#im halfway thru but

[theosjunkdrawer]

Brennan setting the tough die at a d20 for the hotel gift shop cashier would be so funny if he was just. Some guy. Not a spy not an assassin. Just a dude who took some gymnastics in high school and had to put up with enough customers that he developed a d20 in tough

[clickityweasel]

had a real life "and everybody clapped" moment and im still reeling. spent the rest of the ride comparing butterfly pics with the old lady next to me trying to identify it

[kyurochurro]

I STARTED HOUSE MD! :ºD

[bacchuschucklefuck]

binging drawtectives... have u seen them. have u frickin seen them!!!

[puppyeared]

good morning sifloop nation

[solcarow]

based on this post

[toxooz]

b4 i descend back into the comic making trenches i Had to draw it 💀

all that just to have to rake

[melonsharks]

its my boy gogu

[sixofclovers]

early start for the captain

[iindigoeyed]

so. Torchy

[om0000]

is this the plot of the watchdogs paradox

[mokadevs]

day 15: haunting

[poltergeist-draws]

im so fucking sick of these [REDACTED]s ( @angstflavoured 's dtiys 😁 )

[kyurochurro]

i redrew this shot from pretty woman with mulder and scully!! thought it would be cute to see them in a nice scene like this hehe :D

[alyimoss]

i know dream has a "true form" of sorts in that little yellow ball of energy thing, but. god i want so badly for him to be something more. or perhaps something less?

not so much a physical manifestation of positivity (yet, at least) as much as a thousand feelings condensed. and its different for each person: some look at him and see raindrops and yellow rain boots splashing through puddles; a thousand plants all blooming, stretching toward the sun; an eternity of lazy summer afternoons. others look and see their loved ones, hear their voices. they see their childhood home, a forest, a lake… and nothing is static. the visions warp and change, disorienting. some resemble things you know, others are so foreign and yet so comforting. the positivity radiates through your body at such an intensity, you never realize your fear.

i want him to be something almost terrifyingly eldritch in its sheer power, even as he is kind and gentle. i want him to emanate an aura that that makes it hard to look away from him. i want him to be so obviously "wrong" in a way, but still so right. he is easy to use on account of his disposition and his duty, yes, but i want others to hesitate. i want them to look at him and feel power. i want them to look at him and wonder if the feeling deep within their chest is admiration or fear. i want him so godly, so detached from the concept of "humanity" (monstrosity?) that it's palpable. i want him doomed by the nature of his being, and i want others to know only of his divinity and not his struggles.

does that make sense?

he reaches out, but he is the sun. his warmth, though needed, burns and maims. nobody takes his hand.

[cabinetduo]

what it is is like, on a meta level there were characters in the dream smp who were played by ccs who didn't have a large enough fanbase or "lore importance" to impact the writers room. like there were characters with specific written roles and there were characters whose arcs and internal conflict weren’t even being considered right. people's inability to separate cc from c also contributed, with cgnfs lore importance correlating w the ccs large audience (and ties to the main antagonist), he never would've been relevant otherwise. cniki was lightning in a bottle bcs she had just enough involvement with the guy's involved in the "main plot" to get eyes on her and what she did with that stage and focus was so captivating her character was able to stand alone with a fanbase of her own

however because of the nature of the dsmp, being able to see every characters individual perspective, the idea of 'side characters' only exists on a kinda narrative level, like for all intents and purposes ctommy was the main character (ignoring that old ass debate), the story was being sort of written with him at the center so thats how he was treated narratively but also on a meta level, many characters arcs were weighted based on how ctommy interacted with them. there were no side characters in the dsmp bcs of the nature of streaming as a medium but in the like, overarching story, ctommy is the mc

ALL OF THIS TO SAY ctubbo exists paradoxically. like technically he's one of the 'main guys' the fandom would focus on and was close enough to garner his own dedicated fanbase but [the thoughtstream that would spur this post] in modern discussions about dsmp nostalgia and character quotes and stuff I've never once seen ctubbos name.

So but but butttttttt on a meta level, narrative level, and TEXTUALLY LIKE IN THE ACTUAL TEXT he is regarded as a side character. like cctubbo gained a large enough fanbase to stand on his own but despite his proximity to the writers room he wasn't very involved in the writing of the "script" however the importance of his character to ctommy made it so that his character was always considered in the script (well characterized or not). with ctommy as the mc and ctubbo as his best friend, in the story of the overall dsmp ctubbo is the sidekick to main main character. now that's all well and good if it was only on a meta/textual level but this dynamic is actually crucial to his arc like actually IN THE TEXT

like in season 2 cdream is the main antagonist with making ctommys life a living hell being his main goal. he meticulously separates them and incites a canyon sized rift in their relationship. then while tubbo is holding up the sky and being [new] lmanburgs youngest acting president. cdream fully befriend him at his lowest with the intention of using him against ctommy. ctubbo was never a person in cdream's eyes. he, like many other characters, goes out of his way to dehumanize ctubbo, viewing him as an extension of ctommy the same way the discs are, something to taunt him with or destroy for a reaction. we see this in the white house fight and disc saga finale. despite going out of his way to gain ctubbos trust and play chess with him everyday, cdream never even saw him as a person (how fucked is that)

Anyway where was I goibg with this..ctubbo had enough ties to the 'main characters' to be tied to the 'main narrative' of the dsmp (in quotes bcs there's nuances to those phrases) but not enough to be allowed to stand alone on a meta level, narrative level, and in the text when regarded by other characters. it isn't until later in the story [thru streamer and tubbling efforts that he kinda gets his own legs? until the story requires otherwise from him and he's dragged along to whatever role the main story needs him to play (which in retrospect led to a lott of mischaraterization huh who knew