#I still say she may be coded as Baphomet

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Esoteric and Divine Composite: Miorine

You all knew this was coming eventually. It's no secret she's my favorite among the cast, though Suletta is quite close. There's good reason for it too! She's a wonderful twist on an old gundam fav, the original peace princess, Relena Peacecraft. But as with her wife, there are multiple homages and inspirations added to her character—Norse gods Odin & Dagr-personification of Day, the goddess Persephone/Kore, and the White Queen

Odin

I'll admit, I was thinking perhaps I was off-base with my original analysis since she never lost an eye as we were anticipating. But she does make a horrific sacrifice and is hung by the swords of hatred as Prospera's Rose Bride. She is indeed the Hanged God who willfully pierces herself in the name of enlightenment/knowledge; for her, 'saving' Suletta.

All at the behest of the show's Mimir, Prospera, who directed her to Quin(Wisdom)harbor in the first place. It's subtle, but it works so well once you notice the pieces fall into place

(I'll expand more on Prospera and Mimir in another analysis)

But why Odin of all the gods? A patriarchal figure, no less. The answer lies in yet another Roman syncretism for Mercury. They share many similarities/domains and became entwined due to the spread of commerce; even sharing the same holy day, Wednesday. They are both psychopomps, able to traverse the realms freely, seekers/scholars of knowledge, and formed their respective alphabets. Odin is another face of Mercury.

And of all the characters, Mio has been at the forefront of gaining knowledge and unraveling hidden secrets, such as the tomato code and GUND. It's rather easy to link her vigilant serviellance over the school/Benerit to Odin's ravens. Her emblem is a bird after all...

Dagr/Persephone

In all honesty, I can't explain why this parallel is so clever without discussing these in tandem. Dagr, as I've mentioned previously, is the personification of Day. Counterpart to his mother, Night/Nott, and father, Dellingr. But why was Mio given this distinction as the bringer of Day? Because she's also coded as Persephone, goddess of Spring. GWitch is intertwining the Norse cycle of Day and Night with the greek seasonal cycle of agriculture. When Persephone descends below into Hades, the winter sets in as Demeter falls into despair. She is echoing Nott, bringer of night. Then when Persephone rises above, life blooms anew and spring begins, mirroring when Dagr has drawn the sun over the Earth. Both bring renewal in a ceaseless cycle.

In the finale, Mio is the harbinger of a new world. She has dismantled Benerit and is working tirelessly with the people of Earth to sow life after the many years of 'winter'.

If I haven't convinced you yet, let's take it back a few episodes. When Prospera vowed to show Mio the voices of the dead and proceeds to drag her below to the dark abyss that is Earth.

Hades Prospera has stolen Mio away and 'defiled' her sense of self. It's not a literal violation, thankfully, but considering the over-hanging Akio parallel it's intentional. Cleverly, the Rose Bride of GWitch is entwined with both Odin and Persephone to create a very layered sequence of events

But this Persephone doesn't wed her defiler. Instead, she's wed to her saviour who leads her into the light; Hermes/Mercury. In the original myth, Hades tricks Persephone into remaining his bride by eating Pomegranate seeds. This Persephone willingly eats a tomato given by her chosen groom. And before that, she decides to visit GWitch's Hades so long as Suletta joins. The Persephone-Hades tale has been indelibly altered to grant her agency and a new suitor along with completing the Dagr/Persephone cycles

The White Queen

Obligatory, please read my previous analyses on As Above, So Below and Red King and White Queen for context.

Miorine is a mercurial girl in multiple ways, from her appearance to her flunctuating temperament. She's the embodiment of Quicksilver/Mercury. Her name is derived from Mercury. Mio- a name imparted by the japanese people for a Mercury Orbital probe. Rembrandt- the name of a Mercury crater with high volcanic activity. The last bit of her name 'rine' can also be interpreted as water/watersilver; she’s elemental Mercury from top to bottom.

Mio is also a metaphorical Queen as the president of Benerit. And her union with the Red King resulted in the miraculous, mediated by the alchemical dove; Earth House.

But the parallel goes further when you look at the White Queen's symbol. The moon. As established above, she is Persephone or the Maiden. Her mother is Demeter, The Mother. And there's evidence Prospera is coded partly as the Crone, Hecate. All three are linked to the phases of womanhood and the moon

She might be the most subtly layered character I've had the privilege of dissecting. Her marriage to Suletta has unprecedented amounts of significance and canonicity. Mio, the Odin/Persephone/Rose Bride/White Queen amalgamate who overcame the tragedies of mythology and established her place in all our hearts.

If you enjoyed this read, plz view my Suletta Analysis here

#I still say she may be coded as Baphomet #lookin real divinely androgynous here #g witch #g witch spoilers #miorine rembran #suletta mercury #gundam witch from mercury #sulemio #analysis and speculation

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THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #23: PROFILES IN PLUMAGE

LIFE AFTER MOMMY

While Issue 23 is in a sense a prelude to the arc proper, magazine-style profiles of our Pantheon post-Blood Blister-Ananke-Pop!, one of the great elements of the issue is how it lays out the new status quo within interviews that are the fruit entirely of online role play between Kieron and the interviewers. In other words, the interviewers didn’t have a sense of the story goals, they were just approaching their subjects the way they would in real life, and it was up to Kieron to improvise in a couple key notes – Baal as now Responsible Father Figure/Super Hero who is Going to Stop the Great Darkness and Wear Suits**; Laura as Maybe Actually the Destroyer After All Tho; Morrigan receding into the Undeworld with Baphomet; Ammy’s continued insistence that everything is going to turn out super great for everybody; Woden making a machine to “mimic” people’s powers (see: things that will also work out super great for everybody); oh, and everybody’s still going to die, tick tock. 

It’s all a pretty big gamble and it works really really well.

**Just realizing, the guy who makes it his mission in Imperial Phase to protect Minerva is simultaneously quietly killing children. Wow I don’t know how to feel about any of that.

TOMATO, TOMATO

What is this thing we’re reading, issue #23? Is it a comic book recreating itself for an issue as a magazine in order to do something fun and different and also expand the whole “gods viewed as celebrities” concept, show us how the Pantheon are viewed by the wider world?

Certainly that’s how it presents itself. And I dare you to find an issue of another book that does that as well, from layout to shot selection to the kinds of narratives it weaves. And other than the Chris Eliopolis-style three panel strip that ends the issue, and maybe Jamie’s four panels depicting Ananke’s death, there’s not a lot about what goes on within the issue that seems to resemble the storytelling methods of a comic.

But its cover is 100% comic book. We’re given an issue number, the title of the comic, the creative team, the production company. The page dimension are also those of every other issue of the series. And the cover design, Baal against the white background, as though having escaped the comic book frame which now hangs over his shoulder, is the design for the Imperial Phase run of issues.

The back cover fronts (backs?) the magazine vibe, replacing the series’ normal quote from within the book with an advertisement for a Persephone-branded phone. (I have to believe in a world where the ring tone is “Persephone is in Hell.”)  But even there, if you want to be picky, you’ve got the bar code and comic book rating in the bottom right. 

So it’s a comic book, right, doing celebrity rag really well and why am I wasting your time debating about this. But then there’s this... even if it’s not in a way like pretty much any comic book the art of the issue does generate story, in the way that magazines of its variety do, costume plus setting plus pose revealing character and plotline.

And not only that but the fullness of the story being told in each article and the issue as a whole is a result precisely as a result of the interactions between art and text. Indeed, the very choice of photos first to take and then to use emerges out of both the text of the story and the pre-interview idea for the story that the writer or editor brought. 

Clearly issue 23 is the band we love at the top of their game innovating even further and making us think that much more. But maybe it’s also a way of highlighting not that a comic can be a magazine, but that in the way they deliver story, magazines are actually a kind of comic books themselves.

WHO TO GET TO WRITE YOUR PROFILE IF YOU’RE NOT A TOOL

Kevin Wada’s art is just fantastic, both spot on for the kind of magazine the issue is trying to present and also with just the perfect shot selection for the characters.

That two page spread of Baal or the crazy shot of Woden. Wow.

But for me the gold of the issue is the fresh insights the article authors bring to the characters.

“It’s why fans love her,” Leigh Alexander writes of the Morrigan. “She creates spaces where it all feels inevitable, and therefore okay. Or definitely, assuredly not okay, so you can stop pretending, You can stop struggling. Or you can only struggle. Either way it’s a relief.” The blessing of the Morrigan, yes it’s a nightmare, you’re right, and with that truth, an easing of the pain. (I love all the articles, but Alexander’s is particularly wonderful. The feeling she has for the Morrigan gives the piece such pathos.)

Or here’s Dorian Lynskey, writing about Baal. “This, then, is Baal’s spin for the day: there will be a plan. We mortals might not know what it is, it may not even be decided yet, but there will be one. DO I believe it? I’m not sure. But I believe that Baal believes it. After so much blood and chaos, he needs to believe it.”

(Did Lynskey have any idea of the secrets Baal was hiding? I don’t think so. And yet knowing what we know not, could his piece be any more dead on?)

In her profile of Woden, author Laurie Penny says “He takes women and turns them into videogame cheesecake. He takes women and turns them into something less than human, something comprehensible and controllable, with clear win conditions.”

She also kids that his workshop is like the Batcave, and follows with another incredibly prescient remark: “’Where’s Alfred? Or...no, hang on. You’re Alfred.”   

Mary HK Choi’s insistence on often calling Lucifer by her birth name, which at first works as a refusal to take the claims of godhood as anything more than as millennial celebrity publicity stunt; but then becomes part of insisting on Luci’s innocence and vulnerability: “Lucifer if perfect right now – vibrant and happy. And while there is a humane aspect to  the fatalistic branding, the finite relevance that is the reality of the celebrity industrial complex in the age of social media, it’s still super sad.

“When she’s skipping to the mall, shudder at how her parents (unrepentant Beatles fans) conceived her on the night of a Blur gig...she is very much a kid. A kid swaggering to impress you and thousands of people for whom everything is performance.”

(Also, we get that great quote from Kieron, “Being the devil is knowing you’re lost.” Rather than Purveyor of Lies, Lucifer once again as the one who understands the lie within it all.)

Lastly, here’s Ezekiel Kweku, after hearing Ammy explain away Ananke’s death: “She looks preternaturally serene, godlike once more. For some reason, this makes me even sadder.”

(“She doesn’t want you to see in her a deconstructed divinity, she wants to appear as whole and uncomplicated as an undivided beam of light,” is so perfect as sentences go I would be filled with a jealous rage if I could stop enjoying it.)

NO BUT SURE ANOTHER WOODY ALLEN MOVIE IS FINE THO

I do this newsletter on pop culture and spirituality called Pop Culture Spirit Wow. (Join us and we can rule the galaxy forever.) And the week  Avengers: Infinity War came out I did a whole thing on the history of the Avengers, including some of their most iconic storylines.

And in doing research, I stumbled upon this post from former Avengers writer Jim Shooter, who insists that Hank Pym “was not a wife-beater”. The famous moment where Pym hits Janet van Dyne, he said was actually the mistake of the artist. “In that story (issue 213, I think),” Shooter writes, “there is a scene in which Hank is supposed to have accidentally struck Jan while throwing his hands up in despair and frustration—making a sort of ‘get away from me’ gesture while not looking at her.  Bob Hall, who had been taught by John Buscema to always go for the most extreme action, turned that into a right cross!” And it was too late to fix it, so they had to go with it. 

Years later, Bob Hall responded, saying Shooter “had never said he didn’t like the slap panel”, but that he could believe he’d made a mistake, because he was young and didn’t know what he was doing.

But I don’t know, this is a pretty different from an “accidental slap”:

Also, what precipitates this terrible moment is Pym on trial for having seemingly shot a woman in the back (turns out she was a robot) and feeling a lot of pressure. The issue features Tigra worrying about Jan and wondering why she stays with him. “Don’t you see you’re worth ten of him?” she asks.

And after his “accidental slap” he flips out in court, ultimately sending in a robot to save him.

So I don’t know, actually an accidental slap feels a lot less likely than what was drawn. (Actually it feels exactly like what someone who just hit a woman says to try and get away with it.)

Once it “happened”, Shooter and Marvel were “stuck” with it (#TheRealVictims), and Shooter had to rethink where he was headed with the characters. Jan files for divorce next issue, in fact.

If you look at the history of comics, you won’t find many moments like this, at least not at the Big Two. Men do not hit women.

Unless they have powers, that is. Then it’s kind of all fair, or at least occasionally permissible. And it never comes up in later conversation. It’s just the way things are. She was super strong, she hit me first, of course it’s okay. 

In both the Morrigan and Baal pieces the characters talk about Baal having hit her. That attack happened twelve issues ago (when you include the 1831 special), and it’s still considered a significant ongoing story point for both characters.

Once again, WicDiv making us consider things that the world kind of ignores. (Or even enjoys.)

DENIAL, THE NEW FRAGRANCE

The very last beat of this issue, the wacky cartoon, is maybe the hardest hitting punch of all.

They’ve been through all this craziness, they’ve found out they were being manipulated all this time, and they just straight murdered someone. So what do they do now?

What else? They party.

It’s like the Danger Laura Wilson warning of the first two arcs, but now applied to the whole group, and just as firmly ignored. The only one who really seems to understand at all it is Luci, and she’s dead, er, a living head stuck in a cave we won’t know about for another year of issues.

#wicdiv #kieron gillen #jamie mckelvie #life after mommy

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Phomet Burzum Review

Alternia

They’re they/them and where one of my original struggles was deciding whether they’re boy or girl, I think I’d rather keep it ambiguous. Not sure if the sprite helpfully evokes that. This is mainly playing into the idea that the Sabbatic goat possesses all sexual characteristics to be ‘both’ at once, and with how Norse Seidhrs (magic practitioners) were generally woman with magic being seen as a womanly thing. Despite this, Odin himself is shown to study and use Seidhr magic, so that’s fun.

I love that they’re nonbinary and tbh you don’t need justification for them to be nonbinary any more than you’d need justification for them to be a boy or girl. (Everyone please send us more nb trolls we have so few and I love them all dearly). I would…caution you about creating a nonbinary character using the reasoning that Baphomet has intersex characteristics, since those two things are neither synonymous nor even really related at all? I mean I love this androgynous kid and will die for them and will pour my heart and soul into the redesign in which I maintain their gender ambiguity but just. Y’know? And there’s still enough reasoning for them to be nb on the basis that subverting gender norms is very much a part of punk culture and that Seidhr does indeed have a murky history in terms of which gender “should” use it so it still holds if you need a narrative reason.

Name: Phomet Burzum

‘Phomet' is from a shortening of ‘Baphomet’ which is the goat-headed figure that has come to represent the Sabbatic Goat, tying to their symbol and minor Satanic themes.

Burzum is the word for ‘darkness’ in Black Speech from The Lord of the Rings series.

God I love that’s he’s a little bit similar to a troll I recently reviewed. Hecate Bafmet and Phomet Burzum: BFFs 4 LYFE (however short Phomet’s may be)! Skulking around in the dark! You’d better watch out, you’d better watch out, *you’d better watch out,* *YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT*! These two unsavory characters are comiiiing to tooown.

Strife Specibus:Axekind for now mainly as a joke on an ‘axe’ as a guitar slang term. Could instead do ‘guitarkind’ and have it go into axes later a la Rose’s knitting needle kind acting as wands.

Fetch Modus: Cryptogram - Has to spell out words with musical notes. Probably gonna use the French method for simplicity.

Blood color: Rustblood - Blooooood. But no, they’re a rustblood kinda based off a concept I had. With the True Sign of Aries being a Time one, with the social pressures kinda forcing Time as a concept over the rust caste, I’m making a cult based off Death Metal aesthetics rather than juggalos. Some sort of redblood solidarity where they wear corpsepaint. It’s meant to be a kind of mirror to the Juggalo cult, who are mirthful and the highest land caste, whereas this Metalhead cult is more stoic, macabre and comprised of the lowest ladndwelling caste. Dunno.

I do know!!! That’s metal as FUCK. Also I’m DEF adding corpse paint to their sprite!!!

Symbol and meaning:It’s a goat head, referencing the Sabbatic goat.

As with the previous troll I reviewed, it reads well and matches Aries “sign language,” and I’ll see what I assign them after looking at their aspect and moon.

With that said, since I’ve now made a similar comment twice in a row I think it’s worth going back and establishing what exactly does make a sign fit its caste’s language in case anyone wants to do a fan sign beyond the extended zodiac that could still plausibly fit within canon…

Trolltag: Nothing yet, used to be ‘cantankerousGrendel’ but I’m not sure it’d fit them these days.

Given that you’ve worked them into a death cult, how about culminateGeneration? It also works with their Void aspect.

Quirk:They talk lyke thys tü be as BRÜTAL as possyble - They replace ‘I’ and the matching sounds with ‘y’ and replace ‘u’ and matching sounds with ü. This is meant to mimic the trends a lot of metal bands to to their names in order to look cooler.

hjfsdk;l when I said that with the umlauts it honest to god sounds like someone trying to do a goat imitation so PERF. Also brings to mind associations with Brütal Legend so I figure we’re gonna take this WAY over the top.

Special Abilities (if any):They’re a magic practitioner, and regularly communes with mysterious dark entites (Horroterrors) for song advice and inspiration. In return, their resulting music often carries a lot of eldritch effects to it, which Phomet doesn’t mind because it looks so BRUTAL.

Lusus: (I’m proud of this) Pentaram - It’s… a goat head with five spider legs. It’s species doesn’t live long, they can barely move around because they have five fucking legs to support a whole goat head. Not even big ones, they’re just about average. Phomet hates their lusus and thinks it’s completely lame. When it gets sprites and is this not bound to the cruel mistress of gravity, it looks WAY cooler. Mainly based on the Sabbatic goat again, this time with the goat-headed pentagram.

dhgsljk;lafjha;jeg I love them so much. They’re a Parentaram.

Personality: Honestly, this is kinda where I struggle the most. The most I can think of is Nathan Explosion from Metalocalypse. Their voice is a similar growly type.

The character you seem to have created with Phomet is one who is very attracted to the lük of things and not to the substance. I like that for a Void player! Their interests in stuff is initially superficial, ‘empty.’ This sets them up for a very interesting arc in which they will need to actually face up to what they’re doing, the good the bad and the ugly. Dig a little deeper into this theme! You can do a lot with it.

Interests: Magic, music (playing guitar, listening to bands, composing their own stuff, singing), occult studies, looking up brutal and gruesome things online (basically an average troll google), haircare.

Title: Knight of Void - Off the bat, I’m in the 'Knights are passive’ camp and that their class verb is 'Serve’. I often try and approach my Knight characters from different perspectives but they all more or less come to the same thing, so it’s cool.

(ʘ‿ʘ ) You have come to…a blog that does not actually subscribe to that verbiage so my advice from here on out may not apply…

Anyways, their interest and dabbling with dark, esoteric magic is a good link to Void in my opinion. Forbidden, unknowable things that are best left obfuscated. The Horrorterrors are very Void-coded, such as how people can interpret Rose’s Grimdark status as her acting as a Void player, as well as residing in the Furthest ring, furthest from the Light of prospit.

Phomet regularly communes and 'serves’ Horroterrors in the way similar to a Warlock from Dungeons and Dragons serves their patron. What Phomet gets out of this is some kickass riffs and lyrics whilst the HTs just get another emissary or plaything.

I…hm. I mean I think Knight of Void actually does apply here just not for the reasons that you do. Knights tend to be drowning in their aspect, and Phomet is definitely doing so here.  They’re surrounded by secrets and horrorterrors and have almost no understanding of the depth of the forces with which they’ve involved themselves. Ideally, a Knight would grow to eventually wield the very things under which they’re being suffocated.

I’ve not really thought about personality in regards to this classpect, that’s what I’m struggling most with them.

Yeah, if we look at someone like a Dave or a Latula, Knights tend to come off as very superficially cool specifically because they don’t understand that they should be concerned by everything they’re overwhelmed with. I think you’re fine just making Phomet a punk #aesthetic kid like many of us were in middle school and letting them come into their own from there.

Land: Nada

Does this mean you didn’t assign one or that they don’t have one??? Because the latter would be really interesting if you want to give them no choice but to consort with horrorterrors; if they, for example, die before getting in and wake up on their moon after a kiss, they might find that their planet never manifested/was destroyed before they could enter.

Or, if you do ant them to have a planet, how about Land of Metal and Mirrors? It would fit their aesthetic really well and also be a sly dig at their own vanity, with mirrors that show warped reflections or aspects of themself that they don’t like. The way to reach the denizen would be to accept all reflections as true expressions of themself, allowing them to warp between mirrors (including one located at the heart of the planet, inaccesible by any natural means).

Dream Planet: I wanna say Derse, but Prospit would be a nice ironic fate for them.

I think this is a question of what you want to do with them. It’s not as simple as Prospit = nerdy goofballs and Derse = edgy coolkids, though that may be what someone gets if they initially saw the moons to which the kids were assigned. Vriska, one of Homestuck’s most famously murderous and grey-moral characters, is a Prospit player. This is because her character’s focus is on Destiny. She relies heavily on predestination and is all about living up to be the grand hero she knows she’s meant to be. If you want Phomet’s arc to be about breaking free of forces to which they’ve dedicated themself with little understanding, you’d go with Derse (which is my pick, personally, especially because it puts the horrorterrors right in their ear before they even get into the game). If you think that they have a destiny to fulfill (even a dark one like eventually becoming the horrorterrors’ permanent plaything), then you’ll wanna go with Prospit.

So. With A Void assignation and a Derse moon, we get Arittarius, The Sign of The Astronaut. And interesting pick, especially if we go with the concept that they don’t have a personal planet! So let’s move to the redesign!

So. You may have noticed that Phomet has undergone something of a transformation. Let’s go top to bottom on this.

Horns - I gave them a new set of horns to match their new symbol. We already have a troll with this symbol, but I didn’t want to repeat her horns on them and their new pair looks like the tops of eighth notes as a nod to their musical inclinations!

Hair - So the thing about death metal fashion is that the folks in it have great hair, but it’s not necessarily as neat as Phomet’s original style. Their hair also tends to be longer, and chin-length on a Homestuck sprite sometimes translates to ear-length in Hero Mode, so I really wanted to hit the length home. I pulled this straight from a fan-troll sprite sheet, then added some definition at the top. One of the little cowlicks got lost behind their horn, but I wanted there to be five directly surrounding their face to reference the pentagram.

Corpse paint - I pulled the colors directly off Gamzee’s face to further drive home the mirrored implications. I even mirrored Phomet’s own face paint to make it look a little like a Rorschach blot. Finally, I futzed with their mouth makeup until it kind of looked like the silhouette of a goat head?

Eyes - So part of maintaining an androgynous look is to make things a Little Unsure. Did I add eyelash definition to their eyes or did I just make them more diamond shaped?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Who knows. We’ve seen undereye makeup exactly ONCE on a troll but I liked how it made their bags stand out so I applied it over the corpsepaint.

Mouth - Hey :V Did you know goats don’t actually have upper teeth? That’s all just one gum, baby. I found this out while spriting Phomet’s mouth and now I have to live with that information and you do too. They have an underbite now, and just enough lip definition to make you cock your head. Is that lipstick? Are their lips just full?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Vest - I added some pockets to make them more utilitarian

Symbol - t b h this one just looks like a totally plausible variant of the symbol you already gave me.

Belt - It is. A SPIKE BELT.

Boots - constantly use fantrollartroom’s combat boot sprite???? MOI? Yes, yes I do, they have done a better job of spriting combat boots than I ever could and I love combat boots and they’re metal as hell so they get some.

So that concludes our review! Luv this scamp please get them a comb for me.

-TR

#ancientvacation #phomet burzum #phomet #burzum #rustblood #review #redesign #tr review #fantroll #submission

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Evil: Did Kristen Kill Orson?

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This article contains spoilers for Evil season 1.

Kristen Bouchard, played by Katja Herbers, was as surprised by the Evil season 1 finale as any viewer. Something drew the normally cynical psychiatric trial expert to test her fate. The moment before she sees the acrid burn of sin on her flesh, she is relieved. Everything is normal for too short a moment. Evil season 2 will open on another side of a rabbit hole. The supernatural suspense drama already cast an all-seeing eye into demonic connections in international conspiracy. Their new unsolved mystery is an inner crime. A lone act. Did Kristen kill Orson LeRoux (Darren Pettie)? All the clues are there. Some may have been repressed, like a tell-tale blood stain no one wants to see, but malicious intent tends to rise to the surface. What could have possessed Kristen to do such a thing? Perhaps only the show’s resident therapist, the goat-headed demon who primarily tends to Leland Townsend (Michael Emerson), knows for sure, and he’s known as the father of lies.

As the designated Doubting Thomas in a group of Catholic Church-affiliated paranormal investigators, Kristen has made it her mission to get to the bottom of elusive truths. As a citizen she lends her expert testimony to keep the most dangerous criminals from re-entering society. She fought very hard to keep Orson in prison. But when the convicted serial killer’s sentence was overturned, Kristen’s first concern was as a mother. Not only did she fail to keep a multiple murderer off the street, she fails to keep him from showing up on her own block. Orson does this just as Kristen is escorting her daughters aboard the school bus. She dials 911, but Orson is the one to file a police complaint. Their neighborly squabble is settled with a conciliatory fruit basket.

Orson LeRoux is a gift that keeps giving. He was on the ninth rung of a 12-step program to hell, and looking for something short of redemption. The newly freed serial killer was just getting on our good sides when we overheard the call from Detective Mira Byrd (Kristen Connolly) saying he wouldn’t be making it to season 2. “He was bludgeoned,” Byrd says. “We are thinking it was by his wife. Your troubles are over.” But “Book 27,” the title of the final episode, doesn’t shut the file on the problematic psychopath. It throws a whole library at undue process.

The night Kristen came home to find her daughter Lexis asleep on the floor near an open front door and Orson’s gift basket, she put the kid to bed and went out in a hurry. Before she left, she grabbed a climbing axe. Kristen and her husband are both avid and expert mountaineers, and the instrument is pristine. It looks brand new and still has its shine. The axe looks like the walking stick Claude Rains used to kill Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolfman. His son had a terrible secret. When the moon was full, he became a murderous beast. Like Orson, the werewolf is very vocal in expressing regret for his violence but shows no outward signs of his affliction when he’s not possessed by his lunacy. 

Evil has its own character with a unique gait. The Demon Therapist is made to look like an all-male version of the Goat of Mendes, also known as Baphomet. There is some evidence he may be setting Kristen up for a fall. Not only as a suspect in the murder of the legally exonerated ex-con, but from grace itself. And then, after Kristen gives the appearance of murderous intent before the crime, she also blatantly covers up evidence right in front of one of her most trusted colleagues.

The sequence where Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) notices the blood on Kristen’s leg reminds me of the scene where Lou Costello walks right into Boris Karloff’s character in the 1949 suspense comedy Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer. In that film, Karloff’s killer hypnotically suggests to the surprised witness “You didn’t see me. I wasn’t here,” and pulls a mental disappearing act. When Ben asks Kristen why she has blood on her leg, she cleans it right in front of him and simply says “I don’t have blood on my leg.” She makes it clear that her leg is currently blood-free, providing a loop-hole for a legal disappearing act. Jedi mind tricks are not admissible in court, though, so it appears she is skirting more than ethics.

Kristen is also ducking a culling scythe. David Acosta (Mike Colter), the ex-journalist, pre-ordained priest who assesses supernatural events for the Catholic Church, also indulges in mind tricks. He routinely mixes brews of hallucinogens to open himself up to mystical visions. At one point towards the end, we see him fingering a baggie of magic mushrooms which fades to a hallucination. He envisions himself in the middle of a field of wheat, which the Demon Therapist is separating from chaff. Kristen walks right past David straight to the agricultural reaper. She has a smile of beneficence on her face and is unconcerned. That’s more than you can say for David, who is so worried he drops the untouched bag of psychedelic experience to the floor. He didn’t need chemicals to see the signs. But what do they mean?

David could have seen an allusion to Kristen’s mortal sin, which would lead her to a path of perdition. He may also be seeing a warning, in which case, she has not yet fully given in to the temptation of the most dramatic of maternal instincts. Who is to say Detective Byrd isn’t involved in the murder?  Kristen Connolly has been playing much of the role ambiguously. Maybe the detective figures it will help the book sales she had to admit to under oath. Orson’s death could be one of collusion. It is most probably a mere step on the downward spiral Kristen’s arc is taking.  

David is very good at reading signs. He recognized the symbol to the RMS fertility clinic which is churning out demon babies by the test-tube-full from one he’d seen in his vision of an ancient occult text. But the hottest clue to the mystery which surrounds him doesn’t come from a burning bush. It comes from a scorched palm. The very last scene of the Evil finale changes the paradigm of the show. In what looks like a whim of scientific curiosity, Kristen holds a crucifix in the palm of her hand. She’s been to enough exorcisms, and even saw the effects reading “The Lord’s Prayer” had on the possibly-possessed Orson. Kristen is performing an ad hoc experiment. And she is positively relieved at the initial results.

Kristen’s relief lasts less than a second. The experiment is apparently a success, but it’s not a happy conclusion. The skin which touched the crucifix is branded with the mark of the cross. By the logic of Hollywood since the beginning of celluloid, this would indicate Kristen Bouchard is at least possessed, if not already some kind of demon. That fertility clinic David connected the dots to was the same one she’d gone to after she’d suffered a miscarriage. Her daughter, the psychically gifted Lexis Bouchard (Maddy Crocco), was born after in vitro fertilization procedures done at their facilities. Besides the Boys from Brazil conspiracy Ben revealed at the connection, this also brings in another aspect of Kristen’s maternal instinct. Would she kill to protect her demon spawn?

We know Kristen is fiercely protective of her children. We’ve also seen evidence she can be fairly quick to violence. She had no qualms about carving her initials into the neck of Leland Townsend, the defense expert who has become her most annoying nemesis. She also seemed to savor twisting a blade into the demon George. A prosecuting attorney might bring these incidents up to tarnish her character in a trial for killing Orson. But they also open an easy gateway to Kristen’s inner darkness. David’s head priest says a person has to invite a demon before they can be possessed. Lexis not only invited the Demon Therapist into her hallway, she jumped at the chance to go the “next level,” and punched in the security code for him. Kristen accepted the demon when she followed through on the path laid out for her.

While it remains unclear whether Kristen is possessed or in an early stage of possession, her openness to demonic forces may have been foreshadowed in episode 1. It happens after one of her earliest night-terror incidents with the demon George, when Kristen is lying in bed with her daughters. She breaks the fourth wall with a knowing grin to the camera. While some of her actions might indicate a weakening of moral standards, leading to her being open to committing a mortal sin, there are no overt signs of encroaching demonic infestation. But the road to hell is an insidious one, paved with the very best of intentions.

Those who are condemned to hell don’t display their designations with signs like the burn marks left by crucifixes and other holy residue. If Kristen had become possessed, she would have shown signs during some of the exorcism rites she’d witnessed during the season. But Orson’s murder may have been a climax to a seduction which began when she was first introduced to the holy work. She has increasingly become more secretive to the people around her, both professionally and personally. She doesn’t give out easy explanations, and keeps too many details too close to her vest. Kristen often looks like she’s hiding something even in the least necessary moment. She even does it against her own self-interest.

Because Evil is an intentionally and happily effective confounding series, the mystery of Orson’s death will probably not be what is most readily apparent. It is hidden in the occult clues we might have overlooked, just like a gas leak may be hidden by some plaster in the room of a seemingly satanic crime scene. Kristen is indeed primed to be suspect, but Detective Byrd has motive and opportunity. It would almost be a shame if Orson’s wife got to him first.

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“Hot, fast, and full of garbage”: Star vs. the Forces of Evil and the Holy Grail -- and how the series writers hid their foreshadowing in plain sight from the very beginning.

As some of you know, I've written before about metaphors and symbols in Star vs. the Forces of Evil -- anything from nachos symbolizing friendship to trick candles being a metaphor for resurrection. But this? I've yet to write about something of this scope in the series.

This is big.

As incredible as it may sound, I have uncovered some symbolism that has not only been hiding in plain sight since the very first episode of the series but has also appeared in nearly every single episode since then. Further still, I believe I know what this symbolism means -- it all involves the Holy Grail -- and I can prove it. But in order to fully explain everything, however, I'd first like to walk you through my thought process in discovering the symbolism.

Please accompany me on this journey.

The Realization

A couple weeks ago, my copy of the guidebook finally came in. I started reading through it and stopped short when I came upon this unusual passage:

Now, this entire section of the book is utterly bizarre, but this passage in particular stood out to me. “’Nature's Landfill’”? What the hell? What the hell?

It was at this point, reading this passage, that I realized that there are, in fact, quite a few overt references to garbage in Star vs. the Forces of Evil. Off the top of my head, I recalled references to garbage in "Wand to Wand," in "Starstruck," in "By the Book," at the end of "Sleepover," and in "Collateral Damage."

I began to have a hunch that if I looked, I would find references to or depiction of garbage in every single episode of the series. So ... I looked. I went back and watched the entire series again. Amazingly enough -- with few exceptions -- there is indeed a reference to garbage in nearly every single episode of the series. There will be a list of those references near the end of this post.

Okay. So let’s say there are references to garbage in every single episode -- what does that mean?

Garbage and the Holy Grail

Not too long ago, I wrote a post about what I believed were references to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in season 2B. And it's a well-known fact that there's a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail in "Raid the Cave." Both of those films are about the Holy Grail, so I began to wonder if there were perhaps references to other films about the Holy Grail as well. So ... I started to watch all the films I could find that dealt with the Holy Grail.

One of the films I watched is called The Fisher King, a 1991 film directed by Monty Python member Terry Gilliam, which stars Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams. Jeff bridges plays a radio shock jock who has a crisis of conscience after he causes a tragedy. Robin Williams plays a homeless man who goes insane after the tragedy, believing he is a knight on the quest for the Holy Grail.

Now, there are actually a number of connections between this film and Star vs. the Forces of Evil, but the one we'll be focusing on today is garbage. Robin Williams's character, Parry, is fond of salvaging things from the garbage and giving it new life. In fact, this plays a major role in his characterization:

All right -- garbage. I thought to myself: "There's magic in the garbage. That's a fairly strong connection to Star vs. the Forces of Evil given all the references to garbage." Yet I couldn't quite put my finger on what, exactly, the connection was.

I discussed the film with my friends, some of whom I'd convinced to watch Star vs. the Forces of Evil with me. I have to thank my friend Aumpa in particular for giving me the final piece of the puzzle, though. After I mentioned The Fisher King's potential connection to Star vs. the Forces of Evil and explained that it had something to do with the Holy Grail and garbage, he pointed me to a page on the TV Tropes website:

The Grail in the Garbage.

And then I knew what the connection was. Then I knew why there were so many references to garbage in Star vs. the Forces of Evil. Why there's that bizarre passage in Star and Marco's guidebook. Why there are those allusions to films about the Holy Grail. It's all deliberate. It's all a deliberate reference to that trope; the Holy Grail is in the garbage.

If it sounds unlikely that the writers would make such a literal use of a trope, consider an earlier post in which I note that "Marco Grows a Beard" is, in fact, a literal use of the Growing the Beard trope: Marco literally grows a beard, and Toffee also reveals his dark intentions, adding a serious tone to the show (i.e., the show grows its beard).

The Minor Arcana and The Holy Grail

Let's consider the Holy Grail. What form could it take in Star vs. the Forces of Evil? Is it literal? Metaphorical? Symbolic? At first, I didn’t know. The cup itself is depicted in many ways in popular fiction, from a literal cup to a metaphor for a woman. Here are the options I considered:

Option #1: Starco is the "Holy Grail."

My first guess, of course, was that Star and Marco being in a relationship is the "Holy Grail" -- indeed, the one that many are watching the series for in order to see it happen. While I do think that it's inevitable that Star and Marco will be together romantically, I don't think the long-running garbage imagery would lead to such a predictable and weak payoff.

Option #2: Star herself is the Holy Grail.

There is a great deal of critical analysis of the Grail legend which points to the Holy Grail being symbolic for women and the womb -- the creative force, in other words -- a subject which comes up in popular fiction such as The Fisher King and The Da Vinci Code, for instance. This is certainly possible; as I've noted before, Star almost certainly represents the creative force and will bring this power to bear at some point soon in the future.

Yet I don't think it's likely that Star herself is the Holy Grail. Why? Well, simple: Star is on the Grail Quest. She is a knight-errant -- in more ways than one! Errant in the original sense of the word means "wandering." As I've written about before, Star is most likely represented by a wandering star (i.e., Venus). Not only this, however, but errant has also come to mean "prone to error" -- and what is Star if not that?

Knight-errant suits her. Star is not the Holy Grail, then: she is a knight on a quest for the Holy Grail -- even if she doesn't know it yet.

Option #3: The Holy Grail will be a literal magical object.

It's this last option which is most intriguing to me. Star vs. the Forces of Evil is set in a world in which magic is, of course, real, and a magical cup wouldn't be far-fetched given what we've already seen. Indeed, the existence of the cup may itself be foreshadowed by Star's wand due to the Minor Arcana.

You see, the Minor Arcana are an alternate way of depicting the classical French card suits (i.e., clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades). The four Minor Arcana suits are, respectively, wands, pentacles, cups, and swords. (As you can see from the Wikipedia article, there is some variation in the suits -- pentacles can also be coins, disks, or rings.) Interestingly enough, I believe we already have a literal version of each item in question -- just as we have a character who literally has each French suit on her cheeks.

Clubs, of course, are the easiest to figure out. They are represented by wands. Both of which point to Miss Heinous and the Butterfly family wand. (Recall, amusingly, that Star also uses her wand as a literal club from time to time.)

Diamonds are next. They are represented by coins, pentacles, disks, or rings. Yet this, too, is easy to figure out: recall from my post on Toffee and the connection to The Lord of the Rings that Toffee's finger is comparable to the One Ring. It is quite fitting, after all, that diamonds should be paired with rings given that Queen Moon is the one who blasted off Toffee's finger -- don't you agree?

Spades come next. Eclipsa has the spades on her cheeks, and the suit is represented by swords. I believe these are represented by dimensional scissors. Hekapoo uses her dimensional scissors as literal bladed weapons, and Marco's dimensional scissors (as many have pointed out) visually resemble swords in their design.

Hearts are represented by cups. If Star is the one who will find the Holy Grail -- if there will be a literal Holy Grail in the series at all -- then what else could it be but a cup, and who more appropriate to wield it than the girl with the hearts on her cheeks, Star Butterfly?

Lekmet’s Relation to the Holy Grail

I believe the Holy Grail will be a literal one -- and we have already seen it on-screen. In fact, it shows up in the very last episode of season two:

Yes, that's right. I think the Holy Grail is Lekmet's horn. You see, drinking horns were very common all across the world and especially used for ceremonial purposes. And it's clear from the fact that Moon puts Lekmet's remains within it that the horn is hollow.

Indeed -- animal horns have long been depicted in myths as being literal or symbolic sources of nourishment, fertility, and plenty -- just look at the cornucopia, for instance. Take this into account, too: the Holy Grail is depicted as having powers of healing and restoration -- and what were Lekmet's powers? Healing and restoration. If that's not enough to convince you, there's a real-life legend that links Lekmet to the Holy Grail.

As many, many others -- including my good friend Malthus1 from the subreddit -- have pointed out, Lekmet's design is almost certainly based on Baphomet. But what if his concept is as well? Historically, Baphomet was allegedly an idol or false god that the Knights Templar, an order of Christian knights who rose to prominence during the Crusades, were accused of worshipping. The Knights Templar were subjected to arrest, torture, and death as a result of their alleged heresy. There are many legends about the knights, including ones saying that they took and guarded many important artifacts from the Holy Land during the Crusades.

One of those artifacts was -- you guessed it -- the Holy Grail. That is a direct connection from Lekmet to the Holy Grail through Baphomet and the Knights Templar, all of which are strongly associated with one another.

In Star and Marco’s guidebook, Glossaryck states this about Lekmet:

Given what Glossaryck says about “the impermanence of existence,” I think it’s possible that Lekmet is gone for good. I think it's no coincidence that Lekmet left only a single horn behind -- nor is it any coincidence that an older definition of the word garbage includes a sense meaning “the inedible parts of an animal.” The horn is garbage: it’s what Lekmet leaves behind. And yet that horn is also a cup -- one that will prove to be the Holy Grail. My prediction is that the horn's powers will lie hidden until Star discovers or activates them somehow.

Summing It Up

This post contained a lot of information to process. Let me sum it up:

In nearly every episode, starting with "Star Comes to Earth," there is a reference to or visual depiction of garbage.

Star vs. the Forces of Evil explicitly references movies about the Holy Grail in season 2B, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The garbage and Holy Grail references are most likely connected to the trope Grail in the Garbage.

The French card suits -- clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts -- are symbolically connected to the Italian card suits -- wands, rings, swords, and cups -- through literal magical objects: the wand, Toffee's finger, dimensional scissors, and Lekmet's horn.

Lekmet is based on Baphomet, who is associated in real-life legends with the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. Lekmet's horn, which is all that's left of him -- his garbage -- is hollow and could serve as a cup.

Therefore, I hypothesize that this garbage-Grail connection foreshadows the revelation of Lekmet's horn as being a literal magical cup which Star will use to heal and restore.

I hope I have convinced you that there is more -- far more -- going on in Star vs. the Forces of Evil than meets the eye. You know, it's funny ... all of that garbage was hiding in plain sight this whole time, scattered throughout the entire series. Garbage blends in, you see. We don’t pay attention to it.

Would you have even noticed it if I hadn't pointed it out?

It's clear to me that the writers tried to make us aware of these connections without tipping their hands too much. (An appropriate metaphor, considering the subject of card suits.) They put in key references to films -- references to the Grail Quest -- but these references are so subtle that you might not think they mean anything at all.

In fact, the way the writers write reminds me of a line from Futurama:

God Entity: (chuckles) When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

But that’s why I’m here. To make sure the true depth of their writing gets noticed.

Never let anyone tell you that Star vs. the Forces of Evil isn't well-written. It has all the hallmarks of a well-executed story. Is it tricky? Absolutely. The writers have intentionally deceived people into thinking the show is simpler than it is. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people refer to it as "generic."

It is not simple. It is not generic. It is anything but.

When I say that the foundations of our silly little adventure cartoon rest on literary traditions as old as storytelling itself -- I fucking mean it.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post. I can't begin to tell you how extraordinarily challenging it was to write about this topic -- not to mention how long it took. I don't know about you, but I simply cannot believe the depth of meaning that I have discovered in Star vs. the Forces of Evil. To that end, as I promised earlier, here follows a list of all the references to garbage in the series.

The List of References to Garbage

Note: these references are based on strict guidelines. Only explicit visual depictions or dialogue references to garbage, trash, junk, waste, garbage cans, junkyards, dumps, dumpsters, or throw away are accepted. After some consideration, I ruled out mess, bathroom, and similar words and phrases (and there are quite a few) because I felt that the connection wasn't strong enough. There may be multiple references to garbage in each episode, but for brevity’s sake, I’m only going to post one screenshot per episode.

Episode 1a, "Star Comes to Earth"

There’s a dumpster in the background after the monster fight.

Episode 1b, "Party with a Pony"

Square: I think I’m next. But with less abusive trash talk, please.

Episode 2a, "Matchmaker"

Miss Skullnick: He dumped me, I think. I don’t know.

Episode 2b, "School Spirit"

Star pesters some stray cats in a dumpster.

Episode 3a, "Monster Arm"

Star: Jeremy Birnbaum? Isn't that the talking bear that used to rummage through my parents' garbage?

Episode 4a, "Cheer Up Star"

Marco falls into the garbage on picture day.

Episode 4b, "Quest Buy"

Star’s side of the bathroom is littered with junk..

Episode 5b, "Brittney's Party"

Marco and Ludo take turns throwing up into a garbage can.

Episode 6a, "Mewberty"

Glossaryck: Look, kid. Nature is like a runaway dump truck: hot, fast, and full of garbage.

Episode 7a, "Lobster Claws"

Ludo: You, sir, are a steaming pile of monster garbage. And you’re fired!

Episode 8a, "Blood Moon Ball"

Bored Demon: Piece of garbage that doesn't destroy the universe. Stupid cockroach that lives inside. I'm over it already!.

Episode 8b, "Fortune Cookies"

Marco gets locked in a dumpster.

Episode 9a, "Freeze Day"

A trash can can be seen as Marco looks at Jackie.

Episode 9b, "Royal Pain"

There's a garbage can in the corner in the bathroom.

Episode 10, "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses"

Announcer: Don't allow your noble lineage to be thrown away!

Episode 11a, "Mewnipendance Day"

Toffee: I thought you might, you fat bag of garbage.

Episode 11b, "The Banagic Incident"

Garbage is seen floating in Echo Creek when Star's on her journey.

Episode 14a, "My New Wand!"

Star’s secrets closet is filled with garbage.

Episode 14b, "Ludo in the Wild"

Ludo passes by floating garbage in space.

Episode 15a, "Mr. Candle Cares"

Prime Janitor of Beautiful Garbage Island! (Note that there's a rainbow leading to the island. What's at the end of a rainbow? Treasure.)

Episode 15b, "Red Belt"

Star trashes the house while looking for a hammer.

Episode 16a, "Star on Wheels"

Marco: Uh, why is your car filled with garbage?

Bonus Quote:

Glossaryck: If you want to save Star, trust in goats.

Episode 16b, "Fetch"

Star’s wand almost falls into the trash can.

Episode 17a, "Star vs. Echo Creek"

There's all kinds of garbage around Echo Creek.

Episode 17b, "Wand to Wand"

Cloudy spills garbage all over the house.

Episode 18a, "Starstruck"

Star and Marco wait by the dumpsters for the old donuts to be thrown away. Mina plays in the trash.

Episode 19a, "Starsitting"

There's a garbage can beside the wall after Marco gets thrown from the treadmill.

Episode 20a, "Goblin Dogs"

Kelly throws away apple cores.

Episode 20b, "By the Book"

Star and Marco throw Glossaryck into "the most disgusting dumpster in town."

Episode 21a, "Game of Flags"

Star: You don't waste time on anybody.

Episode 21b, "Girl's Day Out"

Star and Janna ride a janitor's cart, which has a trash can on it.

Episode 22a, "Sleepover"

The Truth or Punishment Box ends up in the garbage.

Episode 22b, "Gift of the Card"

Marco: If you're going to rush me, then I'll just buy some piece of junk now, and come back to exchange it later, okay?

Episode 23a, "Friendenemies"

Tom: Mackie Hand movies are garbage.

Episode 23b, "Is Mystery"

There's a hole marked "waste" where monsters get thrown if they don't grind corn.

Episode 25a, "Into the Wand"

Star throws Toffee's finger into her garbage-filled secrets closet.

Episode 25b, "Pizza Thing"

Pony Head and Marco's stolen car comes to rest in a junkyard.

Episode 26a, "Page Turner"

There's a discarded can and a junkyard in the crystal ball.

Episode 26b, "Naysaya"

Marco: I pulled it out of the trash in art class.

Episode 27, "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown"

Star: Yeah. This place is a dump.

Episode 28a, "Raid the Cave"

Star: This was all a waste of time.

Episode 28b, "Trickstar"

Preston Change-O mentions “empties” -- i.e., recyclable trash -- in his analogy for joy sucking.

Episode 29a, "Baby"

Star cleans up all kinds of garbage in her room before Baby arrives.

Episode 29b, "Running with Scissors"

Marco is trying to throw something away when Hekapoo finds him.

Episode 30a, "Mathmagic"

Miss Skullnick inexplicably turns into a trash can.

Episode 30b, "The Bounce Lounge"

Marco: What a dump!

Episode 31a, "Crystal Clear"

Star: What a waste of donuts.

Episode 31b, "The Hard Way"

There's a pile of empty packages of pudding after Ludo learns to levitate.

Episode 32a, "Heinous"

The school is filled with garbage in Miss Heinous's flashback.

Episode 33a, "Collateral Damage"

This episode heavily centers around trash. Some prominent examples:

Janna: Come on, you know this stuff is garbage.

Star throws everything, including Otis, into the dumpster.

The old janitor throws some books into a trash can fire.

Episode 33b, "Just Friends"

There's trash on the ground as Star walks out of the stadium.

Episode 34, "Face the Music"

The laser puppies knock over a conspicuously-placed trash can in Star's bedroom.

Episode 35, "Starcrushed"

There's a trash can fire at the bad kids' party.

Out of 65 episodes, 53 have garbage in them. I’d say that’s significant.

I’ll close this with some dialogue from The Fisher King:

Parry: Your calculations determine whether a book is published or not. You know, maybe it's a book that changes the way people think or, you know, act. Lydia: Yeah, but what we publish is mostly trashy romance novels. Parry: Don't say that. There's nothing trashy about romance. In romance there’s passion. There's imagination. There's beauty. Besides, you find some pretty wonderful things in the trash.

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[cre0n]

"DWAL SSAAY ELIHC LRUG WEHW" (My Pet Unpopulars Reversed)

"Time to be quiet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ0ECqMHfUQ

Prelude

Creon: First off rest in peace to this decade that got owned. From the phony fake feedback "they" have been reading this for the past several years and I can see people being bothered by it. It's nothing to do with a check or any type of fake fame from "them". I don't get paid for this or even have followers but guess who's reading it. Just think of it as a free schooling or in some cases pure sportsmanship. Where yall think all of that Rebel talk came from? Now all of a sudden a decade later everybody is Rebel this, going against the system that. Folks got Rebel Clothing lines, Rebel mentalities, and Rebellious attitudes. That's the pavement that was laid for you and you and every colored negroe that it meant something to. When your as powerful as this entity inside of my physical body the other side tends to tip their hand occasionally. I don't think "they" try to give it away it's just fear that drives them to surrender unwillingly. Ain't it amazing how some of the most powerful *people* in this Matrix will never make it to your TV screen or trendy news cast that entices humans so much. Could you be able to comprehend or fathom a supreme being that induces so much fear into the hearts of the most evil entities that dwell in this realm? That may be to much for a human to understand. That may even be hilarious to most simpletons but it's meant to draw the mind closer and it's working. The point of this is Top 50, Top 25, Top 5 whatever nobody is bringing the same substance, content, subject matters and skill all in one sitting. Where would your favorites be without the help? Would they even exist to you anymore? They need to piggyback the fame and media to be a dope somebody. You have a fresh start and don't have to do that. I myself don't even know what help is anymore and you should feel the same way. It's in the people to have that power and they should take it. Dumbasses, we don't live in the physical realm you wake up to everyday. The REAL is lived out in your mind. If you reincarnate on this planet after dying, YOU LOST THE GAME. Yes, some of us come here for a sole purpose with the intent of light bearing revelations....Then I think about things again and say maybe I shouldn't complain. Maybe I should just be flattered to say the least. Naw not this time fuck that. It's like one of the homies said, You Can Do All Things Through Christ Except Play With Me. What I'm doing and have been doing and already did is sculpting and designing a coded landscape typical to a highway for all of my "peers" in this so called "community" as grounds for their pitiful souls to maybe one day be spared. Even the jealous and cowardly ones that are the purest of maggots, the ones who try to block your very existence, or just flat out ain't shit know the end game. They even have to bend the knee.

"Spoken"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVijnZylMw0

1. Eye don't respect you and at the same time must protect you They swear this state that their mind is in equals revenue How you call it blessed when frequency filters through mess What is it n*gger you can't see or the fame is humanity's stress The North Pole with machine elves the holy grail My tree of life cannon ball into eternal wells Drink from our chalice the fountain  conception Stone Mountain His Russian time machine dream simply will not allow it A treasure chest no jewels to drop it's not for sale Forgot to reload my CERN account black Queens dwell in Hell Now you understand why EYE can't get signed Or go on tour for decades behind the black man's mind Let's overstand this sovereign case them people scared Came back to the planet ONE last time yall still unprepared

2. Wool robe eyes like the burning bush sandals bronze Magnetic field and aura like a lunar groupon Infinte is 8 we ate never ending planes Cut off by a cracked firmament our Summer's Gate reign Sea monsters like a Cripp by the Island of Thoth It's still moving yall still with me right?.... Cough Young brothas my Saturn Matrix black can't date no Iggy's They tryna turn Gibbs and Benny into new Pac's and Biggie Pay attention these folks is evil Dedication to easels.... draw

MJ KICK

"Model Duck Waddle"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StNUu-ayD4Y

Hella yaass young mamas got a story to tell CreezyBae from Souf Kak and keep that A-T-L A heartless reinforcer, socery is an order Magic shows blow some smoke up ya butt with this quarter Nada no nothing so don't be posing & stuntin' Curriculum spins this axis so wtf is you askin'? Babe it can't be love, 'cause love  don't love a soul And all the likes and comments in the world gets old Now all you got in ya life that air mattress with the plastic cups That cash app still working don't it? Hit em up You selling selfies and an advantage time still passing Several years later recommended by the garbage tragic Been underground for decades it made me an animal That orange box cutter didn't come with no manual Annual, pussy makes the world go flat And plus we fuckin', don't do no homegurl chillin' jack (BIG FACTS)

.....(Shuckin' x Jivin')........

"The Roth"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFViVsYLK84

Eye swear to White God Eye love wasting humans time 7 summers later that dumb bitch God is a *crime* Pinot Noir and your whole outlook The way you teach the children, straight from a crackas book Yall slaves kill me with this top 5 bullshit The whole industry revolving door pulpits Talking bout they positive movements with negative fads Well tell the folks the whole truth you hypocrite scabs Let's pull the strings and the puppets out I don't even need the sticks Wasting time on the couch flickin' this BIC (5th bedroom) Eye love my brothers to death even wished them death (huh?) Now feel the release, illuminastic reps Get BIG nigga 500k nothing less Yes the FEDS watching 2012 InkTober droppin' Yeah yall wasting time repeat the Matrix get the grind? My peers once again 3D chasing bags Eye'm at the North Pole Holy Grail Tree of EVERLAST (punching bag) "Til this day" Creon built lanes even for trash Walking on the highway then loiter off the exit stashed

............ "that part cost" -Coach

Before you learn to win you need dimensional Facts Rule 1: The 5th plane is Universal crack Rule 2: The time machines run everything back Now the whole community is back on his sack Bar none with more bars and stars than an Admiral match it Enough lower back blows she need a flak jacket We know a Propain who got special stanzas trapmatic Lost tapes, still buried outlandish Ridiculous approaches got my yella ass banned (Red) Or am Eye, he too heavy banned to a skid crammed Jammed up at some port with no support scammed Seems like the customer got another custom plan With even more bars than an empty Fort Knox Pen carries weight like the sky blue Ox Or maybe it's a Bull, bullish trending up sell now The purgatory princess gets raped by their cash cow Sodomite Gentiles flag for jumping on the pile (my fault) The Kings circle of life Creon is Royalty Blacker than the thought of the roots of a Sequoia tree...

"You don't just Like"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poB4dtpTdLQ

Can't leave out the conscious folks on his way to 7 Creon stay jammin' harder than a Mac-11 Boppin' with that NoTep confidence From the old moon to Hapis stop your nonsense Masterful the pen glides prolific spill aesthetics   More Hennessy for Carolina Cardi twerk sessions Got crackas seeing red they hate the message Don't message me just tag it yellow trend your own blessings cave pathetics The rose bloomed solid gold it's stems were magnetic Thorns crystallized easter eggs they found a Holy relic Breaking Matrix codes exposing Lyor's racist ass said it Donate a dollar and help the black channel out reverend You love this world so much well try not to get me pissed From now on Eye'm coming after souls next level shit...

**Hook**

Slangin' yarn in the yard lets get back to positive "The left field neighbor is the hardest kid" Was the agrument convincing me to slaughter this & still ended up lonely cause' the targets split The youngins say "lit" the crop a Megan Markel wrist 50 niggas deep somebody wrist game dope Bruh Eye give the soldout hope Make a famous fucka have to cope With the bullshit around them straight smoke May the Lord Jacob guide Baphomet in his prime As the Sirius Avyon one Universal mind Co-exist on a platform without porn shine Los Santos musik "Shittin while we Flyin" Etheric values nigga, the fallen and the risen In God mode the affirmations of metaphysics.....

"Dreams Don't Exist"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2ge9degkI

Can we just accept the stars at night & how the vibration sound waves replicate light Is the speed of bright faster than a black idea Are my peers slow or simple just backed up fears Been droppin' content on 9/11's, 23's, and the 13's With more New Jack swings for gangsta leans She clappin' it with no jumping he blowing gangsta green Choreograph a whole dance routine Be on some happy shit hoes wanna say Eye'm mean Just don't wake me up walking dead heroin fiends Moving around the room fly girls and crush grooves Been a shadow all summer pullin' J-moves Eye'm smoking bomb ass weed feelin' crucial They made sidewalks for black frats the feelings mutual Eye'm getting stalked by some bomb ass coochie & some of them rich legit never been a groupie......

...... & if yall can't relate then sue me (500k)

"Normalize the knob...tf"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGlXCLQ9aIw

For the new 16 Creon charging 2 properties And this was just a temporary situation now pardon me That's just some little money, the prophecy They saying buddy there's no chance you son of a slut You son of a bastard, you son of a bitch, you son of a mutt Eye got an angel now Eye'm summing it up You son of that cut, you son of that step, you son of that raw We Suns of the 7 summers son of a pause.... .....Moving Islands of Thoth A moving violation will get your team caught The Summer's gate will get a sea monster for da free Lifetimes of limitless mastery Education,  the soul is sold separately They ran out of Isotol to stretch the peace The whole album ended ran out of doggystyle to stretch the grease Dumb lil boy this ain't no NBA Envy great, pay your fares then Camelot shares Run the highway like a state chair (votes) State of Emergency Profoundly unearthining The blackest clout to create words surfing on the nearest curb Lickin' souls like them lizards whether Eye'm slizzard or sober From Langford to the Boulder-crest up to Panola Teach my Sun don't be a slave, certified owners Initially lobbied for peace Mishaps happen summoning beast Iron throne let the Ice wall melt in the streets...

Peace

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