Hey, Hey! Friendly Reminder To Make Sure Your Supposedly “fearless” Character Gets Their Darkest

frieren my beloved … 3 episodes in and i already love a character, you know it’s gonna be a banger

Queen Scarlet before the scar

so turns out i'm in oc hell right now which is ... so not me, but i guess these characters just have me by the throat because i cannot! stop! thinking about them!

anyway, if anyone's interested, i've got a little blog set up to document these characters and grow the universe as a whole - @lorefolked ! <: even wrote a little something, which is basically just me waxing poetic for 1800 words but i'm proud nonetheless. been a while since i wrote and finished a oneshot so, i'm happy!

also, i'm so failing bjm month. bob dylan is all i'm listening to, so, i'm very sorry july, but my lovely band is going to have to wait. but dw i see bjm in october along with the dandy warhols so i couldn't be happier <3 shit will pop off then for sure. still feel like i need to do something special though? it's been 2 years in the bjm trenches and as their self-appointed biggest fan, i feel the need to celebrate. since i have the special edition dvd of dig! ( the bjm/dandy warhols documentary ) i'm thinking i'll try to figure out how to get my playstation set up and watch the 2+ hours of additional footage that has, like, never breached the internet... maybe find a way to upload it all to youtube, who knows.

anyway, more updates? i haven't been sleeping for shit and i'm really cranky and irritable but i watched i'm not there and <3 yeah that movie is just great. confusing as shit for anyone who doesn't know jack about bob dylan but !! i'm trying! still can't believe cate blanchett plays bob dylan ( kinda ) and she's the literal best one in the cast to do so. reminded me of lord of the rings and how much i love that movie series, and how integral it was to my childhood, so... bet i'll end up rewatching that soon. any takers on watching 9+ hrs of tolkien with me? <3 lol

anyway yeah! that's all the updates i've got, as this is becoming somewhat of a personal diary for me - so, yk. do what you will with all of this useless information.

actually so sad that there are no analyses on jerma dollhouse …. aside from the 2 on youtube i saw but they talk more about the general themes of the story / bringing theater to twitch in a creative and successful way. haven’t seen anything on the characters and i’m kinda starved for that rn! i think i’m too stupid to try my hand at an analysis, but a character study on jerma or emilia or even someone like jebediah would be so fun methinks. whether that would be ignoring chat’s involvement in the whole thing or making it a part of the analysis … would be fun to throw that out the window though and treat the characters ( mainly jerma ) as their own people who act on things themselves rather than being told or forced to. like why is jerma so flirty. is this learned behavior? a defense mechanism?? why is he like that??? it puts him in the most awkward, uncomfortable situations and i wanna know WHY !! again shoving chat to the back of my mind here, just pretending jerma has complete self-control and acts on his own whims … why does he act like that.

obviously i’m taking this stream / story way too seriously but i don’t care it’s what i do!! treating comedy and crack as seriously as possible is what i find the most fun in life. and jerma’s story here is a mixture of hilarious and tragic, something i desperately want to analyze, but again, not sure if i necessarily have the capabilities to. though there would be certain things i’d want to comment on, such as : jerma and emilia’s relationship, dying and escaping death ( then ruining your life by adding on some extra years ), jerma’s friendships and interactions with others, and the crushing weight jerma always seems to carry on his shoulders while hiding it all from the world at the very same time. just a few things i really enjoyed during the stream and would love to talk about if possible. hell, maybe i will sometime, if i can actually get my act together and analyze these characters, plots, and themes. not saying it’ll all be correct or canon, but it would be fun! bringing a bit of reality in.

anyway there’s some of my thoughts on jerma dollhouse and how much it already means to me …

How was class? They applauded. It was inappropriate.

Hannibal 1.02 Amuse-Bouche

The Jack Monster and The Smoke Mother

In yesterday’s article, I mentioned in passing that Jack turns into the Smoke Monster. This bit didn’t seem to fit the conceit of the piece, but apparently I should have included it, because everyone’s asking about it. I’ve added it into the article in an addendum, and I’m putting it here as well. I’ll try to keep it “brief” and “simple”, citing only information we were given in the show.

The Mother was the Protector of the Island.

The Mother explained to her sons that going into The Source would result in a fate worse than death (i.e.- Becoming a Smoke Monster).

The Mother destroyed the Man in Black’s village in a most Smoke Monstery of ways, seen here:

What I’m getting at here is that, as Protector of the Island, Mother both had the powers of Jacob, and was a Smoke Monster. She split her duties and powers between her two sons, and made it so they could not kill each other. It would make sense that the Protector of Important Magic Island would be the incredibly powerful cloud of black smoke that can read people’s memories and kill them in seconds. Rousseau was right: The black smoke IS a security system. A very important one, meant to patrol the Island and protect it for as long as it can. Mother was this being, and she also had the power of Jacob: to make rules, to give others abilities, etc. Full-on Island Protector.

But she couldn’t decide which was deserving of the role. She loved them both. So she made it so each would get a part of her. The Gray Mother split herself into dark and light. The problem here is that The Man in Black became the Smoke Monster. He became a security system that wanted to leave its post. That was problem with the Broken Island for so long: One of its protectors had no interest in protecting anything. Both protectors wanted the other dead, but neither could kill the other. Thankfully, Oceanic 815 crashed and Jack was eventually all “Fine, I’ll save the world.”

So. How are Smoke Monsters made? They dip themselves into The Source. Into the Water and Light. Jacob tossed his Brother down and then his Brother cracked his skull, fell into The Source, and emerged as the new Smoke Monster. Later, Jacob found his body draped over a nearby rock and tree:

The Water and Light absorbs the essence of a person and turns them into a Smoke Monster. But they don’t need the person’s body. So The Source moved the body outside.

So what happened to Jack in the finale? He went down to The Source. Desmond unplugged the Island and was unaffected because of his Magic Time Brain. Jack had to plug it up again, though, and the Water and Light DID affect him. He sacrificed himself because he knew the Water and Light would kill him.

But the Water and Light doesn’t kill you. We’ve SEEN what it does. It turns someone into a Smoke Monster, into a Protector of The Island. The person needs to be dead, though, as The Man In Black was dead when he reached The Source. Then it spits out the body. So after Jack was consumed by Light and Water, where did we next see him?

The same place The Man In Black showed up. (Forgive the quality of the picture, I just screencapped an edited montage from YouTube).

The Source spit Jack out once it absorbed his essence for Smoke Monstering. But Jack wasn’t dead yet. He was stabbed and bleeding, but not dead yet. Not like the Man in Black already was when he fell into The Source. So Jack walked into the reeds, lied down with a dog, and died. His eye closed.

Then, however many yards away, a new Smoke Monster burst from The Source. And this time, it was a Security System thatwantedto stay. One that even needed to stay. Jack’s whole arc of the show ended with himneedingto stay on the Island and to do whatever he could to protect it. He believed in the Island, and he believed that he belonged there. Now he was even more correct than he thought. Jack could now happily float around in his new form, helping Hurley clean up Jacob’s mess, and protect the Island he loved, in the form of something he once feared. He did this for many many years, until Hurley’s reign ended and they could both pass off their power and position to Walt, the next true Protector of The Island.

Now let’s go to the Sideways, where Jack keptalmostremembering his life. Every other character had one moment when they remembered everything that ever happened to them. Jack, on the other hand, needed several. A moment with Locke, a moment with Kate. He kept not quite being able to remember. Now, one could argue that this is just because he’s Jack. He’s stubborn and resistant, and just needed a while. However, he wasn’t that way in the Sideways. That was one of the main points in that world. Everyone had evolved and grown in their lives, and they displayed the traits they’d developed in their time on the Island. Sideways Jack was not as stubborn as Real Life Jack.

SO. What’s my point? Jack spent we-don’t-know-how-long as a Smoke Monster on the Island. It could have been years or decades or centuries. Hurley lived a life just as long, but he never changed forms. Hurley remained himself. Jack, however, was Smoke Monster Jack. We saw what being a Smoke Monster can do to a person. As Mother said, it can be “worse than death”. You lose some of yourself. You take the form of other people, you float around asblack smoke. Yes, its essence is you, but much of you is lost over the years.

Jack needed those extra pushes in the Sideways world, because he was so far away from it. He spent his life as Jack, but then he spent X amount of years as another entity. He lost a bit of himself, and each time Locke or Kate touched him in the Sideways, he got a little closer to remembering his life before the Smoke. He needed a drastic wake-up call like his father explaining everything to him in order to truly wake up from his life.

Can I ask you something, Kittridge? If you’re dealing with a man who has crushed, shot, stabbed, and detonated five members of his own IMF team, how devastated do you think you’re gonna make him by hauling Mom and Uncle Donald down to the county courthouse? Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible (1996–)

clearsight has a spooky vision

screaming crying & throwing up again cause i saw some post a while back about how when scully makes teasing jokes w mulder he always stops and processes before reacting cause he’s never had a friendship like that before….. and like let’s be honest aside from the lone gunmen he doesn’t rly have friends. scully on the other hand, at the beginning of the show, is seen to have friends and socializes but mulder is v much a loner . so scully is probably one of the first friends he’s made in a long while, treats him with a mix of kindness and mirth that he is unused to . and then thinking about the amount of times throughout the show where they refer to each other as their “friend” rather than partner or anything else… like even when they’ve gotten far beyond the point where both their romantic feelings towards each other are obvious, they still sometimes choose the word friend over everything else. even in the iconic touchstone constant scene: “you were my friend and you told me the truth” ……….. like i am going to start crying she is his FRIEND!!!!! he has been so alone for so long and then she comes around and she is a partner and a teammate and sometimes something else but above all that, most importantly, she’s his friend . :’)

i do not want to see these umbrella academy fans try to compare the feeling of that ending to lost’s ending …. do not piss me off pls