#and i wanna learn about the things my friends care about!

[m1lkyw4yw1sh3z]

MAD SCIENTIST SPRUNK IS CRAZYYY AND IM ALL FOR IT!!! I so wanna talk about itttt it’s been on my minddd

Yippee yippee yippee glad you enjoy the AU concept :) !!!

In this AU, Black/Hatter comes from a species of aliens that is known to travel across galaxies researching different forms of intelligent life. In 90% of cases said species' work is entirely benign and non-invasive, just driven by curiosity and a desire to increase their understanding of their universe. They like to observe, not to meddle-

What Hatter ends up putting the Sprunkis through is an EXTREME outlier, very much not the norm. Had his colleagues known what he was planning, he'd have never gotten away with it, even. We cannot emphasize enough that this is not normal for his species.

Hat's just got an incredibly warped view on ethics and a weakness for the sunk cost fallacy :(

Once he really starts making himself at home in the town, we think he'd get along best with Clukr and Garnold, since they're fellow scientists (albeit more so in the engineering/computer science realm).

They swap stories of their respective scientific discoveries, constantly trying to subtly one-up each other lol. It's all in good fun though!! Perhaps if circumstances were different, the three of them could have created great things together...

This post is already getting a bit long lol, putting the rest under the read more-

Warning for slight themes of psychological horror 👍

This version of Hatter does care about the Sprunkis on some level. It unfortunately just happens that his care for them is overshadowed by his desire to go through with his experiments. He's too stubborn to change his plans, too selfish even.

He cares about them, maybe even claims to love some of them (platonically)... but in the end it's more so as a cherished research project than as friends.

This results in his interactions with them being somewhat contradictory. He's manipulating them, but he shows no ill will towards those unwilling to trust him. He's not acting out of malice, after all, and he's perfectly willing to play the long game to ensure things play out as simply and painlessly as possible-

In the meantime, he can enjoy being around them, can enjoy pretending they mean something more to him than just mildly interesting samples on a petri dish.

Befriending them, learning about them on a more personal level, it becomes something of a side project to him.

He never does earn that trust, of course. A shame.

[husku-u]

I listen to the Polyphia discography once and ive been possesed by a pholosipher>

Human connecton and thought is so beautiful and facinatingly imperfect, we can never fully understand anyones thoughts and experences but that doesnt stop us from trying constantly! We make such an effort and have the desire to understand what we never fully can just to see the joy it brings to anotehr person, we dont undrestand why one person cares about this one thing but we understand and know the joy a simple thing can bring to someone as we have our own lights that are important to us! And we make so much effort to take the time to engage with others about their important lights because we understand how overwhelmingly joyful it is to talk about them because of our own experences! Even if we ourselves arent the most interested in their lights, we do anyway because of the joy it brings them!

Its so easy to forget that none of us experence things the same way but making the effort to listen and try to understand someone else is the best feeling in the world, conversations about the little things in our head that bring us joy is one of the most human and fundementle things! I may never care as much about a thing that y friend adores cus its their thing but i dont need to! All i need to do is want to connect with them and listen about why they care about this thing because i care about them! And I may want them to love the things i do but at the end of the day they dont need to feel the same way about a thing that i do to connect through it!

i am mildly sleep deprived but FUCK HUMANS ARE SO COOL AND WONDERFUL AND WE ALL CARE SO MUCH AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER IS FLAWED AND YET WE TRY AND ITS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT WE CARE ABOUT ONE ANOTHER SO MUCH AS TO ACCEPT THAT WE MAY NEVER KNOW EVERYTHING BUT WE SPEND ALL THE TIME WE HAVE TO EXPLORE THOSE THINGS.

[pardonmydelays]

i think my biggest problem is that i've always been this kind of friend who's like "i may not understand your favourite thing in the world but i'm here to listen, support it with all my heart and be excited about it with you", so i kinda expect my friends to do the same thing for me. if it matters to you, it's important.

[victoriacoffee]

Poor Dream, enjoying his days with friends on the server, wearing friendship bracelets gifted to him, and filling many scrapbooks and journals with all the special moments he cherishes with his friends....not even realizing how many would not just turn on him but seek to kill him in the most painful ways they could think of when the plan was enacted

[supergraphicultramoderngirl]

aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[pnsge]

i want to be mysterious so bad but i cannot shut the fuck up

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

The sleepover scene always breaks my heart 😭 literally me at 12

[killjoy-prince]

Ray's After Ending is so funny because for a good chunk of it, most of the RFA members are knocked out by V's sleeping gas (Saeran is immune, Saeyoung isn't present bc he was kidnapped by his agency under his father's orders and MC wakes up in like an hour) but the game has a call feature where you can call the characters and it would be a waste if you couldn't use it bc the characters were unavailable so instead they have other people pick up the call (Jumin's driver picks up Jumin's phone, Jumin's father picks up Zen's phone, Yoosung's friends and mom pick up Yoosung's phone and Jaehee's coworkers pick up Jaehee's phone) and we do get to learn about the characters from outsider's point of view but it's so funny to me that these people are visiting their loved ones and suddenly the phone rings and they decide to just. answer it. and start talking to this stranger they've never met

[musingmycelium]

. noncoherent but also thoughts

[britneyshakespeare]

He won't leave my fucking friends alone.

[chillllii]

when the audhd is fun until you become "i really really really have to give my input/side/idea and i dont give a fuck who's talking or what everyone was initially talking about" and before this site's illiteracy kicks in i'm certain we're all guilty of this to some extent

[closedrop]

Guys can we normalize not making fun of the things I like please?

[gifti3]

Im cursing [REDACTED] right NOW

[kimjiwoong]

maybe life is all about continuing to do things even if the media keeps telling you AI will make it useless to learn that particular thing

[pepprs]

hm. i think i am going to stop going to counseling. he does not understand me. he pathologizes things that are not pathological.

[ive-fallen-and-i-cannot-get-up]

u ever drift from one friend group to another but ur still kinda friends with ur old friends and u realise that ur new friend group is so much nicer. like they’re both nice to u but every now and then ur old friends make a joke that a) isn’t that funny and b) is kinda mean to a group of ppl i.e. fat ppl and ur just like “huh either i’ve matured and u haven’t or i just didn’t realise how empathetic ppl could be before i met my new friends”