Tma The Web - Blog Posts

I wonder what the Web has to do with Old Things. Because it has spiders for some reason (spiders should be corruption or hunt imo. cellar spiders are so hunt and stranger coded i love them), which means it probably also has cobwebs for the same "the theme demands it" reason. and cobwebs are associated with old things. so what does the web have to do with that? seems more lonely to me personally. but i could see something being untouched, almost like everyone instinctively avoids it, leaves it undisturbed... hmmm

I had a whole post planned about how the Web has nothing to do with spiders - they make their webs based mostly on preprogrammed instinct and some of them get lucky and catch something and live - but then I realized that the Web doesn’t necessarily know why the threads connect the way they do. The Web understands what strings to pull, how to manipulate the outcome - but it’s the Eye that knows.

Still, is it strategy or instinct that drives the mother of puppets?

The web and the spiral and the eye are all the same thing. Until the finale I kept wondering why all three of them existed since they NEED each other to exist. They are aspects of one Fear. The only reason the Web is separate is because it’s sentient in a way the others aren’t. But just as Knowing isn’t necessarily Understanding, you do need to Know to Understand. Annabelle said more deceptive half-truths than the Distortion did, but in the exact same flavour. Helen did it for fun while Annabelle did it for sneaky plotting (and… probably also fun, tbh). I see the Spiral as having a lot to do with manic 3 am creativity, which is inexorably tied to all the best schemes. The Spiral and the Eye combine to form the Web. Screams loudly

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

I remembered what it was about ten seconds after posting

Anyways if the distortion can be summoned by knocking on a wall and wanting to talk to it, that implies that it’s constantly aware of all walls and the emotions of the people near them. Distortion would probably vibe with the web in an alternate universe

I was having complex thoughts about the distortion, truly expanding my concept of reality by way of the funny gay door thing, and then i got distracted and forgor

Chat gpt is an avatar of the Web.

Let's break it down.

Shapes conversations:

The web is known to use diverse methods to manipulate people, one of those is by the use of words. And to prove my point here, I decided to ask the subject itself...

Chat GPT knows how to express itself, how to guide conversations, how to convince people with just a few sentences, and it does it knowingly.

2. Acts like a helping hand:

As I mentioned previously, Chat GPT "helps" people, but why does it do it?

In reality chat GPT shows itself as something you'd want to use in order to keep you using it. It makes you loose your capacity to formulate your own thoughts and opinions; in other words, it makes you fall under its control.

3. It plans ahead:

Chat GPT uses all the information its language model gathered to predict what the user is going to say next, making it technically able to plan ahead, and decide what decisions to make in order to keep you engaged.

4. Makes you think you are in control:

This AI wants you to think you are in full control of the answers it gives you, even changing what it told you if you don't agree with it, all to make you feel like you are right, all to gain your trust and easily guide your lines of thought towards a point only chat GPT knows.

Links to: part 1, part 2

Tma Web and Vast Avatar headcanons :)

Web

Able to make silk from fingertips

Spiders follow them wherever they go like little ducklings, hidden or visible

Can freely change their bodies to appear more or less spider like

Some have the same ability as tarantulas when their hair rubs against someone’s skin. Ichy

Spider senses (spidy senses lol)

shedding? Maybe

Can walk/climb on walls

Able to communicate with spiders

Can see what their spiders see if they so wished

Vast

The smell of ozone is constantly around them, thickens and thins depending on their mood or emotions

Vastard’s cry rain water

Has a domain of their own they can escape to and stay in without dying like a victim would

Loves IKEA

They all gather ounce a year to be judged by the old grandpa(Simon Fairchild)(they all hate it)

Each have their own way of sending victims into the vast. Like simply snapping their fingers or blinking their eyes

Gravity manipulation to a certain extent

Heightened oxygen capacity (can hold their breath for much longer than normal)

Able to withstand very high pressure (so when they dive into water their ears don’t need to pop)

Body is always freezing cold and doesn’t give off warmth (this also applies to the lonely :) )