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if you've ever kissed anyone underwater you know how actually shit it is to kiss someone underwater, but i know that the byler loverslakegate underwater kiss would have been called the best underwater kiss of all time and gone platinum on tumblr and twt profile pictures everywhere

halveablock

we love you, carol

callingfromtheotherside

thewisewill80sbyers

no but from a writing point of view putting that "You said yes. You said yes." is so insanely coded as "these two are going to get married one day" ...

ube-kun

Carol’s heroin

#pluribus

amberstruck

spideywill + mj wheeler except they’re in a gossip article 🗞️

#byler

yoshikaru-by-cheseformice

Spring Feels Colder Without You 31-32

The sweet babies...

#tshd

z0minic

Dont lick the snow!!!!!!!!!

#satosugu

tapacamino

-Carlos-Manuel Vesga saying Carol is Manousos' light at the end of the tunnel, twice.

#pluribus

elizabethgoudge

The experiences of Carol in Pluribus are so neurodivergent-coded. She has managed to find the one person who loves her and doesn’t try to change her. And then that person dies. There is a group of people who meet and shut her out because she is different. She is the only one who seems determined to save the world because she can see the bigger picture.

She is desperate to be seen and loved again, but will not sacrifice her principles just for that to happen.

In essence, she is the perfect heroine for this story. Because she knows the value of the individual, and she is used to the loneliness of not being one of the crowd. She hates it. But she has lived with it before.

#pluribus

cake-apostate

Now that I think about it, in a lot of folk horror stories, it seems like the most reliable information about the monster usually comes from the village elders. But The Summer Hikaru Died is different.

Most of the detailed background information comes from young historians, like Maki's brother and Tanaka. Pieces of information that don't seem to fit the narrative, such as Nounuki-sama as a euphemism for mercury despite "Hikaru" having nothing to do with the metal, turn out to be important. Asako's grandmother best fills the role of village elder with sound advice, but since she passed, it's Asako who keeps her wisdom. The adults who know about the Great Brain Snatcher only know that it's terrifying, killed one of their friends as children, and the Indou's ritual kept it at bay (which is also inaccurate). Yoshiki and "Hikaru" had to go searching themselves.

And to top it all off, anecdotal evidence is repeatedly shown to be unreliable. Impurities destroy memories, leaving only physical evidence like books and records. The villagers in the past misunderstood the nature of the Great Brain Snatcher and the holes, and not because people in the past were superstitious, but because the things they were dealing with cannot be directly observed and conform to preexisting biases. And when it comes to information only passed down to the men of the family, it only took two deaths for the Indou family ritual to almost be lost forever; it's implied Hikaru's father was even killed for finding out something different.

So instead of a story where you survive by listening to the old stories and the advice of your elders, it's one where the heroes look at a lot of different sources and have to keep an open mind.

#the summer hikaru died