#fandom rambles

[aimasup]

one of the best parts of being a vox fan is seeing this happen from fellow vox fans

once i saw a nice shimmery blue dress and thought 'vox would look nice in that'. saw someone package their tv into a box for moving and thought 'vox would look nice in that'.

[kcscribbler]

GO3 Speculation (warning - spoilers)

Rewatched S2 in its entirety AND reread the book for the first time since S2 aired, and I am more convinced than ever that

The Book of Life has been in the bookshop this whole time

Therefore it burned along with the shop in S1

Adam "reset" the world with the beautiful innocence of a semi-omnipotent, 100% mischievous child, and everything in S2 is being viewed through a child's lens

(Hence the absolutely bonkers minisodes, missing characters, and overall unreliable narrator vibe of S2, which I'm sure will not actually get explained in 90 minutes, unfortunately)

Adam didn't quite fix that one extremely important, very specific book properly, and the butterfly effect is only now being seen/felt

(The butterfly effect is actually mentioned in the book as something Adam is aware of)

Rambling Reasons, in no particular order, under the cut:

The minisodes are great fun, but definitely on the absurd side, which would track with a child who wrote a book about detective pirates and dinosaurs and spaceships. The minisodes read as though they're stories in a book, and as though someone is trying to "fix" things

The book emphasizes Adam being really unhappy about both sides "messing about" with people's lives and in the process making the world worse

Something that was blatantly done by Aziraphale in S2 (and which Nina and Maggie called out)

The book mentions Crowley having the ability to see people's desires in their heads, and the book also mentions that Adam basically mind-read the entire saga in Crowley's head on the tarmac at the air base

Which would explain the "married" vibe from Aziracrow in S2, because Adam read their minds and was like "yeah that tracks"

Might also explain the completely random Gabriel/Beelzebub storyline too, because Adam looked at Aziracrow and was like "10/10 solution, let's make this an institutional problem with the only other occult/ethereal entities I've ever met in person"

Maggie and Nina were both cast as nuns in that convent in S1, but if Adam willed himself to no longer be the antichrist, is that convent even still there? Did he recast them into other fates than being a nun? I know we got fourth-wall explanations for the recasting but I don't buy it, not with the weird things like Maggie being immune to angelic suggestion

It's oddly coincidental to me that Nina owns a coffee shop with the name "death" in it, and Maggie's nun character died in S1 (and also Nina's character asked Mr. Young if he wouldn't prefer coffee to tea)

While Maggie owns a record shop and one of the lines Nina's actress says in S1 emphasizes "There were lots of records, we were very good at keeping records" and also asks if the infant antichrist will remember her

Because a child might equate that to vinyls and be like "oh, records. cool." *adds record shop alongside the restored bookshop*

Anyway, there's more but that's the gist. S2 was even more uncanny valley than I remembered and the book was even better.

It's a shame we probably aren't going to get most of the questions I have about S2 answered in an abbreviated S3, but it's fun to speculate.

[honeyed-katsu]

"disliking a character doesn't automatically mean that someone doesn't understand that character" and "some people's reasons for disliking a character show that they don't understand that character" are both statements that can and do co-exist.

[schalastheme]

CASTLEVANIA'S IDEA OF FATE FASCINATES THE HELL OUT OF ME.

usually i prefer fate in stories to be this thing that is either discovered to not exist or that has no real control over those determined enough to choose their own paths. i find the idea that the story has already been decided just because that's how it's gotta be and nobody questions it incredibly boring. this should surprise nobody as i AM the world's biggest chrono trigger fan.

but castlevania... i think it has a different outlook entirely.

fate in this world is synonymous with basic human nature. the future is predictable because we as people are predictable. we create our own cycles. even the very earliest game in the timeline, lament of innocence, is an examination of two opposite reactions to loss and what they say about humans' capacity to love and hate and how THAT is what creates the good and evil constantly cycling in and out of our history like day and night

in each century dracula is destined to rise in some form eventually, not because he's just supposed to but because we, and our curious power-hungry nature, call him. and a hunter, whether belmont or morris or something else entirely, is destined to come to meet him and strike him down, not just because the story needs a hero but just as it is human nature to chase the things that lead us to our destruction, it is also human nature to want to overcome our failings. there is good and evil everywhere in each of our souls and that is what fate is here. by our nature to desire, selfishness will always exist. by our nature to love, generosity will always overcome it. fate is just the inevitability that a living, thinking being can be flawed and can also wish to be better.

IT GOES EVEN DEEPER THAN THAT TOO like even the protagonists themselves are microcosms of flawed humanity and how even the most well-intentioned, even the ones who bring us out of the darkness have flaws in themselves. richter's addiction to the life of battle that makes his mind vulnerable to shaft's spell, simon's obsession with his legacy that makes him overestimate himself and gets him cursed, etc etc... not even the ones "favored" by fate are safe from criticism.

I DUNNO castlevania's worldview just intrigues the fuck out of me!!! it's got the sauce in a major way

[jesterlovescookies]

THEORY I JUST THOUGHT OF

what if the peak of truth costume story IS canon because it's set in a timeline where smilk is a good guy and so is pv but they don't really know each other.

Pv was originally a regular ol pv until Mr time lord smilk swooped in and fucked everything up for him turning him into truthless recluse via the similar methods used in beast yeast ep 7-8. This causes pure vanilla to be corrupted by deceit and hence tortured by shadow milk just like in the trailer for the costume.

This then leads to him meeting sot and trying to convince him to stop with the truth stuff because he doesn't want him to be tortured by smilk either

[transgwender616]

Toxic fans when something that was never canon is confirmed to not be canon (they will harass the creators over this)

[gummysunnybear]

Rambling or something.

If anyone gets mad at dazzle for today episode because she made Jack sad...Remember that harsh words left his mouth even if it wasn't him. Dazzle is allowed to feel angry at Jack. She deserves to not want to be his friend. She's a kid! I have two younger brothers and it takes time for kids her age to ever forgive someone for saying mean things to her.

She didn't even tell sun until July 16th about her secret and as Jack said in the episode it took her 2 years to ever talk to sun about it.

So yeah it could take her 2 years or a month we won't know for sure.