Thinking about the fact that pain and suffering in TMA can only be passed to others, never stopped. Thinking about how even in Anglerfish Nathan Watts escaped but someone else disappeared the same night. Thinking about Lost John’s Cave and “take her, not me”. Thinking about Jon in the Panopticon, saying he could make the people who deserved it more suffer instead. Thinking about how the apocalypse in their world can’t be stopped and can only be passed to other worlds. Thinking abou
i really do love the weird consistency of the fact that everything works on dream logic in tma
it can’t hurt you if you just aren’t scared. you can do it if you just believe hard enough that you can. you can reason yourself out of the ritual of the stranger. you can walk out of the spiral if you decide you aren’t lost anymore. surgically removing the bullet means surgically removing the slaughter. physically blinding yourself severs you from the eye and of course you can stop the buried by throwing someone touched by the vast into it. of course you can trap the lightning monster in the sky book and stop the distortion by locking the door and have your dead husband’s ghost save you from the lonely because why wouldn’t it work that way. it’s really awesome in that it all genuinely does make sense in such a silly strange nonsense way
ok i feel like I’m going insane here because I was going through the transcipt of every episode where gerry is mentioned (like a normal person) and. um
turns out not a single person who describes him even mentions his hair being badly dyed? thats actually so fucking funny. did we as a fandom just collectively gaslight ourselves into insulting a guy for a shitty dyejob that doesn’t even exist
[ID: four screenshots of transcripts describing Gerard Keay from the Magnus Archives. Number one says: “stood just over the threshold was a man in a long, dark leather coat. His hair was dyed an artificial black, and he had an unshaven look”
Number two: “younger, I’d guess in his mid-thirties. He was clean-shaven, but had long hair, dyed completely black. He wore a similar suit to the older-” (the sentence is cut off)
Number three: “Mastodon, or something like that. His hair was long and greasy, almost down to his shoulders, and looked to be dyed almost the same black as his clothes. He did not look like he was supposed to-” (the sentence is cut off)
Number four: “He was pale, scrawny almost, and looked utterly out of place. His loose, bright shirt was in stark contrast to his long, black hair.” /End ID]
