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i think i'm a bit late to the party but i just discovered spacehey and because i'm me, i've become instantly obsessed with it, so friend me over there, i'm k9. there's a sally face group on that site and it's not super active, it's our duty to revive it...

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sal + larry

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some travis sketches

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recent sketches i might digitize later

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sorry another bald tshirt post that came to me last night

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I love the way you write about so many ships in SF it’s so good to see other multishippers.. but I gotta know what are your fave Sally face ships like out of em all

idk if i could pick a favorite honestly. i love sal/travis, but i also love larry/travis, i love sal/larry, i love sal/ash. ive also seen and appreciated ash/maple a lot, too, but im pretty partial to maple/chug because that's a goth chick and her weird pet man and i love it. and lately i've been thinking a disproportionate amount about todd/neil and the kinds of arcs they could have.

honestly it really just depends on the kind of story i want to tell. codependent best friends to lovers is sal/larry, enemies to lovers is larry/travis, self acceptance and fix-it-fics and those types are sal/travis. sal/ash is a kind of doomed yuri to me (i often take a nonbinary/genderfluid transfem read on sal) because i don't think they'd ever make it, ash is too normal, and sal has too many unaddressed issues.

todd/neil is really good when you're looking for a story with a long-running relationship that has new problems crop up, or old problems that have never gotten solved. for example: i love the idea that todd's mom is a completely unmanaged and unmedicated bipolar, and that eventually in his late 20s or early 30s, it hits for him and he and neil have to work around it.

honestly i should just turn them into the nockfell polycule atp bc that's kind of what they are to me.

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i think one thing that bugs me about the kinds of sal/larry fics where the AU is that they don't meet until they're adults (like college AUs or coffee shop AUs, etc) is the fact that a lot of them tend to make sal already into the same things larry is, and larry basically has no effect on sal outside of like not hating his face or whatever, and i feel like that flattens their relationship into something it isn't.

in the game, when sal and larry meet for the first time, larry asks sal if he likes metal and sal says he doesn't know, which is why larry plays that sanity's fall song for him and that's where sal discovers that he does in fact like metal. it is in part because larry is the first person sal has met that's been so easygoing about the things going on with him, but they wouldn't be able to have a relationship without that factor, and their relationship grows into something far beyond that in the future. the acceptance isn't the only part of their relationship.

one of the things that draws me to their dynamic is how they've changed each other in many ways, and i feel like something is often missing from AUs that only want to focus on how larry is one of the first people to fully accept him for who he is. i honestly feel like it flattens their relationship and turns every little thing about it into being about sal's face, or his disabilities related to that. like yes, that's a big part of their relationship because it's a big part of sal's life as a whole, but only focusing on that aspect makes it feel like the ableds are jerking off to how accepting they are of people with disabilities again.

i don't have a facial difference but i do have tourette's, which can be similarly disruptive and disorienting for other people to be around and have to deal with, and the way people write AUs like that just reminds me of how during 2020-2023, people made everything about tourettes. if you had tourettes, your entire life was tourettes. that was all other people needed to know about you, and suddenly family and partners of people with tourettes became these angelic beacons of acceptance, and their own entire lives became completely about their partner's/family member's tourettes. all the non-tourettic people in the comments just constantly circlejerking each other and the non-tourettic partners/family members about how accepting they are for taking care of or being there for or somehow managing to love these tweaking weirdos.

like, it's possible to write fanfiction about a disabled character without focusing so heavily on how accepting their non-disabled partner is. it's possible to write about sal having a complex and a number of insecurities and issues related to his face without writing inspiration porn or jerking yourself off about how accepting you are. it's possible to write a story about a character with a disability or facial/body difference without being weird about it.

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they call me the problem ignorer for reasons that i know but dont feel like addressing right now

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Love referring to characters who are never seen without each other as "bonded pairs" like yuuuup. if you put these two in separate cages they're gonna get real sad and anxious and possibly violent too, one of em is biting the bars as we speak. you gotta adopt both of them or none at all, it is encouraged that you take them both. they are most likely to thrive if they stick together. it is easier for them to get used to new environments and situations because they have each other. they do everything together because they love each other so so much. you COULD separate them but it's gonna do a lot of psychological damage and it's gonna lead to a lot of issues and there's a big possibility they'll never be the same again

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Periodic reminder that you are not immune to reactionary radicalization through fandom.

We all know the “jokes” about how old bronies either came out as queer or became fascists - except they’re not really jokes, and a lot of the queer ones admit to having been in the pipeline before they came out (some in a way that implies they never totally got out of said pipeline and don’t understand the gravity of it),

GamerGate was an entire right-wing reactionary movement that was - and this is not hyperbole - partially responsible for turning fascism into a “legitimate” position by the American Overton window, composed entirely of people who feared losing their fan spaces,

We’ve had terfs right here on tumblr dot com BRAGGING about how useful fandom is as a recruiting space,

TJLC was a big pipeline for acephobia on this hellsite in particular, when people argued that headcanoning Sherlock as ace was inherently homophobic because it was denying a TOTALLY GONNA BE CANON (while the creators were promising that it wasn’t going to be canon) gay pairing, and puritanical, and just HAVING that headcanon was saying that people COULDN’T ship Johnlock, all in the interest of a “fake” sexuality and “pretending to be oppressed” and oh whoops there you went,

We see people who all but center their fandom activity and identities around figuring out which people in predominantly queer fandom spaces are SECRETLY PEDOPHILES AND GROOMERS, acting consciously or otherwise under the assumption that predominantly queer fandom spaces are just massively infested with them in a way that other spaces are not for SOME reason, who twist the definition of “pedophilia” in these spaces until it covers shipping a 17-year old fictional character with an 18-year old fictional character, or a 30-year old with a 45-year old, or including an autistic character in a ship, and drawing two 17-year old characters kissing constitutes “child porn”, and who unironically say we should bring back the Hays Code and Censorship Is Good Actually And Our Problem Is We Don’t Do It Enough and this often becomes a pipeline to “sex ed is child abuse; people shouldn’t even know what sex is until they turn 18; you need my consent to wear certain outfits in public if I see them as sexually charged, and Pride SHOULD be an assimilationist sideshow for our corporate overlords family-friendly party with no sadness or anger or ESPECIALLY acknowledgement of sex allowed”,

We’ve seen otherwise progressive people defend literal hate symbols in fanart when pushback against the above brand of reactionaries gets corrupted into zero-nuance “it’s us vs. them so anything they don’t like is Good”,

Even outside of those examples some of the most vicious, unapologetic, blatant queerphobic abuse I’ve seen in recent years hasn’t come from right-wingers but from LGBT+ people, dressing their deep, violent, seething hatred for queer people who aren’t exactly like them in a thin veneer of progressive language, who have become so convinced that they’re the main character of the fucking universe that they think writing or enjoying a queer story that doesn’t resonate with them is more queerphobic than sending a queer person who writes or enjoys such a story countless rape and death threats and denying their identity,

We’ve seen these examples again and again and again, and we keep seeing it again and again and again, so I am once again on my knees BEGGING people to recognize that this is not Something That Happens To Other, BAD People, or Something That Happens To People In BAD Fandoms, or Something That Happens To People On The OTHER Side Of Perennial Drama; this is something that CAN happen to you.

These things are the result of the fact that fandom is, by nature, a place of heightened emotion and if you don’t know what to look out for that is very exploitable; you need to know the methods people use to do this, simply Being In The Right Fandoms or Liking The Right Ships is not enough.

So, if you see someone trying to convince you that you have the ONLY valid approach to any specific character, or ship, or show, or whatever, that your ship is activism and your fanfics are praxis, and liking something else or liking the same thing differently is Only For Bad People, that is the single biggest red flag that YOU NEED TO RUN, THEY’RE TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT WANT

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this made me think of @baphmochii's buff!sal 😭

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ship dynamic i really like

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no one appreciates that i could be a million times worse

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