#like bro why are you still following me atp 😭

[tomwambsmilk]

does anyone else have mutuals who vaguepost about their posts all the time. or is it just me

[bonesandthebees]

Okay longer review for glass ch18 time :DD man what an amazing chapter. Got duped waking up thinking im gonna get crimeboys, and then i got both crimeboys AND sandduo

Im gonna skim reread it as i review

hES USING WILBUR?!?#$ HELP BROO ITS SO SMOOTH AT THIS POINT

There was like one chapter where i caught it and i felt so proud of myself, but after that i just get so invested that i dont even notice until someone points it out lmaooo

I think I did notice when it switched to Pythia, at least subconsciously bc I paused at it and scrolled up a bit to see if it'd always been Pythia but ig I didnt scroll up enough lmaoooo

Ohkygod he switches to Pythia the minute Phil enters the room ohkgyfo u cant be playing around with the narrative like this bee, u are way too smart wtf... I'm still in awe with how flawlessly you play around with the change of name. It's always intentional, and yet it feels so natural when you read it. It doesn't feel like a conscious decision from Wilbur at all, ughh it's so good!!!!

Goddddd I love codependent crimeboys so much bro ohmgydo and u always write it Perfectly ty amen

I think ive said this before but ur just so good at characterization man like helloooo

Each fic!crimeboys are so unique to each other, but you could remove their names and I'd still know they were crimeboys. They still feel like them and ahhh i love them so much

Also bro i totally called Phil waiting for them 😭 it made me so tense LMAOOO

Wilbur fr was like "We're quiet we r chilling!!" Like no sir. No u are not

Its the fact that Phil knew the answer to all his questions, he knew Tommy left him alone aaaaaaaaaaa

I cant do this man theyre all so wheofidbekdhdlkflfek

The fact that neither of them told Phil about the sketchy guy who saw Wilbur is making me so scared tho like noooo guyssss ur already in trouble, just be safe about it and tell the truth noooooo 😭😭😭

Phil is such a dad in this scene ohmygod

Also im laughing, their punishment is they cant talk to each other 😭😭

“Then just close your eyes,” Phil said, almost in the exact same way Tommy had.

Like father, like son [bawls]

Although the Pythia was desperate to know why Phil had paused for so long after seeing his face, he simply nodded, and tried not to flinch when Phil’s free hand grabbed his chin to hold his head still.

Not my dumbass's first thought being "HES HIS SECRET LONG LOST SON" LMFAO FHFJFK

Then i was like "okay no its definitely bc of his age"

Brooo i just want the moment where they see each other without him closing his eyes rahhhhhhhhhssss

Also

I realize i said i was gonna skim reread this chap, but nope im just rereading it properly lmfao 😭😭😭 slow and steady pfff

Its so goood

Now I'll have 2 chapters from glass on speeddial for sure

God every moment of sandduo in this fic is just a parallel of their relationships with their gods im soooo 😭😭😭

When i first started this fic i was so certain that the majority of all Clara's things were just misinterpretations from her followers that got passed down century to century but now atp idek. Im skipping ahead and I'll probs talk more about it at the end of the chapter but like Kristin literally touched Wilbur- Clara's never gotten that close to him. Though maybe it's bc she's not as strongly connected? On both ends... Im rambling here as I theorize so I might not phrase this correctly but, like. My first thought was Phil said blood helped her connect better to the living world, so maybe that's why she can be physically here and not Clara, but I also thought about how maybe it does affect the relationship whether it's mutual or not, right? Cause Phil chose to be with her, there's trust on both ends. Wilbur got thrown into it, and maybe that affects the magic of the connection or smth. Or Clara's a bitch lmaoooo. I always appreciate seeing the god of life being the antagonist. I feel like it's not gonna be black and white though, things are not often with you hahahaha.

God that was a large paragraph whoops. I am certain though, that at least a large portion of the traditions they have (cough not being able to see the face cough) (just being treated as not a person lol), are things both misinterpreted or just plain ol made up to be able to better control the Pythia. Because, who wouldn't want to be able to fully control someone who can see the future? Idk how they'll ever find that out for sure but damn yeah, it's sad. Look at what you've done Bee, you've traumatized a perfectly good boy

Lmaoooo

Is there a limit to how long these things can get?? Spruce how do u separate them into diff parts, do u go by vibes or is there a limit LMFAOOO

Anyways

God. The way Phil knows what Wilburs thinking 😭😭😭 im gonna cryyyy theyre sooo ahdjfkfld

The way you describe all the tiny details, god, your writing feels so real. It feels like it breathes. I feel so immersed in it. I can not only see everything happening around me, I can feel it, as if I were there. I dunno, I just really appreciate all the tiny details you mention, and how you take care to remind us that his eyes are closed by describing the sounds around him, and how you mention him feeling odd when he winces bc of his face being numbed, like ik theyre not a big deal, but those details mean so much to me. They make everything feel so much more alive.

And the way you describe people's thoughts, they're so realistic rahhhhhhss. Your characters always feel truly human

I love your writing so much aaahhh

The cheer i let out when i saw the mate at their 2nd meeting when i read this chap for the first time LMFAOOO

It was at that moment vey knew they were getting a truck load of sandduo--

I had also already forgotten that Phil had told Wilbur he was gonna show him smth lmfaooo

I am starting to get tired fr (it's been almost an hour Oops) so i think i will pull a spruce and split this into two parts and continue after some breakfast or smth LMAOO (pst gang ftw 👆)

Dudududus away into the sunset

I was definitely debating whether or not to start the chapter with him using wilbur, but it just felt right so I went with it and I'm very happy with the tone it gave because it provided such a good tone shift when phil showed up and wilbur switched back to using 'the pythia'. it's such a fun narrative tool to use, though it's definitely a bit exhausting to remember every time i refer to wilbur in narration i'm making a choice with how i refer to him. fun, but a lot to keep in my head

ty I'm so glad my crimeboys feel that distinctive <3

lmao phil was so pissed when they got back. he figured a lot out on his own but wanted to hear it from tommy himself. they really should've told phil about the guy wilbur bumped into tho rip :/

yeah no phil is not wilbur's long lost father or anything. I only think those kinds of twists work in very specific stories, otherwise it just feels like a cheap way to be like "look now these two have a biological reason to care about each other!" and really gives off the vibes of found family being less important than blood family

the thing is regarding wilbur's relationship to clara is that when contrasted with phil's relationship to kristin, i want it to be obvious that it's a two-way relationship. you have to put in what you wanna get out.

LMAO spruce pls share with the class how you split up your asks

ldksjfkl aaa that's so sweet. I love including tiny details like those because I try to make my stories as easy to visualize as possible. I know that when I read something, I want to be able to see the scene perfectly in my head, so I try to emphasize the facial expressions and body language and the setting they're in and all that to really immerse the reader in it

tysm i'm so glad you enjoyed!

[ashsostrange]

bye i didn't even think ab the fact that miles was drawing gwen in different clothes 🤦‍♀️ they really had my boy embarrassing himself on big screens in 4K ULTRA HD.. wtv you call it. he ain't living this down. miles is def using the idea of gwen as an escape/coping mechanism and it's definitely nawttt healthy at all. like okay draw her once or twice every now and then, big deal. but yk it's bad when gwen just keeps flipping and FLIPPING and there's still more drawings, like please bro. enough. dare i say it's a teensy bit (extremely) strange that he's drawing her more than his dead uncle, not to mention that mural he made atsv where he had gwen in the center and aaron to the right. aaron is truly better than me bc if my nephew put a girl he barely knows over ME, the nigga that's been there for him his whole life, AND the nigga who showed him that spot nd helped him paint the first part of the mural, his ass would be getting haunted. get a grip lil bro. like atp i'm convinced these writers were smoking that good good when they wrote anything contributing to miles and gwen's relationship. yk they took that tolerance break while they were writing the rest of it tho 👎 also it's real damn sad, cz i think we all know margo is gna be the disposable love interest in order to "help miles realize he's in love with gwen." like ughhh boo throwin' tomatoes. she deserves sm better. the writers have a chance to use margo as the girl who helps miles differentiate love and obsession by making her the girl he actually loves, but they're not gna take it, obv. actually maybe they don't hv a lot of time since it's the last movie, but my point stands. margo could b so much more than just a filler but that's what they're gna reduce her to. the more and more i think ab it, i just can't see gwen and miles together anymore. whoever wrote the movie set ts up all wrong. is miles j gna push aside the fact that he would've never known that his dad was bout to bite the dust if he didn't follow gwen...? i don't blame her at all for not telling miles ab his dad cuz she was literally put in an impossible situation, but i feel like if we're being practical, if i was miles i would forgive gwen, but i wouldn't go back to being friends w her so easily. hell, maybe not even at all. i mean, this is gwen keeping the fact that miles' dad was nearing death that we're talking ab 😭 they can't bounce back from that so easily, regardless of the circumstances, even if she did make up for it by switching sides. ion know ab friendship, but i sure as hell wouldn't wna date sb who did that to me. like you said, miles did idolize her and that's why he was so disappointed. you don't know this girl frl nd ppl who fetishize interracial relationships are weirdos frl. ppl who fetishize certain races in general. and don't even get me started on the mfs who thinking ab nothing BUT race when it comes to romantic interests. for me, race never has and never will play a factor into who i do and don't like. it doesn't hurt to have a pref ig, but there's a line ppl need draw when it comes to it. now on another note, saying you won't date an entire race is outrageous 🙎‍♀️ anyway, a handful of these writers tend to b weirdos, so i wouldn't be shocked if that's what most of these black x white couples are a product of. esp since some of the writers are so bad at the execution. also, ppl need to break that stereotype talking about some "date within your race" like please grow up. it's 2023.

i need to stop chattin' now tho or i'll never sthu. there is still time to fix this!! all i'm sayin' is that i'll get in that writers room for free! 🙋‍♀️ no check needed

this part of my unpopular opinion thing with atsv is no hate to gwen i love my lil cracker it’s just that we rarely get black love in mainstream media and just poc love stories in general like it feels like they had to hint the romance because they knew it would get a certain audience to boost it….which is smart and i don’t hate miles having a crush on her but he literally barely knew gwen yet he became AND STAYED obsessed with her

also miles literally has some of the best, most beautiful, and strongest black women love interests in his comics and i can tell they been plotting astv since itsv because literally where did gwen x miles idea come from? it just seems so random cus THEY DIDNT KNOW EACH OTHER OR MAKE COMIC APPEARANCES W EACH OTHER ATP UNTIL AFTER THE MOVIE IM PRETTY SURE

and i love the spider gwen comics cus it’s literally a fresh of breath air where women aren’t always thrown love interests at to give their story “meaning” or just for girls sake cus women always obsess over men!!

isk i just feel like them being endgame does harm to both of them but that’s just me…..