#do y’all get what I’m trying to say

[s4int0fthep1t]

i feel like people assume that i’m stalking their pages and spam-liking on purpose when in reality i just refresh tumblr every 30 seconds bc i get bored easily so a lot of the time i’m the first person liking people’s posts 😭😭😭

[thedesertpenguin]

So: 

Dennis in s6 is desperate for a marriage that he married Maureen. He wanted to be married, a reality in which two people have an emotional bond. He tried to have that with a woman his age but it fails because she doesn’t offer him the connection he wants.

In s7 e8 he agrees with Charlie’s assessment about social media and how it ruins human connection. Then says that whenever those people hear other having a real conversation, they shush them. They ruin the connection that he’s having.

We find out in s7 e11 that Dennis has long talks with his hookups (so you don’t have a great relationship w/your father) that are inherently emotional. Under the pretense that it’s with the system but this the first hookup. Not the one after he traumatizes the girl that leads to the “most emotional” and “best bang” of all. He connects to them. They’re younger women, they’re easier to connect with and talk to.

In Tends Bar, he wants the Gang to acknowledge his emotional needs. And wanted some form of connection with the Gang. He sees that Mac can offer him that and meet his emotional needs.

In the s12 finale, he feels a connection to his son. Instead of staying with the Gang who’s system is to move on the second they fail, he goes to where he believes he’ll have a connection.

In Frank v. Russia, his system is about connection, on a deeper level. He wants these men to view them as their mommy. Creating an emotional connection, however artificial.

Then here in the s16 finale. All he wanted was a person to connect with him. He didn’t want to talk to a machine he wanted real human connection. He continued to imagine Mac meeting and understanding his needs. He remembers the faces of everyone he walked past in order to concoct the situation in which he crushes a man’s heart into a diamond and eats it (while he imagined Mac trying to create diamonds from a pressure cooker, something’s there I’m sure). The idea of connecting with someone (to the point that he eats the diamond heart but like that’s just standard Dennis things) actively lowers his blood pressure.

Instead of putting himself in an imaginative bubble where he immediately connects with someone. He HAS to put himself through tremendous amounts of anger and frustration. That’s what makes the connection work. He went through all of that and that makes the connection with the dude so much more cathartic in his mind.

All this while he can’t recognize that that’s what he wants. That he only goes after younger women for plenty of reasons, one of which being that older women have consistently hurt him (his mom being uh, Barbara Reynolds and Ms. Klinsky). He cant go for a woman older than him because of that. He’s never met a woman his age that will connect with him the way he wants (He can’t seem to allow himself to fully connect with Dee). To the point that the women in his fantasy are constantly being the subject of his anger even if it is because of a system. He’s still yelling at these women.

It’s worth noting that he’s angry at the people who created a system. He’s created multiple. Multiple systems that have complicated and convoluted steps.

Then when he had that moment of connection it’s with a man. Because always, his emotional and human needs were met by a man.

He has always wanted human connection.

Anyway, fun episode im very normal about this.

[dimsilver]

the downside of my boyfriend and I both being very easily pleased is that we can never decide where to eat

[princessefemmelesbian]

Well would you look at this. 😵‍💫 Because obviously if you dare say anything as wild and controversial as “lesbians don’t like men, please stop using a label that hurts us and tries to force men into our identity” you’re a raging terf radfem transmisogynist. Because obviously ONLY trans women use the bi lesbian label and it’s not like there are transfem lesbians who are rightfully against the label as well or anything and it’s not like terfs use the label to refer to cis lesbians who date trans women and why can’t you just let people identify as how they want of course lesbians like men stop the infighting already if you disagree with me that lesbians can like men then surely that’s because you’re an exclusionist gatekeeper who hates trans women.

[beckkii]

what really fucks me up is the fact that like. we still technically don’t know whether spamton’s “heaven” is the light world or our reality (aka outside the game)

because the fact that he was (presumably) able to see the light world through the shadow crystal would explain why he would want to reach there to be big. it would also make sense narratively, since reaching the light world would give him importance, as his purpose as a darkner is clearly not working for him

but then again, he knows what the sun looks like (and is seemingly obsessed with it, given how he has it painted everywhere). and there are no windows in the computer lab. so, the sun probably doesn’t refer to the light world, since he never saw it through the crystal. he COULD possibly just know what the sun looks like based on common knowledge, but…IS that common knowledge? do regular darkners know what the light works looks like?

wanting to reach our reality would ALSO make more sense when you think about how he’s likely in contact with gaster—the same guy who presumably told jevil the world is a game and knows about our reality

so…???

[zeb-z]

Bad has so many reasons to be cautious, even paranoid, as anyone else on the island. From Federation nonsense to Dapper being kidnapped to the whole purgatory nonsense to whatever fuckass suit of armor “old friend” was setting up cameras in his house. But it compounds on his regular overly aware paranoid self to this state of hyper-paranoia. And as a demon who can and usually will lie, cheat, steal, and use sneaky underhanded tactics, he expects the craziest extent because he thinks of it, realizes it’s possible, and would use it himself. We saw this very obviously in purgatory - when he thought greens desperate last ditch effort to balance the scale was a super planned out tactic to tip the scale, so he did it first, all the hardcore base hunting, the spawn killing, there’s a reason every other tactic he used usually followed a main channel qsmp post with updated rules - all usually things he was surprised no one else thought of. But then this also piles onto the fact that he has to have things go his way, all the time, and that he’s argumentative as all get out, which led to the debate between him and Bagi yknow. Especially because he’s not just doing it for the sake of being right, he doesn’t think he’s paranoid, but that he’s exercising the right amount of caution.

So like. Listen dude. Yeah he’s got reasons to be paranoid. But his thought process around building vaults for separate cookie caches like they locked up the risus pills, only to scrap it because it’s not perfectly impenetrable, is extreme. His character has hardly been a leading example in someone who has reasonable reactions to things. And even when there isn’t his own children’s livelihoods potentially on the line, he has a need for control, and the most control he has is if he keeps the cookies in his inventory at all times. If he makes himself the sole point in which the others can get ones in a case of emergency, then he can control the variables. The problem is he’s unreliable about himself when he’s at his most rational and healthiest, and he’s far worse with the current memory and health issues he’s been mostly unaware of.

I dunno it’s like. There is never going to be a purely impenetrable base. And it’s not just a case of “Bagi just hasn’t lived through __ yet!”. Bad’s own logic about keeping the cookies on him at all times is flawed under his own logic, because Bagi is right - if someone has enough drive to break into separate secured cookie caches purely for the downfall of eggs, they more than certainly have enough drive to find a way to kill Bad and just take them from his inventory, or to just kill the eggs themselves. All it truly does is give Bad a sense of control, and soothe his paranoia.

[carefulfears]

is that what you think i want to hear?

[theshadowrealmitself]

I can’t articulate it, but it gets to me that, outside of Spock and I think Tuvok, being logical and regulating emotions isn’t something that Vulcans are shown to just endure, the same way they endure lower temperatures for other species, or higher oxygen for other species, or anything else that has to be incredibly uncomfortable at best to painful at worst that they just endure

The vibe I get from it is that a majority of Vulcans enjoy it, they like being logical, maybe they didn’t get a choice in being logical as kids, but unlike the select few like Sybok, they don’t seem to be resentful that they were raised like that at all

This isn’t just something they’re all forced to do now to prevent their emotions from causing their species’ end, dedicating themselves to logic brought them inner peace

[daincrediblegg]

Nothing wrong with me

[easypeasylindyvesey]

the fact that people around my age are getting engaged is INSANE

[blupengu]

Y’all is Hollow Knight hard or do I just suck because oh my god??

[spicyicymeloncat]

Tumblr pls be normal about morally complex characters. Stop going 0 or 100 on their morality. Stop ignoring the interesting and unique story telling being presented to you in favour of going “nono that’s my UwU sugar plum sweet baby boi baby, disregard the canon bc I actually only want wholesome vibes from my horror games”

[cas---2y5]

siri tell me where I can get a fucking grip

[leahthedreamer]

I refuse to participate in fs discourse in the off season anymore.

If someone says something stupid that’s on them EYE will not go back and forth with fellow fs watchers as there is never any nuance whatsoever on who’s offended who’s not offended who wants to forgive who wants to forget who wants to say xyz. I’m over ittt.

[transannabeth]

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[mybiasisexo]

rents due and I’m $400 short