#wallblogging

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Like.......if you listen to The Wall (and for once I am actually going to be sticking strictly to the album narrative and not taking the movie into account, given that what I was reading was strictly music-based and not actually about The Wall as a general narrative)

Anyway tho if you listen to it, the sound effect at the end of “The Trial”, which is meant to sound like a wall coming down, does indeed signify that something happened. However, it does not signify what that something was. Given the obvious extended metaphor of the “wall” itself, the “tear down the wall” chant at the end of “The Trial” means “end your self-isolation” (probably. there are honestly different ways to interpret things but I’m going to be talking like it was as straightforward as “make the isolation stop being a thing”).

However, the decision that concluded “The Trial” isn’t a thing that’s accomplished in a single dramatic act like a literal wall tearing down. The reason that’s important to note is because, since ending self-isolation is a process instead of an act, that’s not a viable interpretation of the very end of “The Trial” (by “the very end of ‘The Trial’“ I’m talking about the wall coming down sound thing, that’s what I’m going to mean if/when I use the phrase “the end of The Trial” again)

The fact that there are people who are fans of The Wall and debate amongst themselves as to whether or not Pink dies at the end is kind of a testament to the fact that you cannot make a definite statement about where Pink ends up at the end of the narrative. I will admit that the song “Outside the Wall” has lyrics implying a sort of recovery and reprioritisation of things and people in one’s life and the interactions between people that allow them to make connections and remove barriers. However, unlike many songs on the album, it does not make a direct reference to the narrative about the story’s protagonist’s experiences with interaction and barriers. (I say “many” because a few songs - “Vera” and “Bring the Boys Back Home” come immediately to mind - don’t directly reference the narrative but do have connections to things that were a part of it.) And there’s therefore different ways to interpret that and honestly yknow what my brain is done anyway there’s no official ending to The Wall there just isn’t

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Oh. The thing about worms. And "The Wall". What I was going to say was that I was thinking about the situations in which worms appear in lyrics off that album and there's "Hey You" ("and the worms ate into his brain"), "Waiting for the Worms" (obvious), and "The Trial" ("good morning, Worm, your honor") and I never really thought about what those moments had in common but they're all indicative of situations in which the desire and urge to self-isolate was given in to, and the situations in which each mention occur are increasingly intense (self-sabotaged attempt at reaching out to others, destruction and inhumanity, complete breakdown of absolutely all parts of cognition and mind. While the Dictator events are objectively more intense due to their affecting more people in more tangible ways, narratively the trial is the most intense part due to what is going on in the viewpoint character's head throughout everything.) Anyway that's. my brief analysis of worms.

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Things that annoy me include when anybody or any source claims that The Wall has a definite canonical end scenario

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So I'm mentally on about the Underwall AU (as I am calling it) and there's like...an explanation of how the AU works, which is that it's all something Pink is imagining, it's a fantasy he's putting himself through in his mind like the Trial bit of the story but he plays it repeatedly in his mind which represents a new run of the game. There's an explanation for what the characters represent and what it represents when he kills them or spares them (they all represent different things that caused trauma in the original narrative) and killing them is him not working through the problem or effect and letting it add to the "bricks" in his metaphorical Wall, and sparing them represents him actively dealing with the thing. I have it MOSTLY figured out who represents what and it's all the original UT characters (I am yet to decide where the animated characters from the movie show up I mean I really really want them to be there but since they're all essentially just from the Trial I think they only show up in a No Mercy run which I'll explain at length later) Anyway. This is. Welp this is my Undertale/The Wall crossover AU.

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Someone suggested I sew characters frm The Wall, like especially from the animated sequences and oh my god is that ever a good idea why did I not think of that

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things I have discovered today that made me exclaim "fuck right off!" out loud: I never knew that "Sir" Bob Geldof played "Pink" in 'The Wall'... I have never actually seen 'The Wall', so this is an earth shattering archaeological discovery from 1 million years Before Live Aid and totally changes my picture of him. - SCR

(I responded to this the day after it got sent and I have no idea why) Anyway I really am quite surprised you did not realize that Geldof had played Pink? I somehow assumed that was the best-known trivia fact about him or whatever (like, as far as things not directly related to his music went). Sometimes an earth-shattering discovery just happens like that, though.

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It’s 2016 and people are even still making “if you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding” jokes. Bless.

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While searching for things, I found a crossover drawing between The Wall and MLP (linking here not so you can send hate to the person cause please don’t do that just out of any one else’s curiosity)

The reason I say this is because I’m pretty sure this is a drawing of Pink as a pony and, in explaining this drawing to someone, I called him Floyd Ponyton and I’m very disappointed that I made this pun and the creator of this drawing didn’t