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Stranger Things 4: Predictions

I was very excited about the trailer, but I didn't want to develop theories while it was still fresh. What for? The obvious was to be told anyway, with or without me, while I needed some time to dig a little deeper. Ultimately I put all the teasers and the trailer together and rewatched them a few times, frame by frame.

What can I say?

First of all, I do like the ‘Stranger Things’ promo-campaign. It’s amazing. The authors have managed to turn it into a fascinating interactive detective game and they don’t idle about, on the contrary they are dropping hints and planting evidence. In other words they are having fun for all it’s worth. Of course, all the fans have joined the game and started puzzling it out. It’s the greatest promo I’ve ever seen. That’s what happens when authors know their target audience well.

Second, the main plot seems to be divided into three key lines. For the sake of simplicity let’s call them ‘Eleven and the Lab’, ‘Max and the haunted house’ and ‘Joyce and Kamchatka’.

Off the top of my head, the line of Joyce seems the clearest one. An unknown friend brings her a Russian doll from Kamchatka, then Joyce hangs on Murray like grim death and… Welcome to the rodeo! The mission ‘Saving Chief Hopper’ starts off.

The question is how Hopper got into a labour camp in the first place and what kind of research is being conducted there. It’s still shrouded. Before the trailer I had taken the risk to imagine that Soviet scientists were trying to cross a human and a demogorgon, but according to the trailer they seem to be training the demogorgon as a hunting dog and, in the meantime, feeding it with criminals and dissidents. The problem is it wouldn’t work with one or two demogorgons, they would need packs of them, a legion; and, therefore, they need fresh supplies.

I can’t help wondering who is that jack-of-all-trades helping Hopper on Kamchatka and what their incentive is. Probably It’is a scientist who considers this experiment dangerous and inhumane and wants to stop it. Also they could be an American spy, by way of a side-line job. The references to ‘The Shape of Water’ hint at that.

The line of the Lab and Indigo Children seems more complex. They are not totally forgotten but there is a feeling - highly likely false - that a bloodbath at the Lab is a matter of yore. As if they aren’t going to return to the subject except some flashbacks. It might be the reason Kali and her gang haven’t been shown in the trailer although they have been sighted on the set more than once. It suggests Kali keeps wagging her vendetta, and Joyce with the kids didn’t move across the country just on a whim. Dr Owens, to all appearances, knows more than he lets on, and he relocated them to California deliberately. As far from Hawkins as he could.

I won’t be surprised to learn that Kali has found other superpower refugees and she is preparing a terroristic sabotage or even a confrontation of people against the so-called ‘mutants’. It is highly likely if you remember that the name of the first episode refers to the Men-X comic. Or do you think Dr Owens is being melodramatic when he is talking about a war coming?

Also there is an unknown in that equation. It’s a mysterious woman wearing stilettos. Nobody knows who she is, but the frame from the teaser is paralleled with Billy’s first appearance, so many people think she is his villainess mother. Like she left her kid and sold herself to the government.

Basically it might be true. Unlike fathers, mothers in Stranger Things look like a power of light but I guess it’s not a problem. Because if Hopper represents a positive father figure in the series, what on earth bars the authors from creating a dark mother figure as a counterweight to Joyce, Karen etc.? Billy’s mother fits that role perfectly.

Especially if you dig, you’ll find every key character has a dark counterpart. Moreover it is not necessary for them to be a villain. Neither Kali nor Billy are bad enough to be a villain. They are just lost kids who had never been given a helping hand when they needed it so much. I guess it’s not a secret that adults are not much different, they are the same lost kids plus a lot of wrinkles.

Strictly speaking I can see only one person who I can call a real villain. It’s Dr Brenner. But in my opinion he is not just a devious and ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing. He represents a government that is fine with stepping over its own citizens to get ahead.

But let’s return to the stiletto lady. If the Californian plot-line is connected with the Lab we may suggest she is engaged in it. And that means we are at the crossroads again. Because she might work for NSA or be the mastermind of a local analogue of Hellfire Club who pushes Kali to the way of terror. Who knows? We have no evidence yet, so from now on it’s all guesswork.

And finally the plot line of Max and the haunted house. The most mysterious and fascinating one. For me at least. Also there is a big chance it is a hinge. After all, not for nothing did the broken clock become the symbol of season 4 well before the premiere! Not to mention the trailer opens with a scene with Max talking to Billy on his grave. I hope you'll agree it speaks a lot. At least it sets the tone for the whole story.

The scene is eerie, by the way. It looks like a nightmare, you can see it from a mile away. All that spring idyll: silence, greenery, birds and loneliness. Looks like a shrivelled black hand might pop out of the grave and seize Max on her throat any minute. And it may be for real. It seems to me the Duffer Brothers emphasised Max’s face while watching the movie at the beginning of season 3 deliberately. Mark my words, she will remember that scene.

And as for the inconsistency with the inscription on the gravestone, I guess it has been done deliberately to emphasise the unreality of the situation. I’m not sure if it’s okay to inscribe a hypocoristic on a gravestone, but I suppose, for Max, her step-brother is not William. He’s Billy. Always. At least, as a sign of gratitude for calling her Max as she prefers, not Maxine, as her step-dad does all the time. So I can assume in her dreams she keeps calling him that way.

However even if it is a dream, there is no doubt that the subsequent events happen in reality. We can see Max levitating over the grave while her friends are staring at her, we can see her running away from some monster - probably, Veckna - to the dazzling light on the horizon where we can see some silhouettes of her friends and her own silhouette.

It’s not a dream at all. It looks rather like Will’s visions at the beginning of season 2. As if the character has one foot in another dimension and can see the things other people can’t. Or even can hear something.

Both the scenes with Max seeing the broken clock in a school hall and the ones with her wearing her earphones all the time hint at it. You should agree it looks weird. But if we remember the way The Party listened to Will’s singing in season 1 after the fake body was found and there was no hope left, Max’s earphones suddenly make sense. Well, anyway. Even if I’m wrong in details, there are all reasons to believe that Max is destined to become a clairvoyant.

Anyway, it’s just rings in the water. Meantime there is a really interesting detail buried in the graveyard scene. It’s Billy’s birthday. As it happens, of all characters we know the exact dates only for two of them - Billy’s and Will’s. Notably, they were born just a week apart. And by a strange and lovely coincidence that week matches Easter holidays in the USA in 1986 and the events of season 4.

Accordingly, we can assume it will take Friday to get started. The main action will begin on Saturday, on Will's birthday, and will have finished in a week hence, on Billy's birthday. Or on Sunday, it will be even more fun, because it’s the main Сhristian holiday - Easter. The day when Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

I’m not hinting at anything but it suggests the analogy. Don’t think it’s just a coincidence, the USA gives the impression of too religious a country to neglect that allusion. Besides, it is reinforced by visuals - and I came to a conclusion that nothing in that show is filmed for… well… just for show.

As Dacre Montomery said in an interview, the filming team are interested in everything on the set, down to the colour of your shoe laces. So, does it make sense to try persuading yourself that the crucified figure at the ending of season 4 is no more than a mere coincidence?

Let alone the fact that the new character, Eddie Munson, is coded as Billy’s evil twin. In other words, as Antichrist. The trailer even hints at it rather bluntly.

If you pause the trailer at 1:59 you can see something like a group of little portals with time-codes. Someone on Reddit did some research and found that there is an enciphered sentence ‘I am Hell’s Master’.

Sounds a bit brassy but provides food for thought anyway. We don’t know who exactly it is but beggars can’t be choosers. It must be either Veckna or Eddie Munson, rocking out with his guitar in the Upside Down, covered with satanic attributes from head to toe and cosplaying Eric from “The Crow”. There is a chance it’s a fake and the Duffer Brothers have sent us on a wild goose chase. But for lack of better ideas, I’m going to suspect Eddie. He’s just a fictional character, he doesn’t care anyway.

Simultaneously, there is a glimmering ray of hope that Steve and Billy might become a couple even if it doesn’t happen in season 4, but maybe later. It’s kind of offtopic but I beg to let me explain myself.

As it has been said previously, there are no haphazard frames in that show. So if they shot the first encounter of Billy and Steve as the initial meeting of Romeo and Juliet and the basketball scene as a coition, they did for a good reason. I reject the idea of fanservice as an ignominious one. So what does that leave us with?

The parallels between Will and Billy. You remember them, don’t you?

Two disadvantaged children, both alike in their observancy and interest in art (Will draws and Billy reads an autobiography of a famous satirical artist), both branded as queers and faggots by their fathers… Birds of a feather, don’t you think? The only difference is that while Will was raised by his devoted mother-bear, Billy grew up as a wild weed, turning into Will’s antipode.

Since season 2, the idea of Will being hopelessly in love with Mike haunts the fandom, with them being mirrored by Billy and Steve. Should we be surprised? I don’t think so. In my opinion, Billy and Will are coded as two different cliches about gays. A quiet intellectual, an artistic soul - and a hothead, a muscle Mary from California. Different sides of the same coin, aren’t they?

To be honest, at first I’ve missed the hints of Will’s presumable homosexuality, because I was squinting at Billy too hard, but now I have to admit those hints do exist although they are very discreet. But considering how many parallels there are between Will and Billy, I can guess ST fans weren’t seeing things in both cases.

If we could guess after season 2 that both crushes would never become a mutual thing, as neither Steve nor Mike gave a handle to reckon they might, the third season did destroy all fans’ hopes. But now I start having second guesses about that.

Unfortunately I still think Will’s chances are pretty thin on the ground, and even the flashing frame from the trailer breaks my heart. However, there is a great difference in Billy’s case.

That thought has been inspired by the trailer scene where Steve is sitting next to Billy’s gravestone, almost hugging it. At first sight it might look like a cruel mickey but it’s still a trailer, not a whole season. And I should remind you that Nancy and Jonathan became a couple not nearly straight away. Everyone thought they would at the end of season one, but they kept beating around the bush almost till the middle of season 2. Not to speak of Hopper and Joyce. Their affair had been awaited since the very first season, but they wouldn’t say a word to each other about their feelings right down to season 3 albeit the feeling that they would be together had been in the air since the very beginning.

So, as you can see, the Duffer Brothers are adding drama drop by drop, being tantalisingly slow about it. They let you get your hopes high, the next moment pushing you over the edge, and then a dim ray of hope beckons to you, lying on the bottom of an abyss of despair. I have to say, hand on heart, I completely agree with them. The secret of a good story-teller is being a conjurer. If you aspire to tell a good story you should surprise your audience. You should give people what they want to see, but on your own terms.

The chemistry between Billy and Steve was so powerful that it possessed not only the fandom, but broke free into the wider world. You might not remember that but after season 2 there were many magazine articles on homoerotic subtle between Billy and Steve, during the promo-campaign the actors were asked questions about that and so on.

It’s logical to expect them to keep developing that plot-line as long as it hit the target so well. But in season 3 it suddenly stopped dead, bewildering the fandom. Obviously, we might suspect the authors of abusing their power, but it’s disrespectful and unfair. So I prefer to reckon that the authors are decent people and they are just weaving an intricate scheme.

If the conflict between Lucas and the Party that I predicted before season 3 has brewed eventually, other Chekhov’s guns (whole-heartedly loaded ages ago) might soon start shooting too.

Besides, even if previously Steve didn’t think about gay relationships at all, it just never occured to him… Well, now he has got not-a-typical-but-helpful gay friend. And if we see sparks in the air again, you know who will open Steve’s eyes and tell him he is an idiot who is too blind even to find his own…er…nose.

However, I’m known to be a partial person, so take my speculations lightly. As long as Billy is Schrödinger's cat all of it is only theoretical, and I take them with irony myself, although it’s my own actual thoughts. But it won’t be long anyway and I’m full of optimism.

Have a nice watching!

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Forklifts Unleashed: A Comprehensive Guide to Industrial Lifting

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Understanding Forklifts

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Elevator Auto Door Manufacturer in India

Elevators auto door manufacturer in India is commonplace in our daily lives. Elevators are used in both residential and commercial settings to move people and goods between floors. While most of us take them for granted, they are complex pieces of machinery that must be carefully designed and maintained. Without elevators, we would have to use stairs, which can be time-consuming and difficult, especially for people with disabilities or who are carrying heavy items.

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Elevators auto door manufacturer in India

Without elevators, we would have to use stairs, which can be time-consuming and difficult, especially for people with disabilities or who are carrying heavy items.

They are an important part of any building, especially tall ones. Elevators help people move around a building easily and efficiently.

There is no question that the elevator has significantly impacted the way we live, work, and play. They are a staple in our high rises and help us avoid traffic and long walks upstairs.

Meaning-

The elevator is a kind of box that moves vertically up and down where there are multiple floors elevator also known as a lift.

An escalator is a moving staircase continuous strip of stairs generated by a motor that transfers people from one place to another.

Movement-

The elevator travels vertically i.e. from down to up and up to down where can people standing on the first floor can reach the tenth floor and can also reach the ground floor with a very flexible movement process.

Escalator are moving at an angled height as the stairs are moving ,so only require to step on the escalator.

Doors-

In the elevator, there is a door for entrance and with the same door has to move out.

In the escalator there is no door there are stairs if make the first step then automatically reach the particular stairs’ last step and can easily move out from the escalator.

Capacity-

In the elevator, auto door manufacturer in India has a minimum capacity that is fixed in the number and has an overload sensor. It cannot take more than the limited capacity and the sensor will react and there will be no movement of the elevator.

Whereas in the escalator is just like angled walking so there is no limit to the capacity holding of the people as there is no overload sensor installed. As there is a moving staircase and with those many people can be transported from one place to another.

Structure-

Elevator has an enclosed cabin that is four-sided; there are ropes and belts used for the movement in the elevator auto door manufacturer in India.

The escalator does not have a cabin as they are moving the staircase, whereas in the escalator the movement is made with the chains to drive the steps.

Speed-

The rate of lift travel is variable and requires shafts are speed compared to the escalator.

The escalator requires two notch points and runs continuously also slowly compared to the elevator.

Use of energy and expensiveness-

Elevator uses energy only at the time when they are in use, so they are less expensive than escalator.

Escalator uses energy all the time as they are working all the time and are more expensive than an elevator.

We are Shakti Elevator, a respected business with more than 15 years of experience elevator auto door manufacturer in India. A manufacturer of automatic door operators with almost all market requirements and provide customized solut

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It has a limited load lifting capacity. It is very important to have an elevator installed by a professional and experienced company that can also take care of the maintenance on a regular basis. For descending, a valve releases the fluid from the piston.Elevators help in moving people and goods from one floor of a building to the other

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Only the powers would hold a full on birthday party for a pet hamster... seriously, how can anyone dislike these people?

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jack: alex! mom says it my turn to use the gravity power!

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A/N: This is for @thesassywallflower for the @spnfanficpond's Secret Santa Fic Exchange! (I had to pinch hit for the person who drew your name because they had a family emergency, so I hope you like this quickly-written thing!) They listed a few different pairings they would like, and my weird brain said, "SHOVE THEM ALL IN THERE!" Well, that wasn't physically possible, but I fit three of them in, somehow. Not beta-read because I'm a savage and time is a cruel mistress.

Summary: This is technically post-15x19, but in a canon-divergent world where certain folks are somehow back because reasons.

Pairings: Dean x Donna, Sam x Eileen, Cas x Meg

Word count: 1230 words

Sam landed so heavily next to Dean that he sent the gliding seat flying back hard enough to nearly tip the thing over. It was a pea-green two-seater outdoor gliding rocker that had been Donna’s grandparents’ from sometime in the early ’70s, but she kept it greased and looking good. Dean appreciated the work she put into it, just like Donna appreciated the work Dean put into Baby. He shifted to counterweight his moose brother and successfully stopped an accident from happening while glaring at the culprit.

Sam was so drunk his cheeks were bright red and his eyes rested on somewhere near Donna’s garden shed, completely oblivious to how he’d nearly knocked everything over. Dean wanted to grunt at his brother in disapproval, it would have gone well with his mood, but Sam looked to be in a similar mood.

“I love how much Donna and Eileen and Cas and Meg are getting into the holidays, but man, I don’t think I can listen to another version of The 12 Days of Christmas. That last one was just dogs barking, I think? Who comes up with all of this stuff?”

Dean sat back, his shoulder next to Sam’s since Sam was slumped down sloppily from being so very, very drunk. He shook his head and grunted in agreement. “Life was simpler when it was just us on the road with skin mags wrapped in newspaper for presents.”

Sam mimicked Dean’s earlier grunt of agreement and sighed while they both looked out across Donna’s snow-covered backyard. Little flakes were falling, but not enough to really add anything to what was already there. Colored lights lined the eaves of houses and covered trees and bushes, prettily lighting up the neighborhood where Donna lived. If it weren’t for the music and raucous laughter coming from inside the house, it would have been something out of a Norman Rockwell painting.

“Do you think we’ll ever get used to normal holiday stuff like this?” Sam asked, trying and failing to sit up a little straighter on the cold, metal seat. “I mean, Cas and Meg seem to have embraced their new humanity without angel or demon powers full throttle, doing every holiday tradition they can get their hands on.”

Dean huffed a laugh. “I had no idea there were traditions for Arbor Day.”

“Exactly!” Sam said, drunkenly smacking Dean in the arm as he emphatically agreed. “They’ve taken on everything they can find, and here we are, hiding from all the mistletoe!”

“That’s because Cas doesn’t seem to care that Meg has no qualms about kissing anyone and everyone she catches! I had no idea they would be so ‘free love’ after they got together!” Dean paused at a faint memory of a human Cas from a different timeline but shook it off. “But I get what you’re sayin’. They’re assimilating. Why are we sitting out in the cold?”

Sam shifted, wrapping his coat around himself a little tighter, and sighed again. “This is all I ever wanted. Jack’s in charge, so no looming apocalypse. Eileen, you and Donna, Cas is happy with Meg, we’re safe, we’re surrounded by family, and they’re sharing all of this with us.”

“So why are we out here hiding from it?” Dean finished Sam’s thought as the creak of the back door opening pulled their attention away from their own musings.

The sounds of the party inside poured out the door as Donna stuck her head out, first, then came outside with Eileen a step behind. Jody was laughing loudly while at least two of the girls were yelling about something. “What are you two doing sitting on that thing in this weather? You’ll catch yer death!”

Dean shifted with a groan. “Sam’s too drunk to feel anything, right now, and I’m pretty sure I lost feeling in my ass twenty minutes ago, so it hasn’t been too bad since then,” he joked with a smile. He waved her over and pulled her down to sit on his lap. Donna settled into his arms and gave him a sweet kiss. On the other side of the seat, Eileen did the same for Sam.

Donna cupped her hands on Dean’s cheeks, warming them as she looked into his eyes. “It’s okay if all of this is a bit much for you two, ya know. We know you’re not used to this kind of thing.”

Eileen, not being able to see what Donna was saying, said almost the same thing to Sam. “We figured you two needed a break from everything. Just wanted to check on you.”

Sam gazed adoringly at Eileen like a puppy looks at his favorite treats. “I really love that you guys did all of this, really. It’s everything I ever wanted. I don’t know why….” Sam’s voice trailed off as words failed him, but his hands squeezed Eileen to show his affection for her.

Donna put a hand on Sam’s hand where it rested on Eileen’s leg, catching both of their attention, then addressed all three of them. “Look, I know that you guys have lived in a way that this is all new and that’s okay! You have already put up with way more than I expected you to! It’s going to take a long time to get used to the idea that life is good and you can have this. And then, it’s gonna take even longer to get used to doing it!” Donna ran a hand through Dean’s hair, smiling as he leaned into her touch. “And all of that is totally okay. You say the word and I’ll send everyone to bed so you can have some quiet time!”

Sam took Donna’s hand and shook his head. “No, no! That’s okay! We’re okay! We’re just, I don’t know, taking a breather?” He looked at Dean, who met his gaze and smiled.

“Yeah, just needed a breather.” A soft smile played on his lips as he turned back to Donna. “Thank you, though.”

As Dean leaned in to kiss Donna, Sam did the same with Eileen. After a couple of sweet kisses, both women shivered and decided to head back inside. The brothers elected to stay outside for just a little while longer and watched with fond smiles as their partners disappeared through the door. Quiet descended once again, with the two men simply watching the snow fall.

“We are the luckiest sons of bitches in the whole goddamn world, Sammy,” Dean said, still staring into the middle distance. “It may take some getting used to, but I’m sure as hell gonna try.” Dean looked over at his little brother and slapped a hand on his knee with a smile.

Sam returned his brother’s smile and nodded. “Me, too,” he said, clapping Dean on the shoulder. “Let’s go back inside before our asses freeze to this thing.”

Dean chuckled and stood up, then helped his brother up. Sam almost knocked him over, but Dean caught him and steadied him with a laugh. Sam laughed at Dean’s laugh and they both headed back into Donna’s house, laughing at each other and how good their lives were, now. Both of them had good women who loved them, good friends around them, and a handful of skin mags wrapped in newspaper with their names on them under the tree. They couldn’t ask for anything more.

#spnfanficpond secret santa #dean x donna #deonna #donna x dean #sam x eileen #saileen #eileen x sam #cas x meg #megstiel #meg x cas #dean fluff #sam fluff #queue has four redundant letters #mrswhozeewhatsis writes #incoherent babbling by mrswhozeewhasis

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igonecrazy · 3 years

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Watched 4 and 5 today! 🥳

- Ew Chilton is alive

- EW Mason 🤢

- Alana is here!! And she wants revenge :O

- Jack and Bella 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

- WILL GOT THROWN OFF THE TRAIN NUUUUU I TRUSTED YOU CHIYOH 😭😭😭😭😭

- DAMN Jack really beat the shit out of Hannibal huh

- WHAT IS UP with Abigail?? Is she alive or is she dead?? Was she just a figment of Will’s imagination in episode 2??? I’m so confuse????

Will's a fool and he deserves to be thrown off that train!!!! 'there are means of influence other than violence, but violence is what you understand.' She's basically telling him hoe you had power over my bro if only you'd fucking realise it and stop trying to kill him😑 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jack did ☺️😌🖤 but also Hannibal didn't fight back 😔 he was like you're my friend and imma let you take it out on me bestie 😌🤭

She's ded boo 😔💔 Abigail was..she was a ghost/Will's hallucination.. re-watch that ep again..the stuff she says become so fucking 🤯 when you realise it's Will in a dialogue with himself..but also you realise how broken he is when she leaves him/he let's go of her now that he was back with Hannibal 😭💔🖤 I thought too that she survived.. but then when in the Chapple Will says "a place was made for you, Abigail, in this world. It's the only place I could make for you" he's like saying that he could keep her alive in his head..😭 because like this is 8 months after the night of Mizumono (season 2 finale) and this is when he lets her go..which he needs to if he is to forgive Hannibal for what he took from him..even tho he didn't know he still had this as a possibility that could be taken away...........gosh they break my heart 😭💔

Jack and Bella just break your heart.....like there's this sweet couple torn apart by fate..a counterweight to Will and Hannibal's fucked up couple pushed together by fate 😭🖤

Alana!! Mann!! I loved Alana's transformation 😭😭😭😭 she goes from sweet lil woman to a dominatrix ☺️☺️☺️☺️ and am in love 😚😚😚

Mason is..yes.....🔨😤

Chilton is......Chilton is okie by now..🤣🤣 he's a will not die whatever you trie boi 🤣🤣

Ep 6 and 7..are special....so so very special 😚😚🖤🖤🖤🖤

#hannibal #babie laks #watching hannibal #i am sooooooo happie for you watching!!!!!☺️🖤

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fourteenfifteen · 3 years

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tell me your thoughts on the counterweight kingdom game!

the c/w kingdom game was the thing that made me fall in love with friends at the table. i’d been vibing with c/w up to that point (it was the first season i listened to) but that imo is where that season goes from good to great

in my mind fatt’s fatal flaw esp in those earlier seasons is the pacing - because their lense is so detailed and their worlds so grey it’s easy for them to get bogged down in the minutia of their settings. i love that, genuinely, but even as someone who likes that kind of thing in works of fiction, it can make the show a hard listen. the first half of c/w is all that, all detail, which makes it really amazing when we hit the kingdom game and it suddenly takes a hard left turn and becomes! a fast paced political thriller set in the dark of space!

the pacing of those episodes is great and that concept is a lot of fun, but then you combine that with framing and the characters, too! like for real, i think part of why fans still talk abt the kingdom game (in a way we don’t abt, for example, the winter holiday special) is just because the characters are so great, especially sokrates and orth (who jack steps up from cool npc to fan fave like THAT they are SO powerful)

my real favorite part of the kingdom game, though, and they deserve their own point: jace and addax. two of my absolute fave fatt npcs. they’re the best. what i really love is the almost greek tragedy element to their story; we know them as these two great heroes who bridged a gap between warring states, we know them as statues in front of a spaceport, we know them as “missing and comatose”.

the repressed star-crossed romance of it all is so lovely, but so is the simple twist of directly meeting these heroes and learning that jace has a crush on addax. their relationship is so immediately humanizing - they aren’t statues and names anymore, they’re two young people with complicated backgrounds who bring out the best in each other. and yet, we know from minute one that it doesn’t end well, we know jace is on a table in a basement somewhere, we know that the peace they want doesn’t happen. it’s so messy and difficult and human and that’s really really great

finally, i love how the kingdom game sets up the rest of that season. we see intimately the gears turning in the star sector, we see the players at play, and we see The Stakes, and that propells us forward into the heightened tensions of the golden branch post-kingdom. the kingdom game puts the characters and the listeners right in the middle of everything going forward, and that rules

tldr: kingdom game? pretty fucking sick if you ask me

#fuck it. ask response with a semicolon #more like king-yum game #is that anything #one day i’m gonna write a 10k lit analysis paper abt c/w #thanks for the q sorry this came out so long #i really could write twice this much agdjfksk #fatt #ask tag #leonstamatis

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cloudbattrolls · 3 years

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Crown Clinic Staff

Chief Medical Officer: Ullane Wistim

A yellowblood in an unusually high position because of her psi, hard work, and intelligence. Quiet and generally polite, she struggles to balance her kinder tendencies with the cutthroat intensity needed to maintain her career and her safety. When more relaxed she has a dry sense of humor and a keen curiosity and interest about not only scientific matters but the world in general. She despises the undead and her ultimate life’s work is to see them wiped out, or at least to render them sterile and incapable of creating more of themselves. Has a lion-like tail she often keeps hidden but may wear out in a place where people don’t know her, or among friends.

Psi: Microscopic Unit Manipulation (amounts to control over cells, bacteria, and viruses)

Vice Medical Officer: Friday Lovely (belongs to @anontrolls)

A yellowblood in an unusually high position because of the traits she shares with her boss and her total lack of fucks given about what’s sane or safe. Friday is chipper, optimistic, and generally amoral about whatever she thinks is necessary to develop further scientific innovations. She’s not malicious or sadistic, but her own very high pain tolerance often has her treating others’ suffering with vague regret but casual disregard. She genuinely wants to be friendly with her clients and has trouble understanding why they’re uncomfortable or dissatisfied with her demeanor or attitude toward urging them to get upgrades. She wants everyone to the best they can be; that’s why she cut off her own arm and replaced it with a surgical tool!

Psi: Radioactivity Manipulation (amounts to understanding of and control over x-rays and the electromagnetic spectrum in general)

Protection Detail/Receptionist/Jack-of-all-Trades: Thrixe Varzim

The clinic’s own half-horrorterror mascot. Raised solely to serve others by taking damage in their stead, Thrixe believes that his training and heritage are what make him useful and give him purpose...and make him unfit for troll company as a fundamentally warped being. He wants to be better, but finds balancing his bodyguard instincts with actual social skills a challenge. Reigning in his lesser-used powers is another issue on the pile of a guy already made of them and who’s bad at even realizing said issues are there. Despite all this, he does try to be friendly, but how much that counts for is debatable.

Psi: None (His heritage grants him regeneration from any wound, manipulation of his flesh, enhanced perception of growth, and mental manipulation)

Receptionist/Assistant Medical Officer: Cheran Zaurok (belongs to @goddesstrolls)

Quiet and keen of mind, the clinic’s newest addition has a background in both medical practice and gang activity, making him almost too perfect for the spot. Anxious but skilled in a pinch, his serious and sincere nature makes him a much-wanted counterweight by his boss to the absurdity of his other two coworkers.

Psi: Psiionic String Generation (can make and control threads made of energy that attach to whatever the target is)

#I hope I did cheran right #if I didn’t Bast can correct me #cloud writes #I didn’t wanna write too much for him in case I fucked up lol

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sangfielle · 4 years

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i open my mouth to speak but instead of my voice what comes out is [INTRO MUSIC: “The Long Way Around” by Jack de Quidt] AUSTIN: [narrating] Counterweight hangs in the center of the Golden Branch star sector; a forked path where the Perseus and Sagittarius arms of the Milky Way come together. Because of its location, life on this planet of billions brims with energy, and an exchange of cultures has led to an exchange of technologies. Automated robots valet vehicles, starships launch in the distance at regular intervals, holographic pop idols perform for holographic crowds. Giant humanoid mechs aid in tasks civil, commercial, and military, and sometimes you look up to them and think: “We could have made them look like anything, but we made them look like us.” All of this technology exists under a sky dashed with bronze, as flickering energy domes filter the cold, thick air into something more breathable. The sky was scarred at the climax of the Golden War, which brought the Autonomous Diaspora and the People’s Conglomerate of Orion—long rivals—together against the Empire of Apostolos. Now, society on Counterweight largely exists in these domed cities. Life is a struggle, but it is dense and vibrant, too. Personal, family, and industrial sized maglev trainpods connect city to city, flying across the war ruined landscapes at incredibly fast speeds. But the maglevs aren't the only thing out there in the wilderness. There are others. Those who bare the cold so they may live in free exile, outside of the domes they hate. Things inside the domes are not free of tension either. In the nine years since the war ended, OriCon and The Diaspora have held steady in their ceasefire, but this is a world of subterfuge, politics, and espionage. OriCon was once a worker’s paradise, where walking robots called riggers helped to build a diverse and prosperous civilization. But in the last few centuries, it has become an oligarchy: Massive corporations hold all the power and resources, but they still use the old language of radicalism and revolution and freedom. The Diaspora is, itself, filled with talk of freedom. Like OriCon, the founder of the Diaspora once lived on Earth, but left in search of a more perfect democracy: one managed by algorithms and interfaces and nanomachines and the constant, tidal ritual of voting. Defending the Diaspora are the Divines, giant robots with strange sentience, each embodying a different virtue of humankind, and each piloted by a Candidate, separate from society so that they may better serve. Both of these galactic powers has its own set of domed habitats on Counterweight, with a handful of cities existing under a third, local power that struggles to keep the peace. To keep this cold war from turning hot. At the end of the last war, the Golden War, it was a rigger pilot—Jace Rethal—and a Candidate—Addax, who controlled the Divine Peace—who (it is said) sacrificed themselves to stop a terrible plot by the Apostolosian Empire that would’ve doomed not only Counterweight, but many other cities, planets, and stars too. But instead of destruction, there was life: When the light from the explosion cleared, a new celestial body hung in the sky: They called it Weight. A perfect planet, now cautiously inhabited by a small group from both the OriCon and the Diaspora. It taunts those left behind on Counterweight: Its green continents. Its unfrozen seas. It is so far away, but there it is, every night, so, so close. Welcome to Friends at the Table, an actual play podcast focused on critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. We are as always presented by StreamFriends.tv and RunButton.net. My name is A

#genuinely have this and the similar narration from the finale like. glued to the inside of my brain #personal #long post #?:#okay no now that the post has posted this definitely qualifies for that tag #greatest hits

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