More tma posting and also somewhat to the side, but a good example of “i saw it coming and it still hit me like a truck” is tma season 4. I knew EXACTLY where they were going to go with Martin from the moment they started laying the seeds, and I also knew it was going to emotionally obliterate me, and I was so excited to see how they executed it. Knowing where something is gonna go sometimes adds to the suspense and anticipation.
I love catching where something is gonna go. It makes me feel smart, and then it makes me feel excited to read/watch/listen to the rest of whatever it is, see it play out.
that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them
This is food for my tma and proseka obsessed brain
I could be working on Certain Other Things but my brain said Archivist Miku. So here, Archivist Miku. From TMA (The Miku Archives)
He has mastered the art of spontaneously appearing in the conversation despite being 8(?) feet tall.
Entrapta, in comparison, tends to drop from the ceiling if she wants to tell someone something.
I enjoy the concept of Hordak defaulting to looming over people from behind. Like, that is how he arrives to start a conversation. He means nothing negative by it; it's just his natural way of inserting himself into a social situation. No matter where he is.
People just see his tall shadow fall over them. They turn around slowly, and there he is. Glaring down at them. Stony-faced. Red eyes glowing. Deeply intimidating.
Only to ask them where the restroom is. Or to offer up the WiFi password he and Entrapta just finished decoding. Or to invite them to Sunday afternoon tea at the Crypto Castle.
What is your favorite colour outside of the visible light spectrum?
PINK! 'OH BUT I SEE PINK' NO, YOU SEE THE MIXTURE OF RED AND VIOLET WAVELENGTHS. ITS AN OUTLIER, A NOT-QUITE, AND I LOVE LOVE LOVE PINK :]))(]
one time an irl told me they had followed me on instagram. i did not have instagram at the time, and told them as such. they did not believe me, and continued to insist they had followed me on instagram. i later found out they had followed some random model who i guess had a similar hair color as me? that was an interesting time
it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore
Woman lore
if a werewolf dies but they were an organ donor does someone get a new kidney that turns into a wolf kidney once a month
If he hadn’t been sacrificed, I feel like Michael would have been more a victim and/or avatar of The Web.
I highly doubt Michael was stupid. To be honest, he strikes me as neurodivergent of the “if I just go with what they say, they won’t hate me” variety. He trusted gertrude to not… y’know. Kill him. I feel like that’s a pretty low level of trust, all things considered. He probably knew she was planning *something*, though he grossly underestimated the scale. Consider also that Gertrude was trying to intentionally deceive pretty much everyone so that she could go around obliterating Rituals and being a general pain in the ass to Jonah. It’s not a mark against someone to have been tricked by Gertrude. Hell, he was in an echo chamber designed to keep him ignorant!
Point is, Michael wasn’t stupid. He was scared. He was scared of being hated and left behind and not being enough for others. He was scared of failing people. He’d fall into anyone’s schemes, take any number of hits, whatever it would take to have people stick around and hopefully, maybe, protect him in return.
If it hadn’t been Gertrude and her assistants specifically, if it hadn’t been Fears and supernatural entities and attempts to end the world, he would have been manipulated, rather than lied-to-and-manipulated. He could break the Great Twisting because he *had* been lied to, not because it was the core of his fear. (Ignore for now that the Twisting wouldn’t have worked anyway, if 160 is to be believed.)
And every fear has a bit of manipulation in it, Gerry’s colour analogy rant and all. But The Web relishes in manipulation, in telling you true things that will lead you to the wrong conclusions to do what it wants. Michael was told he could stop a great evil. True! Sort of!
Anyways, Web!Michael when
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