#it was really a crackpot of

[fitzs-space]

What can Grian do with reality bending power? Because reality bending covers a lot of things and could go from loony toons stuff like skin and shirts bouncing off bullets or flattening when crushed instead of dying and bigger stuff like transforming people into snow, turning planets into gold, and turning on all the air on a planet into mayonnaise.

So you remember the nether-end glitch that happened back in s6 then again in s9? And while it’s not fully his fault-but he definitely had a part in it, of the whole moon big thing that happened s8? A lot of the big things are entirely accidental to be fair! there is also that whole dimension that may or may not exist anymore, but that one was fully on purpose. They don’t mean to cause the server to just break like that, just kinda happens,,,

Grian doesn’t try to use the whole “yea I can just break reality if I want” because it’s a lot of energy to fix and honestly he doesn't have much reason to in the first place. She will use it for small pranks though. The current bit he’s got going on is making himself weigh a stupid amount anytime Doc tries to pick them up when they’re all in a group of hermits, then do the opposite with Mumbo. It’s caused a little bit of chaos, and mayhaps a bit of a bet amongst the hermits of “how strong is Mumbo really” But yea, Grian really just tries to keep all the weird magics to himself as much as he can. As long as one knows they have the ability to fuck with reality, its fairly safe, ish,,,

#oh god servers broke #fitzs answers #headcanon dump #grian #Listen man #sometimes you can get a bunch of power and just choose not to use it #OLI HOWEVER /j #Doc was the other part of the reason for moon big #and another #it was really a crackpot of #Anyway #now let me tell y'all about my aether headcanons /hj #answering the thoughts

[geek-antic]

Soundwave is a powerhouse and an enigma and we don't talk about it enough so i'mma just gonna make a compilation of "how the hell did he do that" and "what the hell is he" moments that i've managed to find from across several transformers continuities

first off is from the first IDW comic continuity

this is never explained, so i can only assume its because soundwave is technically an outlier but i haven't seen a panel that shows other outliers having "off the scale" readings, whatever that means.

and then in the last moments of this continuity he sacrifices himself to save the universe/earth by using his outlier ability along with the enigma of combination to essentially connect the dead to the living in the entire galaxy for a hot minute . idk how the hell he did that or how he knew to do that, my money is on bad writing but i digress.

next up Transformers Prime

tfp fans: elaborate on that. tfp writers: no. transformers prime soundwave is definitely a powerhouse and an enigma for several reasons but number one is this god damn scene with ratchet exclaiming soundwave isn't your standard cybertronian and then to my frustration the show refuses to explain why.

also he can open portals. the only explanation for that is in the novels where he actually was part of the invention of spacebridge technology. i guess he could've incorporated that into himself, which frankly is kinda unheard of in of itself. but still I feel inclined to tell him that skywarp called and they want their powers back.

Next, we have the game Transformers: fall of cybertron. where he scavenges together all of megatrons parts and puts him back together which, yeah sure why not? it's essentially like putting a corpse back together but then he just REVIVES HIM??

with his mind completely intact despite having been decimated by Metroplex and being dead for several hours. excuse me sir but that shouldn't be possible. I guess I could just chop it up to the writers being a bit loosey goosey with their own rules for the world but it's still quite a feat. but thinking back to G1 where he did the same thing with skyfire I guess they assumed it's just something he can do?

although skyfire's revival was a bit more reasonable considering he was still in one piece and frozen solid which they explained to be the reason as to why he was kept intact. but I'm assuming that's why the writers were like "well let's just have him do the same thing for megatron" and everyone was like yeah okay why not. also like a lot of things in G1 this inbuilt high voltage canon/defibrillator is never brought up again which is hilarious and par for the course for G1.

there are several more moments throughout all the tf continuities where soundwave just does something inexplicable but these are a some of the moments that stuck out to me the most. I welcome others to add onto this post if they wish. because I'm sure I've missed some "how the hell did he do that" moments that would be a shame not to bring up.

#geek rantics #soundwave #character study #ish #I have several crackpot theories in regards to soundwave #purely based on moments like these #tf soundwave #IDW1 #IDW #transformers #tfp #transformers fall of cybertron #G1 #tf idw comics spoilers #I guess but not really

[deernozone]

Day 27: Scientists

^_^

#this actually reminded me to a really old drawing of them i made #i still struggle with full bodies #madcomtober 2023 #madness combat #madness combat fanart #madness project nexus #mpn2 #madness combat dr hofnarr #madcom hofnarr #mc hofnarr #madness combat hofnarr #madcom #madcom fanart #jebediah christoff #madness combat jebediah christoff #madness combat crackpot #madcom crackpot #madcom jebediah Christoff

[cubitodragon-moved]

A really out of pocket thought occurred to me while trying to wake up for work, ahead of Fit’s stream today.

FitMC is a Kingdom Hearts fan.

He often has different tracks from the first two games playing in the background of his streams. This has been really consistent since the start of the QSMP, alongside the Final Fantasy X OST.

Both games have strong themes tied to memories, dreams, and otherworldly powers manipulating reality and the people in it.

I believe he’s mentioned KH2 as being one of his faves, and really liking the character Roxas. A character who you start that game with, enjoying the last 7 days of his summer vacation with his friends in a place called Twilight Town.

And who — if you’ll allow for slight, extremely simplified spoilers for an 18 year old game (ignore any unrelated internal high pitched screaming you can hear in the distance, I just feel really old all of a sudden) — discovers the entire world he lives isn’t real, that everything and (almost) everyone present is simulated, and that he is considered a means to an end to regain the data needed to restore someone else’s existence.

Everybody’s favourite Federation Janitor is on the island on a mission, under the guise of being on vacation. He has received reminders, twice, in the form of a clock delivered by a Code Entity that his time is running out. He is here to recover all of the player data. And he has stated that everyone else on the Island would hate him if they knew the real reason why he was really there.

Adding to that: Fit’s memory has been glitching on him recently, key details forgotten - such as the name of the Contractor who originally sent him to Quesadilla Island. Visual glitches occur on screen and Fit winces with the onset of headaches. Three times now this has led to him preparing to enter a deep sleep, with the hopes of recovering those memories. That third time may be tonight.

"A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up—yours and mine." — Kingdom Hearts II

I think that we are about to witness the end of FitMC’s “vacation” on Quesadilla Island. And we’re going to get a peek behind the curtain at what’s coming for the server in the new year.

"I've been having these weird thoughts lately.. Like… is any of this for real, or not?" — Kingdom Hearts

#qsmp #Qsmp crack theory #Qsmp theory #Qsmp fitmc #don huevo may not be an anime fan but he sure is a squeenix one #Siri play ‘Otherworld’ from Final Fantasy X #if I’m even slightly on the dart board with this crackpot theory I will #probably donate bits to Fit or something #idk #if you really want to go into the weeds with this one #the man could be making a Kingdom Hearts χ reference #but I don’t think he’d make that deep a cut #….. #would he? #oh god

[valyrfia]

i understand why charles signed the mega contract with ferrari and why it's important to him to stay and win with ferrari but dammit lestappen rbr would've given us some of the best racing in recent memory

#lestappen #silly season 2023 #more rambling and conspiracy theories in the tags #what's interesting is who is going to replace checo because i think it's very likely he'll be out of a seat by end of the season #danny ric is obviously a possibility but CH wants someone who can match max which is impossible because he's max verstappen #the only driver it would be possible would be charles because they have similar driving styles and are both generational talents #oscar piastri i think will be targeted but he did just put out a statement that he's happy at mclaren so who knows #i don't think lando will leave mclaren #i think we'll get danny ric for 2024 -> liam lawson into torro rosso seat -> liam lawson to rbr in 2025 #similarly who will replace carlos at ferrari in 2025 though! i honestly think either alex albon or pierre gasly #they want a second driver to charles's first and both have proven they can win races and i think both would take being 2nd to charles alrig #or maybe oscar to ferrari but i don't think it would be good for oscar he deserves to be n1 driver #and then obviously there's my crackpot lestappen ferrari 2029 theory #in which max will not really be content until he wins at f1 (breaks the championship record + wins with ferrari) #and we get lestappen teammates trading off world championships #a girl can dream

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

The way Alastor jumps almost directly from "great Alastor altruist died for his friends" to wanting out of his deal makes me wonder if he's not just hanging around the hotel hoping to get closer to Charlie, enough to get her to make a deal and/or gain influence through her, but also because his deal is forcing him to. I mean, he's probably gonna grow to care for all of them, eventually, but it's the mocking yet horrified way he says it, like the very thought of him being altruistic and dying for friends is preposterous. Like something else is what forced him into a place where he almost had to do that.

#Hazbin Hotel #Alastor #it could also be that he's talking about the desperate measures he's going to in order to escape his deal (working with Charlie et al) #like he's playing the long game (as we know he is) but the inherent risk of it all almost cut /him/ short #either way you're not meant to read that as him laying out that his motivations were to save everyone else #but that's not really what I'm discussing here #and my crackpot theory for this is -if you've made it this far- is... Lilith?

[jelly-dweller]

I think there's something wrong with me

most of these are crackpot i believe

#my art #madness combat #live jelly reaction #madness combat project nexus #dr crackpot #not really a art post more just like pointing out my insanity

[quixtrix]

thinking about the fact that apparently phobos barely knows his scientist’s names and i somehow correlated it to birdphobe/phopot. this is their dynamic in my mind okay

#phobos voice wdym i cant only learn one of my scientists names and not be gay for him #im not gay guys im jus really into this one guy #so much that i know his name now (i dont know anyones name i dont care to know them) #birdphobe #phopot #madness combat #director phobos #dr crackpot

[dontfuckingestablishcanonicalbac]

rick's backstory introduced a lot of plot holes and basically you can either accept the pre-backstory-reveal era as its own subset of canon OR you can headcanon ways for them to make sense SO i think the main issue with the multiverse setup is birdperson, because he's presumably as infinite as everyone else BUT the way rick acts about him would only make sense if it's always the same birdperson FURTHERMORE some moments absolutely ring hollow because of the backstory, in particular any nods to rick c-137 and morty prime having interacted before rick landed in the prime dimension just before s1 such as the picture of rick holding baby morty in bird person's house and rick's memory of holding baby morty SO for the sake of narrative cohesion rick should always have been friends with the same birdperson, and to a lesser extent the same morty, and overall because rick knew the prime dimension was the prime dimension when he settled there it makes sense for him to have spent a lot of time there before THEREFORE instead of his birdperson being some random universe's birdperson it would make sense for him to be the prime dimension's birdperson AND THEN with the possibility that rick spent a lot of time in the prime dimension prior to s1 (and even the creation of the citadel of ricks) while he hunted rick prime - it makes sense for him to have exhausted earth prime for resources on where to find rick prime SO that means he may have even been around the prime dimension for morty prime's birth (maybe part of him thought morty's birth would draw rick prime back into the picture, who knows) AND SO the baby photos and memories are indeed of morty prime. ffdkffffggjtjfgggg,,,,,,,,, ,,

#rick #morty #just ignore this post i needed to exorcise all this sprawling shit from my brain #all i really want is in canon confirmation that its always the same bp that rick has been friends with. thats all i want. canon confirmatio #that to him bp is irreplacable. #the morty stuff i can take or leave their relationship only rly matters at the beginning of the show it just would make rewatching older #episodes more sensical if all this was true #i have a crackpot theory that if it is birdperson prime who rick c-137 is friends with then bp met rick prime before #and rick c-137 just sort of... picks up where rick prime left off (as he is often wont to do) #and ends up making something sincere out of it. #rick c-137 simply cannot resist taking the relationships rick prime should have held dear and accidentally making something meaningful out #of them. #edit: its confirmed in rickternal friendshine that it's always the same bp. 👍

[vidumavi]

Who of the married into Gondorian nobility trinity worked the best? Seems like there could be multiple answers here.

I think it really depends on how you define “worked best”! The reason I lumped Mithrellas, Berúthiel and Vidumavi into one category in my head is that to me, their stories (or how I think about their stories because lbr, the canon information is sparse here) all involve a strong sense of alienation and othering from the culture they’ve married into.

Vidumavi was probably the happiest with her life- she married her husband out of love, there are no hints that she did not have a loving marriage and a good relationship with her son and she died before the civil war started and her grandson was murdered. Still, she left her home behind to become Queen of a country whose nobility- including her husband’s relatives- considered her racially inferior, and no matter how happy she was with her family, that grief and anger and worry for her children and grandchildren would have probably followed her her whole life. But she did ultimately have a choice in coming to Gondor, which doesn’t seem true for Berúthiel, whose marriage was likely political and who despised her husband (both Vidumavi and Berúthiel have to change their names to Sindarin, though, an interesting parallel of having to give up parts of their identity).

(Most mentions of Berúthiel that we get have a sense of historical mythmaking and dramatization about them and I tend to read them as a wild, one-dimensional exaggeration by people who did not understand her at all. She should get to do a little bit of dark magic and cat-communing, though. As a treat)

Berúthiel was probably ostracized and treated as cruelly as Vidumavi, it’s just not mentioned because her entire role is to be a semi-legendary villain (and to be a vehicle for Jirts weird hatred of cats. Booo.). Her stint as Queen of Gondor ends with her husband possibly attempting to murder (??) her and like 20 years (?) later Gondor conquers her home, so whatever diplomacy might have been attempted by her family in marrying her off to Tarannon was probably no success. She gets one good hit in, though, by refusing her husband heirs (possibly through cat magic, we don’t know. this is one of those “Jirt scrabbled it onto the back of a receipt and it’s illegible to human eyes” drafts). And I suppose if “traumatize the population of Gondor so much that they whisper her name thousands of years later” was something she would have considered a victory (based if true), she won that one too.

Mithrellas is the odd one out here, mostly because we know so little about her and because she didn’t really have an impact on geopolitics, but I’ve always found it hard to believe that her marriage to Imrazor was a happy one. People who vanish into the night alone immediately after giving birth never to be seen again are probably not in a very good situation, though I go back and forth on how consensual the marriage was in the first place. She was entirely alone, lost in a strange country and had just lost all her companions when he found her and I think it would have been very easy for him to take advantage of her in that situation, even if she agreed to marry him of her own free will (I’m having thoughts about her and Berúthiel both rejecting motherhood in some way, but god help me this post is already long enough).

I love rolling these three around in my head and looking at parallels and juxtapositions between them. All three of them are in fraught positions with limited power despite their status, considered Other, all three are, in a sense, alone. I think Vidumavi “works” best, because she actually has a family around that loves her- she's the only one, I think, who wouldn't change much about her life if she looked back at the end of it- but of course the society around her is so bigoted that what should have been simply a marriage makes someone start a civil war that permanently destabilizes the kingdom.

#thank you for giving me an excuse to ramble about them i love my girls #i want to put them in a room together so badly #i think they'd understand each other really well unfortunately they were all around at different times #i am trapping jirts ghost until he tells me what happened to Mithrellas #and if i don't like the answer i am comitting to my lesbian ghost pirate berúthiel rescued her from her abusive marriage crackpot theory #ask

[spider-man-2o99]

doom can you Please find something else to talk about other than Dominating Spider-Man rn there is a freaking Technology Plague we need to deal with this is not the time or place for this man cmon.

#talking tag #spider-man 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #doom 2099 #victor von doom #marvel #marvel 2099 #comics #comic panels #what would REED think victor. normally your timing is better than this. #hes not going to feel tempted even a little bit away from Xina with the same cryptic posturing that worked on Richards... #i know this will sound Insane bcuz no one else has read 2099 but GOD one of my favorite crackpot readings is the one where-- #--doom 2099 is REALLY trying to get spider-man to be his New Hero Rival but mig just Does Not Care. he Does Not Care hes got stuff 2 do

[stained-brutal-crackpot]

Peel the scars off my back, I don't need them anymore

#is it really a stained-brutal-crackpot art post if it doesn't contain statis just having the WORST time ever. like absolutely going thru it #cw blood #cw amputation #....yyyeah. #calamity mod #terraria calamity #statis #silva #terraria

[sarahshoots1st]

"Chess is such an iconic game because of the strategy -"

No, chess is an iconic game because it's such an accurate portrayal of gender roles underneath the patriarchy.

The woman is the most powerful, boss-ass bitch unit on the board, yet she is forced to expend much of her efforts defending her weak male counterpart.

If she dies protecting the king, it's seen as a "necessary sacrifice," because if you lose your king it's just over. Your whole army surrenders because their small-dick energy is overwhelmed with shame.

(this is while the king is literally the most useless piece on the board. Even pawns are more valuable because they have the potential to reach the hrt clinic other side of the board and transition into being a queen.)

Despite this gross power imbalance (or perhaps because of it), the king is seen as the most important piece, to be protected at all cost. Any and all sacrifices made to preserve his fragile male-ego are seen as absolutely necessary and worthy, symbolic of how for millennia women have been required to sacrifice their personality to maintain social structures.

Normalize sacrificing your king!

MALE AUTHORITY FIGURES ONLY HAVE THE IMPORTANCE WE GIVE THEM!

#feminist chess #random #shitpost but not really #crackpot feminism #crackpottedness #anarchy chess

[ponds-of-ink]

Hang on. One more late night crackpot idea for FNAF in general.

MXES is William Afton, but with huge memory loss due to a data transfer on top of everything else.

I am well aware that this is far-fetched. That’s why it’s an idea more than a theory.

#fnaf mxes #william afton #fnaf fandom #crackpot theory #but not really a theory #probably wouldn’t be memory loss with him #just a huge combo of pretending and wanting to forget

[crownkillers]

yo i recently finished watching the new fallout show last night and I really enjoyed it, curious to hear any thoughts you have on it, fav character, etc!

generally i've been against live action adaptions of video games so far, esp when the approach taken doesn't really doing/saying anything new and just milks it. or has a kind of nose upturned vibe of "this is art now because it's live action. unlike the shooty video games" (cough cough the last of us hbo)

i really didn't want to like fallout on prime. especially since it's amazon lol. but BUT. it was genuinely fun and enjoyable and felt sooo fallout? definitely had some pacing issues in the last couple eps but other than that i thought it was so solid. it was fun and goofy and violent and gory, i really didn't want to like it lol but i really did!!

ghoul coulda looked nastier though

#asks #imatmywormrightnow #and i really liked how they hinted at some new vegas stuff. i've been seeing some great crackpot theories out there

[wingodex]

okay so in season 2 of good omens they bring up this book called the expert at the card table and i've posted about this book before because i am extremely not normal about it for a bunch of reasons i cannot hope to articulate here (if you wanna read it. for whatever reason. houdini donated a copy to the library of congress and so it's just freely available online for everyone). but like the person who wrote it was almost certainly a professional card cheater so obviously they didn't publish using their actual name. so there's this big mystery around it and there's a bunch of theories about who the author actually was including the possibility that it's e.s. andrews, aka s.w. erdnase backwards. and in the show, aziraphale says that his copy is signed by erdnase using his real name, and it's one of those things where like. i did lose my mind a little bit when this whole scene happened because it was literally written as a fun little reference for me, or at least people who have the exact same specific crossection of interests that i do so that's fun. HOWEVER i was a little pissed about the whole thing also because the mystery of who erdnase is sooooo central to the experience of the book itself. like the author's concealed identity is not a hidden fact, the author literally tells you he's lying to you, and it's so everything to me. and it has me thinking about the Real Book which is this collection of jazz sheet music that was compiled by a couple of students when they were in school and then illegally distributed for years among jazz musicians that it became a fundamental tool of jazz musicians all over the US. like to the point where if you were studying jazz in college or whatever you were instructed to go find some guy selling photocopies of the Real Book because you would need it for lessons. and the two students who compiled it remain anonymous to this day and it's very intentional. a reporter managed to get in touch with one of them a few years ago through encrypted emails and shit like that and the guy literally said that he would never reveal his identity because that's part of the Real Book's allure. like the mystery itself is part of the fun. and the expert at the card table is very much like that for me. the mystery is so much a part of the book that the idea of that mystery ever actually being solved is so unappealing. you gotta understand that when this book was first published, it fucking blew up the gambling world. nobody had ever published something so bold as instructions for literal actual card cheating techniques before. it's so iconic in the exact same way that the Real Book is, in their audacity and innovation. and in their mystery!! that's part of the fun

#wings.txt #iotdbf blogging #sorry this post is so. ughdndkfn i'm trying to stop myself from posting my crackpot s3 theory #also also you cant really use the expert at the card table to learn how to cheat anymore #for a lot of different reasons but like those techniques just aren't as effective for modern play #which is entirely erdnase's fault for publishing the damn thing #same with when thorp published beat the dealer in the 60s #when you teach people how to cheat people will now also know how to try to combat those techniques :/ #the real book is similarily both a negative and positive tool for reasons that i'm not musically inclined enough to explain properly #but yeah the parallels between these two books is very interesting to me #this isn't really even about good omens so i didnt bother to tag it #it's about the inherent appeal of the unknown!!!