#because my memory is shit

[kristsune]

Challenge: make a poll of your five fave characters of all time, then tag five people to do the same

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[spaceoddeity]

Since Spotify Wrapped was somewhat meh this "year" (we shall ignore that I am six days too late) I've decided to sum up my musical experience of 2024 on here

so without much further ado and in somewhat cronological order: my music wrapped? auditory experience? song shenanigans? of 2024

Start of December 2023 with a shit ton of grandson, which I immediately know won't land on my spotify wrapped anywhere so uh. here it goes

get a 21 pilots poster (checkov arrives), a fall out boy poster and a panic!at the disco poster and slap them on my wall. Time to make up for all the emo shit I didn't do when I was a teen. everyone on the posters is a skeleton

listen to a unholy amount of go_a and during feburary. exams kick my ass (checkov applies to the esc 2021)

find stand atlantic. fuck yeah

find out stand atlantic is on tour and in my area later that year

get tickets for myself and a friend

start listening to a wee bit of alternative metal in form of two shadows (Checkov is getting out a gun)

21 pilots announce new album??? (checkov shoots)

ask a metalhead friend of mine about his dope jacket and end up getting three song recomendations that I end up listening to

said songs are all black metal, and I am listening to them at 1am alone while on the underground. and there's a full moon (checkov is shooting his gun again)

guess I'm listening to black metal now. I'm not complaining it's p damn good

listen to an ungodly amount of go_a during another exam phase, can't remember which one though

find Götterdämmerung by Zeal & Ardor. the black metal sure is metaling!

AC/DC concert literal day before an exam. fucking worth it though it was amazing (and full)

Sting Concert that was really damn good

find a fall out boy song I did NOT know about which is damn near a miracle (From Now On We Are Enemies my beloved)

more black metal

more stand atlantic

listen to airhead by honey revenge a lot during exam seasons. for no reason. no I am not relating too much.

listen to acting like that by yungbloodon loop for several days. look I said the exams fucked me over

Clancy releases and I listen to almost nothing but 21 pilots

grandson is back for the summer! in combination with Florida! by Taylor swift and Florence and the Machine. No I will not explain my reasons

and some good ol' Hozier, specifically Eat Your Young

listen to another black metal album that friend recommended to me during a horrendously long train ride

and Barns Courtney surprises me with an album

21 pilots is still around (and I got tickets to the tour!)

summers over, time for the stand atlantic concert

and I straight up didn't realize honey revenge would open for them but fuck yeah

Bonnie Fraser. maybe I am gay. (checkov shot his shot)

go to a black metal concert alone, even though I was supposed to go with like three different people

still end up befriending some lady named betty. if she's out there love you girl

more 21 pilots probably

October ends, so does spotify stealing my data and almost the next day I start listening to Blind Channel (checkov has won the esc 2021)

Spend the entirety of November and December listening to Blind Channel

Spotify Wrapped is incredibly meh but gives me fascinating insights into myself, like "why are 4/5 songs from top" and "my sexuality crisis has been solved by Bonnie Fraser indirectly calling me gay on her insta story because stand atlantic was my #2 band" (who would have guessed that #1 is top)

Barns Courtney springs Mother Teresa on me, time to integrate that into Blind Channel

end the year with a two month listening to nothing but one goddamn band streak (why. they're really good though)

All in all a pretty good year music-wise, plus I went to more concerts than I've ever been to before

[tazzykiki-fashion-queen]

I really love the caves in this game

[seefasters]

it makes sense for both beef and emerich to live in usetuben - beef is a has-been arm wrestler and emerich is a scientist who's responsible for like. most of hardlight technology but has been largely forgotten and cast aside by his peers

we have no fucking idea why montrose is in usetuben though. it goes with his personality and general character that we know nothing about him but also, why usetuben? he could probably be anyone and work at any layer. he's a fan of ephemera, why not work there? i think the only connection he has with like, the nostalgia theme thats going on in usetuben is his relationship with the animatronic family

so either he also used to be someone else and is now cagey about his past, or theres something else going on

[icaruspendragon]

i’m a girl in the same way olive garden is italian

[colloline]

I was deleting some pictures and came across some old ace attorney art in twitter folder i don’t think i posted here yet.

Strange how i didn’t really like my art back then but looking back now it used to be so much fun.

[cacaoespolvoreado]

I get why so much people makes Petey kinda tsundere and closed with his feelings because he is grumpy and traumatized, but in the comic books he is so caring and demostrative with Li'l Petey that I think he would be really sweet when he loves someone. Like, after he accepted Li'l Petey was his son he always put him first and try his best so he can feel loved.

(And even when he was in denial everyone was aware he loves Li'l Petey, even his enemies)

When Li'l Petey asked him if he was still mad at him (After letting an entire Ice cream fell on him when Petey told him to not eat on top of him) Petey was a little angry but made sure his son knows he will get over it.

When he was out of cat jail, first thing he did was buy everything he needed to take care of his child.

He had no obligation to let Dogman have shared custody but did it anyway because Li'l Petey missed him.

He accepted being evil again against his will to save Dogman and make his kid happy.

When he said he hated affect and Li'l Petey apologised he made sure to reassure he can do it, he was talking about everyone else (lol)

And he, indeed, is always carrying him, hugging him and telling him such lovely stuff

Am I making a point? Or I just wanted to show how cute and lovely he is with his son? Yes.

If you haven't read the comics please do yourself a favor and do it. I'm sorry but Comic Petey is the superior Petey.

Bonus because I almost cried at this part 😭 look at him trying to cheer him up

I know is not the same to love a child that to love a partner but I think it would be cute and funny that Petey is just the sweetest partner ever, like Dogman would have such a whiplash but I don't see him complaining since he loves physical affect.

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[svtskneecaps]

i also just want to point out the qsmp members' commitment to like never letting the inactive members die. like dantdm logged on twice and is canonically dead and everyone continues to blame mysterious happenstance on him. spreen is canonically dead and yet people are still like namedropping him even tho the house façade he built has been demolished and also probably consumed by a mountain. they meme on kameto who's barely been on except that time he was a fed spy that was iconic as hell. they just immortalize their members and they're always so happy to see old faces come back and it lowkey makes me emotional lmfaoo like missa barely logged on for a while but goddamn nobody forgot his name bc philza can't go one day without mentioning him and mariana barely logs on but every time fit saw the homeless mariana in roier's city no matter what he'd stop dead and tell it "come home" and when slime came back to the server for elections after having logged off for the last like two months everyone was still excited to meet him bc the others had kept his memories on the server fresh and alive, maxo died canonically in the nuke and pierre pasted his face all over the server, luzu vanished for months and we never forgot him either thanks to the computers and foolish's wack ass family tree. like when purgatory teams were chosen and team red constantly joked about how it would be so over for the other teams once germán logged on despite the fact that germán had only ever logged on ONCE, the way they cheered when they snatched rubius in the split of green despite the fact that rubius hadn't logged on more than twice since march. they just keep the names alive all the time and it's like

it just makes me really happy to see. like it makes me really happy. like the admin team and the members alike are like 'no way in HELL are we letting your memory go' like damn once ur on isla quesadilla you really are stuck as an islander forever :D

[hypertechnica]

i’m going to make fiddauthor art with fidds wearing his wedding ring and you are NOT going to like it

big obligatory banner that says “cheating is bad don’t do it i just like stories with relationship drama”

closeted, internally homophobic gay men who are married with kids has to be the trope i’m weakest to. no person involved is escaping the despair brought on by a relationship built on a well intentioned, desperate lie, born out of a desire to be normal and good

he WANTED to love her so fucking badly. he felt no ill will towards her and he loves their son more than words can say. he thought the attraction, the way she felt about him, would come with time. it didn’t. he doesn’t want to hurt her yet was doomed to from the start, and he’s truly, truly sorry. this does not absolve him of anything whatsoever and she has the full right to never want to speak with him again. he lied! he pretended to feel the same when he never once felt anything but platonic affection! he’s been in love with someone else this whole fucking time! and their kid… he’s caught in the middle of it all, too young to understand why his father would hurt his family like this.

and then he disappears and never comes back. imagine you’re 5 and your dad goes to the middle of the woods with his buddy for science shit, all of the sudden your parents are yelling on the phone and signing papers, and then he goes MIA. for years.

imagine your husbands “buddy” was the one he was thinking of all this time, not you, never you. and the first chance he gets to run away from you, he takes, and you should have been suspicious by the rushed frenzy of it all, the phone calls getting shorter and shorter until it fizzles to nothing. he forgot to get you a christmas gift. he hand-made him two. there has to be something wrong with you, it has to be your fault. you wish you married the man he becomes when he’s in his presence.

he folded when you started questioning him directly - he’d been to neurotic to ever be a good liar. you thought he was the one. he thought you were nice.

by the time the divorce is finalized he’s different in a wrong way. confused, angry, forgetful, insane - if the giant homicidal robot pterodactyl you’ve been harassed by is any indication. (he’s had a bad habit of building homicidal robots when he’s mad since they met -engineer things- but it was never directed at her - thankfully it never actually does anything) he’s clearly abusing drugs - you’d feel bad if he hadn’t abandoned you with the burden of explaining why your son can’t see his father anymore.

it’s a rotten bit of your soul, but time heals you. you move on and no longer think of him. trust in your career. find a man who truly loves you with no motives attached. raise your kid to be a good man. and in a fashion not unlike shakespearean dramatic irony, this makes him move to gravity falls to find and take care of his father. you couldn’t care less what hee doing now, but damn it, it’s his father, what is the kid supposed to do? but its futile- he appears to have no remorse, hell, no memory of the incident in the first place. (this isn’t his fault but how are they supposed to know that?) so he grows bitter and cold just like his mother used to be.

imagine that.

all over a mans inability to do anything but live in denial. to force himself to live in a box and pine like a dying man over the right one at the wrong time, destined to crash and burn. to take denial to a new level- a cult, brain damaging radiation, a total ego death - just to take the edge off. take off that damn wedding ring

[rmbunnie]

Okay so post-Seeing Red reread that comes with reading through Green Arrow 2001, I have 2 new things I've noticed and thought were interesting! This is the first, and the second will be here later on:

Ollie is kinda on his empathy A-game in this one? Like he's being a good dad, a good friend/colleague, it's impressive how much he isn't flying off the handle. I feel like all-in-all post-Mia-HIV-diagnosis, or maybe even post-City Walls, I can't pin down the shift exactly, he becomes much more self-aware in regards to his own temper and emotional shortcomings, and he doesn't like try to change that, but he does start avoiding situations that he knows he won't be able to handle with grace, (which feels like a much more natural progression for him and most characters in general than suddenly getting better and healing and no longer being flawed, but that's just my preference,) and he's doing his best with that in this one. All this to say, he:

keeps the conflict with Bruce to a minimum, except for when he's calling out his parenting style and rightfully upset by the possibility that Bruce only showed up in the first place to lure out Jason, and he and Mia were planned collateral. (It's worth noting that once he critiques Bruce's parenting, Bruce's knee-jerk response is to say pretty much "I know you're being mean and irrational because you're upset, but remember when Roy got addicted to heroin?" which, even disregarding the Roy part, he's kinda chalking any questioning of his parenting style up to Ollie just being upset, when like, that's a very valid critique of the situation. And I think context is added to his critique of Bruce's parenting style by acknowledging that a. that this comes after Bruce calling Jason "dirt in the gutter" and GA responding like "whatever you say," and b. Ollie is canonically aware that somehow, Jason ended up buried in rubble in his last fight with Bruce, meaning he has at least a rudimentary understanding of the Joker showdown (although I can't imagine he knows about the whole ultimatum part.) Several times throughout this run, Ollie alludes to Bruce being a difficult parent (mainly to Dick, via gossip from Roy,) but he doesn't know Jaybin well enough to even recognize him in Heaven, so I think it's entirely possible that when he says Bruce was a bad father to Jason, he's referring not only to Bruce's general closed-off and authoritarian approach to parenting, but specifically to recent, post-resurrection treatment of Jason, (maybe including the blowing up?) which would be VERY interesting.

sends Mia away when he wants to talk one-on-one with Bruce about Jason's turn towards evil! I don't know how I didn't notice this one in my first readthrough, but after she accidentally says something rude about Jason's death and the topic of drug dealing comes up, Ollie asks Mia to talk to one of her contacts about the weapons deal that's going on (and makes a point of praising her in front of Bruce for her network of sources and good information-gathering skills,) and then immediately goes in and tries to press Bruce on how hard it must be to see Jason doing the things he's doing (where Bruce doubles-down on having no residual care towards Jason.) This doesn't mean anything in the larger plot of things, but I think it's really sweet that once she gets embarrassed saying something insensitive, Ollie kinda gives her something to do off to the side so the adults can talk about something personal she'd be out of the loop on. I wonder if part of the reasoning behind sending her away is so she wouldn't be psyched out by the failed sidekick talk and the general idea of a sidekick dying, turning evil (relative to this way he was before,) and consequentially being abandoned (at a surface level,) by his hero parent, as opposed to Bruce's cautionary tale approach to the whole Jason debacle. It happens right when Bruce starts claiming that Jason is like, morally lost. The idea that she would see herself in Jason before the gym fight and Ollie could predict that upsetting her feels like a stretch typing it out, but a very interesting one imo. Either way, it's for the best that Mia wasn't around to hear the "another piece of dirt in the gutter" remark, and Ollie seemed to plan for this.

Gives Bruce run of the case, even before Jason comes into play, just in an effort to be cooperative, and because “he’s visiting." I'm also moderately obsessed with "Try and wear something nice tomorrow!" Like yeah Brucie public appearance, I understand what it actually means, but yelling "wear that dress I like ;)" out into the night is crazyyyy.

Is just so cute with Mia, if there’s one thing Green Arrow 2001 makes Oliver it’s a girldad. That really shines in this storyline. His first reaction to Mia when she escapes/is let out of the gym is “are you hurt? Did he hurt you?” he’s hyping her up, he keeps talking about Bruce’s “wild child” taking “his girl,” he’s actually explaining things about Bruce's m.o. and disposition to her, just being a great father all in all. And not to cornplate, but he makes a little joke about hating pineapple on pizza to some goons and Mia agrees with him pretty close after the Winick issue where she says it’s her favorite to the Teen Titans (another point of contrast with Bruce in the Mia-Jason parallel this storyline centers on: Oliver takes Mia to join the titans specifically so she can have a support system, while Jason was established to interact with them only behind Bruce’s back, under the pretense that he’d be punished for working with them, and dies isolated from his peers) which reads like she’s lying just so she can keep agreeing with her dad?? Mia Dearden cutest of all time! They both eat the pizza anyways...

I'm biased, but I just think it's kinda sweet that he continuously refers to Jason as "kiddo," "this kid," "wild child," etc. Like even mid-fight. idk Ollie acknowledging his actual age just hits, king of actually understanding the parental relationship between a sidekick and the hero who adopts him while Bruce makes a point of referring to both Jason and Mia exclusively as partners, charges, etc. all comic. Like it's ROUGH his direct response to GA calling him a hell of a father is admitting he has failings as a "mentor," both emphasized in quotes and bolded. Jason's wrong in the Mia conversation specifically about their fathers being the same, not because they aren't genuinely disconnected from his and Mia's backgrounds, they are, but because Oliver is a genuinely active parent, unbeknownst to Jason. And it's a leap in logic to think Mia's in the same spot, but with his reference to go off of? It's just a really fucking tough example to work off of, that he's internalized as the standard. But in reality, Ollie's... kinda killing it?

[heyimkana]

[genericpuff]

y'all have no clue how wild it is to live in my timeline, because 12 years ago i was a huge fan of these cute lil' zelda strips and at the time i found out through the grapevine that the creator apparently stopped making these comics because they had started drawing NSFW content-

and at the time i was like "oh ok that's wild but respect"

and now in the present the artist who's making the OMORI manga adaption is under fire for being a shota fetishist and it's putting the spotlight back on the OMORI creator themselves for ALSO being a shota fetishist and oh my god the omocat who made those zelda comics over a decade ago is the same omocat who went on to make OMORI holy shit-

[dustykneed]

pov: you're having your comphet removed 🌈🤯😤 (doctor's orders) 🙏🏼💫🩻

this is why bones only gets to play dress-up as a treat 😔 if they'd put him in a little blue tunic in plato's stepchildren it would've been deadly

@very-bad-poetry-captain was watching the cloud minders and generously brought these skimpy little guard outfits to my attention. and then i blacked out for two hours and...

[arolesbianism]

I received a vision and had to doodle it immediately

[gophergal]

boinga. boinga. boinga. boinga.

bonus heby weapon man:

[cherub014]

really quick descole doodles from memory because i was outside and i was not pulling up an image of that man in public