#tbf its 1am

[thepixelelf]

january 🍓❤️

#never been able to take a bright picture in my life actually #tbf its 1am #stickynotes.tpe #pinkpinkpink

[ferretwhomst]

Holy Shit I Just Realized Something (toh finale spoilers and Badly Structured, Massively Long Rant up ahead)

when we first meet willow in early s1, she's in the abomination track and as we all know she is Struggling. abomination magic just doesn't come as naturally to her as plant magic, which is fine, but it isn't being addressed by the school.

soon enough she gets switched over to the plant track as she wishes- i don't remember the exact details of the episode, it's been a little while, but iirc principal bump shows up after willow covers the entire inside of the school in vines and basically goes "no, i'm not punishing you, instead i'm switching you to the plant track because you're clearly more skilled at this type of magic."

which none of us really thought about, right?? maybe some of us were like "hm, that was a bit abrupt" but we didn't think too much of it because we didn't have much of an idea of bump's character yet.

not much later, it's revealed that bump himself is a part of the abomination coven. (it's not exactly Discussed but his sigil is visible in some shots, like this one.) he is bound by sigil to be restricted to abomination magic and nothing else.

one slightly less relevant detail that i find interesting is how he doesn't Look like an abomination coven member, and so he seems a lot less invested in his status as an abomination witch. now you may be thinking: ferret, that's a moot point because 1. not every magic user is going to have their preferred type of magic/coven/track whatever implemented into their design and 2. princy b wears his Principal Robes every time we see him up until the finale, so it would be difficult to implement those details into his design anyway.

now, that second point is actually, uh. Fair. but as for the first point, allow me to explain

here are two prominent abomination coven members, darius deamonne and alador blight

both of them are pretty obviously abomination coven members right off the bat. darius, being a coven head, has a Shit ton of purple in his design to indicate this (and that's not even including his hair). with alador, this is toned down, but it's still obvious by the permanent abomination goo stains on his coat (and also by the fact that he apparently doesn't wash his hands after working on the abomatons /lhj). these two are specialists, in different ways, of course, but ultimately their skills lie in abomination magic, and neither of them have expressed a wish to try other types of magic at this point.

but here's the thing. as far as i can tell, bump is Not a specialist. while he is a skilled abomination witch, we rarely see him make use of the fact except for during fight scenes- he doesn't seem very invested in it. plus, when we see him during the epilogue, he's enjoying a new hobby, which is...

...plant care, much like willow! :)

(side note i love the holes in his hat for frewin's horns)

now, of course you could interpret this as bump simply discovering a New hobby between where wad left off & the epilogue. but to me, this says that all this time he was held back from his passion for plant care for multiple reasons, for example his job as the principal of hexside definitely put a strain on him in terms of how much time he could spend doing things for himself. but now that he's retired, and the coven system has been dismantled, he can spend more time doing things that bring him joy, just like many others in the epilogue.

this means that when he saw what willow was capable of back in s1, and transferred her to the plant track, he was really saying "i see you're struggling, and i won't let you go through what i went through by forcing you to go down a path that isn't yours." and god he means so much to me for that.

anyways end of rant, if you're here reading this i sincerely congratulate you for getting this far without passing away . i am very unnormal about hieronymus bump and it shows.

(also, PLSPLSLSS reblog this if you agree i spent like an hour here sitting here typing this all up on my phone at 1am AHDKDJFJE)

#toh #the owl house #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #toh speculation #principal bump #principal bump toh #hieronymus bump #willow park #willow toh #alador blight #alador toh #darius deamonne #darius toh #only mentioned them briefly but why not tag them as well #anyways i love bump more than i can begin to express #ferret rambles #sorry this is mostly incoherent but tbf on me its past 1am on a school night and ive been sitting here brainrotting for over an hour

[huntressofartemis001]

im at at the family christmas dinner party and the (8yo) daughter of the hostess just hugged us goodbye and we asked “why, are you leaving?” and she looked at us with the sweetest face and said “im not. you are 🥰🥰”

#and tbf she’s right. its 1AM #just my family #og post

[drpepperisthedarlingofmysoul]

Nothing beats 1am clothes washing

#tbf nothing beats 1am anything #e.g. 1am breakfast is alsways peak #*always #also! why does no one tell you that you can just sit on the floor with the tumble drier next to you doing its thing and fold your clothes?? #like this is the best thing ive done in a bit #im begging myself that i remember i can do this next week

[sunredamancy]

Disclaimer: This is an edited snippet of a conversation is between Kuro and Katze, mediated by me as I share screenshots between the two of them.

CW: Guns.

Kuro: [Katze] what gun would you fuck me personally id go for a good old roulette a revolver i mean english wasnt englishing

Katze: uhhhhhhhh hm it depends on the mood depends on in which country/timeline i got into trouble too a revolver is always a good choice. but i’m thinking smth like a mosin nagant, a friend you’ll have through 100 years or this mf https://cheytac.com/product/m200-intervention-2/

Kuro: holy shit would hold on id let this hit too M249 SAW for the pure aesthetic alone its so pretty

Katze: OH FUCK YEAH BRRRRRRRRR SEXY AS HELL have we considered this

i’m not sure how would it work but

Kuro: no i get it i like any kind of machine guns tbf esp the modern ones

Katze: so true. i like the older ones just for all the wood colors and whatnot but i support you very much it’s 1am me sleepy i’m gonna go listen to the overwatch voice (no not the game. no. the hl2 omniscient radio.) and sleep gn fuckers

Oh, that's good. I was wondering what's my capacity and patience for a conversation between my darlings before I have to torture you both with a boker kalashnikov and carve out your eyes. Love you.

#solar babydoll #solar rebel

[sag-dab-sar]

Bookcase Organization Project (?): Pagan Bookcase

... At 1am. Its a subset of my Room Project.

So I have 4 bookcases (and a small single shelf one "Bedside Bookcase") in my room. After a significant flood warning I had to move all the books and items on their bottom shelves to the top and absolutely did not have the energy to put them back. Now I'm using the need to put them away to A.) Go through and look for books I want to give away. B.) Reorganize them C.) Dust the hell out of these bookcases ew.

But oh my Gods, my book organization that I had carefully put by "genre", has gone to absolute complete shit on 3 of my bookcases including my largest.

This book case I've always referred to as my "Pagan Bookcase". And well, I got the random urge to do some To Do Tasks even though my fatigue is so high. I think the anxiety and severe stress over my room defeated the fatigue for like 0.5-1 hour, that and I organize a lot when I feel very depressed & "empty" emotionally.... and I'll probably pay for this physically.

Anyways, I used the opportunity to fix some shit in closet (that stuff also had to be moved due to flood watch) it only took a few minutes. Then I kept thinking about this bookcase and thinking and thinking and thinking— and it just wouldn't stop no matter how hard I tried 😵‍💫 compounded by insomnia.

So I just went through the entire damn bookcase. Putting books I don't want in a box, moving any related books (except 6) from my Bedside Bookcase to these organized piles (I'll pick which ones I want at bedside when all the bookcases are organized)

Obviously I haven't put them on the shelves yet or cleaned the bookcase. BUT I've looked through them and TECHNICALLY organized them. And I have to work in baby steps so this is definitely an accomplishment. And I need to recognize it as an accomplishment even if its not "completed." I never would have called this an accomplishment before— my views are slowly changing its something mg CFS/Long Covid specialist has mentioned to me. Recognize accomplishments no matter how small, and even if done with help, and you'll feel less shitty (...paraphrased obvi)

*The "ANE Religion history" is mislabeled its both ANE and Greek.

I know some ANE general history is on my Big Bookcase and I'm not sure if I should move all of the ANE general history to the Big Bookcase or move whats over there rn to this bookcase. The ANE general history books contain religious info even if its not their main purpose. So I'm leaning towards putting it all here..... if it can even fit.

I don't agree with plenty of these books but I find giving books away very difficult I'm surprised I found more than like 2 I'm willing to give up. TBF This bookcase does cover 13 years of my religious path. (Big orb is my night light)

. . . I have too many books

-Dyslexia not audio proof read-

#bookcase #accomplishment #books #chronic fatigue syndrome #long covid #michibooks #my whacky life #chronic illness #disability

[ranboo5]

Me standing at my conspiracy board trying to make sense of death on the DSMP and what limbo even is and how the Soul is doing/WHAT the Soul is because it appears to contradict Wilbur and Ghostbur lore as stated but neither Wilbur and Ghostbur lore nor the Soul and the Mind are strictly necessarily correct understandings and neither conclusively make sense. I keep coming up with explanations as to what the Soul is missing but the best one I currently have reeks so bad of “you’re making this up as best you can” but like atp maybe I have to? This also sticks around with the feeling of how this is assumably the Last Lore Stream from Q which is deranging bc it doesn’t resolve the absolutely nonsensical Ranboo parallels and like maybe Q will show up again but that’s the last stream of Las Nevadas Arc? Bc that was the concluding scene of that arc but it makes No goddamn sense as to why Ranboow as included there unless it was for Mexican Dream to bounce off him for El Rapids lore but that could’ve vbeen achieved with Mexican Dream running around El Rapids (Limbo) could it not? Does MD have a ghost? Is Glatt canon? Is Ghostbur a part of Wilbur or not? What purpose does permalimboing Ghostbur serve in universe or metanarratively? Why did resurrection necessitate Ghostbur being sent back to Limbo while Ranboo’s component parts have to be reconnected? Is it a trauma metaphor? Ghostbur makes like half sense for that at best. Are either of these things even true? How does this fit in with the corpse is the crown bc again I have an idea but am I just seeing patterns where there truly aren’t any? What the hell about Tommy and his Limbo? What about Jack Manifold??? Where are Vikkstar and Lazarbeam? Are they even dead? Did Dream find a way to extra-kill them? Does Dream have them held captive somewhere? Did Techno mean he wasn’t used to operating on three lives or that he didn’t have three lives because when Aimsey died they freaked out because they didn’t expect to have two more so onec an assume this happens when you get on the SMP except then why didn’t it operate on Philza and I know this is a roleplay and the death mechanic has literally never been consistent because it’s fully been not-even-made-up as it goes along and I am not even complaining even tho iut’s annoying because there is a charm to the fundamental lack of Dream SMP bible it’s like what crypto bros want you to think blockchain is

Anyway I DO stay winning because of the confirmation that the Soul is in fact like the Mind doing its best to survive and possibly sabotaging efforts in the process unintentionally (the swimming) but also I stay losing because so if the Mind cannot properly feel anything what is the Soul’s analogous situation becaus ethe best interpretation of it I have which I quite like but also mkes me feel insane is that like . Yk the “limbo is what you expect it to be” meta (still my favorite one) the Soul is trapped and even when it’s untrapped and meeting others it is subject near entirely to their whims it is not able to act on its situation in any meaningful way while the Mind IS able to act on his situation in meaningful ways but gets none of the feedback from it immediately which HAS been my understanding tbf and why am I doubting this this is just what is going on?? What has this post been about it’s 1AM this is stream of consciousness

[space-kitten-606]

#mystic messenger #mystic messenger saeyoung choi #mystic messenger 707 #i wish I could say this is purely a joke #but I am literally crying right now #he's so wonderful and perfect and precious and........ #all the things #god #tbf its 1am and I should probably go to sleep

[castawavy]

I really think I would be happier with pastel green hair 

#only one way to find out as well tbf #✨ #IDK JUST FEEL LIKE doing something #drastic #also its 1am and Im sad that im not cute LMAO #or handsome #Id love to be handsome #PLS #ok TO BED WITH ME

[deansawkwardbrother]

Metatron said that one time he'd go to another planet or some shit while he was in Heaven's jail, but,

I just randomly thought about endverse!cas and how he became human because the angels and god all left. So if metatron left, depending on how far he went, wouldnt he also become human and die?

Idk im just tired

#this may be idiotic but tbf its 1am #spn #metatron

[feralenby]

Fallout is a good game because it crashed approximately 7 times while i was doing the hunter/hunted mission, and has crashed a handful of times much more often than before this last month or so

#tbf i #downloaded a bunch of mods and use a cheat shotgun for everything #BUT ITS NOT MY FAULT OK #fallout #its 1am

[petalsandpurity]

wanna write some James and Keith friendship but idk what to write :(

#i might take to pinterest im that desperate haha #alrhough tbf pinterest is so good for prompts #yes its 1am dont judGE ME

[skyonfilm]

february productivity challenge, 03 feb 22

🥞

3. what's your nighttime routine like?

i don't really have a routine tbf. i usually start chilling in my room alone typically from 8-ish, i sometime do uni work but i mainly watch youtube videos. i try my best to keep my room tidy but i fail most days. i sleep around midnight to 1am most nights but its been much later atm coz of semester break.

🥞

i ran out of recent pics so here's one from 6 and a half years ago (im shaking at the fact that summer 2015 was that long ago)

#february productivity challenge #studying challenge #skystudiees #blog #featured #studyblr #study #study blog #study mood #study motivation #study space #study inspiration #studying #film studyblr #filmblr #uni student #university student #university

[literaphobe]

Even when Americans fully wake up like asia+aus+europe combined have more fans. And yet for everything (not your fic, im talking everything else in general) revolves around American times and we all waste an entire day in anticipation and ruin our sleep schedules. I'm sick of us putting them as a standard for everything (its not that deep i know lol, but it is fun to debate about the unnecessary americanisation and about pedestalizing them even when it doesn't fit in with who we are.)

WELL tbf 12pm EST is like 1am my time and 5pm in Europe and 4am in Australia (sorry australians) so like :( idk,,,

#ask #sadf

[terryboot]

Tired dumbass hours start now!!

#my art #why dont i ever start drswing before 1am!!!! #i got into bed at midnight said to myself #i should read for a little to chill out before sleep #then i fuvjing picked up a pencil #and here we are an hour later #godamn!!!! #tbf tho im p happy with this stuff #like i dont completely hate them #talk to me at a more reaosnable hour and i may say something different #but right now its good

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

im supposed to be working on uh literally anything else but instead i gotta get this outta my brain

tl;dr: slag is causing the Psychos to spread across the galaxy bc the Calypsos are using it to both brainwash their cultists and give them ‘special powers’. i mean, its not just slag, it’s eridian ruins/tech, too, but the Twins are utilizing slag the most. which explains the slagfalls and also the processed eridium everywhere still. im hoping sirens will help us cure this- starting with Krieg because slag/Psychos have some sort of connection to the other dimension, just like Sirens, but more messy. also this insanity from the slag/Psycho-ness is literally Mayhem and us fans are taking part in it- we’re the cult irl. plus, this game is gonna be about love and the relationships we have with the people we care about and that’s all the roses mean because i’m feeling s o f t tonight. tomorning. whatever maaaaan

“… among their fractured ramblings, it is tempting to try and find a deeper meaning…”

“[their madness] defies attempts at explanation or containment. from an isolated region of a single planet, to a nearby moon, to systems throughout every human colony, madness is catching…”

you can’t tell me this isn’t just BEGGING for us to figure it out

so, for my own sake:

i have a theory.

i kinda sorta hinted at this with my destroyer theory but i REALLY wanna go all out in this because i think this is actually something to think about… mostly because ive seen A Scene… and i wants to talk about it, vh. i wants it

now im gonna `lol` ignore everything about my lost legion eternal theory and start entirely from scratch. it’s also 1am here for my apologies if this comes across as incoherent because wow i should be asleep but fuck it i got research to do

so it all starts with psychos. i mean i guess it does. it’s gotta right? i brought in pictures it must

anyway

the guide admits that the first psychos came from Dahl’s prison colonies

the ones abandoned on pandora, now ive kinda talked about this b4 but imma talk about it again bc uhhh fuck it? why not.

so we know a lot of the bandits left on Pandora mutated because of the eridian ruins/the key. this is referenced mostly in sledge’s mine

its like world-wise called headstone mine but i never remember that. SLEDGE’S MINE

notice that line “most went crazy and many were physically mutated as well”

so i think it’s safe to say whatever they found in there started causing psychos to appear on pandora

im saying that i think eridians are the cause of Psychos across the galaxy

i have a lot more proof for this so please sit back and enjoy the ride because i think its really really cool

so lets look at hector’s logs from the newest dlc

“one of my boys found a shiny alien trinket”

“a few boys went rabid already, had to put them down”

now idk if there’s a connection here, but it’s interesting that both times, people who found these eridian artifacts started going crazy soon after

shit i mean even tannis begins to go off the wall after her and her dig team start investigating the eridian sites. although if that is because of the horrific incidents that befell her and her team or the ruins idk for certain. i’d bet its the shitty incidents tho

there’s more to this, hang on…

alright, so, lab rats? they’re pretty cool right?

we all like lab rats! personally, chase is my favorite, but adam is hilarious. that final season, huh? pretty wicked… wasn’t really a fan of the island setting but you know what, to each their own. it’s cool they actually progressed the show instead of staying stagnant. that got my respect even if it moved in a direction that wasn’t my cup of tea.

anyway Q U O T E S:

“Hyperion opened my eyes. i didn’t want it!”

“needles in my eyes!”

“don’t you look at me!”

“i can see! i don’t want to see!”

so there’s obviously something ~fucky~ going on with the lab rats and whatever it is they can see from the hyperion experimentation. we know hyperion had a hard-on for slag experimentation and you know i wouldn’t even be shocked if they were injecting these rats’ eyes with slag.

the best part is their reactions when they’re phaselocked. Unlike most enemies, the lab rats will only react to maya’s action skill, and none of the other VHs.

vs something like a marauder:

who has all these voice lines for Zer0, Axton, Sal (merc), AND Maya

the lab rats will only ever respond to being phaselocked.

and what do they say?

“i see the universe!”

“i see infinity!”

“it’s beautiful!”

 (now weirdly enough i was told on the tv tropes for bl2 that the lab rats will say “I see it more!” when phaselocked by maya, but i couldn’t find a source for that. couldn’t even find it in the files i extracted from the game. i checked an online video just to double check because you know, my extraction could’ve been off, but it wasn’t there, either. even phaselocked one a bunch as maya and i couldn’t get it to proc. so, idk where that info came from, if someone could give a source/proof that would be awesomesauce.)

sooo what do other enemies say when phaselocked? usually… they just see blue. so nothing quite as interesting as infinity.

so wtf is up here? 

im thinking the experiments hyperion performed on the lab rats are letting them see the dimension maya locks them in. i mean, tbh, i think they can see into that dimension whenever they open their eyes, but maybe maya’s phaselock makes sense of it for them. because they seem to be in indescribable agony outside of it

but the lab rats aren’t the only enemies that only react to being phaselocked

turns out the psychos only react to phaselocking, too

they also have some fun lines:

“I can see forever!”

“I’m home!”

“I’m inside… I’M INSIDE ME!”

with some other nonsense thrown in for fun

so idk, just taking a look at this, it’s clear the psychos and lab rats are seeing something that the other bandits just aren’t seeing. most reactions are demands to be released or that they’re flying, or just straight up confusion as to what’s happening.

is that the side effect of their exposure to slag/eridian tech? yeah, imma bet on it. their mind machines probably broke because they saw something they weren’t supposed to (possibly into the other dimension. the one maya phaselocks them in) without proper ‘protection’ and thus went batshit. like maybe sirens are protected from the craziness of the other dimension because they’re ‘chosen’ or whatever. iunno.

i do think it’s most interesting that the psychos seem familiar with whatever they’re seeing, calling it ‘home’ and well… themselves. 

so why in the fuck am i talking about all this? because i think it ties straight into bl3.

let’s bring back lab rats and their experiments

you know how hyperion was supposedly injecting their eyes with slag? and it caused them to shoot those weird blue lasers out?

what happens to the destroyer’s eye in tps?

yeah we inject this bad boy with slag

“i only juice the eye with a little bit of slag at a time”

which ends up causing a singularity around the eye the second time you do it

“if this slag stuff is powering the laser, we need to force as much of it as we can back into the eye. the increased power will trip a failsafe and let us shut everything down”

oh, increased power? you mean like how Sirens get increased power from absorbing eridium? that kind of increased power?

we know in bl1 the Destroyer seemed to have something like slag in it- those glowing pockets on the tentacles that explode into purple goo

even its attacks are like purple liquid. which, you know… would be quite similar to slag (tho tbf, these attacks actually hurt instead of applying the debuff)

and boy does the destroyer not like it

“warning. space-time instability detected.” after injecting the eye with too much slag. but… why? it got too powerful? are its powers directly connected to the other dimension and by increasing it’s strength a bunch we created some sorta link between our dimension and the other one? 

i mean given the other dimension allows for teleportation and shit, im not surprised there’s a space-time instability!

i mean we’ve all seen it do the eye laser thing, and the tentacles, and the purple goop. but causing space-time instabilities… that’s new isn’t it? kinda like how Sirens get new powers after they absorb a bunch of eridium???

so i wanna take a guess as to what the destroyer is

we know its ‘immortal in its own realm’ but when it’s taken an actual body that we can kill it, so odds are, it never actually died in bl1 OR tps. i imagine the Destroyer we see in bl1 is just a small fragment of it, and that it’s consciousness can be spread out across hosts. *EDIT: actually the lovely @automata-systemata-hydromata reminded me that you can find the destroyers brain in Helios. The other stuff I left in should be fine tho I thiiiink (thank you!).

and that, y’know, is cool and all, but what IS it??

Jack uses slag to give it a power boost, but it doesn’t seem to be happy about it when it happens. in fact, it even seems scared.

to be honest, all we know is that the eridians locked it away for some reason

idk im just spitballing here, but what if the Eridians were the creators of the destroyer? not intentionally, or maybe it was the result of one hell of a slag experiment/exposure to the other dimension/eridian tech, but we’ve seen what slag/exposure to eridian stuff does to humans… makes them go crazy, makes them start mutating. i mean, look at badass psychos. look at goliaths.

i mean shit even think about bloodwing. she goes wild, attacking the VHs and not listening to mordecai’s instructions despite their bond

she grows to a huge size and gains a whole shitload of new powers she didn’t have before. including fucking fire breath (which we’ve seen in burning psychos)

you know these dudes

i go into all this eridium/slag mutation stuff in SO much more detail in this post here, so if you’re interested in mutations, read this!

so what if the destroyer is just one HELL of a mutated eridian/alien and it plus all the eridium was locked away forever in the other dimension to keep this from ever happening again? because god, i wouldn’t want that to ever happen again, either, and i guess locking away the eridium (you know the stuff used in all these hyperion experiments) would be their best bet at ensuring it. also maybe just… locking away anything with eridium for that long probably isn’t the best idea… maybe that’s why it’s all tentacles and death. maybe they just locked someone away in a Vault as a prison and then leaving them with all that eridium caused them to mutate wildly out of control. kinda like the FEV. 

i mean we know ‘slagged psychos’ look like this 

i wouldn’t be surprised if we gave them enough slag/time they’d end up mutating even worse. and the destroyer was left in the vault for hundreds of years.

so wtf is the connection here with Sirens? there’s gotta be one, right??? is slag experimentation the first rung on the ladder of volatile science to achieving siren-hood? like you’d have slag/eridium experiments/mutations -> the lost legion eternal -> actual Sirens. maybe if sirens take in too much eridium they become something like the destroyer. now that’s fucked up to think about.

maybe it’s better the twins took lilith’s powers away from her…

oh, speaking of mutations and burning psychos and hyperion experiments, you know what we haven’t talked about yet?

Krieg. 

let’s talk a whole lot about Krieg, because he is super important

krieg is important for a lot of reasons.

u know what his teaser trailer was named?

yeah i don’t think that’s coincidence one bit

ahhh Mayhem.

“deep beneath pandora, an experiment has escaped”

we know krieg is a hyperion test subject, dr samuels confirms this (and apparently contracts insanity as well at the end of the Crawmerax DLC)

also we know some other tests going on at the WEP from the quest Doctor’s Orders:

“this vault key didn’t make eridium come outta the ground for nothing, right?”

and there’s this one very very very interesting line by Tannis at the end of the quest:

“the spread of slag poisoning” yeah call it that DUMB name tannis, im gonna call it what all the kool kids are calling it: ~Mayhem~

so… Krieg.

what’s so special about him?

well… he gives us insight into what the hell is actually going on inside the heads of some psychos.

so idk about you guys but i always took this as a poke at Maya and Krieg, but i realize now that this is talking literally just about Krieg. it’s about his body holding both sides of himself.

krieg does appear to be like lucid behind the psycho controlling his body, which, idk about you guys, but for me that plants some pretty horrible mental images of all the psychos in-game who probably have similarly exasperated people behind them who are getting murdered because they can’t control themselves anymore.

and idk i wrote this whole post about how maybe the slag experimentation is turning people into hosts for the destroyer’s consciousness and that could explain all the wacked up psychos and shit. but tbh im not gonna talk about that today

just about slag experimentation/eridium exposure. we know what it ACTUALLY does and that’s mutate the hell out of things and cause insanity.

Krieg is like… the poster child for slag experimentation/eridium exposure

soooo why does slag experimentation make people go insane? could be any number of reasons, but tbh i would bet it has to do with that other dimension somehow. because eridium isn’t a normal ‘our dimension’ element. it came out of a vault. from a different dimension. and who knows the long-term effects of that shit.

i personally had a theory that the 4th dimension had something to do with time and that only Sirens are able to harness this power, but then i have no idea how to explain angel and amara’s powers through that lense, so eh. fuck it. just seeing an upper dimension would make you go crazy anyway, so let’s not bring any time shit into this because that’s just asking for trouble. 

either way

i think that sirens are able to make sense of that other dimension. they have some sort of command of it/some sort of tie to it that allows them to not go crazy the instant they interact with it, unlike psychos. unlike lab rats. unlike Krieg. it’s like… eridium is our window into this other dimension or some shit and Sirens are (literally) able to process it, while it just fucks over anyone else who tries to interact. ~kachow i just introduced parallels~

and tbh i think we’re going to use Sirens to help cure this plague of insanity going around the universe. probably starting with Krieg. i mean, the only time he’s able to get even an iota of control is when he sees Maya. “Turn around pretty lady!!” like… that’s HUGE for him. and Maya’s a Siren. im not saying the power of love isn’t strong… but maybe the power of Sirens is stronger. i’d love if tannis helped us out with that. maya, too, if she really did learn more about sirens on athenas. 

this all ties into borderlands 3 for 2 reasons:

1. Mayhem being both the tagline for this game and Krieg the Psycho’s DLC pack is not a coincidence

2. The calypso twins are going to be using slag to both brainwash people into becoming cultists and give them special powers

`breaks fingers` this is the real meat of this theory, all that other stuff was just getting you READY for this

let’s put the Mayhem stuff off to the side for a second and just focus on the Calypso twins.

We know they’re promising their cultists special powers and free brainwashes (lol)

we’ve seen that one concept art from the museum of mayhem with the giant slag pool

we know enemies are STILL dropping refined Eridium even though it seems like all manufacturers have stopped creating slag weaponry

and we’ve seen the slag falls in a bl3 promo material already

oh yes

okay so i said right at the very beginning of this document that i’ve seen A Scene that i wanna talk about and oh baby this is it

This Scene right here

look in the very back there

look familiar???

~it shooouuuuullld~

yeah this is it!!!

so what i think is going down: anyone who’s not already insane is sorta ‘baptized’ as their entrance into this cult in the big ol slagfall. maybe the twins have a way to induce slagged cultists so they can have elemental affinities. not sure about that.

regardless

the twins are using slag to drive people insane (turning them into psychos) as a form of brainwashing to force people to join their cult.

so that’s the special powers and the free brainwashing and the slagfalls down.

let’s talk about why exactly we’re seeing enemies drop bars of refined eridium even though hyperion stopped making them. because the twins are making it!! it makes sense why there’s no slag guns still, even if it still exists in-universe: of course no manufacturer is going to contact an insane bandit cult just to get their hands on slag for their guns. 

there was a 7 year dry spell of eridium production so there was no slag to go around, so companies started phasing it out of their guns and replacing it with nuclear. 

but the twins have recently started production again. they’re obviously not using it in their guns, or selling it to other manufacturers. so wtf are they using it for? it’s gotta be important, it’s holy holy holy.

special powers and brainwashing!

and the refined eridium is back in circulation, so enemies are still dropping it. see? solution acquired.

as for psycho-ness spreading across the universe? it makes sense. not only are the twins using their slag to brainwash people and turn them into psycho cultists, but people are also being mutated by the eridian ruins/vault keys/vaults on the other planets and being driven insane. This craziness is quite literally Mayhem.

Mayhem is coming, indeed! 

now let us talk about what the fucccck gearbox is doing with all that Mayhem stuff in the trailers and shit.

sooo WE are the cult surrounding this game. as the fan base. 

do u think it was coincidence that they made ‘ECHOnet’ Streamers the leaders of their big bad cult and then also immediately introduced, in real life, the Twitch ECHOcast extension and invited a bunch of streamers to play their demo? they knew exactly what they were doing. Giving away a free cultist psycho mask to everyone who preorders a console copy of the game? that’s intentional. everyone who preorders the game gets a ‘gold weapon skin pack’? yeah! you know what gold weapons represent in-universe? higher standing in the cult!! gearbox is making commentary on how we are all just like the cultists!

AND THEY ARE TOTALLY RIGHT

all the trailers having something to do with Mayhem? ‘Mask of Mayhem’ ‘Mural of Mayhem’ ‘We are Mayhem’ ‘Mayhem is coming’. We’re all insane cultists because we’re all absolutely fucking rabid for this game and they KNOW IT.

…

oh also we’re all in love with each other lmao. 

in all seriousness, i think the game is going to focus a lot on the relationships we have with the people we care about- our found family, our romantic interests, our friendships- and that’s being expressed through the roses. 

i think that’s why all the characters are shown in the roses on the cover art. why the roses are so prominent in the So Happy Together trailer. why Zane is sitting at a bar with a rose between himself and his clone (as a joke, but still, it’s the intent). 

red roses are, like, the most obvious way to show your affection to someone. and we know the bl3 Vault Hunters are going to find family in each other in this game. that we’re going to watch the calypso twins’ relationship become warped as the game goes on. hell, we’re probably even going to have a whole plot about tina and mordy (and talon) and brick being a small family together, and maya and ava being one as well. plus ellie and vaughn have gotten together since commander lilith. shit, guys, even claptrap is building himself a girlfriend.

this game’s about love, guys.

anyway i have been working on this since 1:30am. it’s currently 6:06am. i am very tired and very wired and those never mesh well. im gonna go eat some motherfuckin pizza.

edit: i missed the obvious connection the first time around: of course we’re going to cure Krieg, he loves Maya. and this game is all about love.

that and/or one or both of them die and gearbox hurts us right in the softest parts of our hearts.

edit 2: also yeah at some point in the near future im writing that Hyperion-Twins theory because as much as i love Atlas, i have ~seen some things~

#borderlands #bl3 #borderlands 3 #the calypso twins #krieg #im so sorry this is like 1 billion pages #but i really had fun with it #i worked on this for a very very long time so i hope its coherent enough #i sorta just go on tangents and always repeat myself when i've said similar stuff in previous posts and i feel bad #but also i can't always put in EVERY single detail when im spending 5+ hours on a post just typing all this up anyway #so instead i reference old posts #but i feel like a dumb game of telephone #anyway #im very tired #it's time for pizza