#how to know its real not fake

[cher-munity-notes]

Hello!

We are a blog made only to add "context" to the posts of the JRWIRP blogs! Please use plural pronouns only when talking about us, thank you!

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hi so my main is @s0lar-ch3ri and this is a bit from the jrwirp server, its just for comedic reasons! i am not plural myself but would still enjoy having multiple pronouns be used for this blog tysm chat <3

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#noted and goated: added community notes

#questioning your community: asks

#how to know its real not fake: notes with sources

#cherrys not noting: out of character/not added reader context

[cher-munity-notes]

Readers added context: This format is a reference to a somewhat popular meme in corners of the internet. Source:

me: 2 monster and an ibuprofen breakfast is the most important meal of the day that’s right

my guardian angel (currently taking the form of mark winters to get me to listen to him): do we think a vegetable would cause less despair

[palarien]

i'm geasspilled ᵗʷᶦᵗᵗᵉʳ ᵐᶦʳʳᵒʳ

[gaminegay]

Genuinely i wonder how common it is to hallucinate / perceive things oddly / have a notably altered perception of things

[cher-munity-notes]

Readers added context: There were rumours of Captain Rose having once said "damn right im fucking up this shit". Despite how many may tell you this is in reference to the dance floor at Kyle's 33rd birthday party, make no mistake, "this shit" was Edyn Tidestrider. Source:

..

I tried. I promise you I did. They found . I cant feel the rest of my body. I can barely type this.

[wanderingibon]

"Every Mourn Watcher must deal with grief in their own way. "

[fuzzbuns]

Happy birthday kazuaki ig. I kept thinking about him reading the velveteen rabbit and having an awful time lol

[cher-munity-notes]

Readers added context: Reuben Price tends to be a bit of a dickwad and can be easily made to throw hissy fits like a toddler. Source: Scroll through the Reuben Price blog.

Im not

Im not your fucking brother

Stop saying that Stop it stop it stop it

Okay? And leave my son Ollie alone

@millenniumchibo

No. I won't stop. Why? Because your my fucking brother whether you like it or not. If you don't like it why don't you come to allport and fucking fight me.

Because asking me to stop isn't gonna erase the fucking years we spent together. Not for you or me.

Now Ollie? He's an almost blank slate. AND, If your so fucking worried why don't you check up on him? Because there's not much left I need to do now anyway. To offer you some... Mercy.

Know that I haven't done anything to him, yet.

[topicaltropic]

EPISODE 8 OF THE DUNGEONS AND DADDIES GRAPHIC NOVEL IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER !

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To elaborate more on the Pesterquest stuff -

Alternia is a hell world. It's shitty to live in, even if you're a highblood, unless you fit a very specific mold of person AND are lucky enough to be born of a high caste. Every troll character we care about is, in some way, fucked over by their relationship to their society; Eridan and Vriska get it the worst, having been forced to participate in the murdering side of things since they were young, but every lowblood is screwed and every highblood is made worse even just by their passive participation. Kanaya becomes less sympathetic because she seems completely at peace with the society she grew up in, and Feferi wants to enforce casteism, even if it's of a different flavor. Gamzee and Equius both hold genuinely casteist beliefs and attitudes, which slip out and alienate them from the people they care about.

Putting a friendship simulator into the middle of all this is... a choice, I guess. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for wanting that or liking that, but it's going to be inherently at odds with what Alternia is and is meant to represent, and thus, fundamentally at odds with many of the characters' arcs and even basic personality traits, so heavily are they influenced by the shit society they grew up in.

For a non-Eridan example, Karkat loathes himself in massive part because his society loathes him. He's kill-on-sight and lives in daily terror of death. He wears a symbol at all because not having one marks him as even more of a freak, even though he knows that that symbol is connected to the empire's biggest rebel, whose footsteps he is expected to follow. The reason he's so obsessed with being leader-y and earning his teammates' reapect, or the respect of anybody, is because he's so deeply insecure about whether or not he even deserves to exist.

If you soften Alternia to the point you can write a lighthearted friendship simulator in it, then that characterization... goes away. Karkat is no longer motivated by deep, overwhelming insecurities, which drive him to idolize the society that deems him unworthy, mistakenly believing that if he can find validation in that society, he'll feel less bad about himself. Instead, Karkat is just kind of an asshole!

It's the same way with Eridan. He and Karkat are equal and opposite in this way - while Karkat is marked for death by his society, Eridan belongs to the extremely privileged caste of sea dweller royalty - even moreso than Feferi, as Feferi is slated to be murdered by the Condesce as soon as she comes of age (and her ridiculous optimism is likely something she cultivated in outright defiance of this fate). But it turns out that being a sea dweller sucks shit, too, if you aren't the extremely niche type of person that society deems "correct."

Eridan is not actually casteist and genuinely likes his land dweller friends - and this is unacceptible. Not only that, but smaller "unacceptible" offenses are wrapped up in big ones - despite not liking murder and feeling guilty about it, murder is objectively the correct thing for Eridan to be doing, constantly, to the point of it being "all [he's] ever done practically," because if he doesn't fulfil the duty of his bloodline to be murdering lusii (and by extension, their charges, who are culled when their lusii die), EVERYBODY dies. The constant push-pull of trauma, societal expectations and obligations, the fate of the species, and the fact that he is inherently not the "right" kind of person for his society, are pretty much his entire character. He's basically a walking ball of anxiety and emotional turmoil.

So, again, if you soften Alternia to the point where you can write a story about Eridan wanting to see Shrek in a public theater (something he would not actually be able to peacefully do in canon Alternia - at least not without taking off his cape, hiding his fins, and going anonblood - as sea dwellers are considered ridiculously hostile to the point even Gamzee's nervous about being on the beach for too long), Eridan ends up being just kind of an asshole!

Pesterquest!Eridan is, and I cannot stress this enough, fundamentally not the same guy as canon Eridan. They have practically nothing in common, from the fact that PQ!Eridan is willing to do something for leisure, to the fact that he isn't widely feared and the movie theater doesn't empty out in a panic when he turns up, even down to the fact that he likes femme fashion (canon Eridan goes to Lengths to lean into masc fashion) and Shrek (canon Eridan is a hipster). Hell, even the fact that PQ!Eridan SMILES is a massive deviation from canon!Eridan, who has never once been depicted smiling, and probably hasn't for many sweeps.

Also that he has that much beef with Sollux when, canonically, the two had a lukewarm mutual dislike and didn't even bother interacting until Feferi was added to the mix and Eridan became mad that Sollux was dating her. He wasn't even casteist about him until then, and after, even Sollux and Feferi don't think he's casteist, they just think he's ashenflirting so he can get into a quad with Feferi. Like come on, if you're going to feature another troll in Eridan's route, 1) make it be Karkat, and 2) have Eridan cheat on you the whole time with Karkat like he does to Feferi.

Eridan is just overall a wild choice in a friendship sim - I can't even blame them for just writing an OC and putting an Eridan skin on top - because societally, Eridan isn't even supposed to have non-sea dweller friends. The sea dweller/land dweller race war is something the Condesce deliberately put into place in order to keep land dwelling nobility in line, and Equius cites it as one of the reasons he never got along with Eridan. Like, the very fact that Eridan talks to two land dwellers on friendly terms (Kanaya and Karkat) is a MASSIVE deviation from what he's "supposed" to be like, and a huge hint that he's not as casteist as he'd like to appear. You are genuinely hundreds, if not thousands, of times likelier to end an encounter with Eridan either orphaned or dead than as his friend. He's an unstable maniac, and there's a reason so many members of his team don't like him even though he's legitimately not casteist and they mostly seem aware of it (nobody really complains about or even notices Eridan's casteism by the time they're on the meteor - his contradictions are really obvious, and it's likely that they've more or less realized that he's full of shit).

Again, I don't begrudge anybody for wanting or liking PQ. Who cares, really. I'm just saying that as a canon discussion blog, there's not really any place for PQ because it's so far removed from canon that, like, there's not really anything meaningful to discuss about it. The setting and characters in PQ are fundamentally divested from canon, and not even in an AU way. And it's totally fine if that's what you like, but, yeah, like.

Was Eridan written well (where "well" = accurate to canon): no. Maybe he's fine as an OC with an Eridan Minecraft skin slapped on, but that's not my beautiful son, that's not my baby boy.

What did they get wrong about Eridan (where "wrong" = inaccurate to canon): all.

What route would I have written for Eridan: he shoots you with a gun and you die. And then maybe cheats on you with Karkat

[cher-munity-notes]

Readers added context: (to my viewers of not in character, for once a note for you to see to start these: Ollie has heard swears aboard the Albatross, and even in the show has accidentally sworn. While he does end up correcting himself, it is still something he knows) There may not just be a target on his back. Source: Jayson knows your in the Black Sea.

Hey girl, Ollie is popping off at insulting Jayson but I have a couple concerns:

He's gonna put a target on his back

He's swearing like a lot, like I get a couple swears but who taught him to talk like that

He might seek out navy soldiers and get himself hurt

Please check on him 💕

bet

[cher-munity-notes]

Readers added context: It is very easy to love and hate Chip. People also like to accomplish things in games that they can't in real life. Source: This wife he could divorce without dying first.

chip would play stardew valley and make it a goal to marry and divorce in the first year

[sonknuxadow]

genuinely the sonic and shadow generations thing sounds so fake but everyone keeps talking about it as if its real so i have no idea how to feel about it . i mean its not that i think its impossible but this whole thing sounds like something people would say when theyre just making shit up and calling it a leak

[threepoint14art]

He was such a cute kid i wonder where all of that went

[turnedpalefromlackofsun]

this girl threatened to doxx me

she pulled up my name

its not my name.

her mutuals were gassing her up too. i gave her a chance and even corrected her a bit.

i mean, at least shes smart enough to not trust me....?

they were right when they said these kids are technologically illiterate. and i thought i was bad.

[cher-munity-notes]

Readers added context: your both so mentally stable totally /sarc Source: This whole blog.

So I’m gonna go ahead and assume we’re not worried about the air that might have gotten into the liver with how long you carried it around. Even a little bubble could cause a cutoff of circulation or cardiac arrest, you know

he is NOT gonna have a FUCKING HEART ATTACK, okay?! he’s not! it’s not fucking happening! he’s gonna be FINE and he’s gonna WAKE UP and he’s gonna have a PERFECTLY NORMAL heartbeat!