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So... The camera they use on the sub is an X-Ray camera right? And they found a skeleton in the blood ocean. A skeleton that just so happens to constantly change position throughout the movie.

Was... Was it actually a skeleton? Or was it just an X-Ray of the Fish monster the entire time? Because, sure there's also shots in the movie with the Fish's skin showing, but could that not just be a distance thing? Like if you take a photo of it far away it looks like a fish but close up it looks like a skeleton?

Then I yapped about it with a friend after she got the chance to see it and she raised, i think quite validly, that "well they think no living creature could viably survive unprotected in a blood ocean and thats why they also believed it was a skeleton and didn't believe Simon when he said it moved, because its easier to believe a skeleton in a blood ocean being shifted by the tides and currents over a living breathing big ass Fish"

When he's reporting back he says "There's something else there"

And on the camera there is the skeleton. And right behind it... the blood eel.

This whole time, it was two different creatures.

(Screen grab courtesy of this post because I tried to screenshot from the YouTube app and got the ThIs ApP dOeSnT AlLoW ScReEnShOts bs)

Implication being the existence of more than one blood eel?

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.