Sounds So Real. Are We Sure It's Not Real?

do u trust Celia?

This has become... relevant.

TMAGP's liminal spaces so far (EP 7 spoilers):

1. The Graveyard, the Magnus Institute

2. In5oul's studio

3. The Garden

4. N/A? Perhaps where the protagonist met the merchant

5. The Theater

6. N/A? Does an alley count? Does a call station count?

7. Hill Top

I'm calling them liminal bc they're described only at certain times of day (middle of the night for the graveyard) or in terms that make their entrances and exits, as well as the passage of time within them, unclear (like the tattoo studio and the garden). The theater preserved from childhood memories, yet staffed with only one employee, the Magnus Institute where doors are all open while it lies abandoned, etc., feel solidly liminal to me.

Hill Top is mainly there because of, y'know, but I do think the events of 7 make it a space with unclear limits and volume. It would be ironic if it has nothing to do with Hill Top Road.

I feel like the OIAR office is liminal (between sunset and sunrise, for one thing). The sheer vibes off that place!

TMAGP 4 SPOILERS BELOW CUT

Sacrificing yourself, or part of yourself, has been a constant focus so far (nothing's wasted in the garden). A lot of people have commented on the "be careful what you wish for" narratives, and I'm on that page, but I think there's been self-harm in each story (implied in 1, regarding the eyes). People's passions consume them, and they're "giving in."

TMAGP 4 feels like the first story where someone channels that supernatural harm outwards as well (in 3, the murder precedes the supernatural encounter). In TMA the statements were often innocent people encountering terrible things, but the POVs are more complex this time around.

Considering the ambiguity of the system's morality, I feel like the macro POV (the devices we're listening from) will be equally ambiguous. I wonder if we'll get into the horrors' sentience (or lack of it) and how this weird abstract organism would, itself, would choose a moral path.

Excuse you. I do not have a home, I have a nest. I built it out of trash and magpie treasures so don't you dare disrespect my hovel you absolute CRETIN

Wilding out Celia theory:

- There's two Celias

- One from this universe, one from TMA

- They share a body

- When Celia wakes up after sleepwalking, that's the Celia of TMAGP

- When Celia's at the OIAR, that's the Celia of TMA

- one of them"s a baddie

*tinfoil noises*

- TMA Celia has become an avatar of the stranger

Elias Bouchard drag king routine when

Does your stomach ever reject life

Do u ever just think about the fact that the old fairy tales of wicked fey scheming to steal your life, your soul, your personality by getting your name, your home, your story, have come true in the form of advertisers buying and selling consumer data?

Dans le fond des forêt,

Votre image me suit.

In the depth of the forest,

Your image follows me.

Phedre by Alexandre Cabanel (1880)

something that is kinda cool to me is it seems like in tma you get the statements of people who made it out long enough to tell their story's, even if they died in the end they where able to go to the magnus institute and record their experience. in tmagp they are pulling story's from those who didn't make it out and have a place to record everything, its pulling from last emails and locked forum post, old blogs and letters. they don't have ways to know what happened to them.