The one and only nokia gage from 2003

Hi hello! Welcome to our blog. You can call us whatever and we'll probably respond but we prefer Gage or QD.

We are a system and our general pronouns are it/its :-) It is nice to meet you. Usually you'll just be interacting with our host on this blog, but sometimes we make ourselves more known.

Our interests include but are not limited to: ✦ Sociology, Psychology, City Planning, Cultural, PoliSci ✦ The Nokia company and products ranging from the 80s-06 ✦ Digital art and photography ✦ Creative writing and poetry ✦ Queerness as a whole ✦ The human form and of course, ✦ Marble Hornets

Catchya around!

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Being system and having a character as a source while ALSO having a plush of that character you use to self soothe is so funny. Yeah, sometimes I get really scared and i need to look at my body double homunculus to calm down.

The idea that is so prevalent in the fandom that Tim and Brian do or would hate each other or are deserving of hating each other is one that is honestly laughable to me.

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Everything is scary and weird rn but I am being so brave.

SSRIs are such bullshit. Where did my appetite go.

See i lured you in with MH posts but I am actually an amateur sexologist and massive fan of sociology and psychology, especially human sexuality and psychology <- Genuinely these are just my passions/hyperfixations

I have not read that blog because I am not an EMH girlie sorry. Me and EMH have starkly different attitudes and beliefs. Apples to pears, really, maybe Oranges. [Though my beef is not as much with the series as it is the fandom, which is imo even worse than MH with the woman fridging and shit but that is neither here nor there. EMH is fine.]

I don't really have many thoughts on it though, unfortunately. I like reading folks interpretations of shit ans hearing how different stories explain or rationalize their Operator/"Slenderman,"—as imo that provides as much insight into the theorist as it does the series—but I don't have many thoughts on EMH ^^"

I suppose if we want my thoughts on the Operator itself though, to me, as a monster it has always been it is something sort of unfathomable/somewhat incomprehensible to people, and thats kind of the fun part.

Is it a manifestation of human evil? Is it a supermassive cosmic horror reaching into our world? Is it a corrupted nature spirit? Is it a stand-in for systemic abuse marginalized/disempowered people face, with the whole story meant to be an abstract metaphor?

For Marble Hornets, I am not altogether sure if there was ever really meant to be a specific answer, but I enjoy talking about and discussing the different options, and the fluidity of the Operator is what makes it such a formidable and terrifying force, because in not knowing what it is, we are helpless to stop it.

I will admit I am partial to the second option I listed, but that is just a peering into my psychology really haha. I personally just find the idea of something impossibly big thats feeding off people like a whale does off plankton cool :-)

The vagueness of it is what makes it work though, and any theory about MH or adaptation can work with enough elbow grease. I more care about the execution honestly than the actual choice on what the Operator is.

I hope this was a satisfactory answer!!!

I keep thinking about Alex's bio on the marble hornets website. [context]

Under his likes he has his dog, Rocky.

The dog we never see again, which is only mentioned in the second episode and then never even seen again. We have no idea what happened to him, if he for some ridiculous reason got taken or if he just ran away. He was one of Alex's favorite things though, right next to both film and art. He was something alive that Alex could admit he loved and cared for, despite the fact it was so hard for him to talk about his feelings. It is acceptable to love your dog.

Under his likes he has his dog, Rocky.

Hey, so since Brian Thomas is a Psychology Major that means he would probably be the only person out of our cast who understands what DID is and what Tim's condition is.

Hey so, a lot of folks in the Marble Hornets fandom are varying shades of new to it, and so didn't experience it coming out unfortunately, but apparently there used to be a marblehornets website that has been down since 2016, and I actually didn't know about it but my friend (@straycalamities) did and found it on the Wayback Machine.

I bring this up because while the images on the website are mostly broken now, it actually holds some really fascinating information on the characters that I have never seen talked about, like some of their majors in college!!

I am going to post snippets (as screenshots would get fucked up on mobile) and talk about them a little, but check it out here if you're curious.

I feel like the generalization that m/f ships are bad comes from the fact just that they're the accepted and propped up majority. Everyone writes bad stuff man, and there's just so many straight cis people so of course you'll notice their bad stuff more. Queer people also are able to write dogshit stuff too, (though there is something to be said for how being queer can sometimes provide you a fun/unique perspective to writing romance,) but we just don't always see it because of how it get buried, and especially you won't if you're putting romance in a story that doesn't have one and abstracting a queer relationship shit yk?

Not that that is bad, I do that too, but when you make up/abstract a relationship it is obviously easier to make it good in your eyes and according to your beliefs/biases. A massive problem in fandom spaces often is a m/m ship being decided and the characters being flanderized to fit into this fandom/cultural ideal yk? And it works so well because in canon there isn't an actual romantic or even sometimes platonic relationship dynamic (poorly written or wonderfully written) to push back on it.

There also 100% is an element of misogyny in here though, with fandoms ignoring and sidelining women even when they aren't being mangled by male screenwriters :-V But that is a whole other can of worms and gets into the very complicated topic of often internalized misogyny.

Idk it is a complicated issue.