(File 33-34: The Muse of the Elephant/ the Elephant in the Room)
Hey guys you should look at my acc for the alternate POV of this it’s equally as serious and angsty I swear
y’all i’ve been out of my chnt swing i’m begging are there any s2 updates at all because my brain has been stuck on AVIATION and STEVEN UNIVERSE and i CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE. help. ih my fhod help me
daily jedidiah martin behaviour
i think one of my fav parts of chnt will always be the part in 29 where elijah is telling sydney the story of the architect and the muse and he’s generally ambiguous about it (we know exactly who he’s talking about, but he never outright says them to be syd and jed) but he just CANNOT stop himself from making like 20 snarky remarks in every sentence towards jedidiah. he could have said that shit in a couple sentences but it goes on for 12 years because he needed to call him a stupid brainless idiot gay loser dumb faggot boy, you just can’t have the bread without the butter
Once there was a STUPID man. He was skilled in certain delicate sciences: the science of the body; the science of machines. But he knew nothing of what really matters — of beauty, of divinity, of love. He could construct the most pristine, the most sacred sequences of numbers and proteins… but he knew not how to appreciate his creations once they were realized. When a project was “finished”, he would cast it aside. This man was the Architect. This man and his SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS, his INGRATITUDE, his WASTED GENIUS… he is the villain of this story. But there was one love which penetrated his STUPIDITY and settled in his heart — a beauty which burned brightly behind his eyes, behind his STUPID LITTLE SQUARE GLASSES. The love was his saving grace: the one thing which kept him from total dissolution. But though he knew this love, though he held it in his OVERSIZED head, he never understood it! He did not understand how to feed it, how to witness it as it was meant to be witnessed! And so the object of his love began to falter; and as it faltered it became festered with disease; and the muscle dripped off of its bone; and the Architect knew that his love would die. He grew afraid. And he began to make… calculations. He may not have understood his sick delicate love, but he understood the delicate sciences of body and machine … and when, one day, his love died tenderly on the clean sheets it was gifted… our STUPID, STUPID Architect divided by zero. He took the flesh of his love and filled it once more with the colors of life. The Architect ended death. STUPID, STUPID man.
i think one of my fav parts of chnt will always be the part in 29 where elijah is telling sydney the story of the architect and the muse and he’s generally ambiguous about it (we know exactly who he’s talking about, but he never outright says them to be syd and jed) but he just CANNOT stop himself from making like 20 snarky remarks in every sentence towards jedidiah. he could have said that shit in a couple sentences but it goes on for 12 years because he needed to call him a stupid brainless idiot gay loser dumb faggot boy, you just can’t have the bread without the butter
i hope the agency are villainous and not secret protagonists because agent 23 has so much potential to be such a cunty villain and i need her viscerally. she could save the camp here and there gender gap
i feel like people often talk about how sydney’s narration skews the plot in his favour but very rarely the way it changes how other characters are viewed - particularly jedidiah. i think in part why jedidiah is able to be sympathised with or thought about in the way he is is because sydney loves him. if there was an outside person narrating the series both sydney and jedidiah would be starkly unlikable, building compassion for either character NEEDS first person narration because pretty much every character in chnt is honestly a terrible person
i think soren as a character has some of the strongest impact on the lore and his idea as a character is really interesting but i just hate him so much that i refuse to talk about any of it. necromancy, mold spores, crazy ritual? DON’T CARE I HATE HIM. he’s the worst thing in anything ever and i skip any scene with him i hate him and not even in like the funny silly semi ironic jedidiah way he’s just genuinely the worst thing anyone has ever done i hope he walks in front of a bus with his inheritance and dies before season 2
the escalation in explicit queerness from predatory wasp of the palisades (which is also not even vaguely subtle in its theming) to venus (reaffirming that relationship to have been more than just something slight or fleeting) is so clear and there will STILL be people going "it's actually about a girl and god stop speculating meaning" and it's like man you're just not even listening to the song atp
not to say all christian sufjan fans misinterpret his songs - they don’t, the majority of them give really, really good links to his songs, there are just some poor ones in the midst of that. he is a religious artist and a lot of his work is about religion, but things like the line about his lover hitting him in drawn to the blood aren’t purely about his faith. that song is about christianity, and that line can link into it, but it’s also about a partner of his, he’s said this. he remixes that line to “the father of my last son” in the version where he’s singing from carrie’s perspective because it is not strictly singularly themed. the hoops people jump through when a song of his implies a person talked about to be a man are insane, sometimes he’s just singing about a guy