#this timeline

[wherelibertydwells]

[medievalpeasantwithaphone]

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The missing tourist submersible is steered with an Xbox controller

[sweetheartinc]

this panel of him rewired the the entirety of my brain btw. my cells died and regenerated instantly the moment i saw him like this. it's been close to a year and i still think about it every day

[bastardpacs]

A Theory on the Red Tie, and Themes of Red and Martyrdom

tommyend: You’ve found another one.

And for that I’ll give you another one to explore;

The red tie at the end of the latest “Road To..”

It symbolizes, represents and is an omen to something. But what three things?

The color red has been growing gradually since the beginning of this story. The next week after Malakai's debut where he kicked down Arn and Cody in the ring, Cody wore a small, red suit pin; a stark contrast against the white of his suit.

Red is one of the most contradictory of all of the colors. It can symbolize life, sin, rage, passion, love, as well as divinity. It also symbolizes war and violent death, as in the red horse of Revelation ('para bellum').

Red first starting bleeding into Malakai's promos when he was warning Lee Johnson, where he held a Death tarot card. Upright, Death is about endings and beginnings, change and transformation. This goes back to the Hindu imagery of Kali, the goddess of change through violent destruction.

Cody returned a few weeks later in a full red suit and massive flame imagery. The most jarring being the Nightmare Family logo on fire. ( 'tot in de assen zijn wij wedergekeerd' - 'to ashes we have returned' - (thank you to the amazing Dutch fans for this translation 💗))

Like Malakai's God promo, Cody is becoming isolated, in his own way, but instead of thriving like Malakai in that solitude, that darkness and rage and sin (the red suit) may be consuming Cody. And whether or not Cody is the fire itself that will burn down the Nightmare Family with him, so that the House of Black can be built upon the ashes, as oppose to Malakai himself dismantling the family.

The next time red was in Malakai's promos was the 'Road To Grand Slam', where at the end was the red tie.

I'll def admit I was stumped for a bit lol 😓 Red is authority and power. But it was the placement of his tie that finally jumped out to me. Over his chest, his heart.

It instantly reminded me of the Sacred Heart. My knowledge on the Sacred Heart is pretty small, unfortunately, but it carries the visuals of Jesus' sacrifice and martyrdom. I've never seen Passion of the Christ, but I remembered a post Malakai had made of the image of Satan from that movie. It's from when Jesus is asking to be released from his burden, and Satan tempts him.

Where Christ bears sin, Malakai says he is our sin. A dark inverse to the Messiah.

So if the tie does symbolize the Sacred Heart, that maybe it represents the sin, and rage/passion, maybe even the blood of the martyr. And may be both an omen to that sin and rage finally consuming Cody, to a martyr being given. I don't know if Cody himself will be the martyr, the Christ either walking the Passion or losing his battle, or even inversely the Man of Sin (2 Thessalonians 2), or if Malakai will view himself as a twisted, macabre version of a Christ, a 'martyr' to the heel turn that Cody has desperately fought...

Cody said he would retire before he ever turned heel again. Before he could take his boots off in the ring, Malakai broke the crutch over his back, in a way denying him this easy way out. We already see Cody starting to crack a bit, when he stared confused and frustrated into the booing crowd and when he backhanded the ref with a closed fist.

I'm wondering if, with Malakai having been goading his opponents, that he may taunt Cody into beating him down. That even though Cody wins their final match, this physical war, Malakai wins the spiritual war by making Cody cross his morals and going too far.

Another image I can't shake for the red tie, if it does symbolize a heart, is the tarot card for the '3 of Swords'. The '3 of Swords' carries the meaning of heartbreak, betrayal, loneliness, and grief ; it serves as a warning for what is still to come. An omen. And both Brandi and Arn came out of separate tunnels to both each other and Cody...

[a-non-ymouswriter]

"He’s definitely trying to speedrun learn about the loyalty tattoo." God, don't you dare! Does that mean that Dream is almost fully gone in that timeline? (in his "split" thing) He has to worry about Tommy, stay hidden, and about the egg... But if Dream is trapped into a corner by Toby or the others, would he go as far as to order Theo to kill Tommy if they kill him? I assume that if Tommy or Tubbo were to die, nothing would happen to Theo or Toby.

i mean

theo would tell dream about the loyalty tattoo, either that or dream will find out and get the brilliant idea to start research early. compared to how he is in Rewind, his fragmentation is considerably worse and he doesn’t have george and sapnap as a support system. so grass dream would be even more possessive and the fact that theo is his- well, you’ve already seen how dream had first reacted to theo’s pledge of loyalty in the first half of Rewind.

it’s that, but thrice over i suppose.

i wouldn’t say he’s fully gone but, pulling him into balance and into where Rewind dream is would be more difficult even if george and sapnap were there to help.

though i don’t think this dream would order the death of tommy or tubbo. not yet at least, he’s not that far gone. this is the exile arc.

but by this time, toby would be more sure in his decision to kill dream compared to Rewind so things would definitely be difficult.

[annballofyarn]

I was just watching the news and this popped.

Soooooo Dean and Cas came to Spain on their honeymoon huh???? I would had never dreamed about this.

[Caption:

Seven desecrated graves and bodies uncovered in a cemetery.

The investigation indicates that the authors opened the coffins in search of valuables.]

[hypbaest]

hi i’m a pennsylvanian !! thanks for all the well wishes guys ❤️ i know no one cares abt us even tho we birthed this nation (and will one day destroy it) but i just want to reassure you the ONLY time pa went red in my lifetime was 2016 👀❤️ do not ever get us messed up thank you ❤️😘