#is heart break an illness

[iconless]

i swear it's like you listen to one too many of montreal or will wood songs and like a few tumblr posts and suddenly your for you page says you have bpd

[hinamie]

just looking at these hand poses was enough to give me carpal tunnel and that's how u know they're prime megu material

[halorvic]

[mrazota]

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https://x.com/solittttude

[sweeneydino]

Brothers.

Separate vvv

Sympathy, empathy, apathy, they gonna become a tragedy ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[kitocrystal]

Checking out other Quest AUs as I wait for my will to come back to continue with Inky Mystery.

(The conflict has not let down yet and I’m starting to feel dread)

Anyway, go check out this neato retell of the og Quest story by @thequestfortheinkmachinecomics. The characters’ designs are nicely touched up, their personalities seems more natural now, the art is really cool and oh no, I’ve run out of juice for words… I just know that this retell will be good so I’ll be on along for this ride.

[dirtybandaids]

"let the tale seduce you!" the tale hates me, actually. me and the tale divorced and now i don't hear from her anymore. she flips me off when we stop at the same red light.

[av0id-reality]

did you hold me knowing you were going to let me go?

[ihavesomejays]

dumpsterfire

my mind is kind of full of them rn this one was for the women because i can’t stop my heart from breaking for them

closeups under keep reading

[thestarlightforge]

The way Nicky’s death felt so similar to Joyce Summers—because it was the same idea. That the true heartbreak is it wasn’t a monster, something huge she could fight—it’s just the simple tragedy of everyday life.

“No, Billy. Sometimes, boys die.”

The fact that she left more story to tell on purpose, but they’ve devised the chapters. That Agatha and Rio living together in a cottage—literal cottage core lesbian witches—and Rio being Nicky’s “father” is among those chapters she’s doing press anywhere and everywhere to be allowed to tell next.

And the fact that, again, Jac was explicitly writing towards people who have had the experience of terminally ill, disabled, or chronically sick kids. She’s written another mother for whom her unlikely, disabled kid was the honor and love of her life—two more, with Rio, to the point of her bending the laws of nature around them.

I’m so emotional. I love her so much.

[fishareglorious]

i do a light chuckle once i remember hofmann and semmelweis are friends but then i remember semmelweis and marcus' suitcase interaction where they talk about her and i am once again inconsolable about this old woman's death

[perfectthewayyouare]

yes we are in the correct timeline

[honeypleasejustkillme]

how i sleep knowing im lonelier than i've ever been and i do it to myself by never texting anyone back or talking to them because im terrified

[charrfie]

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

SO. TO KICK OFF THE WEEK OF SPECULATION BEFORE THE UPDATE DROPS.

last night i had a bit of a Revelation. literally. i borderline woke up in a cold sweat with this realization. the way i lunged for my laptop to scream at friends... ough. lets get into it

so. i do believe I've made a couple of theory posts about Barnaby not being quite as receptive to his and Wally's "forced" best friendship as Wally - since the show wrote them to be friends instead of it happening naturally. i thought it might be a point of tension for Barn. i thought a lot.

YES SO I'M TOSSING (almost) ALL OF THAT OUT THE WINDOW!

the bios state Barnaby as Wally's best friend multiple times over. it had to be regularly reinforced. their colors were chosen to mark them as friends.

but Barnaby - presumably - can't see the bios, he wouldn't know the scripts. the friendship would be natural from his perspective. how would he know otherwise? even if the relationship started out synthetic, i don't doubt that it became genuine. in the context of their world and perceptions, realistically speaking Barnaby probably wouldn't sense anything wrong.

the reminders to be best friends weren't for Barnaby.

they were for Wally.

i'm starting to suspect that Wally is Barnaby's best friend, but Barnaby isn't Wally's. i think that Wally's "best friend" is Home - or at least Wally has a closer connection to them / Home is more important to Wally than anyone else is.

i remember reading this livestream trivia (from theneighborhoodwatch's doc, if you haven't their resources yet what are you even doing?):

and i assumed it was for Barnaby's side of the relationship. but it's not, is it? it's Wally's? and it makes too much fucking Sense! it fits! i can see it perfectly! i can feel things slotting together in my mind due to this shift in perspective, and i'm scared

Barnaby probably thinks the relationship is natural, just like how he thinks he's a real person in a real world. Wally probably knows that the relationship is a role, just like how he knows he's a puppet in a false reality.

that leaves me wondering how much of it is genuine on Wally's side. i don't doubt that they really are friends, but how deep does that connection go? in the interview, Wally sounded excited/proud about having a best friend, but how much came from a place of feeling, and how much came from a place of Fulfilling The Role? how much of it is performative? how much of it is a mask?

i've been seeing everything differently. Barnaby poses for Wally the most because he has good balance and is good at staying still, not because of favoritism or because he's Wally's best friend. in the 14 (15 including the hidden halloween) audios, Barnaby consistently seeks out Wally and checks in on him. Wally seems more casual about their relationship than Barnaby is.

i'm worried that Wally values Home & You/Us over Barnaby. that Barnaby is second or third place in Wally's heart. that Wally means more to Barnaby than he means to Wally. after all, only one of them needed their relationship to be reinforced on a seemingly regular basis.

i'm confident that Wally cares about / loves Barnaby, but the question is how much? to what extent?

[arrow-jsy]

Headcanon im going to use in my monty fic

When first turned human instead of walking he hopped around alot. I know birds are capable of walking but we often see them hopping around (weve all seen tho images of owls running if not go have fun) so i think monty having a pep in his step so to say would be adorable especially sense he is so smiley and optimistic pretty much until post swing scene

Ill probably properly write this in a fic someday but for now ill leave it here

Monty hopping around only for Esther to be like "God Monty stop jumping youre gonna bring the house down"( or something more vain like interrupting her beauty routine or causing her current concoction to fall off the stove) this breaking Monty's little spirits and thus monty learns that despite his new freedom in human form he is still severly under someones thumb and home is not a safe place to be him or heck even to learn who he is