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[wutheringmights]

ctb and you

I raise you my comment from chapter 4:

"this chapter is long" oh HONEY

[wutheringmights]

OH MY GOD! THIS IS SO COOL! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

I love how your brain works, and all of the connections you made. I am in a puddle on the floor right now. Thank you so much! 💛💛💛💛

THE LAMENT OF EUSTACE SCRUBB.- The War Ended & The Heroe's Reunited, The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, The Kakariko House & The Road North.

LIKE THE DAWN.- The Kingdoms News & The General Nephus, I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, Interview: "Tamsyn Muir on Lyctorhood as Genderfuckery and Greasy Bible Study in Nona the Ninth" by Natalie Zutter, The Knight's Citadel & The Secret Keeper.

STANDARD BITTER LOVE SONG #7.- The Kingdoms News & The General Nephus, Interview: "Tamsyn Muir on Lyctorhood as Genderfuckery and Greasy Bible Study in Nona the Ninth" by Natalie Zutter, The Gray Eyes & The Missing Link, P. S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han, The Engineer's Savior & The Three Brothers, Illustration of "The Wild" from Slay The Princess.

I AM THE DOG.- Belovéd by Yves Olade, Creatures by Hugh Steinberg, The Engineer's Savior & The Three Brothers, The Kingdoms News & The General Nephus, Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz, Interview: "I Went Rollerskating With Ethel Cain" by Dani Ran.

WILD DOGS: DIVORCE!.- The Captain's Curse & The Battlefield Run, The Engineer's Savior & The Three Brothers, The War Ended & The Heroe's Reunited.

ERRASURIZ.- The Long Winter & The Unfinished Portrait, Errasuriz by Kiltro, The Doomed Town & The Midnight Spies, The Knight's Citadel & The Secret Keeper.

I'M YOUR MAN.- Attack Dog vs Guard Dog, The Loyal Dog & The Master Knight, The Long Winter & The Unfinished Portrait.

NO CHILDREN.- The Royal Engineer & The Princess Zelda, The Kingdoms News & The General Nephus, No Children by The Mountain Goats.

THE PLACE WHERE HE INSERTED THE BLADE.- The War Ended & The Heroe's Reunited, The Place Where He Inserted The Blade by Black Country, New Road, The Kingdoms News & The General Nephus, From "The Green Knight (2021)" directed by David Lowery, The Kakariko House & The Road North.

Whew, okay. Folks never be like me and outsource your images from Pinterest, finding the orignal source is a task only Sisyphus could enjoy.

Anyways. This is yet another web-weave of Call Them Brothers by @wutheringmights, predictable, I know, but I don't think I'll stop making these until this sickness is purged out of my system.

and if you've made it to the end, may i present to you: SILLY 1 and SILLY 2.

[wutheringmights]

somewhere between making this i realized how silly ctb is. anyways, its interchangeable tbh .

a) so true

b) the game models are killing me

[wutheringmights]

Wait. Does Link still cheat on Lana in the Everything Was Happy in the Past AU or does the engineer stop that from happening lol? Considering that he became his moral compass, and that Link would probably feel more inclined to talk with the engineer about his and Lana's relationship...

Yes, Wars still cheats on Lana. This time around, Spirit was vocally against this and basically forced Warriors to end things with Lana now instead of dragging things out longer

[wutheringmights]

im still thinking about wars "that night at the inn- you think it happened because I didn't?" because oh my god, fuck off, dickhead, why are you like this. I know we spend all the time inside his head, i know he genuinely believes so, but you can't just say that. you cannot. amazing chapter btw

spirit heard him say that and almost had a joker moment

[doumekiss]

@rabidogbite tags

[wutheringmights]

logically, I KNOW this is about ctb warriors but I was very convinced for a hot moment there that this was about me, current bearer of the Male Feminist Warriors icon

[wutheringmights]

average ctb experience

LINK WALTON REPLY ASAP THE MENOPAUSAL AFRO-CARIBBEAN PENTECOSTAL WOMEN CAN HELP YOU

[fishfacedterror]

@rabidogbite i assume theres some context im missing and you’re NOT talking about the bear from the hundred acre woods

mouthwashing fanfic involving post crash curly needing to Jerk It but he doesnt hands so the crew has to draw straws to see who jerks him off

[wutheringmights]

"devour" "consumption" "eaten alive" "hungry" "bit into" the themes? themeing. the cannibalism? implied. me? DEAD!!!

i'd be careful dying when there's all this cannibalism afoot

[wutheringmights]

honestly i usually dont do song recs bc #playlist BUT "i cant wait for you to die" by elvis depressedly and "tormento" by mon laferte are suchhhhh spirit kind of songs.....the bitterness...

(tormento is more of an indulgence, but u should still look up the english lyrics if u want)

Elvis Depressedly is such a funny band name that I almost don't want to say anything else about the song. But, god. What a Spirit coded song. I am going to have to post all of the lyrics of this one because it really is THE WHOLE FUCKING SONG with this one:

You ran away from your uselessness Like you had something to prove How fucking stupid can you be To think it wouldn't follow you? That's the way it's always been That's the way it's always been Every night, you're a wreck Just crying like a child All your lies are terrified And your hunger's running wild And this is what you deserve This is what you deserve You're pitiful and you're permanent You haunt my broken life I'm so far off from my home by now There's no way that I'll survive And I can't wait for you to die I can't wait for you to die

"Tormento" is a banger from the audio alone. Unfortunately, I do not know any Spanish, so I had to read the lyrics with Google Translate. I don't trust that it's all too accurate, but from what I can gleam, I can see where the Spirit connection is. That man deserves to croon a ballad about his fucked up situationship in a bar. It would heal him

[wutheringmights]

if there was a "top three most emotional haunting ctb chapters" this chapter wouldnt come nowhere close cuz you re right, its been worse, things have been worse. however if there was a "top ten emotional haunting ctb chapters" this one would be place number 10 cuz one 1) he really did that. and 2) HE REALLY DID THAT.

I love that I have no idea if "he" refers to Warriors or Spirit

[lemonlyre]

What a cool idea; a look into the patchworks of identity and how our varied human experience manifests itself.

Poetic shit outta the way, here's "3" fun facts about me:

I LOVE writing, as a way of expression and science and culture - it's rich with possibilities. Also existing texts can provide so so so much value, analysing and discussing texts makes my brain buzz. I think everyone needs to write, things like this remind me of all the different individual realities out there js waiting to be shared/ loved.

Paradoxically, I struggle so so much to read and write. (╥﹏╥) I love thinking abt writing and reading but doing it is the hard part. I think I'm undiagnosed neurodivergent and also my attention span (like most young people's) has been shot to shit. (Also recovering gifted kid so ig there's that). Had to read my first novel in actual years for my senior course this year, and though I loved it (Jane Eyre if you were wondering) fuckk it took so long. I know they're worthwhile skills though so I won't give up on them. Also the school systems have traumatised us away from educating ourselves/ reading [Listen to Ismatu Gwendolyn NOW] saurrr yeah

Umm... I love Sonic the Hedgehog and building LEGO ig <3

Anyhoot, sorry for like rambling lol :3

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[wutheringmights]

Hey-o i've got another song here that makes me think of CTB. "I Am The Dog" by Sir Chloe. Remember to stay hydrated and drink some water!!!<3<3<3

Thank you<3<3<3

I have been listening to "I Am The Dog" on loop since @rabidogbite featured it on their CTB playlists. It's another Spirit and Warriors jam between the "I romanticize" and the "hard to describe something I'll never miss".

[ravenkinnie]

vi @rabidogbite

princess bubblegum is honestly one of most unique tv characters, apart from the fact that she's a piece of gum who spends her free time committing unethical experiments on her subordinates, her storyline across all season is just like. her becoming less evil. not even like a full redemption arc, like she needed ten seasons to understand that being an authoritarian dictator is bad but like, she never actually stopped being a dictator yk. she just needed this much time to be like maybe I should commit less war crimes. maybe I should count to ten before defying god and creating life. and she has no tragic villain origin story, like they did kind of gave her that with her uncle and stuff betraying her but also, she's always been kind of like this, like she's always been prone to playing god with the concept of existence. if you think about it princess bubblegum could be a fucking batman villain

[sailorblossoms-snowbaz]

@rabidogbite this is a pretty good point, and I want to add that this is why it's important that in awtwb Baz notes that Simon is comfortable with Agatha in a way he's with few people when he's helping her with the goats. Because they grew up together, and they're supposed to be friends, close friends. The whole dating ruined that, and the goat scene is a scene where they're allowed to be friends again, while also being together with ppl they actually like (both Baz and Niahm being present, Simon leaving with Baz and Agatha leaving with Niahm). This is the complete opposite to when Simon and Agatha were dating, because yeah, it was obvious in their interactions that they were awkward and uncomfortable around each other.

(Also notable than when Baz dispaired about how they looked like the golden couple and were gonna have their HEA and wtv, Penny, who was actually the closest to the two, noted how wrong they were for each other)

(Also yep, when you're in Simon or in Agatha POV's, it's really obvious they don't like each other at all, like Simon has no positive things to say about Agatha other than "she's pretty" which also just plays into how trapped Agatha was performing the damsel/trophy gf role, and Agatha has no positive things to say about him other than "I do have love for the guy cuz he's unfortunately my bestie, like a little brother I grew up with y'know?" And that's it lol not even Simon being friendly is portrayed positively in her eyes)

In a way, Simon dating Agatha feels like Penny dating Micah, the dude that was never physically present, that she could write sometimes and then carry along like he doesn't exist. Penny liked the idea of having an endgame, of not having to figure out her future because it's "all settled". And what did Simon like about dating Agatha? The comfort of having an endgame. The idea that you can have "a happy ever after" just by being a hero, without having to do or feel shit about it, which can be comfy because it means there's no struggle (the fact that he was sure he was gonna die before that traditional endgame happened shows how much he did not think shit through). Meaning that what he liked about dating Agatha had more to do with concepts and what he didn't have to do than the actual person.

I'm mentioning this because I've seen ppl say "he could enjoy dating Agatha even though didn't feel shit", but I don't think it was even that. Simon mentions that Agatha didn't want to go to the movies with him, and when he talks about Christmas at her house he's not like, listing all the many fun activities they do together iirc, he's just like "they sure have a great tv". Agatha makes it sound like being friends with Simon and Penny wasn't even particularly fun, like she was in the group but kinda left out because she didn't share their interest, and got the worst part in all the "adventures". She doesn't even describe friendship with Simon positively. So truly, what is there to enjoy? What did they even do together just for fun, y'know? Where are the good memories? "Enjoy" is too strong of a word here, unfortunately.

When I read CO for the first time, it really stood out to me how absent Agatha is from Simon's mind, how little of his time he dedicates to her, even though she's right there, before she breaks up with him—yeah, he had reasons to avoid her, but she barely poping up in his mind it's very notable, especially because it doesn't feel abnormal for Simon to spend much of his time at Watford without hanging out with her (even more because iirc she's not even introduced as his gf, he's like "here's Penny, the friend who's very good at magic and here's Agatha, the one who's weak and isn't very good at magic at all") (kind of a bitch move to introduce her like that lol). Unlike Micah, Agatha might have been there physically, but what difference did that make really, other than painting a target on her back. I've said Simon and Agatha is comphet, and that they were likely comfortable with each other because they were close friends who grew up together, and it's been noted that they could've had a sibling-like friendship had they not been pushed into dating, but it occurs to me that dating likely also sucked all the joy out their friendship, all the easiness. No one had expectations for Penny and Simon, they could just be. Agatha and Simon couldn't just be. They don't even miss each other y'all, whole thing was traumatizing for them. They're aren't like "sure, I wasn't into dating them, but we had fun that time and that other time that we did this and that". When looking Agatha is just generally bitter and tired (with good reason!) and Simon continues not to think about her, and when he brings her up it's to either note he wasn't actually into her or to feel guilty for "ruining" her. That time Simon showed Agatha what he learned from Ebb to tend to the goats was probably the first time in years they genuinely had a good a time together (and that Agatha felt Simon genuinely did something helpful for her, since it wasn't saving her for a problem that started because of her association with him in the first place), and it feels like it's not coincidence that their love interest were around, and that they could go back to ppl they're actually into after saying goodbye.