#think i've touched on this before

[floweycidal]

i keep thinking about how flowey had to construct the very concept of cruelty from the ground up.

not from watching anyone else, not by osmosis, but by cobbling it together himself in the garden where he woke up. alone.

this was a child who fell asleep to his mother's stories, who knew every inflection of his father's laugh. who spent endless golden afternoons with his sibling, both of them doubled over with giggles as they filmed their silly videos, messing up on purpose just to hear each other laugh. again. and again. and again.

so warm. so safe. where the gravest offense imaginable was maybe tracking mud on the carpet.

the worst fear, disappointing people who would love you anyway.

where could he even begin?

save. say these words that once meant comfort, but twist them just so. watch their eyes dim as something inside them breaks. load.

save. make a promise—you remember those, how snug they once made you feel—then shatter it. document exactly how hope crumbles. load.

save. try another combination. another betrayal. watch what splinters differently this time. load.

the world's loneliest science experiment.

look at the cruelty he creates, it's all so personal, specific. so devastatingly asriel.

watch how often he comes back to the idea of being replaced. of being forgotten. how he taunts you with the possibility that none of your relationships matter, that everyone will move on without you. that none of your choices mean anything in the end.

your fault. your responsibility.

if only he you hadn't made anyone love him you. If only he you hadn't loved them back.

of course he'd fixate on all that. how could he not? his mother, who used to speak his name like it was sacred, those tender words she reserved for him—for THEM—are now handed out indiscriminately, like candy to anyone who asks.

all he can do is take note: see how easily love transfers? see how simple it is to fade away?

so, he sneers. taunts you with the thought that it's all dust. you're just another passing face in the crowd. nothing lasts. nothing is worth the weight of caring. but even as he pushes that narrative, as his voice drips with contempt, he is still out there. in the ruins. checking on her.

observing from a distance, like maybe if he watches long enough, his past will solidify into something he can hold again.

flowey develops his cruelty like he's trying to solve an equation. if this word plus this action equals pain, then surely there must be some formula that yields not caring anymore.

if he'd just gotten it right. if he'd just kept everyone at a distance. if he could just be flowey. save. load. the answer has to be here somewhere.

but how do you quantify the sting of hearing her say "my child" to someone else? how do you account for the absence left in the places where joy once thrived? how do you document, in clinical terms, why you keep watching over people you swear don't matter anymore?

you don't devote yourself to perfecting devastation unless you remember, with searing clarity, what it felt like to be whole.

you don't give so much of yourself mastering the art of ridiculing attachment unless you're terrified of how much you still have left to give.

unless every attempt to prove love meaningless just confirms how much meaning it still has for you.

...point IS! flowey did an interesting job creating his own idea of a bully. it's all pathological. so crudely stemmed from his own sorrows and fears. he's created his own textbook definition of meanness...but then every chapter's just him screaming in a mirror.

[crabsnpersimmons]

How would Sun from your have you eaten au feel about hugs? He seems like he's so reserved and you mentioned that because he knows he's a robot he isn't very indulgent

But would he like hugs? Or could he warm up to them eventually?

(was chatting with @inkydoughnut the other day and i realized i never posted this comic woops 😂)

well well! Sun is no stranger to hugs! he doesn't usually initiate hugs, but he's used to receiving them from when he was a daycare attendant. he's never really learned when is a good time to pull back tho, so he often stays put until you pull back first:

Eclipse: Sun, we have dishes to wash.

Sun: You have 4 hands. And Moon.

[daily-odile]

drew a scene from @dunkalfredo's modern/scifi au... it's so good

[canisalbus]

I really appriciate how often Machete is depicted struggling and feeling like a burden, while still being loved and supported by Vasco. It gives the top tier angst of "i'm not good enough, I'm not worth it" but you frame it in such a way where it's clear that's just how he *feels* and is not how things really are, but also it's so nice to see someone who struggles quite often in a loving and unique relationship that suits them. The narrative of not being able to love or be loved unless you're consistently healthy is really tiring lol.

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[skitskatdacat63]

2011 Monaco Grand Prix - Vettonso

[oneluckydragon]

BREAKING NEWS!!! Local idiot ghost absolutely blown away when boyfriend gives him a nickname for the first time, more info after this broadcast.

Bonus pet-name edition:

(Yeah I know it's ooc for grovyle to EVER use the term "babe" but lets go ahead and assume he's done it accidentally a few times rather than intentionally. He's deeply in love with the dumb ghostman, ok. Sometimes it just slips out.)

Dusknoir is still recovering from hearing it. And when he finally calls grovyle "love" himself on accident a few days later, he falls deathly ill for two weeks cause his body couldn't handle the aftermath and started rapidly shutting down on a molecular level.

[hero-of-the-wolf]

poke poke I’m poking you for your thougyts on the update in return 👀

-Sky floor

*is poked* oh!! sure thing >:3

this update got me literally VIBRATING in excitement I'm ngl skshsksvsksbks

So!!! We start out with Wild and Four chatting; it's been really lovely to see them growing closer over the last couple of chapters :)

And Wild immediately picks up on the fact that Four is worried!!!

Four expresses his concerns about Twi and we cut to this totally not ominous and significantly colored panel—

I don't think I've seen a lot of people talk about this part, but I really love this conversation in the beginning. Wild has so much faith in Twi, he's got his back, he even brings it up to Time!!!

Skipping around a little bit, look at these two nerds analyzing the architecture. They're so smart....

and yet so dumb at the same time 😭

(I love them sm)

.... I feel like this is more me pointing excitedly at the pretty pictures but !!!!!!!! We've been getting SO many good character interactions lately and I can't wait to see how Jojo handles the upcoming pairs going forwards :D

all pictures @/linkeduniverse

and tagging @skyward-floored as well :)

[blujayonthewing]

fucking stupid how much damage has been done by 'but why don't you ever do [thing] for ME 🥺' + 'this art you did is so good that you SHOULD be doing something More and Better and actually it's super disappointing that you're not' like I'm a grown ass adult woman now when will I stop being haunted by the fucking spectre of the guilt of things I Should Also Be Doing

[kaiserouo]

can i get on his shoulder if im being annoying enough

[capesandshapes]

Some of the most disgusting and vile things I've ever heard said about women cis or trans has come from men in the gaming and nerd culture communities who feel an entitlement to female affection and sexuality due to grandiose fairytale bullshit that they're too stupid to realize was crafted by America's tech millionaires who were trying to foster a sense of a community and pacify underpaid workers with a promise of a greater tomorrow in which money and pussy would rain from the heavens as a reward for their suffering. Look to the great leader (whose parents are definitely only a little rich) as an example of what you the everyman whose overtime is paid in bottled waters can accomplish.

Like "I'm a nerd, not like other guys. Girls were really into the jocky ones growing up but little did they know I'm going to be rich and famous because I like computers and magic the gathering-- my computer science degree and superior intellect means I am entitled pussy from these feeble minded women. Watch me degrade the stupid sluts who don't want me."

Homie ur a weirdo. You can open Microsoft command prompt and build a rollercoaster in Minecraft. Maybe once or twice you've entered the BIOS menu via spamming the f key of your choosing. You're not breaking new pussy guaranteed 'how dare she not' ground here.

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by the lovliest @aprylynn and @cordiallyfuturedwight to kick off this year's musical archive

tagging favs: @thvinyl @kimtaegis @jihopesjoint @visionsofgideontheninth @hoseeok @eoieopda @monismochi <333 and whoever else this (dis)graces the dash of

[arttsuka]

I love it when a fandom randomly 'claims' a song. Yes bestie do it, make 1000 edits with that song please

[mars-ipan]

they're so GROSSSSSS (<- desperately wants what they have)

alt color under the cut:

[kaikamahine]

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[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

it's been a while since i dissected a stupid post so

okay, so a couple things.

who told you we were satisfied with hordak's arc? scratch that, who told you that he was forgiven? literally no one even talks to him in the finale, except for entrapta. there was nothing indicating that hordak was forgiven or redeemed. he stood up to his abuser and saved entrapta, that's it. that doesn't mean he's suddenly a good guy.

secondly, "catra working through her anger issues" like this?

oooor this?

or maybe this?

oh, she’s definitely working on her anger issues here, you can see the progress! /s

oh wait, catra offhandedly mentioned that she was working on her anger one time, and we all know that words equal to action. /s

also most of us don't think that catra doesn't deserve a redemption arc, we just think that she deserves a good one. i guess y'all don't really care about your character enough to want a well-written arc for them, you just want your toxic yuri to be canon, even if it destroys both characters in the process.

also, "gaining their trust"? catra had to do nothing to gain anyone's trust. all she did was crawl into the room, looking all sad and pitiful, and glimmer and bow immediately forgave her. oh, catra killed glimmer's mom? who cares, she's such a cute kitty, how could you not forgive her?

and finally, we have the "it's just a children's cartoon!" excuse again. y'all know that you're just insulting your own favorite show, right? animation has proved to be a great vessel for good storytelling time and time again, yet here you are, belittling animation as a medium just so you can win an argument and excuse piss poor writing.

if nate just wanted to write a children's cartoon, he could have written something light-hearted and fun, like spongebob or phineas and ferb. no one told him to write a glorified she-ra fanfiction about war and abuse and attempted murder. if he chose to do that, we have the right to judge his writing by those standards.

[ichthyorelationships]

an idea i invite anyone else to write about / run with lol....

the premise that The Change gets all messed up for alberto, say it's something that can happen from stress, &/or happens rarely and you just have to wait for it to resolve itself....used as some parallel to struggling through some emotional turbulence / upheaval / questioning / Realizing Things, etc etc