#When you treat Jimmy as entirely evil

[animanytotsllyinsany]

The second you demonize the character, the second you remove the nuance that it needs to be handled with. The second you say the character is a monster, the second you remove the accountability that the subtext held, you destroy the point of the character. No one is 100% good, or 100% evil. Terrible people have done good things. Good people have done something bad in their past. If you say that the character is 100% evil, then you remove the plot point of human nature. Humans cannot be 100% good or evil. Humans change, adapt, they’re irrational. Removing a characters humanity removes their accountability. It removes their ability to show something real. Their ability to spread a message.

[oneslimybastard]

mouthwashing spoilers ig bewaaare it's so fascinating just How Much people hate Jimmy Mouthwashing, despite that when it comes to Evil Deeds he actually lags behind a lot of other horror characters.

He's not a serial killer. He's not even really a killer (the only person he hands-on murders is Swansea in implied self defense). He's bitter, entitled, emotionally immature, impulsive, misogynistic, a rapist and enabled by Terminal Nice Guy Curly. Aka, a guy you've worked with, or a pissy uncle that keeps getting invited to christmas out of enforced politeness, your boyfriend's friend who keeps making you uncomfortable and you keep being told that he's a "good guy" deep down. A scumbag of which there are a dime a dozen of.

Any readings that he was a machivallian evil mastermind to me feels like huffing cope. Because the entire game is just Jimmy fuckign, floudering, as his actions suddenly have a lot of consequences that he wasn't emotionally equipped for. He thinks he can fix things, and that it's not really his fault, sure he assaulted Anya but she wasn't supposed to get pregnant from it, sure he crashed the ship in a temper tantrum but he didn't think Curly would get meatified from it. He sends Daisuke into the hutch because he's too much of a coward to do it himself, but he wasn't supposed to get injured from it. Yeah he's treated Anya like shit but she wasn't supposed to kill herself. Swansea comes after him with an axe — that wasn't supposed to happen either. And at the very end, Jimmy martyrs himself to "save" Curly (how saved he gets from being turned into a cryofrozen treat is debatable but I like to think it does ensure his survival, for the themes), so he can have some fucking solace that he managed to set things right before he kills himself — when in actuality all he did was ensure that he will run from taking responsibility for the rest of time.

After all, no one can hold you accountable if you're dead.

Jimmy isn't evil, you the player would be much more comfortable with his character if he WAS evil. He's just pathetic, making excuses, and emotionally lashing out, lashing out over the trauma he inflicted on someone else having consequences for him he sees no obvious escape from for once. Curly can't nepo him outa this one, lads. And all it takes is a few button presses to doom the entire ship.

Then he doesn't even have the guts to own it. He doesn't have the guts to own what a shitty person he is, called out directly in-text by Swansea who like we stan Swansea but I would not be surprised if his list of crimes (minus ship-crashing) looked exactly like Jimmy's, sexual assault included.

And that's the whole point of Mouthwashing innit. The worst guys you know will be some dick who refuses to own up to his own scumbaggery because he can't stand to look himself in the mirror if he does, and the people who cover for him. Evil doesn't exist (the contexts for where I think it does is a different and politically loaded conversation), usually it's just Some Fucking Guy who thought he was too good for therapy and magikarp splashed his path of carnage through other people's lives because of it.

Jimmy could have set things right, but that meant grappling with what a shitbag he is and the damage he caused Anya, and for certain people embittered by their own mediocrity, Armageddon is just the much more glamorous option.

And when he's forced to pick up the pieces and take responsibility, he breaks. Despite how much we hate it, it's very easy in this world to become a Jimmy, to fuck up and hurt people and then just go nuh-uh-nuh-uh until we've convinced ourselves we really did nothing wrong; to brainwash ourselves into thinking running away from accountability is the noble action. Even easier to become a Curly, with a pet Jimmy scrambling around that you can't be fucked to hold accountable because that's like, so messy, and a bother, it's fine, he's just a little grouchy you guys. Yes yes Anya I hear your concerns but like... I dunno, this puts me in a really complicated situation, you understand?

People know this instinctively, and that's why they feel like they have to parade Jimmy around like the Worst Guy Ever, to wash their hands of him, since that's more soothing than thinking about how much of a Boring Regular Guy he actually is. A Boring Regular Guy you've got in your life right now who kind of puts you off but nobody is actively dealing with. You included.

That's probably a large part of why this game haunts people, and why Jimmy just gets under their skin so bad to call him like the most irredeemable guy ever. In a genre he shares with like the Mad Father himself and Sachiko the torture ghost from Corpse Party, or the lady from the Amnesia DLC, etc. etc. (Astarion BG3 is also Objectively a shittier guy than Jimmy Mouthwashing, which isn't a fair comparison because different genres with different stakes, but it is a funny one.)

also he's in yaoi with curly soooooorry it's in the text as he cradles that meated up bod and stares straight into curly's bulging eyeball and forcefeeds him pills. and then his own leg. his love language is just complicated ok dont judge.

[unexpectedly-haunted]

fic rec list!

assorted hermitcraft + life series fic recommendations!

attempt thirty-three by bee_4: Joe Hills centric time loop fic. Also features Cleo, Scar, and Cub, and I love everyone's characterisation! Haunting and open ended, but still points of hope. Words: 13,617 Chapters: 1/1

To Sit in Hell with You by enemyofrome: Last Life treebark fic from Ren's POV. Focus on these two in the Shadow Alliance because man, those guys were really something else. Obsessed with the characterisation, have reread a reasonable amount. Words: 2,664 Chapters: 1/1

monsters nearby series by enemyofrome: Treebark series where the games are over but the Watchers aren't leaving Martyn alone- really fun exploration of supernatural impersonations and how that might impact your relationship with the real person. I'm not normal about these ones. Second work has a hopeful ending. Words: 13,856 Works: 2

Lifeline AU by SlashMagpie: Scifi/Fantasy AU about body-snatching aliens, also including the emptiness of space, magical worldbuilding, unreality and time travel. Main POV characters are Tango, Impulse + Pearl, but also includes much of the Hermitcraft ensemble + Skizz. Read the entire AU in one night and haven't been the same since, cannot recommend highly enough. Words: 299,349 Works: 6

Blood & Snow by SlashMagpie: Tango gets eaten by the dungeon, or close enough. Unsettling, visceral, and features possession! Has Scar, Bdubs, Cub, Etho, and Hypno POV. Words: 12,425 Chapters: 7/7

the sanctity of the mundane by crabbunch: Double Life SMP series with a fic exploring the relationships between each soul bounded pair. Found each work really fun and compelling, great variety in tone. Shoutout especially to this Cleo + Martyn! Words: 24,712 Works: 7

sculk blossom by crabbunch: Cub centric fic that works as both a character study and a look at his sculk corruption on Empires. Delighted by the horror and characterisation here! Words: 4,065 Chapters: 5/5

Deus Ex Machine by crabbunch: Bdubs POV, an existential/magical horror piece about the power of belief, storytelling, and godhood. Also some great Clethubs! Words: 13,449 Chapters: 8/16

Tangotek Evil Incorporated: Supervillain Tango and superhero Jimmy as arch nemeses. Comedy with a happy ending, and SO much fun to read. Words: 22,445 Chapters: 2/2

there are many downsides to being a marine biologist by donnerstag: Doc's marine biology gets complicated when the latest specimen turns out more human than expected: the siren he names Martyn. Really engaging and well-characterised fic, impossible to read and not end up invested in docmartyn. Trust me. Words: 74,006 Chapters: 27/27

a falling axe, a sharpened knife by sesquidpedalian: Double Life Cleo + Martyn relationship study, where soulmates also have a telepathic bond. Just really enjoyed this one! Words: 2,081 Chapters: 1/1

ectype by sesquidpedalian: Third Life AU where Martyn is there when Grian visits for enchantments. Really neat character study of two guys who aren't anything alike at all, definitely not. Words: 1,603 Chapters: 1/1

never our blood on this sand again by cosmicretribution: Scarian and treebark timeloop AU. Includes angst, the Timeloop Horrors, developing relationships, and great prose + characterisation! Words: 8,905 Works: 2

A Romance Route for the Doomed Villain?! by skelew: Treebark isekai AU where Martyn gets hit by a 2007 nissan micra and transported to a dating sim featuring the villainous Red King. Crack treated seriously, and a great parody fic that also happens to be genuinely compelling. Words: 5,012 Chapters: 1/1

feel free to add on recs in reblogs/comments! :D

[pineappleciders]

Could we get headcanons for how would it be being Team Craig beloved adopted child? Like- idk- reader is this sweet kid who wants everyone to be happy and then Craig and Those guys are like- the protective parents while Clyde is reader's adorkable big brother 😱

craig and those guys adopting a sweet reader who acts like their kid/little sibling; platonic headcanons

includes: craig, clyde, tolkien, jimmy, and tweek

A/N: i know tweek technically isn't apart of catg, but since he often is in fanon i decided to add him!! people r always debating whether jimmy or tweek is in craigs gang but why not both!!!!!!

personally i see tweek as the butters of catg. like he's there sometimes but not all the time ykwim

whenever craig and tweek get into a dispute it's like watching your parents argue

despite you being the same age as tolkien, your parents often leave you with him as your babysitter (your parents love him to death) and you two always end up playing games and eating snacks

they're kind of. confused about you. like craig might treat you like butters at first but gets berated by the rest for it once they all realized ur actually cool and not stuck-up

jimmy ruffles your hair and treats you like you're his little sibling, and goes 'oooooo' and asks constant questions if you have a crush on someone

if you're shorter than tweek he leans on your shoulder or head, because he knows it pisses you off. then he giggles deviously about it

craig is kind of. always trying to get your evil side out. like he's completely convinced you're not 100% angel and he tries to annoy you to get you to get angry

u and clyde hang out a lot. like you're always at each other's houses, people at school started to actually think you two were related

lots of video game nights. you all come to someones house (usually tolkiens because he's loaded) and play video games on the couch and in his room all night long. also lots of sleepovers

i feel like when ur choosing teams for a sport or a game, some of them are begging for you on their team and some of them are begging that you aren't on their team

jimmy, tolkien, and clyde want u on their team. craig does not. he doesn't because he thinks u suck (he doesn't mean it, he just wants to be a dick. unless you actually do suck)

with tweek it depends. like he might agree with craig and he might not. it really depends on what the thing you're doing is

clyde leans on your shoulder when you two are standing in the halls with a smug look on his face (he wants to embarrass you)

tolkien (and sometimes jimmy) always help you with studying and homework. like they'll teach you the entire subject and make sure you're prepared for the test

jimmy cracks (un)funny jokes to embarrass you in front of your friends

they get all pissy if someones annoying you. craig in particular is not afraid to get physical if you're getting bullied or something. he'll never admit it though

tweek likes to annoy you, but he's also probably one of the more sentimental ones (next to tolkien and jimmy). like he'll be there for you emotionally and stuff, even though he isn't always the best with feelings

jimmy is very encouraging. like if you're down or anxious about something he'll listen intently and give you the most motivational pep talk you've ever heard. he cares a lot and shows it with quality time and just being there!!!

tolkien is very good at listening. he might not understand everything you're going through, but he tries very hard to hear you out and give advice. he also reassures you that he's always there for you

craig isn't the best at showing his own emotions in the first place, so he's kinda. panicky if you're sad. he's learned a lot from tweek though, and will listen closely and try to validate what you say.

clyde doesn't always understand, but he tries. he'll listen to you talk and gives shitty advice, and is generally kinda knuckle-headed. he genuinely cares though

craig tells you about his silly little interests, and like forces you to play with stripe. he also rants to you about space and shit and you always fall asleep to it

whenever everyone falls asleep in the living room while playing video games, you're the one left awake, and you can't help but feel immense happiness at how peaceful they look.

[horrorknife]

"a sleazeball and a weirdo and a freak and everything" - and a rapist. like I know it's annoying to see complex characters distilled into JUST BAD but jimmy is very much a rapist and that does put an evil filter over everything. he raped anya before his "upset". skimming over that bc you want more complexity and moral ambiguity in your yaois is wild tbh.

the fact that you think rape is a one dimensional issue that instantly makes you evil is fucking crazy. jimmy is a full fledged character with struggles, ambitions, and a whole personality. we do not know WHEN he raped anya. it’s not canonized. i have always personally interpreted this as happening soon after curly reveals that they are fired because that is the inciting incident that puts the plot into motion. he rapes anya to ruin curly’s life. i am not putting more “complexity and moral ambiguity” into jimcurly. it’s naturally complex. it doesn’t need me to make it complex. it’s also not at all about the yaoi which is a crazy claim to make considering shipping was not even mentioned nor was it the point of the post.

i am a rape victim and i have been a rape victim for 12 years. don’t fuck around in my askbox like this. treating rape like it’s a one dimensional issue is actually doing more damage than good. and again, as i’ve said a million times, jimmy is not the big bad. the game is about the way capitalism reinforces rape culture and harms everyone under a company’s employment. jimmy is very much an awful person and a rapist and i have never once discounted that. i’ve never shied away from it. it’s a part of his character but it is not his entire character. insisting that looking at him as a character instead of a cartoonishly evil and smug villain is not, in fact, a bad thing. it sounds like you should probably replay the game and let down your bias against him because you might understand it a little better if you do.

[whenlifegivesticks-blog]

Curly from mouthwashing analysis (Also posted on mouthwashing community so two of these running around cos idk how to use tumblr)

This is copy pasted from my analysis on Bluesky with additional analysis here and there. Very long, prepare your reading glasses.

so this is basically a rant on curly mouthwashing. This is part character analysis and part me big angy at the fandom. Read at the risk of your braincells.

So to me it seems a whole lot of the fandom completely missed the entire point of the game. I was honestly kinda surprised by how many people who seemed to think curly is entirely evil or curly is entirely innocent. Because he's neither. He is a person with flaws and made big mistakes.

Curly seems to be a person who sees the best in people. He wants to help and be there for everyone. This blinds him to the faults of others and his constant need to offer chances to others tend to be harmful in the long run. You all know what I'm talking about. I call curly- Toxic optimism.

Curly sees jimmy in high regard simply due to there many shared years and friendship. The simple fact blinds him to Jimmy's obvious flaws and he ends up making excuses for jimmy and his behavior. Curly is a textbook enabler. (originally I wrote seems to be textbook enabler but I believe its an established trait so I changed the sentence).

He refuses to see the flaws because he doesn't want to think the person he knew for so long is capable of such things, namely what Jimmy did to Anya. He ignored what Jimmy did to Anya simply due to an years long friendship. Plus, as a man he probably just couldn't fathom the entire consequences.

Not saying men can't understand horrible stuff like SA. considering how many probably go unreported from men's side. But in Curly's case he offers to talk to jimmy as if what jimmy did was a mistake and not one of the worst things you can do to a person. He treated it as a mistake and not Jimmy literally ruining someone else's life mentally and physically. He as Captain had a responsibility to Protect Anya and reprimand (Bash in Jimmy's skull) Jimmy yet he did neither. Played very nicely into the games theme of take responsibility.

curly and Anya before the whole overlooking jimmy thing seemed pretty close (not shippy). Curly genuinely cares for her, and seems to be worried for her. Throughout the game curly is constantly working for someone else's self interest. Mostly jimmy's... What I mean to say is, he genuinely seems to be a nice person. And this is where most curly apologists seems to be stuck on. Jimmy's horrifying action overshadow what curly had done or in this case didn't do.

Curly did something wrong and he knew it far too late. When jimmy finds the gun Curly start laughing. Its not just the realization Anya hid the gun from jimmy to begin with and he found it. Its the fact Anya was right from the very beginning and curly ignored her. He ignored her and now it's too late because he physically cannot do anything. He's forced to be a spectator to the horror show he's partially responsible for. Take responsibility hah!

When curly finally realized his own horrible actions its too late and he can't even talk anymore. Its a tragic ass scenario of realizing how your actions played a part in what occurred and knowing its too late to fix things.

Curly had this toxic optimism he could fix everything without losing a close friend and without ruining Anya's life. He doesn't seem to realize he can't have both when Jimmy is a downright guiltless monster (no guilt sequence for Anya).

In conclusion, Curly is someone whose toxic optimism played a part in the tragedy that occurred due to his betrayal of trust to Anya and enabling behavior to Jimmy. He isn't some innocent goody two shoes. He definitely isn't some evil irredeemable monster. He is a human and he payed for his actions in the worst way possible. I'm not saying he deserves forgiveness, especially from Anya. But he does deserve chance to redeem himself. I hope he gets rescued but the game didn't give a lot of hope. The end.

[katiebug586]

Honestly, it's criminal how underrated Pelswick is. As a cartoon created by a disabled cartoonist, it's incredible how pro-disability and anti-ableist it is. The entire moral of Pelswick is essentially 'Treat me like you would a normal person, you weirdos', with it not afraid to delve into the inherent issue with infantilizing disabled people and how some people act all righteous but are really just being performative.

I re-watched "Hear No Evil, PC No Evil" last night (Yes, the PC does indeed stand for 'politically correct') and I don't think it stuck with me that much when I first watched it a couple years ago, but wow. The plot is basically that Pelswick's dad is seeing a supposedly multi-ethnic woman named "Spagna", who turns out to be one of the most infantilizing characters I think I've ever seen on TV. She refuses to see Pelswick as a kid who happens to use a wheelchair, instead acting as if he's helpless and needs everything done for him because he's such a 'poor, helpless' boy. She ends up accidentally 'Sigmund Freuding' herself into calling Pelswick the C-word when he rightfully tells her off for treating him like he's some kind of fucking charity case, then loses her shit because how dare she say the c-word, (like yeah, you shouldn't, but there's a couple of other things you need to work on first, lady) and scrubs her mouth with a soap she conveniently has on hand and leaves the house sobbing. Pelswick's dad immediately says he's breaking up with her after she leaves. Not for the c-word comment, I don't think, but "have you ever seen somebody so PC in all your life?".

I vaguely remember there being another episode where Pelswick got suspended because he refused to make his ventriloquist dummy or whatever they were with a wheelchair because gasp! he sees himself as himself, and doesn't base his whole character and personality on being paralyzed. There was another where he couldn't go on a school field trip to go camping because of his wheelchair, even though Pelswick does snidely remark that he's the only kid who couldn't accidentally get paralyzed.

Not ALL of the episodes involve Pelswick being infantilized though, there's plenty of episodes that revolve around him being a kid and doing dumb kid shit without his wheelchair being brought into question other than it just being there, which I think adds to the point I was trying to make with the three episodes I mention. However, when the subject/issue DOES come up, Pelswick doesn't just nod his head and take it, he ends up giving out various clapbacks (sometimes with the help/vague advice of his guardian angel, Mr. Jimmy) to them. And more likely than not, these people end up outing themselves as being ableist shitheads anyway.

Pelswick does need some aid/help, his house has an elevator installed so he can get to the second floor, and a ramp he can use instead of steps, but that's miles better than just assuming he needs everything done for him.

Anyway, if you enjoy good disabled representation and want a recommendation, watch Pelswick.

[dib-thing-wannabe]

Okay, here are some au ideas that I have but don't personally feel like expanding on. If you'd like, you can absolutely just steal them and make them your own, just tell me about it/tag me in it so I can follow along.

Jimmy Neutron Au Idea:

Essentially, Jimmy's evil clone escapes from the dark matter dimension and decided to try and play a couple harmless pranks on the town before starting his revenge on Jimmy. Though he wasn't able to get very far before Jimmy ends up running into him. Immediately, he dragged him into his lab to demand an explanation as to how he was able to escape. Once he tells him, and therefore proving to Jimmy that he can't just be put back without easily escaping again, Jimmy (with some convincing from the clone) decided to try and instead reform him, as there is nothing that he could do next without it being meaningless (that doesn't involve murder). Though once he tells his parents about his plan, they decide that it would be a great idea for him to live with them in their house as to keep an eye on him, essentially making him into their second child on a technicality. Which leads to him being able to annoy, tease and sometimes even fight Jimmy on occasion, and Jimmy would just have to take it (very similar to siblings having to deal with each other). Though eventually, they end up growing on each other, even if they don't like to show that. There was also this idea I had where Jimmy, before the evil clone showed up again, had begun to fall into a habit of not taking care of himself properly in favor of instead working on inventions and theories. No one had been able to either be able to see just how bad it was (as they aren't able to see his entire routine, so they just assume that whatever he wasn't doing then, he was doing later or he had done it earlier) or how bad it was affecting him. Everyone except the clone, as Jimmy begrudgingly keeps him close as much as possible to make sure he doesn't wreck havoc, so he could quickly see just how badly he was treating himself. Possible angst and character development could come from this.

Fairly Oddparents au idea:

Basically, after another time where Timmy's parents just straight up neglect him and/or intentionally do something fun without him, he ends up curling up into his bed and before sleeping, while Cosmo and Wanda are asleep, him unaware of them being asleep and unable to fullfil any wishes, wishes for new parents. Somehow though, the morning after he wakes up in a new yet similar house to his own, even with his fairies with him still, who are just as confused as he is. When he goes downstairs after a minute, he comes across a woman whom Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda has never seen before, yet she talks to him in a soft tone, as if she's known him his entire life. When Timmy asked her about herself, she confusingly tells him that she was obviously his mom and asks him if he was feeling okay. Still confused, Timmy sits down at the table and eats the breakfast his "mom" made for him, which just so happened to be his favorite food. As he finished eating, a man they also don't recognize enters the work, saying that he's about to leave for work. Timmy once again asked him who he was, where he also confusingly told him that he was his dad, his "pops". After the man and woman share a look at one another with a worried expression, they end up telling Timmy that he probably isn't feeling well and that he should go rest in his room, and that his "mom" will bring him some more warm food soon. Quickly though, Timmy adjusts to them supposedly being his parents, assuming that the wish had been made true, meanwhile Cosmo and Wanda are very confused and concerned because they don't recall Timmy very making that wish. Now this part you can choose not to do, but my idea is that the wish didn't actually become true due to Cosmo and Wanda, and that his "parents" actually strategically kidnapped him and gaslight him, not knowing how easy it would have been due to him thinking that his wish just simply came true. He still doesn't realize this, but Cosmo and Wanda do, seeing all the missing posters of him around town and his "parents" planning on moving to a very, very far away town soon.

[yb-cringe]

im sorry to bring discourse into your ask box but you're entirely right like. it's part of why i never got into ranchers (and only just started properly liking flower ranchers) cus fics and art always characterized scott as this like… terrible partner? like scott teasing jimmy was, to me, a way of showing affection? and he never legitmately berated him for anything. why does scott get so mischaracterized in ranchers fics that DONT also include him as major part of the story?? whether it's him getting shipped with the ranchers or not, like?? he was a GOOD husband, he LOVED jimmy and jimmy loved him??

no no youre good i brought it up So totally fair game

Yeah i completely get you- i said already but yeah i just cant get into ranchers because for some reason theres an air of ‘okay but if you do scott needs to be characterized as an evil abusive ex’ which rubs me the wrong way because no????

its just Wrong because thats not what happened at all. youre right the teasing was lighthearted if not a bit sassy at best but /everyone/ does that with jimmy and grians even said that his friends! hate! being! called! bullies! when theyre completely within jimmys boundaries!!

3L scott was no different! in fact he was the most avid jimmy fan during 3L! ive even made jokes that 3L scott would beat up empires Scott for how he treated him because hes THAT protective! he put himself in physical danger over and over again to keep jimmy safe and to eventually avenge him after his death.

his world went grey without him, they named cows together, scott framed his gifts and baked him cake and stood by his side when he turned red despite the obvious danger that would put him in because he loved and cherished him Completley and to have that all cut away CONSISTENTLY as a fanon concept down to ‘he said jimmy house ugly once :(‘ is just.. /frustrating/.

[stocious]

ben, carl & the pack, let's go.

ben: remember how i was supposed to pick up the dog today? carl: aw, where's the ba- ben, opening the trunk:🙂

after a while the boys get the very strong feeling halloween might be actually possessed. everyone still loves him.

baz and carl love to watch those "let me change your entire style" shows. and the great bake off. ben joins them for golden girls marathons when the weather changes in october.

ginger snap's a very trusty sports partner, he goes swimming with ben and running with carl. but he'll also steal their pancakes.

ben & tony are one heart and soul. ben's sad? no, dad, play something on the kalimba, it'll help. (carl taught him, actually, because he noticed it.)

carl, out of breath and exasperated: why are you and dirty in the goat pen. AGAIN. ben: he's a CATTLE dog, carl, i don't want him to get DEPRESSED.

carl: walking in on ben and machete. carl: what the FUCK are you trying to teach him now. ben: ... law.

ben, trying to coax jims, who has had bad staircase experiences due to his gangly limbs. down to go for a walk. carl: just carry him- ben: he can DO THIS, just give him TIME- carl: you've been at this for FIVE HOURS.

carl: does mini carl really need a massage pillo- ben: he's not AGGRESSIVE, he's ANXIOUS, this HELPS.

snickers loves whipped cream. carl feeds him when ben doesn't look. don't tell the others, but he's carl's favourite.

firecrotch has many opinions about the pack's diet. ben: 🥺 carl: babe, NO, the dogs CAN'T have burgers every night.

carl: did you let van damme hang out with the neighbour's shepherd again? ben: yeah, they're besties :3 carl: honey, our dog's a mafia leader.

seagal just wants cuddles. he's also a cockblock for his dads.

SO MANY PUPPERS IN MY ASK 🥰 and carl + ben + puppers adventures? you truly are a treat nosho!

-halloween IS called halloween after all. maybe he's always been a little possessed? but you're right, everyone still loves him!

-do you think baz knows that trick? i think he does. that's the only tick carl has taught any of the dogs. because golden girls.

-GO GINGER! HE'S FAST AS FUCK BOI. he loves running and swimming and fetch and zoomies and!!! you can always count on ginger snap to be your work out partner. we love him for it.

-tony is the best emotional support pupper in all the land. he gets the big sad. he will cuddle with you and lay in bed all day if you need it. but he'll also encourage you to get up eventually. he's a good boi. (they all are)

-dirty loves all his friends in all the shapes and sizes. he loves the goats though. they're his favorite.

-chettie making shady deals AND knowing law? is he the evil villian in the pup pack? machete pleads the fifth to that question.

-OH NO JIMS. poor baby. you can do it! we have treats and pets and cuddles down here! i believe in you slim jimmy! maybe he needs tony for emotional support?

-MINI CARL DOES INDEED NEED A NECK MASSAGE. big carl is just jealous. it's okay big carl, you can have a neck massage after mini carl is done (never).

-snickers likes 'em sweet. carl has all the treats. carl is snickers favorite too.

-no burgers? how about a tasty stake? no? but he makes such convincing paw geastures!

-everyone thinks machete is the evil genious. but no, it's van damme. he has all the neighbourhood doggies running deals for him and he just sits back and gets his cut. he's smart like that.

-he's always sneaking his way into the bed, smack dab in the middle. on his back. slobering all over the sheets. but he's a cutie so that's okay. if he happens to cockblock, that sounds like a carl and ben problem for going at it in HIS bed.

[kaffeebaby]

wait pls expand on lalo being a yassified chuck!!!!!

Sure thing! Cut just for those who don't wanna read a post about Chuck and Lalo

I was mostly being a bit jokey about it, but I honestly think that Lalo and Chuck have a lot in common when it comes down to the details. It's really no coincidence that as soon as Chuck leaves the show, we're presented with Lalo, who ends up bullying Jimmy into the exact opposite direction Chuck was. They're both incredibly selfish, they're the main man in charge, and they both seem to act like they can't stand not getting their way. They're one-track minded and stubborn to reach their goals, even to the point of their own destruction. They both have this level of emotional coldness, like they feel nothing, even though they have quick tempers. Kinda like nothing matters, except for the stuff that they want to matter.

In my opinion, Lalo is much more extreme in this way, just due to the fact that he actually kills people and puts others' lives at risk without even thinking twice. When he sees Nacho run into the building that's about to be taken down by the DEA, Lalo is just amused and entirely neutral to whether Nacho is going to make it or not. He's happy when Nacho makes it back, but I doubt he'd have cared at all if he hadn't, even though it's a dangerous situation and Nacho is way too high up to be risked at all like that. It's a genuinely high-stakes moment and Lalo is just sitting there humming and whistling, which reminds me a lot of Walt right after Drew Sharpe was murdered tbh. And similarly, I think Chuck used Howard as Jimmy's punching bag for years in this way, completely ignoring any pain or stress it would have caused Howard because that's what Howard was "supposed to be" doing, exactly what Chuck told him to. They both have such callous natures when it comes to playing with other people's lives, right down to casually disrespecting others. Like, they both devalue everyone around them just by the casual nature of their refusal to give a shit about anyone else.

It makes sense that Lalo wouldn't really see the value of other people's lives, given the world he's always lived in, but I always saw the two of them as having similar levels of entitlement, pettiness, spitefulness, and callousness. But Lalo has a lot more likeable traits than Chuck does. He's cooler, he's more composed, the people around him treat him with utmost respect, he's suave and a funny character... Whereas Chuck is genuinely needy and annoying and nagging and "lame." Lalo is a hot guy with blood splattered on his face and Chuck is basically like if a crazy old cat lady was a guy obsessed with his charismatic younger brother that everyone else likes more. This is what I mean by "yassified," like he's more conventionally attractive and ideal even to straight guys, he's what they want to be like, even if his actions are usually considered more monstrous.

The only major difference other than personality traits is that Lalo willingly breaks the law and Chuck refuses to, meaning that all of Chuck's actions are more within reality to viewers, which I think makes him seem more like a real asshole and less like a badass evil cool guy. I think this is a major factor as to why people like Lalo but not Chuck. You can easily view yourself as Jimmy, being berated by a holier-than-thou asshole who thinks you're scum, but how easily can you picture yourself as Fred from Travel Wire, innocently trying to help some stranger and being murdered during your shift at your job that doesn't pay you enough? It's like a classic example of the idea that characters killing people is okay because fictional lives are made up, but characters being annoying is bad because the audience's annoyance is real. Lalo could gruesomely skin someone alive on screen, but people would still hate Chuck more because he's mean and annoying and sucks to the average viewer. It doesn't really matter that his actions never reach the moral lows that most people would agree Lalo's do. Lalo is kinda like the anti-Chuck in the sense that even if Chuck did something great, everyone kinda already made their mind up about him and would still hate him anyways. You know, the sort of behavior that the show advocates against via it happening to Jimmy his entire life.

I hope this makes sense and isn't too rambly lol. TLDR: Lalo is more conventionally ideal and Chuck has too few redeeming qualities, so even though they're both awful, people like Lalo more, thus making him "basically yassified Chuck"

[oldblackhat]

Give money for people to escape: https://gazafunds.com

Go to protests and rallies

Call your senators

Tell pollsters you’re not voting for Biden (even if you will but they don’t need to hear that)

Call him genocide joe and talk about how awful Americas support of genocide is and how it needs to stop

But not telling people in America to stay home November 5th.

“Don’t vote” is how Trump won last time

The GOP is in support of the genocide

And Trump will do a whole bunch of additional terrible things

Like the Muslim ban. Furthering restricting access to safe abortions. Treating illegal immigrants inhumanely. Getting into pissing masses with North Korea & practically sucking Putin’s dick (sorry for that image), letting Agent Orange be used as a pesticide, and so so much more.

Also he has basically admitted he wants to be a dictator if he ever gets elected again - and his people have been quietly getting themselves into positions of power since 2016

America is a shitty country but powerful - it will be a very very bad thing for the entire world if Trump did actually become a dictator

The idea that not voting in protest will show them only really works if American democracy continues long enough for another election cycle to happen

Here’s the thing - “the lesser of two evils” is like

Jimmy Carter v Reagan

Clinton v Bush

Al Gore or John Kerry v Bush

Obama v John McCain or Mitt Romney

Trump is a whole other animal from Reagan, Bush, McCain, Romney

Because all those republican assholes I just listed weren’t trying to become dictators (this isn’t a defense of them; it doesn’t make them good; it’s actually just the bare minimum we ought to expect from politicians)

This is the last two Republican nominees before Trump:

And both of them strongly publicly went against Trump in various ways.

This is what the Republican Party used to be like.

And they were bad and the Democrats were marginally better and so many of us held our nose and voted Democrat.

And many others of us criticized the “lesser of two evils argument” and abstained or voted third party

But Trump is different; Trump is a whole other animal from the Republican presidents (and candidates) we used to know - he is so much worse

And he would be going into this second term having had 4 years to strategize and set things up for what to do next time. and getting his supporters into positions of power

The first year of his first term was kind of a shitshow. Trump 2.0 will have way more strategy and preparation before he even takes the oath on January 20th

the Romney article’s clarifies he’d pardon Trump to make himself the bigger man and Trump the “little guy”. Which might be a cover for Republican spineless but anyway look at the other things Romney also says about Trump (again not a defense of Romney):

I have no love for McCain or Romney. But like pre-Trump when you’d say “I don’t agree with the ‘lesser of two evils’ argument - I’m going to stay home or vote third party” like this is the quality of human you’d be declining to vote against

I'm just going to leave this here, because this woman said what I've been trying to articulate for ages much more effectively and succinctly than I've been able to

[syrupspinner]

i defeated Everhood

undertale... 2! [spoilers]

ill start with the non-plot stuff, i really like the look of the game. a lot of effort went into making all the characters feel distinct and likeable. knight lost-a-lot has an australian accent, and im not saying that because he called me a sheila or whatever, its just something that i think fits the character. yknow youve made a good character when you can imagine stuff like that, yknow? and the environments are all memorable too, even with places that risk being samey like the nightclub and the carnival

and the writing's a lot of fun too! so, i feel like were all on the same page of saying its hard for media to take itself seriously nowadays. serious emotion has to be undercut with a whedonesque quip, that kinda thing. Everhood knows what its doing; it knows when to tell a joke and it knows when to stand back and let a scene emote. it does this without feeling like its two segregated games, in my opinion. like, even after *that moment* where things get serious, theres still levity, and theres still serious character moments before that too.

and the gameplay is great too! yknow that thing where you look out the window of a car and you imagine a ninja or something running on the rooftops? its kinda like that, but youre imaging a little guy jumping between the notes in a rhythm game. thats such a fun gameplay gimmick

so, a lot gets posted about "quirky earthbound-inspired rpgs (which may or may not be about depression)". i always thought that its was kinda stupid, because people can only ever name omori if you ask them for examples. and thats not even to say that theres a drought, no theres tons of em! Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, Knuckle Sandwich, Heartbound, Oddity, the LISA trilogy... oh, and obviously Undertale. all of those seem like direct reactions, but none of them (to my knowledge) seem like call-and-response answers that directly build on their inspirations like how Undertale subverts traditional rpg game mechanics...

except everhood. if undertale is about building and examining a world with plot-important 4th wall breaking where rpg mechanics are deconstructed, everhood painstakingly reconstructs them. this isnt to say that its not post-modern, quite the opposite. it intentionally builds a world that has the same post-modern sensibilities, where the rpg mechanics are welcomed entirely

this is your last call for spoilers. if youre an Undertale fan, or just a fan of the narrative analysis of traditional game mechanics, you need to play this game

for example, Undertale makes a point of emphasizing to the player that the monsters arent just disposable enemies, theyre people who deserve to live. Everhood does the inverse: everyone is an immortal going insane, and they deserve to be put out of their misery. this still humanizes and makes you sympathize with the encounters without removing the violent conflict. instead of everyone deserving to live, everyone deserves to die, but not in a no-mercy style "im a monster because im bored" way. honestly, i think Everhood improves on this from Undertale. everyone has an overworld sprite, they all reoccur in multiple locations, and theres only one of them. its hard to feel a connection to just another vulkin or just another woshua; here even characters like the goth store clerk form more of a connection through repetition.

another thing i like is the silent protagonist. Undertale characterizes Frisk as a reveal, telling you that you the player are not this character just because youre controlling them. enforcing your will over the narrative is a bad thing: that means youre retroactively making chara evil. in Everhood, the player controlling the character is diegetic, and entirely welcomed.

basically, Undertale was designed with the notion "lets make a game where the player treating it like a normal rpg (the player is the main character, killing is good) is unwelcome and unfulfilling by subverting normal tropes" to which Everhood answers "okay, now lets build a world with the same level of subversion, but playing it like a normal rpg (the player is the main character, killing is good) is VERY welcome and fulfilling".

so yeah, wonderful game, totally recommend it. if i had to pick one thing it does best, i gotta go with the narrative resonance, but the characters are a close second. green mage is such a cool dude.

closing this out, the sequel has been announced and theres a trailer out. i have... no idea how theyre going to continue the narrative. i figured the buddhist imagery was hinting at reincarnation so the new game+ was diegetic too... my guess is that either theyre gonna do something narratively disconnected but with evolved gameplay like how final fantasy works, or its basically gonna be like... a different everhood. as in the place. looks killer either way

[pacificwaternymph]

Consider this: Pirate AU but Kid!Xornoth.

Oh. OH THIS SENT ME INTO FULL DAYDREAM MODE BUCKLE UP

I feel like for this to work we'd need to rework some things, including Xornoth's entire role up until this point. Of course, he's too young to enlist in the navy, so he's still living with his shitty, abusive parents.

And we'll say for the sake of the plot that Katherine hasn't gone into retirement yet because I have an idea and I want to make it work.

Scott and Jimmy have wanted to go after Xornoth for the longest time, but there's always been some barrier whether it be lack of funds, lack of firepower, too much security, or whatever. Scott hasn't seen his little brother in years and it's driving him crazy.

In the meantime, Xornoth has some pretty conflicted feelings about Scott, since on the one hand, he loves his brother, but on the other, everyone is telling him that Scott went insane and is now full blown evil. They were like 8 when Scott defected, so they kind of internalized that.

Then, while Xornoth and his parents are staying at their summer home in a port town, the pirate queen attacks. Everyone is freaking out, the city is evacuating, buildings are on fire, and the house staff are frantically trying to pack the essentials for their parents so they can flee as well.

Xornoth is having a panic attack in his room, when who slips in through the window? Shelby. She was hired to kill their parents, and enlisted the help of Katherine to make a distraction big enough that would leave her targets undefended.

But she stops in her tracks when she sees Xornoth. The poor kid is terrified, and Shelby takes one look at him, sees the resemblance to one of her closest friends, puts two and two together, and realizes oh shit, this is Scott's little brother.

She also remembers literally everything Scott ever said about the way her parents treated both him and Xornoth, sees the bruises on his arms and legs, and decides the killing can wait, she's got a kid to comfort.

Long story short, despite the confusion Xornoth does calm from his panic attack, and Shrub prompty kidnaps him, resolving to come back for his parents another time.

Now Katherine and Shelby have to take care of a traumatized 13 year old who is utterly convinced they're going to torture or kill him, and also get a message to Scott saying "hey, we kinda kidnapped your brother so you wouldn't have to. You're welcome."

[mara-xx217]

Pokes head

May I request Michael being a possessive daddy and fighting a killer who hurt his girlfriend ? It can be anyway you like 💙

Why of course you can~ This isn’t based in Dbd, but the normal world. Hope you don’t mind!

Possessive, Protective Mikey

You were like some sort of disease to Michael. Or, perhaps, a parasite was a better descriptor of how you affected him. You wormed your way into him, deep into his chest, right beside his cold, soulless heart. You made him… feel, regardless of what that actually meant, it was beyond unacceptable in his eyes. That warm, painful throbbing in his chest was more than distracting, it was nauseating, disturbing. Terrifying… In a sick, twisted, wrong way, you terrified the Shape of Haddonfield. Michael fucking Myers was absolutely terrified of a small, defenseless creature that was completely helpless against the evil and cruelty he wielded against the world. He should kill you a hundred thousand times over for this transgression! But… it wouldn’t make him feel any better. He only… feels more empty every time your cheeks are stained with tears. Cold. Dead. Michael would feel dead without you…

This isn’t the first time he’s caught someone hurting you. It’s happened many, many times over, and his reaction has ranged from blinded rage to searing hatred. Not just for the one harming you, but towards you, yourself. It was that lack of control that drove Michael insane. He couldn’t watch you 24/7, couldn’t always follow you around or know where you were at any given moment… It drove him fucking crazy, and he took that frustration out on not just the asshole unfortunate enough to have crossed paths with you, but onto you, as well.

But, even that was quickly losing its luster to him. Michael had thought that hurting you would bring him some sort of fulfillment, like it has always done in the past when he had hurt others. It never has, though. Sure, he’s lied to himself, trying desperately to convince himself that seeing you all small, all scared and teary-eyed brought him a measure of enjoyment, to have your blood on his hands, to have you groveling in terror before him- but it didn’t. It- He- Michael felt… not good, when that happened. You made him… stop to consider how his actions would affect you, and he hated that.

Michael despises that you’re a magnet for trouble. That you just can’t seem to stay the hell away from people that want to do you harm. Sure, he doesn’t mind killing them. Quite the opposite, in fact, he rather enjoys seeing them covered in their own blood, begging for their pathetic lives before he mercilessly snuffs them out. No, Michael hates that you get hurt in the first place. The only one that should ever have the right to put their hands on you was him! Him, and him alone. Anyone else would be destroyed.

Some wannabe serial killer punk had set his eyes on you. Luckily for you, Michael knew better than to leave you to your own devices, anymore. He caught the little bastard scoping out your home before you had any idea of the danger you were in. He’d make sure that, this time, he’d be in complete control of the situation. You won’t be hurt, but that idiot thinking that he can do as he pleases? He’s going to regret the day he was born…

Sitting in your kitchen, you drank what must be your fifth coffee of the night. Strange things were happening, and it left you unable and unwilling to sleep at night. Rustling outside your windows, the sound of someone possibly jimmying your doors and windows, looking for a possible way in… Muddy footprints on your porch and small, dead animals left on your door mat… It was becoming too much. You’re… pretty sure it wasn’t Michael. He did love to torment you, but this wasn't really his thing. He was much more… direct, with his approach to you. This… this was someone else…

Pinching the bridge of your nose, you rub your eyes, feeling them water involuntarily from how dry they were. Anxiously, you tap your fingers on the top of the counter, before sighing heavily and grabbing your coffee mug. You decided to make your way to the living room, thinking that some TV would help calm your nerves and get your mind off of things. Fuck, I’m exhausted… You thought bitterly as you crashed onto the couch, nearly spilling lukewarm coffee all over yourself.

Picking up the remote, you absentmindedly flipped through channels, not really wanting to watch anything. It was just something else to focus on, rather than the impending sense of dread that was washing over you. This feeling was one that you were well acquainted with: the feeling of being watched. Your heart was pounding in your chest and your palms were slick with sweat. Slowly, you sit up, clumsily placing your mug on the table in front of you. The hairs on your entire body stood on end. Something’s not right here…

As you begin to rise off the couch, a firm hand pushes you back down into a sitting position. Your heart jumped up into your throat. You’re very familiar with Michael’s hands, and the one still gripping your shoulder was much, much smaller than his… Short, shaky breaths escaped through your clenched teeth. Fuck..! Oh shit- Oh my God no no no-! You don’t dare to move, only stare straight ahead at nothing as your mind runs wild with possibilities. Who the hell is it?! How did they get in?! Why me?! Where the fuck is Michael when I fucking need him?!?

The intruder sucks in a deep breath, as though he’s about to say something, but instead yelps in surprise as he’s ripped away from you suddenly and violently. You gasp, shooting up and scrambling across the room, back peddling into an opposing corner. Curling in on yourself, you crumple onto the floor, watching the brutality unfolding before you through the cracks of your fingers.

Michael had thrown the intruder back, sending him crashing into a mostly bare bookshelf, breaking most of the shelves along with it. You cringe and jump, feeling your insides twist and revolt against you. Michael drops to the floor, straddling the winded, smaller man as he desperately tries to fight back. Vainly. It was laughable, really. The idiot didn’t stand a chance against the human incarnation of evil, itself.

Michael briefly debated on playing with his food. There was something about seeing them crawl and beg that really set him off, but when he glanced at you over his shoulder, in the fetal position and hyperventilating, he actually decided against it. It was getting under his skin seeing you like this, and the quicker this is… inconvenience is dealt with, the quicker things will be back to normal. Well, to Michael’s fucked up definition of the word “normal”, that is.

With a quick stab to the back of his neck, the intruder was killed. Normally, Michael would have painted the walls with this creep’s blood, but he decided that it would be too much of a pain in the ass to clean up. With a flick of his wrist, Michael twists and pulls out the blade, wiping the excess blood onto the back of his victim’s shirt. He looks back over to you, and sees you stiffen. His… Huh. His chest actually hurts…

With a heavy sigh, he stands, stepping over the dead body as he makes his way over to you. A major part of you was beyond terrified. Is he gonna hurt me..? Oh- Oh God..! I’m gonna- I’m- I’m gonna..! You were trembling, shaking so hard that your teeth were actually chattering audibly. Michael’s eye twitched. He was conflicted: one part of him loved that you were this scared of him, as you should be, but the other… the other hated it. He- Well, he wanted… something, but he just didn’t know what. Fingers twitching, he reached out to you, struggling to ignore how you froze as he slowly approached you.

You really thought that he was going to grab you by the hair and drag you off to the bedroom, so when his fingertips just barely brushed the top of your head, moving the hair from your face, you were, well… at a bit of a loss. Michael has never, ever been that gentle while touching you. Ever. You raise your head slightly, just enough so that you could see him. He still had that damn mask on, of course, and his body language hardly betrayed what he was thinking or feeling, but- You couldn’t deny that his fingers were trembling ever so slightly.

He slowly crouches in front of you, treating you as though you're some kind of animal that will either bolt at the slightest movement or go for his jugular, or something like that. You don’t move or speak, unsure of what he was doing. When he placed his hand where that stalker touched you, gently- carefully squeezing your shoulder as though you were made of glass, you… you relaxed.

You could tell that he was struggling to be gentle, with how his fingers twitched uncontrollably and the pressure of his fingertips varied. You looked up to him, then down at his chest as an odd warmth spread through your cheeks. Michael was extremely possessive over you. He hated it when you interacted with anyone else, especially other men. But, right now, even though another man had touched you, he wasn’t flying off the handle like he usually did. He was still extraordinarily pissed off that he had given the bastard just enough time to physically touch you, but it was remedied.

He was fucking dead, and you were still here. You were his and his alone. That wasn’t called into question. There was no dispute. Michael Myers is the only person that is ever allowed to touch you. You’ve come to accept this, and slowly but surely, you’re even beginning to enjoy his touch. As sick and messed up as it was, you’ve started to develop feelings for him, despite the fact that he made your life a living hell. If anything, you knew that no one would hurt you ever again. No one, except for him.

[bmblboop]

It’s ironic how ironwood fanboys claim yang and Blake “betrayed” ironwood when they spent their entire conversation with Robyn making excuses for his he treated mantle lol,

Really telling Ruby’s helped ironwood more then it helped mantle

While I appreciate the dunk on Ironwood apologists, I don’t like the implication this conversation is going to turn into another “RWBY doesn’t care about Mantle” argument. I’m afraid you will have to be content with the knowledge that Ironwood was their boss for v7 while they were still attempting to navigate Atlesian politics, and no one wanted to make Ironwood mad. You wouldn’t like him when he’s mad.

I wouldn’t call it excuses for Ironwood - Yang’s whole conversation with Blake was about telling the truth because people deserve to know what they are stepping into (hence her bitterness toward Oz’s secrets). Yang following Ruby’s lead of telling some truths, but of keeping the highly sensitive information close to your chest.

Robyn was operating under the misunderstanding that Ironwood actively strong-arming Mantle without reason. For all she knew - the Amity project out at the dust mines was another weapons/military secret. They shared with Robyn information that would paint Ironwood in a better light (he’s trying to restore communication) so that they can hopefully finish the project before Salem’s goons caught wind of what they are trying to do. They knew Robyn was doing something that wasn’t evil - she wasn’t the enemy Jimmy was making her out to be - and she would be able to understand why this was really happening.

“We just need a little more time” isn’t saying “Ironwood is the best forever - Mantle can suck it”. It’s saying “We don’t want to arrest you but we’d also appreciate it if you stopped attacking our trucks so that we can finish the CCT faster and help everyone.”

Obviously the show didn’t have time to elaborate on what Robyn did after that conversation - but the fact that she wasn’t arrested allowed her to be in the council room when everything went down in the v7 finale.

If anything it makes Ironwood more unreasonable for accusing them of betrayal - because they helped Robyn see that there was some goodness to his actions, and let her escape - which made their team up later in the volume go more smoothly. They laid out all the pieces for Ironwood and Robyn to reconcile on even ground and actually help the citizens of Mantle in the Out in the Open.

But immediately after that team up, he goes right back to ‘Robyn was our enemy and you weren’t loyal to me’. They only ‘betrayed’ Ironwood in the sense that they didn’t follow orders, they dared to try diplomacy instead of force, ooh so heinous! It worked out in the end, didn’t it? To quote Weiss: ‘None of that matters now!’