#swarm-rambles

[scarrletmoon]

i think it actually says a lot that the crew was willing, ready, and excited to mutiny against izzy after a matter of days in 1x9, but took months and months of serious overwork and a deadly storm before they could bring themselves to kill ed in 2x2. THEN they felt such immense guilt about it that they were almost feral by the time stede found them

they also tried to hide what they did, despite mutinies being extremely common in their line of work. if all they were worried about was being executed by zheng and ed’s death didn’t matter that much, why did they try to hide it from stede?

like, they tied izzy’s arms and legs together and were about to do a running start to throw him overboard. they WANTED that bitch to die lmao

[mothwithpronouns]

Gerard way will disintegrate if he wears anything that is not decay green

[to-be-a-dreamer]

I talked about this in the tags of a reblog but I need to expand on this because my brain is vibrating and it's all Hank Freaking Green's fault. This will not be coherent at all just roll with it.

I don't know if it was on purpose or not but the scene where The Fix and Pasha were flirting by exchanging fun facts did so so much for the Fix's character in my mind because like. Pasha is the only character we've seen who had a positive response to the Fix's fun facts right off the bat. (Presumably the orphans at the Home for Wayward Interests had positive responses but I'm specifically talking about on-screen reactions.)

The targets that the Fix talks to are so terrified by his facts that they just disintegrate on the spot. The DA is mildly annoyed at best by them. Even the other Prefrontal PIs are freaked out or confused by them at first. It takes a couple episodes for them to come around to his fun facts, especially after "half the bones in your body" one. It takes them some time to realize that that's just how The Fix communicates his thoughts and ideas. He uses his fun facts as a way to connect and bond with friends just as much as he uses them to intimidate his targets.

But Pasha is the first person we see and, presumably, one of the only people in The Fix's life to hear one of his facts and not only immediately accept and understand it to be a method of conversation, but to also respond with a fact of their own and have an entire conversation with The Fix in the way he feels most comfortable.

We've seen so many times that The Fix goes out of his way to try and appear less threatening or even avoid people altogether because he knows most people are scared of him because of his appearance. It takes him so long to convince the other Prefontal PIs that he's really not going to hurt Conrad (compare how quickly Dan is a part of the group and how his motives are never questioned despite how vocal he is about hating Conrad and being all too eager to turn him over to the police and/or have him murdered to how long it takes The Fix) and he doesn't even seem hurt by the idea that all these people think he would murder a child when he's clearly a very kind and loving person, especially to children.

He's just. Come to terms with the fact that everyone's first impression of him will be this big intimidating presence who enjoys hurting people. But he's not. He's just passionate about his job, like everyone else in the city. It just happens to be that his job is to keep Elias focused, which means letting go of the butterfly tails. When he's tasked with eliminating someone who doesn't seem like they need to be eliminated, he immediately stops and questions the case. As far as I can tell, he doesn't like to kill people, he doesn't do it for fun. He does it because that's his job, literally the only thing he was made to do. But he's come to accept that most people will always be afraid of him because of that job.

And then he meets Pasha, who immediately accepts his form of communication without question or confusion. Who isn't afraid or intimidated by him. Who isn't just entertaining his fun facts but is actively engaging and returning with her own. She is the first person (who isn't a child, who is the Fix's peer) that The Fix could talk to without having to explain himself. The first person who wasn't afraid or confused or annoyed by the way he expresses himself.

Like. I dunno I imagine it would almost be like moving to a foreign country as a child and not being able to speak in your native language because every time you do people are suspicious of you or annoyed that you aren't speaking the local language or just plain don't understand you, even if they're trying to be kind about it. And it's harder to explain yourself and express your thoughts in this new language but you learn and you adapt because it's the only way to survive. Then you meet someone who speaks your language. Someone who allows you to speak freely and for the first time you can actually express yourself fully and easily. And they're speaking back to you in the language you think in and for once you don't have to translate everything before you say it out loud and after you hear it. I think that would feel so freeing.

So yeah, I'm guessing that scene was supposed to be a silly goofy one-off gag that's just funny and cute but it genuinely means so much to me. Truly I don't get people who say The Fix isn't as deep or interesting as the other characters he is FACINATING to me and this isn't even touching on his relationship with Conrad or what he might be feeling after learning Ichabod was Pasha's brother. (If it gets revealed that Ichabod was one of The Fix's first hits I will lose it.)

Thank you for coming to my late-night nonsense ramblings I hope I was mildly entertaining

[desertduality]

I had a dream last night that evil xisuma was chasing me through the woods at night. let it be known that I have never watched a single xisuma video and fully know nothing about evil x. but it might have been the most harrowing dream ever I felt like a prey animal

[cherry-bomb-ships]

Mojo Jojo in his observatory when some other villain or monster is fucking up Townsville

[radioroxx]

i know ive gone on about this before but it still amazes me to hell and back that people use spotify. like, at all. especially as a main music source

[shokupanko]

Today is my birthday! ｖ（＾＿＾ｖ）♪

In honor of that, let’s meet the artist! 🎀

[telekitnetic-art]

A question for any Indigenous ppl who’ve played BG3:

Very important question for science. If you have more in depth thoughts feel free to reblog w/said thoughts I wanna hear em.

[imtrashraccoon]

I realized that I need another nickname for the MC of Swarmed By Sirens.

Red uses Speckles and Sans has been calling her Little Fish. These are cute of course but now I need one for...drumroll please...

Skull!

I'm leaning towards Squishy? As in a reference to the little jellyfish in Finding Nemo? But it also sounds odd imo.

What do you think? Any other ideas?

[geniusphilester]

not that i'm on the blox or anything, but if i was, i could see that danisnotonblox was created on october 20th

[mirroredmasquerader]

This thing that I spent much too long on

[psychopomparia]

I started doing Swarm Disaster last night and I took a 10-minute break to fangirl, scream, and gaze at the Knight of Beauty occurrence I got.

I love learning more about the knights. so I got the blessings options and you know who i picked:

[blimbo-buddy]

Reminder that Bone got jumped by the cat equivalent of multiple soon-to-be High School graduates of course he fucking died

[st4rstudent]

I have gone insane

Here’s some thinking outside the box Macthinker.

QUICK! [hits them with a beam

[lighttrls]

you said whats the memory of a time machine have you ever considered rhat the memory of a time machine is an amorphous swarm of time demons

[gl1tchxr]

animals all have human level intelligence in my world, so it wouldn't make sense for them to herd sheep and cows or have dogs and cats for pets. so what if insects filled those roles? that opens the door to so many cool concepts. huge fluffy moths kept for their silk, mantises as livestock guardians, cricket coops instead of chicken coops, beetle species being bred for the brightest colors and shiniest shells to compete in beetle shows, tarantulas as beasts of burden, dragonflies as aerial mounts. honestly just scale them up and bugs can do anything