Spiralling-spires - The Spiral's Special Little Boy

Fun fact: i used to think shark tank was about putting like six dudes in a tank full of sharks (of the large-enough-to-eat-a-person variety) and pulling out whoever had survived at the end of the day. And then they’d put them back in the next day and they would do this for a month or so until either everyone was dead or the season was over

I audibly laughed at this

What if when Michael got Distortioned he/they/it/(?) had just kept showing up to work? Imagine Gertrude comes into the archives and finds a bunch of paperwork filled out in yellow highlighter and folded into impossible shapes, and then Michael-Distortion just walks into the room door-style and sits down at his work computer so it can email Gertrude a phishing scam.

There’s arcane content on my dash and I don’t understand it but people seem to be having a good time screaming about their faves being in situations. I support 👍

is helen/melanie/georgie a thing people ship or is that specific polycule not a thing in this fandom

As far as i can tell, there are three main reasons people like rocks:

1: spiritual

2: geology

3: shiny

People who fall into one (or more) of these categories get equally excited about rocks, just different rocks and for different reasons. We need more rock appreciation in the world

My jurgen leitner post is almost at 5k notes. How did this happen where are you guys still finding it

Sometimes i look at the reflection of something in my glasses so it looks like im staring daggers into some random thing to my right but im actually trying to, like, read a neon sign backwards

I’m actually working on a corruption michael design (inspired by a bit with a friend involving jane prentiss and worm on a string) because jane and michael are really quite similar when you think about it. Im genuinely tempted to do a set of designs for him based on each fear now, seeing how each fear could overtake the same character is so fascinating. And this interpretation of the dark, going from the more traditional literal darkness and the unknown within it, to an intentional ignorance (whether intentional on your own part or another’s)… it seems obvious in retrospect but it never really crossed my mind, somehow!

Aaah! Lovely thoughts!!

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

Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)

The corruption (rotten fruit) got on my collection of stickers with eye vibes. This means something