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jamiscrazy4krerdly · 2 years ago

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Probably the first sign that Krerdly has heavily impacted (and was going to continue impacting) my life was the comedic socks incident, something that haunts me to this very day. Just about every waking moment is dedicated to pondering the ins and outs of the time I spent in that hat store. How did every choice in my life lead up to that moment? And where oh where had I gone wrong? That’s the kind of turmoil I faced that fateful Sunday afternoon. /s

So I brought I wanna say $50 to the most touristy location in my city. I was planning to simply walk around and just enjoy my time. Take in my surroundings and touch grass and whatnot. While I was dawdling I got, like, matcha flavored boba (because I wanted to get into boba) and a lavalamp (because I REALLY wanted a lavalamp. It was like twenty bucks but also it was a VOLCANO lava lamp!! Guys. It’s as lava as a lava map can get! It was toootally worth splurging on) and I was having like the time of my life, right?

Well I decided to visit my favorite hat store while I was in the area. I’m not really the hat type but this hat store had a sock section that introduced me to a whole new world!! Get this. Knee-high socks… with curse words. On the socks. Like, sentences. There were sentences with swear words. On the socks!! Oh my goodness, teenager me ate that shit up for breakfast the first time they saw them. I wrote them on my Christmas wish lists every year, despite the fact I would never get any. Regardless! The very notion paved the way to me becoming my own person. Basically all my individuality originates from these socks. It’s still crazy. I’M crazy.

But little did I know that that day those socks would betray me. I was admiring the socks, giggling at some of the funnier ones that I wasn’t expecting, and was considering buying a pair myself when all of a sudden I came across this like lime green and primarily blue pair of socks. The words written on them formed a sentence like “shut the hell up I’m gaming” and it. Flipped a switch. In my brain. Gamers. GAMERS! It ruined me.

The Berdly kinny in me couldn’t resist. I needed those socks. But like, I thought I didn’t really like the color blue? Now I directly relate the color to Berdly, which makes me like the concept of it ten times more, but at the time I was like fighting myself over it. I didn’t want these socks, for personal reasons, but I also NEEDED those socks, for kinning reasons. I wouldn’t wear them (probably?) but I needed to own them and for them to be in my collection. That stupid pair of socks had to be mine!

But then, I saw it.

I don’t even remember it now but the logical part of me just had to make an assumption, and it was right: there were Kris kinning socks there too! It must’ve been the colors or the attitude or SOMETHING but those Kris-flavored pair of socks were fated to be another victim of the bugs in my brain.

So I just, bought them both, right?!?!?

Omg.

You’re too funny.

I found another pair of socks that resembled Berdly. Socks, that my brain decided he would wear. He’s. A fucking. BIRD. HE DOESNT WEAR SOCKS. HE HAS TALONS!!

So clearly I was losing it. I rapid-fired a list of texts to my best friend, explaining to them my absolutely absurd situation. What of the cute pair of pink socks that I wanted to actually wear on my own accord? What of the sad state of my wallet that wouldn’t survive more than two pairs of these aesthetically pleasing socks? What about LUNCH? Was I going to have enough to EAT? My friend did not respond, they had not seen my texts in time.

I stared desperately at the rows of funny socks placed enticingly before me. It’s then when I realized our roles had been reversed! I had become the laughing matter. These socks, they were the ones pointing and cackling and crying tears of joy. The prey had become the predator. The hunter had become the hunted… I knew then that I wouldn’t make it out of that store alive.

I stood there dumbfounded for at least ten minutes. Perhaps even fifteen. I’d been all alone. Left to my own devices. In the sock section of a hat store. The lava lamp weighing down my tote bag and the matcha boba swirling in my stomach was no longer a comfort to me. The only thing I had left to rely on was myself.

I took advantage of the process of elimination, reached out my hand, and grabbed the pair of socks I had decided on. The cute pink ones, which I was planning to legitimately wear. “Of course!” I thought to myself, grinning like the idiot I was. “The choice was obvious!”

So then why had I spent 15 minutes in that hat store?

I still haven’t worn those socks.

…

Soooo for this post I actually decided to go back and purchase all the pairs of socks I had set my delirious eyes on (along with some extras!!). Now you can all see them for yourselves, and hopefully I’ll stop laying awake at night thinking about them!!! Woohoo!

Behold! The reason behind my madness! In order from Berdly kinning socks, to Kris kinning socks, to Berdly kinning socks again! (A Krerdly sock sandwich!)

“Fuck off, I’m GAMING”

The audience shook their heads in shame. “That’s your mans?” (Yes. I was enabled by a pair of cyber-world style socks that mentioned gaming. Is that so bad?)

“go away I’m introverting”

Hiding behind that mug is surely a devil’s smile. I can come up with like 10 reasons why this sock in particular gives me Kris vibes but at the time it was really just the hair, wasn’t it…

“PRETTY DECENT BOYFRIEND”

Ok let’s be honest, Berdly wouldn’t be humble enough to buy these socks for himself (if, and I cannot stress this enough, he could wear socks) but look at the colors!! We’ve got some solid yellows and blues in there. Also there’s stripes!!! Everyone knows Berdly loves stripes? Yeah there’s like no defending this I was just seriously losing it at the time…

HEY GAMERS speaking of losing it: the hat store actually had a buy 5 get 1 free deal for the socks section, so I got more kinning socksss!!

Yippee!!!! I love making poor financial decisions in hopes of satisfying my hyper fixation!

“DRAGONS AND WIZARDS AND SHIT”

I have never seen truer socks. Dragons and Wizards and shit!! What else is there possibly to say? There’s no doubt in my mind that these socks give Berdly vibes. Side-note: I should really try to get into DND.

“I’M A DELICATE FUCKING FLOWER”

Okokok, this one actually needs an explanation. Some of you might recall me mentioning Deltaswap in my Catti post? Basically this sock actually sort of resembles my Deltaswap interpretation of Kris where they’d get to be more influenced by their flower dad (Asgore) which eventually leads to them getting a shit ton of plant related tattoos. This is partly due to the fact Kris needs something to make them look fucking badass (since they’re swapped with Susie).

Does any of that make any sense?

Gosh, I’m so excited to share with you all my take Deltaswap in the future. For now, socks!

“yay”

Guysss, hear me out. If you pretend they’re doing latte art in a cup of hot chocolate and you really focus on the blue and green hues then it totally makes sense that these are certified krerdly socks!! ALSO! I kind of just really wanted to bring a momento with me because while I was trying to find the similarities between Krerdly and… socks, I came across this design and was like “wow a krerdly coffee shop AU sounds fucking awful, I would love to write that absolute mess”. So now I permanently have that stuck in the back of my mind!!

A coffee shop AU doesn’t actually sound that bad but I headcanon Kris as Demiromantic so I can just kind of imagine barista Berdly instantly pining on Kris for one reason or another and they’re so put off by it that they never get coffee where he works ever again. Common Berdly L. Decrescendo womp womp womp.

Okayy I need to wrap this up. If anyone wishes to browse these various socks for themselves (it will not be a waste of your time I assure you) then the brand is “Blue Q”. However the sixth pair of socks (the coffee one with the latte art) was instead made by the brand “Sock it to me”!

And lastly, here’s a snippet of me messaging my friend on the day of the incident.

TL;DR

I found socks that reminded me of Krerdly and proceeded to go batshit crazy over it.

#i love my silly little socks #the critters do as well

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