Simple Life Spoilers ..

Yeah no, Pluto definitely did not die from suicide. At least, I don’t think so.

The world of Nevermore is very, very influenced by Edgar Allen Poe. For example, Prospero. In the original Edgar Allen Poe short story “The Masque of Red Death”, he was a prince, which could explain how prim and proper he acts in Nevermore, and he died from the Red Death, which at the beginning of the story is stated to be a plague. I wonder whose spectre is a plague doctor. Also, Fortunato, Duke’s stage name, was a character in the short story The Cask of Amontillado, who dies from being trapped in a wall. Sounds familiar? Anyways, my point is, a lot of names and deaths and details are inspired directly from Edgar Allen Poe.

Now, Pluto. Our beloved British catboy. Coincidentally, the name of a cat from my favorite Edgar Allen Poe story; The Black Cat.

The Black Cat is not one of the cuter stories of Edgar Allen Poe’s works. It starts with a man; he loves animals and finds a wife who loves animals too, and they both adopt a plethora of animals together. One of them in particular takes a liking to the man: a black cat, named Pluto.

The man’s life begins to go downhill when he starts becoming an alcoholic. He begins to abuse his animals just for the perverseness of it, and he becomes a lot more mean-spirited than the person he was before. One day, he comes home, and thinks that Pluto is ignoring him. In his annoyance, he forcibly picks up the cat, causing the cat to bite him slightly on the finger. This small inconvenience causes the man to become so enraged that, in his anger, he takes a knife, and gouges out Pluto’s eye.

Obviously, after this, the cat is positively terrified of the man. He avoids him as much as possible, but after about a week, it seems his eye injury has healed and is doing him no harm.

Then, just for the pleasure that doing the wrong thing gives him, one morning, the man takes it upon himself to finish the deed and hangs the poor car in cold blood.

That’s the end of the relevant section. If you want to know the rest of the story, I would recommend reading it-just search up The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe online and you can easily find it for free.

Anyways, what does this have to do with our beloved Nevermore Pluto?

Well, besides from the obvious similarities that Pluto shares with the Edgar Allen Poe cat, what stood out to me the most was the nature of the man. In episode whatchamacallitimtootiredtofinditrightnow, it is revealed the Pluto’s father is an alcoholic. Not only that, but enraged that Pluto wants to leave home and see the lights, he gouges out his son’s eye. Again, very close to the story. I wonder what the man did next to Pluto in that story?

I suppose it could be implied suicide due to the fact it was awakened in Pluto when he felt relieved, but remember in the story how Pluto’s eye injury had finally healed before the man killed him? It may be a far cry, but I believe that Pluto could have finally thought he was free from his father and that he made it out of his house before his father found him again and hung him. Finally relieved before it is yanked away from him. After all, that’s what he did in the story, and when he experienced the flashback of his death, he didn’t think or feel the thoughts of a relieved suicidal person (as memories of the time seem to slightly return during those flashbacks), but rather panic and fear, which would be odd if it was a suicide that made him feel finally relieved.

Also, he died wanting to go beyond the binds of society and what humanity deems is possible. If he had such a strong dream that he absolutely wanted to make happen, even present while dying, why would he kill himself and destroy his opportunity?

Honestly, I would also find it odd at this point if that wasn’t what happened. After all, the authors have been very accurate to the poems and stories of Edgar Allen Poe for the characters ripped from them. Again, Prospero and Duke, Eulalie has lavender eyes as described in her poem, and Berenice has a very heavy teeth theme like in her story. Not only that, but after following the story of the Black Cat for so long in Pluto’s backstory, I would find it odd if they changed the one thing that both Plutos were killed by if they were so accurate with Duke.

But who knows?

Perhaps I ramble like a madwoman.

Time change but something still the same

in ew!au, would "donnie's gifts" go differently? i ask because ew!donnie is almost certainly not going to be the type of person to think he needs to fix his brothers, but then i realized that he's more likely to think /he/ needs to be fixed. and then i had this image of ew!donnie building himself a shock collar and giving his brothers the remote so if he ever has an episode thats too bad or hes acting too erratic they can shock him out of it. (none of them react well to this)

No notes lol. That’s totally how it’d go.

Last life mumbskizz :3

lets go border hoarders!

I know I don't post my SAMS art on here, but this was just too goofy not to share

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. GUYS I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY.

Joel has always been alone. He has always been red and angry and violent and wild.

That has never worked for him. It’s made people scared, it’s given him so much beautiful blood on his hands, but it has never let him win. Until Wild Life. Where is it all about being crazy, and unnatural and strange forces. And he thrives. He is at peace in the chaos that massacres others. It’s like a home, in a way. Because he’s always lived in it. So he is last one green, last one yellow, last on red.

Gem is dead and he is alone again, like he has always been. It’s how he was in third life, it’s how he is now. He is alone, he is red, he is wild. And that’s all he needs.

And so he finds Grian, the man who’s known all of this chaos, who is unhinged and chaotic, and works with him. He promises Joel a sacrifice, a few words that sound like friendship again. Joel doesn’t acknowledge it. Instead he kills and kills and kills, and he is alone when Grian tries to shoot him through the back, and he is alone when he knocks Grian’s corpse to the ground.

And he is smiling like a mad man. He is red and so is the blood all around him. He is a feral, wild beast, and he yellows in victory as he is struck down.

You know what else is red? Mars.

ren "i'll invite evil into my heart for you" dog versus martyn "i'm already dead" inthelittlewood (post-wild life)

“Those poor boys”

“She deserves to be punished too.”

“I’m not saying I support rape, but-”

“Sorry to say - she deserved it.”

“She put herself in harm’s way”

“But if she was fingered, then that’s not rape.”

“She ruined their lives.”

Not to be dramatic or anything but I would die for spiderman, even the ones I've never watched. all the movies, the comics, all of them. they say jump I aks how high