#I was a nerdy kid

[spuffybot]

I don’t know how many of you got into Buffy when you were a kid but as someone who did here is a list of cringey things I did as a result:

-In 6th grade my school had these events called “rec night” where you hung out at the school and ate ice cream and played games. I would hide in the stairwell and jump out at people to scare them and quote Drusilla lines to try and freak them out.

-I dated a straight/closeted girl in 9th grade and to keep our relationship secret we used Tara and Willow as code names when we wrote notes to each other. We even gave all of our friends BTVS code names.

-I used Spikes pet names from 6th grade to 8th grade. It is extremely annoying to hear a tiny American kid call her friends “pet” and “love” and “bit” all the time.

-I would drew the witch symbol from Gingerbread on my arm with sharpie and pretend it was a tattoo.

-In 3rd grade my friend and I would play Buffy at recess and accuse people of being vampires and try to stake them. Note, running at your classmates and trying to stab them with sticks is a sure fire way to get sent to the principals office.

-in 5th grade I carried a folder around with me at all times and it had pictures of Spike and Angel that I’d cut out from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine in it.

[misterpseudonym]

[minionsuncle]

Nothing I could get my rocks off to

Anyway kind of ironic that it’s called downtime when it’s always the most stressful part of the season

[jennilah]

filmmaking purposes aside, in-universe i appreciate when John and the Jiglets install fun lights on their traps for aesthetics

[jimjamjomjum]

It’s Christmastime in Hatchetfield. Isn’t that fun?

[yuwuta]

olympics coming up…… athlete aus on the mind….. satoru as a swimmer….. unreasonably large wingspan…. huge hands..... thinks “official” competitions and tournaments are boring because he can’t use the goofy purple googly eyes goggles he likes to practice in…… practices at ungodly hours solely because he likes when the pool is empty because that means you’ll dip your feet in at the edge and be there to greet him with a kiss when he’s finished his laps….. they bring up the stats board and it’s just his name ten times before the next fastest person and he could still lap them, and even tho he’ll always put so much pressure on himself to be the best, it’s worth it to have you hold his face and tell him you’re proud of him... he’s gotten so much merch from events and sponsorships and he used to think they just created clutter but that all changes when you start to wear his clothes (esp the ones with his name on it… he’s not proud to admit that does Something to him)…. always looks up to the stands when he finishes a race and if he knows you’re not there, he looks right at the camera, draws an infinity sign with his fingers, and blows a kiss (which, some commentators routinely call “unsportsmanlike conduct” but he doesn’t care, and always, publicly says he’ll pay the fees if it means blowing a kiss to his girl at home)

[fools-catacomb]

I’m thinking about Hatchet Field and cycles, especially in NPMD because holy shit there’s so much of it. Like

Every time we see Hatchet Field the world ends. And then we see it end all over again- it all restarts

Nobody ever dies in Waylon house

When Max dies the school is allowed to move on, to “evolve”- but then he comes back. Things return to how they once were

“People go missing in Hatchet Field every day”

The lyrical motif of “I’m not a loser” is not just an assertion of worth, it’s a claim to safety and power. Peter doesn’t dress like that because he’s a nerd, he dresses like that to avoid attention, to not be a loser.

When Max is destroyed, Grace replaces him.

Suddenly Grace is singing about how the ‘nerds’ will rise up and kill. The threat shifts but is never gone

“I’m not a loser” is absolution, it says “I am not worthy of death” in a very literal sense. Character beg for their lives with it. The final song, where Grace becomes the new apocalypse? The background is still “I’m not a loser”. Because it was never about nerds versus jocks. It was always about escaping death.

But people go missing in Hatchet Field every day

And nobody ever dies in the Waylon house

So we go around and around and around

The same two people flirt at a coffee shop, the same cops run the same dirty beat, the same rich fucks call the same lawyer, over and over and over

What the fuck

[natabatts]

More nerdy purrudes :3

[prettypianoprincess]

I love how the YouTube comments on npmd are celebrating that this is the only 'hatchetfield verse' musical with a happy ending, as if 5 people didn't die and Grace isnt now possessed by the Lord's of the Black.

But honestly I support Grace in her mission.

[beybuniki]

the batman piece is tagged with quirkless au now, i try to tag my specific "aus" etc if there's lore :) the lore is rarely explicitly in the sketches but i DO like to imply it and some sketches have the same context idk if i make sense

[ruyakasunshine]

you know how sometimes you get some sort of platonic crush on someone? like, you're not attracted to them, nor do you want anything romantic with them, you just want to be noticed by them because they are cool. not in a "popular-kid-from-school" kinda way, just in a "i-want-them-to-acknoweldge me" kinda way?

yeah that's lestappen

[pinazee]

Small headcanon that max actually never knew who the mascot was and would talk to zeke about his hopes and deepest fears, and richie just sort of awkwardly comforted him and nodded along hoping max never found out who he was, and in a way, zeke was actually maxs closest friend.

[angelcake10023]

I still can’t believe Macaque kicked him in the FACE- come on man he’s old you didn’t hafta do that to him 😔

I’m surprised his glasses survived, imagine if he had to try and grab the ring blind.

Was this an excuse to talk about one of my favorite episodes? Maybe… 👀 But I love episodes that give my favorite characters emotional turmoil haha

[recycledraccoon]

I have evolved into Scuttlespring anon, just say anything about them. I love them so much

THE ANON PANTHEON GROWS

Ok so. Gorgug likes Mary Ann because she absolutely infuriates him but also, and perhaps more importantly, because she has a type of confidence I think a younger Gorgug would have deeply envied. She's so weird, but entirely sure of herself. She likes what she likes and anyone who would have a problem with that is absolutely beneath her notice. She has friends not despite her oddities, but because she refuses to bend about them and that confidence is incredibly attractive in a person. Mary Ann Skuttle see's something she wants and she just...goes and gets it, easy peasy. Tiny little kobald strides, but when she puts her foot down with force, Gorgug thinks she could crush a mountain under with nothing so much as a blink or falter of her stride. She's certainly physically strong enough for it, and while Gorgug is undisputedly the better fighter, Mary Ann has a physical strength hidden under soft pastel pink hoodies and can, has, and will knock Gorgug on his ass. Gorgug got THRASHED at those Bloodrush field tryouts, and I'm certain he probably got his ass handed to him more than once during the year while at practice but before he quit the team. She made him so damn mad, everything that year was, and endlessly kind Gorgug got real mean to her over it. She was better than him, more casually confident, and didn't blink ONCE at his outburst. And later? When she was resurrected and freed from possession? He talks to her, acknowledges that it was just a game but he had been actually mad to be so easily knocked aside. He never really had to work at Bloodrush to be good at it, he just was, until suddenly she proved herself better.

And yet, without flinching, Mary Ann, famous for not giving a shit but listening to Gorgug say how much he had, just....asks if he has a girlfriend. Unparalleled confidence, shooting a shot he was unprepared for. Planets aligned even as his own orbit was knocked off course. And then, when he admits he doesn't even know where to get a quokki pet, something its been explicitly known to be something she really cares about? She writes down her number, letting him see that folded paper. She initiated this, and he got swept up in it, but instead of just handing over the number and allowing him to be swept up- Mary Ann Skuttle puts the number away and tells him shes gonna put it where you get quokki pets, and if he wants her number he's going to have to go get it. He's not allowed to just be swept up in the force of her, she wants him to put in effort, prove to her and himself that this isn't just a moment but a starting point. He cant be swept up by the tide, he's gotta swim. Gorgug liked Zelda, but their relationship started because they thought she was in danger and Gorgug had the best in. He stumbled into that relationship unsure and off balance, he never would have had the confidence to pursue Zelda without his friends hands on his back and their advice in his ears. Later on he gets more serious, he did love her and he put in the work to maintain that relationship, but it didn't work out and that's ok. Ever confident Mary Ann tho? She doesn't want unsure stumbling steps into this relationship. If Gorgug doesn't make the active decision to chase her, to WANT to be with her and putting deliberate effort to get there, then she doesn't want him at all. Gorgug, confused, asking where you even GET a quokki pet? And she smirks, calls him a loser, and walks away leaving him reeling and dumbfounded. Mary Ann Skuttle wants Gorgug to work for this. And who is Gorgug Thistlespring, but someone who puts in the work for things he wants? He did the seemingly impossible by creating his own subclass of Barbaficer, even if he had to take four years of schooling all at once. He puts in the work and makes the impossible possible, the greatest wizard of this age. So yeah. Yeah. Gorgug Thistlespring likes Mary Ann Skuttle because she makes him work for it.

[sorrelpaws]

rick at various ages

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Ethan, to Lex: I just think Max Jagerman is a bad influence on Hannah.

Max w/ Hannah: You saw another fuckin thing? I'll fight it, where the fuck is it