Nothing shows the passage of time like noticing hair growth. I’ve been home for 4 months. Some days it feels like forever or that I never left. Other days it feels like I’ve only been back for a few weeks.
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john gaius through all of nona the ninth: why no respect for the lord's okayest little wizard boy :( im just a lil guy :( how come all the haters, PETA assholes and internet trolls are treating me like I just started a nuclear apocalypse just because I just started a nuclear apocalypse :( :( :( cancel culture has gone too far man :( :( :( :( :( my friends all loved me so deeply and trusted me so much so what was I supposed to do, not wipe their minds and then make them eat their loved ones so I was the only thing left for their lives to orbit around???? :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( the primal soul of the very earth doesn't like the body I made it even tho I based her on the prettiest barbie I knew and her 'concrit' is starting to make me feel really kind of attacked and hurt tbh :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( like and subscribe to witness more death magic with little to, actually, let's face it, no thought given to the ethical ramifications of any part of it
I hope someone tears him into a million pieces and sends each piece to a fresh new kind of hell for eternity <3
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actually fuck the cucurucho ai shit that stupid fucking thing could never even have a sliver of hope of coming even the tiniest bit close to sofias emtional depth and character and story. also i just thought what if the feds stole sofia and fucking reprogrammed her to make that fucking thing i will rip it apart. i miss her so bad i may have to buy more cake mix if we get to day 200
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C3E37 and Genre Thoughts
I’m seeing so many theories on the latest episode re: Laudna’s past and the things we saw, and here’s my take. On the last 4-sided dive, Marisha said she based ~Laudna~ as her character’s name based on laudanum, the medication. She chose it because “it sounded a little weird, and hazy...and fucks with your head.”
I believe episode 37 reflected that, on purpose.
With the additional knowledge that her birth name was ~Matilda~ it makes so much sense that she has such a personality-fitting name, because she chose it. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as a lonely child with magic powers she shared a name with Roald Dahl’s famous Matilda who did the same. But then Matilda died, and her narrative, her genre changed. So of course her name did too.
Delilah has been messing with her head and her memories for 30-odd years and episode 37 really showed us exactly what that looks like. The ages jumping around, the town shifting illogically, the purple sparks of our favorite dead girl answering to both names sometimes, the uncertainty of whether or not fighting her worst memories was changing anything, unsure if they were reaching out to her actual spirit all those times...not even knowing if the horrorscape was under the control of Delilah, or Laudna, or Something Else.
In the horror-adjacent novel Harrow the Ninth, there are both real ghosts and personal hallucinations and we never really get closure on which was which for certain scenes. The author goes into a little bit about that being on purpose, because sometimes the horror is in not knowing, and sometimes the horror is in having to rely on people you cannot trust to tell you what’s real, and sometimes it doesn’t matter if the horrors are physically real or not because you are experiencing them and that’s all that matters.
I feel like Matt took a similar approach with this episode, and I see so many people trying to decipher a Fundamental Truth about why Andy called her Matilda but her parents called her Laudna or other inconsistencies that happened. The theories are getting more and more elaborate, and like, that makes sense! Human nature is to solve mysteries! And I could be wrong but I don’t think there is an in-universe concrete reason. Of course people want there to be an answer—it’s terrifying to not understand what’s happening around you. But this was a horror episode! We got to see the characters physically explore the confusion and manipulation going on in Laudna’s head, so I think some things were meant to be nebulous or outright contradictory. Trauma does that to the brain. It makes you remember things wrong, and having the woman who killed you squatting in your mind, filling it with dark powers and shadowy illusions only expounds on that. Which is terrifying! So of course us viewers don’t like that and are trying to find safe logical paths to The Truth. But sometimes The Truth isn’t simple. Sometimes you can’t find the clues to understand what Actually Happened.
This episode, we got an inside look into Laudna’s mind. It was weird, and hazy, and fucked. Like a too-strong dose of laudanum.
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I’m bored, here’s a fictional Liner
Her name is the U.S.M.S Georgian*
She was built for the American Star Line (fictional line I made) in 1925 and was bombed and sunk in the pacific theater in WWII.
(* I was wrong, it’s SS Georgian)
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I haven't been able to stop thinking about Sheriff Jimmy having the Cod Father's face and voice, and s2 Joel being a reincarnation of s1 Joel not understanding why he gets all these mixed feelings seeing Jimmy.
Voice reminding him of a home he doesn't remember, and face looking like a cheap copy of the Ancient God that was once his ally.
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