#“genuine love and affection? for me?

[tubbytarchia]

I don't know what this is all I know is that LimL Joel makes me really emotional

[meagancandraw]

You ever think about how neither of them got to say goodbye?

[wasyago]

so, would you?

nothing important under the cut, you don't need to look haha

[wienners]

"dude its not that embarassing to rewatch some creepypasta stuff you liked as a teenager" the character i imprinted on like a baby duck at 16 was a demon from new jersey that acts like the humanization of every offspring song and canonically listens to scissor sisters. His favorite color is purple and his favorite pokemon is gengar. He leaves people notes with emojis on them. He acts like a beetlejuice scare actor at halloween horror nights. His catchphrase is "feeling sassy?" Hes (allegedly) worked with every war criminal throughout history and been every serial killer. even the gay ones. he ate a baby. his animal motif is a rabbit. hes kind of based off donnie darko. he talks to his cats in a baby voice. he wears a white fedora that makes every video he wears it in feel dated by like 7 years. hes 5'3. he hacked a girls tumblr blog. he added a laugh track over a video of him killing people. he named a chainsaw rex. he torments people by playing frank sinatra at them. his name comes from an animal collective song. theres a canon blog entry where he makes the speakers blare rob zombie before he enters a room, then holds a guy at gunpoint to describe what he did to to him while "making sure to leave in all the cool parts". Hes like ten tumblr sexymen traits rolled into one. His actor has gone on record saying heath ledgers joker inspired his acting choices. Sometimes his voice gets distorted and it makes him sound like bill ciphers first year on HRT. Hes basically like my artistic muse. For some fucking reason i associate the song cake by the ocean with him. I unfortunately really need him carnally. I firmly believe that if everymanhybrid didn't require a masters degree in creepypasta autism to comprehend, he would've caused more teenage stabbings than the slenderman incident and more kin war tumblr scenarios than nagito komaeda.

[parvuls]

no, because - famous person starts dating less famous person and is then gradually overshadowed is a trope. a trope often used to bring external conflict into stories. but jack and bitty are carefully constructed as the opposite of that, and I'm fucking feral over it.

we joke about how jack will eventually be bitty's trophy husband and be thrilled about it, but it definitely has a giant grain of truth in it. it's how they're characterized. bitty is an extrovert; jack is an introvert. bitty reached out and built himself an online audience to deal with his trauma; jack shut himself out and started avoiding the public to deal with his.

bitty finds comfort in being able to talk to others and (as seen in spotlight on eric bittle) considers being a public figure a sort of healing experience: coming out and being a public person (in every manner of speaking, not just sexuality wise) and putting himself in the limelight is such an important part of his journey because he sees it as a way of helping others who were in his situation.

jack grew up in the spotlight as the only son of two prominent figures. he grew up as a child with anxiety with the media's eyes on him as he was compared to his father. he grew up as an overweight teen featuring in trashy gossip columns as he was compared to his mother. he got into rehab in part because of this attention and it only attracted more attention to him. a lot of jack's anxiety stems from the notion of people looking at him and thinking about him and talking about him and judging him, and it's unfortunate because jack's dream is to play hockey, and that comes with even more attention.

but that's the thing: jack and bitty's story is (once again) a demonstration of two people making each other's lives better.

jack's fame thrusts bitty into the spotlight post-cup, and it's a giant push forward in helping him reach a bigger audience and thus grow his independent fame. bitty's growing fame slowly overshadows jack, to the point where ngozi says they'll one day be Eric Bittle and his Athlete Husband. and that means jack gets to play hockey, and win cups, and achieve fame in his own field, but the media's attention slides off him to his husband, and the fans on the street gradually approach bitty more than him, and jack is free to have his success with less of the personal scrutiny.

it's not that jack becomes less important than bitty. it's that bitty gets to stand in front of the direct sun and flourish as a result, while jack gets to stand in the shade bitty creates and flourish as a result. it's symbiosis. it's beautiful.

[astradyke]

warning this might be a nothing post i'm just a little emotional & rambling but like... i think a lot about hometown showdown and gay and not proud a lot. and i understand this was in the peak of YouTube's fuckery with Dan and disrupting his plans for DINOK so i understand there's like a tension behind a lot of what was ongoing. i also realize that YouTube-- more obviously with hometown showdown-- but generally had strong business rationale for wanting Phil to feature in these videos, with Dan & Phil being the duo of HS and Phil being there in gay and not proud (sorry the acronym for this looks ugly).

but man... i think a lot about how hometown showdown was just kind of a lot of dates. i've not seen the other ones but i hear a lot that they were way more competitive versus Dan and Phil were just casually exploring their hometowns together, showing pieces of themselves to the other. i think about all the dialogue that was cut (that I think was alluded to in WDAPTEO 2?)

and i think about like. the seismic Importance of Phil being in gay and not proud as like... Dan's safe space. the same way he's remote crisis manager, the same way he was part of WAD's pre & post show, the same way he filmed that haircut video basically to promo YWGTTN and Dan is leaving me to talk about WAD. the same way that Dan got a taxi to his place after his nightmare experience at the laundromat to do laundry because "for the first time since I was a tiny child, I actually felt safe."

and after the latest mukbang it's like... it's really insane to me how their personal relationship has continued despite the pressures they've faced as being a comedic influencer duo. the fact that they work as business partners but still have this relationship. the fact that even in these YouTube originals that Dan was resentful of at the time anyway you can still glowingly see how much they love each other. like Phil being in gay and not proud wasn't a cameo, it was a fucking love confession.

i dunno. this is something that's been talked about a Lot but i do think about it frequently. i don't tend to rewatch these specials a lot because Jesus Christ the editing really gets me, but like... idk. "you're next to me in my life," or whatever. 15 years have passed and Phil's still cheerleading for Dan, from his first YouTube video to his first solo tour. i dunno.

[yoichichi]

DONT KNOW WHY IM FEELING SAPPY BUT IF YOU SEE THIS I LOVE YOU!! ​CONNECTIONS WITH PEOPLE ARE IMPORTANT NO MATTER HOW SMALL!!

[mewtwo24]

I just started reading the svsss volumes (and re-read them again because A LOT IS GOING ON) but like. This shit is so hysterically funny I don't even know where to begin.

Was no one????? Going to tell me that one of the cornerstone jokes in the damn series is that lbh's adoration for his one and only 'tism person who literally cannot express his emotions to save his life is basically genetic?????????

Was no one???? No one AT ALL going to tell me that Mobei-Jun straight up yeets Airplane at the problem in one of the scenes?????? And that in the most hilarious twist of fate Airplane then unyeets Mobei-Jun not twenty minutes later?????

It's one thing to see people joke about sqq and lbh being unable to communicate but it's on a league of its own when you have to read HUNDREDS OF PAGES of sqq's inner monologue be like 'that's my darling boy. my baby. my sugar plum pumpy umpkin you're my sweetie pie' but on the outside he says "get lost binghe" and somehow deems that an effective expression of his affection that lbh will surely understand. 'Why is lbh whining and crying and tugging at my sleeve like a plaintive wife, why is he so angry?' Sqq asks, the entire circus, as lbh is about to fling himself off a cliff for attention--

In short, MXTX is the queer comedian of our generation and nobody appreciates her enough

[lianhuajing]

i really don't think we appreciate enough that fang duobing, the treasured young master of tianji hall, heir to the he family and minister fang's only son, turned down an engagement to the princess (making him a prince-to-be, like, this guy's life was set), just to travel the world with a quack doctor in the ancient china equivalent of a rundown rv

and he pursued that life. like, li lianhua drugged him and left him on the side of the road multiple times. made it very clear that he did not want fdb around. and fang duobing still went back to him. and he, a rich young master, adjusted his expectations so that li lianhua would be comfortable having him around.

it makes me so feral like he says 'i already know you're a good man despite all your tricks and flaws. i accept that we don't have to tell each other everything.'

and

'if you don't want to go where i want to go, then where do you want to go? i'll accompany you."

and

'it's okay if you don't consider me a friend. just don't drive me away.'

like, what was li lianhua to do but fall in love back?

[unhealthy-leon-brainrot]

the urge to give leon forehead kisses is abyssmally strong….

just imagine chilling and lying on the sofa together while you watch something on netflix. leon has his arms wrapped around your waist, resting his head between your shoulder and neck, and his legs tangled with yours. you have your arms wrapped around him as well. one hand is softly stroking his hair and the other is gently rubbing his back. every 5 mins or so you give him forehead kisses and he sighs through his nose and hums in content, shifting his embrace as if he could get any closer to you. he basks in your beautiful love and affection. you feel warm. you make him feel safe. you feel like home. he never wants to be apart from you.

[starcurtain]

Aventurine is absolutely the Honkai equivalent of this meme, and no, I will not elaborate.

[leopardom]

“INTIMACY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ROMANTIC” FUCKING HELL YES JAN SAY IT LOUDER

[sysig]

i want to go on a big and elaborate date with papyrus SPECIFICALLY bc of the way u draw him bc he’s so bbg cutie patootie

PapyrACE 💚💜 Happy Valentine's Day!

[primal-con]

Does your (gorgeous, stunning, show stopper) Soundwave have a face? Or is the mask his face? Pls feed my brain worms. I just want to know how he can get a kiss kiss from Jazz 😌

!!! Fantastic question that gives me the perfect excuse to draw more Soundwave!!

So short answer: they used to!

Long answer: he’s missing a good half of his face. They’re not an empurata victim though in my depiction, they just.. have been at war for about four million years now and shit happens lol, they got a little blown up is all. Wore a visor and mask sometimes before the war still, just cause it likes the anonymity, but it made the visor and mask a full-time habit after taking all that facial damage and almost getting its head blown off. The head trauma is not why they’re mute though! He’s just always had a defunct voice box, it’s never worked to make more than little clicks and static, purely just a random genetic mutation.

A Soundwave pre and post facial injury! The Decepticons didn’t have the resources or personnel to fix that kind of damage so they just did as much of a patch job as they could and moved on. They basically cut out the unsalvageable plating and patched up the lesser burns underneath. Soundwave’s lost a lot of facial mobility as a result of all the finer components melting together but tbh that wasn’t a big change for him, he was never very expressive to begin with.

So tldr he can kind of get a kiss kiss! They’re just not likely to have enough fine motor control over what’s left of their face to reciprocate much. I don’t think Jazz really minds though, she’s the touchy-feely type and Soundwave is more of an acts of service type so I think they have an understanding of each other’s preferred forms of self expression.

They kiss like this and as per usual it makes Soundwave look like kind of a freak from an outside perspective lol

[tricoufamily]

this is my gen 1 heir of the rogues gallery legacy 💚 fawn chandley

[3416]

i must admit i will never be getting over this..... i want to do that to him TOO. stop.