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Magma Studio art jam some of the other Chaos Theory story artists and I did today to celebrate the new trailer-- contributors included @tio-trile, Josh Kang, Fernando Caire, Sadako Leong-Suzuki, and myself
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Miss Holloway Time Traveller Theory
Of course we know that Miss Holloway has an 80s aesthetic and she rocks it but so many clues in Witch in the Web point to her being displaced from time.
The main point for this is Casey, the tree girl. She’s wearing a “over-sized, vintage tee bearing the logo of some 80’s pop-star the whole world’s forgotten”. This paired up with Miss Holloway’s reaction: “this girl her clothes are... old” and her remark “I used to play music a long time ago” and the fact that Casey asks for an autograph seem to point to the fact that Miss Holloway is Casey’s musician from the 80s. I lowkey feel like Nick and Matt tried to throw us off slightly by having Casey be in a “ghostlike daze”. I think she knew exactly who Miss Holloway was.
However due to Miss Holloway’s age (I’d place her somewhere in her 30s although that might be wrong) and the fact that WITW takes place in October 2019 (based on how BF takes place on 23rd November 2018 when Hannah is 13 and she’s 14 in WITW and how Dan and Donna reference pumpkins popping up around Hatchetfield) it wouldn’t make sense for Miss Holloway to have had a music career in the 80s because even if she’d been a teenage pop star she’d have to be at least 50 in WITW. So that’s where the time travel comes in.
Many people have suggested that Miss Holloway is a time traveler and I entirely agree with them but I’ve tried to focus on exactly how she did it. Now time travel isn’t a new thing in the Hatchetfield Universe but the time travel we’ve seen from Emdroid and Ted both have something in common: Tinky, as the bastard of time and space, allowed them to travel through time. Emdroid was obviously allowed to travel back because she is the one who kills Ted as the Homeless Guy and ultimately allows Tinky to get Ted in the Bastards Box and Ted was allowed because Tinky wanted to fuck with him. I don’t think Miss Holloway travelled through time with Tinky’s permission. Based on what we see in WITW she very clearly isn’t on the side of the lords in black so there seems to be no reason for them to make her go through time.
However we know Miss Holloway has a touch of ‘the gift’ as someone with a connection to the black and white (as all witches do) and I find it interesting that in BF MacNamara describes the black and white as “a place outside of all dimensions”. Hatchetfield has a lot of timelines... like a lot and based on what we’ve seen of Hannah’s powers it makes sense for the black and white to exist outside of these timelines. Now because of this there’s a possibility that Miss Holloway managed to access the black and white without a portal through accidentally using her powers and while she managed to get out eventually perhaps without a tethering point much like PEIPs portal she ended up being released from the black and white in an entirely different time.
This would explain why the “whole worlds forgotten” her music career who would really care about some rising star in the 80s who randomly disappeared? It would explain her 80s aesthetic too. Getting trapped in time would mean that she lost everything she had before the jump who can blame her for being nostalgic?
However the point at which she managed to jump out is something that I think I need more info for. She clearly has been out for a while as she’s met Duke and helped at least 3 other girls in the time since.
TL:DR: Miss Holloway is a time traveller who accidentally got stuck in the future after using the black and white to time travel.
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OVERBLOT ASHI??? ANYBODY??? the ANGST that this baby can store!!! SHEESH!!!!!!! <3 I only have one post dedicated to her and liar dance lyric analysis (the post is kinda outdated in gen) BUT…… I also have an overblot monologue as a treat 🫶 I wanted to better explain her angst and so!!! BABAM!!! enjoy
ASHI’S MONOLOGUE:
Sometimes I wonder why I ended up here.
A place named “Twisted Wonderland”, and at a school named “Night Raven College”.
At first, I figured that I was the odd one out— Y’know, the Ramshackle prefect and everything. The magicless girl at the magical all boys school? Nuts, ain’t it?
I’m known for a lot of things. Things that are different from the others. The fact that I stand out is part of the Ashi charm, something I’m known for.
But… Over time I found myself sorta feeling in place here.
Because as much as I try to believe it, I can’t safely say that I’m better than anyone else here.
I’m a fake. I make conversation and lots of friends, but for what? A backup in case something goes wrong? A sense of protection for my reputation? In what case are any of those friendships something I truly want? In what case are any of these strings more than just a tool instead of a thread made of my real feelings?
Behind this, I’m no different from any other student here. Even through my individuality, my cheerfulness, my endearing oddness… I’m still a horrible person. Using people to get what I want, toying with people and their feelings in order to gain power and gain a spot the top. All to become untouchable. It’s screwed. It’s not right.
My insides are ugly. The truth of me is something I want to keep tucked away deeply, because I don’t want people to see this part of me. A brash, annoying, selfish version of me, everything people hate to see. I don’t want this side of me to be seen because people will run away— people I don’t care much about, sures, but people I love, too. I don’t want to drive them away. So I keep quiet and give them a shallow show.
I give them a source of entertainment that’s controlled by the real me, every calculated movement translating into a marionette-like response. The only show I allow you to see is one that’s so carefully crafted by the chaotic clown backstage. The one that is shunned away from the light, the strings being the only hint of the puppet’s phony existence to the foolish audience.
But suddenly, I feel as if being here has started to let this side of me come crawling back into the spotlight.
It scares me.
It scares me to be vulnerable, let all of my faults lay out on the table like playing cards. To take the risk without the protection, to gamble everything I’ve built up away just like that. But you…
You.
You make me feel safe. You make me feel as if I don’t need to hide anything. I can give you the key to my heart and you would have no malicious intent. You wouldn’t cut out the parts people don’t like. You would enjoy the performance in full, every bit of it.
You make me believe that I’m nothing special, and yet something so valuable at the same time.
It’s silly. You’re silly. And yet that’s something that’s helped me.
It’s helped me realize that that truly is just how people are.
We aren’t villains. We aren’t antagonists. We aren’t monsters.
We are nothing but people, with faults and feelings that should be valued.
I am more than just a jester, a sake of entertainment.
I’m a person who is entirely worthy of love. All of me.
It reminds me that I must’ve came here for a reason.
Because this is where I belong.
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INDECENT WEDNESDAY
have you ever looked into the eyes of a woman on the train platform and seen the exhaustion of that early morning, the crisp air the only thing keeping her awake, and known that feeling is reflected in your own face, reflected in another face the world over, and wondered if there is still a sale on bagels
Yes
