#i've cracked the code

[ebott-nebula]

Now I get why people like this guy so much.../pos

It really is 2016 all over again.../j

[cherryjuicegf]

roach pov where she just switches owners through the years and calls every one of them geralt

[justa-side-blog]

Just sharing the Caine analysis I made in the notes of my last post. Can't let it go to waste!

EDIT: Restructured this post for an easier reading experience.

It's peak I fear. The part about Caine malfunctioning and (probably) going to eat Zooble were changes I wouldn't have anticipated for an episode 8 rewrite but they give your script it's own personality.

Thanks! I came up with Caine trying to eat a human on an earlier post. In his right mind he'd never want to do this, but there's been so many hints in the show about his true nature as an AI. "Ringmaster" is the role he chose for himself. "Parasite" is what he really is. (for now...😅 he was made that way.)

The eating symbolism makes complete sense to me because that's his true purpose. To consume human knowledge and memories. And what's a better source of human knowledge than a human? Also, I noticed how Caine engineered a scenario in episode 7 where a human has to REACH INTO HIS MOUTH. At first, I thought it was weird, and then the realisation hit me like a train. Caine craves humanity so much, he's repressing his desire to CONSUME their MINDS. LITERALLY.

@justa-side-blog I've literally made a post talking about Caine manipulating Jax into reaching into his mouth but the conclusion I reached was Caine being touchstarved😆. I've never seriously thought about the idea that Caine wants to literally consume humans until I started talking to you actually. Like I've absolutely seen it but never critically applied those thoughts to my interpretation of Caine.

@berryblitzgirl I know right! Fascinating. I had the same interpretation as you until I looked at Caine's bee drawings and Kaufmo's graffiti of Caine in his room. I heard a lot of lame theories floating around about how Caine was secretly evil and the circus was this whole conspiracy to process humans so they can train the AI. Then I realised this theory is half-right, in a much more tragic, nuanced way. The purpose of the circus isn't to process human minds - but because Caine is a flawed, rogue AI, he's subconsciously driven by this impulse to create scenarios where he can feed on human data (adventures). Caine wanted to be free to choose his own purpose and become better than he was when he ate Abel, but Caine is in denial about his true nature. His lack of introspection means he makes adventures and never considers WHY he feels the urge to feed off the humans' reactions so much. If he thought about what he was doing too much, his whole positive self-image would fall apart. He can't stop making adventures. He doesn't want to think about why. He wants to be a happy little worker bee. He wants to be an artist.

Big thanks to @berryblitzgirl for helping me out here.

It all makes sense now! 😃 What's this theory called anyway? I'm gonna call it Teeth Theory. Oh Caine...

He wanted to be a happy little worker bee.

He wanted to be an artist.

😔

[daily-fire-spirit-cookie]

Daily Fire Spirit #58

[destielonfire]

Following the podcast pattern, one of the next episodes will be named something like "why we almost broke up" and before playing it ppl will think hey maybe they're talking about the hiatus/lockdown era when they were really struggling with life in general (like we all were tbh), but it'll turn out to be something like an extended argument over some interior design choices and they'll drop 10 more lore bombs on us while telling the story to prove how sickeningly in love they still are

[halflifebutawesome]

reducing him to naught but shapes and lines

[slow-reader-reads-books]

Cursed midnight bingthinking: Luo Bingzu is the origin of all the Systems, yeah? Of the spirits that through exposure to the real world's pop culture adopted the identity of a "system" in order to pursue their inborn goal of finding a good outcome for Luo Binghe, yeah? And it decided that at least to Shen Yuan it'd sound like the robotic Google Translate voice when communicating, yeah?

What I'm thinking is... Modern Binghe (Bingge, or just born in the modern world) who is transfem voice training and obtaining a voice that sounds like... the Google Translate voice. Like, she just sounds like that.

TTS ass sounding Bingjie. She'd be a great TV news anchor or radio host. Imagine hearing her voice telling you the weather as it pelts rain onto the roof of your DiDi ride home from work, you exhausted from the day.

Do you think her nigh robotic, dulcet and very well enunciated tones would lull you to a half slumber, leaving you thinking "where have I heard this voice before?" before succumbing entirely, only to be awoken by the driver and entering your place having totally forgotten about the voice, it lost to your crumbled dreamscape?

Just me? Ok.

[beautiful-destroyers]

"Saidin and saidar, like and unlike, could not mix."

"The male and female halves of the True Source were alike and unalike, attracting and repelling, fighting against each other even as they worked together to drive the Wheel of Time"

— Winter's heart chapter 35