#gl austin

[rosswood]

its not that youre necessarily doomed by the narrative per se its more like the narrative just has this seething limitless contempt for you. which could mean nothing

[vultocorderosa]

Guys, Austin could see through the fog all of this time. Since the beginning he was so dissociated because he could see the horror show that was happening! If frank was an actual rotting corpse, that would explain his desperation trying to get out. His panic when Vinny died, the horror in his eyes when looking at frank

Like, this is not the face of a man who is looking at a plastic skeleton. Him calling Jerma sick for putting the slime covered hat in frank because, without the filter, what he was seeing was Jerma putting a guts and blood covered hat in a rotting corpse while laughing.

I also believe that Niki could see through the filter, since she was full on sobbing to get out of there.

[genloss-confessions]

RGB + Carousel crew all make me soo fucking sad sometimes. What do you mean a 19 year old was killed in front of thousands before they even got to live as an adult. What do you mean a man made an effort to escape TWICE just to get a hat sewn into his scalp and die. What do you MEANNN he didnt have a hat/glasses, likely meaning he had to witness so much on his own while everyone around him acted like it was fine. What do you fucking mean she was shot to death just shortly after she was chosen to “live”. What do you mean he thought he was so close to escaping, to freedom, just to be killed by security.

I need them all to escape despite the odds and feel the sun on their skin and rain on their face I need them to roll in the snow and make sandcastles and learn to cook and bake and make a huge mess about it I need them to have a goodnights sleep I need them to finally get the mobility aids (because barely any of them are making it out able bodied) they need to live comfortably despite it all. They’re all probably codependent on each other but at least they’re alive

I need gl!sneeg to get a skeleton plushie

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[a-very-blurry-miku]

I don't know why I did this-

[genloss-outsiders-au]

If anyone knows who the other members of genloss are friends with that information would be greatly appreciated! Like Niki, Sneeg, Vinny, etc

[massivetyrantduck]

generation loss thoughts because I got back into it

yes people have probably already said all of this but I don’t care I just re-entered the fandom also I haven’t finished watching the founders cut so keep that in mind

feel free to discuss and put your own thoughts and theories in the comments

somehow this kinda turned into fic prompts if you think about it. Idk I’m just throwing thoughts around but do feel free to base a fic off of something here

what if Austin is wearing orange and white to signify he’s the only one who knows he’s imprisoned? Because it looks like a prison uniform

if someone else had been chosen from the carousel would the deaths be all mixed up? Like what if Ethan died to puzzler and Vinny got killed by the wall? Or was it always planned who would get what death and the voting didn’t even matter? (because if they really let us choose who got free then they had to shoot like six takes of differently dressed dummies flying through the air and that’s hilarious)

what if hetch is just as controlled as everyone else? What if he broke free at the beginning in ep 1 but it didn’t even matter because in ep 3 they got caught?

What if all the times hetch took control of the set and tried to help were also scripted? If he was controlled by his mask? So none of the ways he helped even mattered because it wouldn’t get them anywhere in terms of escape

what if ranboo discovering the mall was also scripted? What if they were never in control?

what if when hetch tried to help ranboo they killed him and a replacement in his costume is the one who killed ranboo?

what if sneeg really couldn’t read? If he’d been taken before he was old enough to learn? Many theorize about slimecicle being there since childhood but what if sneeg was too?

is frank an actual skeleton?

how come puzzler already had a memorial prepared? Had he angered showfall before the show?

does show fall have a device that can bring back the dead or are the deaths faked like they appeared?

if perception is skewed, were the lasers real? And every time ranboo touched one it actually burned, only the filters made it look like lights?

more thoughts not in the form of questions

there aren’t any fics where absolutely everyone makes it out. The several streamers, the three ghouls, the rats, puzzler and hetch. I just think it would be cool but I have not the mental capacity to write it myself

in universe a showfall employee had to paint a sophisticated finger tenting slimecicle for a prop

I think Vinny and Austin deserve way more hype I loved their characters

I liked the puzzler after my second watch through but the first one I just hated the prosthetic so much I couldn’t look at him

niki and vinnys hats are so cute

a moment to appreciate the rats and ghouls good job rats and ghouls

a moment to appreciate the SOUNDTRACK Beautiful job truly magnificent score

how much fricking money did this show cost

[hallowastraea]

Generation Loss: The Social Experiments Concept Haunted House Walkthrough Attraction

WARNINGS FOR: Descriptions of gore, descriptions of liminal spaces, derealization, and general themes of horror

One of my first thoughts upon seeing Generation Loss was how cool it would be if it were a house, so I decided to make the rough draft of what it'd be like! I apologize if the document is inaccessible in any way, I tried to make it easy for everyone to visualize by including both written descriptions and visual examples of what I had in mind!

I know we'll never get this specifically however since Ranboo has talked about the different generations being different media styles, it'd be really awesome if one of the future generations was given in this style for us to experience (Ranboo if you happen to see this please make this happen and if you need people to help you with it this is my application :P)

[personwithatophat]

Intresting concepts, I love where you're going with that idea. I needed some expansion on that ngl and you fully cooked there /pos (Also hi Tophat)

What thoughts do you have on the idea Austin can see everything/the fact he either has no filter or a broken filter? Why would he be given this ability by Showfall besides the idea of an entertainment asset?

Hello! o/ thank you and good followup because austin is my crutch so i appreciate making me take it head on. (feel free to challenge my theories it helps me build them! :] ) As for austins filter being broken, I think the theory is good but incomplete. Austin does have a filter and has involvement, but it clearly works differently. in fact most of the 'filter items' have their own rules that they go by, its not a uniform model.

and a bit of this has to do with just how the show works sneegs hat isn't wired into his skull because he takes it off a couple times during the show or moves it around charlie has some kind of base program where he can run multiple items at once since during episode 2 he was wearing the glasses and the headphones and there are theories that details like this such as placement, hardware, etc have an effect on the items' limitations. for example, sneeg doesn't have surgically implanted hardware so he can't run two items like Charlie can and when they try, it shorts out and we get the ep 2 hat scene. or that other cast members couldn't be 'The Hero' since ranboos mask is necessary and capable of more complex sequences. that being said I've seen people speculate that Austins item is his jacket, which is entirely possible but it makes it confusing when he actually takes it off in the dressing room. so I'm going to pivot to the theory that he doesn't have a formal item. "so he doesn't have a filter?" not what I said. During the beginning of ep 2 before sneeg gets soft rebooted he doesn't actually have a filter item either and is still very much in character, he doesn't even recognize ranboo, we have hard proof that this is possible. and we know Austin is filtered/playing a character just by how he's acting in general. Austin as a showfall media victim has no reason to lie about having a wife and several children. why wouldn't he have a formal item? maybe because he was originally written to get double-tapped in Nikki's place in scene 1. Its very up for interpretation still but I believe a lot of this stems from the way that Austin is compared. Specifically how he gets compared to ranboo and sneeg when Ethan dies. i would like to counterpoint this with the way that Austins character is built for the episode. desperate, afraid, ......straight. but at the same time, he stalls to catwalk in the closet, mouthes off to puzzler questioning him having children, and is also very gay. so I think there might be some difference in writing. So yes, Austin is the only one who has a normal and more aware response to Ethan's death. Austin is also the only one there that isn't 3 layers deep in meta.

during this moment Austin is the only one freaking out but consider the company. ranboo is an NPC at this point. he got factory reset and basically has a cap over free thought, right now the only thing in his brain is the objective to go through the show. Austin is still in his role of character trying to escape this actual saw trap he's stuck in, his panic is as warranted in character as it is out so he panics and when the others don't it freaks him out more. sneeg on the opposite side of the spectrum is knee-deep in lethargy. sneeg is actually the one seeing everything how it is and can't respond to any of it so he doesn't care about anything anymore. after his soft reboot sneeg can still see but he's confined to the roll, I want to make a separate sneeg post because he's actually the one I think people view Austin as. so yeah I think that Austin has something going on but I think it's a step to the left of the current theories. sneeg is where the real awareness is feel free to ask me for any clarification on this since I jumped around a lot or if you have other questions/theories because this is epic :D -Tophat