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
the idea of the Institute being an extension of Jonah’s body is driving me feral lately. and there’s textual support for it! in episode 92 he says “Should I, or the Institute, be destroyed, you will all, unfortunately, follow suit.” as if he and his Institute are equivalent. and when Martin’s burning statements, he says to Elias, “Maybe I just thought it might hurt.” the idea that Jonah felt something inside him catch fire as soon as Martin started burning statements, hdjfhsjgskdhdg. do you think it feels good when people run their hands along the walls. do you think it feels good when someone does a deep clean of the rooms.
