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[god-of-my-world]

Hello Charlotte and Literature (1/?)

Hello Charlotte Episode 3 / Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five (page 23) / Hello Charlotte Episode 1 / Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five (book cover)

In Slaughterhouse 5, the protagonist understands that there is no such thing as free will. Everything that has happened and will ever happen is currently in existence. After being kidnapped by aliens, he has been unstuck in time and continues to experience countless stages of his life without regard to time.

First openly referenced in episode 1, Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi novel appears as the namesake of the slaughterhouse in which Charlotte meets and fuses with the Oracle.

The book’s iconic tagline, “So it goes,” is also used to refer to the first chapter of Episode 3, which follows Charles through his life and death. In the book, the phrase is meant to be used in reference to death. Everything that has died is still alive at some place and time, so there is no point in grieving them, right?

We see this paralleled with the constant Charlottes. By creating an infinite number of stories within the house, no matter what happens to Charlotte, she is always still alive somewhere. This also applies to Charles, and his Vincent vessels.

[acecombatmutual]

sum various hc headcanons

- biffas deffo a robot but hes based on a Real Guy so more an android i guess?

- hes the 2001st (special edition) in a line of combat robots developed by some engineering institution which is why hes so good at pvp

- false is scary good at pvp (this is real) so when she teams up w biffa they synergize CRAZY good, almost like she Knows what hes gonna do

- also from @welsfight .. npc grian and EX are best buds cos EX can listen to npg talk abt rustic houses Forever and he just sorta absorbs it & doesnt complain (any company is good company)

- Consider The Following stress was literally a queen before hc and now that the royal pressure is removed shes rly chill (hehe)

- truesymmetry HATES the other alter egos but she gets along really well w false bc false keeps true in line but true keeps things exciting around the fantasy district

- falsie might be superb at fighting but shes also a very adept engineer! (see: clock tower)

- this is the plot of an almost-fanfic im semi-writing but all the alter egos (EX, truesymmetry, npg, badtimeswithscar) are an embodiment of a deadly sin, because a watcher [the ceaseless watcher] 'infected' em with the idea a la inception

- watchers exist in hc but theyre very, very secretive about it- grian definitely knows, x knows because watchers are constructs of the void, but nobody else really notices

- x is fluent in every iteration of SGA- its mostly used as a fun party trick but he also keeps a journal entirely in SGA (which i created irl because dnd)

- EX and joe are best buddies even tho EX will never admit it

- keralis mistakes EX and AX for X all the time and the two of em just have to roll with being called shishwamy for a day

[acecombatmutual]

i headcanon that x is so fluent in SGA that its like a native/mother language for him- like if he just doesnt feel like speaking common english he slips back into SGA and it tends to freak ppl out

[hermioneclone]

You know, I don’t really buy that Snape’s treatment of Neville stems from his own being bullied as a student.

Think about it. Snape’s spent YEARS cultivating a relationship with Lucius Malfoy, who was high enough in Voldemort’s ranks to be (wrongfully) entrusted with a bit of Voldemort’s soul. Dumbledore suspected that Voldemort would return, and it logically follows that Lucius would be involved in some way when he did. So in the ten years between Godric’s Hollow and when Harry and the gang start school, Snape is basically a sleeper spy. 

Think about who is in the potions class with the Gryffindors. Draco Malfoy. Son of the man who he’s been spying on for a decade. Whose aunt happened to be responsible for the torture of Neville’s parents. If Snape had shown any kind of leniency towards any of the Gryffindors (but to Neville and Harry in particular), he might have aroused suspicion. And it worked. Remember, at least Narcissa still trusted him even when her sister doubted his sincerity. 

I’m not excusing his behavior. It’s objectively horrible and not the way a teacher should behave. But Snape's role is more than just that of a teacher in this story, and to totally ignore what he had to do to be an effective spy just dismisses the complexity of his character. And his actions make sense given the circumstances he was in, even if they were deplorable.

[hermioneclone]

Wait, how does Rey understand Chewbacca? I don’t get the sense that she’d have met very many Wookies on Jakku. But maybe she was exposed to Wookies/their language at a very young age (say by her Uncle Chewie) and absorbed it even if she can’t remember doing so.

[hermioneclone]

I can’t help but thinking of Lima, Ohio, the city of celebrity doppelgangers.

I mean, we know that the celebrities who guest stared exist in the real world. For instance, they mention John Stamos who then later appears as Carl Howell. So it stands to reason that the rest follow the same kind of logic.

So I wonder if people go around thinking “Oh my gosh, they look like so and so!” Does Kurt have a thing against Neil Patrick Harris because Bryan Ryan took back his bedazzled New Directions jean jackets? Does Rachel wonder if her attraction to Wicked is because her mother looks so much like Idina Menzel? Do the kids think that April Rhodes/Holly Holiday are just the respective actresses incognito and that’s why they like them so much?

And then to go one step further, what about the main cast itself? Do they exist in the Glee world? Do they watch Once Upon a Mattress and gush over how much the guy playing the prince looks like Mr. Shue? Does Blaine get people singing AVPM to him because they think he’s Darren Criss? Or does it not extend because as far as we know there is no Glee equivalent on TV in that world? (Unless they have Sing! from The New Normal since we all know that was Ryan Murphy writing self insert slash fic and the Glee actors are Sing actors in that universe).

[hermioneclone]

I think it’s interesting that the quote that gets tied with the final scene of glee (and immortalized on the plaque naming the auditorium in Finn’s honor) is “See the world not as it is, but as it should be.” Particularly given the final song is “I Lived.”

Because that was how it should have been. Finn (and Cory) should have lived. The finale episodes gave us just that, particularly 2009. For a moment, they lived.

And yet, at the same time, “I Lived” seems to symbolize that the show must go on all over the place. It’s a song of survival and triumph and optimism and hope even in a post Obama Jeb Bush presidency era. Because what America needs right now is sunshine, and also angels. The end is about life and death and the way that death and endings aren’t really final as long as people keep living.

[hermioneclone]

I love that the first group number the New Directions perform is “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat”. Because Glee Club, by it’s very definition, is about standing up. It’s about refusing to just be one of the masses. It’s about finding what is great about yourself and sharing it with a community that when push comes to shove, has your back. It’s about saying I’m here, this is me, and I’m not going anywhere. I have a right to be me and I will not let you take that away.

So in this case, sorry Rachel, you were wrong. There is everything ironic about showchoir.