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The mother sarge rejecting the donutling

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shoutout to the rvb book for giving me the titbits of wash backstory i crave and also some Absolute Wash Highlights like this one

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i'll put the post in the replies. but i've been haunted by it for the last 2 days until i finished this. i love you blue team

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This is the funniest shit that has happened to me on tumblr thank you for making me laugh mystery hater and hateie

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do not. respond to my doylist criticism with a watsonian explanation.

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so..... the King in Yellow (allegedly) chucked John back into the Dark World, right? he tried to bring John back into himself, and it didn't work, but I think it's reasonable to assume that something would have been absorbed/shared from John to the KiY. the point is repeatedly made that John is a separate entity from the KiY, and yet he is not; both things are equally true. Kayne promised to return John to Arthur; he was lying, and yet he wasn't.

so Kayne yoinks the KiY out of the Dreamlands and into Arthur's body, as Yellow, with little to no memory of what he is. and we're meant to wonder how much of what Yellow says is sincere, when he asks Arthur what it is that made him like John’s company - how much is genuine curiosity vs. manipulation. later, at the end of Season 4, Yellow demands to know from John this time: what it is that makes John different, what Arthur sees in John, what makes Arthur care… and it's a desperate and jealous question. the narrative suggests that there was sincerity and potential present in Yellow, only it was stifled because of the friction between him and Arthur, because Arthur understandably but tragically couldn't see past his own troubles in time to recognize that potential in Yellow.

and if we assume sincerity: Yellow got there fast. faster than John did. why? Arthur wasn't making a great impression. but John had been reunited with the King in Yellow. all of John’s feelings, his devotion, the weight of the fact that Arthur would rather slit his own throat than be the reason why John surrendered himself… all of that became part of the King in Yellow as a whole, and then the King tore it back out of himself.

but clearly something remained, even though Yellow could no longer remember why. enough that Yellow sought after Arthur's attention and seethed when he couldn't get it, not in the same way that John could. enough that Yellow lashed out and raged at the feeling of rejection and betrayal, because that depth of anger only comes from caring. because he had felt Arthur's love and care, and ripped out a vital piece of himself rather than keep feeling it, and yet when stranded without memory, some part of Yellow instantly and instinctively yearned for Arthur's love nonetheless…. and found it abruptly beyond reach.

because Yellow isn't John, and yet he is, and it has only ever been the King in Yellow, in the end.

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the best part of rvb is when they refer to tex by he/him pronouns for like 2 episodes and church just rolls with it

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Some, though certainly not all, of my favorite pictures I've done with the original Blue Boys~

(Tucker getting all cuddly when he's tired and has a head-ache, a nice chill moment with Caboose sitting down and Tucker affectionately leaning on him, a big three-person-hug, a re-draw of that one meme because both Caboose and Tucker want to order, Caboose resting on Tucker and refusing to move, the beginning and end of my emotional "Church and Tucker Talk" comic, another re-draw of the classic "I made you a cookie but I eated it", Caboose carrying Church and Tucker to bed and them attempting to do the same, and a little collection of the different ways Caboose holds Church/Tucker and Church karaoke/Tucker giving Church a piggy-back ride like the old days)

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it's important to me that people know the original "he would not fucking say that" was in response to a tiktok where someone said eric cartman would thank you for asking for his pronouns. Like it just doesn't hit the same without context.

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For those in the Pantheon fandom (the Fantheom? The Pandom?) who are interested in the philosophical implications of UIs and what they mean for the people that are uploaded, I cannot recommend enough the Jacob Geller video essay "Head Transplants and the Non-Existence of the Soul." Some tws for descriptions of graphic animal abuse/torture via animal testing, but he does give time stamps so that you can skip those sections. I have not stopped thinking about that video essay since I first watched it and when I watched Pantheon I immediately thought of that

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Grif!

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Happy Birthday, Trevor Collins🥳🥳🥳

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coughs

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these have been in my drafts for ages uhhh. blue team leaders and making this ^ face in my brain

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noble six study

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what? it's almost december? thats crazy. i hope i didnt get stressed by external circumstances and was late for something by 11 months hahahhaha

a definitely not at all late gift for @sharkface-daydreams. thanks so much for your patience while I sorted my life out Z, I hope a shark in leather was worth the wait! Though I'd probably give you a shark anytime lmao <3

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Oh Orthur... the employees at this Waffle House seem to be brawling. It's escalating rapidly. One has slammed the other back-first into the counter repeatedly. Orthur! Ask if you can get a waffle! Now!!!