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ripplestitchskein · 2 months
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Omg…Pirates.
Not me flying in during my nightly 3-4 AM “wake up for no reason time” to blast you guys in the face with my epiphanic slightly crackish theory on S2 and the Stolas boyfriend.
We open season 2 The Circus with Blitzø and Fizz playing pirates, or Blitzø attempting to and Fizz not being interested. Stolas and Blitzø have a big conversation about them and Stolas was clearly already interested in them as well. He’s read many books on the subject.
In the episode it’s a setup for Blitzø to steal from Stolas both in present and past but what if it’s also like a hint of a Striker-esque Pirate character…like a parrot. Who could potentially lead to some swashbuckling romance for a recently heart broken soon to be divorcee owl and give Blitzø and crew a chance to play pirates. Just like Striker plays into his cowboy interests we have a new antagonist (?) for the pirate interests established in the S2 premiere.
They don’t usually put in things like that for nothing, especially in a Season opener which often sets up the season coming up, so I think that convo could have not only been for the episode but perhaps the season overall?
This would also be an amazing situation where a romantic rival echoes the main character and potentially gives Stolas what he thinks he wants. When Blitzø breaks in to steal the grimoire Stolas immediately jumps into romance novel mode, Blitzø is there to ravish him. If I was a betting woman I’d say a pirate character could serve as a foil for Blitzø (is this a foil? I’m tired ), who comes in to steal treasure, either the crystal, Stolas, the grimoire, something else. He would be a direct contrast to Blitzø while giving us a fun new pastiche like the Westerns of Wrath. Maybe we head down to Envy for awhile. Stolas gets a romance novel fantasy to make mistakes with.
Like they could potentially even call back to the Porthole conversation as a fun little joke.
Like I said, it’s 3AM so these are just my shooting out of bed eyes wide open thoughts but I sure as shit am writing this regardless if it’s what happens.
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keferon · 3 months
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Ah mmmm well
You know how in mermaid stories, the mermaid is typically the dumber one? I present to you the "and they were both scientists" plot.
Basically the concept is that mermechs and regular mechs can't talk to each other. But luckily even if they speak different languages they still use the same math~
I discovered a bunch of simpatico mer-fics. So. I wanted to do something with this concept too haha. If some physicist happens to read this - feel free to laugh at me. I know nothing about science👍
I don’t know if I’ll continue this thing. Should I. Idk. It’s midnight I might be going crazy lol. I made that cover anyway bc I love making covers hehe
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mebis-art-dump · 4 months
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There's a critical lack of maggot Godseeker in the fandom
(unmasked Godseeker speculation woooo)
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artbyblastweave · 1 year
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Thinkin’ about The Siberian
I was sitting on a draft that said something to the effect of “Worm AU where Manton pulls an NBC Hannibal and moonlights as The Siberian on top of being a globally respected parahuman studies researcher. Is this anything.”
Then I thought about this a little more and realized that this might not be far off from what actually happened. There’s a throughline in Manton’s interests, in his trajectory through life, where he’s trying to figure out what you can use powers to get away with doing to people- about identifying constraints and overcoming them. 
He’s the guy who somehow credibly catalogued, and got his name associated with, the fact that powers generally can’t be used to pop people like balloons, and he did so reasonably early in the timeline, in the nineties at the latest. That’s.... an interesting direction to take your research! When people are just coming to terms with the fact that parahumans are real he’s out there taking careful note of whether they can manifest their powers inside people to instantly kill them. How did he test that? What capes did he collaborate with to test that? What did those conversations look like? Did the IRB at a minimum issue any revise-and-resubmits?
And then, of course, he gets picked up by Cauldron (also known as the infinite untraceable victim depot) to work on improving the vials- gaining a sufficiently in-depth understanding of what they are, how they’re made, and what they can do to people that when Cauldron told Legend that Manton had gone rogue and was the one creating C53s, he found this plausible. You’ve got the guy who’d later become the backbone of the Slaughterhouse 9 basically systemically cataloging every conceivable way a power could violate someone’s physiology- first from without, and then, at Cauldron, from within.
Then, when he pulls the trigger and gives himself powers, the resultant ability is essentially a distilled refutation of the Manton Effect- a minion that can obliterate anything, eat anything, delete any material from existence, viscerally dismember people in a unity of conventional and esoteric, power-enabled violence. And he’s insulated from the consequences of his actions on two levels- in terms of Siberian’s invulnerability, but also in the discrepancy between his form and that of his minion. He mixed the vial that gave him that power himself.
Essentially- I don’t think Siberian is something that just happened after a psychological break following a messy divorce. I think Manton basically pre-committed to becoming something like The Siberian, spent most of his career working towards some form of transcendence through superpowers, and the messy divorce was downstream of the cracks starting to show as he got closer and closer to what he’d been chasing.
Now to segue into a complication that’s more directly supported in the text- it’s Worm, it’s always complicated- Master powers spring from loneliness. My theory is that while Manton wanted apotheosis, and while he’d probably been gearing up for a rampage for a while, he genuinely didn’t want to do it alone; he wanted a sidekick. Hence why he bothered pursuing a family in the first place, hence why he fed his daughter a vial, hence why his own projection ended up looking like his daughter after he accidently made her explode or whatever with the bad vial- a monkey’s paw restoration, giving him back a facsimile of the person he wanted to take along for the ride, and making his capacity for violence inseparable from her presence.
This is why he joined up with the Nine rather than remaining a solo act; it’s why he engages in a bad imitation of the Parent/Child relationship with Bonesaw; and it’s why he seeks out Bitch as a candidate. His interest in her candidacy parses to me as genuine- Even moreso than Bonesaw, even moreso than Jack, Bitch has arrived at a no-frills fuck-you-I-do-what-I-want outlook that’s very appealing to Manton. He wants to have a murderer-daughter relationship!
But Rachel got where she is the hard way, by having a life that sucked a lot, by getting near-constantly kicked around! She has a clear reason to be so angry! Even if all my postulations about Manton having a long game are complete bullshit, there are several stages at which Manton had to actively opt in to the same lifestyle and reputation that Bitch was forced to adopt as a basic survival tactic. He didn’t have to start eating people! He’s a tourist! His “freedom” is inseparable from his distance, his disguise. Rachel’s “freedom” is just the freedom of having nothing left to lose.
All of this to say- In an interlude in which Bitch has an extended internal monologue about how people with families have the opportunities to be assholes and monsters to a captive audience, it is absolutely not a coincidence that she’s scouted by a would-be parental figure who proceeds to be an asshole and a monster in front of a captive audience, before trying to buy her affection with a puppy. In rejecting Manton, Rachel dodged an esoterically-packaged but ultimately very familiar bullet.
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chiropteracupola · 2 months
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Hi I am Exceedingly Curious about leg theory but tumblrs search function is the only search bar that exclusively shows you things that AREN'T what you're looking for. May I have a link to an explanation of Leg Theory?
leg theory is the brainchild of the excellent and esteemed @catilinas and in short it is A Collection of Thoughts regarding Seafaring, Identity, Curses and Rituals, Sacrifice, and a Significant Leg Injury or Incident!
notable incidences of leg theory include: odysseus when scar on leg, john franklin's / thomas blanky's / ???'s legs in the terror, john silver's leg in treasure island & black sails, a good 45% of what's going on in moby dick, and that time my dad fell through a hatch on a sailboat and fractured his tibia in a way that was quite interesting for his character development.
other and perhaps more coherent explanations about leg theory can be found here, here, and here, and for Grasping At The Vibes of When It's Leg, I highly recommend perusing the 'leg theory' tags on either of the fine blogs I have linked!
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misslovasstuff · 6 days
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Pudding’s and Sanji’s reunion with each other better be full of yearning.
I want Sanji to CRUMBLE when he realises she loves him.
I want him to BECOME A MESS when he gets to know Pudding kissed him.
I want him to HAVE THIS MIXED FEELINGS when he learns that the memory of probably his first kiss ever was removed and he was unaware this all time.
I want Pudding to be SELFLESSLY IN LOVE as she always is. I have to see her eyes lit up when she sees Sanji and realising how she must come to terms with her feelings and be honest with him.
I want ROMANTIC ANGST AND YEARNING
I want Sanji to COMBUST WITH ANGER cause what do you mean the woman he almost married has been kidnapped this whole time??? and she doesn’t hate him?? and she’s in danger and suffering right now?!! I want him to get the angriest he has ever been.
Pudding on the other hand, I’m so scared of her reaction cause similar with Sanji, I sense her tendencies of sacrifice and she better not pull any funny move like that cause … I want angst but let’s keep it moderate yea?
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2012throwback · 1 year
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omg what if in relation to Colin’s backstory we learn more about the Dairy Isles and learn that the House Bleu and like blue cheese people are really involved with the rot aspect of the prophidian heresy because blue cheese is made with a form of mold!!!
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megyulmi · 10 days
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Chapter 260 Spoilers!
I keep adding to my initial post on what Sukuna saw in Chapter 260, but the possibilities seem endless and as someone who enjoys drawing up theories, here is yet another.
In this post, I talked about the concept of Rebirth and how Buddhism believes that everything in nature happens in the ‘cycle of time’. If we take this into consideration is it possible that we may see Gojo return as a ‘Vengeful Spirit’ just like his ancestor Sugawara no Michizane? However, here more than Onryō (怨霊, Vengeful Spirit) I want to put emphasis on Ikiryō (生霊, literally translating to a ‘Living Ghost’) that refers to a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese folklore.
Onryō of the living are said to inflict curses upon the subject or subjects of their vengeance by means of transforming into their Ikiryō form. It is believed that if a sufficient grudge is held, all or part of the perpetrator’s soul leaves the body, appearing in front of the victim to harm or curse them, a concept sort of similar to the Evil Eye (a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare). Ikiryō can be found in Buddhist scriptures as well, where they are described as ‘living spirits’ who, if angered, might bring about curses, even just before their death. Possession is another means by which Ikiryō are commonly believed to be capable of inflicting harm, the possessed person is thought to be unaware of this process. However, according to mythology, Ikiryō does not necessarily act out of spite or vengefulness, and stories are told of Ikiryō who bear no grudge, or pose no real threat. In recorded examples, the spirit sometimes takes possession of another person’s body for motives other than vengeance, such as to manifest its presence around loved ones, friends or acquaintances.
I have mentioned the tales of Tōno (Iwate Prefecture) in another post before, as Akutami Gege often takes local folklore for reference, so to add to this, in Tōno Monogatari Shūi it is reported (regarding Ikiryō) that in Tōno, “the thoughts of the dead or the living coalesce into a walking shape, and appear to the human eye as an illusion.”
I think Akutami Gege might have put his spin on the tales of Ikiryō to bring Gojo back without him actually bringing Gojo back, even for a flicker of an illusion to aid his students. To make this point more plausible, in the Heian period, a human soul leaving a body and drifting away was described as ‘departure’. For example, in The Tale of Genji, the mentally troubled Kashiwagi fears that his soul may be found wandering, and requests that the last rites are performed on his body to stop his soul from escaping if this should happen. We have yet to see what happened to Gojo’s body and whether it has a proper resting place before rites/burial, therefore, it is possible that his soul is still in the process of ‘departure’ (this does sound similar to a particular scene, does not it?) and capable of return in that crucial moment even in the absence of his physical body.
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1pcii · 4 months
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just learned what the orange peel theory is off the clock app and now I'm sobbing thinking about this scenario with namivivi.
Nami asking Vivi if she could peel her one of her tangerines and at first she is confused, because Nami is quite protective of her tangerines and prefers to oversee their upkeep herself. But she does so anyway, peeling it and picking off the pith, honoured at a personal show of trust from her. and Nami watching her with so much love in her heart, looking at her as if Vivi is cradling the organ in her own hands. She's such a fiercely independence person but to see this other girl, this princess, place the peeled tangerine in her hand with a smile on her face makes her think that maybe letting her so fast in wasn't such a bad idea after all.
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beaulesbian · 1 year
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i just want to know a normal amount if vash has prosthetic legs...
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beanghostprincess · 3 months
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Let's say chocolate is a metaphor for traditional relationships that happen to appear good but are too sickly sweet for Sanji to handle and after WCI he ends up not liking chocolate. At least for a while. He needs to move on from what happened first. But he wants to force himself to like it because he should like chocolate. It is one of the most basic ingredients when making sweets and it is also everywhere.
So what if it makes him want to throw up? What if his stomach betrays him when cooking? What if he needs to stop every two seconds to breathe because his lungs don't work properly when he smells chocolate? He will keep trying and trying to make it work. Everybody loves chocolate, after all, he should too.
But then, one day, Usopp sees everything he has around the kitchen. Like. That's an awful lot of sweets and a disgusting amount of chocolate and he doesn't seem like he has slept in a week. So of course he is concerned. "Why- What's all of this about, Sanji?" He tries to hide his nervousness with a laugh.
Sanji grips the counter tighter. So much his knuckles turn white. "I- I don't know. I guess I was just. In the mood for chocolate." But he doesn't sound sure at all. In fact, he looks like he's about to cry.
"Well." He looks around the room without wanting to touch anything but approaching Sanji a bit to check on him. "Luffy can have all of my portions because I kind of... Not like chocolate?"
"You don't- You don't like chocolate?"
"No? Too sweet. I actually pretty much hate it? The smell already makes me ill."
"Me too."
"You what?"
"I think I don't- I don't think I like chocolate anymore. Is that- I don't know if I ever did. Is that alright?"
"Why wouldn't it be alright, Sanji? It's just chocolate. Nobody can force you to eat it. Or cook it if you really don't want to."
And Sanji realizes that maybe... Maybe it is alright for him to not want chocolate, and a wave of relief takes over him for a solid second.
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bylrndgm · 2 years
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Hear me out: we're in 4x08 and the Cali gang is looking for “Nina” and at one point Jonathan stops the van to check if Mike located the computer correctly, given Suzie's coordinates.
Just for context: this is the first time we are shown the Cali gang after the van scene.
The sequence is the following:
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Nothing wrong right? Just four guys trying to see if they're going the right way? Well, yes, but the whole "straight, straight, straight..." thing stood out to me.
During the van scene, like many others, I've always got the feeling Jonathan wanted to blow Mike's head up: he couldn't quite get his head around the fact that Mike didn't understand Will was talking about his own feelings.
Typically, when you can't understand something, you just stop and think through that -> Jonathan stops the van, before he gets too lost in trying to make some sense of what he had witnessed minutes prior
Mike doesn't understand why Jonathan stopped the van -> he doesn't think there's anything to make some sense of
If you understand where I'm trying to go here, Jonathan then, wants to prove Mike wrong regarding his calculation (but in the analogy, also regarding his "pretending to be straight").
The calculation is correct and Mike's facade of the "straight guy" doesn't crack at all (remember: we're from Jonathan's pov -> he stopped to think, but all the facts bring to Mike being actually straight).
But that doesn't make sense = it doesn't make sense that Mike is straight (indeed, Jonathan witnessed Mike's monologue in S2 + who knows what else!):
Yes, apparently, Mike is straight: because he's with El, because he didn't react at Will's muted love confession in the back of the van BUT, Jonathan can sense that something doesn't add up, i.e., that Mike isn't really straight.
And his feeling about this is kinda confirmed, because his thoughts are interrupted by Argyle, who found some tracks... and we all know that Argyle is often associated with rainbow imagery.
Ergo, I think that Jonathan actually knows and realized about Mike being queer.
(in the tags i lay out some more evidence ABOUT manual driving lol, but that is more of a crack thing lol)
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Okay so idk about you guys but personally it seems to me that RGB's body just. Doesn't exist when he clothes aren't there. Like, the clothes ARE his body. He stores Hero's wellies in his shirt. When he pays Watcher, it's with his hand. Why not just his glove, when things that become incorporated are clearly adaptable? Because the glove is his hand.
I am not one who wants to get into spicy content, but I'm 100% positive there's stuff out there of RGB. I'm curious how people assume his "body" works, but like, I don't want to look it up to find out. I personally think that if you tried to grab his forearm with his sleeve rolled up, it'd just pass through. I think the glove stays there because that's where it's supposed to be, not because there's actually an invisible arm and hand.
Otherwise, why would the spaces between his clothes be called gaps? If they weren't, wouldn't he have corrected Hero?
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apocalypticdemon · 26 days
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godd i'm so. compelled. by the audio in this show. i'm finally allowing myself a re-watch, now that school is out of session, and i finally got to 'the ladder' episode. and i noticed that, right after sir john gets thrown down the ice hole, that the audio gets strangely muffled.
almost like it's underwater. the only thing that isn't muffled is the music in the background.
#that and the fact that it's preceded by another piece with a 3/4 meter much like the first music we hear in the show#like on the one hand the audio distortion happens after fitzjames and company find sir john's leg#so on the one hand it could very much be an auditory distortion of what people are going through. how the stress makes everything slippery.#distorted.#but it could also be a representation of the location of his grave.#his death is preceded by a lot of other scalar motion in a 3/4- esque time meter. which is the same meter as the music that we first hear#it's not like. a waltz really. it's missing the characteristic weight of the meter#but it is tonal. or at least tonal-adjacent.#and i wonder if that's a representation of the last vestiges of british civilization dying in that moment#bc when all is normal we have a similar tonal-ish slant. but when sir john is off-screen there is very little of that same sound.#the rest of it has much more unusual harmony and little to no harmonic movement#very experimental and drone-esque.#this is all very off the top of my head with little to no serious music theory analysis. esp bc most of this is decidedly post-tonal#idk. it's compelling. bc i'm pretty sure after sir john dies all of that scalar movement and tonal-ish melodic structuring goes away#sorry this is literally just me rotating the audio of the show in my brain but out loud now. just rambling and throwing out ideas#before they're fully formed#but they are ideas.#the terror
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possiblylando · 9 months
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Vinushka's head resembles a pinecone. They have four arms. Pinecone pig's body is a pinecone. It has four legs. The Pinecone Pig is sentient and able to act on it's own. Could the Pinecone Pig actually be a vessel of Vinushka?
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we-love-morioh-cho · 8 months
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Hmm 🌝
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