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Now that I'm back I'm trying to find as many of my old posts as I can! I'll probably start up a queue after the first burst just so I don't spam people's dashes too much. If you have any of my old posts—especially old fics or theory posts—please send them over so I can reblog them!
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why is nobody talking about this
HES STILL BLAMING HIMSELF FOR THE ACTIONS OF OTHERS
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how both Mattholomule and Gus were bullied very similarly but these acts shaped them as people very differently.
We get to explore their past with bullying quite a bit in Labyrinth Runners and Through the Looking Glass Ruins:
They’re both familiar with people pretending to be their friends just so they can get ahead. Bria keeps Matt around so she has someone to do her work for her. She makes him help her get the galdor stones but doesn’t let him benefit from it. She knows he won’t try to take the stones from her. He’s learned by now not to challenge her. At Glandus she’s top dog because of this facade she puts on. She’s nice to people she’s not close to so they respect her but exploits and manipulates her “friends.”
Gus also deals with this in a similar way. He’s the prodigy and he’s younger than everyone so people see him as someone they can easily manipulate. When another kid manipulates him into doing this project for him he makes note of the fact that this is not the first time this has happened. And we see him blame himself,
Gus doesn’t recognize that it’s other people’s fault that this keeps happening. He leads himself to believe that he’s the one messing something up. He’s the consistent variable, right? So it must be him. He’s the one messing up somehow.
We seem him consistently misread people and get himself into these types of situations. He misreads Bria and is quick to put himself down because of it,
In reality, Gus isn’t the one messing up and getting himself hurt. It’s not his fault that he gives everyone the benefit of the doubt. This doesn’t change the fact that this is how he sees himself though.
It’s a small detail, but notice how the Glandus students don’t have faces but Gus does? If they have facial expressions you could more easily determine their personality. But Gus can’t do this. He says that he can’t trust himself, that he let himself get tricked. Not that he can’t trust others or that they tricked him. Because to him he’s, once again the outlier in this equation.
People keep leading him to believe this as well. They gaslight him over and over into believing that he’s the one who messed up somewhere and that’s what lead him to getting hurt, rather than their own ill-mannered actions.
Brias facial expression in this shot is one that would lead you to believe she’s saying something helpful or thoughtful. In reality she is absolutely not but her tone really downplays the situation.
Angmar immediately complies, he doesn’t even question this interaction despite being disturbed. Mattholomule looks back but barely reacts and neither does Gavin. Their all used to this behavior. Gus isn’t and he reacts to it how most of us probably would, being rather concerned. But the people around him treat it normally so he doesn’t question it.
Mattholomule looks up to Bria at first. Not because she’s an awesome person - because she’s not lol - but rather because she appears to the world as someone who’s got everything under control and is incredibly powerful.
Mattholomule is not someone who usually bends to peoples will but Bria is somehow able to make him. He doesn’t react to her tormenting people or making people fight for power. He treats it normally. He says it’s normal. He doesn’t like it, but it’s normal.
When he comes to Hexide we see him try to be like Bria,
He pretends to be kind and soft when it helps him out of being exposed by Gus.
But then turns on Luz and Gus when it helps him.
He’s finally the new Bria, he’s finally in charge of something, finally in control of himself.
But in Through the Looking Glass Ruins we see him realize he was wrong apologize to Gus,
When having to face Bria again after being at Hexide for a good while, Mattholomule realizes she’s not actually someone he looks up to anymore. He recognizes her toxic behavior for what it is after seeing an outsider come into their dynamic.
He’s a lot more friendly with Gus after this, their banter is more lighthearted and he seems much more relaxed. No, they are not friends yet but it seems to be a dynamic that could easily become a strong friendship.
These two honestly are just so interesting to dissect as characters. Both examples of how the same type of bullying can manifest insecurity in very different ways. Mattholomule reacts to the bullying by trying to continue the cycle where as Gus tries to mold himself to be more compatible with others. In the end neither solution is right and they both find their own environments that work for them.
They’re both characters I can relate to a lot and it’s fun to see them both in happier healthier enviorments.
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Gustholomule hc’s
• when Gus and Matt start dating, Matt acts all tough to Gus’s hopeless romantic, but on the inside he’s melting at every sweet word and gesture.
• Matt rarely initiates anything physical with Gus, so when he does surprise Gus with a hug, or a kiss, or reaches for his hand, Gus pays him extra attention. There’s not usually anything bothering him when he does get clingy, he just has usually worn out his social battery and feels safe in his boyfriend’s arms.
• following that, Matt is definitely an introvert. Though he projects himself outwards and is truly a good and capable leader, he did grow up as virtually an only child, he’s spent a lot of time to himself and is used to only his own company. He doesn’t mind Gus invading his alone time as long as he gets to recharge with a video game or cuddles from his bf.
• whereas Gus is very much a social butterfly. Everyone knows and likes Gus, but he only has his tight knit, core group of friends. His friends embrace Matt with open arms when the two openly start getting closer and hanging out more. They eventually become inseparable, but Matt particularly befriends Amity, Hunter, and Luz. But his closest friend is still Gus, followed by Jerbo.
• Matt has the worst hygiene habits ever. Like he’s never heard of face wash and uses a 3 in 1 soap. Our hygiene king, Gus is so repulsed the first time he steps foot in Matt’s bathroom and sees the severe lack of products. He dedicates his life from then on to working on his stinky man.
• Gus takes one look at Matt and goes “I could fix him.”
• when Matt starts growing his hair out in their late teens, Gus is into it, but first trains his man on how to use conditioner, because he certainly will not standby and allow his boyfriend to have a rats nest for hair.
• Matt acts like he hates Gus always fussing over him, but he doesn’t. He likes feeling cared for. And he does like how soft his hair feels when Gus brushes it, or how smooth his skin is after Gus forces him to do face masks.
•for his part, Gus also loves when Matt cooks him dinner. He’s an excellent chef, somewhat unexpectedly. Matt shows Gus he cares for him through cooking, letting him fuss over him, sneaking into the locker room to give him good luck kisses before a flyer derby match, and always taking him seriously, even when he’s venting and frustrated about something small.
eeby deeby
posting a picture of luz every day until episode 3: day 31
a MONTH
The original trio!
y'know what? fuck you *unmonsters your Belos*
CW: mild gore&blood, severed limbs
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just realised that philip was actually sad at first when confronting ghost/hallucination caleb.. :(
Philip is so funny because he's not even THAT good at this. It took him 350 years to get enough political control in the BI to try and sigil every witch and there was still a thriving wild witch subculture until like weeks before the day of unity, and he still didnt get everyone. He ran out of palismans to eat and suffered for it when several characters we know still had their own palismans. He lied to Luz and Lilith and then sat down like 10 paces away from them and wrote "I sure am sad my two new best friends died" right where Luz could come read it over his shoulder.
He's completely unsubtle like this even as Belos-- he promises Lilith he'll heal Eda and then declares he's executing her later the same day. He doesn't even try a lie of omission or going behind her back, he just outright says "nevermind actually, fuck you." And sure, she can't do anything about it directly because he's so strong, but losing her loyalty still has permanent consequences. Anyways my point is he's going in my cringe compilation
Schnoozing
Garth, thank you for existing
@assigned-k9 thank you for creating her!!
I just realized Matt has a last name now! That means I can tag him as "Mattholomule Tholomule" :D
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I hate huntlow dont u agree
you keep asking anon, but. there is no huntlow rant.
I feel like Huntlow has potential. What we got in the show hasn't been compelling for me, but I don't see a reason to actively hate it.
Sure, I've expressed my frustrations with the show before. Frustrations that came about because I care about the characters and feel like the show hasn't represented them as well as they could've.
Suprisingly, though, I feel like the main places huntlow fell short for me were directly because of the show's shortening, despite my usual dislike of that argument.
So. I do have things to say about the writing around Huntlow, but that's not exactly an argument against the ship itself, is it?
Besides, I'm tired. I've had my share of bitterness. Now I just want to go back to how it felt when I first joined the fandom. I want to enjoy the show, not look for all the ways I'm unhappy with it.
Alright, think that about covers it. don't have strong feelings about huntlow. Have a good night
