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it has been a while since i drew tattletale so i wanted to draw her again in my updated style :+D

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literally what happened

original:

#doctor who

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bocchi the blockhead

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#lisa

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Jupiterrise

Ariane and Isa on Rotfront

#signalis

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#awesome

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Cannot believe they put Laura Palmer in Worm.

"Who killed Laura Palmer?" The town of Twin Peaks. "Who made Echidna?" All of them: Cauldron, the PRT, Coil's organization.

#i love you beloved girl who everyone wants to remember and no one wants to behold #victim and symbol of the failures of your society #doomed to become synonymous with it #worm spoilers #twin peaks spoilers #i guess

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The fact that a power like Coil's exists and plays such a large role in Worm, a story that is a tragedy, is really something. Kind of a variant of how Lisa's power is a particular coping mechanism for a tragedy - you didn't see the bad thing coming, now you have a superpower that helps you notice it. Except with Coil's power, it responds to the tragedy reader who goes "which choice was the one where they fucked it up? What was the point of no return? What was the biggest mistake, in a series of escalating mistakes?" Here, the story presents the ability to test your choices before you make them, and see which one fucks you over the most.

That Krouse works for this guy (sorry, this was a Travelers post all along) makes me want to have a nice appetizer of drywall. Krouse and the other Travelers, who are Fated By Big Monster Creature to make the wrong choices. We know that the fact that Coil had a precog was a big reason why they agreed to work for him, since precogs mess with the Simurgh's cause and effect. But Coil's power, in its own right, is pretty significant too.

To me, it's an extra tragic overlay over Coil's interlude. In it, Coil chooses to check up on the construction of the Travelers' base and Noelle's cage, and then overwrites that choice, since it doesn't end well. But Coil isn't the only person with a tragedy fork in the road: also in that interlude, Noelle asks Krouse to let her out of the new cage, and Krouse refuses.

There's arguments to be made about the extent to which that's really a choice. In the moment, of course, Krouse doesn't have any real choice but to say no, because Coil is, you know, right there. But I do think it's notable that he never does it. He never lets her out. And maybe that's a fork in the road, too.

"How much agency do the Travelers have" is, obviously, its own multi-paragraph essay, given the Simurgh and the PRT quarantine measures and Coil and every other force conspiring against these poor gamers. The fact that the Simurgh exists in a story about the things people do and the reasons why they do them absolutely rules. But one of the things I really love about Coil's interlude is the suggestion that maybe, possibly, at one point, there might have been a choice, and the other Travelers didn't take it. It's another little moment that complicates why Noelle wants to be "fixed" - is it her powers themselves, or is it the fact that those powers mean that nobody will let her see the sun, or both?

#parahumans #noelle meinhardt #francis krouse #the travelers #worm spoilers #need to make another quick post about my favorite Themes. as one does

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amok time

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#signalis

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#worm

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sarah (princess) - lisa (god is my oath)

#worm #lisaaaaa

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"what does a TARDIS malfunction sound like?"

"idk just dump the entire goofy sound effects library in the span of 10 seconds. That should do it"

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homestuck day observed

#homestuck

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she’s annoying and crazy TO YOU. i get her tho

#she #yellowjackets

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madoka rewatch

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it's like: when you have your own room, your own apartment, your own space to live, you also have the opportunity to make it yours. and so, especially when you're a character in a story, it says a lot about what you think you are.

and so if the living space is a tool storage, more of a shed or a cabinet than a room, it's devastating. and that devastation can look like the grime and the darkness and the exact setup of the lab in which you were designed and built for the use of someone else. or a room of computers, of red strings and maps, and when you step inside, all you are is the central processor. and it's still dark. and you don't even get to be a person, not really, not even in a space that should be yours.

thinking about tattletale's lair as portrayed in imago 21.7. up there with rei ayanami's shitty apartment in terms of worst fictional living spaces that are also characters to me of all time