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i've seen people pointing out potential loopholes in some of Jigsaw's games with "why didn't they just do [something technically possible but not in line with the stated rules]?" and I agree in the sense that if John was Actually testing the "survival instinct," he would commend his subjects finding innovative ways to beat his traps. but he isn't. he wants the game to go his way and be played by his rules because he's bitter and vindictive about the hand he's been dealt in life.

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Mandyyyyy :3

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I do not draw well but here is a funny little sketch of Gabriela I did on my chemistry test lol . based on that one Twitter thread someone said was her..

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my shit ass gay ass adopted daughter keeps fighting with my doctor while I am having seizures and a brain bleed. how do I let her know I am lgbt positive but crestfallen by her human nature remaining morally unchanged in the face of transformative physical and psychological tribulation.

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all these fics where perez gets food poisoning or gets the flu just so that strahm can be left alone in the office for hoffman to come find him for crazy hate sex. misogyny is rampant in our society. where are the stories where STRAHM gets a migraine so bad he throws up and LINDSEY gets left alone in the office and AMANDA drops by to fuck the shit out of her. Its 2023

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i’m aware that u guys are literally just writing what u know because in CANON she gets her head (almost) exploded by a puppet and is hospitalized and put into witness protection just so that strahm and hoffman can hover around the bloody hospital bed where she ‘died’ and jeer at each other and rub each other off or whatever. i get that bousman has prepared you for this evil gay scenario . i ask again. where are the fics where strahm gets SUCCESSFULLY cubed and perez goes crazy w grief and becomes obsessed with catching amanda ?!?!?!? HELLLOOOOOOOOO 🪤🪤🪤🪤🪤🪤🪤🪤

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We don't talk about that one Cecilia deleted scene enough because first of all "You're right about me. I'm a huge disappointment to my father. Great scientist, horrible dad. I grifted off his name. Shitting on his legacy was just a bonus I admit that. I rope, and I steal, and I cheat money, that's supposed to go to some government, or somebody's children I don't care. I admit it. Why can't you admit to who you really are?" UMMMMM. WHY DID THEY REMOVE THAT?? not only does it give so much more humanity to Cecilia by establishing her poor relationship with her father but it also is really such a selling point for how much of a psychopath she really is, and the fact that she looks completely empty while admitting to all that adds to it so much. I'm so sick

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easily the funniest part of saw vi is when that insurance guy is forced to choose between saving an old woman with a family or a young man who apparently has no friends or family at all (?) and to really drive the point home, he's shown photos of this woman smiling with her family, contrasted with photos of this poor intern who is just like. alone in his car. eating lunch alone. sitting on a bench, alone. and it's literally that scene from parks & rec

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i think what frustrates me the most about people claiming that William Easton had changed and felt remorse is that he didn't express either of those in the film. when confronted with Tara and Brent Abbott, when he's reminded of what his actions did to them and told that his life is in their hands, all he does is beg for forgiveness. he doesn't even apologize. Tara says she's pulling the "Kill" lever because she couldn't forgive herself for what he might do to someone else and Easton doesn't say he won't or that he'll change his ways or anything that would indicate he wouldn't go back and do exactly what she feared he would. he just keeps pleading for his life. it's hard to believe that he became less heartless when he had the opportunity to finally acknowledge the harm he caused and all he thought about was himself.

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amanda's reverse bear trap scars are something that can be so personal

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KerryGate Theory

title is how a couple of us on the SAW subreddit initially referred to this headcanon. i'm mostly posting this so it's clear what i'm referring to in my pinned post. the short version: Hoffman rigged the traps in III to guarantee the fatal domino effect ending. The long version:

My headcanon is that Amanda didn't rig traps. For your consideration: it's a plot point that indicates Hoffman's involvement, in canon, that she couldn't have gotten Kerry up there alone, meaning Hoffman would have also known her trap was rigged or that Hoffman did it. We see Hoffman rig traps on screen and Amanda acknowledges that what they do is already murder whether the traps are rigged or not - what if Amanda didn't rig traps and Hoffman did it instead? I personally do like the thematic implications of Amanda rigging people's traps because she doesn't think people can change, but this is probably my most tinfoil-hat SAW theory because it makes it so much worse if she didn't even do that

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lawrence is such a bitch i think it’s tragic we were deprived of ever seeing him interact with resident bitchboy special agent peter strahm.

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strahm: doctor gordon. apologies for bothering you at work bu-

lawrence: let me guess. you’re having difficulty solving another murder and have decided to try and pin it on me. i should really start emailing you my daily schedule.

strahm: would certainly save us all a lot of time. but for now, just tell me, doctor gordon. where were you on saturday night between the hours of 10pm and 2am?

lawrence: hmm, let’s see. saturday night, 10 to 2? i was at home, with my boyfriend. which alibis out adam, too. it was a warm night, so we left the windows open, and i’m sure some neighbours can verify our presence at home if required. or, you could stop wasting your time harassing me and try to find the actual jigsaw killer. you have nothing to tie me or my partner to these crimes, and the continued interrogations are starting to feel very targeted. i’m sure it’s exhausting to repeatedly fail at what you were hired to do, but there’s no need to take it out on those of us who can do their jobs.

strahm:

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okay so @shakedog made this post about mark hoffman and it got me thinking.

i find it interesting that every jigsaw apprentice was lonely before being picked up by john.

amanda didn't have anyone to fall back on after her own game. the only other person connected to her that we know of is cecil, and he was john's first victim. he died well before her game. she was a lonely survivor, traumatized and scared, not to mention a substance user who got punished for it, so is it any surprise that she latched onto the first person to offer her both compassion and a purpose?

lawrence was a lonely survivor, too. with adam dead, with his wife divorcing him (no ring is saw 3D), it wasn't unreasonable for him to cling to the man who put him in that bathroom, but who also cared for him afterwards, cleaning his wound, even providing him with his first prosthetic. and if lawrence convinced himself that what he was doing was good, that he was helping people... well, he needed a purpose too.

mark was lonely way before john even learned of his existence. and then, with his sister dead and his revenge exacted, what was there left for him to do? when john came for him with blackmail, why wouldn't mark help if the alternative was, what, continuing to support the system that failed to punish his sister's murderer? and to what end? at least while working with john he could make sure that criminals were properly dealt with.

and in the end, their involvement with jigsaw did nothing to alleviate their loneliness. they never even got along. amanda died, bleeding out on the floor beside the man who promised to help her and couldn't deliver. mark was left to die in the bathroom with only corpses for company, just as he worked in the department full of dead people. and lawrence lived on. the last man standing.

meaning, naturally, that he was once again completely alone.

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thinking about how the screen coloring/lighting was the same when Amanda was “reborn” in the reverse bear trap and when she died in saw 3…..#thinking

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after having to listen to adam and lawrence’s gay soap drama shit for hours in the bathroom john makes a note and tacks it to his planning desk thats just “NO MORE LONG TESTS” underlined four times and highlighted