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It’s always disappointing to get online and see that the conversation is “X thing shouldn’t exist” on the grounds that it made somebody feel badly. It was meant to make you feel that way and it’s normal that it did - it’s okay that you stop reading it or don’t finish it but I am BEGGING you to consider why it made you uncomfortable and why the author felt the need (if the answer isn’t immediately obvious, as it can be). There isn’t shame in something putting you off so badly that you shelve it.

The sterilization of reality is a detriment to all who exist within it. To censor stories with painful themes is to erase the reality that such stories are based in some horrific truth and works to erase the reality that many people have endured.

This trend or whatever we want to call it has gotten so bad that I listened to an entire lecture from somebody about how awful a book was and how it shouldn’t exist at all, how the author was a terrible person for concocting it and how it hurt people. When I asked what the book was, this person not only could barely recall the name but HAD NEVER READ IT. I bought the book. I read the book. It accomplished its task beautifully and I found it to be a cathartic experience. I also understood how it could make people so uncomfortable and would never judge anybody for setting it down.

So… Hollow Mind happened. And I’m not the only one combing for clues and/or further information, because we’ve got a creative team that’s weaving THE TIGHTEST scripts. Even half-frame backgrounds are making sense.

Let’s start with the mask, first carved by Wittebro. It’s interesting that a Puritan kiddo in the Witch Hunting Era would ask for a horned mask. Isn’t that not too Christian?

It’s SUPER DAMN PAGAN. NATURE-GOD LEVEL PAGAN. But the first context Anglo-Saxonest Phillip Wittebane would’ve encountered such a figure isn’t so divine - It’s actually Herne The Hunter, a ghost who appears in a less known Shakespeare play from 1587, called “The Merry Wives of Windsor”. Quoted from Wikipedia:

An early, pirated version of the play from 1602 includes a different version of this text, which states that the ghost (spelled “Horne” in this version) was invented to scare children into obedience, and that mothers tell their children the tale of a ghost who walks the [Windsor] Forest in the form of a great stag.

So baby Phillip was an edgelord who wanted a boogeyman mask and then wore it always. Ominous, much? But wait! Where is the aforementioned Nature God in this?

ENTER CELTIC GOD CERNUNNOS.

We’re taking our business behind a Keep Reading, though! Shall we?

TOH SPOILERS!

So! Looking at the newest Episode, we got to have the first look at Eda's Folders- the Folders where all her Pranks and Rule breakings are throughly recorded, showing us a gigantic Pile:

Only that... I am a liar! We did see the Pile before in "Something Ventured, Someone Framed"

But something is different- the Pile is way smaller than it used to be by FAR

Even Eda who used to have a Smug grinning "I thought there'd be more~" reaction at Faust, did seem very surprised when Bump showed it to her, even when she said the exact same Thing.

This little Detail leads me to believe that after Bump took over the Role as Principal- he DEADASS took the Time to sort through Eda's Files, taking out all the Nitpicky/unreasonable Papers from Fausts Time, leaving only the actual Pranks and Schemes that were OUT-OF-LINE

A Detail that has me appreciating and respecting Bump even more than I already did <3

"... “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.

Later developments from early 20th century (Agatha Christie and such): similarly, police is stupid and easily tricked by criminals, and smart amateurs have to save the day

around 1930s ‘hardboiled’ and noir fiction: police are every bit and corrupt and detestable as criminals, and sometimes ARE the gangsters. These are almost entirely realistic, as they’re often written from actual experiences of real private detectives

1940s, vigilante detective fiction like Batman and the Shadow: where as always, police is portrayed as at worst corrupt and at best useless, and it’s up to brilliant people in masks to solve crimes

1950s: SUDDENLY with Dragnet, police are all brilliant crimefighter heroes who solve all the crimes, and are Always Lawful Good, and criminals are Always Chaotic Evil

onwards: 80-90% of detective fiction is about cops, and usually follows the Dragnet formula (e.g. stuff like CSI)

Thesis: police procedural is a predatory creation that has co-opted the notoriously anti-cop genre of detective fiction, whose primary starting idea was that cops were little more than thugish brutes, unsuited to subtle scientific art of solving crimes, and turned it into shallow propaganda.

Also Antis: If even think the wrong things, you're impure! Your writing affects everyone's morality, so it needs to be pure! Proshippers are going to hell! We must convert those poor, lost proshippers who are young enough to change into the correct path!

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