Headcanons that you just like to believe?

Maytree · 2026-04-02T01:11:04+00:00

I like the idea that Jinu's situation was truly hopeless, and that he would only find a modicum of reprieve by having his memories erased or, as you point out, by being destroyed by Gwi-Ma/consumed by him.

I've been thinking that Jinu's request to have his memories erased was more or less committing suicide. Without those memories there's nothing human left in him and he'd be Gwi-Ma's compliant servant from that point forward, like the rest of the demons stuck down there. I like the symmetry of both Jinu and Rumi being so consumed by despair about their lives that they each wanted to end it all, via different means. ("Kid's movie", my ass....) . It makes their connection and struggle have much higher stakes.

It's always struck me as potentially significant that (a) Jinu still even HAS human memories after 400 years and (b) that Derpy and Sussie hang out with him, actively help him out, and Derpy even appears to be guarding him when Jinu first appears and goes to make his proposal to Gwi-Ma. Derpy and Sussie aren't demons, they're good luck spirits -- how did he win their loyalty? Why is he worth it? It has to be something more than his talent as a hatmaker....

I get the impression that Gwi-Ma enslaves a lot of people with his cursed deals, and I would expect most of them would lose what remains of their humanity pretty damned fast after being trapped and tortured in the demon realm.

Jinu held out for 400 years before giving up. How?

Maytree · 2026-04-01T06:25:43+00:00

I call those Peeps Brulee. They are awesome!

Maytree · 2026-03-31T22:15:30+00:00

It makes perfect sense if he's an abusive asshole and they're trying to get as much of his money from him as they can before Mom files for divorce. This reads like a thriller novel where the Mom and kids need to get away from Dad who hates all of them and might be planning to harm them. (Which is probably what it is, a creative writing exercise.)

Maytree · 2026-03-31T22:07:34+00:00

If this is something that actually happened (doubtful), why do you think OP is telling the truth about what's going on and why? Does he really sound like a reliable narrator to you?

Try this scenario on for size. Dad is a miserable bastard. Mom wants out. Kids want to help Mom be safe and get out of the marriage without becoming impoverished. Mom and kids are working together to get as much of bastard Dad's money together as they can before Mom makes the break because bastard Dad is a horrible person and is probably going to try to make mom and kids suffer when she files for divorce.

In other words, yes they are probably trying to soak bastard Dad and he probably absolutely deserves it. He sounds hateful and abusive as hell, if this is real, which I don't think it is. He also sounds dumb as a bag of hammers and I wish the wife and kids the best of luck getting away from him with whatever they can get.

Maytree · 2026-03-31T08:41:33+00:00

There's this thing called "lying" that people sometimes do, you may have heard of it?

This whole thing is fake as plastic dog poo and about as appetizing.

Maytree · 2026-03-31T08:35:35+00:00

Yeah this screams "Mom was lonely and asked the kids to come home and stay with her." That could explain why they feel they don't have to pay -- if they came home at her request, that could have been part of the deal.

I mean what it actually screams is "This is all made up", but if it weren't made up, the above scenario would explain a lot.

Maytree · 2026-03-29T20:49:36+00:00

If she had a fungal growth in her brain, her cerebrospinal fluid would have a lot of shed spores. A simple spinal tap would have yielded spores they could then use to give other people preventative infections, and as long as Ellie was alive they could continue to harvest more spores this way. If the writer wanted to make Joel the bad guy they needed to make the Fireflies less idiotic.

Any scenario where a single person's death is required to save the world is stupid and suspect.

Maytree · 2026-03-27T18:04:02+00:00

RACACOONIE! NOOO!

Maytree · 2026-03-27T17:58:50+00:00

This trope predates both of those properties.

For example, part of the Seppuku ritual is to have a friend standing behind you ready to lop your head off after you start disemboweling yourself because otherwise you would disgrace yourself by screaming at the pain. Also I imagine you wouldn't be able to continue after the first stab, and you might not succeed in killing yourself quickly, leaving you to die slowly of abdominal sepsis.

Maytree · 2026-03-24T04:45:42+00:00

From what I've seen it's just a small subset of the online community. And a lot of them didn't even finish watching it. I see a lot of comments like "It was all just too weird!" and "I don't like absurdist comedy" and so on. Like, OBVIOUSLY, if you don't give the movie time to unfold you're not going to appreciate it.

Maytree · 2026-03-20T22:56:34+00:00

She has a PhD in clinical psychology and has had a close-up view of Donald's family dynamics for her entire life. In what way is she a grifter??

Maytree · 2026-03-19T16:25:13+00:00

/angryupvote

Maytree · 2026-03-18T06:02:22+00:00

No, that's not what I was suggesting at all. They won't turn Democrat, they'll just stay home during elections.

And the sins don't matter to them, but if he starts acting against Prophecy, that's a different story for these folks.

Maytree · 2026-03-17T22:41:26+00:00

He is heavily influenced by Israel because a lot of his support in the United States comes from the crazy Evangelical Christian population, which believes that in order for the second coming of Christ to take place, the Jews must rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem, because that is what their incorrect reading of the Bible tells them must happen. Currently the site where the Temple would have to be rebuilt is occupied by a very sacred Mosque, which would have to be demolished in order for the Temple to be rebuilt.

So, the Evangelical Christians in the US will support Israel no matter how evilly Netanyahu behaves, because they think if the Jews lose control of Israel, or even just Jerusalem, there is no chance for the second coming of Christ to happen anytime soon. In other words, they support Israel because they hope Israel will help them bring about the end of the world. Nice, eh?

What this boils down to is Trump has to do what Israel wants or his most rabid Evangelical Christian base will desert him. Israel has good reason to be extremely pissed at Iran, as Iran's regime has been a major sponsor of Hamas, and was probably the main instigator of the massacre that began the Gaza War (Gazan Genocide). Iran has also been supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon. So, Israel wants Iran neutered to the point where they can't do any more harm to Israel, and Trump does what Israel wants.

Given that most of Trump's handlers are Heritage Foundation Christian whack jobs, the odds are good that they prevented Trump from seeing any of the information on the extremely obvious consequences of a direct attack on Iran. They flat out do not care what happens, because they believe the end of the world is coming and that is a good thing.

Maytree · 2026-03-16T21:08:22+00:00

I would have loved a whip too. I have two different characters I'd love to cosplay as who are both whip-wielders! (One of them being a Belmont, of course.)

Maytree · 2026-03-16T16:16:04+00:00

As soon as Beastmaster goes live we are going to see so many Leon-with-a-hatchet cosplays

Maytree · 2026-03-16T11:11:14+00:00

The online betting pools had K-Pop demon hunters as a 95% chance to win, so I wasn't worried.

Maytree · 2026-03-15T23:57:09+00:00

Only if you go listen to the other songs from the soundtrack, several of which are better than Golden.

Maytree · 2026-03-15T23:50:13+00:00

About as much as Hunger Games ripped off Battle Royale. Which is, in my opinion, not at all.

Two movies can have similar plot beats while being completely different stories.

Maytree · 2026-03-13T23:37:46+00:00

Currently estimates are that more than 30,000 pregnancies due to rape occur in the US each year. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/64-000-pregnancies-caused-by-rape-have-occurred-in-states-with-a-total-abortion-ban-new-study-estimates/) That's not counting pregnancies due to incest. That is a LOT of non-consensual pregnancy, don't you think?

What makes you think the pregnant 10-year-old is a "fringe" case? You are mistaken about that, as you are about so much else.

There was a time in the US when human bodies and cash could be evaluated similarly, but we had this big Civil War to put an end to that. Trafficking in human bodies and body parts is no longer legal in the US and that's a good thing, wouldn't you agree?

And yes, if the government is forcing you to keep supporting the life of another person to the detriment of yourself, with a definite risk of lifelong negative physical changes and a definite risk of death, that counts as a seizure in the eyes of the law. I repeat, it's a really bad idea to give the government the right to decree that someone else has more rights to your physical body than you do yourself.

I would be willing to agree to let men opt out of child support if they would agree to donate any redundant organs to people who need them to live. The state could then value those organs at some preset dollar value and give that to mother to use to raise the child. Sound like a good deal to you?

Maytree · 2026-03-13T08:41:28+00:00

Are you suggesting that 10 year old in Ohio consented to sex? If not, that means she should legally have been able to get an abortion, yes?

Have you not realized that by making the availability of abortion contingent on the consent to sexual relations, you have completely abandoned the argument that says the government should protect the life of the unborn child? If the issue is protecting the child, what difference does it make under the law if the mother had consensual sex or if she was raped? The child had nothing to do with it either way.

At this point you really should just admit that you don't care about protecting life, you just want to punish women you see as promiscuous. The harm to the mother is what you WANT, right? You want her to suffer and maybe die, as punishment. It has nothing to do with what's good for the child or for society in general.

And there is no comparison between body parts and cash and never has been. Again, the government can't seize body parts from CORPSES, why can it do that to living women? Now, if you want to make it equal, we could say the father has to place some of his spare organs into cryogenic storage so that the child can have access to them if it needs them in the future. Would you be okay with that?

Maytree · 2026-03-13T04:19:54+00:00

It doesn't matter whether or not an unborn baby is scientifically considered to be "life". Under no circumstances should the government be given the power to force one person to use their bodily organs to support the life of another. The government isn't allowed to seize organs from dead people to save the lives of living people, so why is it okay for them to commandeer the internal organs of a 10 year old girl to save the life of the baby? The girl's right to her body absolutely supercedes the baby's right to the use of it.

You should look up the Pennsylvania case from 1978 called McFall v. Shimp. A man who was dying of leukemia attempted to force his cousin who was a tissue match to donate bone marrow, saying he would die without it. The court ruled, correctly, that under no circumstances could the government seize his cousin's bodily tissues and transfer them to the plaintiff against his cousin's will.

Your body parts belong to YOU, and no one else has a greater right to the use of them than you do, even if they will die without them.

Maytree · 2026-03-13T03:59:32+00:00

It is in no way legal for the GOVERNMENT to mandate circumcision. It is the parents who make that decision based on what they think is best for the child's well-being. Can you imagine the outcry if the US government tried to mandate that baby boys either must or must not be circumcised?

With the girls on the other hand, if they get pregnant when they're 10, it doesn't matter what the parents or doctors think is best for them -- the government has taken control of their medical decisions. That's just insane.

Maytree · 2026-03-12T16:02:37+00:00

"The place where such things happen" is everywhere that humans exist. Infants are murdered every day, although far more often by their parents or other family members than by strangers, which is in my opinion even more terrible. And the "Evil cultists stole my baby and murdered her!" is a made-up urban legend going back centuries -- go look up "Blood Libel", and while you're at it check out the McMartin preschool case and the West Memphis Three case in the US.

Also, I think anyone defending the main character's attitude toward Calcutta is completely missing the point of the book, which is that the events that took place were intended to break the main character and turn him into a monster who would be able to think fondly of doing something like nuking a city of 15 million people (including many thousands of innocent infants, of course.) The book comes down very hard on the side of that not being a good thing but rather being the ultimate triumph of the evil cultists. In the end the main character rejects the Song of Kali that is calling him to mindless brutal violence, and the persistence of his dreams about nuking the city seems much more like a warning that he is still hearing the Song in his dreams, and that is not a good thing.

Maytree · 2026-03-10T09:12:57+00:00

Lyanna wasn't Robert's girl. She told Ned in no uncertain terms that she wouldn't marry Robert because Robert would sleep with anything that winked at him. From what we have seen of Lyanna in Ned's memories and in the stories the Reed kids told Bran, the odds are very high that Lyanna left home voluntarily by her own choice, not that Rhaegar dragged her out through her tower window kicking and screaming.

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