Spiralling-spires - The Spiral's Special Little Boy

I follow so many gimmick blogs. I see a blog that posts random fish under posts. Follow. I see a blog that posts isopods. Follow. I scroll through hellsitegenetics and find out there’s a similar one for proteins. Follow. My feed is a mix of tmagp theorists and random animals/science/data analysis/screenshots of specific items in movies/i think i follow someone who posts pictures of rick astley/birds/whatever. It’s glorious. There’s nothing fraught about a scrub jay. 10/10 highly recommend this tumblr experience

Btw i havent listened to tma s5 yet so I’ll be a little late to tmagp. This also means: my posts will be 100% tmp spoiler free until such time as I finish tma!

when u are holding a hammer everything looks like a nail -> when u are holding a point and shoot camera every sight looks incomparably ephemerally beautiful

I still have some spop brainrot in me despite the recent prevalence of tma

Anyways i feel like entrapta would be an avatar of the- *gets dragged offstage*

A very happy birthday to Her Majesty the Queen of SCIENCE!

I’m actually working on a corruption michael design (inspired by a bit with a friend involving jane prentiss and worm on a string) because jane and michael are really quite similar when you think about it. Im genuinely tempted to do a set of designs for him based on each fear now, seeing how each fear could overtake the same character is so fascinating. And this interpretation of the dark, going from the more traditional literal darkness and the unknown within it, to an intentional ignorance (whether intentional on your own part or another’s)… it seems obvious in retrospect but it never really crossed my mind, somehow!

Aaah! Lovely thoughts!!

If he hadn’t been sacrificed, I feel like Michael would have been more a victim and/or avatar of The Web.

I highly doubt Michael was stupid. To be honest, he strikes me as neurodivergent of the “if I just go with what they say, they won’t hate me” variety. He trusted gertrude to not… y’know. Kill him. I feel like that’s a pretty low level of trust, all things considered. He probably knew she was planning *something*, though he grossly underestimated the scale. Consider also that Gertrude was trying to intentionally deceive pretty much everyone so that she could go around obliterating Rituals and being a general pain in the ass to Jonah. It’s not a mark against someone to have been tricked by Gertrude. Hell, he was in an echo chamber designed to keep him ignorant!

Point is, Michael wasn’t stupid. He was scared. He was scared of being hated and left behind and not being enough for others. He was scared of failing people. He’d fall into anyone’s schemes, take any number of hits, whatever it would take to have people stick around and hopefully, maybe, protect him in return.

If it hadn’t been Gertrude and her assistants specifically, if it hadn’t been Fears and supernatural entities and attempts to end the world, he would have been manipulated, rather than lied-to-and-manipulated. He could break the Great Twisting because he *had* been lied to, not because it was the core of his fear. (Ignore for now that the Twisting wouldn’t have worked anyway, if 160 is to be believed.)

And every fear has a bit of manipulation in it, Gerry’s colour analogy rant and all. But The Web relishes in manipulation, in telling you true things that will lead you to the wrong conclusions to do what it wants. Michael was told he could stop a great evil. True! Sort of!

Anyways, Web!Michael when

LOUDLY POINTS AT THIS

I feel like id be a really annoying eye avatar. Annoying to beholding specifically. Id be summoning its attention all the time like “ceaseless watcher whats the square root of 906” “ceaseless watcher check out this cool rock i found” “ceaseless watcher whats the song thats like (bad singing)” “ceaseless watcher did you know cellar spiders hunt by pretending to be caught prey and then eating the other spider” “ceaseless watcher where did i put my keys” eventually it’d stop listening to me. And then id be invisible muahahaha

Hi everyone long time no see. There’s a post on the miasworld tag by maddogs187. That is a pornbot. Don’t click on it, don’t click on the profile, they aren’t a new fan, they’re a pornbot with a very nsfw page. Shame the bots hit the miasworld tag somehow (it’s such a small corner of tumblr, h o w)

FOUND THE POST AGAIN I WAS TALKING ABOUT IT LAST WEEK N COULDNT FIND IT AND THEN SOMEONE LIKED IT AND I SAW THE NOTIF WOOT

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.