Harrison Ford Is Jesus Confirmed????

I’m pretty sure this is wrong and I’ve never read it but

Twig

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

hey really cool theory, to build on it using a point from I think @artbyblastweave edit: sorry it was @estavionpira

Etienne is always in control, his original plan with Valentina is for the two of them to rule, afterwards it’s for him to be one of the people who “really” matter, when Heavy gets shot Etienne is in a very convenient king maker position, and so on,

Now it’s not clear if Etienne does this on purpose or if it’s just a happy accident that he keeps being in power but if your idea is right and the Queen really would’ve succeeded, then maybe Etienne realized and wanted to make sure that didn’t happen to not disrupt his own power

Of course that does kinda make the whole thing a little boring if it was just “Etienne is a power hungry dickhead” but still thought its interesting

There is something about this page...

I think we're going to find out that the "Queen" did not 'choose' to enter a bad trip, and that she was pushed towards it through some type of manipulation.

The first panel looks like she received some type of relay, especially if you take into consideration the little splotch of white against the ink black backdrop, right along where the eye meets temple. It looks almost like a bloodstain. Did she get shot with a psychic bullet that gave her an invisible lobotomy? That caused her to have a personality shift in the following third panel?

My first instinct is to lay the blame at Etienne's feet. We know he has mental powers, she looks to be suffering some kind of psychic damage, and he was suspiciously... absent... in this issue. He appears in three panels, only speaks in two. What he says is that "if they have the chance (to kill her) they should, because she's an unknown variable".

I think that this "Queen" could have achieved her goal. I think she could have made Heaven on Earth. And Etienne gamed the risks out in his head and calculated that there was a slight chance she could go nuclear down the line and cause the end of the world, so he sets her off early and - while the entire continent of Europe is lost - it's an acceptable loss compared to the entire planet they would have lost had she been allowed to continue her mission and, somewhere along the line, she goes berserk.

We already know he is the type of person to kill one victim instead of four when faced with the trolley problem. An acceptable sacrifice.

HOWEVER

I also have this nagging suspicion about the "Queen's" origins, and it has something to do with this panel -

"...I was asleep through the whole thing."

ASLEEP?!?!

If Masumi was in Japan the same time Isabella was, then we know that the "Queen's" shift happened in the day. She blocked out the sun with her display of power. Not to say that Masumi has an average sleeping schedule, but on its face the excuse just makes no sense. If the "Queen" really was tearing reality apart, I don't see how the resolution of this conflict would take longer than a few minutes, maybe a few hours at best (unless we see something involving the Pyramid slowing the "Queen" in the next issue).

So what if Masumi was in a different kind of 'sleep'?

We know that when Masumi feels intense despair, a kaiju rises up to destroy things. This has happened before. However, in her appearances she hasn't really had great leaps of emotion in any other direction, like intense anger or intense happiness.

What if she can manifest different creatures based on how she's feeling, and this "Queen" was actually a 'kaiju' representation of her ecstasy? Or what if this was her original power, and something happened that made it flip and only be activated by despair? Did someone interfere? Etienne?

I want to draw some attention to a panel from a previous issue that was about Masumi, at her gallery debut. Look at her eyes.

Familiar, right?

Even the backgrounds are similar.

And thinking about how the Power Fantasy is a pastiche of super heroes but especially X-Men, mutants, and their dynamics. Etienne is Professor X, Heavy is Magneto, etc.

I, at first, assumed Valentina was the Jean Grey. The Omega with godlike powers, much like the Phoenix.

However, the Phoenix has had a storied history throughout the Marvel Universe, as a bringer of life and of destruction.

So what if Masumi was the Jean Grey of Power Fantasy? And the evolution of her power is that ANY intense feeling causes some type of psychic creature to appear?

And she was 'asleep' throughout the Second Summer of Love because she was channeling the "Queen" in Manchester? And something happened to her which then affected the "Queen", turning her into a threat? What if this was Etienne's doing?

This is all conjecture, but conjecture is all I have right now while trying to fill in the missing gaps of 'The Second Summer of Love' that have yet to be provided using the clues available to me.

We know Val was there, and she was not just an acolyte of the "Queen" but also in love with her. Heavy was busy with his kid but he showed his support of this growing movement for love, sex, and drugs. Magus wanted her gone, but he also sacrificed a LOT of his own people to stop her and it hit him HARD he wanted her out before she became a threat. Eliza sold her soul to take the "Queen" down.

That just leaves Etienne and Masumi. What were they really doing during the 'Second Summer of Love'?

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Some Podcasts as Welcome to Night Vale Quotes

Because I can. These are just the ones I could find quotes for, or that I’m subscribed to, so I may post an updated version later.

The Magnus Archives: There’s no cause for concern. We’re way past that now. If you’re not feeling mild terror then you haven’t been paying attention

The Penumbra Podcast (Junoverse): It is the good and the bad. It is the sound of the world. A world that will kill you, but also a world that will allow you to live

Wolf 359: I come to you live from under my desk, where I dragged my microphone and am currently hiding in the fetal position.

Archive 81: *static* *rising tones* *abrupt end of episode*

Eos 10: The Night Vale Medical Board announced today that they can’t help you. Not if you’re gonna keep screaming like that! They also asked that you clean up a bit before you come in. They don’t want to get sick!

Death by Dying: Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you

Stellar Firma: We have nothing to fear except ourselves. We are unholy, awful people. Fear ourselves with silence. Look down, look down, and forget what you’ve done.

Brimstone Valley Mall: There’s a special place in Hell. It’s really hip. Very exclusive.

Ars PARADOXICA: Time is weird. So is space. I hope ours match again someday

The Amelia Project: if you see something, say nothing and drink (cocoa) to forget

Startripper!!: Space tip: bring a sweater

The Orbiting Human Circus (of the air): I’m a single issue voter. If the candidate is not a baby polar bear, I straight up cannot vote for them.

This is just the plot of Pale

“You need to find God,” says the man at the door. “No I’m good, thank you,” you say, starting to close the door. “Please!” says the man urgently. “God is missing, please find him!”

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if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it. 

Yeah I agree that the show takes supes in the military being actually scary compared to the comics we can also see the comic idea of supes being incompetent but toned down slightly, in the fight in Nicaragua we see Swatto get killed in five seconds and the twins and the mind guy huddled in cover not doing anything. Which I think kinda shows how yeah some supes would be great but they couldn’t really be mass incorporated due to the specifics of powers.

I don’t know what I’m really saying I’m just rambling great post

Also consider this a chaser for a longer post I’m gonna do on how The Boys got better in the adaptation, but one thing I think was a really smart change is how the show is handling the prospect of supes in the military.

 In the comic, The Supes are framed as Evil, but Incompetent. The fight over whether or not Vought is going to get Supes into the military was meant as a parallel to pork spending and the military Industrial complex run amok. Putting supes in the military was framed as bad, well, first because Vought is evil and shouldn’t get to make money, but on a practical level it’s treated as a silly idea.  The supes are framed as fundamentally incompetent soldiers. They’re too brash, too used to getting their way, incredibly difficult to create in consistent numbers, even harder to standardize once you’ve created them due to radically different levels of durability, and fundamentally pretty easy to kill in a combat scenario if you go in prepared and keep your shit together. Until Homelander starts getting Coupy, the actual stakes of the fight are largely over whether Vought is going to get to ream the American Taxpayers with the superhuman equivalent of jets that don’t work and see no action. But the superhumans themselves are, fundamentally, a complete joke in terms of combat ability, and their actual attempt at full-scale rebellion is suppressed almost immediately by the conventional military.

 And the issue is that this sort of created an “enemy-is-both-weak-and-strong” dynamic, where the story hates superheroes so goddamn much that they get  simultaneously framed as both this incredibly corrosive societal cancer AND a bunch of complete morons who can get wiped out in an afternoon by a small detatchment of well-trained, well-equipped soldiers. The actual stakes are…. kinda all over the place, as a result.

In the show,  The Supes are allowed to be both Evil AND competent. Homelander is actually smart instead of just mean and powerful, and It’s pretty clear that supes would be effective in the military, applied judiciously; Black Noir, Soldier Boy and even Homelander to an extent actually are capable of carrying out incredibly violent surgical strikes against whoever the hell they want. So instead, the threat is very clearly reframed as the military potentially having access to combat-viable superhumans who are capable of carrying out incredibly violent surgical strikes against whoever the hell they want. That gets to be a bad thing on its own merits instead of being bad because it’s a waste of money! And, furthermore, it’s also as if specific special-forces agents and black-ops murderers were given the same kind of inviolable, insufferable PR shielding that real world celebrities get for their bad behavior, except the “bad behavior” is, you know, the imperialist slaughter of hundreds or thousands! (In addition to, and not as a replacement for, regular celebrity bullshit!) 

he tries to fuck a hole in his hand so Blake “most fuckable rib cage” now has competition

so are the cum wizards also in pact or only in pale

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woke up today and realized that tumblr entirely killed fuck ya life bing bong so here ya go again

Some Good SCPs

Strong favorites marked by (⁂)

Series I

SCP-033 - The Missing Number

SCP-055 - [unknown]

SCP-087 - The Stairwell

SCP-093 - Red Sea Object

SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original

SCP-186 - To End All Wars  (⁂)

SCP-270 - Secluded Telephone  (⁂)

SCP-342 - Ticket to Ride  (⁂)

SCP-387 - Living Lego

SCP-426 - I am a Toaster

SCP-579 - [DATA EXPUNGED]

SCP-592 - Inaccurate History Book

SCP-711 - Paradoxical Insurance Policy

SCP-804 - World Without Man  (⁂)

SCP-914 - The Clockworks

Series II

SCP-1171 - Humans Go Home

SCP-1193 - Buried Giant

SCP-1322 - World We Helped

SCP-1425 - Star Signals

SCP-1500 - Zachary Callahan

SCP-1539 - Semantic Dissociation Zone

SCP-1689 - Bag of Holding Potatoes  (⁂)

SCP-1733 - Season Opener  (⁂)

SCP-1802 - Skip

SCP-1981 - “RONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING”

SCP-1983 - Doorway to Nowhere

SCP-1986 - Imaginary Library

Series III

SCP-2000 - Deus Ex Machina

SCP-2090 - Potentially XK Tim Duncan

SCP-2135 - 91st Street Station

SCP-2288 - Copy of A

SCP-2316 - The Bodies In The Water  (⁂)

SCP-2459 - When the Traffic Clears

SCP-2499 - Harmony of the Spheres

SCP-2521 - ●●|●●●●●|●●|●  (⁂)

SCP-2557, A Holding of Envelope Logistics®

Allison Eckhart - Allison Eckhart

SCP-2571 - Cragglewood Park

SCP-2602 - Former Library

SCP-2637 - A controversial chunk of rock with 196,884-dimensional stakes  (⁂)

SCP-2718 - What Happens After  (⁂)

SCP-2719 - Inside

SCP-2740 - It Wasn’t There  (⁂)

SCP-2871 - Strong Interaction Amplifier

SCP-2900 - Participation Trophies

SCP-2935 - A Dead World

SCP-2951 - Too Long  (⁂)

SCP-2979 - Your High School Physics Teacher, Mr. [REDACTED]  (⁂)

SCP-2998 - Anomalous Transmission, 2485 MHz

Series IV

SCP-3001 - Red Reality

SCP-3002 - Attempts to Assassinate Thought

SCP-3005 - A Light That Died  (⁂)

SCP-3008 - A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA  (⁂)

SCP-3104 - Cops Magnet  (⁂)

SCP-3116 - It’s time to stop posting

SCP-3125 - 55555 (NOTE: I recommend reading 3125 after reading everything preceding it on the Antimemetics Division Hub page)

SCP-3127 - Nineteen Year Old Jessica Lambert And A Female Pig Of Abnormal Size, Forever

SCP-3128 - Let’s Play Monopoly!

SCP-3264 - Causeless Effect  (⁂)

SCP-3333 - Tower  (⁂)

SCP-3455 - 411 Days A Year

SCP-3733 - Everybody Else

SCP-3773 - 9,000 Lives

SCP-3900 - The Internet of Things That Are Wolves  (⁂)

SCP-3930 - Does Not Exist  (⁂)

Series V

Taboo  (⁂)

SCP-4022 - Great Big Nothing

SCP-4065 - Ancho(red) Reality

SCP-4121 - The Loop That Never Breaks/Never Has/Never Will Be Broken

SCP-4228 - Karma Kameleon

SCP-4330 - A Moment of Silence

SCP-4365 - Five-Story Upside-Down Hotel

SCP-4417 - The Long Way Round

SCP-4493 - Keep Pride Out Of Corps  (⁂)

SCP-4703 - Perfectly Legal

SCP-4774 - Ninth Planet, Perhaps

4807 - Minimalism

SCP-4857 - [DESIGNATION AVAILABLE]

SCP-4885 - Find Him

SCP-4999 - Someone to Watch Over Us

Series VI

SCP-5005 - Lamplight

SCP-5031 - Yet another murder monster  (⁂)

SCP-5087 - When Have They Gone?

SCP-5095 - We Need to Talk about O5-3.

SCP-5320 - The People’s Church Of The Fish That Just Goes On Forever

SCP-5520 - The Rabbit Hole

SCP-5522 - Pizza Delivery Speedrun (RTA) 100% Completion

SCP-5538 - Holder of Abnormalities

SCP-5552 - Our Stolen Theory

SCP-5579 - Boba Roe

SCP-5920 - Work on What Has Been Spoiled

SCP-5994 - You Can’t Top Pigs with Pigs  (⁂)

Series VII

SCP-6006 - Theseus

SCP-6273 - The Empty Skin

SCP-6761 - The Sorting Machine

SCP-6803 - True Earth

Series VIII

SCP-7186 - Rock and Stone

SCP-7819 - no vacancy

SCP-001 Proposals

S. D. Locke’s Proposal - When Day Breaks  (⁂)

Kate McTiriss’ Proposal - A Record

Antimemetics Division Hub  (⁂)

I recommend reading the Antimemetics Division Hub page in order from the beginning (SCP-055) through SCP-3125:

[…]

Critical background reading

SCP-055

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (2015) This story is complete.

We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five

Introductory Antimemetics  (⁂)

Unforgettable, That’s What You Are

CASE COLOURLESS GREEN

Your Last First Day

Five Five Five Five Five by qntm (2017–)

SCP-3125

[…]

reading anything past SCP-3125 isn’t needed IMO, especially since the rest of the “Five Five Five Five Five” series is unfinished. (EDIT: It’s been finished now, but IMO you should still just stop after 3125)

Also, in my opinion, Introductory Antimemetics is the best tale on the site by far

Other Good Tales

SCUTTLE  (⁂)

Your Very First SCP!

Your Very Last SCP!

Footnotes/Disclaimers:

This is a provisional draft, and has been assembled retroactively after reading the site for many years – I’m definitely forgetting some I really liked, especially in Series II. This will be updated as I add things, and I’ll reblog myself when I’ve added to it significantly

This is non-exhaustive, it’s not a list of all good SCPs, just some of my favorites that I remember. (682 is both not one of my favorites and also Not Good, though)

This also isn’t an intro guide for beginners, which would be organized differently and would require a lot more thought about order, when to introduce different aspects of the Meta, when to start linking format-screws, etc.

CW for ableism, carcerality, body horror, etc. on all of these links. It’s the SCP wiki

Lastly – you can figure out what ██████ is in SCP-3005 - A Light That Died (“An ██████’s safe on shore but it’s the last thing you want to hold when you’re drowning”) and figuring this out really pulls the entry together!!