plightofthecentipede:
plightofthecentipede:
plightofthecentipede:
season 4 of tma is crazy on first listen because jon wakes up from his coma and like, everyone is highly suspicious in regards to his remaining humanity, wondering if he’s gone full monster, but all we hear is the tapes and he largely sounds pretty normal, like, for him? like all things considered?
and THEN you find out halfway through the season that he’s been running around london finding random victims and nonconsensually slurping statements out of their brains, forcing them to live in their trauma every night, and you’re like OHHHH. this is why he’s been thinking about free will vs manipulation and humanity vs. monsterhood every fucking episode. the clues were there all along.
^ things you say when you are absolutely not stalking people in coffeeshops to eat their supernatural experiences and feel guilty about it
exactly. like imagine a version of events where jon had a support system.
symurgist:
my favorite thing about tma has always been the avatars who love the fears they serve, who show that love so vibrantly that, for just a moment, they sway you into feeling like you could learn to love that fear the way they do. when jane prentiss said “not loved as you would understand it, a deeper, more primal love, a need as much as a feeling” and when jude perry said “as the heat warped my bones and bubbled my flesh, all i heard was the loving exaltation of my god” and when mike crew said “falling had always held a special place in my heart, that wonderful border between terror and delight” and when manuela dominguez said “and at his words i felt afraid, and my heart soared in terror and elation as my eyes brimmed with tears, for i knew he spoke the truth” and when hezekiah wakely said “i had never felt such safety as within the crushing weight of earth all around me, the pressing embrace of the buried.” do you get me
corvuspanoptes:
the fact that Beholding canonically graces its devotees with sensual pleasure when they are submitted to its power as well as when they are wielding it… jon compelling elias as a feedback loop of pleasure that they alone, as one under their god, have the ability to experience.
