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clyde 𐂂 24 ☼ he/him ❊ white 𖥞 18+ only
mis-tih-see-tus. i mostly reblog & there’s suggestive posts sometimes. i tag nudity and bugs but not much else. you can see my art in my art tag. + misc under the cut…..
you mightve been asked this before but whats your interpretation on who exactly in the family is running the petscop channel? ive seen some people say Jill but I find that hard to believe if she threw the disc away, that would imply she doesnt want Paul playing it so why would she pressure him to record it?
Mister sneakyclever commented on this in the latest “i solved petscop” youtube video, and i have to admit it made me reconsider things for a second. His logic ended up really shaky though (among other things…)
The only person we know for sure is part of the capital-F Family that paul refers to is Jill. I think it would be really strange if this Family is different from the family that took over the youtube channel. Jill is involved in posting the youtube videos and trapping paul, im pretty sure about that. Because what we know about Jill is “you wouldn’t be able to escape if she were to start…” (I have to assume from context that Paul means if she were to involve Belle in preserving the recordings within the game petscop)
From the little information we have, Paul doesn’t get along with the family or at least had hangups about continuing to work with them. He was also intimidated enough to surrender control of the youtube channel and also give in to their “strong suggestion”. Paul says he is intimidated by the family and immediately after says “I mean Jill specifically”. So like. It would be so weird if that family didnt involve Jill?
Jill is the only family member I’m sure is involved. I tend to assume Paul’s talking to Jill at the beginning of Petscop 11, and he said he hasn’t seen “any of you at all” since 1999, so it would be weird if his mom(Lina) was part of this family.
But I do think maybe Anna is involved. One of the descriptions I have to assume the family wrote mentions Rainer giving petscop to (plural)them as a Christmas gift, and we know for sure Anna was there that Christmas as Rainer recalls it in-game.
I also uuuuhhhhhhh am pretty sure Marvin isn’t part of The Family??? Lol. I really really think his OK Here I Come was part of the reality shattering/recordings bringing back the dead/intense insane flashbacks/abstract concepts. Paul was scared and was attacked but not in a literal sense. I actually think neither paul or belle are ever in any actual real life immediate danger, ever.
I do think Paul is “trapped” in a car in the garage, reliving care’s kidnapping, so him being so short tempered with Jill on his birthday, who is arguably trying to get him to like…revert back to being care or relive memories or whatever, it makes sense. And anna being in the picture makes sense when you view it this way. Anna being in the picture when Marvin is involved, though, does not make sense.
I also don’t think Jill taking/hiding the disk and discovery pages was her trying to hinder Paul’s progress. I read it as her trying to read them and look into the disk herself. Paul wanted them back and maybe their agreement was he can keep them as long as he’s heavily recorded the whole time. Rainer is Jill’s son so she probably feels some kind of ownership over anything relating to petscop.
hmmmm this may be treading old ground but any particular thoughts on garalina and lina? implications of her involvement and “boss” are well known but i dont see people sharing their own ideas much about what her presence/dynamic with rainer would actually mean or why she would be there, i’m still trying to work out the impression the idea gives me thematically speaking. in general petscop as a game rainer made and got a group of kids to test is something that can get taken for granted but since the work’s perspectives and intentions are so insular and esoteric the invoking of other distant figures interacting with petscop normally is interesting to chew on
gif and commentary i made in 2023: "i know i havent talked about petscop in months but i just noticed that the pieces don't float directly up when collected but instead float diagonally up toward the camera. and the pieces are going behind the camera, basically. if you subscribe to the idea that the pieces are pieces of lina then they would be returning to her/assembling her behind the camera. you're only able to see lina by walking behind the windmill and later rotating the camera to the other side of the bench window. marvin has the unique ability to rotate the camera ("turn" button when he operates the camera in petscop 20), and this is how he was able to make lina and the windmill disappear. they were rotated behind the camera so all that was seen was marvin."
ive come to believe that lina is heavily associated with a theme of pretending something is or isn't there, rotation, and flipping something - say, a camera - so that someone or something is just out of view, and thus no longer exists in the world of the recording. this could create two realities: one in the recording/camera/TV, and one outside of it.
i read it this way for a few years at this point, but i only just recently realized this was referred to almost directly in one of tony's lesser-known projects from 2018.
the phrase "(it's behind the camera)" is just so like...i don't know. its affirming to me. i really like it and im kind of proud of myself for noticing this. the actual implications of it are unknown but you can make certain connections.
the whole "boss" thing, and the company existing at all, i don't know. my gut tells me that lina is rainer's boss because she's the catalyst for all of it, or he feels like he's doing this for her, to bring her justice or something, she commands him by just like. existing, or haunting him.
in what i said in 2023, i failed to mention(remember) that anna was the one holding the camera in the windmill story. so, it feels like shes "turning" (haha) a blind eye to all of this. pretending someone is there when they're not, ie. their untraumatized vs traumatized self. anna does kind of show this behavior explicitly in 14.
earlier in the same video, from paul:
so i don't know exactly what the situation with lina is, but i feel strongly about it relating to this idea.
Was your initial interpretation of petscop much different than it is now? I always think it's cool to compare perspectives through time like this. Also, are there any parts of the narrative that still elude you? Does this play into your interpretation?
its hard for me to think all the way back to 2017 when i first heard about petscop (and maybe in the worst way possible, because my ex girlfriend sent me the link to the pyrocynical video. uh huh. i was 15 too)
im not sure when i actually sat down and watched the videos by themselves but i know that petscop 11 was the first video i was actually there for the release of. my sister was really into it and she came into my bedroom on christmas and told me there was a new petscop. my sister was also the one who told me about tony being discovered on thanksgiving 2019. so its kind of cool that my first exposure to most of petscop was through my family on holidays. i like that the uploading schedule followed that.
but like...even if my introduction was through pyrocynical i remember feeling really strongly about it. it really creeped me out, especially the brightened belle loading screen and the tones that played when the bunker door opened. it actually made my blood run cold.
back then there was a lot of hubbub about real life crimes that was impossible not to hear about when engaging with petscop which is pretty unfortunate. i dont think i ever really cared much for that reading nor did i find it particularly compelling. i was more caught up in just like....how weird it all was. the claps and snaps of the dialogue boxes, rainers weird way of speaking, the absolute unreadability of the guardian sprite.
i think i was just mostly confused the entire time, or i didnt form too much of a solid reading, i was drawn to the atmosphere more than anything else. theres the natural curiosity that comes with that, but i wasnt like...scouring the subreddit or anything. i also didnt even think anything much of paul, which is funny to think back to now that hes like....part of my soul. but after petscop 11 he did start becoming more serious.
one initial reading that i do remember is the soundtrack ending, when paul said family i thought he was just saying that in some kind of dumb disbelief or loss for words, it didnt click for me that he was responding directly to belle. but the feeling still got across, and i thought it was really sweet. the idea of paul being referred to directly at all in the context of the story felt weird but cathartic.
also, that specific thanksgiving was weird for me. i spent the night before sitting alone in a cold car in a parking lot having a meltdown. and then the soundtrack released and i spent the drive home listening to it through my headphones and getting really lost in it. so that like....emotional context is always gonna be part of it for me i think.
vague answers. the paul is care reading was endearing to me though. ever since 2019 i viewed petscop as an intimate and comforting thing, like the memes really quickly wore off. but it took me a few years to process all of it into something that was tangibly meaningful to me.
and theres plenty of the narrative that still eludes me, and i kind of rely on my intuition and gut feeling to interpret it, because i dont really understand it entirely. though sometimes it gets re-contextualized through tonys other stuff. im absolutely fine with stuff being left vague, though, because its part of the experience i think. the confusion and lost feeling is integral to it.
when you spawn next to the stairs
6th grade math problem:
Words were exchanged between friends – the house of human companionship was established in secret – eons passed – eons passed – eons passed – eons passed
A) The house was diminished!
B) The house was strengthened!
C) The house was swept away!
D) The house was swept away!
maybe ive finally gone crazy but doesnt the way he says this sound like hes saying im in the garage now as in im currently in the garage in real life. Right. I dont know. I dont know
on the subject of belle, she was the first scop i drew when i was getting back into it recently
what do you think belle and pauls relationship is like? ive seen ppl write it as codependant friendship, brother and sister, estranged childhood friends etc. idk where i land 🤔
i definitely 100% see them as siblings.
paul reassuring belle shes his family is the last thing hes shown saying in the whole series. paul is for sure lina's son, and the fact belle was the only other one there when he got adopted makes things pretty clear.
but also, the phrasing paul uses in the second video about belle coming home next month just feels like something youd only say to your sibling. ive seen some people show confusion as to why paul would still be living with his family at 24, but theres like 1203957820 reasons why someone might be living with family at 24. im 24 and i live with my family, and my big sister lives in another city but comes home intermittently.
the way paul refers to his mom having had the game since 2004 makes me wonder why he or belle wouldn't just ask lina about it instead of feeling the need to investigate it so deeply. the way my mind fills in the blanks is lina may have passed away and paul inherited her house and belongings, and belle is thus not very "enthusiastic" about coming home to all the memories.
theyre mutually protective of each other and paul looks up to her and her achievements (smarts, also her being away implies shes become independent or at least more independent than paul has). he also kinda clings to her and she probably knows this. the first thing belle does in their call in 22 is ask paul if hes ok. like aw.
theyre also kind of bitchy to each other so thats another point for siblings for me.
so are we keeping our glasses on or off during sex
glasses on or off during sex
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off
i do not wear glasses (u better rb this)
would paul say lalala or no
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….…..hold onto your balls
im gonna hold onto those petscop asks and answer them as i have time/see fit thanks for sending them. Feel free to send more foo