Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living
So tempting to keep embarking on the same self destructive cycle over & over & over again . But at some point you have to put ur foot down w ur own behaviors & be the thing that truly saves u
#this is unfortunately true#it’s not easy to tell yourself Hey Drop It#like you’re your own dog furtively eating pinecones and rocks#but you gotta#sometimes it’s a Hey We’re Not Doing That#you gotta though
Me seeing this for the 14th time in my 5 years on tumblr and seeing more notes and comments but still reblogging it since it’s literally a World Heritage Post
Sometimes Brits forget that a massive portion of America has A LOT OF HEAT. There is no question if you live in the south you need cold drinks, and I know the weather is getting hotter over there too- maybe try the iced tea my good dudes.
One thing I found interesting was that right from the start, Leo's blue flame is shown to be at the core of the turtles' powers.
And if you wanna get philosophical about it, I think the fact that it's a flame has something to do with the way this incarnation of Leo leads: he doesn't just plan and direct, he pumps the others up, encouraging his team. He's their spirit.
But what's more, as the other powers are collected, they surround Leo's flame like they're protecting it.
Hmm...
...how interesting.
I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this...I just thought it was a neat kind of symbolism :p
my ideas on "Anomaly Found - Chase Brody" and the jse egoverse
ok so it's time for me to gather my thoughts regarding The Iris Project and everything that has just happened. unfortunately i couldn't participate in the livestream cause i was in class, but i have just watched "Anomaly Found - Chase Brody" and i feel like i have a decent idea of what has happened so far.
obviously, this contains spoilers for "Anomaly Found" as well as other videos already published by Seán!
before we start, we have to go back to two important videos: "Chase" (released october 13, 2019) and "You're Not Ready For These Scary Games" (released october 19, 2019, which i'll be reffering to as "You're Not Ready" from now on). "Chase" was so incredible when it came out, and the thumbnail for "You're Not Ready" is literally Henrik's face, so i couldn't be more hyped.
in "Chase", we begin with a note of eviction. the note states that anyone living in the house (namely, Chase) is ordered to "vacate the premises not later than September 2019". according to the notice, it's August 8, 2019. things are definitely not going ok, judging by the state of his car and the bottle of whisky inside the glove compartment. more importantly, his reaction to seeing the picture he just found shows us something terrible has happened. he drives to the woods and walks for a while (with many beautiful shots from the mountains and the forest itself). more importantly, he walks towards a very specific set of rocks, mounted on top of eachother like a memorial of some kind. he rests the photo over it and drinks from the bottle of whisky, before being abruptly teleported from the woods to what seems like a parking lot.
on the other hand, the part that makes "You're Not Ready" interesting is the ending of the video, where Seán's screen is abruptly cut by static followed by a black screen. Henrik immediately appears, worried and writing on a piece of paper in front of a computer screen. we can see he's been woking on mathematical equations, by the papers on his desk; all the ones we can see have the letter 'T' in some capacity. after many mistakes, something in the screen fires up and it glitches. Henrik seems desperate and, after typing something, is presented with a psychedelic tunnel of lights; something seems to have worked.
with this, we can analyze "Anomaly Found" with a little more info. we're told throughout the scenes that Chase's family has been murdered (both his wife and kid, according to Arin's character as well as the photo in "Chase") and he has been somehow involved. at first, he says he's killed them, but then retorts a "i didn't kill them". after the ending, it seems pretty clear that the one responsible for their death was Anti - but Chase took the blame, since no one would believe him if he told the truth. this event is obviously the catalist to all the bad things happening with him, from the eviction note to the heavy drinking.
during one of the scenes in the "Project Iris" livestream, we're presented with a poster saying that "ALTR 5914 IS A TIME THIEF!". since we're already aware that Anti's number is ALTR 114209 because that's how his name is written in numbers (A = 1, N = 14, T = 20, I = 9), 5914's translation is either EIAD or EIN. EIN as in Henrik von Schneeplestein. Henrik is a "time thief" - or, more likely, a time manipulator.
in "You're Not Ready", he seems to be working with time equations (remember the 'T'?), or something along the lines of manipulating time using both math and some weird machine. he seems to be a physicist more than a physician - and that's why i think Henrik is responsible for Chase's teleportation. meddling with time is, essencially, meddling with space, since they're both indissociable. if Henrik's machine did work at the end of "You're Not Ready", he has successfully changed time - or stolen it, in some capacity. the success of Henrik's machine is responsible for Chase's teleporting and, consequently, for his inprisonment in the IRIS facility during "Anomaly Found".
now, on to the best part of this whole ordeal: my baby Anti. he looks great, he looks terrifying, but more importantly: he looks exactly like Chase. if anyone saw him commiting any crime, they would obviously blame it on Chase, since it's "impossible" for such a creature to exist. Anti seems to be making a hell out of Chase's life long before the murder of his wife and kid - "showing him awful things", making him hear strange voices and whatnot. we were already aware of Anti's interest in Chase - my question is: why? why Chase? why is Chase so important to Anti?
i am also very intrigued in the whole "i feel like i've been here before" bit, as well as "i have been in this exact place before, we need to leave". this implies some sort of time cognizance from Chase's part, almost as if he's able to glimpse into the future. that could be either the reason for Anti's interest in him or an effect of his influence. either way, Chase has something special to him - and we don't know what yet.
finally, i wanna take this last paragraph to say how incredibly proud i am of seán for making this. the "Project Iris" livestream as a whole was incredible, an amazing feat that definitely will change the way we think youtube content and viewer interactions for the next years. the cinematography of "Anomaly Found" is also phenomenal, and don't even get me started on that ending scene - I NEED MORE ANTI, SEÁN!!!! WE NEED MORE ANTI CONTENT!!!!!
if anyone has anything to add, feel free to comment/rb with it. let's go JSE stans, we're finally being fed!!!!
Right okay, I can't believe I'm writing this but here we are;
Hello JSE Community, guess who's back and just watched the stream and is now highly confused of who on earth Echo is--
I mean, a lot happened in the stream and its all playing in my mind, but Echo feels like something that I should know that I'm just not grasping at? Like, I was confused when Chase was talking to them and he said Echo because we've never heard of them before. But then that got me thinking;
The solution to the puzzle was Magiccircle, right? Which instantly makes me think of Marvin. Now please feel free to correct me in any of this because I won't lie, I have been out of the Ego loop for some time and I feel like I have to catch up on the videos because I cannot remember for the life of me whats actually happened to the other Egos (I think that Anti killed/took over them all but where I got this information, I don't remember if it was in a video, mentioned or if I've just made it up in my mind) HOWEVER I do feel like at that point in time, Anti had been there to "glitch talk" to Chase, but I think something took over that "signal" and that something was Echo! Do I think it was Marvin, who Anti could have possible "killed" and took over his body? Maybe! I'm not sure, the Magic Circle does make me think of him, although it could just be a cool little easter egg, like "look heres a Marvin reference!" Kind of puzzle!
But then that begs the question of, if it might not be Marvin, who could it be? Well, I have no idea, I have a couple of theories, but I might be delving to far into them! But something that made me think about Echo is to search the meaning. Now, now, I know we know that an echo is just the imitation of a sound being bounced back, BUT hear me out, because when I did search this up, I was actually surprised!
So here is the screenshot I took, and something stuck out to me: "to be reminisce of" and i know, I know, this is probably where I'm looking far too deep into this whole thing because Echo could just be a new Egos name that we haven't met! But at the same time, I feel like this could be someone we've already met, someone who may have been in the same position as Chase! Being haunted by Anti, hearing voices, noises! And perhaps the reason Echo can't help Chase escape or isn't willing to is because they've already been taken over by Anti. They're an echo of who they once were. Anti may have absorbed them (or maybe everyone who dies, dies for good, we haven't really seen Jack make another appearance after Anti killed him in 2016) but maybe there's still something inside, fighting against Anti, trying to help Brody, but only as an Echo.
Could be Marvin? Again, maybe, or it could just be a new Ego, who knows?
I don't know if this could help support the thought that it is another Ego, Marvin, Jack, or others, but I decided to also search up what Echo may mean as a name;
A nymph who faded away until only her voice was left? So if, let's say an Ego was killed, or absorbed into Anti, who to say that perhaps everything about them has faded away, everything but their voice, which reaches out to Chase? 🤔
I could just be over thinking this whole thing, but its always fun to try and figure things out!
Right okay, I can't believe I'm writing this but here we are;
Hello JSE Community, guess who's back and just watched the stream and is now highly confused of who on earth Echo is--
I mean, a lot happened in the stream and its all playing in my mind, but Echo feels like something that I should know that I'm just not grasping at? Like, I was confused when Chase was talking to them and he said Echo because we've never heard of them before. But then that got me thinking;
The solution to the puzzle was Magiccircle, right? Which instantly makes me think of Marvin. Now please feel free to correct me in any of this because I won't lie, I have been out of the Ego loop for some time and I feel like I have to catch up on the videos because I cannot remember for the life of me whats actually happened to the other Egos (I think that Anti killed/took over them all but where I got this information, I don't remember if it was in a video, mentioned or if I've just made it up in my mind) HOWEVER I do feel like at that point in time, Anti had been there to "glitch talk" to Chase, but I think something took over that "signal" and that something was Echo! Do I think it was Marvin, who Anti could have possible "killed" and took over his body? Maybe! I'm not sure, the Magic Circle does make me think of him, although it could just be a cool little easter egg, like "look heres a Marvin reference!" Kind of puzzle!
But then that begs the question of, if it might not be Marvin, who could it be? Well, I have no idea, I have a couple of theories, but I might be delving to far into them! But something that made me think about Echo is to search the meaning. Now, now, I know we know that an echo is just the imitation of a sound being bounced back, BUT hear me out, because when I did search this up, I was actually surprised!
So here is the screenshot I took, and something stuck out to me: "to be reminisce of" and i know, I know, this is probably where I'm looking far too deep into this whole thing because Echo could just be a new Egos name that we haven't met! But at the same time, I feel like this could be someone we've already met, someone who may have been in the same position as Chase! Being haunted by Anti, hearing voices, noises! And perhaps the reason Echo can't help Chase escape or isn't willing to is because they've already been taken over by Anti. They're an echo of who they once were. Anti may have absorbed them (or maybe everyone who dies, dies for good, we haven't really seen Jack make another appearance after Anti killed him in 2016) but maybe there's still something inside, fighting against Anti, trying to help Brody, but only as an Echo.
Could be Marvin? Again, maybe, or it could just be a new Ego, who knows?
Thats actually a really interesting point! I can't tell from the picture but if it isn't cut, does that mean he took over another Ego? Or that its a prequel?
it will always need money. It’s an archive. Even if they meet their yearly donation aim now without any problem doesn’t mean it will be like this in 5 years, in 10 years, in 80 years. Yeah you read that right. Ao3 is an Archive. It intends to be available forever. Like a library. Because Ao3 *is* a library. If you want to keep your library, you wouldn’t cut its budget just because it did well last year. Maintaining a library creates running expenses. The purpose of an archive is to preserve data indefinitely, and this costs money.
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