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He/She/They Multi-fandom bullshit 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Fandoms I post about frequently:

The Magnus Archives

The Magnus Protocol

Welcome to Nightvale

The Locked Tomb series

Fandoms I will occasionally post about:

The Hunger Games

The Pitt

Six of Crows

House MD

This list may change overtime, and I’m always open to media suggestions! I am a big fan of audio dramas, and post about them frequently. In the future, I may start posting about:

The Penumbra Podcast

Hello From the Hallowoods

Malevolent

King Falls AM

Thanks!

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I love the idea of trans Martin Blackwood, not only for representation reasons, but for some very awesome and fun reasons that I am going to burden you with.

Imagine you’re are Martin’s mother and you have raised this little girl all on your own. You love this very sad, very lonely little girl, you love her enough to forgive her similarities to a certain someone.

You thought you were in the clear.

And then one day he is not your little girl anymore. He nearly cries with relief after he tells you, and then he moves away and that’s that.

Until one day he comes back. And then he comes back again. And again and again and each time you see him he looks a little more like that man. That man you had never wished to see again, someone who you wished would rot is walking through your door every day and he doesn’t even know it. Your boy, your only child not only looks like the ‘man who ripped your heart out’, he chose to look like him.

But of course he didn’t! You know he never saw that scum. You’re overreacting. It’s fine!

Now that man walks in every day, wearing your child’s expressions. They even sound alike.

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I wonder how many of Jon’s “revelations” in season 4 were really the Eye giving him information, and how many were the Web putting stuff in his head the way the vampires would “talk” to people

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I know it’s a popular au of Sasha being Archivist, but the reason Jonah chose Jon for Archivist was because he was marked by the Web and had a head start. This means that Tim would be a viable option being marked by the Stranger and all. He also ended up being marked by the Corruption, so until Jon got burned by Jude they were tied. So we should have more Tim!Archivist aus like this:

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With the rise in popularity of both BloodyMary (dr Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary x Simon from Iron Lung) and people sent to space against their will, I have made the completely baseless assumption that, in order to bring balance to the universe, there will be two more adaptations made. What are these adaptations you ask? Well, first I will state that PHM was about a guy launched into space and never leaves space by entering another planet (until the end.). This represents air, naturally. And Iron Lung takes place in an ocean of blood, obviously representing water. The next two logical steps would be a movie adaptation about someone put on the surface of a fiery planet against their will (Venus maybe or some other planet outside our solar system) or better yet, INSIDE an alien volcano to be our fire quadrant (you see where I’m going here). The other logical step is someone underground on another planet against their will, perhaps in some interesting mining installation of vast set of caverns so we can have earth. Now the only question would be what these movies would be adapted from (if at all, I loved the PHM and Iron Lung movies but we need some more originals). There are two possibilities if they do turn out to be adaptations. One possibility would be to continue the pattern of video game- book. The other possibility it that we have adapt two OTHER kinds of media, having these two new movies being adaptations of a podcast and a play or something. I want more space suicide missions with unwilling participants, is what I’m saying.

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It wasn’t really funny to read snow absolutely fucking dunking if Dr Gaul and Dean Highbottom, especially because Katniss was thinking the exact same shit about him for the entire trilogy.

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Alrighty Americans tell me how I did!

Inspired by this post I found on Pinterest under the cut :)

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Yall are being too boring by limiting yourself to cross-universe shipping. He literally gave birth to her

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Dear manic mohabbot nation (which apparently includes unc peepaw people’s princess oomf average everyday icon Shawn Hatosy himself), I have gathered you all here today to mourn the loss of the amazing Supriya Ganesh, who will tragically not be returning for season three. You all were a beautifully united and non-irritating front, and the rest of us regret your inevitable passing into delusion. The remainder of the Samira Mohan lovers stand with you in your grief. Stay mad, stay mystified.

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Random nightvale theory coming out of nowhere but I was wondering if we would ever find out how old Cecil was and if he was omniscient or not but then I got thinking. We know what the man in the tan jacket was, we know where the faceless old woman came from, what she is and what she’s doing, we know what the smiling god is, we know what the dog park is, what the house turned apartment that doesn’t exist is, what city council is, what Khoshek (not sure if I’m spelling that right) was and where he came from, what the whispering forest was, what labyrinth and the men who were not tall and were not short were and what they were doing, and the way things are going with the latest storyline involving the murder of Marcus Vansten and Jaylen Rutherford, we might be getting an explanation for both the angels and the doubles. My point is that we are slowly being fed the answers to all the mysteries of Nightvale, and my guess is that the podcast will only be finished when we TRULY know everything, and my bets are that Cecil will be our last mystery.

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Here’s my bet placements for Alecto bingo (I’m sorry o don’t know who made the original bingo card if you know please tell me)

Og bingo card under the cut

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Oooooh I think I know what happened with the Māori phrase. When you said “I thought John was throwing some stuff in or getting her name wrong on purpose” maybe you meant “John was just adding sentences to make fun of her” and you assumed that only the first bit was Wake's actual name, but it does come across as “the middle bit that's not English is probably just whatever, random syllables”, and finding that the first reaction of a stranger upon encountering your language is to assume it's gibberish… it will ranckle. It's happened to me with Americans being American about Spanish, or Spaniards being dismissive of Euskera/Basque.

To someone who speaks a language that has been endangered by English colonialism, it's gonna come across as maddeningly ignorant if a reader doesn't at the very least *suspect* that those syllables are just a language other than English. We have the context for it, too: we already know John remembers pre-Res culture, he is fond of quoting bygone literary works, and the books are by a Kiwi author. It can feel like the people who destroyed your culture are so steeped in colonialism that they forget that your people even existed and had a culture too.

Of course, that might not have been what you meant at all! Clarifying and being honest about it is up to you.

I don't think you're evil or anything, even if you did mean that. It's just that ignorance can sting when it reveals questionable assumptions, but I'm sure you can probably see what bothered them, explain if necessary, and keep this perspective in mind in future. We spend our lives learning to learn, and that's the important thing to do.

Ah! Ok I totally get that. My original assumption was that the words were the lyrics to a song like when he introduced her to Augustine and Mercymorn he said “This is Commander Wake Me Up Inside” I sort of thought that he was doing something similar in this situation. I’m Canadian so I have not encountered any problems with people thinking my language is nonsense so it didn’t occur to me that it could even be interpreted that way. I have also never heard/ read any Māori before so it was unfamiliar. I think I’m going to edit the wording on the original post

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The middle part of Wake’s name (Kia Hua Ko Te Pai) is actually Māori. I thought John was making fun of her by throwing in some song lyrics or lines of a book to get her name wrong on purpose but it actually means “may the good fruit be fruitful” which definitely sounds more euphonic in its native language but it’s VERY good in association with blood of eden. I’m interpreting it in the sense of “ that apple (and the freedom that came with it if you want to look at it that way)better have been worth it”. It would be great if someone knew if it was from something in particular because I couldn’t really find anything with a quick google.

(Edit) thanks to all those in my comments for telling me it’s the New Zealand National Anthem in te reo Māori!

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#the beauty of tumblr is that any new show i start i'm able to say oh that's my friend. from gif.

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Not to be the unhinged theorist in the Locked Tomb fandom but the Resurrection Beasts and Alecto have some peculiar themes that just tie too perfectly into radiation.

Like the blue light with Varun. Because if theres a real world example of a haunting blue light you never want to see in person ever, it's this:

Also, Nona does not want and probably can't really eat, which is both a running gag but also one of the first sympthoms after somebody gets radiation poisoning. And at the end of the book, her condition deteriorates.

And even from a narrative point of view: John Gaius used to be a scientist. He wanted to save everyone. He also kinda took the soul of the earth. He embodies powers that, if kept in check, can help many but they can also spell untold destruction. It just works. The resurrection beasts and their rampage basically being the equivalent of a melting reactor would mean it is still John's fault and it fucking is so I will just keep believing it.

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Mercy describes Varun as "blue like Loveday's eyes", and Gideon compares Cytherea's (aka Loveday's) eyes to "electromagnetic radiation" specifically.

And there are debatably implications they were working with radiation in the first place for the cryo project! From the sound of everything combined, probably testing that the frozen people shipped off to Tau Ceti would be good to survive the radiation of space, and they'd gotten it up to an estimated 92% chance of success without significant lasting damage for the average person, but to get to those numbers, they'd wound up with a whole mess of very irradiated corpses. Which was why they were going to have so much trouble disposing of them, and when John talks about just burying them he sarcastically mutters "you would've loved that", and why the general population was so freaked out by how Scary it sounded, and why John got blacklisted from a lot of shit (despite having been the one to insist on clearance from Asia-Pacific Environmental!). He describes the latter specifically as "I was irradiated." And we do know how Muir loves layered meanings, especially through John!

And I mean. Necromancy in general is fossil fuels 2.0, so making the RBs nuclear feels right. And!! There's my recent theory that the whole solar system is A SYSTEM, effectively like the sun as a brain and the planets as organs for one big body, with all of them innately connected, but with or without that take, we know at minimum there's a lot of sun association with John and Alecto. So there's nuclear fusion too!

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Someone in the comments said something about fusion and fision. I think there are parallels between that and the idea of thanergy/thalergy. The violent removal of a soul from its body always produces a revenant. The violent splitting of two parts of a whole generates vast amounts of energy. Only the nine houses planets produce death energy. The planets that were violently split into two parts.

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Oh god, this connects SO many dots in my own terrifying Megatheorum. I won't even fit this in one reblog, because this is taking forever to write - but I think it's worth it.

On Tor's website, TLT is listed as Scifi/Fantasy. However, when forced to choose, Tor picks Scifi above all. This is HUGE, because even with all the necromancy and fantasy elements of The Locked Tomb, the publisher looked at the series and said "No, this is scifi." Ergo: the "magical" elements must have a basis in science.

Now, spiritual/religious elements (souls etc) can exist alongside science without much issue. But if you're manipulating physical objects in a real-world environment, you have to explain it in a way that could conceivably track with scientific theory as it functions in the real world. You can extrapolate from there.

So. In GtN, we enter a world of fantasy tropes and Regency-era hand wringing about social morés.... but we also see Palamedes tear his hair out about dating Canaan; how nothing seems to fit a reasonable timeline. In real life, scientists use radiometric dating in geology & archeology to determine the age of objects. (also, do necromantic (or irradiated) interactions with objects impart additional radiation? I don't know!!)

TLDR; You can tear the soul out of a planet, but the actual tearing process needs to make enough sense to pass muster in the Scifi world. Nuclear fusion is a great candidate, as mentioned by @oh-jod-dammit and @championofdnd and is supported by the text ("the soul was like a tiny atom bomb"). God, it's right there.

This, of course, raises some questions.

If necromancy is related to radiation, what power does Alecto/Earth impart to John that allows him control of (assumingly) irradiated corpses? and WHY? What about him was so fucking special? Sure, he was trying to get humans off Earth for its own sake, presumably by testing radiation shielding for long-range space flight. (aka the problem with pregnancy is you have to worry about irradiation for fetuses or reproductive organs. probably.)

But how is John a better ally than an eco-warrior or biologist or any number of scientists that were presumably trying to save the Earth? Alecto (allegedly) said she chose him. How did he bring himself to her attention? If we keep following this logic, how did radiation connect them?

I'm tired. Let's review some facts from both sides.

.Electromagnetic Radiation is produced by stars and other celestial bodies.

.Planets, people, and stars emit different types of radiation.

.Planets and people are proven to have souls, which can be removed from the body by force.

.Do stars have souls?? The sun?? The Moon in the Fucking Sky??? (where is the Moon, btw??)

.Does radiation serve as a connection to a different dimension? Are radio waves a bridge to The River? Did John tear a hole in spacetime and make some kind of wormhole?

"you were the noise that was everywhere" thats RADIO WAVES. tamsyn muir I will GET YOU

This is why Wake is wearing a Haz suit in the River Bubble, btw. She only started experiencing negative effects when the suit was punctured. (right?). It's why The Eggs All Died. It's why flipped planets slowly mutate. RADIATION. I love y'all.

The stupid First House robes? They're a fucking PRISM. Electromagnetic Radiation is visible light!! GODDAMN!!!

And here's where I leave this for a breather. My original document got corrupted somehow. probably the radiation :(

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Okay @oh-jod-dammit brought up some REALLY interesting things in the comments that set my brain on fire

On Wake:

Ya gotta ask - Why was Wake wearing the Haz suit before she died? On the Ninth, her body is found wearing a life support suit as an outer layer, but that's different. This suggests she was possibly wearing the Haz suit underneath - to protect against what?

Also, good catch with Jod being chosen/unchosen! I think it's more like -

Jod is very close to the electromagnetic spectrum through his work with irradiated corpses

So close that he, a living person, is able to “make waves” in the EM field - aka influence physical reactions, like moving/manipulating bodies.

This work puts him closer to whatever plane the souls reside in (The River) and thereby Alecto.

That's what brings John (unknowingly) to her attention; he *was* chosen by her (“I picked you to change, and this is how you repay me?”) BUT she had no idea he would force a connection through the opening made by the death of “the nun” (which, btw: pre-resurrection, Christabel is never given a first letter like M– or A– ; only “The nun” or “M– ‘s nun”). 

If John had stopped at physical manipulation - kept curing cancer, found a way to heal the earth using EM waves, etc, he never would have broken through. But by cracking the “atom bomb” of a soul that was the “missing link,” John forced a door to open between the physical plane and The River/astral plane. He may have pushed a ton of EM waves/radiation through the hole while cycling the power back through himself (?)

"I was looking at the code, I knew why I hadn't been able to see anything.” Radio waves would cause a lot of interference, yeah?

Random additional thoughts:

Wherefore the missing people? Well, per John, he “snapped up” a large percentage of humanity before the nuclear warheads hit, although he phrases it as a kindness. I don't know if that means he claims some kind of ownership over those souls. This is a wobbly guess from me.

The reason the Houses don't have much in the way of technology is because the radiation renders it null. Otherwise they'd definitely have SOMETHING after 10,000 years. You can't just kill everyone who ever had the idea for an internet.

Again, WHERE IS THE MOON. We see no references to it at all.

Y'all are bringing up some great points, keep 'em coming! My original Megatheorum included most of this, but I had no scientific explanation that fit the clues. So far Electromagnetic Radiation is the *best* fit I've found that explains Tor's Scifi designation while matching the text provided.

FYI, my knowledge of EMR is based in astronomy, one of my finest hyperfixations. However I have no schooling in such and am going largely by Wikipedia articles and sheer determination.

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“average unfinished podcast has at least 200 episodes released” factoid is actually just a statistical error. average unfinished podcast has about 30-70 episodes released. Episodes Nightvale, who has one thousand million episodes released, is a statistical outlier adn should not be counted.

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Pitt spoilers ahead!!!

I feel bad for santos in season two especially after episode ten because nobody really wants to talk to her about Langdon and especially that conversation she had so h Garcia feels like that was about how well it went reporting the man who took advantage of her and her friend (although it probably went worse) because at first nobody believed her about Langdon and then even after they found out the truth he still wasn’t fired. I love Langdon now in season two but Santos was right, he probably should have been fired. Honestly I think if anyone other than him had done what he did , they probably would have been fired but now santos has to go back to work every day and see him doing basically better than ever (not really but still) and someone that she really likes as well as one and a half out of three attendings are taking his side. She is a stronger woman than me I would have lost my mind

(I don’t think this thought is very well articulated forgive me but you get the message)