…Having consumed a lot of Malevolent fan art now I can’t help but notice that when most artists give Arthur the moustache that they give him the Gomez Adams moustache which makes just so much sense!
…Also looking at the fanart I realize that there is a severe lack of curly-hair John’s. We give him long tentacle evoking hair but refuse to give him the poof he deserves!
…if I was any good at drawing male humans I would make John look like Ajax from Greek myths and give him so much poof!
if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*
this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques
oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?
and we're still building them?
while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?
uh. okay then
(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)
in some cases it goes back to colonialism. colonizers trying to put a certain aesthetic that was thought of as more valuable or attractive in a place we were trying to force to be the way we wanted.
Trying to import a new culture, and replace the old culture, bringing in the architectural ideas of the old place. ignoring the local climate and ecology
Threshold Part 4 Spoilers ahead!! Thoughts in not particular order
John, I hope you eat snacks while you write stories because Artjur has had pie crust for the last day and a half and nothing more! I know it’s just the medium of the story but come on! Arthur is a fast eater! Faroe could’ve brought him toast and then stolen his files! Something!
So am I the only one who was thinking that the light of a stained glass church window wouldn’t be shining a bright yellow but color? …Maybe red…but maybe I misheard!
We also have a second spotting of a “young man” following Arthur
I am actually kinda glad Charlie/Noel is not here right now because he’d be ringing Arthur’s neck for not being enough of a paranoid jerk towards someone who at least sounds like Arthur’s old partner. Charlie’s poor Roland trauma senses are SCREAMING!!
Faroe is into puzzles and John’s letters have little word scramble puzzles at the bottom, I’m sure that won’t come up aaaaaaaat all!
Yaaay Oscar! I wonder what the Manager rewrote about you my friend. Or did Daniel actually do some kin-keeping on Arthur’s behalf? Either way I am surprised the boys are talking without any references to extreme past trauma. I swear if you show up with two arms Oscar I will be very suspicious but not even surprised
So that dog is being very helpful giving Arthur an excuse to send John away without a fight but are most animals so attuned to spirits? If not then hire this good boy and make him a furry partner!
….Arthur if the dog was Lilith,why do you think she would tell you that directly? Just appreciate the company
Oh hey! Arthur himself questioned whether or not Lilith’s lure was still active! I would say yes. Eternally. You are the main character Arthur so yes
Oh let’s go pretend to be ghosts and freak out some civilians! I love you scamps! But also Arthur this is EXACTLY why Faroe is such a scamp. She gets it directly from you!! And you should probably be more worried about her taking that file! And you should read her book recommendation cuz she sure as hell if gonna be scrutinizing yours for clues! She is all but trying to stage whisper Kayne’s name to you and you aren’t picking up aaaaany hints!
Poor baby police officer is too normal to cope with the horrors and apparently Arkham has its own spooky shit precinct. Man…those dudes kinda really suck at their top secret job don’t they? Um precinct 19 you have dead supernatural gang lords in your town …ya wanna do something about that? …just gonna let the corpse walk outta the morgue? …let fake seances go on as a private business and just let that risk walk around? Really dudes? REALLY? Are ya doing ANY crime prevention right now?
…that mean cop is secretly precinct 19 isn’t he? Or he’s gonna be…jerk
Heh heh John DID read Arthur the fan mail before after all!
I just thought of the most hilarious way Lily could reappear in the series. Some major event happens that makes Arkham break out the triage tents and Arthur gets shuffled into one with a crowd. Lily walks up, takes one look at him and before Arthur or John can think of what to say she just STABS him with one of those god awful giant 30s-40s sized needles filled with vitamin C, mumbles “patient Arthur L. shows signs of acute jaundice but no other immediate signs of injury, moved to next patient in emergency intake” then shuffles off. She then immediately disappears into the triage crowd and we don’t see her again!
the whiplash from bleeding sobbing failing charlie to slutty smoking shirtless charlie must be insane, I'm sorry. but that's just what my brain's been doing recently
I hate that my ADHD, my change in job location and Malevolent Threshold starting have all started a chain of events in my brain where I am spending whole afternoons writing a freaking fan fiction that I don’t think I’ll ever want to share rather than just finding a movie to watch or even following up on car appointment things!
Nooooo all my brain wants and all it will be entertained by is playing dolls with these characters in this podcast including one who has never even had a spoken line?!?
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