going off of Martyn’s lore, I am SO GLAD he won the way he did, it’s such a cool ending and also set up
each player doesn’t remember past lives/seasons when they start but sometimes can recall memories of past life seasons throughout the game, especially if they’re a past winner, this rule doesn’t apply to Grian who remembers everything (watcher sees all lmao).
when Grian started 3rd life he was a player, like Martyn stated, taken from HC as someone who had rejected the watchers. He’s not one of them, he has a corporeal form and he flat out defies and refuses them, though his past experiences with the game have led him to resort to chaos (he knows where everyone goes when they die, which I hc as either back to hermitcraft or empires, so his goal is just to kill as many people as possible anyways). Throughout the series’ he’s gained more and more power along with knowledge, at this point he could probably take a lot of control of the world they’re in but he knows the watchers would object and probably come down to face him.
Speaking of, the watchers hate Grian, they also hate Scott (for defying him in s2). It’s why they’re so adament about Martyn killing him (see also s2)
Scott and Pearl regain some memories of their previous wins, and realize that Grian is a watcher. Pearl’s not exactly a watcher but she is connected to them, she was a player back in Evo so she still has that connection. Scott still believes that if they win they could end the games and take down the watchers once and for all, but they’re hesitant to trust each other and Pearl is angry with him, saying they have no chance and that it’ll just end the way it did last time. They both know about Grian and are wary of his power, but Scott is more concerned about Martyn whom he suspects of having a watcher connection. He knows Martyn is important and doesn’t want him to succumb to their curse.
Eventually everyone just feeds off the watchers bloodthirst as usual, fighting for their lives. Scott fights to the end because he believes that he can face them a second time with Martyn, but in the very end he watches Martyn’s eyes go purple as he is fully possessed by the watchers and kills him.
Martyn doesn’t face the watchers at the end the same way that the other’s did. To escape the world you have to die, but Martyn ran out of time, and fell back into his home-world, the world of the listeners, and ?? I don’t even know what the soul fragment thing meant but it’s something
and to end it all. BigB is also a listener. Nobody knows, not even Martyn, but it’s part of why BigB played into the secret soulmate thing with Grian in s3, to get closer to him. there’s some mystery surrounding him. we don’t even know what he’ll do.
Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.
Who wants a Bowuigi standee? 👀
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what’s funny about velma (2023) is that they’ve already tried a dark and edgy scooby doo remake. the first live action movie from 2002 was originally directed towards adults, and was rife with dirty jokes, drug references, and cleavage shots of daphne and velma.
you know why the final product didn’t resemble that at all? bc they realized early on that the edgy grimdark angle fucking sucked. they reworked the movie to be more family-friendly— still with a complex plotline, but without the gratuitous sexual references and adult jokes. they did end up keeping a few references to shaggy smoking marijuana (his love interest being named mary jane, for one) but they were super toned down so that they’d go right over the heads of any kids watching.
it wasn’t necessarily a kids movie. i was five years old when it came out, and i loved it, but it was fun for teens and adults to watch too. and even with the dated cgi for scooby, it still has a lot of rewatch value. ask yourself if you think anyone is going to be rewatching velma in 2043 the way people still watch scooby doo twenty years after it was released.
this weird trend of the past few years of remaking fun and campy media into something edgy and full of shock value (wednesday, riverdale, and that awful winx club series come to mind) is so boring and trite and misguided. if you want to make dark media so bad, write something original instead of borrowing the barest skeletons of existing media and distorting them until they’re unrecognizable. it’s such an insult to the creators to have their stories mutilated by people who have no understanding of or appreciation for the characters or audience.
i LOVE the headcanon of the different life series taking place in different seasons, and i especially love last life taking place during winter. something about having to trek through the snow and freezing cold alone, being practically hunted by the boogeyman. wowww.
Saw a reddit post today about a girl who was upset that her childhood best friend replaced a photo of the two of them in his wallet with one of him and his girlfriend. And while yeah, she was being unreasonable with a lot of what she was saying, I totally understand the sadness of a friend "replacing" you with someone they have romantic feelings for. Makes it worse when the top comment is this
Every single comment on this post is about how family and romantic relationships always take precedence over friendships. I don't have anything more to say to this aside from the fact that... this is why it's hard for aroaces to imagine futures for themselves. Society drills it into your head that you're going to live in a world where you are no one's priority if you don't have romantic relationships and it fucking sucks
Snifferish: The range of like, Christmas sweaters to like, skimpy Santa in these skins, I’m – look at Scar’s skin!
Phil: [silently losing it] That doesn’t leave much to the imagination king.
“there should be a tumblr sexywoman” there are???? does glados, the queen from deltarune and lady dimitrescu mean nothing to you???
there are 3000 of you so if 1/3 of you rb this we can put goodtimeswithscar at the top of the dream smp tag
A key scene from the horror podcast “The Sheridan Tapes” Season 1, Episode 23: “Pour Death and Defeat Upon Them”
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[ Image I.D : A key scene from the podcast “the Sheridan Tapes” depicting Bill Tyler and Maria Sol in Sam’s apartment at night confronting him about his past. Bill, an athletic Black man, has his arms crossed across his chest and is asking Sam, who is off screen “ Who suffered Sam?”. Maria, a short, fat Latina woman stands behind him holding a prescription pill bottle in her hands with a look of concern.
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