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kairos/con • she/her wolf 359 blog good morning hephaestus crew i have a mouth and therefore must scream about this podcast CURRENTLY: filibustering my annual review

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pinned post because oouhgghhh im fine im normal

hi, im con/kairos (she/her) and my main blog is @kaskaide (don't look too hard it's a mess)!

i have never been good at interacting (online or otherwise) but i swear i don't bite im just nervous! if you need to howl into an inbox or scream about a headcanon i cordially invite (beg) you to do so (it will give me an excuse to scream back).

im gonna post art for this hot mess eventually. will update with the tag when i do lol. but for now i just have thoughts and jokes rattling around in my head that i decided to dedicate a blog to.

proud member of team 'what's wrong with handcuffs' (biggest Hilbert apologist this side of the Mason-Dixon line)

also in this house hera and eiffel kiss sorry i don't make the rules

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just found out that at some point there was a bracket done for sexiest podcast character. HOW DID WE GET HERA AND MINKOWSKI AGAINST EACH OTHER.

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Happy birthday Eiffel! You are now the star of a 80s scifi paperback

Alt version under cut

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relistening to wolf 359

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will you meet me halfway?

anyway i finished wolf 359 earlier this month and ive been insane ever since so i had to get this out my system. i Care for them so so Deeply

[gabrielurbinatm]

Umm so

I'm generally shy about sharing or reposting art of my characters these days, just because I don't want to seem like I'm endorsing one design or vision of them over another. (When in doubt, I literally never am.)

But this popped up on my feed, and I thought it was lovely, and it effortlessly conjured up something that was in my head so much while I was writing Eiffel/Hera scenes:

Tell me you'll meet me

Tell me you'll keep me

Tell me you'll meet me

Will you meet me more than halfway up?

So I had that thought, and then I scrolled down and saw what you'd written directly beneath the art. 😭🥲

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will you meet me halfway?

anyway i finished wolf 359 earlier this month and ive been insane ever since so i had to get this out my system. i Care for them so so Deeply

[hilbertslargepowerfulmagnet]

[captainsalmonid]

i hope they all stay friends forever and move into one big house together and eat a big dinner every day

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... and also the one time someone (eiffel) says "good girl." i'm sure everyone will be normal about this.

[morality-animal]

maxwell should have gotten a chance to be genuinely scary. like she gets some good "girl what us wrong with you moments" but her job is betraying and hurting people. you just know she loves to monologue over intercoms. if jacobi died instead of her Kepler would end up in a saw trap

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weve established the wolf 359 finale ruins everything forever but honestly the series starts to go downhill the minute cutter and co set foot on the station. idk why but its such a big tonal shift that doesnt feel like it fits

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@bearloonz "existential" is a good way of putting it. the first season starts off a bit wacky, but once it settles into its groove wolf 359 is mainly.... pensive. introspective. think Am I Alone Now. Mayday. Memoria. and there's definitely some action and some sci fi, but it's all in service of the character-driven drama at the heart of the story. you know.... LIKE STAR TREK! [car battery falls on my head] there's "Bad Guys" in the strictest sense, but they're still Guys. they're deeply flawed people but you feel for them anyway.

there's a reason that it takes place on a space station: isolation is the name of the game. these people are having the worst several years of their lives and There's Nobody Around To Help. and even when more people do show up they're not here to help in the way they were expecting! SHIT HAPPENS AND YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT WITH WHAT YOU HAVE. you're in a nonfunctional spacecraft hurtling into deep space? deal with it. your hand got exploded by the alien? deal with it. your friend got murdered? deal with it the only way you know how.

but all of that comes grinding to a halt once the uss sol docks. suddenly we're in a schlocky space action movie where we have to Defeat The Bad Guys (actual bad guys, who are only bad and nothing else) who also have literal superpowers and no not like the alien powers we've seen before because those have limits and problems and can't be controlled. they can just do whatever the fuck they want like some kind of shonen anime villain. WHO CARES!

[paint-it-dead]

he's a monstrous heartless villain to YOU. he's a pinup girl to me

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vinnayyyyyyy idk if anyone has asked you before but what are your post canon visions for all the surviving characters??

HIIII umm let me pull some thoughts out of my beautiful mind.

The only thing i have really ever ruminated on is the idea of Jacobi showing up at Minkowski’s house after disappearing off the face of the earth for several months and forcefully moving in on her couch. Minkowski who is in the process of trying to heal her relationship with her husband who thought she was fucking Dead and who is going through a Lot because that healing process comes with realizing just how much she has to tell him about what she Did up there and then Jacobi, one of the guys who was greatly impacted by the things Minkowski Did, shows up like hey lol. Im here to be your reoccurring sitcom side character.

i think Jacobi shows up to her place because he’s incredibly aimless without si-5 work and without Kepler to follow around like a lost dog. He absolutely guilts her into it because he Knows that she feels bad about Maxwell and i think his lost dog schtick really nails home how much hes lost and she feels responsible for his aimlessness on earth. And also in a weird way his anger towards Minkowski is also a memory of Maxwell and that all funnels together into a weird brain concoction of feelings that make him feel very Attached to Minkowski, even if he doesn’t like her.

Any other characters are a lot more vague in my mind. I have absolutely no clue what they would do with Hera and her supergiant supercomputer brain but through the power of “dont worry about it” maybe they just turn her into a home security system or something. I don’t think she’d like it but they don’t have much for other options.

I think a lot about Eiffel’s memory loss and. While i dont Like it. If i had to play in the space with it, i feel like Eiffel should regain those memories. And, playing into the fact that Doug Eiffel is a coward, i think it would be interesting if him regaining his memories on earth had to be an intentional process that he had to work through in order to gain those memories. Because then there is the possibility of him realizing more and more about who he is and having to wrestle with the idea of just taking the cowards way out and continuing to forget. Forget what happened, forget everything he did, forget why he was ever sent up to orbit wolf 359, and just move on as this new version of himself instead of having to address the person he is. Could be fun. Could be silly. I envision him and Hera wandering around his mindscape (dont ask me how they have the resources to jack her in there) and idk i think it could be interesting to play with the visuals of actively having to go find your memories in your mind.

lovelace…. Lovelace…… i want good things for her. I do not know if they would come to her easy back on earth. I feel she would be very restless. I think she would go hard into no-contact, no way to track her down, disappearing to a beach off the coast of nowhere for a while to decompress after four years of the torture labyrinth. I think that has mixed results and has the capacity to tip over into just pure isolation. After some time maybe she wraps back around to keep in touch with Eiffel to make sure he’s doing okay and then just keeping in touch with the others over time. But i think shes going to need a lot of support once she gets down there.

and this is all without really considering any Goddard related nonsense. I think a post-canon wolf 359 has the capacity to just delve into More Story Happening. I think Lovelace should plan to infiltrate Goddard futuristics to literally blow it up from the inside. That could be a fun spinoff series. But thats its own entire thought process and im just looking at this through a pov of “what if they were returning back to normal lives on earth”

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you guys know that quote from LOTR that goes "Don't go where I can't follow". Hera to Doug send tweet

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i dunno what i was just looking at scrolling through your blog that made me think of this but have you ever heard No Children by the Mountain Goats. something about it screams perfectly equitable to me idk. your hilbert rambles make me FERAL thank you and the anon who keeps sending them <3 would love your thoughts on the song if you vibe with it

oh my god yeah i drew this based on a snippet of the lyric forever ago actually

Its soooo. It’s so good. It hits the nail on the head of their dynamic to me. I know you better than anyone here. I wish you didn’t. Everything we’ve gone through is tainted in misery and i hope it all dies behind us and you with it. I like it Very much.

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i audibly reacted to reading this this and my brother had to ask if i was okay and im still laughing. YES YOU GET IT THE PARALLELS THE MISERY AAAUUGHHHHH. my heart hurts so much thinking about them but in a good way. it makes it worse (/pos) knowing that lovelace can never go away like that. im fine

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douglas eiffel regular shirt rotation

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GUYS IT WAS REAL?????

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chat two important updates:

Lula Jane's opened in 2012. if the timeline established by the wiki is to be believed, Minkowski's mission began sometime in late 2013. Hilbert is an OG Lula Jane's stan that's it that was my entire thought

second: Lula Jane's may be closed but the owner published a cookbook!!! it's called "Buttermilk Pie! Secrets from Lula Jane's" and i. might just have to buy it for no reason at all