#totc

[zanephillips]

Murray Bartlett and Charlie Barnett Tales of the City 1.06 "A Touch o' Butch"

[dark-imagine-robots]

heavenly My sweet man I love you BOB

[ask-ufpapyrus]

Stylized character sheet of HomeStuck AU Zeref

[theeyeofancora]

The Creature is here too now? Must be a sign it's starting again. Let's see how far it all goes this time.

[microwaiver]

i LOVE weirdgirl zelda. she tossed herself to the ground to catch a frog and insisted her knight eats it. unparalleled.

[badlypostedfics]

hexter my man give us some totc!hugo analysis pre- and post-reset i beg

Yeah man ofc!

This got long so its under the cut :)

Part i

c!hugo starts off as kinda a background archivist. Doesn't do a whole lot until the morse code comes out, at which point he's like wait. Bc he spent most of his life before Viana on boats!! so ofc he's interested in doing the morse code bc it comes easy. And from that point he ends up working with the others and really begins to idolise Lume (something something respect must be earned.) And that's something he sticks with. So when Astraea starts turning everything south he still doesn't really recognize her as in charge. Sure she's making these threats and they're even coming true, but that's not exactly something he's going to take as authority. So of course, while Astraea is making her MO clear to the archivists, he's quietly making his clear to her. Something he says honestly a fair few times is that he doesn't care which side of history he stands on, he just cares that he's standing, which pretty much means that no matter what happens or how bad he needs to become, as long as he doesn't compromise on his own values he'll do it. And in this situation his values are;

- Loyalty to the archivists no matter what - Respect is something that is earned not demanded - The needs of the many outweigh the few

And these don't change at all the whole way through.

To him the archivists are an unbreakable team, so everyone including Kaz and Ash are his top priority. So when Confusion and Ender start worshiping Astraea he feels they've gone against everything he's standing for. (As has he but I'll get to that). They've betrayed the archivists, obeyed a command for respect, and are putting their own personal safety over everyone else's. 

This obviously leads him to The Incident. He gets tortured and maimed, and the worst part of it for him isn't actually the injuries. It's the fact that for a moment he actually trusts Astraea and she obviously betrays it a second later. And at that moment he actually respects her slightly more because he's so close to her that he sees her as just a person, breaking another person with her own hands. And she follows through with the scenario. She doesn't change her mind or conviction. And she chooses to enforce her command herself. So yes he's scared into calling her Lady Astraea, but he doesn't feel as awful about it because in a sick way he thinks only now does she deserve that from him.

Confusion then dies. Someone Hugo hated for being a lapdog, and hated for justifying his torture. And he's still upset about it, and he's very conflicted about the fact, so the only thing he can do really is add a new rule.

- Anyone can be forgiven once.

And so as Confusion dies, he looks them in the eyes and forgives them. And as Astraea dies he mourns. 

Year of Isolation

In the base, Hugo can barely speak, and can't use his hands. He's back to being a background archivist, but not for the same reasons. He sits in the corner on a bunk and watches Confusion's dog, wishing he could call it over or stroke it. It's about the only creature in the base he's sure might actually want to look at him out of anything other than pity. 

When he eventually gets use of his hands back, the first thing he wants to do is create. He makes a bracelet for Ender and Talia first, thanking them for helping him recover. Then lume, then the others. One for Confusion he attaches to the dog collar like a tag, and one for Weird which he stares at for about a week before he cant think about it anymore and hides it under a pile of rocks. He thinks about his new rule, which he believes in now. He believes it every time he tries to look Ender in the eyes after surviving where Confusion didn't. He believes it when he finally calls pup over and it greets him as happily as a dog does. He believes it when he covers his mouth in a mask to hide what a dead girl he half misses left on him as a cruel statement. 

And then he looks at the sigil on his hand and he makes a final bracelet. He takes it into the woods and hangs it from a tree in a bowstring he broke off of an old longbow in the cabin. Magpie is forgiven and remembered, and he loses the nerve to ever go back and check if he knows that. He stops wearing the glove over his sigiled hand and claims its to help dexterity. He seriously doubts if anyone cares. Part ii

So it's all back. Hugo deals with it about as well as anyone else. cleans himself up. The worst part about it by far are Aurora and Rue, because they were never part of his story. Astraea and Magpie are his. They've had forgiveness, they've earned forgiveness. Well, not really. But nonetheless, they have it. But Aurora? She doesn't have any claim to this story. She's the rough draft and he hates it. he doesn't care enough about either of them to do much. He'll antagonise them now, that's a change. It isn't reason or facts, it's plain aggression now. Bitterness needs something to go. He has Atty, and Ender doesn't hate him. He loves his family, his archivists, and as long as none of them are in danger he's more than willing to drink his days away in Oracle's casino until the next apotheosis hits. 

That's another thing. Calling Oracle Kaz was a habit which he finally breaks. Sure, Kaz was part of his family, the archivists, but he discovers something else. 

- You can't hold on to everyone

- (He doesn't take it in yet. Not yet.)

So he thinks about how he's changed and he realises it isn't fair. He lets Kaz and Ash go and hopes it's enough that they're here as they are. 

The first time he's invested is when house comes. Unbeliever, House calls him. He talks to Astraea in private, and god knows that's enough of a challenge. Anything could happen, a lot worse than the last time they spoke within any proximity to each other. But he has an idea. Puts it all together. None of the four in the loop have it in them to get out. None of their desires align with freedom from house; freedom from house is to be tethered to just being yourself. No one wants that, and if they do they are lying. Avery's voicemail proves this later. All Hugo wants now is to stand as he is, stand up for the archivists. He doesn't want anything for himself, he doesn't need house. For the archivists to be happy he needs house to be gone, it's his truest desire. So he pitches it to Astraea, and she takes it. 

And Hugo's always known he was a background character. But he didn't think it was like this. It could have been anything but this.

So god forbid anyone let Hugo take the fall. He's stuck, he knows it now. The eternal half survivor who watches someone better die as he's given care he doesn't deserve. And so it is that Astraea rewrites the ending to her story with the pen he handed to her and he can't even fault Magpie for being angry. He spends the last few days furiously trying to crack fate like it's morse code, but as radio static plays, the world ends again. 

He says goodbye to his beloved archivists, and with his last breaths in the world he should never have survived, he asks Magpie if he took the bracelet. He doesn't say it loud enough to be heard; the world was never about him anyway.

Post Reset.

Hugo is a background character. He lives far away from everyone. No connection, no nothing. The others celebrate being free, make up, apologise. He begins to start talking, to ask for explanation. He stops. Lets everyone go back to normal together. By the time Avery crosses that highway, his account hasn't shown the active status in weeks. Hugo learns alone on a windy peninsula in rural New Zealand his final lesson for good.

You can't hold onto everyone.

[five-forsilver]

@thelxveinterest

[pen-inks]

Pov: Charles Dickens before he buys you dinner:

"Sigh. He was a poor, poor man who was very poor, and lived in a poor house with a poor dog and a poor family and a poor town with a poor fountain and a poor street and a poor government, and he wore these poor shoes, very poor quality indeed, for poor people, such as himself, and a poor shirt, for poor people, like mentioned, because he was very poor, and very poorly dressed to enhance such poorness-"

[kygoecuador]

In 2021, @kygomusic was the most played artist on Norwegian radio stations, while @dagnymusic’s "Somebody" was the most played single song for the second year in a row. - "Somebody" is great, it deserves the success it has had. I saw Dagny at #Slottsfjell this summer, she is good live, she is cool and has a good voice, she has a good thing going. She is very nice, too. - Kyrre said. Dagny said that she is very satisfied with the collaboration, and hopes they can perform the song together at concerts. #kygo #kygomusic #kygoecuador #kygoisbae #kygoupdates #kygolife #supportingkygonomatterwhat #kygoconcert #kygoisbae #piano #goviral #trending #fyp #thrillofthechase #totc #kyrregørvelldahll #kygoyouaresofuckingbeautiful (at Slottsfjell) https://www.instagram.com/p/CleKG3uOulF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lulladae]

[dark-imagine-robots]

Stylized character sheet of Homestuck AU Troll Peter

[ask-ufpapyrus]

Sir Pins and Needles

[eemoo1o-animoo]

Ciel: (having panic attack)

Cult dancers: 🚩🚩🚩💃🤸

Music: 🎸🎸🎸

Ciel: 😰

[theeyeofancora]

Little Astra, burning dim star. Girl of grief hardened to hatred. Such a funny creature of habit you are. A warning: I am not so easily shaken as you may think, but by all means, keep looking for me.

I look forward to meeting you again.

[shinigamihakenkyoukai]

I think I'd do nearly anything to finish my Kuromyu bromide collection at this point. I've been missing a single photo each of Matsumoto Shinya, Nagaoka Takuya, and Yosuke Crawford for literal years and it's driving me insane

[spo-ork]

I don't know if I should even tag this one, but here's my addition to @emositecc's Loser Baby parody.