#This book is so terrible

[jesse-pinko]

Fiddlestan is objectively the best and funniest ship bc imagine you’re Ford finally back in your home dimension after thirty years and not only has your twin brother stolen your identity and committed multiple felonies under your name he’s also happily married to your research assistant who used to be madly in love with you but you took him for granted lmao get humbled loser

[egophiliac]

What do you like about the Diasomnia boys if I may ask?

I always love hearing about the different reasons people enjoy characters.

I mean, c'mon. he has split custody over Sebek okay

also, Lilia in particular has maybe the best timeskip character development of all time

[blondie-drawings]

Good lord this tomb is full of shitposts 😳😳 pt 1/pt 2

[r-aindr0p]

Throwing this at the svsss fandom before disappearing again, I just suddenly had several questions...

[goddamnshinyrock]

...to be fair I do this while it's in sitting mode, too. Can't escape The Elbow Lean, RIP to my back.

ETA: before anyone says it, my vision is perfect, it's been checked, I'm just incapable of posture

[dangoulains-devotion]

[legobiwan]

Book of Bill spoilers

I am so not over this. Especially since it can be said that of all the humans throughout history Bill tricked or tried to manipulate, the person who brought him closest to achieving his goals was Stanford Pines.

Look, I love Ford. I really love Ford. I can empathize with a lot of his character.

He came so close to becoming an outright villain. A Bill-Two, so to speak. Even in his notes "warning" the reader about Bill's book, there's this undercurrent of wistfulness that I don't think Ford will ever truly shake. The man is wildly complicated and his moral compass is far more of a roulette wheel than his brother's, despite Stan's extensive criminal record.

Bill's description of him is fascinating.

"Ego of a king. The insecurity of a circus freak."

Bill looked through Ford's possible futures and giggled. It's safe to say that in more than one of those futures, Ford willingly helped bring along the apocalypse. Maybe the majority of those futures. (Remember what he said about Dipper and Mabel? Granted, Bill lies, but when it comes to Ford and his potential, that's one topic I don't think Bill is bullshitting).

Ford is not always a good person. He's a wildly complicated person and one of the things I would love to explore is that lingering potential for evil that I think Ford has to actively fight. There's an essay in here somewhere about Ford's predilection for being the bad guy - a literal villain - and contrasting it with Stan's outright and obvious criminality.

Like I said, I love Ford but oh wow. Between this and Journal 3, me thinks Ford and Stan are going to be having a lot of late-night conversations in the Arctic.

And that's not even getting into the insidious and malicious nature of Ford and Bill's toxic obsession with one another.

[boingopilled69]

that awkward moment when your muse and center of your universe gives you the stigmata for expressing doubt in his portal plans!!! 🙄🙄

[videogamelover99]

Bill Cipher angst at 2AM??? Also plz read Flat Dreams

[mrghostrat]

my flawless bind is done!!! 🥹

this is my second ever hardcover, first ever faux leather, first ever metal corners, and first bind of my own fic!

featuring art by myself and @chernozemm , and a hand painted cover because i couldn’t figure out any other way to decorate it lmaoooo. now i just gotta do this three more times for mine, meg, and zemm’s copies 🤞

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[lemondoddle]

i'm so normal about bill's hateful poem about stan

someone who screwed up and screwed over his family but was able to be redeemed, to be loved again, to be given a another chance.

bill sees himself in stan,

but there will be no chance at a family reunion for bill.

[somegrumpynerd]

Dust's nightmare

Dust has nightmares about fighting and killing here and there, but the ones that really stick with him are the ones that are just... memories. Things he can never have again.

What he can have though, is a distraction when he wakes up to help him settle and make sure he's not alone with his thoughts for too long

[courfee]

AU in which James breaks up with Regulus and to spite him Regulus becomes one of the most well known people in one of James' areas of interest just so James can't enjoy his thing anymore without being confronted with Regulus

[harpoonsnotspoons]

At the end of the day, everything's a little broken

[astro-b-o-y-d]

I might actually touch this up and make it look semi-decent at some point. But mostly I just wanted to get it out of my system while the TBOB hype was high.

Anyway, I'm still milking that preteen line for all its worth.