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tonight me and my friends (@galactinqq & @spideyes) made a diagram connecting some important things between petscop, TBOI and interloper because they have a lot in common between the three of them (at least sometimes). i would love to discuss this more because i really like all three of these things
transcript below:
Interloper & TBOI:
All layers of the game becoming a downward spiral
Major characters' imagery becomes recurring
Major connections to creator's personal lives
(there's not much for these two TBH. For now. Sad.)
Petscop & Interloper:
Older game aesthetic, unreleased game material
Game acts of its own accord
Input recording, "demo" recording
Moving your character without seeing it
Waiting for a really long time for something to happen
Dark as shit (Visually) (It's dim)
Deadpan and sometimes oblivious recorder
Ambiguous and strangely motivated group behind the videos
Fictional company behind material creation
Messages left for specific people in the game
Changing one person into a different person
TBOI & Petscop:
Horribly unreliable narrator
Trans-coded protagonist
Perspective works directly through the lens of trauma
Divorce
Identity warping through family member manipulation and abuse
Repressing childhood memories and returning to them later on
Recurring themes of being locked in a closet
The color red being related to the past
All three:
Trans related theories
Connections to respective creator's earlier works
Themes of dehumanization and horror of change
Ghosts, both living and digital
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being a Petscop fan is so interesting because I believe both the âPaul is transâ theory and the âfreaky timeline shitâ theory simultaneously, but whenever I see people discuss the game itâs always one or the other and theyâre always against each other. Why canât both be true?? Why canât Paul be trans AND freaky timeline shit is happening?
âThe timelines canât be messed up, it makes no sense!â buddy this is a fictional horror game made in the 90s where dialogue appears that mirror a convo Paul had with his aunt in the future, and Care is described as talking to people who isnât there and running into objects. Plus the entire thing with Lena and the Windmill disappearing. That shit actually happened. SOMETHING is going on in this world thatâs glitchy or paranormal.
âPaul canât be trans, what about all the stuff with Care running into things? Theyâre different people!!â *gestures to the egg symbolism, the character running away from letters that spell girl only to be slingshotted back to a painting of a girl, the rebirthing, Paul and Care being the same age, having the same birthday, looking the same, ect.* You uhhh just gonna ignore these? Is your media literacy that bad or do you just refuse to acknowledge ANY queer subtext??
Look, I donât entirely know whatâs going on in the series, but I strongly believe both the trans Paul and weird timeline theory can be true at the same time. Maybe the Care we see is what couldâve happened to Paul in another timeline before he transitioned, like a bad timeline or something. We canât ignore all the information given to us in favor for a different theory, and we ESPECIALLY shouldnât attack people for interpreting something different!
I think no matter which way you slice it petscop is a very trans-coded series regardless of what goes on, because the theme of rebirth is a major part of the entire story. The person you are isn't the same person as you were back then. Sometimes, trauma and grief can change us into different people. There's a terrifying quality about how easily technology can preserve the past, essentially "raising the dead" of people and places that don't exist anymore. And one of the most powerful things you can do in spite of all the trauma and fear is to decide for yourself who you turn into.
That new petscop video didnt invent shit, the same "paul was born amab but forced to be a girl by marvin" was already brough up by a french youtuber 6 years ago AND he spent the entiere thing repeating that it was only his interpretation, one of many, he mentioned the trans interpretation saying it makes sense, but he just chose to talk about the other bc of personal stuff and it hit closer to home for him.
(He also repeatedly said that to him, Petscop is meant to be interpreted and that trying to find one single Truth is a waste of effort and anti-thetical to the artpiece )
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Was talking to my friend about Petscop today and how it wasn't intended to be a trans allegory but so many people adopted it as such, and I was trying to figure out why (because even though I myself am trans sometimes allegories are hard for my autistic self).
This was probably already obvious to most people but I think a lot of it is in part because it is a story about trauma and losing your bodily autonomy and being forced to be someone you're not, which are obviously very common trans experiences.
The story is about childhood trauma and how it completely changes you as a person, whether that be by force or your own doing, which I think a lot of trans people can relate to.
bitches will be like "this peice of media genuinely makes me sick. I am both mentally and physically unwell. it has done irreversible damage to me. I wish I can go back to before I even found out about it." and then recommended it to a good friend with a big smile on their face like it's the best thing ever created.
its me. I do this. and it IS the best thing ever created.
cringefail youtube theorists talking about petscop: these two characters, a boy and a girl, are said to look the same, share a birthday, their experiences keep merging into one another, and they possibly have had the same name at some point. i have no idea what any of this could mean. what's a transition
absolute fucking gigachad Power Pak talking about myhouse.wad: the only way this head-hurting house of leaves-inspired maze of puzzles built entirely as a doom map makes sense is if the protagonist and his friend are gay married. there are no other explanations for this
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fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper
update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna âthe chilli queenâ skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen
The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.
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