#i'm picky

[noperopesaredope]

A Really Stupid Pet Peeve of Mine

One random thing that annoys me sometimes for some reason is when people refer to Patton solely as Thomas’ “moral side.” Like, when someone is introducing all the sides, they say the Logan is logic, Virgil is anxiety, Roman is creativity and passion, and Patton is morality.

The series may have recently been leaning into the moral aspect of Patton more, but he has previously been established to be a lot more broad than that. He preserves all of Thomas’ more nostalgic memories (as shown in Moving On Parts 1 & 2). He encourages Thomas to do the little things that make him happy (Mind vs. Heart and Growing Up show this especially well). He often says that he is Thomas’ emotions, or at least holds them.

Patton is fun and playful and sometimes ignores doing these more “ethics” centric duties in order to just enjoy life. In fact, most of the time, it seems like being Thomas’ moral compass is kind of a side gig rather than his main job.

His sense of morality is also shown to be both firm and loose at the same time. He has his core central values, and definitely has some of the more simplistic stuff down, but most of his more complex moral decisions are pretty in the moment and it feels like those more intense ones are more...shaky? If that’s the right word? His moral compass gets very confused and mixed up quite easily, and while that can happen to us all, it seems odd for a side whose whole thing is morality.

I was thinking about his almost contradictory nature a bit ago, as the title wasn’t adding up to me. How can he be Morality but also be the one in charge of the majority of Thomas’ emotions? That doesn’t make any sense. He seems more like just Thomas’ emotions who strongly affects his morals. So what does he have to do with morality? Then I remembered something that was right in front of my face: they don’t always refer to him as morality. Sometimes, they would call him Thomas’ “heart.”

And that makes so much more sense than him being morality specifically. Him being the heart explains everything about him and his actions. Metaphorically, we say that our feelings are stored in the heart, and that our heart is where some of our more instinctual morals are. The heart is often carefree and sometimes a bit fickle, often changing course in the moment.

It also explains why Patton’s moral dilemmas felt so weird to me. Because he isn’t morality specifically. He is more the instinctual and emotion driven side of morality. You could argue that ethics are always driven by emotion, but ethics also do sometimes have a sense of “logic” to them. Ethics are complicated, which is likely why Patton has such a hard time with his morality. It’s because it’s only a part of his job, and it isn’t his job alone.

So everything made sense. Patton isn’t Morality, he is Heart. He is Thomas’  sadness, happiness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust. He is the most simplistic and yet most complex side. His job is probably one of the hardest, in a way, as he carries many of the most all consuming and overwhelming emotions, like sadness and grief.

Now, there are other sides like Virgil and perhaps the Orange side (if people’s theories are correct) who are in charge of certain emotions. But Patton is in charge of the basic ones specifically. Thomas has a fear of spiders, and therefore Patton has a fear of spiders, whereas Virgil doesn’t. If we are going with the theory that Orange is something like Wrath or Rage, that is still slightly different from anger. And we rarely associate anger with the heart either way, unless it is very deeply rooted. On top of this, Rage and Wrath are much more festering, something that doesn’t seem to fit with what Patton is about.

All in all, this is my probably completely pointless post about why Patton is Thomas’ Heart, not his Morality. This is a really dumb thing to get annoyed over, but I just needed to let it out. It can lead to so many misconceptions about him as a character if we go with the mindset that his entire title is Morality rather than Thomas’ Heart. I’m pretty sure that everyone will read this post and say “well yeah, duh, we already know that. Way to state the obvious and get worked up over nothing.” But in my defense, I am neurodivergent and particular about everything.

So yeah, those are my thoughts on that.

[yeesiine]

I'm picky but...

[amekonocternia]

Felt silly

[dezertvideogames]

"Why are you so picky when it comes to video games?!"

Well you see, my brother and I grew up extremely poor. We often didn't have internet and couldn't consistently research the games we were buying. We had to work entirely off of rumor and game casing to infer it was going to be a fun buy.

If we agreed on getting a game we knew it was going to one of four new games we got in a span of years. If you have a good game that doesn't matter. There is so much to do in a good game. Even if you finish it, you'll be willing to do it all over again just for the fun of experience.

We got one shitty video game once, and never were the same

[froggybangbang]

got tagged by @tsnbrainrot to list my top five songs on repeat at the moment. One of which is 100% their fault. Here they are.

I'm literally tagging everyone reading this coz i want all of the music recs! Tag me i really do want this!

If you don't pay for spotify, and therefore can't listen to just one song, they are amongst the song on my Right Now playlist here. I promise all the songs are good? Some are on the slow side cos i often listen to it as i go to bed (muse and spice girl songs especially).

[theotherpacman]

there are TWO covers of washing machine heart by mitski that I like.

mitski - washing machine heart (cover) - YouTube

julia dróżdż. very fun unique take on the instrumentals, and her singing really captures the vulnerability of the lyrics I think

washing machine heart | mitski cover - YouTube

clem turner. great voice and absolutely GENIUS repetition of the "I know who you pretend I am" line throughout the rest of the song.

that is all. goodbye

[shslpunkartist99]

I need a new sketchbook

The one I have left is bigger than my usual books, and it feels weird to "waste" the size for simple 1-2 character drawings

[nenoname]

stan ignoring mysteries and weirdness for 30 years balancing out his family's innate curiosity and being why the blind eye ignored him for that long

[cerealsnail]

stardew brainrot x1000000

[anicomicqueen]

Oh I love this always. This is the ONLY Link/Zelda I actually ship

before we became legends / the place both of us began

[bluerosefox]

I want more Dad!Tim stuff. (And once again a deaged Danny and Ellie idea)

So let's go do that.

So you know those DPxDC AUs where Tim makes a deal with either Clockwork or Danny to carry Ellie? Or Tim is a reborn Danny whose carrying Ellie instead (love these first btw) in order to get Bruce out of the time stream.

Well what about instead of just Ellie, it's both her and Danny.

Danny and Ellie who were badly hurt by the GIW that they both had to revert into their cores. They are saved by their friends/family and are taken to Frostbite. There they are monitored and looked after only until they can finally the reform but they run into a problem. The two can't return to their home dimension due to the GIW activity and they cant stay to long in the Infinite Realms cause they are still halfas. Then one day CW appears to speak with Frostbite over something important about the two.

Meanwhile in the DCverse.

Tim might have figured a way to save Bruce from the timestream. A being known as Clockwork might be able to help him if he manages to summon the powerful 'Ancient'.

However he knows summoning and requesting it's help he will have to pay a price.

If it means getting Bruce back he'll do it...

[biscylbenzene]

day 24 - no lines allowed (lineless art)

he's so kickable it's all i can think about

[priskeys]

the minecraft article team wants us to fuck the mobs

[papanorth]

Motherfuckers got me again

[neramint]

I don't dabble in ships very often but these two just make me happy

Yes, Saint has four arms :]

[jdorian]

9-1-1 • S4E12 ↳ “Treasure Hunt”