#carry on theories

[ionlydrinkhotwater]

I have another theory for how Simon gets his magic back:

So one of the things I've picked up on is that Magic might be more about expression and intention than just words. It's why some Mages can cast spells without actually saying anything like Premal.

So for Simon we see that he used his magic to protect people. As Rainbow says the power of powers is love. So for Simon protecting people is how he shows his love and it results in massive power. But right before he lost his magic he learned to transfer his power to Baz as a form of love and support.

But after therapy and hanging out and learning to cook from his Gran Simon learns a new way to express love: cooking for people. And what if he imbues that cooking with his magic? Like he bakes some cookies for his friends and they take a bite and BOOM magic boost he's the party cleric.

What if Simon's Magic comes back but not in a form he can personally wield but in a form that he can share and empower others with?

Anyway just a theory but I think its cute.

#simon snow #simon snow series #baz pitch #the simon snow trilogy #snowbaz #carry on rainbow rowell #rainbow rowell #simon and baz #simon snow trilogy #character study #carry on meta #carry on theories #carry on lore

[pangur-and-grim]

I love how you can use the environment in baldur’s gate.

for instance, I got my ass completely handed to me in a battle, so on my second attempt I piled barrels of gunpowder & wine near where the enemies would run out, and had one of my guys posed with a fire spell to ignite them. and THIS TIME, I triggered a massive explosion on my first turn of combat, instantly killing my entire party.

#oops #it was a good plan in theory #took me so long to carry and stack the barrels too

[insanesonofabitch]

Kind of funny. SPN was supposed to end in s5, with Sam in Hell, Cas in Heaven, and Dean on Earth, living with a wife and a son. But it ends after ten more season later with Cas in superhell, Dean in Heaven, and Sam on Earth, living with a wife and a son. Like some fucked up game of musical chairs. Except the chairs are never taken, the song remains the same, and they’re just going in circles. Anyways, Happy November 19th.

#remember that video where Jensen expressed dislike towards the finale #and they basically told him “look at it from the fan perspective” you mean like fans from 10 years ago??? #they completely acknowledged that majority of their fandom NOW would not fucking like that ending. #they brought back Becky just to tell Chuck that it fucking SUCKED. #[sigh] #supernatural #spn #spn meta #spn finale #spngate #spn 5x22 #swan song #spn 15x20 #carry on #chuck won theory #chuck won #team free will #tfw #sam winchester #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #reiotalks

[hitwiththetmnt]

Hear me out…. @butterfilledpockets made me do it with their comic color palette

#as someone who absolutely loves color theory I went hard with this palette #I couldn’t help myself especially when it comes to turtles! #love the palette and love the comic #I really need to get on this comic kick #it’s treating the fandom so well #I maaaaay have gotten a tad bit carried away (-｡-; #I give art food to hungry turtle fandom #nomnomnomnonnmmmmmm #my art #b.e.n.t #bad end ninja turtles #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt don bot #rise tmnt #rise future leo #tmnt art #art 4 others

[fiendishartist2]

you appear familiar dear; you look just like my bathroom mirror!

#i love to just make a love letter to petscop and then disappear for a week. like hey guys :) #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #petscop #paul leskowitz #petscop paul #carrie mark #petscop care #i downloaded the kyle webster megapack of photoshop brushes and just had so much fun trying out brushes #against all odds i am actually a watercolour bitch so i used a lot of water colour brushes for this #except this is so much easier and more enjoyable bc i could ctrl z and didnt have to wait for anything to dry lol #i adhere to the theory that paul moves back in with anna when the family takes over the channel. so paul stays in the ''guest room'' O_O; #i made this while frustrated by my homework in a library. i cant draw doorknobs but i can draw an entire room in 2 point perspective <3

[strawlessandbraless]

Known panty wearer Dean Winchester deserved to get his shit rocked by Angel of the whored Castiel instead of getting tetanus in that damn barn. Babygirl got nailed in all the wrong ways. Wayward son is so wayward done

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #deancas #netflix #misha collins #jensen ackles #spn crack #chuck won theory #spn 15x20 #15x20 #15x20 carry on #lgbtqia

[ectonurites]

Byler Week Day 5 — Secret Identities

very loosely interpreting the prompt for today but i've had this idea for a while and... secret identities, Superheroes, that works. anyone who knows me well probably could have seen something like this coming LMAO

also trying to draw Robin & Superboy costumes that look thrown together and home-made when i have spent so much time drawing their actual designs was a challenge

#'sam this is 10 years after where canon is rn why do they look the same' because shhhhh #it had to be 1996 because that's when Worlds Finest Three: Superboy/Robin came out !!!!!!! #also yes specifically issue 59 of Wizard (cover date july 96 publication date may 96) is when WF3 got a mention/announcement #bylerweek2023 #Day 5 Secret Identities #byler #byler art #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #anyways listen timkon & byler are different ships in many ways however #i DO believe mike would carry tim's 'im gonna desperately try to clone him back to life 100 times' energy if #anything bad happened to will ever again #PLUS like. some theories ive seen about birthdaygate with like the idea of will getting slowly erased from people's memories........ #i don't want that to happen but IF IT DID. getting a detective comics 967 'he talked about a friend i should have.. someone named conner... #and i feel that name tugging on my heart but i don't know why' moment with mike about will........ oughghghghg #sam draws shit #<- almost forgot my damn art tag

[kats-randomology]

I wanted me a Alastor breakdown and BOY HOWDY I GOT ONE

So many ideas about what direction he can go and they're all fun to think about-- personally I wouldn't be against a longterm redemption plot. But nothing easy for him, no, I want him to try some shit, have it blow up in his face even worse than this. Have him claw his way back into trust and good graces.

I don't think he's AS ATTACHED to the crew as some seem to think, and as much as I'd like him to be, BUT I do think there's some fondness there. It's not enough yet to deter him from his true goal, but it's there, and maybe even that small part was an influence in his fight. But now gets shoved into the far reaches of his mind because holy shit I almost died and for WHAT? These weak fools? Hell with that, no more feelings!

But the thread continues to fray; his cane/mike is broken (we dunno if it can be fixed easy), he came this close to death, and he's still not much closer to getting out of contract. He can keep himself together for only so long, and now we got Lilith coming into the picture as a potential road block that can't be as easily fought off as Adam.

I'm also not entirely sure if it's her with Alastor's soul anymore? It's still highly possible but with her being in Heaven all this time and not even speaking to her family....why bother with sending Alastor? I'm not getting the impression she cares that much, yet...and what would she even gain from it? The timelines coincide, but nothing else makes much sense for it.

Whatever it is, I'm looking forward to it and the even bigger mental snap that's sure to come. Give me that madness-> main villain-> broken down man offered a hand.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #hazbin alastor #listen I could be totally off and he turns out to be a complete and total monster that gets obliterated but I'd like to see otherwise #he's a true test to charlie's redemption plans and i wanna see them clash #i have theories about alastor and his mo in life and how it carried over to afterlife mainly the comparison viv made to dexter #the greatest challenge would be to convince him he was wrong #hazbin charlie #hazbin lilith

[longclawshilt]

Jon coming back “wrong” but it’s not in the fire-zombie way people imagine. Rather, as a result of the different types of magic within him heating up to a fervor, he comes back as a freak of nature, playing right into GRRM’s deconstruction of biblical doctrine and prophecy. In true Christ-like fashion, Jon transforms into the fantasy hero we think we deserve: a prophet, warrior, king, and god. It’s good for Westeros and its survival, but is it good for Jon? Is it really good for him? He’s only 17. He’s a kid ☹️

#not a fully formed theory or anything rn but this post came about because I was thinking of how #jon’s main three parallels beyond the wall are: coldhands the ranger #mance the king #and bloodraven the god 🌚 #then I started thinking of jon not as separate entities but rather as one combined magic super saiyan #and remembered how his adwd dream is like magic on steroids with him being armored in ice and wielding fire #and how this is happening as he harnesses the magical ability of prophecy and how he’s a warg and a warrior and yeah #well all this to say that jon will be something we’ve never seen before and it will be fucking depressing #because he doesn’t deserve to carry that burden #jon snow #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls

[unamusedyams]

Familiar.

#petscop #paul petscop #care nlm #paul is care theory #petscop art #fanart #webseries #eye strain #bright colors #carrie mark #paul leskowitz #orange art #yams art

[whitestnoise]

#the fall of the house of usher #mike flanagan #tfothou #tfothouedit #flanaverse #(mine) #(i was looking for a generic gif set to put my little thoughties in the tags but there aren't any???) #(or not yet maybe??? hrmpff so i'll do it myself then!) #it really is becoming a flanaverse - again there were little things and phrasings carried over from the other shows #i can only remember the carcass of a house right now but there were more #i can't wait to see everybody's little posts and theories and comparisons!!! 😻 #what i haven't seen yet and will come up probably is the angle of the opiod epidemic #some speeches sounded like they came right our of the other netflix series painkiller #which makes me think those quotes might be verbatim lifted from real life although they are so out there that they sound made up (?) #i don't know enough about it but it struck me as too much of a coincidence #spoilers

[eiilese]

done with whole cake island!!!

#thought dump —> #personal opinions incoming #wci spoilers #i loved this arc so much it was so fun #cracker fight and final act was a little dragged out imo but i LOVED the katakuri fight #big mom is my favorite villain!!!! #not a big fan of the theory that nami will get the soul soul fruit #in terms of her fighting ability i feel like it undermines how she uses her smarts to create the weather #pekoms deserved better #carrot was underwhelming :( feels like the story would’ve carried on the same without her #pudding was boa hancock’d in the second half #ANYWAY #charlotte katakuri #charlotte pudding #charlotte cracker #one piece #art #whole cake island #ei98 art

[project-sekai-facts]

Pspsppspspspsp…,. Any weird facts on how sekai works? Specifically wondershow if you can, but from what I know is that in general sekai will kick you out forcibly if your phone dies, school sekai has no daylight cycle, wondershow has a Victorian ages style library, empty sekai is so big you can get lost in it, and street sekai has a city

Okay I'm going 100% Wonderland SEKAI on this because I can and I have some stuff scheduled already about general SEKAI lore. And because holy shit Wonderland SEKAI is interesting.

Without further ado, 8 facts about Wonderland SEKAI...

Under the cut due to length

This doesn't display well on the desktop dashboard I apologise for that.

Wonderland SEKAI fact #1: KAITO might have been stabbed.

This is all the same magic show, just three different references to it (and a minor inconsistency that Tsukasa gets told about it twice). These are from an area conversation, Miku's Wonderland SEKAI 2* story 1, and KAITO's Wonderland SEKAI 2* story 1. Either KAITO really is that flexible or Virtual Singers cannot die. This probably applies to all SEKAI not just Wonderland but I just wanted everyone to know about KAITO getting stabbed.

Wonderland SEKAI fact #2: Miku seems to be younger than the members of WonderlandsxShowtime.

In an area conversation, KAITO says he thinks Emu would be the oldest if she and Miku were sisters. However, in this conversation he seems to be mainly referring to personality, so there is a possibility that Miku is still her standard age of 16 and just acts younger than she is. That said, the ages of Virtual Singers do vary through other SEKAI (particularly School), which adds a bit more evidence for this fact.

Wonderland SEKAI fact #3: Plants are sentient.

They're alive. They talk. They sing. They have conscious thought. Alice in Wonderland type shit. (Sources: KAITO's Troupe Positions Open 3* card stories, @/pjsekai_eng's translation of 4koma #72)

Wonderland SEKAI fact #4: Wonderland SEKAI is the only SEKAI with distinguishable inhabitants (not counting Virtual Singers)

While the Stage SEKAI has audiences that come and go, we don't know much about them and they don't seem to have any defined personalities or characteristics (it may be an instance of leaning on the 4th wall). Wonderland SEKAI is inhabited by plushies and puppets, all of which have their own individual personalities and free will. KAITO believes that these may be plushies that Tsukasa played with and performed shows with as a kid. You'll see this again in a bit.

Wonderland SEKAI fact #5: Since everything in the SEKAI is pulled from Tsukasa’s psyche, not all the plushies are based on shows he wrote as a kid

For example, Usa-chan. She seems to be based on a younger version of Saki, where she was more sensitive and would need cheering up a lot. Obviously connecting to Tsukasa's main drive being making people (specifically Saki) smile.

One more notable example is the cat and dog plushie from Full Power! Wonder Halloween!. The dog plushie is very obviously meant to be Tsukasa (it even has a star on it), and the cat is Rui (and it has cameoed in his cards a few times). In the event story, Tsukasa and Rui had an argument due to Rui holding himself back after a stunt gone wrong, and the cat and dog plushie have a very similar conflict, albeit the cat plushie representing Rui is much more aware of it's feelings.

KAITO's A Chat With The Lost 4* card story shows him making a different (although possibly the same, the story contradicts itself) pair of dog and cat plushies resolve a conflict and open up to each other. Yet again, the plushies very obviously represent Tsukasa and Rui.

TLDR: Tsukasa's feelings and experiences work their way into the SEKAI in real time through the form of plushies.

Wonderland SEKAI fact #6: Oh yeah literally everything in the SEKAI reflects some aspect of Tsukasa.

I find it interesting how KAITO tells Rui that he should go and talk to Tsukasa about it but then to Emu and Nene he gives a more confident answer. It's a nice little detail that ties into Rui's character (read: he didn't have a lot of friends at this point).

Linking this back to the previous fact, it does seem like the other members of WxS do have some influence in the SEKAI, specifically over their plushie equivalents (since the cat plushie has the exact same internal conflict as Rui that Tsukasa had zero knowledge about at the time). The power of friendship I guess.

Wonderland SEKAI fact #7: Wonderland SEKAI manifests as a response to Saki asking Tsukasa why he wants to be a star.

But that doesn't sound quite right, does it? It's stated constantly that SEKAI are created by strong feelings, and this is true in all other stories (Ichika thinking about how she had drifted apart from her friends, Minori reminding herself to never give up and keep aiming to be an idol, An's declaring her dream while Kohane wished she had one, Mafuyu's depression and longing to find herself). So it really sticks out that Tsukasa's SEKAI is formed by this:

Sorry about the wiki screenshots

There's not really any strong feelings here... In all other instances, the SEKAI are formed by a concious desire for something, and yeah okay, Tsukasa seems to want to remember why he wants to be a star, but at the same time it doesn't seem hugely important to him (not pictured but he drops the train of thought just after this) and the SEKAI isn't born from that anyway. The SEKAI is born from the feelings that he was trying to remember, which implies that the SEKAI was formed by his subconscious.

Further supported by Miku immediately picking out the correct reason for him wanting to be a star in chapter 3 of WxS' main story.

And in the Opening chapter of the same story where KAITO explicitly mentions that the SEKAI is nostalgic to Tsukasa, suggesting that he knows exactly what Tsukasa has forgotten. Tsukasa himself had noticed that it seemed nostalgic, although he denies it when KAITO brings it up.

Oh and then he somehow manages to remember everything by the end of the story and like I'm not a psych student but that doesn't seem right? Honestly from what I do know about psychology the situation sounds like a repressed memory but it doesn't sound 100% accurate either? I dunno, maybe it's just fantastical psychology coming into play (it probably is).

Regardless of all of that, it implies that you can somehow form a SEKAI through subconscious/repressed feelings which is really interesting actually.

Anyway they're probably never going to elaborate on any of that in the game because...

Wonderland SEKAI fact #8: the game goes out of its way to not tell you Wonderland SEKAI lore, and if it does tell you, it's usually not clear

For example, this area conversation. KAITO doesn't tell them directly and we never find out if they learnt the answer.

Or this area conversation (very abridged) where KAITO doesn't even know the answer.

Or the fact that Rui still hasn't had that talk with Tsukasa that he said he would have in KAITO's 2* card. Or that KAITO isn't 100% certain about the things he says about SEKAI. How do more plants grow in Spring? Does the Wonderland SEKAI have a plant lifecycle or do they just never die? How is Miku seemingly derived from Emu despite having existed before Tsukasa had ever encountered Emu? (I know Kohane and An hadn't met either but Kohane was at least watching An's performance. Miku actually mentions "others" in the Main Story Opening which means there's some more weird fate shit going on. The power of friendship I guess.)

The other SEKAI have their quirks explained (for the most part) but everything in Wonderland SEKAI kinda just exists and is never really explained beyond "it's something from Tsukasa's psyche". I mean there's stuff from other SEKAI that isn't explained but it just seems like there's a bit more here.

I mean you can infer a fair amount of stuff just from Tsukasa as a character but I want the game to talk about it to make my life easier I have a fact account to run I need evidence. Tsukasa please be less emotionally constipated, sincerely, mod.

If you made it this far I'm sorry.

Love is stored in the WxS KAITO <3

Bonus Wonderland SEKAI Fact #9: this is a mistranslation and KAITO should be calling Tsukasa the top star-to-be and not himself. Poor TLs aside KAITO does seem to be like, Tsukasa's "ideal self" for lack of a better description. Also Len takes traits from Rui while being a foil to him, MEIKO takes some traits from Emu, Rin is a foil to Nene, Miku seems to be a mirror character to Emu but don't ask how that works and Luka is derived from ???

#sorry this took so long to answer #i got a bit carried away #wonderland sekai #project sekai #lore #oh btw i think the racoon plushie = emu and the yellow birds (canaries) = nene but idr there being any implication of that outside card art #i like lore. top 10 things you should never ask mod about less you want smth like this to show up #asks #theory

[hey-scully-itsme]

la belle dame sans merci

"‘Will you not let me go, Diana?’ he said, looking up, his eyes filling with tears.

‘No, no, no,’ she cried. ‘You must not leave me – go, yes go to France – but write to me, write to me, and come back.’ She gripped him hard with her small hand, and she was away, the turf flying behind her horse." – Post Captain, Patrick O'Brian

#this turned into an exercise in shading and color theory when it was supposed to be a quick drawing whoops #took creative liberties in a number of directions #stephen should be wearing his wig and gloves and be carrying a hat but i left them out to make it a little more like the painting #anyway their farewell in post captain fucks me up A Lot #aubreyad #post captain #stephen maturin #diana villiers

[enduringmoth]

thoughts on marvin's abuse, care's existence and paul's transness

taking a break from my usual bg3 posting to talk a little bit about my newer hyperfixation through the lens of queer allegory

necessary author's note: i am an afab transmasculine nonbinary person. obviously, while i do believe my transness does lend my opinion authenticity, at the same time, being trans myself does not mean i can't be transphobic -- so if any of the contents of this post set off alarm bells, please tell me.

trigger & content warnings: child abuse, kidnapping, torture, general petscop badness. obvious spoilers for petscop in its entirety, as well as references to the recent youtube deepdive by nexpo.

TL;DR -- perpetuating the idea that someone can force someone else to be a different gender than they are is harmful to trans people. however, all things involve considerable nuance. to pretend that marvin's actions could not have influenced paul's sense of self in the slightest discredits paul's lived experiences, and i believe a more trauma-informed dialogue about paul could be worth exploring as a community.

my preferred theory explaining petscop is that marvin tried to make care more like lina through abuse and "failed". after this, care would eventually end up in lina's home, and transition to paul.

(simply to make all of this less confusing, i'm going to call paul pretransition "care", though i will avoid pronouns. this is not me trying to invalidate paul, it's just so i don't have to keep saying "paul before he transitioned" or similar phrases.)

it is not a result of marvin's "failure" that care transitioned to paul. but i do believe there is a link between paul's perceptions of self and the trauma he endured pretransition -- and discussing these things gives us a deeper understanding of paul and his history.

obviously there is no "canon" answer to petscop. but im seeing this theory discussed a lot within the tags, and i personally agree with it -- i just feel some of those who are saying we cannot consider marvin's actions are not necessarily accurate, either.

what i am positing is that while marvin certainly did not make paul trans and i would never claim that he did, we understand that marvin's abuse of care -- his cruelty towards care, his warping of care's perception of appearance and self-worth -- is certainly a factor in how paul must see himself.

marvin's treatment of care was poor enough that paul struggles to recall that time of his life. he thinks they are different people -- and in a way, they certainly are (and i've seen DID theories for them which i also enjoy because of this) -- and has clearly repressed what it meant to be marvin's child.

marvin locked care in a basement for six months. that is no small amount of time, and it likely had no small amount of affect on paul. we can assume based on the implications of some school scenes that marvin was trying to convince care to be more like lina during this time. care escaped, and returned home -- though eventually, we know from belle's dialogue that paul would find his way to lina.

"do you remember the day you were born?"

paul's "birth" occurred after marvin's abuse, and though it was not a result of it, there is something almost poetic about following the thread of paul's life from care to his authentic self that plays as a foil to the heinous rebirthing practiced by marvin and rainer.

contrasted with what happened to belle (and seemingly others), paul chose (a form of) rebirth -- transition. marvin tried to make lina be reborn through care. instead, care resisted -- and he would eventually become paul, and that strikes me as so narratively compelling. it's not to spite marvin and please don't think i'm saying that, as care was naturally always paul -- it is simply self-discovery at its most raw and beautiful, and i love it.

the above is why i love petscop as a queer allegory. taking ownership of one's future and selfhood, even when others are trying to tell you who to be.

and that's why i think saying marvin made his afab child transition in rejection of martin's quest for lina -- or that marvin tried to make his amab child transition to care/lina, as nexpo posited -- is so wrong, and harmful.

yet, paul's trauma is real. it happened. and it's a part of him that should be able to be discussed for what it is.

as someone with extensive trauma history, i can tell you that my gender expression and personal identity are in some way connected to pieces of trauma, because those pieces are part of me. i am not trans because of my trauma, but my gender and my trauma are parts of me at the same time -- i am not each of my pieces, but a sum of my whole.

the point i'm trying to make here is that while i think nexpo genuinely missed the mark here with this whole "care never existed, marvin tried to make paul a girl" thing, i do think there needs to be room for a trauma-informed discussion around paul.

i hope that all made sense. if any of this is harmful/transphobic, please let me know. i genuinely love this game and i think it's so fascinating to discuss. /gen

#petscop #paul leskowitz #carrie mark #petscop paul #petscop care #paul is trans theory

[deermook]

So um. About that haunted video game

#theyre sooooooo besties pilled #I like the merging timelines theory #but I also like the paul is trans and psychotic theory #petscop #paul leskowitz #belle leskowitz #my art #carrie mark