#i'm trying not to be obsessed with this goddamn muppet but.

[mhaccunoval]

you're laughing. roy's pissed to high hell and you're schoolgirl twirling your hair and laughing

[autisticempathydaemon]

hellooooo i'd love a redacted match up pls, i love your writing!

song & lyrics: cinderella snapped by Jax: I don't need no prince to save me, I'm a goddamn CEO

Enneagram 4 (hmmmmmm but the test I took showed a strong mix with 8, 5, 2 and 3)

Youtube video essays: yes, Sara Z!

fall asleep to: podcasts

name change: no!

What is your favorite of raudios: the wolfboi trifecta, growth gif

Not interested in: Ollie. sweet guy, but no hook!

movie: muppet treasure island, god tier.

platonic raudio bff: LASKO. let us be dnd buddies. not my romantic dynamic.

sleepy rambles: current hyperfixation!!

fave playlist: bops and empowerment!

guilty pleasure: josei manga.........

other facts: chronically self aware, and too earnest and honest, which has led to shitty situations. can be opinionated, but mostly passionate? cares too much. empathy overdrive. thinks that everyone could be kinder. tries to live by that. escapism as a coping mechanism. still trying to figure self out. adopts people, protective & loyal, would take a bullet for friend/family. has gotten into sticky situations because of that too (not nearly as big and threatening as imagined). comes off as arrogant and confident, but is actually an anxious marshmallow.

Oddly enough, this conjured an immediate, adorable mental image of you, on the couch, cuddled under a blanket with your laptop and video essays, explaining what in god's name Homestuck is to Gavin.

You and Gavin have so many similarities to each other but not the kind of or so many that you wouldn't work as a pair, does that make sense? You're both very loyal with these tough, arrogant exteriors that are shielding a really soft, intensely loving interior, and yet you complement each other really well in the places you differ. Where Gavin is flirty and avoidant, you are direct and forthright. Where you might be self-aware and sensitive, Gavin could be bold and casual to a fault. It's a lovely balance the two of you would manage together.

What makes me think the two of you would make a lovely pair, or the main thing, is that I think you could be really fast friends and would like all the same things. Gavin canonically is kind of behind on pop culture, Drag Race references be damned, so he would love having you teach him. You could show him the Muppet movies! I think he would clown on them at first, but you'd win him over, I'm sure of it.

Song:

Watching the video that you sent me/ The one where you're showering with wet hair dripping/ You know that I'm obsessed with your body/ But it's the way you smile that does it for me

This song works on so many levels. It's a kind of sensual, dare I say- sexy, song which aligns with Gavin's flirtatious, incubus nature. Yet, like Gavin, it is more than that. It's intimate on an emotional level; There is more to it and Gavin and your relationship than that.

Runner-ups:

You and Huxley would also work as that sort of couple that make fantastic best friends as well as partners; for some reason, he just leans more platonically than romantically in my mind. Perhaps it's because you two strike me as even more similar than you and Gavin. Asher is closer to a good fit, in that I see a romantic spark there, in that he would easily bring you out of your shell. However, nothing compares, to me, to the way you and Gavin would draw each other out.

Note: be not ashamed of the josei manga it is such a cute genre and I love the soft, almost demure way they're drawn I'm a big fan of them

Want a match-up of your own? Read this post, and tell me about yourself! 💌

[knowlesian]

ok, it doesn't look like anyone else asked, but i do want to know what your favorite jokes are (other than the genius crystal one)!!

A MILLION YEARS LATER and while i am drinking starbucks i have none to share, etc etc etc jokes.

and speaking of jokes (what a transition robert evans eat your heart out, shoutout to any other behind the bastards fans) here's another favorite on the list, since i've covered a couple since you sent this as i am wildly behind on asks, oops.

this time it's frenchie's response to stede trying to get everybody to say they'll talk it through as a crew.

(i feel like i read an interview with joel where he said that line was ad-lib, but i also might be entirely misremembering that. if i am not just making that up, as a writer sidenote i love how a lot of the improv moments seem to be done in the style of 'here's the basic thing going on, we will give you space on set to come up with the funniest version of it' nods from the writers. when you've got a cast like this let 'em rip, etc.)

frenchie has this cool thing going on where he's capable of both realistic codeswitching and what i am forced to call narrative codeswitching (mostly because i don't know what else to call it). if we attack things from the lens where ed and his crew switched metaphorical canons from gritty pirate drama to muppets, frenchie is the one who realizes that and asks ed if they're about to die instead of muppeting out about how cool it is that Thee Blackbeard is on their ship.

(in a fun beat since they're the other member of the crew ed keeps around, jim also identifies the potential of non-comedy stabbing but doesn't say anything about it until later, when frenchie has gone back into muppet mode and is nailing his sleeve to the deck.)

so: in order to codeswitch, you have to know how to speak your audience's language and hear what isn't being said. codeswitching is most often talked about in terms of literal language, but it doesn't stop there. behavior and piecing together what's going on behind the scenes nobody talks about are also part of it, because if you want to fit in you have to do what's expected of you; and in order to do that consistently, you have to understand what's expected of you.

whiiiich gets me to the actual joke and why it's even funnier coming from frenchie. because stede may tell other people to talk it through as a crew, but that's never his first move. stede tends to spill his guts when he's pushed into it; sometimes because somebody else went first, sometimes because intense circumstances and/or emotions overwhelm his instinct to lock everything down and insist he's fine.

stede does not talk it through as a crew. stede does backflips more than once to avoid talking things through with a variety of people over the season. stede bottles things up.

which is exactly what frenchie suggests stede wants them to do.

i should add that joel's delivery is great because this whole cast ringers all the way down, every goddamn person, but i'm obsessed with the way that takes a fun joke into a moment of telling us a lot about who frenchie is and what he's capable of, before we know anything else about him other than 'has a lute'.

he may not remember the rhyme, but he does know how to look past what people say to what they actually mean when that becomes necessary.

there's also a fun layer there where in-world we know frenchie learned the fine art of fancy people and their massive aggression because he was around them in a service capacity, so there's an in-world logic reason he is able to real world codeswitch between the world of Real Piracy and the world of aristocracy and think on his feet that echoes the thematic stuff working with the same theme on a more galaxy brain level.

i like this show a loooooot, the end.

[karaoso]

Is the antiblmatsu vs blmatsu war still going on??? I just wanted to look through ma osokara/ karaoso tags in peace. And I still see stuff related to that pop up... Like, WHY CAN'T WE JUST GET ALONG?! IN THE END, WE'RE ALL OBSESSED WITH THE SAME MUPPETS WITH THE GODDAMN SAME FACES STOP FIGHTING ALREADY AND RESPECT THE SPACE *Karamatsu scream* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH I'm sorry for using this ask to rant, I'm just sick of all the hate

Ah, I’m not sure about that, I don’t frequent the blmatsu tag itself because I only track my ship tag, but there’s always going to be antis somewhere. I think it’s best to ignore them because they’re just trying to move buildings with their bare hands. I understand that they don’t like shipping incest, but it’s not like we are forcing them to?

As for the blmatsu fans, I think it’s only polite that we keep all bro-incest ships out of the regular tag. Or at least tag properly. I say this in hope that antis stay in their dang lane and get out of the tag but who am I kidding. I’m not part of this “war”, I’m just here to enjoy myself and if I don’t like something that’s going on I turn around and look somewhere else. 

Don’t worry about coming to me about rants, I don’t mind listening!