#depressing tw

“𝑀𝓊𝓇𝒹𝑜𝒸𝓀𝓈 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉.”

Honestly, TMA is such a bleak series. You know how in much of popular horror there's at least a sense of hope? That if the protags struggle just a little bit harder there might be an escape or an end that isn't just death? More and more infrequently of course, but after having finished back in November the Dracula Daily emails, that particular series offered up an interesting contrast to TMA. At least in DD, there's a bittersweet ending where most of the cast makes it out alive and mostly human, and that as dire as things got for the main cast, there was always the sense that their opposition was surmountable. Even in Lovecraftian literature where the cosmos is filled with horror beyond our wildest comprehension, it seems like so long as you don't go looking for trouble there's a good chance you'll be just fine.

But in TMA, there's no hope. Just, none. Like in this episode you have a bit of what I think might be irony that the one person he's believed so far is the one person he's been unable to save thus far. He tries to be a better person and it's "repaid" by that person immediately being eaten by a sentient and malevolent door. He is interacting with and trusting Sasha more from S1, but in actuality "they" are not Sasha. The malevolent and sentient door tries to tell him this because it knows he won't understand it and it finds his confusion and terror delicious. Everywhere Jon turns, and the only direction seemingly available to him is down, further into the Fears because they desire his participation in their world and won't let him escape even if his tragic character flaw wasn't already curiosity.

I'll do you one better, everyone who says that in tma love won in the end, it didn't. It never stood a chance and that sucks

The fact that the person who helped her do that doesn’t believe in her, despite knowing she’s ladybug.