pwenci

As if Green is not the one who kept on killing me. Over and over again. As I follow them around tryna talk. And they laugh and be like “lore accurate” . As they kill me. Until under my efforts their stone heart finally gives in and they jump right to talking about… making babies???

(OMG my fanfic author is stalking me. you’re so goated.*blushes and kicks my feet*. unless tumblr is just working in mysterious ways?)

cackling irl at getting called a stalker. listen i warn in my pinned im nosy . NOBODY interacting with me is safe, i get bored and stalk eeeeverybody. im like lime in the vents of the internet /hj

honestly though i dont have a ton of active followers here or on the ao3 blog so when ppl start popping up. its not hard to get the eye of the panopticon swept upon ye. i don't feel like a big name fandom wise im just Some Guy (and i kinda like it that way which is one of the reasons why i slap Untagged on everything, intentionally nerfing myself)

im nobody special , i just know how to type words, ehehe ! still i appreciate getting called the goated, thank you

among us TECHNICALLY!!!

“Be yourself!”

“You want that?”

Why do you think Green didn’t just kill one of Purple or Red at the end? Why would Green run away into the vents when Red attacks? Could there be. Possible character motivations, or do you think it’s just purely to make the good guys win?

Gripp is so the killer, you can fucking quote me on that. And it's not just "the goofy silly guy turns out to be evil" either. Just in one conversation there's so much. His stick just so happened to need reaparing the night of the murder; he specifically said he "lacks upper body strength"; he has the most ironclad alibi for what is initially implied to be the exact second of the murder, yet after that stayed alone in a room he had no bussiness in for some time; he didn't go investigate the weird mysterious sounds after hearing different weird mysterious sounds a few minutes earlier because of "cowardice"; he's one of the closest people to the victim in the cast.

spoilers for mermaid mask 2

The very first experience it has with the base crew is that they save it from people shooting at it, give it warm hugs, and kill the people trying to deatroy it. After that it attacks and impersonates an unknown (at the time) member of the crew. After that it gets surrounded by dogs who are angry but too scared to approach, then it changes, then it attacks the huskies, and only then does anyone in the base camp treat it with hostility.

The entire first act of the movie is devoted to establishing that they know each other with an Intimacy so deep they can anticipate one another's actions and attitudes. They have been in an isolated arctic base for months and months where they can barely leave the same building. They are in one another's personal space throughout the movie. It's a vital plot point that the Thing can immitate people down to memories and personality traits. It's a vital metaphorical point as well. It's so deeply and fundamentally superficial and factually incorrect to call them unfamiliar with each other that it implies total inattention to what is happening on screen.

The Thing is, at heart, not a movie about any singular decision or behavior creating a bad outcome. Baked into the 1982 movie is failure, death, entropy, inevitable loss. It's not a movie that's meant to have a right solution, or a right decision - but when someone comes at this very bleak story without a good grounding in horror, there's a kind of urge to treat it like a puzzle. If only they were closer. If only they communicated.

That's not meeting it where it's at, because it rests on a situation where none of those elements really exist. People acted the best they could in the circumstances with the tools and information they had - and it simply was not enough. Nearly everyone dies. Even with the ambiguous ending, whoever is human is going to die, because it's winter in Antarctica and he is hundreds of miles from anywhere with no shelter and no food and no transportation. That's the sort of horror it is, the idea that when faced with extinction humanity's best efforts won't succeed. Creating an interpretation where if we had "just" this or that is shying away from the bleakness. But at the same time, not facing up to the idea that some things really might not be solvable, that the worst can happen in spite of it all, is a necessary skill. Not one we need to indulge in constantly, but we should have that knowledge.

In brief, fandom seems to be predominantly comprised of people who only want to talk about what isn't in the media. There is a fandom for The Thing on tumble, and it's very much about ideas that come from the movie, but not about anything innthe actual film. The few times I've had the misfortune to enjoy media with a large fandom, I find almost exclusively shipping, fantasies about specific characters antithetical to the subject matter, and an almost oppositional distaste for any of the actual intended or unintended meaning in the media. None of those are a problem per se, because the world is a big place and it doesn't matter in the grand picture what people want to pretended about a book or movie or TV series. This is mostly a me problem, where I can be perfectly fine and ignore what comes across my dashboard, but this is also a me post, which means I can complain about the phenomenon.

Anyway, where I find it frustrating is the encroachment of fandom focus on what isn't in the media into my little wading pool of enjoying digging through the ideas that are in the media, when a "what if it was completely different" idea inspired by the media gains so much traction that it begins to be treated as a reflection of the text, sometimes even exiting its primary fandom, like The Thing, into general circulation. Which is how you get people discussing the "creature is misunderstood" not-present ideas of The Thing by fandoms, while effectively ignoring the vastly more significant elements of the film relating to the Reagan era 1980s, cold war paranoia, and so on. Once a fandom non-textual idea propagates far enough, it not only occludes the ideas inside the original media, in my experience it almost invariably excises anything that was challenging about it. For example, how rapidly fandom's latched onto the idea of Remmick in Sinners as a misunderstood tragic figure - rather than anything to do with what the film is saying about systemic racism. It feels like a companion behavior towards people whose take away from media like Breaking Bad, Fight Club, or Obsession is that the male protagonist is meant to be viewed in a positive light - because that is an easy and more comfortable option than for example treating any character who isn't a guy or isn't white or isn't straight as a vital, human person at the center of the film.

(I wanna yap about playing among us after the among us show)

I play in vc with some discord ppl I found online. They play Town of MIRA and helped me install the mods.

I’m so bad at both impostor and crew it became a running joke. At one point whenever I kill they just go all grinning and say “pwenci do you have something to confess?” because that fucking WORKED ON ME FOR SOME REASON.

never mind the times the impostor guesses the extent of my thinking and uses me to vouch for them.

“And why, pwenci, am I not the impostor?”

“… (shakes) because I saw you at admin table the entire time?”

“Yes! Exactly!”

She was the impostor.

I’m beginning to think the impostors leave me alive because I’m stupid.

But hey, at least when I’m crew I don’t get sussed as impostor because the kills were too good so it couldn’t have been me! Even if I literally shoot a crew in front of someone.

“Um. Pwenci just killed infront of me.”

“I made a mistake. But I’m not bad.”

My role is Deputy.

“Okay. I believe it.”

Impostor says, “Wait, so pwenci is just getting away with murder?”

killed twice and i had no idea that there was a toggle where imposters couldnt hear noisemaker,

"green, why'd you go past electrical?"

",,,i"

somehow for some reason didnt vote me out, killed again

"green. green you're going up from storage, theres a noisemaker body in storage"

",,,,"

partner desperately trying to save my ass, "well hey, arent they new? green, do you even know what noisemaker is?" (asks AFTER votes have already been cast and im ejected)

i actually freak out so bad during imp rounds, im an awful liar

(I wanna yap about playing among us after the among us show)

I play in vc with some discord ppl I found online. They play Town of MIRA and helped me install the mods.

I’m so bad at both impostor and crew it became a running joke. At one point whenever I kill they just go all grinning and say “pwenci do you have something to confess?” because that fucking WORKED ON ME FOR SOME REASON.

never mind the times the impostor guesses the extent of my thinking and uses me to vouch for them.

“And why, pwenci, am I not the impostor?”

“… (shakes) because I saw you at admin table the entire time?”

“Yes! Exactly!”

She was the impostor.

I’m beginning to think the impostors leave me alive because I’m stupid.

But hey, at least when I’m crew I don’t get sussed as impostor because the kills were too good so it couldn’t have been me! Even if I literally shoot a crew in front of someone.

“Um. Pwenci just killed infront of me.”

“I made a mistake. But I’m not bad.”

My role is Deputy.

“Okay. I believe it.”

Impostor says, “Wait, so pwenci is just getting away with murder?”