#simply speculation

[fadedrainbowbookshelves]

Frank better hope there’s never any rogue letters fluttering around his living room anytime soon…

#welcome home #welcome home fanart #frank frankly #eddie dear #eddie x frank #frank x eddie #Frank being a smarmy little punk and teasing the heck out of Eddie was great #Eddie…oh Eddie. poor thing needs a break. a vacation. something. #love the voice actors I’m especially endeared to how friendly Eddie sounds! #the whole Mr. Dear and Mr. Frankly thing was interestingg #speculation here but I’m wondering if they’re just supposed to act distant for the playfellow censors (can’t be too gay!) #or if maybe Eddie’s memory issues have led to him forgetting his relationship with Frank #or if it simply isn’t a thing yet in the recordings were given. #so many thoughts and here they all lay in the tags! sorry folks <3

[leftduck9986]

Foreshadowing, out of order?

In storytelling, is there a single word that means "the opposite of foreshadowing"?

WARNING: in trying to wrap my head around this, there will be wittering!!!

Wikipedia tells me that a flashback is a method of foreshadowing.

The Bullet Catch in the NZF minisode, being a flashback as well as told before the "present day" [speculated] event it sets up a clue for, well, that's what I've understood foreshadowing to mean until now, because isn't foreshadowing always presented before the event it foreshadows comes to pass?

The flashback/memory minisode, A Companion To Owls, is told after the "present day" event it foreshadows. Does that still count as foreshadowing, or is it instead considered "the big reveal" because it is told after?

And is this all that is meant by various things in Good Omens 2 being "out of order"?

The Hiding Miracle and the Memory That Both Foreshadows and Reveals It?

Indeed, it was a tiny miracle - as titled in the soundtrack - that worked as planned and "barely moved the dials" (but still a miracle in which "Noone will have noticed A Thing" however tiny it was, and that "Nobody notices he's here (...) Nobody can spot him, (...) especially if they're looking for him").

I believe it was the first of three events that happened that night, which, became the main focus of this "quiet, gentle, romantic" season, but paling in comparison to the other two events. Moving on!

Returning to how A Companion to Owls isn't told until after The Hiding Miracle and clues us in as to what was actually going on: this tiny miracle was made to appear far more powerful than it actually was, with the use of showmanship:

The ceremonious setup of being positioned on the circle in the middle of the room hidden under the carpet, between Aziraphale and Crowley; he could have been standing, but instead, "Jim... Sit in this chair." And it's a beautiful chair, like a throne, but Jim being taller wouldn't have worked for the image of the 'W' (similar to the 'W' shape made with Shadwell standing between Aziraphale and Crowley at the airbase, in the book Good Omens.)

ta-da!-look-at-this-very-complicated-and-powerful-miracle-that-we-are-doing

Why perform at all then, for an audience of none?

Ah, they're not alone, oooOoOoOOOoOoOooo, spooky. Go and see for yourself: check out the bottom left area of the screen when Crowley returns to the bookshop and says, "I'm BACK" (this is to do with the "framing opportunities" secret mentioned in the Gavin Finney BTS article https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/gavin-finney-bsc-good-omens-2/) Aziraphale calmly replies, "Yes, I can see that" and later gasps, reacting to something happening off-screen at 40m41s.

So this performance, not yet knowing who their audience might be, could be as a precaution, just in case.

Gabriel instinctively crosses his hands and is confused when Aziraphale and Crowley uncross them - or likely because Aziraphale was even standing there at all - because he remembers, or rather, in his mind's eye, sees the shape left behind by a missing piece of furniture.

The ceremonious setup of being positioned in the centre, between Sitis and Job, this time in the background to have Bildad appear a little shorter in height for the stylized 'W', then crossing his hands. The pot containing Sitis and Job's children being the circle, hidden by the circle of carpet (robes) made as Sitis and Job embrace.

ta-da!-look-at-this-very-complicated-and-powerful-miracle-that-we-are-doing

Had we seen Jim's and Crowley's conversation about memory before The Hiding Miracle instead of much later in episode 5, then it would have been foreshadowing, yes?

*temper rising* A "reveal," or "out-of-order foreshadowing"? (VBUAXNAUSX*keyboard smash*NYVIFGNOMAI) grrrrrr!

...

After the Job story is told, (save for the final scene) and Aziraphale calls for Crowley, my head-cannon used to be that Aziraphale wanted to talk about hair -

Aziraphale: Crowley, I gave you lovely long locks in my retelling of this story, how about you? Crowley: Nah, "shoulder-length bouncy 'bob'" is what I put - a "Lob" I think is what they're calling it these days.

But now I think that, to book-end Crowley's beginning with, "Your boss said that to Job, do you remember?" (imo they are so good at blending in, they can act human better than any human can act human! So, while feigning the memory span&loss&retention of a human, of course they can remember most everything. Angel stock: constitution of an Ox, memory of an Elephant.) Aziraphale may have wanted to remark on Jim's crossed hands from the night before and how similar it was to Crowley's doing so; that it was evidence of Gabriel still somehow being able to connect with images from his memory. "Crowley? You also did that thing... does Gabriel remember?"

If each minisode contains something that foreshadows or reveals what magic tricks occurred during this season's present day events, I feel that the only thing left is from "The Resurrectionists" minisode, where Crowley Goes Large (woah, woah, woah, another case for The Song Is The Clue?!?) ... or makes himself, something or someone else tiny.

"Size and shape are simply options" after all, so I do wonder about Hell's Usher, where the only time we've seen him is when he is small enough to fit in a bathtub and yet he is HUGE in the opening title sequence of season one. Behind him, Noah's Ark stranded between two damaged buildings (or one damaged building and maybe the Pleasure Cruiser Morbillo?)

Something else that may be revealing of stories yet to be told of the past, while also foreshadowing a near-future event:

Based on what Crowley said, this is not the first time Crowley and Aziraphale have performed a half-miracle together! Whatever biiiig miracle they're about to do (speculated event #2) could still be completely balanced and undetected, but then a plume of miraculous activity emerging from the circle gateway (privately speculated event #3) is what poor Aziraphale will appear to take the blame for.

Things being out of order may have started with the question, are season two's present day events being told out of order? There are other things appearing out of order as well, for example a change in the order of colours in the Rainbow (for "present day" episode two only I think, beginning Violet then Red, etc.) Or, in this case, narrative devices being so intertwined, one flashback-event can contain images and phrases that both foreshadow something yet to happen as well as to reveal what happened in a part of the story already told.

As always, please no asking or tagging Mr Gaiman as this blog post contains theory and speculation, thank you.

#The Hiding Miracle and A Companion To Owls #wittering on #please forgive me #Good Omens 2 #foreshadowing #out of order #the big reveal #narrative devices #relearning something forgotten or learning something new? never too late #overthinking technical words and probably VERY wrong about it #Good Omens 2 theory #The Song is The Clue #Good Omens book reference “stylized W” #Tiny Miracle #Crowley Goes Large #“Size and shape are simply options” #Hell's Usher goes large? #Good Omens #Good Omens Opening Title Sequence #Good Omens 3 speculation #first time making GIFs such fun! #good omens meta

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

things from The Halloween Update that are concerning me more than i already am about Eddie:

his Frankenstein's Monster costume turning his face (and hands. ha, hands, like the hands on a-) half yellow half blue/purple like the clocks & Sally's door. that's fucking me up a little ngl

Eddie tacks "A bit of a moral conundrum-" onto his description of Frankenstein's Monster, who he's costumed as. which seems out of place with the rest of his description. he could've said "bolts" or "white streak in his hair" or another physical trait. nope. Moral Conundrum (one could also describe his costume as "two-faced"...). and the fact that he's dressed specifically as someone who was "brought back from the dead" makes me 👁️👁️. kinda reminds me of a certain set of artworks from Clown's tumblr a while back...

Eddie, despite his whole schtick being "bad memory", was the only one to accurately recognize Sally's costume as pedrolino from the Commedia dell'arte. could be a little 'inside joke', might be something else. i suspect it's something else due to his... ah... Everything.

#yk im starting to wonder if eddie's meant to have a naturally bad memory #or if something is purposefully fucking with em more than with anyone else #bc he seems to have these little moments where hes On Top Of It #kinda like moments of lucidity almost? hm.... #eddie dear what have you seen? why are you Singled Out? #the wrist watch / his eyelashes matching home's (whatever the rounded things under the sills are) #his halloween costume / his memory problems / the fucking tiny secrets sprinkled all over his post office / his color being purple #hi eddie how does it feel to have main character syndrome #jesting! kinda #eddison edward eduardo edmund edgar edwin edmundo. what the hell is your deal im dying to know #wh speculation #welcome home speculation #homebogging #i wonder. i. wonder... #if eddie got Caught by whatever is out there at night #maybe he didnt know to stay in doors. maybe he realized he forgot to deliver something and thought 'better late than never' #maybe the town mailman is too important to simply Remove so he had to be dealt with a different way #or wait maybe someone saved him? wally perhaps? home? id(k?) #a worse memory so that he doesnt remember what happened? #a personal clock on him at all times so that he never loses track of the time of day? #an overactive fear-response to make sure he stays in his lane Despite him apparently enjoying scary things? #kinda sticks with the 'frankensteins monster' thing dontcha think? brought back from the dead? Stitched back together? #and the monster was an emotional sensitive character. like eddie. IDK idk im just rambling now

[cherry-bomb1985]

I feel like The Father and Hell both understand and experience love in all the worst ways.

The Father sought to create a life form that would follow and love him unconditionally. It wasn't enough that he had a great cosmic kingdom of angels who are unquestioningly loyal, no, he needed something that knew suffering and mortality and the threat of oblivion, and would still find love at the end; love for him above all else. But after numerous implied failures at that, in his desperation, he instead created the threat of eternal damnation to force them to love him in order avert that fate. Lucifer's words must have been like a splash of cold water, but by the time he realized sheer magnitude of suffering he had unintentionally set into motion, it was too late. He could not destroy Hell; he could not stop the cycle of violence.

That guilt drove him to seek a death that, from the looks of it, eluded him in spite of the hollowness consuming him. And now he is... somewhere, helpless to stop his experiments from consuming one another and themselves in a glorious show of blood and violence.

And then there's Hell itself, who seems to recognize love as an act of violence and cruelty. It is something that derives joy only from the suffering of other living creatures. God gave it so many toys to hurt and break and reform, and Mankind gave it new ones. Why would it understand love as anything but? It gave Minos a facsimile of the son he is most ashamed of, and delighted when he cast it, once more, into a labyrinth. Gabriel flattened all the souls within it's confines beneath his heel and gave those that did bend false hopes.

Now there's V1, tearing its way through the remaining layers and creating a spectacle of violence like nothing Hell has ever witnessed before. How could it not love them all for all the entertainment they've provided?

But deep within its recesses, hidden away from the eyes of Heaven, there was a Gutterman. A machine built for war, who eventually came to love that which it gave it life at the cost of their own. Enough to give the human welded within their coffin the mercy that both Heaven and Hell had denied them; enough to write a single love letter to them, even knowing that it would never be read by its intended recipient.

So, as things turn out, you /can/ teach a machine to love. And they will understand and experience it more sincerely than God or Hell ever could.

#ULTRAKILL #ULTRAKILL spoilers #Mind you this is all just speculation #We still don't know if Hell is aware that the machines will inevitably try to consume it too once the souls and demons run dry #and if it is then whether or not it has a plan to stop that from happening or if it actually /wants/ to be destroyed #or perhaps--like Father like creation--it simply thinks it /cannot/ be destroyed #and we certainly still don't know where God fucked off to after his suicide attempt or why #If he left to seek the end of his days elsewhere #Or--as the first testament might imply--if he's got a new angle #Sorry 7-S got my brain buzzing and there's not a whole lot of game left to get the answers to those particular questions #If they are intended to be answered at all or simply left unknown by the blank slate boomer shooter protagonist #through which we all experience this wild ride #Anyways not a lot of this fandom talks about the Testaments effectively being God's vent posts #and I find both amusement and mild horror at their very existence

[hawkinsunderground]

okay so theoretically the pregnancy smoking poster could refer to Joyce, who smokes a lot, right? I think she's one of the most prominent smokers in the show

SO, could it possibly be alluding to something she did during pregnancy affecting Will in relation to his connection to Vecna? or is that just the biggest reach ever lol

#the mindflayer's form has the appearance of smoke too #silly speculations lol #byler theory #byler #will byers #stranger things #st #st5 #'why start your life under a cloud?' #maybe this influence from another world started when he was born because something happened during joyce's pregnancy that affected him #but i also don't see joyce doing anything on purpose #which #like in the 80s #people smoked a lot around their kids bc they simply didn't know the danger

[writing-for-life]

Sandman S2 pics: What say you, SandFam? A Game of You or The Hunt? With a silly poll again…

Source

Source

The Hunt

A Game of You

Another poll just because I can 🤣

#the sandman #sandman #the sandman netflix #the sandman season 2 #sandman s2 #tom sturridge #I say The Hunt #Because Morpheus isn’t in that bit of AGoY and simply because of the building style #which is quite strictly Saracenic #and I had been excited for Ramadan initially but not with the snow #but the onion domes will also do for Russia #Also: Muhulhu hatstand #I treat my crackfics seriously #If you don’t know what that means that’s okay 🤣 #sandman speculation #sandman comic #a game of you #the hunt #brief lives #season of mists

[seatnights]

so we all agree that if they screw up with the final season we’re just going to ignore it exists, right? like, if the end of some character is completely stupid and they ruined the show, it don’t happened. what? st5? nah bro st finished on the fourth season with 8 and a half episodes. yeah steve eddie and robin live together in the same apartment they’re such nice flatmates. oh yeah dustin is fine, ironic as always. max and luca are good, i know max and el go shopping together a lot so yeah. d&d campaign are the same, but argyle wanted to understand it more so he’s trying to join. nancy and jonathan are doing very well thank you for asking.

st5? i think your imagining stuff bro

#stranger things #stranger things 5 #st5 #st #st5 speculation #bad things can happens but if you don’t create a resistant word and scene builder to explain to me all the reason the bad thing happened #it simply never existed

[generationlossupdates]

Is generation loss like.. over?

Nope! There's still more to come don't worry anon :]

#radio waves #mod myce #assuming that the tapes at the end of the choice are indicitive of how many generations there will be theres probably going to 8 gens in #total (but dont take my word for that its simply speculation) #either way! there is more!!! genloss is not over!!!!! #if nothing else they've talked about a Gen 2 before so!

[moongothic]

#The forbidden extra panels that're like ''And misgendering people is a shitty thing to do'' / ''That also makes sense'' before the last two #I'm sorry I'm choosing violence today #Look I'm not saying you have to call him Crocodad specifically or anything #Its just the seeming insistence FROM THE CISHETS to misgender him at every opportunity that just 💢💢💢 #Another one is when people speculate about him being trans to begin with but instead of discussing whether or not he's trans #No it's a debate whether or not he's aCtUaLlY a fEmAlE #I swear to god #It's the whole Discussing Gender With Trans People vs Discussing Gender With Cis People-meme #And it drives me up the walls. Please just let me yell for a bit #Just to be clear: This is not a deeply serious post. If it was I wouldn't make it a Spongebob meme for crying out loud #This is simply MY BLOG and I'M ALLOWED TO COMPLAIN HERE #Also I do have to watch people repeatedly misgender him in the tags of MY OWN FANART completely unprompted so y'know. #Like randos pls don't misgender my husband on my posts I am fucking begging of you 😭 #Moon posting #OP Meta

[alisoncooper]

i hope they never tell us the captain’s name...like i don’t wanna know. like that’s too personal. yeah i’m happy to know that he talks to his pillow when he’s alone, and what his special interests are, his insecurities and his internal conflicts, who the men he finds attractive are, and hell. i’ll even sit here and contemplate whether he has a third nipple, but finding out his name??? that’s none of my business. that’s between him and god

#i will simply pretend i never heard it if it gets revealed #i don't even like/want to speculate for fun #that is a nameless man for Reasons #bbc ghosts #effie rambles

[nympippi]

C!Rivals Pride!! Also aroace c!techno supremacy!!!!

#c!dream #dreblr #pippi art #c!techno #c!dream fanart #c!techno fanart #c!rivals #rivalsduo #also this is not cc techno just wanting to preface speculating real people sexualities is weird #this is simply his dsmp character #okay that’s out the way. cRivals and Patches would absolutely go to pride parades! and would absolutely rock those bead necklaces!! #also I saw the technodad post and I thought that yeah. aroace ctechno 💕 #also I think Dream and patches would put those temporary dyes and would wear rainbow hair for the parades/pride #I should’ve put a nonbinary pin on Dream because I headcannon him to be nb who uses any pronouns!!

[akanemnon]

why does kris keep eating inedible items

This is a hard thing to answer without going into headcanon territory. My personal bet is that Kris simply shows symptoms of iron-deficiency anemia. Symptoms include: paleness, moodiness, low energy, the feeling of getting tired quickly when exercising, behavioral problems and pica (eating ice or non-food items)

#ask #headcanon #take this with a grain of salt #this is simply just me speculating

[zo1nkss]

s3 opens with Stede walking into he and Ed's shared bedroom. Izzy's half-transparent ghost is sitting at the desk with his legs propped up.

"Christ didn't you die?!"

"I did," Izzy smirks. "Can't get rid of me that easily, Bonnet."

#Void Rambles #I'm sorry it's the last glimmer of Stizzy in me I can't stop putting them into situations together in my head #they don't even fuck at this point they just annoy each other in equal measure #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #I refuse to tag this speculation #if it happens I will simply scream that I said it because I did and you will all believe me

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

wondering about Frank and insects but specifically about how it looks like the WH insects are highly stylized, so does Frank even know anything about real butteflies/insects?

& if he saw a real one, would he recognize it? are all of the species names he applies to the WH bugs real, or are they all made up like "Vibrant Eyespot" or "Fluttering Heartwing"?

and then there's the question - does the neighborhood have some of the more 'undesirable' bugs like moths, worms, roaches, spiders? does it have bugs outside of the generic groups of beetles and butterflies? like are there mantids? leafbugs? dragonflies? weevils? or are those too specific/complex/not-cute for the Playfellow Workshop to have included?

and then there's the question of what are the bugs? props? puppets? are they alive or do the neighbors just perceive them as such? Do they even exist outside of art, storybooks, and animated segments? I highly doubt they're alive like the neighbors are, since in the gif of Frank's head spinning, the framed butterflies' wings are moving. which is kind of horrifying if you think about it for more than a second.

just... the critters Frank loves so so so much being a complete fabrication... every piece of knowledge he prides himself on / delights in knowing being utterly Untrue... oof

#by not-cute i mean that most bugs dont sell well as marketable plushies #cute butterflies? round adorable beetles? those fit right in with a vibrant puppet-y world #so it'd make sense if those are the only two bug groups that exist #along with like. caterpillars of course. i can also see bees being a probable candidate for Existing In The World #AGHHHHH THIS HAS BEEN EATING AT ME FOR DAYS NOW #been questioning how the neighbors' consciousness and awareness manifests as well #might make a different post on that since this one has a Topic and id like to Stay On It for once #well. its related. but that deserves its own Pondering #welcome home speculation #i dont know what else to tag this as! #absolutely unprompted #ALSO ALSO are there any animals outside of insects? #does the neighborhood have birdsong but no birds? if one listens real hard to it will they notice it looping? #do they have squirrels? critters in general? is that why wally doesnt know what a rat is? he'd have no reason to. #in his world they simply don't exist. #anyway but i wonder how frank would react to seeing a real butterfly (& insects in general) #the WH ones are gigantic in comparison and overly-colorful and friendly & cutesy #wouldnt it be painful if he was scared of them. if they look too alien. would it be the spongebob butterfly episode all over again #many many thoughts tonight.... #but also.... #what if he tried to frame a real one. expecting it to be Fine and Alive when he pins it bc they always have been #theyve always been perfectly happy fluttering in their frames #but a real one would fucking die. so. yikes #traumatic core memory unlocked! frank frankly has discovered Death

[bizarrelittlemew]

trust that i will always tag spoilers diligently because i don't want to be a dick and spoil stuff for people who don't want it but personally i am a spoiler enthusiast. like i want to know everything!! please tell me!!

"spoilers" is the wrong word for me because it's more like "enticers", it absolutely heightens my viewing/reading enjoyment to know bits and pieces and even detailed descriptions of what happens later, it's like my brain gets to work on more things at once (experiencing the story + constantly puzzling together when/how something will happen + catching early clues that i would otherwise only notice on re-watches) and i love it

i will read the last page of a book after the first chapter, i will open it in random places to read a future paragraph, i will look up the plot of a movie while i am watching it, i will never block a single spoiler tag because knowing what happens just makes me more excited to watch. "nah i don't wanna spoil it for you" PLEASE FUCKING DO I WANT IT!!

#i promise i will always tag ANY kind of potential spoilers because people deserve the choice #good thing tumblr filters posts according to both the original tags and rb tags it seems like people are having trouble over on twitter #but i feel like a certain big tv show made “spoilers” into a swear word and the highest crime and the tv show was consequently ruined #because god forbid anyone put together narrative clues and speculate correctly on what happens #and it is kind of assumed that NO ONE wants spoilers i can hardly convince people that i am a spoiler lover they simply don't believe it #🐭📓 #idk how to tag this #spoiler rant #i guess

[b-dwolf]

idk im not freaking out as much about this possible “mobius being a thor variant” theory because like … literally the only thing they have in common is that they care for loki. nothing else. like idk i also just think loki is very capable of someone loving them besides her own brother 😭

(but i do understand the worries and fears i am just choosing not to go along with them and wait til the actual ep comes out <3)

#loki #loki season two #loki spoilers #loki speculation #lokius #mobius m mobius #i just think #id throw myself off a cliff if i was proven wrong #and i refuse that #especially two days before my birthday #so i am simply ignoring