lot of y'all who have read my mind and aren't horribly afraid to share you concepts and characters the way I am and I appreciate you all so much. Thinking about this isn't enough I need to eat it. I need to absorb this podcast into my bones. This isn't even the beginning of it there's so much you can think about and write and organize with these. I can't wait for protocol to be complete so I have all the information I need to know everything now.

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When I was scared of the dark as a child, my dad comforted me by saying, "There's nothing in the dark, that doesn't already exist when the are lights on."

He explained that I wasn't scared when the lights were on so I didn't have any reason to be scared when they turned off. My bed was still my bed, my cupboard was the same cupboard, etc.

Now as an adult, that line chills me to my bones because I've watched and read too many horror stories. "There's nothing in the dark that wasn't already there in the light," now makes me think of the false sense of security we have just because a light is on, like a child hiding under a blanket.

the eye:

you're the deer in the headlights, eyelids aching from watching, you think filling your stomach with information will make you full but you just throw up strange spirals of ink into your palm. your binoculars keep you safe but they also keep you separate

Mike Crew ☁️

It was so windy which was perfect to cosplay Michael Crew himself! But at the end of it, I was shaking in my boots and it started raining too.

But glad how he turned out and the videos are so Vast vibe! The silly Vastard himself!

Testing gouache with everyone’s fav character 💕💕💕

The last 7 of my silly little avatar sonas. Haven't really decided what fear would consume me, but I'm thinking about the eye, the lonely or the vast

And also a reference for whatever face I gave the slaughter