Dec 9, 2024
Control // Malevolent
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Control // Malevolent
You remind us of home.
Control (2019) // The Poetic Edda, tr. Jackson Crawford & Henry Adams Bellows // Langa Edda manuscript depicting Níðhöggr gnawing the roots of Yggdrasil
The Dark Place is never empty like a void. Even at its most shadowy, it is always snarling and full to bursting and brimming with barely restrained potential, ready to lash out and snare anything with a creative spark that will give it form.
The Astral Plane is a stark contrast. Mostly empty, formless and silent and full of light, radiating where it leaks through. Its potential is mysterious - seen in strange violent thoughtforms, in the footholds it provides for entities to manifest their will into material reality through people and objects.
Are they connected in some way? Mirror realms? Twin realms? Sibling realms? Realms that used to be connected, or the same, that are now severed and distinct? The same realm depending on where you stand, on whether you look up or down? Are they supposed to have those characteristics? Is the Dark Place only twisted because of the Dark Presence within? Is the Astral Plane only hollowed out because of the Board? Is--
Beyond the shadow you settle for, there is a miracle illuminated.
Can a place know the future? Can it change its skin? Can it wander?
Even Bureau veterans can only find one key in the Motel, the key that opens the door marked with the inverted Black Pyramid. The rest, the many other doors, are still mysteries to us. We’re all merely guests there. Even the Board. Sometimes I need to visit, just to breathe easier for a while.
started practicing pixel art, and apropos of nothing had the thought "the Remedy connected universe is kinda like Monsters Inc." with hit songs from the Old Gods of Asgard like "I'll Kidnap A Thousand Children Before I Let This Bureau Die" and "Put That Dark Presence Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me"