#like. yallre worrying actually

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ultimately im glad for he confession scene but there are some lines of dialogue in there that have done a huge disservice to deancas so far as how the majority of tumblr fandom sees it

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small town hospitality / my drama below the cut

wow I went into town to get a haircut for my friends wedding on halloween (my first professional one in ten years I’ve just cut my own hair) and was gonna go check out a dessert cafe to use their internet and maybe have a brownie and answer some emails but my truck wouldn’t start after the haircut?

And I was like it can’t be the battery it’s only a year old, maybe it’s my key bc it got fucked up a bit ago n there’d been instances where it took a coupla tries to get the engine to turn over but it just wouldn’t!

So my hairdresser comes out and she has a portable jumper to try to help me and that’s not working so she has her boyfriend come bring jumper cables bc her car is next to mine and we try that and I say I think it’s maybe my key and since we’d been talkin while she gave me my cut I said I’m new in town and don’t have anyone really around so she gave me a ride to a key place and told me about all the fair deal mechanics in town n made sure I only had to pay six bucks for a new key battery

We get back and my car still won’t turn 😭😭😭 so she calls a tow for me and sends me to a mechanic after I say I tried calling other shops but they cant see me today, the tow guy is super nice and easy going and we get to the shop and the guy tells the tow man he can’t leave bc they can’t fix my truck, the problem is my truck isn’t recognizin the key, not the battery or starter like we’d thought

Here’s the thing tho is I drive an old mazda truck (considered an “antique” by the dmv lmao) that was discontinued in like, 04 or smth. But still “recent” enough that the key has a chip. Mazda made Ford rangers at the same time they were makin b series so the shop is like call Ford ill getchu the number n Ford tells me they can’t do it, I call the Mazda dealership n I say b3000 n they HANG UP ON ME

I’m like leaking tears in front of a room of men I don’t know bc my livelihood DEPENDS on this truck n the shop guys take pity on me and tells me to call an independent key place in town, so I call THEM n I’m like I was told yallre my only hope and the guy put me on hold to check n then said aight bring it over I caint promise you nuthin but I’ll take a looksee n maybe tell you tomorrow but I’m real busy rn n just in case he can’t fix the key I call the mazda in Jackson which is three ding dang hours away n THAT guy hears me boohooin n says hon one sec I needa talk to my tech guy

Five minutes later he says my tech is the only one in missippi that does it but even then there’s a chance he caint actually fix it

The tow truck guy took me to the key place the shop recommended n he didn’t even charge me 😭😭😭 he was like hunny you’ll be all right you’ll see I promise n he dropped me off

Then I called my “landlords” the people I lease from to farm/sort of live as a steward of their property and was like can you pick me up 😭😭 but if yallre busy I can take a taxi and he said naw Gwen’s headed your way rn

Gwen picks me up n is like what were you plannin for today? And I said well I was gonna get a brownie n send some emails but I’m kinda wrung out n I don’t want you goin outta your way morn you already did but Gwen went BROWNIE 👀 we’re going I want one and she got me a giant peanut butter brownie w sprinkles and we had a really lovely talk on the way back

Im still worried sick if I’ll be able to drive my truck or not but now I’m home eating a brownie in front of my space heater

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Why doesn’t mod Dave (I think) like Davekat? I’m not trying to be all “omg that’s homophobic” just curious

oh nfdkgjdj youre good! i gotcha lmao

im gonna put this under a read more cause i KNOW this is gonna get long. i know a lot of you ship davekat and yallre valid as hell but i just. Dont ship it and if you dont wanna scroll past all this then blacklist “long” or “anti davekat”

but if youre curious then. h. here we go

-mod dave

so first things first, again, im not shitting on any davekat shippers personally. hell i think the OTHER two mods of this blog ship it and i know that a whooooole ton of you guys do too. i love yall, this is just how i see davekat itself

to me though its just. not.. a substantial ship. yknow? and to top it all off i have the humongous fucking aroace headcanon that ive pinned to dave since he first showed up in the comic anyway

first things first my headcanon plays into the matter. i saw a lot of myself in him since i started reading in 2015, a lot of his phrasings and the way hed skitter around talking about love for like half the comic was a HUGE and RELATABLE thing for me. i get that a gay kid could also easily do those things the same reason an aroace kid could, not knowing how falling outside of “ThE nOrM” would go, sure, but. me kin id ya know

he didnt understand quadrants at all and refused to talk about them when the other kids did understand, or at least were interested in the topic. dave? completely shut it down like the second it was brought up. and oh god when itd get to specifically HIS quadrants? remember that whole entire memo when karkat told him and john not to talk to vriska and terezi anymore? literally dave the whole time “okay are we done. can we not. can we not. are we done. oh my god. great next”

so with all the instances like that going down my headcanon was born. and holy hell is that motherfucker hard to drop

dealing with actual dave ships in general? almost all of them are either broken off asap or skitted around without actually talking about them at all, minus like an off-hand mention or two. example: the three year trip. davesprite breaks up with jade for a reason implied to be “hes not the real dave” and thats it. cmon now

pre retcon meteor trip. sure terezis in the mix but again we never really get any actual substance in the comic. we get “DID DAVE BREAK UP WITH YOU?” once from karkat to terezi during openbound. and to tie this all back into davekat? pre retcon davekat doesnt.. happen. at all. its just two bros being dudes. hell they end up dropping the terezi quadrant notion anyway by the time they get to the alpha session

POST RETCON. suddenly vriska shows up and theyre… magically in a relationship

i get they had other things to focus on when vriska wasnt there yeah. but if rosemary can be a consistent factor, drunk rose or sober rose, vriska or no vriska, then shouldnt davekat, a ship implied to be the mlm equivalent to rosemary, have done the same thing? terezi was still there and its a little unrealistic that vriska took up so much of terezis time that dave and karkat would go “oh.” and just drop her altogether

and even after the retcon the only romantic thing that even happens between dave and karkat is a lot of other people going ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) at them, assuming thats whats going on, with no actual confirmation from either party. that and the fact that karkats last line off dialogue was “I HOPE HE���S OKAY.” worrying about dave. 

like. SHIT i hope SOLLUX is okay but you dont see me head over heels with a romantic crush on the dude do you ?? i GUSH about the fucker but i can assure you all i aint any less aromantic than before yall knew how much i appreciate a good captor

my whole point is davekat is written like it was a last minute add in solely as a nod toward mlm when there were so many other better suited people with a history and chemistry and personalities that actually could have fit together. JOHNKAT fit together. yall remember johnkat? or there could have been a dirkjake revival that focused on dirk bettering himself and them working toward a healthier relationship. or maybe tavros could have stayed alive and he and gamzee could have gone in further in whatever direction they kind of went in. we could have even had a canon kismesisitude between sollux and eridan, or- hear me out- a fuckin. CANON PALE DAVESOL if his ass STAYED ON THE METEOR,

long story short, i dont like davekat as a ship cause its rushed as hell and i self project on anything that resembles me in the least and thank you for coming to my ted talk