#this is actual clown behaviour if true

[quagsouls]

If the game actually is that price it will be probably the most pirated game in history.

If true we HAVE to make this the biggest flop in gaming history, as in 'destroys the company' levels of gaming flop as in a 'lesson must be taught' gaming flop, as in 'E.T. destroyed atari' gaming flop

[ihearnocomplaints]

i think i should learn how to play The Entertainer on the piano. Like it’s the only song I have fully memorised. And can play with both hands.

[floorpancakes]

one of my favourite tropes in like nsfw yaoi and yuri and stuff is when one character has a bunch of stamina either from energy or working out or luck and the other one is huffing and puffing like an asthmatic squirrel

[spyres]

like idk maybe this is just me but i'd genuinely rather throw my loose change into something that could possibly be but is very unlikely to be a scam and just be like "oh well" if it does actually turn out to be a scam than try to denounce every single palaestinian that just wants to live in safety. tripling down on that behaviour is just fucking embarrassing. "it's not racist to be skeptical of donations asks" that's true but saying that a group of brown people are all hustlers running a mass scam ring is undoubtedly extremely racist you fucking clowns.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

About the whole "Fyodor-switch personality" thing: We don't have enough information to confirm whether it was real or fake right now, and besides, both possibilities are really interesting.

If the switch was real and Fyodor was lying to cover it up (...because 'you know characters can lie, right' could mean... this part of it was the lie too...), that could easily be made a reference to Dostoevsky's The Double, as I was kindly made aware of. We've also already had an image of a young woman who looks like Aya from potentially a long time ago, given the outfit and that it is Bram's memory we're presumably seeing there, which may tie in interestingly with "what year is it?" The knife he pulled out also is genuinely a unique design for the series, and looks like it might be an old make. If this original is very old, then something in the takeover of personalities may explain why he hasn't seemed to age. Fyodor being a separate personality created from his ability and kicking out the original could tie in with his ability not attacking him in Dead Apple. This also raises more questions about Fyodor's motives, and I think opens the path for some pretty fascinating theory making. It also places Fyodor as something both human and not... intriguing for the ongoing theme of humanity in the series.

If the switch was a fake and Fyodor was being a completely hilarious little shit (which, we know the Joker is part of his inspiration and he is often contrasted with Dazai, Nikolai, and Mori, for whom this kind of behaviour would be expected - it's characterization, that's not 'done for no reason'), it would quite possibly be the funniest thing he's done in the series so far. But! More importantly, it strengthens Fyodor's connection with the Book (or rather, with altering the narrative). He's told a lie that sounds completely ridiculous but makes sense given the world and situation he's in - and notably, could fool Sigma... and the readers. Fyodor also managed to change the lightness of his eyes without changing the state of his soul - something that no other character seems to be able to do. (I know Dazai can feign the shocked expression, but that's not the clear lightness we saw in Fyodor's eyes in this panel. Nikolai's eyes change lightness but that actually seems to be genuine.) While this doesn't help us discern anything more about Fyodor's motives, it does emphasize his expertise at information manipulation - we cannot trust a single thing this character says, not just in universe, but out of it too. We, the readers, cannot listen to Fyodor and take anything he says as supporting evidence for theories. If this is true - that's fascinating. The other characters will have to solve the mystery of this man completely indirectly, and so will we.

Of course, there is the secret third option: it was a lie mostly, but there is an element of truth to it somewhere, which is actually par for the course for BSD as a whole. It is very rare that a character turns out to be lying completely. The question then becomes "what part is true and how much is it true", which is also very compelling. This, personally, is what I'm ascribing to for now until new info comes up.

Anyways, the last thing I wanted to point out is that if it was genuine, then remember The Double was inspired by Hohol's works, and if it was a lie, then that is very similar to the bait-and-switch performances that Nikolai has done multiple times in the series. Either way, it implies some influence on Fyodor by Nikolai and of course vice versa, which probably means the return of the clown (finally!) and more focus on their dynamic, which is a funny thing to show Nikolai having apparently had influence on Fyodor (even if in more of a meta way) as he is actively trying to kill him right now.

Love wins/loses?

[7nessasaryevils]

How are we already at episode 11???? This feels fake 🥺🥺

Sigh... alright then, let's do it.

- hi Cher!!! Who ya loo- Oyei!!!! Hi to you too! Oh we searching for Yak?

- me immediately worried that Yak has been triggered and is having a panic attack

Me when I realize yak is fucking sleeping on Dee's lap like the goddamn puppy he is doing everyone a heckin' scare!

- but also goddamnit they're so cute 🥹🥹🥹

- heheheh little kiss 💋

- FIST BUMPS!!! YOU DARE FIST BUMP IN FRONT OF MIETTE WHILE SHE PINES FOR PATPRAN?!? YOU DARE?!

- aww zazaki cheering so cutely in the background: my son!

- look at my little boxing family 🥹🥹🥹🥹 I'll burn anyone who dares hurt them

- I will not cry at how endeared and attentive Dee is when he listen to yak talking about how he preps for a fight I will not I won't!

- ahhh... the shoulder that started it all 😬

- more like Yoryak Phadetseuk's hubby 👀👀🤪

- I do love that Yei has learned and is now checking in with Yak instead of making decisions on his own... good job baby!!!

- babie yak has my whole heart 🥺🥹🥹 if this Mason guy is mean to my babie i will break him in half world championship title be damned! You haven't seen the strength of an angered mama bear bl fan!

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- HES A BABIE A CHILD ILL RIP YOU APART ILL UNTWIST YOUR INNARDS AND TWIST THEM AGAIN LIKE A BALLOON ANIMAL ILL SHRED ALL YOUR CHARGING CABLES AND YOUR BOXING GLOVES ILL BURN YO- awww look Dee's feeding Yak!

- this little bitch fighting hurt people to keep his title im gonna sit on him!

- damnit yak BE SCARED!!! We all are!!!

- sir... push that straw all the way down what the fuck is that???

- Met Gala grim reaper is back for fucks sake ���😑

- oh look! An actual representation of these two idiots 🤣 🤡

- ....okay... clown kink was not on my 2024 bingo card

- how the hell did they make clown nose touching cute???? Witchcraft!!!

- LOOK AT MY WHOLE FAMILY IN CLOWN NOSES THE BABIES!!!!!

- yak's about to say/do something embarrassingly adorable isn't he?

- he did!!!! The adorable clown you sweetheart!!!

- damn they're all so cu- FLOPPY COCK BASTARD DOCTOR SIGHTED!!!!! SEE WHAT YOU HAVE LOST YOU PISSPOOR EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING!!!!

- ohh Taem... honey... don't look like that you're breaking my heart 😢😢

- no. No no no ono nonooooooo no please I'm begging anything that is good and holy please do not have Ter go up to Taem!!!! DO NOT DO NOT! SHE DESERVES BETTER!!

- side note: taem yelling at a vending machine is peak human behaviour I love it! ♥️♥️

- GODFUCKINGDAMNIT

- I'll light a million fires, burn a thousand sage, conduct hundreds of blood sacrifices and rituals if it means Taem never ever ever ever ever has to talk to you again you trash wearing pus oozing excuse of a doctor!

- nope I hate it P'Golf how could you??? Why is there always something that immensely disappoints me in every show???

- awww all the little kiddies giving Yak their encouragement ♥️🥹

- oyei and Cher with a kid.... @imogenegomi THE FIC IS COMING TRUE?!? Ohhhh ask him ask him ask him ask him 👀👀

- HE ASKED IT!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

- Cher Oyei as actual parents!!! Getting married!!! P'Golf!!! If this show doesn't end with rings and a kid, you and I are gonna have words!

- your feelings have not been fake for a long ass time Khun Yoryak

- back hugs my beloved!!

- you've had his love for a long time to- why am i surrounded by stupid gays???

- greedy little puppy 🐶

- FOREHEAD KISSES MY BELOVED!!!

- Kao!!!! Hello my most perfect of sons how are you??

- oh I completely forgot that contest was a thing 👀👀

- Kao.... do you have a date?? One that makes you smile like that?? Spill!!!!!

- WAIT WERE GETTING TO SEE HIM???? WHOOOO?!

- THAT GUY!!!! KLUEN FROM WE ARE!!!! HIIII!!!!

- angry English speaking Yak my most beloved sexy damn woah (I think I had a minor stroke)

- side note: love that they called Mason American and he very much does not sound American 🤣🤣

- no no no no yak honey no!!

- my heart breaks so much for Wandee because he must feel so helpless. He knows Yak is hurting emotionally and there's not much he can do for him short of Yoryak actually speaking to him about his trauma. All he can do is hold onto him and let me know that he's there.

- your parents are besties, I guarantee it!

- fuck. I'm calling it now: Dee is gonna have to operate on the day of Yak's match.

- zazaki worried for Yak is fucking adorable: the besties we deserve!!

- ...I still can't believe that there are people who get cancer from smoking and then still refuse to quit. I knew a deacon who did that... what did he die from? Lung cancer. 😑

- oh great... operating with the trash floppy cock who doesn't understand the word no... love that

- I HATE WHEN IM RIGHT

- don't make promises you're not gonna be able to keep because this is a BL show Wandee!

- you just said your levels were off the charts you little liar 🤣🤣

- CHER!!! Saying what we're all thinking!

- Oyei.... I see you sir 👀👀 show Cher just how long you can endure 😏😏😏

- okay now I'm crying... Yak giving Yei that garland is so perfect because it is acknowledging everything that Yei has had to struggle with. He was a kid who had to be thrown into the role of a father, a brother, a teacher, an owner and care taker not just for Yak but for the people in the gym. This is one of my favourite moments for these brothers 🥹

- BOXING FAMILY UNITE!!!!😭🥹🥹

- walking into an OR without scrubbing... has grey's anatomy taught ya'll nothing??

- Ter you're a shit doctor.

- DONT LIE TO YOUR THERAPIST YAK!!!

- oh Jesus fuck that's fucking creepy....

- Apichart asking the thing we're all thinking: WHAT THE FUXK ARE YOU DOING STANDING AROUND!!! MOVE!!

- ...ter doing one nice-ish thing does not excuse all the the shit he has done before and I'm upset with the show for even trying to give him some sort of redemption. When someone has put their all into you and you drop them like a hot potato, you get no right to try and insinuate yourself back into their life. You've lost that right.

- gotta appreciate a little sitcom comedy moment 🤣🤣

- TAEM!!!!!!!

- MY SON WANDEE KEEPS HIS PROMISES!!!

- on the lips on the lips on the lips come on!

- FUCK YEAHHHHH!!!!

And that's it for this episode. We had some delicious delightful moments and moments where I wanted to ram my fist through a wall (in anger not in "fuck they're so cute") but that tends to happen with every show I watch. I hope I never have to see Taem and Ter scenes again because I'll puke.

Next week shall be emotional... we are finally wrapping up Wandee Goodday. This show has been lovely and a definite favorite of mine for this year.

Ep 12 promises to make some of my dreams come true: I see Dee and Yak in white on a beach which tells me marriage scene??? Oyei and Cher wedding!!!

So until next week!!! Adios my darlings!

[thestuffieguardian]

I understand and am fully aware that me answering those nsfw asks has increased my sex appeal about 10x for you girls. But that does not give you the right to think only with your pussy. You should still be using your brain, and you should still be respectful of me, just as I have been you. I have not disrespected any of you at any point, so please don't do the same to me

This is not Mean Girls, and I am not Aaron Samuels. I would appreciate some decorum here. I am not a tumblr daddy. I am not these other clowns on this site. I've said before, I actually respect myself, I have integrity and self-worth, which you all know to be very true. I won't tolerate disrespect or false apologies with no changed behaviour. This is a place of peace. If you disturb that peace, I will cast you out from it. No more bedtime stories. No more streams, I don't want to do that, I don't like excluding people. It fucking sucks being left out of things, so I hope that by reading this you show some decency. You are grown women, I get that I'm very enticing, truth be told I'm not even trying to be. You were given honest answers for all your questions, that's it, but please don't mistake my kindness for weakness, because I will throw you away just as easily as you entered.

Thanks. 💙

[valerileygreen]

So, while re-watching Inception (with @thenwhatthefukcisthis) for the nth time in less than a year, for the first time I realized that it's Arthur who actively starts contact with Eames with his 'I'm impressed' comment.

And I think it's not something that's really acknowledged much? Maybe it's because of Eames' earlier comments about Arthur, that we already perceive as jabs at Arthur even though he's not there. And I think it's beautiful that it's actual Arthur who wants to try and bridge some sort of gap between them, though it backfires a little as Eames misinterprets... And it sets off the tone of their banter!

It's like Eames was waiting for a signal from Arthur, his cue to how he should behave around him, being professional and on his best behaviour till Arthur shifted their interaction a little bit on the more personal side.

It's really another way their masks come into place, making everyone at first glance think things that aren't really true. Like Eames being the class clown instigator and shit stirrer and Arthur being always proper and cold and distant, when it's actually not true.

[lifenconcepts]

Your Assumptions of me ((I copied the Text)) ->

I presume you probably carried around some sort of toy as a child, you liked to do things by yourself in group projects at school, may have had a certain activity you looked forward spending with a certain person before that person and you grew apart, have a blurry concept of what interests you and more or less just point out things when you see them with “yeah I like/ don’t like that”, have had some odd fandom in the past you swore nobody has ever heard of but you probably sort of forgot now and/or realised that you aren’t the only one, played some sort of silly flash game riddled with dozens of ads, have possibly fallen for one of those “free so and so here!” Ads, in the family gay at school possibly played the mother and/or pet, have some stuff for hobbies you haven’t touched in years, constantly judge your own art despite it being absolutely beautiful, have some sort of hanging decoration on your walls, have a distinct smell of which you associate your childhood with yet can’t pinpoint it, have had certain beliefs/actions/habits you can’t really understand what caused them to form, feel more at home with animals than humans, have probably studied animal behaviour or atleast cats/dogs, own/owned a pet?, have considered something like an exotic creature such as a purple axolotl idk, have made or received a bracelet before, chose shapeshifter if asked what super power you’d like to have.

Let’s go though all of the, shall we.

01. -> I did carry around a Toy as a Child, more specifically Plush Animals. However I only did that as a very Young Kid, because I developed a bit of a Hygiene Funk, meaning I had the Desperate Need to keep all of my Belongings clean, so I stopped bringing my Toys outside with me.

02. -> Yes, very much. I still do, I fucking Hate Group Projects. I either do all the Work, or keep getting forgotten ((mostly the First Option)).

03. -> Again, True. The Activity was just playing on the Playground at School together, and the Person was a Boy, who was known as the Class Clown, and Trouble Maker of our Class. He was a nice kid either Way. We grew Apart after a While.

04. -> True. I always kinda struggle when People//Beings ask me what Interests me, because It’s all somewhat Blurry. I have no Problem what I like, or dislike though, as long as It’s actually sitting in Front of me.

05. -> For me that Fandom was Creepypastas. I know it’s not actually unpopular in English Spaces, but It sure was In Germany. Basically no one around me knew what they even were.

06. -> I did play a Bunch of Silly Games with too many Ads. I don’t know If they Count as Flash Games though. Most of them were either Mobile Games, or Games on a Website that belonged to a German Kids TV Channel, called “Toggo”.

07. -> Surprisingly, I have never actually fallen for any of those Scams. Probably because I was an overly cautious Child.

08. -> Yeah. For the Family Play, I full out refused to be Anything but a Pet. Makes a lot more Sense now. The other Kids started being Super annoyed at me after a while, and just kind of started to stop asking me to Play with them.

09. -> That Hobby is stringing Animals out of Pearls ((I don’t actually know what it’s called)). I still have the Pearls, and the Instructions on how to do it, but I just haven’t touched any of It In Years. Also Diamond Painting. I only own Four, but I still have an unfinished one, that I just haven’t finished. It’s been unfinished for 2 Years now.

10. -> I judge my Art constantly. I definitely am my own Worst Critic.

11. -> I have lots of Hanging Decorations on my Wall, including, but not Limited to, a small Fake Deer Head.

12. -> Yes, definitely. I just started calling the Smell “Nostalgia” in my Head. I mostly seem to smell it in my Grandparents House.

13. -> I can never Pinpoint how literally any of my Believes, and Habits came to be. So this is once again, very much True.

14. -> I always have too. I have certain Memories of me Being at some kind of Farm, or something of the Like, and just being Alone with the Animals, and Full on Avoiding the Humans.

15. -> I studied Animal Behaviours as a Child a Lot. It fascinated me, still does. For both Cats, and Dogs, but also the many Insect I saw In our Backyard. I especially know a Lot about Cat Behaviour, since I quite literally grew up with them.

16. -> My Mother has owned a Lot of Cats over the Years, and the occasional Dog. There has literally not been a Single Year In my Life where we did not have some Kind of Pet.

17. -> A Snake actually. I still do want to get one eventually, though only when I have the Money for It.

18. -> I made Bracelets exactly once, and for some Reason that Memory has burned Itself into my Mind. I kind of want to get Into Kandi though.

19. -> Yes. I’m Non-Human, with many Kintypes, what Super-Power did you expect me to choose ?

HOW did I get all those things right!? Also, truly, you’re so fascinating and I would just love to go for a stroll in the dark night within your mind, like an old man with a cane on an overgrown path, I want to venture into the woods and get lost and found by something so much more than just another person, to find myself within whoever finds me - do you understand?

[ch4rryc0smos]

YOUR MOUTH IS VICIOUS AND YOU'RE PROUD OF THE SOUND YOU MAKE EVERY SECOND I'M AWAKE / EVERY SECOND I'M AROUND ! — NOW IT'S OVER | DOGPARK.

── . ✶ ❝ B L A I R E F L O R E N C E C A L L A H A N . ❞

☼ — xvii | cancer | infj | british-australian 🪐

appearance ; slightly tanned skin on exposed parts with freckles over shoulders and face, mole under the right corner of her bottom lip, forest green eyes, 5'10 [177 cm], athletic [or sleeper] build with thinner legs, barely noticeable scars over arms, thighs and back, scars over most of her body, dimples when she smiles hard. dimples on her lower back when she stretches. ombre [brown-blonde] hair, prefers her hair short [in a jellyfish cut], but isn't allowed.

beliefs ; materialistic wealth doesn't define anything but your worth in the eyes of capitalism. humans are made to express individuality, not succumb to capitalistic beliefs and submit to slave-like treatment.

⋆ ─ living isn't a linear experience, take it with grace, give it time, and maybe it'll learn to love you too. so, live. ⋆ ─ good and bad don't truly exist, the world is not black and white, it's grey, it's a canvas, and you're the artist.

personality ; gentle, intuitive, charismatic, vigilant, observant, meticulous, boisterous, collected, diligent, loving, realist, nurturing.

positive traits ; compassionate, selfless, empathetic, kind, accountable, notices other's emotions & fluctuations in behaviour[s].

negative traits ; anxious, bottles up her emotions, skeptic [has trust issues], struggles with boundaries, overworks, cares too hard, thinks she has to always be the one to rely on, can't accept her negative emotions, has unhealthy coping mechanisms.

quirks ; fidgets all the time | stutters when nervous | bounces from heel to heel when waiting in queues | gets louder and faster when talking about passions | has an oral fixation | tilts her head when she's focusing | taps her foot unconsciously when waiting for people.

likes ; nature, psychology, sociology, anthropology, freedom of speech, anarchy, deep conversations, late-night car rides, coffee, biology [many branches of it], museums, gardens, aquariums, deers, red pandas, art of living, knowledge, economics, connor murphy & evan hansen.

dislikes ; arthropods, heights, loud noises, narrow-mindedness, extreme temperatures, snobby people, arrogance, dishonesty, being under pressure, confrontation, disorganised places, normalising shitty behaviour and attributing it to mental illness.

deepest secrets ; wants to be seen for her true self, wishes her worth wasn't determined by productivity, wishes her parents would've seen her as more than a trophy daughter.

⋆ ─ she just wants actual connections, the one thing she somehow barely has. ⋆ ─ she doesn't want expectations to be placed on her, she doesn't want to be a prodigy, she wants peace, and calm, and people who actually care.

── . ✶ ❝ B A C K S T O R Y . ❞

ONE of australia's greatest kids, a prodigy made to wow the southern hemisphere, when blaire callahan moves to us, a whole world and hemisphere away, she doesn't know what to do, where to start. living in an esteemed society, high art culture surrounds her everywhere she goes. she's never truly known what friendship is because status is what determines who she is, what she is, even.

she hates how stuffy her life feels, how lonely she always feels, and how she lets her worth be decided on whether she performs well or not, what is this, a circus? she feels like the clown, that's for sure.

primary and middle school pass by as breezes, decent enough as long as she doesn't engage with anyone, ignores the one kid that goes to a nearby school and apparently threw a printer at his teacher in second grade. little blaire didn't know that mentioning that would just be the start of her meeting the murphy family.

one faithful day, she makes the mistake of mentioning this unknown kid to her ever nosy mother, and she somehow finds out it's connor murphy. some guy she'll have to meet now because his family is apparently rich! and oh, they're nice too, but it doesn't matter. and did she mention connor has a sister?

when she finally meets the family, the first time, it's awkward, zoe, connor's sister is a lively kid, she clings onto blaire the second they meet, and connor is, to say the least, out of it. he doesn't want to be there.

blaire resonates with it. and that's how they bond. the two run from the snobby dinner party, they sit outside, on the porch. they're awkward kids, don't speak, but they do know that they understand each other better than the adults ever could.

and that's how it started, few visits occasionally, until blaire moves to connor's school. it's the most public school-esque school she's ever done so much as seen. but connor is okay with it, well, as okay as he can be while hating it viscerally.

he gets bullied, blaire finds out. she hates it, she doesn't care who these people are, she doesn't like them. she spends a while defending connor, and then she meets evan. an anxious wreck, someone who doesn't want to be noticed, but of course she notices him.

so does connor, well, he notices before she does. but she's quick to follow. connor isn't big on befriending him, but she is. she wants him to feel seen, because she never has, not until him. she gives evan the best version of herself, and they form a friend group, a little trio, just them. and no one can hurt them, or can they?

── . ✶ ❝ C U R R E N T . ❞

LAST year of high school, on the path to be valedictorian, or whatever it is in american's high school, blaire callahan is looking to do what she was meant to do when she was younger, back at australia. she's friends with alana beck, a prodigy, but no one knows what these two go through. only connor and evan know blaire better than she seems to know herself.

but connor has been falling apart recently, and even if he acts "rad" and says it's just the usual, she knows. she always will, and evan does too. he's much more observant than he lets off. and blaire likes it. these two are scared for connor, they're worried, but blaire feels empathy. she's been here before, and it hurts.

it hurts bad to see him like this. it hurts so bad to see him like this, and have zoe be so angry. she's always been friends with zoe, and she doesn't like what connor has done to her, but now she's torn. and evan has to help her steer this ship away from this path, the one that'll lead them to their demise.

she's torn between two people, no, three, and three worlds that she'll have to navigate. and her parents too, and it's just so draining, so draining. she has to learn how to live, with herself, and with them, and with everything.

she hates high school, she says.

but she doesn't, she just hates how everyone she seems to care about is struggling, but she's ambitious, she will do anything to keep them afloat. and she will, no matter what, she doesn't care what happens to her, she's going to do it, for herself, for, connor, for evan.

she's been close with cynthia and heidi, connor and evan's mothers (respectively), but she doesn't know if she should tell them, maybe not yet, she thinks. the time will come.

and the universe will let her know, she believes in it. she believes in time, or does she? she hopes she does.

it doesn't matter though, she's going to figure out. this is blaire callahan the world is talking about. she's going to rock it.

── . ✶ appears in to be seen is to be loved [wip].

★ ; decided to make this post before actually putting the fic up (i haven't even finished the fic, i'm sick). i fell ill so i'm much slower, but it's okay, meet blaire everyone! another one of my girls <3 i've got some works with her in it in the plans, so!

ch4rryc0smos © 2024

[jojotichakorn]

archer rewatches nlmg: episode 6

[episode 5]

palm adjusted the back of his sit so this exact thing would happen gjdkgjfdkgj. operation successful!!

nueng is having none of this kgjkldfgjkldfjgkfldjgdl

clown behaviour 🫵🤡

🔫 shut up and let him call you ai nueng

i love that palm's fashion sense is better than nueng's. money can't buy taste.

my favourite adult homosexuals are here!!!!

he looks so good istg 😭

me when i'm a lying liar who lies

i'm gonna start chewing on live wires

no, bud, i really don't think so 😭

smiley palm is everything to me, i want nothing bad to ever happen to him (he is literally going to go through unimaginable horrors btw)

palm has gone completely off the rails, i love that for him

that's actually not true, palm is an excellent liar

generally, i agree with everything she's saying, but this is not true for nueng and she is doing more harm than good by regurgitating this atm 😭

obsessed with palm's cunty little pose

he is so mad and for what (that boy is literally insanely in love with you my guy) ((i know he doesn't know because palm literally lied but ugh ykwim))

i am thinking thoughts that would get this post deleted

it kind of will be but in a far less tragic way than i initially thought when this first aired. like i thought they would full on be tragically separated for years or something.

and what if i died because they held hands? what then?

[episode 7]

[thatiranianphantom]

No, but it really is going to be okay, a rambly Nancy Drew/Nace meta

I'm just closing my eyes and picturing this:

I feel like you can sum up my thoughts on 412 as this:

But should you be in the mood for a brain dump (hopefully a reassuring one?), click that cut, my friend.

Okay, let's get some disclaimers out of the way to begin with.

I only read the subtitles, and watched certain parts, didn't see the entire episode. So there could very well be nuance here that I am missing.

I, too, am frustrated with how this season has shook out. Being disappointed that they are literally leaving things to the finale is valid. I would never have done the season like this given the chance. And being let down by that is okay! Goddamn, there was a lot of lobster boy in this season, and they, as of now, inexplicably expected the viewers to be emotionally invested in him?

I could end up being the world's biggest clown, and be 100% wrong on everything, or again, there is nuance here I didn't see or consider, leading to me being wrong. I am accepting that as a real possibility.

HOWEVER,

Here is what (to my understanding) the show would like me to believe:

Due to something maybe involving the pickled curse, Ace had to choose to save Captain Thom or the captain Alice, and he saved Thom but couldn't save Alice. Captain Thom and Ace are alive and do not remember, and yet Alice is still dead.

Ace was riddled with guilt and called Nancy, who on her own, erased this, mooting the conversation we saw in 408. This only erased the memory of the sin, not the sin itself. Nancy didn't undo the sin, she just erased the memory. We know this, because Alice is still dead.

Ace and Nancy are no different in 408 than they were in 409, the only thing that changed is the events of the night of 408, which they do not remember, thus it wouldn't have altered their behaviour.

George, Nick, Bess and all of the crew were unaffected, memories and behaviour wise, by anything that happened. There is nothing supernatural coming between Ace and Bess, nothing that is making Nick push Nancy towards Tristan, nothing that is making Bess and George particularly close.

The Nancy of 409-411, the one who referred to Ace as a "relationship" and her "ex", is no different from the Nancy of before 408, who was pining hard over Ace. Again, the only thing that changed, neither of them remembered.

Ace and Nancy are cold and bitter to each other in a way they've never been in 4 seasons. He didn't want her at the Seder, so much to the point that Bess panics when she shows up, despite inviting both her dads and her dad's girlfriend. And yet that relationship, which, again, is portrayed quite differently in 409-411 than before, is enough for Nancy to abandon the entirety of her morals and belief system to save and protect Ace. Instantly.

Nancy and Ace have some memory of being something to each other, enough for them to acknowledge them both not having moved on, but the actual interactions they are referring to are and have been extremely vague since 409.

Ace, the person who knows Nancy better than anyone, is attached enough to a ghost that he will yell at Nancy repeatedly and ask her why she has to solve something. A ghost he met what was canonically probably no more than a few days ago.

Tristan, who has been in 5 episodes, and the ghost, who has been in 3, are just as significant as love interests as the 4-season buildup to Nace.

George is moving away from Horseshoe Bay, and completely supports Nick's relationship with Jade (this one may be real, but my Fanson heart doesn't want it to be).

Very little from early on in the season connects to later in the season in a significant way.

The connection Nancy and Tristan have (a relationship 5 episodes in the making) is stronger than the connection she feels to Ace (a relationship 4 seasons in the making).

Look. LOOK. Look.

Maybe some of this is true. Maybe indeed, Nancy and Ace have truly just moved on, they are different people, they are interested in different people. Maybe platanchors can't platanchor forever, and they truly did intend to do away with 4 seasons of character development (How very HIMYM of them).

But in Nancy Drew, a show that nearly always lays out its mysteries with explicit, agonizing detail, and centers itself around the fundamental concept of love being the most powerful thing in the world, capable of spanning time and space, that is a lot to ask me to swallow at face value. All of this together makes very little sense, given what we've seen, not only in the past season but the past year.

And these are a few things that I find, at best, extremely fishy about the whole affair.

Why hasn't Nace or anyone mentioned the curse since 407? Nick is pushing Nancy to Tristan despite having a despondent Ace grieving over Nancy at his doorstep two episodes ago?

How am I expected to buy that between 408 and 409, Nancy and Ace just up and moved on, decided they were nothing to each other, and jumped right in with their whole asses to their love interests, if the sin that was erased only changed the events of one night, which until now, neither remember (and Ace still doesn't). The fights also really seemed to show that what they remember and what we, the audience, saw, is fundamentally different.

The mystery seems so lackluster. I don't know how to explain it except that the writing on the mystery seems so lazy in a way it never has before, unless there was a twist that upends the entire thing that they've been laying hints for this entire time. I believe we still don't know what started the fire in the first place. We know that in order for the Sin Eater to erase a sin, you have to pay a toll. What if the toll was Nancy and Ace forgetting what they were and Nancy being bound to the Sin Eater? That would explain both the forgetting and the connection with Tristan. We still don't know what Chief Lovett and Nashua's connections are. Via Kennedy, we still don't know Tristan's full importance.

The ND writers are very well aware of what the fandom wants. They are extremely interactive with the fandom. The writers are still talking to the fandom. I just have so much trouble envisioning a scenario where they essentially say "lol just kidding on that nace thing, enjoy the chronicles of nancy and lobster boy" in the penultimate episode, unless there is a twist we weren't expecting that brings the whole thing back to Nace.

Openly admitting this is thinner and more subjective, but I feel like Kennedy has been about as reassuring as she is allowed to be, the writers have been tweeting things like "there is nothing to be afraid of", and this episode has been described as setting the bases for 413's home run (or something to that effect, I don't sportsball).

It almost seems like they want us to take this at face value, to set it up for the Nace twist at the end. ND loves its ending twists.

And all of this (so close to shutting up I promise) brings me to the 413 description.

Few things here. While it is possible that Nancy figuring out the sin she erased was the "most shocking discovery yet" I have some...pretty severe doubts. And if it wasn't, we haven't gotten to that revelation yet. And we know based on this description that this revelation has something to do with Ace. Again, it is possible that this is Nancy finding out about her sin, but it almost feels like that's been dealt with in 412? Are they going to...rehash it again in 413? I doubt it. This lends a lot of credence to my theory that there is a twist yet to be had. One that will bring us epically back around to Nace.

Now, could I be wrong about all of this? Maybe. I haven't seen the finale, I am but a clown on the internet. And again it is valid to be disappointed in the way the show has chosen to approach this. I do think there is a conversation to be had about the somewhat aggressive way we consume media, especially when given access to artists via social media, but that is an entirely separate conversation. But do I think Nace is over and done for good and we should just give up now? All I can say is

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Other people have mentioned this too, but something I really enjoy about your fics is how you write the different team dynamics, and the friendships Jamie has built with all of them. Your younger!Jamie AU is definitely going to be a really interesting take on all of this, and I was just wondering - what relationships/interactions between Jamie and the team are you most looking forward to writing?

thank youuuuuuuu wah i'm so glad you enjoy that aspect of it!! it's one of my absolute favourite things to write about, i love pulling the lesser focused-on players into it particularly. like i said the other day i'm really, REALLY looking forward to thierry and richard's upcoming scenes in 'the same story' especially.

YEAH THAT'S GONNA BE AN ADVENTURE FOR SUUUURE. obviously there's like. ted and roy and company, and Everyone's got stuff in here, but there's some particular stuff i'm looking forward to as well. i've always been extremely invested in jamie and dani's dynamic and this au is gonna be a very fun version of that - particularly the trickshot competition from 1x06, which i'm doing an au version of! there's some very interesting stuff going on with jamie and sam too. the bad ground their relationship starts off on courtesy of jamie is obviously very different here, given that jamie is like. y'know. fifteen and has zero power here this time, he's not on the team, he has no real 'status' to speak of and no sway on other people. but his like..... being a jerk to sam and the others (which he is! because if he wasn't a horrible little brat it would not be like. true to the character lskdjfs this is an au version of the narrative but he's still Who He Is.) is still impactful and a significant demoralizing factor when ted first arrives. it's more that it takes the shape this time of jamie sort of.... representing, in their eyes and particularly in sam's, the wider community and how they're feeling about the team. it feels like the community itself is sneering at them, which isn't. helpful.

(plus he's a sort of. element of the place that's indicative of how badly things were being run under the joint leadership of rupert and cartrick. there's a lot that goes into 'what had to go wrong here for a teenager who works part-time as basically a handyman is just allowed to Be Like This and nobody really bats an eye' and a lot of it is down to 'rupert didn't care and set a standard of not caring about Anything pretty much and cartrick thought it was funny in a pathetic circus clown sort of way')

SO yeah there's a different vibe but some very interesting ground there with his like. difficult relationships at first, particularly sam.

i'm also looking forward to writing julie and leslie higgins and how they're feeling about/interacting with the whole thing? also, and this might be a weird pull, but michelle has a fairly small but significant role in this au wrt jamie specifically and i'm actually really looking forward to that.

and finally there's a whole like..... this is a lesser element of the fic that sort of orbits the general plot and established characters but i sorta needed some peers for jamie to have, particularly given a lot of his worse behaviour in the front half of season 1 was directed at his teammates/peers. so that didn't quite fit when he's in such a different role, so there needed to be a context for that, and for his subsequent major apology/amends stuff (which is still gonna happen with the team, he's gonna apologize to them for how things went, but it's a smaller deal and an easier process given he's a kid and he couldn't really. do much to them in this situation.). that's where the park kids come in! i decided to build him a little group of teen friends that he has from school and that he hangs out with all the time in the park ted walks through every day to get to work. one of them is one we already know through a few encounters with ted, shannon, who gets built out a little more into a more Present character, and there's a couple other kids i just wholesale made up to flesh out his peer group more (for fun and profit, their names are dean, asher, and eleanor). shannon is the one we're gonna see the most of and they're not a major part of the plot by far - i know people get like..... twitchy with non-canon characters lmao - but i'm excited about the role they DO have and i think it's gonna be pretty fun.

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lol your post about men saying shit like "theres no better enemy for women than women" is so true. Like men literally bitch and moan about other men too.

I sometimes lurk in communities of male lolcows, who usually have a much larger male fanbase (or male hatedom) and the men there are ruthless. Like they make fun of their appearances, their work and art, the way they talk or emote, how they get angry or sad and so on. Like literally every single detail. And many times, these lolcows used to be popular in their youth but degraded in some way, so their haters are mostly middle aged men, so no, its not only teenage boys being inmature and trolling.

Like some guys are made fun of for being fat, others for having receding hairlines, others for being too short, or just being ugly in general. Theres a guy whos constantly made fun for having a weird shaped leg. Its literally incredible.

Also, a lot of them are called autistic, usually as an insult, due to how they behave. An interesting thing I found out its that many people who use autist as an insult are autists themselves, they just like to feel superior to these lolcows because they're "higher functioning" or more succesful. Many use the word retard too, and I even seeing mongoloid used.

I think the only reason why women are stereotyped like this, but men aren't even though they behave similarly (and id say men are actually more cruel) its because men are seen as individuals and women as a group. Its kinda like when a boy is bad at math and people just assume its just him, but when its a girl its like "wow girls suck at math." Or when there are news like of a man raping and killing women and people are like "humans are so fucked up" even though this is mostly a male phenomenon. Like men can be as catty and drama seeking as women are, most people just fail to see the same patterns and behaviours because theyre considered the "average/base human".

Yeah, men are ruthless between each other. When I was in middle school, guys in my class were making fun of a boy tank top... saying that it wasn't masculine, or whatever.

They'll also leverage that cruelty to emotionally manipulate women saying "we don't talk enough of male depression". Of course, they won't say that men depression isn't taken seriously because men are the specialist in downplaying emotional struggle (and no, male being depressed for being virgin at 25 doesn't count). I mean, look at them clowning male victim of (sexual) abuse...and then act like victim when male victims are not talked about enough and blame women(?!) for that.

Men have seen what feminism has done for women, and instead of taking the lucid resolution of doing the same for themselves and try to improve & raise awareness about male centric issues, they behave like jealous spoiled children, and act like the positive outcome of feminism came out of thin air, that women were just naturally privileged (when women FOUGHT to have the "privilege" they now have).... And yet, those same men more often than not expect women's involvement in uplifting men - like constantly debating women's only organization legitimacy and complaining about how they do nothing for men....when literally nothing stops men doing the same. They just naturally feel entitled to female labor.

Men project A LOT of their insecurities onto women, anyway.

The "you'll die alone and live with 30 cats" trope? objective reality shows that (older) men are more desperate for companionship. Dating app are dominated by men. Clubs are usually free for women because men are outnumbering them.

"Women are bad driver" => stats show that most car accident are caused by men.

"Women peak at 25" => the age of first marriage is increasing. Men are just seething because women realize their options and won't marry with the first bum that will propose. And the more women will realize they have options, the most men will have to compete to women's emotional & sexual access. They refuse to let that happen.

One thing that is extremely funny and telling about, men, is that they will have no problem with statistically evidence as long as it comes to race, with them joking about the 13%, lumping a whole race into behavioral traits.....but the moment women do the same with criminal stats and simply acknowledge that men champion to a disproportional rate sexual crimes and violent crime, they'll lose their mind, be like "HOW DARE YOU LUMPING ALL MEN AS CRIMINALS??!!1!1!1" ....when these idiots had no problem doing the same through a racial lense.... Which, hilariously, still have MEN championing crime for every race, so they are failing to disprove what women say 💀

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Absolutely no surprise that the PCU and their dog-whistled friends are totally fine with a transphobic fascist fetishizing True Horde guild. Watching Dargeus/Hordeculler/Kruule on his newest mask of the month Gealek clown about posting how he's "ignoring how bad Vaxir is" like some hysterical karen who thinks he's actually anything more than a washed out former roleplayer who can't help but rehash SS commando rp every 4 months.

It is rather telling to us that there seemed to be precious few people actually doing much calling out on Garmmash, who has been known to us for years for being a misogynistic sex pest already, being a blatant and disgusting transphobe on top of that. Very odd that the usual talking heads who jump on this kind of thing have been very silent. Aside from Gabrindion and Krezha/Korkrog, there was a strange lack of desire to call out the behaviour as rightfully deplorable.

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That's actually not true at all, mimes are incredibly social breeds, it's just that they communicate that in different ways. If they're fighting, there's probably been a miscommunication. Rodeo clowns can be loud and honk a lot and when mimes don't reciprocate that, the rodeo clown can feel unsettled, especially if the mime is silently mirroring the others behaviour. Some breeds of clowns see this as the mim sizing them up and therefore a threat. You have to socialize all different breeds of clowns, they all have different personalities and their own instincts.

Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of people going: “My mime keeps fighting with my other clowns!” And it’s like ???? YEAH NO SHIT??

I can’t believe I actually have to say this in 2023 but

Mimes are NOT social breeds!

Like, you can’t seriously expect a mime to share the same tent as a rodeo or a jester without any consequence? Unless they are raised together, your mime is just going to perceive the other clowns as a threat.

Prolonged exposure to close contact with another breed is damaging to your mime’s mental health. It’s not okay. Look after your fucking mime.