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just remembered everyone thought that Jace was better then Alec except for Jace
#their parabatai relationship is in shambles but it still hits sometimes ngl#'the best thing Valentine ever did was send me to you' SHUT UPPPP OH MY GOF#truly an insane conversation#jace herondale#alec lightwood#it's kinda interesting that all the new people they meet don't really compare them like they obviously grew up being#like Magnus obviously likes Alec more lol and Simon says that too (in a platonic way lol)#even Clary doesn't really compare them or thinks Jace is better#romantic feelings aside#ig it's because they're not really thinking about being a good warrior or anything idk#bella talks#city of heavenly fire#the mortal instruments#tmi#tsc#the shadowhunter chronicles
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I just remembered Ludinus telling Caleb outright that Trent "has his uses", and with regard to the Scourger program, which Trent himself designed and pitched, "desperate requirements might call for unsavory methods."
And given that we know now that Ludinus has been singlemindedly focused on the current goals of the Ruby Vanguard for a lot longer than the program would've been in existence, I'm just imagining a timeline in which Caleb and Beau had not gotten the program shuttered in 836 PD, and that entire force of highly-conditioned, high level arcane assassins was simply at Ludinus's disposal.
#critical role#ludinus da'leth#caleb widogast#also for the record. in case ANYONE was liable to forget. 97 is truly an insane episode.#I forgot that that SUPER TENSE conversation with ludinus flows IMMEDIATELY into jester cornering 'dezran' at the hors d'oeurves table#literally the tone switch is HILARIOUS
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Hello everyone I need your help. You need to help me give a name to this fucking thing:
for context this is a very small crop from an AI generated picture. For some reason the AI saw fit to make this little staring freak with pink gucci boots a crucial detail.
it just has me so utterly captivated that I cant stop thinking about it. I have made fanart of this thing. And now I want to make it into a character. Not anything serious, just a recurring visual gag. But it needs a name
I was thinking something silly sounding like 'bingus' 'squingo' 'scrung' and stuff like that but a more unique one. But also it would be extremely funny if it was called 'rupert' or some shit equivalent.
PLEASE I would love input of any kind on this. Thank you.
#thunderclap#i keep thinking about it intermittently. its just so fucking funny#im pretty sure ive shown this thing before on here#the other day i was taking notes on something during a conversation and i drew this in the middle of my notes#and it truly looks like a paper youd find in a videogame to tell you that the author of the note is going fucking insane
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Obsessed with the idea of Extraordinary Things being a back and forth between Jaskier and Radovid, with Jaskier trying to draw him out in the first verse, and Radovid finally answering him in the second.
Cause like, with Radovid, Jaskier meets someone who he can't fully read properly. He knows there's something under the front of a drunken, bumbling prince, but he doesn't know him well enough yet to be certain as to what.
So, he tests the waters a bit. throws out a line to see if Radovid will take it—and he does. A little bit. But it's so interesting to me, because it doesn't just feel like Jaskier is trying to nail down Radovid's truth in this verse; it feels like he's injecting elements of his own mask into it, as well.
"Keep your words on ice, your gaze lights the fire. They say 'keep on playing nice,' but I have no desire. Why waste our words when lips were made for extraordinary things? It's not a want, it's a need, it is paying no heed to what others say to sing."
This is Jaskier's read of Radovid as he knows him so far: a man hiding more complex wants beneath the veneer of a drunken party boy. But it's also Jaskier admitting that he knows this about Radovid because he wears the exact same mask himself.
Much like how Jaskier and Ciri speak through Geralt and Yennefer in order to process their own feelings about them later in the season, Jaskier sings through himself in order to comprehend who Radovid is. Jaskier is using the performative persona he's crafted for himself in an attempt to coax Radovid out of his.
All of it leads into the main intention of this song: "The greatest songs are made up of unspoken words of love. Of them, I've had enough. with you, I am enough." I am tired of having to put up a front. I want to be understood. I think you understand me. Prove me right.
And Radovid sees what Jaskier is doing. He comments on Jaskier's ability to see people for who they are and not who they pretend to be. But there's still more he wants to understand. This still feels like a game, in a way.
It's only after Radovid sees the brutality of Dijkstra and Philippa up close, watches them orchestrate the assassination of the queen and threaten to incriminate him if he doesn't fall in line, that he then grasps the vulnerability in Jaskier's lyrics. Jaskier is also caught between multiple conflicting desires, that of his loyalty to Geralt/Yen/Ciri, and that of his work as the Sandpiper & how said work is backed by his continued commitment to Redanian Intelligence. That internal conflict and the desire to escape it is also highlighted in the song's first verse ("they say keep on playing nice, but i have no desire"). Only after all of this, when true fear begins to take over and the game stops being fun, does Radovid truly begin to truly understand Jaskier.
And so, he seeks him out. And he responds.
“Drop the sweet disguise, your heart’s beating too loud. The fairytales and little lies can’t drown out all the sound.” You were right. I do understand you. I know what you really want, because we're the same. You can’t hide it behind a façade of a song and a story and a persona.
“Take this heart and break this heart for extraordinary things.” I don't know what will become of this, or us. I still don't fully know if we can trust each other. But no one has ever seen me in the way that you have.
It's not a want, it's a need. With you, I am enough.
#angel.txt#the witcher#jaskier#radovid#radskier#meta & theories#angel.doc#twn spoilers#i never wrote my wpb meta so have some extraordinary things meta instead shdfdfddfd#i truly think that first verse is so complex and multi-layered and can be read in multiple ways (both in-universe and externally)#like this is what i meant by 4d chess like how the FUCK can i explain what jaskier's doing in that first verse#its also little things. the background vocals that pick up in the second verse.#the way the second verse is omitted from the diegetic performance of the song which could imply jaskier hadn’t written it at the time#the way that we hear this song over the credits only after they get together in ep 4 and it's an extended version BUT#the extended version is entirely instrumental after the first half ends which also imply that the second half hasn't yet been written#as a whole i think that a lot of twn songs can be read through both internal and external lenses to enhance their existence in the narrativ#the fact that some of them have different names in-universe as opposed to on the ost. the choices they make in diegetic song placement.#im not very inclined in musical terminology but my brain is going insane over what this show does with its songs and how joey himself write#(and tbh i like to think of the sountrack/ost versions of songs as smth separate or alternate from the ones seen directly In the episodes)#idk. just very much intrigued with the idea of this song as a conversation#the entire song being an illustration of the masks they both wear#the truth that lies beneath them‚ and the way they both try to chip at each other until one of them drops it first.#obsessed with certain choices and going a little too insane about them <3
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hung out with my cousin’s kids today and it once again affirmed to me that 8 year old girls are the coolest category of human alive
#i need to regain that insane free spirited yet introspective confidence#they tried to do acrobatics in my tiny hallway and insisted to me that they could fit inside a microwave if they tried#truly a gourmet conversation#txt
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Thoughts on TOTK Ganon's appearance?
A lot of them!! Some would say: too many!!! Too much!! So much so that I was almost starting to turn this ask into a TotK early review, so I'll simplify my answer a little.
I have not finished the game yet, but I have seen the memories and a good chunk of it, but my opinion is therefore incomplete and subject to lapses in judgement/hasty positions. Also, my opinion on this is kind of a buzzkill and I already made people depressed and bummed out by explaining it, so I'm putting it under the cut to avoid hurting the good time of people who might not want to think about this/might disagree on this description alone (and I understand, since it's an opinion that also depresses me!!! I wanted to like everything!! I wanted to be blown away!!).
I think this Ganondorf is like OoT Ganondorf redux, but with even more problems than OoT Ganondorf, somehow??? which is honestly a flex at this point.
(I love OoT Ganondorf to be clear, but the flaws are pretty undeniable and you have to navigate through a lot of bullshit to get to the good parts)
Between the green skin that lacks any proper justification in the context of the game (I say this because I always hear "oooo but it's because he's a demon/undead" and uhhhh no, it's not because of that apparently), the fact that he's half naked but we're never ever meant to conceive him as a human person in any way but merely as a constant physical threat... Like I'm certain the famous Ganondorf Designer did their utmost to give him justice and there is an obvious attention to details in his design, and I'm not blaming them or anyone in particular for the Nintendo treatment --but it does add up to something quite uncomfortable in his characterization regardless. Even the fact that his face rigging is extremely flimsy and makes his emoting feels super strange bugs me (I heavily suspect it's because it's way less soft anime and structurally very different from any other face in the game, especially around the jaw, and so they had to do a custom rig and had to work around its limitations --it's all speculation, and I am always here for Unsettling Ganondorf Faces, but it kinda felt accidental and not intentional like in WW or TP). He's at once a lot and really not much. I find his characterization beyond barebones. Even Twilight Princess Ganondorf had more to him than this (like the man was fascinating in comparaison, show me a guy claiming to be chosen by the goddesses while sitting on a throne next to the decapitated statues of said goddesses any fucking day over what we got here)
I like the mechanical aspects he introduces; the gloom is cool, the hands that grab you are amazing, the bosses are such cool callbacks --and he's just causing messes and putting parasites in things!!! You go girl. I do love that he's having his little puppet Zelda run around causing hijinxes, that's very fun of him and my favorite part of his character in this game so far, tho I don't know if that even counts as him --and I'm not 100% sure what that even says about anyone?
But here's the thing: nobody (beyond * arguably * Rauru) seems to be allowed to have a character arc in this game, so it's hard to come up with anything to say since he's the sole cause of conflict while being almost completely motivation-less. I don't think anyone is written particularly competently honestly; it just shows more with him because a Ganondorf who's not well written reverts back to Ganondorf at his most generic expression of a baddie imaginable, with a side-serving of, quite frankly, really questionable orientalist themes that I see little excuse for being handled the way they were in the year of our lord 2023. Like I'm kinda shocked not to see more people calling the racism for what it is, because it's... pretty blatant. But that goes beyond Ganondorf and that's the whole game, and I said I would try to keep my scope limited, but!!! I will screech about imperialism eventually!!!
The other aspect of that discussion, which is inevitable, is how much does TotK erase everything that came before? I'm sure there are some amazing Zelda theorists out there who will find a way to reconcile all of this, but for now, I get the sense that Nintendo wanted to get away from their messy timelines (fair) and reinvoke some of the old songs for a new audience, and in doing so scrubbing the slate clean. My problem is not so much that they wanted to do this (even if I think BotW's solution was, strangely, much cleaner and more respectful of their own history), but what they introduced instead: and, in Ganondorf's case, he's kind of reduced to a parody of himself --one that is so unbelievably unsympathetic and impossible to relate to and also responsible of his own oppression and also not oppressed since he attacked first!! and also oppressive?? (I made A Sound when I heard the line about Rauru talking about "the last free gerudo village falling" bitch!! free according to whom??????)
Removing a lot of the Goddesses/Triforce thing (so far, maybe it will come up) also does this conflict zero favors in my opinion, as it makes everything and everyone's actions much less fated and an expression of self-determination/resilience over their predestination, and much more uhh political in a bad way, while still borrowing the aesthetics of divinity to justify its own mind-numbing moral simplicity.
I don't know. Maybe the third act reveal will really surprise me and make me reconsider my position, but it would take a lot to scrub off all the dedicated efforts made to flatten Ganondorf to his lowest possible denominator (him and his people honestly my follow-up to the gerudo post will probably be Oops! All Salt) for the sake of the most brazenly imperialistic and feudalist Hyrule to date and its really weird and uncomfortable reimagined origin story.
So uhhh, Thoughts Bad! I guess thoughts bad. :(
(Matt Mercer did a great job with what little he was given tho, and so did every voice actor)
#tloz#ganondorf#totk#totk spoilers#tears of the kingdom#totk critical#gerudos#asks#thoughts#thank you for the ask!!#I truly adore a lot of things about the game!!#the narrative is not a part of it#I find it so... cheerfully oppressive#my brain is really going overdrive over trying to figure out what bothers me so much about this story#so thanks for the outlet and sorryyyy#it's a rant#like a proper one#but I kind of feel insane to see fellow game writers not criticize any of this??#like it's not at all a part of the conversation?#and it's not even the only thing I want to criticize about the narrative design#HOWEVER this is not at all a condamnation of anyone who do enjoy him or feel creatively compelled by his appearance here#I'm sure there are things to do that are cool and powerful#just like there were in OoT#but I just don't see an excuse for Nintendo itself to be so careless in handling these themes in 2023#(again: the company not the individual devs)#(I've BEEN THERE --not in Nintendo but AAA-- I know the pain of complexity being rejected and rewritten as its opposite)
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I know it happens often to see writers during a long fic to complain at some point about the first chapters because they got better in the meantime and they look bad to them now.
But this is the first time where I saw this happened when the writing actually got worse
#Like this fic is enraging me#Because it started okay#Simple writing that generally worked despite some awkward moments from time#And evolved into this word vomit where everything is just stated (litterally zero show and all tell) multiple times!#Like it builds zero emotions it just tells me#Conversations made less and les sense going on#I saw zero bonding between the main characters despite being together basically in every scene#It drives me insane#This person believes they got better just because they write longer chapter and longer paragraph#But they tell me litterally nothing#Or so little in proportion to the amount of words#This isn't to bashing on the writer of course#Which is why I am consciously saying nothing about the actual content of the story here#But Jesus christ#Not only i feel like the whole plot that I had interest in was ruined#But also all the potential of the writer themselves#I saw at first someone who just needed to learn some more but was doing generally fine#And instead of improvement i am seeing them getting worse and worse#If they truly believe this is better then they're beyond salvation#I am so sad for all that wasted potential#Rant#Sort of#Ignore me i just needed to express these thoughts and feelings somewhere#I don't want to upset anyone#Maybe I should just delete this post
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my friend: do you think vicodin made house gay
me: ummm..Yes 👍. what made wilson gay tho
my friend: i think he’s just like that
#^ real ass conversations happening in business class. unrelated i think 1/2 the kids in that class should genuinly truly honest to god die#i’m sorry i repent etc but it’s true it’s like the most insane level of science denying right wing morons who believe everything they see o#tiktok. it drives me deeply insane. anyway#.txt#funny bc a 3rd mutual friend has referred to us as wilson and house-like. specifically i’m like house the friend mentioned in this post is#like wilson according to friend 3
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i have to say that it makes me so happy when people genuinely appreciate the things i say especially when it comes to important things like the hybe boycott because i truly thought i was being annoying about it in the very beginning but then, i realized that it's important to keep reminding people that shit is not okay! it doesn't mean we have to fall into despair and all of that but we need to think about what we see and listen to and consume and how we can make the spaces we are in more welcoming and also hold certain people accountable.
i feel like this year has been so shit to me (both irl and online) that i sometimes forget that the things i do or say have some sort of impact on people. i am constantly so focused on trying to do everything and update and etc that i forget that are people here still listening and i actually helped them have another perspective on things so truly, thank you so much! my year was better because of people like this
#my year also changed#and it was insanely chaotic#it's not exactly stable rn but it's better#i have to learn to also have fun and be more positive in order to continue#it's truly me hoping that there's a better future in store for everyone#that i keep going#and a lot of conversations that need to be had#aren't comfortable and lord knows how even i sometimes#felt so out of place but#when your morals are intact nothing else really matters#so thank you again!#tris.txt
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life update i will NOT be elaborating on but my entire friend group now knows i have written a dreamSMP fanfiction (which apparently now TWO people have read? i know one of them has but who is the other...) and one of my friends (dsmp hater) distantly knows several dsmp members. i hate college
#nightmare.personal#winter break has truly fostered some of the most insane conversations amongst me and my friends#but i'm really excited to now have the potential to instakill everyone including myself by writing cough syrup in their dorms#i just don't know how the infromation about CS has spread but admittedly funny as fuck to have that reveal be#in an instagram voice memo
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🧍♀️
#so one of the s.vt concerts for follow again is gonna be on their anniversary#and they're not gonna be in kr and soooooooo many people are upset about it#like kcarats are Mad mad about it#and i'm like. maybe i Am the asshole because i keep thinking is it really such a big issue#i thought maybe caratland was around those dates but it has always been on march#like i don't remember them actually doing something for the anniversary besides special videos#and lives. i'm still looking for stuff because i know that since 2020 things have been different#i get being upset and wishing it was in kr instead but someone literally wrote#''now that your dreams have come true. are we not longer in them"#and i'm like ?????????? because svt keeps doing sooo many things in kr like am i insane#am i really that much of a dick LMFAO because it's not like they're getting nothing also#idk man i'm just kinda baffled at this situation#i would understand it more if they did something special every year for their anniversary in kr#and suddenly they were like actually? we're changing it up#but they never have so that's why i'm very 🧍♀️#and everyone is complaining about jp having so many concerts. like yeah man it makes sense#they sell them out every single time of course the company is going to milk that#td#most likely LMFAO#also feel free to call me out i truly wanna have a conversation about it
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sitting back after writing 3k words of a fic and thinking. what the hell is this
#ada speaks#if i say what ive written#this entire scenario is insane but. i guess im committed#it has been a very very long time since ive written mac and its like. allll coming out in a way i didn't really expect#i *almost* feel worse for what im putting him through than dennis. ....almost.#this shit is honestly so heavy i think i need a break but none of my other fics are light either lmfao#whats worse: hostage situation turned incredibly fucked up conversion therapy#or the most relentless barrage of awful truths realizing that your existence is nothing more than a burden on the people you love and#no matter how much you sacrifice and how hard you're beaten down you will never have anyone to lean on because even though youve finally#reached a point where you realize you have to open up to them they will never see you for who you truly are because of the years of lies#you've fed them#*wheeze*#okay i answered my own question actually this is the lighter fic comparatively#dennis is suffering in both but at least he has mac with him in the former for better or worse#north dakota dennis suffers and then season 13 on is the bleakest most hellish time like has dennis actually been close with the gang since
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i can't believe i've never talked in depth ab drineke before. all this babbling ab shaneke and never a fic or analysis or even an explanation for some of my favourite doomed sapphics of all time. Wow
#are we truly ready for the drineke conversation though. that is the question#i've been shipping these two on the downlow for a verrrry long time#it's a feeling. it's the vibes#it's abeke thinking drina is beautiful and seeing glimmers of kindness in her#it's the idea that drina would play into abeke's crush to screw with her brother but then start to return the feelings#and it would all end in a fiery disaster#they would be sooo messy. so damn messy#the fallout when abeke leaves the conquerors would be insane#drina would try to convince herself that abeke is a traitor‚ that she means nothing to her‚ but deep down she knows it's a lie#they would flirt like hell across opposing sides of the war. sometimes while actively fighting each other#drina would send her vaguely threatening messages via bird that read more like love letters than anything#abeke would send sarcastically sweet ones back and they would begin a little correspondence#each of them hoping to learn information from the other but enjoying their conversations nonetheless#drina would be in even deeper denial than shane is#abeke would try to save her but realize she's too far gone#and then drina goes and gets herself killed stupidly without ever reconciling with abeke or telling her how she feels. ough. the pain.#i'll cook up a little something for them in the future#they deserve it#text#a revised history of erdas#spirit animals#spirit animals books#spirit animals series#abeke#drina#shane
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i said i wouldn’t do it this time but it’s 3am and mods asleep. boy
#welcome to another episode of Luke is insane abt hockey boy!#this time featuring a guy who is actually this time almost (ALMOST) confirmed to be queer#the almost is partly me being insane because I don’t trust anything anymore#but like. there are only so many reasons you wear pride converse. that is not ally behaviour#it just threw me this time I think bc I’d been like no. heterosexual. bc I think I became aware of him when he joined the real hockey team#because the OTHER problem is that the whole time I’d been thinking he was cute as hell (bc he is) and simultaneously being like no. bad.#anyway this meant that I have actually talked to him a bunch without overthinking it this term which honestly has been very cool#not like a whole lot but we’ve played together a decent amount and hopefully will keep doing that#and yesterday discovered hes recommending other people talk to me abt goalieing which is insane to me bc I am truly not that good#but apparently I made an impression!#anyway it does not help that this guy has gotten incredibly good at hockey in the past few months#idk man I make bad decisions (I say as if this was a decision) bc it is now the end of term once again <3#which means absolutely nothing can or will happen until after summer. which isn’t an issue#I’m just frustrated by my tendency to realise these things right before I’m about to not see the guy for X period of time#I also desperately need to stop crushing on hockey boys I swear but in my defence that is the main way I meet people#I think I’m cursed actually. that would explain many things#anyway he also has exams until next Tuesday which means he’ll be at hockey next week but idk abt this week which is devastating#i just wanna have talk to the guy more honestly to see how that goes bc we’ve not rlly talked individually for an extended time yknow.#in other words we have not had A Conversation it’s been groups or like quicker exchanges#he’s kinda quiet but i can’t quite tell which way yknow. I know he’s Watching basically all the time. and he is slightly awkward#which is also kinda cute. he gets a lil rambly when he talks abt hockey and I wanna push that button more#i. topsy if you’re reading this you’re gonna laugh so hard I just realised. he’s captain of the team now.#which sidenote is INSANE bc he started playing with them THIS YEAR#but oh my god. okay.#anyway. I need to start complimenting guys more for multiple reasons but also#1. he dresses very cool 2. he caught me looking at his shirt last week without saying anything (BEFORE I caught the rainbow converse)#i compliment women on their clothes and jewellery and hair and shit all the time but I do not with men bc. I mean do I need to explain.#but this is so unfair I am haunted by existence of boy and here we are once again. posting on tumblr with the possibility of seeing him lik#two more times before summer. might be three or four depending on what he comes to#luke.txt
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Me trying to get out of a conversation I didn’t want to be in after i said multiple times I didn’t want to talk/explain myself (that started after a throw away comment abt my experiences with dealing with health care MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE): i just don’t want to talk about it, don’t take it personally (PLEASE FOR FUCKS SAKE)
My Ma immediately talking about it (advocating for them, not only that but in a way of trying to explain why i was wrong about my feelings about it): oH I leArNEd Not To YEaRs AgO (i think you’re absolutely targeting me every time you don’t completely agree with me or doesn’t do exactly what i say when i say)
#me#personal#ITS SO FUCKING INFURIATING#SHE LITERALLY MAKES ANY CONVERSATION A TRAP#A TRAP THAT I ONLY WIN IF I BEG HER TO FORGIVE ME BECAUSE IM CRUEL AND A PIECE OF SHIT FOR EXPRESSING OR ACTING LIKE MYSELF#AND SHE GENUINELY MAKES ME FEEL AND THINK IM TRULY A TERRIBLE DISGUSTING HUMAN WHO CANT BE A GOOD PERSON#LIKE IM INHERENTLY EVIL THAT SHOULDNT EXIST#toxic parents#toxic mom#toxic mother#toxic mum#toxic family#i hate that I truly don’t know#i cant take it#i feel insane#im losing my mind#i feel worthless#i want to destroy her#make her feel like what i feel#i dont want to hold back#i shouldnt feel like this#i fucking hate her#shes evil#shes cruel#i truly dont know how to escape her#she traps me#she knows i dont have a clear way out#she makes sure I don’t#she wants to own me#to destroy me
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3, deltarune or undertale? bc I'm morbidly curious now
3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr
fortunately i curate my dash so that i never see anything too outrageous. sometimes i'll be looking through a tag and see something icky or something bad'll come up in one of the tags i follow but i've never seen anything that hasn't been talked about already... i will say that i once saw an edited ut textbox conversation with asgore sadly musing to sans about how TERRIBLE toriel REALLY was and how HORRIBLE it was of her to ABANDON him when he decided killing innocents was fine and okay and the entire kingdom agreed with him and how she should have STAYED and TAUGHT him why that was bad and made him see reason because that was her DUTY as a female character queen. and then at the end sans didn't disagree. and you could tell the op had put a lot of work into this bafflingly passive-aggressive piece of fanwork. also abusive suse/lle art in which susie was yelling and throwing things and scaring noelle who was crying and cowering in fear
#that asgore & sans conversation was in the sans/gore tag yknow. i'd been looking through it out of curiosity#and it left such a bad taste in my mouth that i don't think i'm ever gonna go near it again lol#of all the things for sans and asgore to bond over... you have them bond over HATING TORIEL?????#truly insane
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