#citations positives

[unproduciblesmackdown]

an/other thing/s, Of Course

rifling through things again going like "oh yeah, That" & "hmm making connections. great work, me" & "huzzah forgot that entirely / what a delight as always to revisit things" & Pointing these couple times

reminded of wondering "wait did another sibling die in infancy or are they always just out of frame, infantly. or is their mom coincidentally babysitting at the moment" and in a real feat was like alright a wiki sure might have these answers, i'll open it & look things up. indeed telling me an infant hannah was a sibling, died. then going "oh right you're telling me What lmfaooo" re: the wiki's timeline asserting that Mordecai's First Murder(tm) was four years before the fleeing on a train incident?? murder of "opportunism and revenge" like What is going on there lmao, a lot at once, apparently. providing more of a quote that i'm just taking for granted Exists rather than perhaps have to wayback cited sources: "He extorted money from someone who had previously worked for and who had, in a way, betrayed him and indirectly cost his already depleted family a great deal. What he managed to get from this individual was a frustrating pittance, though, so believing himself to be smarter and more capable, he murdered him and took his place as a relatively minor player in a larger criminal network. He used the to position to embezzle money from higher-ups, at first to make up for what was lost and later, because he could. Eventually, inevitably, he got caught." that little Mystery Solving thing where you sure just don't have enough info until you do lmao like What! out here going "starts as a bookkeeper. probably does some embezzling wuh oh" like no way am i inferring "yeah but also previously worked for, indirectly kind of betrayed by some bookkeeper, Got His Ass i.e. killed and replaced him like hello yes it's me, That Guy? working remotely? what Comedy played out in replacing him lmfao and Then embezzles and Then gets in trouble for that" like hello!!! amazing. another win for looking things up ever after all.

which does kind of ramp things up, also. figured "i do remember mordecai's dad died at some point in his childhood & the entire poor tenement living conditions issue & combining that & general socioeconomicpolitical factors it's like well yeah sure so he gets into bookkeeping for perhaps less than legitimate(tm) enterprises, does some less than Definitely Not Embezzling" was motivation for things enough, sure, then like oh uh hello murder years before fleeing??? but add in a sibling dying for increased sense of insecurity and some kind of especial acute crisis specifically uponst this family by some specific party Fucking Around like ah right sure. doling the Finding Out and more broadly being in tempestuous situations always from some point onwards, gotcha.

and well the only thing about the little atlas & mordecai photograph is "oh right i forgot there was that photograph of these two" and the other remarkable point being like, can't really think of another time mordecai is ever shown so Wide Eyed in a "neutral" mode of being. rather than elevatedly bothered, whether at the level of "quite unsettled &/or irritated" or the level quite above that of "trying to kill someone before they kill him and it's extra tricky / urgent" which is very neat of him (to shift o_o mode for that, namely. thank you mordecai for the Drama as always. real [!] visuals) and it's like, maybe it's to cue his being younger? sure has real I'm Baby design, even with also "yeowch. sharp" and resting bitch face design, additionally. complimentary. was gonna be like "sure don't know when it was taken or how quickly this particular of the job was further presented to him, but maybe it's about having a few dozen fewer kills under his belt or something. but like damn never mind even getaway train mordecai was like been there, ["you son of a bitch i told you i'd do it. you're next (i'm referring to a specific post edit lmao. but you can imagine)"]'d that....still perhaps several dozen fewer kills and, you know, kind of a wash to consider the specifics beyond that when it's like sure maybe that'd make him look unhappier in pictures or maybe there's reaching the point of having to adjust to that new norm here. rather than that even with motivation, probably baby's first murder is more difficult than the implicit second through fourth required to Not Be Killed himself. or maybe not. much to consider; all speculative. maybe it's another impromptu unexpected snapshot. maybe he's glad to take a pic with just atlas &/or doing so feels more like a Portrait & this is still his Portrait Face. presumably he wouldn't have had many, or any at all, taken in years. and atlas mustering half a half smile like another giddily joyful day with the boys

#lackadaisy #and only So Related but in actually wayback opening some citations after all #completely different info: someone basically asks ''mordecai gay?'' answer: ''Possible.'' (but not necessarily) let's go happy pride #(actually wasn't presuming that even such Ambiguity would be even semi officially posited lmfao. we're winning.) #(not like i generally expect that anything would be textually relevant for him in the most canon of materials. i.e. main story) #(let's go less ambiguous Acespec as well yippee wahoo) #(oh and also in rifling around sometimes getting to go =] at remarks from the past in a fun context now re: animation goings on) #the full color test of panels when mitzi walks into the speakeasy & chats w/viktor. we'll see if anything comes of it. sure will #some question about would a network ever pick up an animated version do you think / haha not going to happen (which. technically yeah)

[henrysglock]

S4 Victims: Story by Proxy?

Okay so. In spitballing with Em...something stuck in my head.

So we all know how serial killers leave crumbs because deep down they want to be caught/want the truth to be revealed? Well what if the Duffers, or even current Henry, are doing the same thing. That is, leaving breadcrumbs.

This mainly has to do with the S4 victims, their stories, and the order in which they're chosen.

So, it goes like this:

Chrissy: Abusive mother who resembles Virginia

Fred: Eaten alive by the guilt of being responsible for the accidental death of an innocent.

Max: Suicidal over guilt about Billy's death and her response to it. Billy, who died saving her/while she was saving herself from the Fleshflayer, a regenerated form of the Mindflayer.

Patrick: Abusive father, not much else told.

Max (again): Suicidal Ideation, dies, soul taken, but was revived by El. She's now in some limbo-state, where her body lives but her identity/mind is elsewhere. She will likely be brought back entirely by El in S5.

It almost feels like a story by proxy if we piece it together.

So, let's piece it together:

Person with an abusive mother...feels responsible for the death of an innocent...a sibling who was killed while this person was trying to save themselves from a monster which came from Hawkins lab, which leaves them suicidal...and this person lives in a situation with an abusive father figure. This person becomes suicidal, and their suicide attempt was not entirely successful. They were revived by El, and end up in a limbo state. They may or may not be brought back by El later.

Now, let's collect details about our serial killer:

Abusive mother? Check. (No matter how we frame it, Virginia was not a good mother.)

Innocent died? Check. (Henry has nothing bad to say about Alice, which we know he would if she were not innocent, since he does this with every other victim.)

Sibling died as a result of saving oneself? Check. (The Creel massacre was a situation where Henry was, with whatever intentions we may assign for the other family members' deaths, trying to save himself from Virginia and by extension the lab.)

Ended up with an abusive father figure? Check. (Well...an abusive Papa, one might say.)

Brought back by El multiple times? Check. (El was the one who took Soteria out and brought Henry back from being powerless. El was the one who put Henry in the UD/limbo state. El was the one who opened the gate for his return to the RSU.)

IT ALL ALIGNS. So let's put it together with all the feelings involved:

Citations (I guess? Explanations?) are in the tags listed by number!

Henry had an abusive mother who was at least trying to have him shipped off to the lab, if not actually trying to kill him outright. This situation builds and builds, him wanting to be left alone (1), putting out subconscious and conscious cries for help (2), and her targeting him about it, until March 25th, 1959.

Virginia starts it, attacks, and this time she's out for blood (3). Henry defends himself (4). Virginia, being the parent with powers (5), doesn't actually die (6). Victor, Alice, and Henry go for the door (7). Virginia's on the stairs (8). She's got to finish what she started, since her original plan was botched (9). Henry puts his energy into trancing Victor (10), protecting him from Virginia, since logically two people can't occupy one person's mind.

This leaves good, innocent Alice to fend for herself, standing directly in front of the staircase. She's a loose end (11). Virginia kills her, but can't kill Henry or Victor while the trance is occurring. She figures Henry's going to run himself into the ground (12). She figures she can call Brenner in to collect Henry, like they planned (13). If she disappears, she figures it'll go into the news something like this:

"World War II veteran kills entire family in deranged fit of insanity. Wife missing, presumed dead. Son dies in hospital."

And on both counts, she's essentially right. It does basically go into the papers that way. Victor is taken in for murder, and Henry is taken by Brenner, but not before he sees that Alice was caught in the crossfire (14).

Henry ends up with Brenner, the abusive Papa. He's got the guilt about Alice's death, something that makes him sad and angry. Brenner, maybe, decides to push this in order to increase Henry's powers, but it backfires. Henry's powers increase, but he does...something. He lashes out, he snaps, maybe he even tries to kill himself. He's Brenner's prized pet, though, so Brenner can't let that happen. He seals Henry's powers away with Soteria. It's a death for Henry's entire identity, so far as to have him under the name Peter Ballard. Then comes along 011. She removes Soteria from Peter Ballard...and revives Henry Creel. She then exiles him to the Upside Down in 1979, only to eventually bring him back in 1983 when she opens the Mothergate.

All this to say: It could be his own story, told through the stories of his victims.

Breadcrumbs, or maybe...obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Below the cut is where I speculate into motivations for his actions after Soteria's removal, so...not required reading for this particular analysis.

Years of MKUltra torture warp Henry's guilt about the situation into a bastardized, violent, brutal, unethical savior complex based in the notion that he's a predator by nature, but a predator for good. He "saves" the lab kids from a future like his own, filled with nothing but torture. He "saves" El from her ignorance about the lab and intended to have her join him, thereby attempting to "save" her, technically his little sister, from the lab entirely.

He "saves" his s4 victims from their guilt and suffering, which so closely mirror his own, which no one saved him from. I could even go so far as to say he was "saving" Will, who is set up to be so much like him, from a world of horrible people who (from Henry's viewpoint based on his lived experiences) would only serve to abuse and betray him.

This of course isn't to say any of it is right. None of it is right or good...but it makes sense. It follows a pattern. It coheres. The math...maths.

#Citations! #1: Henry often hides alone in the attic. #2: Victor's burning cradle vison (a child in need of help). The drawing of the Shadow Monster. Possibly Alice's nightmares. #2 (cont.): Can all be interpreted as calls for help. Children in distress act out and make disturbing art in hope of conveying that need. #3: Virginia may or may not have been trying to kill Henry but based on the Fleshflayer parallel re: sibling death...it's probable. #4: Henry himself describes that night as self defense/being forced to act. #5: Virginia likely had powers given that Henry has powers #6: Her powers are likely similar to Henry's and Henry has regenerative powers. There are also fishy scenes of her death which imply #6 (cont.): that she may have still been alive. These include: shots from her POV. The fact that her eyes are bloody-- #6 (cont.): but still intact in some shots. The unexplained POV from the top of the stairs. #7: Henry looks very nervous and fidgety at the door like he's antsy to leave with Alice and Victor #8: Again the unexplained POV on the stairs...stairs she earlier runs down after Henry gives her her mirror moment in the bathroom. #9: Henry was successful in disabling her initially which exposed her culpability. #10: Henry puts *so* much time into Victor in canon with basically no explanation why. #11: Alice seems to be a smart and upstanding girl. She might not be controllable re: Virginia being alive/the whole scheme with Brenner. #11 (cont.): The only way to eliminate that risk is to kill her...and we've already seen that Virginia is not good to at least one child. #12: If Virginia has powers like Henry's she likely has a sense of how long someone can be tranced before the trancer runs out of energy. #13: Who called Brenner to come get Henry during his coma? How did Henry end up in Brenner's hands specifically? #14: amerion-main's recent post re: Henry's position change in the foyer shots #End Citations! #This is all very much speculation when it comes to the actual path of events re: the Creel Massacre #but we can all agree that we don't have the full story about the Creels yet...so who knows. #henry/vecna/001 #henry creel analysis #henry creel #virginia creel #creel family #stranger things #stranger things analysis

[the-busy-ghost]

HATE when footnotes/citations are included in a wordcount, some Victorian authors liked to give their books stupidly long names and I don't see why I should be punished or be forced to reduce the length of the main body of my essay because of it

#Verbose Victorians #On the whole feeling pretty positive towards them today but not when it comes to citing #Two citations= 100 words already #If I cite twenty books that's a thousand words down the drain already

[le-panda-chocovore]

Okay so I was reading a fanfic where one of the characters had to say "I am loved, I deserve to be loved, and I am working on my self-esteem issue" 3 times everyday by looking themselve in the mirror, and now I am interested ?? It looks like an amazing therapy, I want to try ! I'm going to do that and I'm beginning today. Maybe I will stop thinking I'm a trash human being after a while. So, here it goes :

I AM LOVED, I DESERVE TO BE LOVED, AND I AM WORKING ON MY SELF-ESTEEM PROBLEMS.

#ominous positivity #positive quotes #therapy quotes #self esteem #textpost #citation #self confidence

[keyrousse]

In which a group of four old friends tries to kill two members of said grup ;)

#The Technical Difficulties #Citation Needed #(the word kill is used jokingly #they certainly weren't helpful) #Tom Scott #the almost-victim no. 1 #sitting with his hoodie tucked in #Chris Joel #being the real helpful friend here although probably the cause of almost-murder no. 2 #Matt Gray #almost-victim no. 2 #being the audio engineer of the group #Gary Brannan #happily trying to kill two of his friends #normally holding a high (now directoral) position at Uni of York archives #honestly this is one of my fav bonus videos for Citation Needed #I'd love something new from them but with Tom seemingly being pretty happy about not having to film anything #(dude really needed that break #I wonder if he went for the eclipse) #and them having no new ideas and feeling no pressure to create anything #I guess we'll wait some more #Youtube

[wizardnuke]

been rewatching xhorhas era c2. essek you lying bastard. he's soooo evil guys his vibes are soo bad. nothing to see here just a loyal kryn noble. top dog spymaster has no ulterior motives.

#guys whys he like 120 and in SUCH a position of power that's crazy. do u think abt how crazy that is in a society of ppl who have 1-2k #years under their belt. what did he DO for that. also consider how war-crazed the bright queen is and essek's specific focus on creating #offense spells (citation: wildemount book). i do not think the known war crime is his only war crime. boldly i would like to say he's been #doing some really terrible shit with the bright queens full knowledge. anyway yeah rewatching and he is SO evil #m9 took calm politeness for a secret want for friendship and ran with it. now. it worked. but holy shit #i mean. terrible shit besides the known torturing. and creating war machines. you know.

[vermillioncrown]

man...like how i get snippy about academic stuff here sometimes, i gotta get real too

it is So Not lol for tomorrow and it might be 50/50 i catch a permanent flight outta here aaaaaaaaaaa

#as in i will flee bc what if he thought my paper was trash??? #what if i misinterpreted his paper in my citation and now he wants me dead??? #what if i freak out and can't defend my position? that's the shit hairsplitting that can happen w heavily philosophical areas #rather than technical work that is 'yes/no' #aaaaaa i might explode aaaaaaaaaaa #academic jerky

[oatbugs]

omg i FEEL you about the asd articles... i'm cuttently studying psychology and THIS makes me wanna go and pursue a job in research after graduating :')

yeah !! you should! i study a very interdisciplinary degree and out of all the fields I study in (ML/phil/psych/neuro) psychology has the most inconsistent, outright harmful, sometimes misinformed-at-best info sprinkled into publications and even lectures and it's a genuine source of frustration ! we need def need more researchers committed to accuracy and fairness and eliminating stigmas, biases, etc. :)

#i think one issue is in many other fields once a better theory crops up or old perspectives are somehow refuted it takes far less time #for new publications and teachings within the field to update. like it takes a while but it happens #meanwhile in psych you have articles and lectures franksteined from older positions that have been frankensteined from even older research #which includes several conflicting presuppositions and sometimes even entirely unfounded assumptions etc etc and it does make u wonder how #the fuck stuff like that gets published in the century of our lord y2k onwards. like yeah yeah were going thru a replication crisis and #meta-research wise we have an issue where quite substantial research is not integrated into the field bc their citations metric never #took off etc etc but even given All That i think this is disproportionately an issue which at least partially is due to irresponsibility on #behalf of already established researchers. some things ive seen published in elsevier journals shouldnt have been there. #i shouldn't have seen a clipart photo of an evil puppet master with horns on an academic slide about ASPD in a room full of 100s of ppl #led by our well-established lecturers. smth needs to change fr. #but fr what do i know im just an undergrad idk 🤷‍♀️ it does come w the territory of being a field the existence of which relies on second #or third order extrapolations + interpretations lifted from first order evidence ig? idk #asks #anon #Ψ </3

[karmhantra]

#elsa triolet #citation #vie #citationpositive #citationinspirante #citationdujour #guillaume musso #je reviens te chercher #penseepositive #penseedujour #penseeinspirante #pensee #pensées #positive #positive quotes #citations #instagram #instadaily #book quotes #love quote #quote #quotes #quoteoftheday #book quote #life quote #beautiful quote

[indovinaindovinelli]

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth"

#mindset #positivity #prospective #prospettiva #disegno #motivational #motivationalquotes #citation #citazioni #marcus aurelius #motivazione

[senzatiaa]

My biggest kink? Seeing you smiling and shaking.

#texte #couple #senzații #senzația #citate #position #positions #smile #favorite position #my posts #shake #shaking

[thatperfectgirl]

Emotional dependence

Imagine that you are a little summer flower. We take care of you, we water you every day. You are happy like that. One day the gardener who watered you as you pleased went away on a trip. Another gardener takes care of you in turn, but he waters you too much, so much that you end up withering away. This story is not about flowers.

#my writing #citation #quote #emotional dependency #flowers #summer #figure of speech #metaphor #maturity #women #glow up #mental health #positivity #self care

[quelque-sous-a-temps-perdu]

un tien vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras

#citation #self care #positive mental attitude

[destinyandcoins]

one great thing about chicago notation style (aside from literally everything about chicago notation style) is that when your professor assigns a paper in terms of page length, those sexy little footnotes at the bottom of each page do wonders to artificially bloat your page count as a whole

#it may not look like much but it's honest work. #two citations on one page? that's like an entire inch of my 3rd page that i DON'T need real word content for #what has MLA ever done for me unless the author has a ridiculously long name #syra's school adventures #this blog is a chicago notation style positive space

[antimonyantigone]

perhaps the greatest revenge to the shit side of my family is that when he googles my name, which is now the name of another man who adopted me, it is only a list of academic achievements that he had no part in

#positive feeling weirdly #googling myself to find some citation about myself for a thing...

[magic-is-true]

#positive #true #happiness #believe #life #citation #try