#? ks that real idk

[popiplant]

screaming into nothing : BUT WHAT IF THEY WERE GAAAYYYYYY !!!!!!!!

[lemonsbears]

[thediktatortot]

I think Billy's irrational fear is of ghosts.

He's not religious anymore, but he still has a spot in him that's like "ok but what if" and so he just gets really creeped out about the concept of ghosts because he feels like he can never be sure that they aren't real, because what if it is and he's confronted with something.

Billy was that kid that ran to his bedroom after he turned out the lights in the hallway lol

[connormoving]

it is quite interesting to me how the feeling of the sounds of a word can change how the word feels imthats such a nothing sentence i mean like oo sounds bigger than like ee sounds to me you know. and of course theres kiki and bouba snd all of this.

[brennacedria]

...I just realized I have the phone number of a high school friend who's url here I can't remember. Amber bb, I'll try to message you sometime soon ish, assuming the ADHD doesn't strike. (I'd do it now, since I'm thinking about you, but it's too early for you right now. 😴)

[forsaken-headcanons]

Crossover skins of a survivor is literally just that character with the survivor's skillser

So like

Sans 7n7? Forsaken in a lab accident (tha ks sans x 7n7 anon)

Spy 7n7? Respawn machine went wrong so he and sans are now like 007n7 moveset wise

Snake two time? Managed to take down the JD ai in mgs4 but died right after and got forsakened

Ludwig two time? End of emesis blue killed him, and he has MAJOR beef with spy if hes wearing BLU

Gasharpoon John Doe? Literally Ahab but idk how theyve gotten forsaken ion play limbus company much

Tommy Jarvis Guest? Got drowned by Jason ans forsakenee after him, so they have BOUNDLESS beef

Anyway thanks for listening to this stupid headcannon

(Can I be Metal Queer anon?)

Oh this is real interesting actually... I'd add more but I don't know these media too well. Though- Damn, Sans got his own Gaster event /silly

And sure!! You can be Metal Queer anon :]

[anvilofliacy]

creeper aw man

idk creepers are cool and sad. Like imagine your only purpose on life being to inevitably die. You dont even exist if the player isnt in the world. They last sound you could ever possibly hear is the hissing of your inner workings as youre about to explde. Youre fucking green. People in fanart are sometimes making doc be some four legged centaur green guy whos also a creeper somehow but actual explodey guy has way more potential ij writing. Docm77 is cool very much. Love that guy. I cant watch his videos rn. Might tommorow. Snyway creeper. Inecitable dearh. Yoire fucking green and ugly. Ugly face ugly leg ugly body you literally came inzo existance from a pig. I domt actually know taht for sure but like. Ive heard abott it idk. And i think creepers are always alone. So. Alone. Green. Ugly. Inevitably dead. Matter only if tze player ks there. Kind of like real life animals if we're following the bible.the bible is also shit. I love snimals and km not vegan bit likr. Go hard. I dont even like meat taht mucj, only chivken. Love chivken sometimes. Anyway creeper is angst. Potetnital. Mmm m

[fraternum-momentum]

killing stalking ramble belowww

!! tws for mentions of sa/rape, murder, abuse, etc. !!

(REALLY REALLY long, around 2k~ words. just be warned. also tmi in some parts.)

THIS IS NOT AN ANALYSIS !!!!! it def gets analytical in some parts, but i feel like i would need to reread ks a couple of times for me to feel confident enough to do a full blown analysis for it. these are just my thoughts that i want to get out of my head. really rambly for the most part, and separated into sections mostly for my convenience buy also to get my thoughts a little more organized.

what do i think about it?

it's great ! i really love the more thriller-ey aspects of it, esp when seungbae was investigating the whole thing. how he's trying to piece together everything and switching in between pov's was so so cool. love love love how extremely tense everything is, like ooo is he gonna get caught? is he gonna get killed?

ACAB but seungbae is the only police officer i'll salute to 🫡 (bc he's not real LMFAO)(and also he hates the police despite being one so)

season 1 is a great intro and it rlly gets u hooked, rlly went in super hard with the whole torture stuff. came in guns blazing n stuff. rlly rlly intense. the whole thing with jieun is just so sad man,,,,,,, like she was rude and all and she was an kind of an asshole to bum but i don't think she deserves to die over that 😭,,,,

there's also already a lot of foreshadowing and future callbacks planted into it. it makes me wonder how much planning went into the story :0 !! even early on it's pretty clear that sangwoo sees his mum in yoonbum, that's why he kept taking care of him after abusing him. he said ‘i love you’ out of the blue and bum thought he was talking to him and sangwoo replied ‘i was talking to my mom’. i mean, it's literally spelled out by the author in one of the qna's. i will be amazed if u didn't catch that somehow.

anyw season 2 is my fav because of reasons stated above. the tension is rlly great. when seungbae finally trespassed which led to the confrontation at the basement scene to when they were doing the interrogation was rlly rlly good. it shows how competent of a manipulator and a quick thinker sangwoo is. throughout it my heart was beating so fast i was so nervous JQHSHQ

seungbae rlly tried to pull through but unfortunately the people didn't believe him so woo and bum got away SCOT FREE,,,,,,, which caused seungbae to lash out on woo, then got laid off. DUDEEE i was so saddddddd, i mean i saw there were like 40 eps left so i knew he wasnt going to succeed but STILLLL i was cheering for him ykkk?

ep 34.

kinda tmi and i hope to fucking god it's not weird or anything but i can see myself in yoonbum.

LISTEN ok. not like the perverted stalker aspects. more of the whole jwhhr fuckk idk how to describe it without sounding pathetic or whatever but a while ago my brother and i had a talk about being careful with people bc of how bad my whole self esteem is and how easily i would be to manipulate and just how depressing my whole demeanor was or whatever and this scene in ep 34 where yoonbum was being interrogated by seungbae kind of left me a deep impression on me

i've def have asked myself something similar to this, idk maybe had talked to someone abt it when i was drunk as shit. but it i kind of started wondering if i would do that in his position. if i don't get any better, could i end up like him? eeeeeqjdb idkk its something i don't want to dwell on much but it's been at the back of my head ever since. i don't know. it's scary.

season 3 is more focused on characterization and developing the "relationship" between bum and woo. vv sangwoo centric. it deals with his past trauma and how it affected him. seeing how his childhood was initially and then the eventual reveal as to what really was happening in those scenes was so good. kind of shows how you never truly know what's happening behind closed doors. and it shows the extent of the abuse, how unstable his mother was, and how emotionally manipulative she was to sangwoo when he was a kid. then her eventual death in which she managed to gaslight him into thinking he killed her. at least, i think its implied that she drove the knife into her neck. and now, even when she's gone, her presence lingers and haunts him. quite literally too because its eventually revealed that her corpse was INSIDE THE FUCKING HOUSE.

i love how the dynamic turned from a dependency to a codependency. it's like watching a fire slowly spiral out and it becoming an huge shitstorm. it's interesting seeing that sangwoo needs bum too. right after he accidentally called bum 'mom' while they were having sex, that's probably the lowest he's been in, even begging yoonbum to not go and stay with him at home bc he's been so paranoid lately. even now i'm still not sure if bum was actually fucking the girl or if it was all a figment of woo's hallucinations.

there's a lot of particular scenes that i want to dedicate a small paragraph to but i don't want to make this longer that it alr is qkdh they're not anything life changing plus the implications are p clear anyway so,,

ending is insane. at first, i was kind of glad that bum seemed to be healing. like he was getting therapy, there was a person who was taking care of him, seungbae seems to be monitoring him regularly. i mean, he was still paranoid and stuff about being caught as an acomplice but he was fine for the most part. well, at least that was i thought until he started asking where sangwoo was and i kinda went oh no,,,

idkkkkk is it bad that i kind of felt bad for bum when he didn't get to see sangwoo for the last time? i mean, i want him to just move on with everything and heal but it was pretty clear he was still vv attached to woo so idkkkkk?? maybe its just me needing to have some closure or something? i was so sad that yoonbum didn't even get the chance to be truly happy in his life. even in his happiest moments with sangwoo, it was all just a skewed perception of love.

yk even if seungbae didn't go to woo's house one last time for that final confrontation, i feel like their codependent relationship would go to shit either way. but ahh,,,,,, bum deserved so much better,,,

seungbae my goat 🫡

small part abt him bc he's my fav

seungbae is interesting,,,, bc he def has violent tendencies much like sangwoo. i.e. lashing out at woo, wacking a guy out with a scanner (who, luckily, turned out to be a wanted criminal), hitting the guy who killed his father with a the golf club, dreaming and fantasizing about violently killing that said murderer multiple times, and probably more that i can't remember.. maybe a ‘two sides of the same coin’ kind of situation??? idkk

there's literally a part where seungbae said so himself that he and sangwoo were similar, immediately following it by saying that it was a dangerous thought. i think having a stable figure in his life (chief officer) helped him a lot. if he didn't have him, i feel like he could've easily ended up like sangwoo. all around green flag tho :3

my complicated feelings abt it:

idkkkkkkkkkkkkk like this is a thriller and it depicts a clearly abusive relationship but the fact that it feels so fanservicey to me feels so wrong to me ???????? like shit. i only started reading it bc i thought 'oh wasn't this bl or something? i don't remember lol. but sangwoo was hot, i should go read it' and proceeded to get my ass blasted with this is absolutely insane.

ok i'm gonna be completely honest i've always hated fanservice, so it's a completely biased take from me. like idkk it ruins the vibe of a scene. can't a good show just be a good show without all the panty shots and the weird ass angles?????? like okay, yeah, i literally draw porn but that doesnt mean i want porn/sexual in everything all the time.

like i get it. the sexual aspect of this is a necessary and integral thing. it's clearly there to depict that there's an imbalance of power. how sangwoo being on top feels more in control whereas when he's in a position of submission he gets angry or scared (a trauma response) and it's another aspect of abuse that a lot of characters experienced and it's all shown. but i think my issue is, when its with woo and bum there's like certain part to it where i'm just kinda like,,,,, you know that feeling when you feel like a sex scene in a movie is kind of going on for way too long? and ur just sitting there mildly uncomfortable by it and aughggyvh idkkk its weird,,,,,,, like should i keep watching or is this integral to the story???? am i going to miss any details or something anyone would say ?? and idk???????? like when bum or woo was sa'ed by adults they didn't depict it in such a,,,,,,, romantic?? light???? i'm not sure what to say but i feel like there's a difference in ambience and pacing and shit in a bunch of the scenes esp in season 3 but i guess it's bc they're in a 'relationship' ?????? idkk

in a way i can understand why they would present it like that ??? i'm probably reaching, but maybe it's to directly put the viewer in yoonbum's shoes and kind of see how sangwoo manipulates bum? like we as the viewer become victims ourselves of sangwoo's charms ????? maybe that's why it was psrticularly uncomfortable for me ??????????? dude idk,,,,

but like,, i've played btd/tpof before but i don't seem to have any problems with it, and that's literally torture porn or whatever but for some reason i draw the line at this apparently ????????

and i’ve thought about this really hard bc it was driving me nuts as to what the difference was. but maybe its bc it's kind of romanticizing it ??????????????? tbh i'm still not entirely sure. eh whatever i don't want to make it a big problem.

oh but fray, you draw noncon, dubcon, and gore ! arent you fetishizing it as well ? how is that any different ?

(this part is kind of tmi too) i think there's a fundamental difference between what i'm doing and having a cnc kink and depicting actual sa in a story.

no one is saying sa is not bad. for some people it's how they deal with the trauma they endured and for others its simply just a fantasy. cnc, in a real life setting, both parties are consenting and recognize that it's all just roleplay, if anything is out of the line you can opt out of it with a safeword and it's CRUCIAL that this safe word is respected. in a game like for example, dol, you can manipulate it into however you like. there's also cheats where you can just remove encounters altogether irrc. you're the one in control of the narrative.

i've had rape fantasies before (i play dol, don't be so surprised) but that doesn't mean i want to be fucking assaulted when i go out at night. and idk maybe like in ks it depicts all the gruesome and tragic parts of being abused, whether it be emotionally, sexually, physically, etc. and that's why it feels wrong framing it in that manner ????

idk my views about it aren't completely black and white. dude idfk i'm not an expert in anything. at the end of the day i'm just some random person who read killing stalking and just has some thoughts about it. anyw that's all 👍

[cringelordofchaos]

As a somic fan I spprove of this

@cringelordofchaos ooc: hey gay I made a Maria tmf blog and decided it was actually her cringe sonic blog.

[the-meme-monarch]

Actually wait, wouldn't Secret Someone Frisk be afraid of Deltarune ending? After all, if they got kicked out of a world they were the main character in, then whats to say it won't happen again in this one. I can't imagine the cryptic (and way too unhelpful) Gaster explaining much before he added them to Deltarune.

Or maybe they fear the worse option... Kris ends up being booted. After all, they ended up being the main character and were kicked out, so they surely wouldn't want it to happen to someone else. Maybe that's their conflict with the Fun Gang, them either trying to stop the conflict from ever ending so they will never have to risk it OR trying to get the SOUL so that they can be sure only they will suffer from anything. After all, they evidently have a pretty low self esteem (judging the Sans+Papyrus+Flowey save them ask and the Prison asks) so I can imagine them being some kinda martyr, suffering so nobody else will have to.

i mean for frisk them being removed from undertale was bc of the choice at the end, the player choice "i have places to be". they're just an npc now so they probably think theyre safe here :0c but them wanting to keep A Conflict Going or wanting to get the soul to protect Kris does feel like something they'd do :'] i Am just developing this au/theory based on other people's input at this point bc i think i originally wanted to keep stuff vague so i could rework it as chapters came out Until the actual strange someone is revealed ! but frisk trying to do the good/right thing but it going wrong/ their perception of what's good/right being warped feels very. real

also frisk's thing w the soul had to do w their perceived dependency on it ! a thing I've been thinking abt ks frisk has no backstory and no other characters to fill in those gaps, they don't know why they went to mt ebott. the first thing they remember is Falling. they do not remember a point where their actions weren't dictated by the soul, and well having come from a true pacifist ending, the soul did all the right things, they got the good ending ! but now they don't have it and everything is going wrong for them. they've become an antagonist bc they wanted their happy ending. i feel like I'm just waxing poetic but idk i just really enjoy this au/theory there's Intricacies it's all very Intricate to me

[p0rchc0ll4ps3]

Idk the way all of my thoughts about this fucker dundy my dog the way they all lined up more or less with mr ks concept god I don't know. That's my dog. That's my little sweet baby

Can't get over how much the list has so many songs about darkness and shadows and the moon and night yeah that's right. He's James's shadow, and James burns so fucking bright (for living up for lighting up the night). You know???

Not to mention how soft it is; YEAH HES SOFT!!! And there's one song there that matches some of mine off my list (the dark is rising). Idk. Not ever getting over this. Fitzconte real and in hell, and my boy is tearing himself apart over it . And all he does is love, man, love with his full fucking heart, and he's loyal like a dog, and he'll wait forever man, he'll wait, even if he isn't loved in turn. It's all he can do. It's really all he can do

EDIT: and it starts out with all that hope and just love and yearning so so much yearning and then he just. Sinks into the dark. The way the playlist feels like the sun is setting. God. I'm reading too much into it. I'm absorbing this into my brain like religion

[evans-endeavors]

so... heehee

What are your thoughts on the secret world ttrpg? Have you had a chance to read through the beta version of the book?

hey anon!

I have read through it, though not too thoroughly??? I've read enough to get a sense for it.

I'm a little disappointed I guess. I didn't have high hopes based on star anvil's questionable responses to the community in the beginning of the KS, but my curiosity and thirst for SWL content kept me on board.

They got a bunch of lore wrong which is kinda annoying me, and they're just changing things for no real reason... Like I hate to be a person to rag on artwork. But for all of the incredibly unique and interesting monster designs they have in the original game they're being changed to the absolutely most generic looking creatures. Also for the amount of monsters in the MMO the monster list they made feels really sparse. Perhaps there will be more added later? Idk. Tho I do appreciate some of the mechanics they came up with for a handful of the monsters like the filth explosions.

There's some interesting concepts and ideas in turning the MMO premise into a ttrpg? But boy am I bitter about the spells.

There is SOOOO much flavor in game they could've pulled from. Blood magic, chaos magic, spirit blades, flaming earth. There's really cool abilities and magic that exist in game they could've made into spells, but they did nothing. Literally every spell in the book is an official d&d 5e spell.

I want to enjoy it. I genuinely do cuz I LOVE both D&D and SWL. But boy it's hard not to see all the flaws or the things they could've/should've included.

[imma-queencard]

HEY bro it happened to me too, the dm feature isn't working 😭 so i cant dm you idk why thjs ks happening

i made another account but i still cant dm 😭

Ugggghhhh frrr? This is so terrible tbh. They thinking all the active real accs fake when all the bots roaming around and spamming sh*ts.

So here's tip,this is how I solved this pblm. You go to help on tumblr and send a mail about this pblm. Its gonna take some time as they are really slow. Really slow. But hopefully its gonna get fixed.

And im so sorry for you. I can feel you rn.

[avatar-legends-confessionblog]

Also that ask saying 'Did Dante Basco actually do something or are people just mad he likes Zutara' that completely rebuffed the reply explaining what a weirdo Dante is with things he's done because 'Oh okay,so only miss [idk the rest 'cause i ain't read that shit]' genuinely has me worried,especially with that one t*rf that's been harrassing Kataangers for years they jumped to make stuff up about to make her look like the victim(and she started the Aang b*ymom shit like the Whitetara she is).Don't play with me rn,how many instinces of innapropriate behavior from people have gotten a pass by Z/Ks based on their illusions of ship based persecusion?Real question if the anons with horror stories about their attempts at liking Zutara wanna come back

X

[2d-dreams]

Pollux Codex

In this post I'm going to go reeeally in depth into Pollux's name and what it meant since the beginning. I'll tackle both "meta" (symbolism, foreshadowing, etcetera) reasons and why Pollux himself would choose it ::)

Warning this is like a super super long post. I am insane.

Section 1: Who is Pollux?

It is necessary to know first and foremost who this lil guy is. I mean. I don't think anyone who isn't in "The Arts of Being"'s mini-fandom is going to wind up reading this,.. so I guess it'll be quick!

Pollux is a Hexagon who, back in Flatland, really loved history (and interestingly enough, eventually was to repeat it from the very beginning, tracing back to Flatland's 'Big bang') — His real name is Paul Schwarz, but he uses his codename, Pollux Codex, and has earned the title "The Hexed" post-TAoB.

Pollux became an Apostle of the Gospel of Higher Dimensions, supposed to enlighten his world along with Bill.

Section 2: Why did he choose the name?

Pollux chose the name because it is related to his main interests! Pollux is a character in Greek mythology (while greeks or their mythology may not exist exactly in Flatland, this is still important.. maybe he translated the name from that of an actual character of an ancient mythology and saw that it had the same attributes as the Pollux of Greek mythos so thats why he uses it in our language? idk give me a Break) and a codex is an ancient manuscript text, tied in to history and his love for reading.

Codex, with the x removed, is Code, like a secret code - reference to Bill's codename, Cipher.

Also, both Pollux and Codex have 'x' in them, and Pol REALLY loves how that letter sounds. ks. ks. ks. ks. Also loves the sound of 'k', but clicking doesn't have a lot of positive connotations according to Flatlanders.

And, of course, it sounds really cool, somewhat similar to his real name [fun fact: i did not realize that Paul and Pol are probably pronounced the same.. perks of not being a native english speaker] and goes along nicely with Bill Cipher.

Section 3: Pollux

On to the interesting part! The meaning behind the names.

Yes this section and everything below was written like 5 days after everything above lol.

Pollux in Greek Mythology is known, along with his twin brother Castor, as the gods (together called Dioscuri) of twins, horsemanship and sailors.

Pollux is immortal, whilst his twin Castor is a mortal. Castor is killed, and Pollux asks his father, who is a god, to share his immortality with his brother. Once turned immortal together, they both become stars, stars that sailors use to guide themselves at sea.

Twins

Twins and duality are a reocurring thing in both Gravity Falls and The Arts of Being. In Gravity Falls there are Dipper+Mabel, Stanford+Stanley, and there is discussion of an entity that is 'the opposite of Bill', in the fandom said to be either the Oracle or the Axolotl.

The twins theme is reinforced on accident by the interpretation of The Olden Days of Bill's last words, where people thought he was invoking Xolotl, aztec god of fire and lightning, twin of Quetzalcoatl, and also god of twins, illness, deformities, and monsters, but also an important part of the creation myth of the mythology. Quetzalcoatl, on the other hand, represents life, light, wind, rain, civilization and knowledge.

These two gods are also a great inspiration for what later on become the roles of Pollux and Bill in the new mythologies of the Exwhylians, Ypwherenians and Zetwhatians, is referenced through things like Bill's association with fire and Irregularity being important in his story, and Pollux's love for rain and later on how he became the foundation of the new civilizations.

and it's also a lovely reference to my homeland México ::3 !!!

In The Arts of Being, this twin situation is mirrored. Bill's father and uncle, Caesar William+Arrhenius William Campbell are twins. A. Square, author of Flatland, and B. Square are twins in TAoB. However Bill and Pollux themselves.. don't seem to have their own twins.

For Bill, either he has a twin that he does not know of, or his twin bond is with Liam, his adoptive older brother. He is very close to him, so who says they can't have the twin bond?

When it comes to Pollux, he actually had a twin. One that existed for little time. (Yet another thing I should add in the rewrite, because while it was always a thing I knew, I never really mentioned it and it bugs me). Basically, while in the womb he had a twin, one that early on merged with him. Had this not happened, Pollux would've been a pair of Pentagon boys instead of one Hexagon. Pollux himself sees his mind as 'two brothers trying their best to pilot one body'.

The twins of Gravity Falls are often seen as opposites, like Xolotl and Quetzalcoatl, Stanley and Stanford with the 'strong dumb' vs 'smart and shy' etc. Bill's father and uncle have a similar dynamic even down to their children - Caesar had an Irregular son and whatever the hell's going on with Bill, while Arrhenius had three perfectly regular and successful Square sons.

Bill and Pollux both become part of their duality through their close relationship, despite not being twins, they are undoubtedly sticking together forever after losing their 'counterparts'. Bill's the outgoing dream demon who lies just because he can, who's purpose becomes that of 'liberating' each dimension, while Pollux is the quieter dream angel - oneiraph - who only lied in an attempt to protect himself, eventually becoming the builder of the new Flatlands. There are more details, like their color pallette outside of Flatland, with Bill having a golden body and blue fire, while Pollux has a blue body with yellow fire, the associations with fire vs rain, etc.

Horsemanship and Sailors

Neither Pollux nor Bill have any interactions with horses, and the sea doesn't even exist in Flatland. How does this tie in to TAoB, too? Well, in a more symbolic way, just like how Bill and Pol themselves have no biological living twins.

Well I'm going to ignore the horsemanship part because. Yeah. But, as for the sailor part. Their sea is that of extradimensional knowledge.

Pollux and Castor, once turned into stars, are used as reference by sailors to guide themselves at sea. If you refuse to use any sort of guide while at sea, you are likely to get lost and eventually die. Pollux and Bill 'become stars' as they ascend into what would be the sky if Flatlanders had one, when A. Shape and A. Sphere pull them three-dimensionally-upwards in order to turn them into their Apostles of Higher Dimensionality.

As 'stars' (Apostles), they are supposed to guide the Flatlanders to enlightenment - to survival. But ignored, ridiculed and imprisoned for this, Bill ends up accepting A. Shape's deal and liberating the dimension under the excuse that they had not allowed themselves to be guided.

Beyond Dead Flatland, they still are guides for those who follow them - those who seek chaos and destruction and fun follow Bill, and those who seek higher knowledge follow Pollux, Apostle of the Axolotl itself.

Section 4: Codex

Guys I'm starting to get tired of writing so much but I'm still hyped up. Excuse the decaying quality I am no longer talking about aztec/mexica gods.

Codex, an ancient manuscript, is a reference to the Book of Three Dimensions/the OG Flatland written by A. Square/Mr. Abbott (and Gravity Falls' Journals).

Codices are usually amongst the few things we have available to know about ancient cultures, their traditions, etcetera. Pollux in the end of The Arts of Being becomes a living codex of his own lost world, being the last person within Time and Space that knows of Bill's full origin and the old culture of Flatland, along with being the one to build history of several dimensions afterwards.

Pollux as the Apostle of the Axolotl isn't only restricted to the Second Dimensional Worlds, but he also learns of many, many worlds and dimensions beyond them, becoming one of the wisest and most ancient creatures of Timespace.

Section 5: The Hexed

Pollux earns this title thousands of years after The Arts of Being, a title that has an unknown origin in universe, whispered in awe across dimensions.

"The Hexed" is, first and foremost.. a pun. Hexed. Hex. Hexagon. he is a hexagon. euehehehehehhe im so sorry.

A hex is sort of like a curse. Pollux feels cursed, hexed - he survived the death of his entire universe, but he suffers. Everyone he ever knew, every book he ever read, each and every single innocent person died, and he feels responsible for it, and it haunts him.

He hopes that Bill can be redeemed, that he really will return to the Axolotl, but his hope is stretching very thin as millions of years pass by and Pollux is still there, painfully remembering everything.

And he also feels horrible for yearning for Bill so badly because he knows, he's completely aware that Bill isn't out there spreading love and kindness in the multiverse, he knows he causes suffering just for funsies and he hates himself for wanting to give him a second chance after all that has happened, and at the same time, feels ungrateful for wanting to undo his destruction, because that would also imply the destruction of his dear Exwhylia, Ypwherenia, Zetwhatia, of undoing all the good deeds he's done as an angel, of never giving Providence and Nature the relief of knowing that the descendants of their world are in good vertices.

[lopez-richter-fangirl]

I’mma be real with you, lopez-richter-fangirl. I am Not Feeling Good about Tinlightenment’s chances. This is the most stressed I’ve ever been about a Kickstarter. It’s going so slowly and idk if it’s selective memory or just me noticing more cause I’m stressed or if it’s actual reality but it feels like the numbers have dropped more often and by larger amounts than usual. TCB have to maintain a positive attitude about it, so I think it’s up to us (fans) to stop just being confused and frustrated (which I AM, WHY IS THIS ONE SO HARD) and instead panic and get creative and pull out all the new stops and new fundraising ideas but I don’t know what?? I’ve been researching how to do a giveaway (pledge/raise a pledge by five bucks and have a chance to win a NPMD hoodie in your size, that sort of thing) without making it an illegal lottery and it’s possible but it’s gonna be complicated. I’m thinking of blazing a post—spend a little money to earn a little more money—but it might be better to save that money for adding onto my own pledge instead? Maybe a group of us could get together and each contribute like a dollar to a blaze fund idk. And I’ve seen several people say that they can only use PayPal, which Kickstarter doesn’t take, so I’m looking into non-onerous ways around that. I know it’s early to panic but I just think those of us Invested need to switch up what we’re doing as early as possible in order to get the momentum to save this thing. Thoughts?

Anyways thanks for all you’re doing and sorry for the super long ask I am Stressed(TM).

- man-down-in-hatchet-town (stupid tumblr makes me use anon)

I too have never been more stressed about a kickstarter @man-down-in-hatchet-town !! The first two large amounts they dropped turned out to be scam/bot pledges and the third I think was just a misadjustment before going back up, but definitely it is going SLOWER than previous kickstarters

And yes I’ve been frustrated trying to get to the bottom of WHY, but we CAN still help

I am not an artist but I know people have done ‘prove you pledged/upped x amount and I’ll draw you something’. What I can offer is fics, I’ve never done it before because I didn’t think people would be that interested tbh but I will try ANYTHING so if anyone wants that I can arrange it. (for anyone new here, I’m tinydetailsqueen on ao3 for character fics. for other fics… well that one’s iykyk but it’s on the table too)

I was also already thinking about doing a day of promotion every week/twice a week or whatever where we talk about one of the specific projects because as raised earlier, I do think a lot of people just don’t fully understand everything that’s going on yet!

ABSOLUTELY just telling people that TCB have got this huge KS going on doesn’t seem to be working as well as we’d like, so I do think collectively (because there ARE a lot of us really invested!) we all need to go deeper and really make sure people understand why this is so important, as well as doing whatever we can in those other ways to incentivise people