The fact that TMAGP begins with boot up noises -- and it's implied that Teddy turned off his computer but it turned itself back on -- establishes that we're listening from the same vantage point as whatever's in that machine. Or the system at large.
So the pub conversation is what confuses me. Is whatever's in the OIAR system on Alice's phone? She would DEFINITELY ignore regulations around not connecting personal devices to the network/etc. But is it following her intentionally, or did it just get on there? You hear camera noises while Sam talks to Colin, so it feels intentional. Malicious or beneficent, though...
The transcripts also say that Norris's and Chester's readings occurs in "CYBERSPACE," which is cool to me because TMA didn't get super deep into fears of technology (certainly cameras, keyboard eating, and uncanny automata could all be lumped in, but tech itself wasn't the "fear" - it was the eye, the spiral, and the stranger). So far technology, the complexity of it, the things lurking in spaghetti code, are front and center.
All of the stories so far have also touched on body modification, even transhumanism (esp. 3), and I can't resist thinking I KNOW where this is going. Gimme that sweet sweet .jmj 🙈
I also wonder if the mere act of categorizing these cases is constructing the new fears.
That maple-flavored american makes great rage noises
Initial malevolent impressions:
🍁American🇨🇦: "I'm inside you and I don't want to be"
☕British🇬🇧: "Lost my sight to disembodied book mind. Ah well, whoopsie."
He's called Butcher
This is so wholesome
I love this scene but the whole time her jacket says:
PUNKY FISH
In the most "I'm the fun one" font
(x)
TMAGP 6 SPOILERS BELOW CUT
TURN BACK BBY
"Just make sure you eat them on site" what, do the mini donuts fucking dissipate off site, Lena? Are you a goddamn Fae Lady, """Lena"""?!!
The SIZE OF THE BUILDING is disproportionate to number of employees... Feels significant
fuckin NEEDLE PERSON HARVESTING FEAR
CELIA. CELIA WHOSE NAME WAS STOLEN? IS CELIA ALSO FROM THE ARG???
they're going to eat Celia, Celia Ripley
Alice feels kinda jealous with the overwrought lampooning of Sam's conversation with Celia
That's what I look like before Pilates too 😌
-Christ before Pilate-
ceaseless watcher turn your gaze upon these wretched things *points to resume*
You cannot quit the Archives even if there's an apocalypse and you die and get exported to another universe. You still gotta read statements.
✨job security✨
Sounds so real. Are we sure it's not real?
Literal fever dream left me with only the phrase "Buffy The Vampire Slayer vampire HOA episode" echoing in my head
Wilding out Celia theory:
- There's two Celias
- One from this universe, one from TMA
- They share a body
- When Celia wakes up after sleepwalking, that's the Celia of TMAGP
- When Celia's at the OIAR, that's the Celia of TMA
- one of them"s a baddie
*tinfoil noises*
- TMA Celia has become an avatar of the stranger