2025-02-17 14:55:00 ¶ ● ⬈

dingodad:

> 8r8k has a really interesting thread running through it about busting dichotomies, especially as they pertain to vriska’s past (naturally); when Jake apparently ‘intervenes’ in Jade’s resurrection process it evokes the ambiguity surrounding Vriska’s own resurrection, and as the bullet flies toward Rose we see an adult Terezi reenacting her iconic coin flip:

> the flip is always symbolic of two timelines - one clean and one scratched, one where you live and one where you die - and the scar running through Venus’ head makes it clear which one Rose is supposed to be living in. but Vriska’s intervention throws all that out the window. the split is no longer clear cut.

> others have already pointed out that Vriska’s hatching from the meteor removes the brackets which usually distinguish Candy-volume commands from Meat-volume commands - busting down even the distinction between the relevant and the irrelevant, just as was Calliope’s plan for the Plot Point from the beginning!

> (which also explains the strange interlude before the animation featuring GC - whose typing quirk, which was used to advertise the flash prior to its upload date, involves bombs surrounded by parentheses)