#the notthem

[redlobter]

Episode seventy nine, Hide and Seek. I loosely based this notthem design on Nosk from Hollow Knight. Happy fourth mark to Jon.

[nether-demon-warthog]

ik it’s been said a lot. but season two jon is actually so funny (and sad but im not going there rn)

“supplemental: today martin bought me lunch and made sure i drank. he’s definitely trying to poison me”

“sasha is quite literally not the same person as she was before. she’s fine. i hope her boyfriend is treating her well.”

“tim is literally traumatized and asked me why i have a picture of his bedroom, a few strands of his hair, and his birth certificate in my office. he’s plotting something.”

“elias had to stage an intervention to tell me to stop stalking my coworkers. i’ve circled his photograph in my string and cork board thing. top of the suspect list.”

[tarvyunderscore]

Oh horror podcast, how you've completely taken over my brain 😞

[shitty-tma-aus]

sasha eats dirt and doesn’t get eaten by the notthem because it doesn’t like how dirt tastes

buried avatar propaganda

[rainecats]

Back at it again with another poll cos this fandom loves polls!! And I love this fandom :3

Thanks for the art someone made for the last poll btw??? Should I make these for each fear??? Could make them all sexy to the death at the end

Anyway

Hottest Strange affiliate

Nikola Orsinov

The Not-Them

Breekon & Hope (two-for-one deal)

Gregor Orsinov

The Anglerfish

Sarah Baldwin

Daniel Rawlings

The guy who taught the Anatomy Students

Voting ended onAug 19, 2025

[poetryaboutevisceration]

Hey guys,,,Stranger by Rabbitology is literally the NotThem

[mag-193]

sasha james but she's a lil different

fuck

marry

kill

Voting ended onApr 15, 2024

[starlykree]

I’m almost definitely not the first to think of this theory but what if Graham Folger was an avatar of the Eye?

It makes sense with his behaviour:

•he’s quite skittish/paranoid, very easy to startle

•He has loads and loads of notebooks that clearly aren’t actual notes and probably all say ‘keep watching’ —> eating the pages could be his way of feeding the Eye

•He doesn’t seem to mind being watched so intently by Amy (which seems to be a product of being marked)

•The car crash that killed his parents could well have had him in it as well (it’s never mentioned, since after all HE’S the one divulging that information), except it serves as his avatar death rather than actually killing him

There’s also the other theory/potential implication that he knew the not them was stalking him, thus encouraging him to act weird in view of Amy to keep her watching him, which would probably mean that he knows about the fears to at least a certain extent (because if he though he was being stalked by an actual person he would probably have alerted the police, but if it’s an eldritch creature and he knows that, then he can’t).

Expanding upon this, if we assume it’s true, here’s what I think happened: 

When he first bought the web table, he didn’t know that the not them was bound to it. The not them doesn’t go after him yet, since he hasn’t got anyone in his life that’s the right level of close (His parents, even if they did happen to be distant, were dead, we don’t have any hints that he’s got other friends and Oliver is TOO close)  but it does lie in wait. When he does realise, likely through realising he’s being stalked, he does, in fact, push Amy in order to mark her and thus get her to start watching. 

If we add Oliver’s experiences to this then it still adds up, because the whole nature of his dreams are still very passive and beholding-y, especially in comparison to other manifestations of the end that seem to be more active. The whole thing is how he sees the tendrils, can’t stop seeing them, is burdened by the knowledge of everyone’s deaths but ultimately can’t do anything about it. So while he is an avatar of the End, it’s still very on brand for the Eye and it would make sense that he got marked by it.