#those are the two i really remember

[mellohiizz]

@saiintvalentiine hello. the npc fic left me absolutely in shambles i needed to draw them.

[mariesbee]

why can't i enjoy things like a normal person? casually, just a few episodes/chapters here and there, then move on with my life. but no, whatever it is, it worms its way into my brain, consumes my thoughts and it slowly drives me insane. i am unable to think about anything else but the Thing of the week, or month, sometimes year(s) if it gets that bad.

[taddymason]

So, on the subject of Arin looking for Jay because he thinks he has information on where his parents are, I don't know if it's just me, but EVEN if Jay was a good manager who pays attention to where they send people, he's just- the manager. He doesn't do the relocations in person and since everyone is unconscious they probably don't even have a record with people's names. And it's been years since the merge so imagine how many people his department has relocated during that time.

So it's impossible in any way for him to be important in knowing where Arin's parents are and I think it'll be more of Arin clinging to this piece of information that won't get him anywhere because it's very likely that they weren't even in the Admnistration in the first place.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[mbat]

and thinking about the difference between bill and fiddleford when it comes to fords hands and fords 'genius'

bill makes fords polydactyly a focal point, something impossible to ignore. he tells ford that he'll fit right in with bills band of "freaks" all because his hands are a little different than other humans. he never lets him forget it, even if he says it as something to be proud of, but he and everyone else knows that ford kinda never stopped holding onto the insecurity that was associated with this trait. bill also never let ford forget his smarts, he played into the what ford always wanted to hear about his smarts, but fords brain was only ever a tool to bill. fords hands were (part of) a reason bill wanted to bring him along in his crew, and fords mind was simply a means to an end

and then we have fiddleford who, upon meeting ford for the first time, immediately saw ford as this genius who cared about what he had to say and they connected over their shared love for all that nerd stuff, and it was something that was important to them both and brought them together, and kept them together

and fiddleford says he didnt even notice, after hours and hours of sitting in a room with ford and them focused on eachother (and math)... he didnt even notice that fords hands were different until afterward, when he was looking at a photo of them both. this thing ford had been forced to worry about his whole life, and it wasnt even a thing to fiddleford.

ford wanted to be known, to be loved, for his brain and what he could do. and, in my opinion, it sometimes feels like he almost wanted to make up for the fact he was different, to prove he wasnt 'less than' because of some difference he was born with, this thing that everyone made such a big deal out of

and between the two biggest people in his life (aside from his brother of course lmao), one focused on and made a big deal out of his difference, and the other didnt even notice it. one saw his genius as a tool, and the other saw it as something amazing and admirable.

hell, if the bit of their conversation in the book of bill when they meet is, well, when they meet and is their first words to eachother... the first name or nickname that bill calls ford is, of course, sixer. and one of the first things fiddleford calls ford... is friend.

and i just feel like it says a lot about those two relationships and him.

[sporesgalaxy]

in my dream last night they released a bill cipher themed soda called Decipher and I tried to go get some but insane wacky nonsense kept interrupting me before I could. I mean the nonsense had to do with the plot of the rest of the dream but it just kept showing up at the exact moment that I was about to get my soda. Ive just remembered the plot of the rest of the dream was that all of the straw hat piratds were there at tbis theme park we were in and some other group of pirates were trying to bully nico robin. the other pirate group was goth btw. their captain almost died from getting splashed with acid (by nico robin) (it was justified). But I didnt see that happen bc really I was mostly focused on getting my dumb soda.

[mutopians]

i hate how, after seeing all the possible trc hot takes under the sun, and after writing an insane amount of rps set into trc aus, my brain has decided that the ONLY pair of characters it will permanently rotate around like a set of rotisserie chickens is whelk and noah. what do you MEAN i have to keep imagining whelk as being noah's toxic ex, even though i also read them as mostly platonic? what do you MEAN i have to keep fleshing out their backstory myself.

[wispforever]

Crucify Him

[pcktknife]

ok tell me some basic gen 5 facts

victini was designed with the intention of appealing to female players

[summerlycoris]

Finished some Cassies (plural) off today.

[psink]

Psi battle fun fact #3

The scene from chapter 242, when Kusuo supports Teruhashi as she's falling, happens again in psi battle: (The context for this is that Saiko requested a 1:1 scale bronze statue of a tyrannosaurus, which Teruhashi manages to obtain)

Teruhashi: "(But, as expected, I'm a little tired. That said, I need to do my job as a maid perfectly...No, I'm about to collapse...Huh? Someone's supporting me? Saiki...?) Kuriko: "Are you okay? You've been preparing [the statue] without drinking or eating, weren't you? I brought some high-class freshly squeezed juice from the kitchen." Teruhashi: "Kuriko-chan...! I'm sorry for making you worry. Thank you, I'll take it. Saiki-kun also helps me just at the right time, like when I'm tired. Even though he usually doesn't seem interested in me at all. (And somehow, he's never said 'offu'. Wait, saying this makes it sound like I’m the one who's always paying attention to Saiki!)"

[tenebrous-dream]

the npcs in 3ot are so dramatic . calm down andrew

[zirconpetals]

Langworth is such a funny ship because despite the way they look those are a couple of nerds whose top date idea would be debating each other for fun (and they'll have a great time too)

[front-facing-pokemon]

[rat-rosemary]

Tommy looks at the forest, the others shuffling anxiously behind him

It has been expanding (well, it was expanding from the first day) but it finally got big enough for someone else to notice he guesses. It only took them three months

He's not quite sure how they made the connection with Dream tho. They're right, but he has no clue how someone who didn't see it would know that Dream is at the center of this

(They probably just assumed. It's almost tradition at this point to blame everything on Dream)

The group of manhunters, about 10-ish people with Sapnap and Quackity in the front, look as prepared for a fight as they could be, their netherite armor shining like beetle wings in the sun

(Except Wilbur, who has nothing but his clothes and his cigarettes)

...if Tommy decides to lead them into the forest he's leading them to their deaths.

The armor is heavy and noisy. It shines obnoxiously in a way that would make it easy to spot on the pale oak even if they did manage to climb into a branch without letting every single creaking in the forest know exactly where they are, and it's too heavy to climb the dark oak trees

No one seems to have any invisibility potions either. He spots healing and regeneration and weakness and instant damage but no invisibility or night vision

He can help them with their search for Dream and by doing so he'll seal their fates.

"Tommy? Ready to go?"

Quackity catches his attention and Tommy turns to him

...he remembers afternoon after afternoon spent trailing after Wilbur as he and Quackity did. Whatever the fuck they were doing. Their weird sex rituals or whatever.

(He remembers watching The One That Bleeds, his wounds never healing as he sobs, crawling out of the blood oak, red roses tangled into his white hair. The burned brand on his back always seems fresh and it makes Tommy want to gag. He hopes that one is Dream's ghost. It seems too cruel for it to be him)

Tommy nods, walking into the forest, the fog welcoming him as an old friend as lillies of the valley grow angrily in-between his curls

He'll warn Tubbo and Fundy about the monsters and the false trees with guts and the flowers and the things that scream. Maybe Sapnap even. The rest of them? It was time for them to get a scare.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

reading Krakoa era out of order bc reading lists online make it confusing and my local library only has so many books

just as god intended right on my friend you're doing everything right and don't let anyone tell you otherwise