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[mooncalf87]

Me knowing that my friends birthday is in a week and I have no clue what to get her: 🧍‍♂️

[upsidedowngrass]

OK this isnt one of my essay character analysises, BUT i offer: a 784 word character study fic abt the beginning of ep 5 :)

(also uploaded on ao3!!)

It's the happiest either of them have seen Scenty through the whole competition.

From where Liam and Bryce both sit, they can hear her cheering. After all the times Stone has stopped her team from being up for elimination, she finally has a way out.

But she's just so, so hopeful, because the viewers would certainly be on her side. They'd take her home, and she could leave this place behind. She could leave the unsettling geometry, ominous figures, and all-powerful voices who don't care about the lives of those they harm all in the past. This was certain to her. After all, she was the one who has asked to leave the most. Even her own teammates were vouching for her.

(Neither Bryce nor Liam would ever find issue with this. They want to go home too, yeah, but they're all being subjected to ONE; it'd be hard to accuse her of any selfishness or her teammates of any bias in a situation like this.)

It's the fact that she is so hopeful, though, that makes Liam look away and Bryce go quiet. Her excitement was loud and blatant, and though she was turned away from the both of them, it could be heard in the increasing thickness of her words that she's crying, at least a little.

All of this twists at something in Bryce's chest, as he just stares. It's far from panicked, but his breaths nonetheless feel shallow. Liam altogether tries to ignore her joy. It feels cruel to him. It feels unfair, and he doesn't want to see, and just the happiness in her voice makes him feel distant from the Plane.

They both just stay there, sitting in the pointed grass, because her hopes are so high. It really is the happiest either of them have ever seen her- though that doesn't mean much here. In her place, both of them would be just as excited. If they told her of Stone's message, that excitement would be completely crushed. Crushed with the ease of a wooden stake-

Then again, if she doesn't go home this elimination, would that be worse? Would telling her after only serve to make her spirits even worse, with her not only having to deal with the horrors of the Plane, but also the fact that her friends, the only people here from the same world as her, had kept something that important from her? Would she even care?

Scenty's cheering had died down by now. Her team had huddled together further, no doubt trying to make the most of their time with her. They all seemed to have grown close quickly through the competition. She'd moved to rest the back of her candle against Tray, allowing Bryce to read her expression better from where his team of three sits. Liam still stares only ahead of himself. With everything that's happened, a moral dilemma is far too complicated for him to even consider thinking about.

She's smiling, and she looks calm, though she occasionally wipes at her eyes. The relief is obvious in her posture. Her teammates talk casually and quietly amongst each other, Scenty piping in with a now worn, but still happy voice every now and then. 

All Bryce can think about is Stone's message, and that if the eliminations truly are random, then out of all of the contestants up for elimination, she doesn't have great odds of leaving. But she's still so happy, and if she does end up stuck here long, isn't it better for at least some of it to have been spent not afraid, and not desperate, but content?

Really, it doesn't feel like anything is the right decision here. No matter what, the situation is terrible, and no amount of sparing emotions or being honest will change that. Frankly, neither Bryce nor Liam could probably even bring themselves to tell her anyway, no matter what the “correct” decision is, the weight of Stone's message still weighing on their own minds, as well, keeping them both at a loss for much. Learning just how helpless everyone here was was never going to be something that would settle well. The text box’s clicking hadn’t gotten either of them to budge much, and they definitely wouldn’t now, Scenty’s words leaving its own mark that rivaled that of the message itself.

So instead, the two stay where they've sat since they left Stone's notes behind, still failing to know what to do about the knowledge given, even for themselves. As the members of Scenty's team individually fall asleep in their tranquility, both Liam and Bryce stay awake under the burning sun, and remain there still after the sleeping members awaken.

[ella-ashmore]

once you were geeky. and nerdy. but they knew. youre dirty. you set them on fire, whatever you require theyll do -- so take em home to meet your parents !!!! theyll wear a suit and tie (and a fancy collar !) theyll sing a lullaby (lalalalala ^-^) please make these balls not blue . JUST FOR A WHILE !! (cant wait till later) my pants are rubbin like a hot! cheese! gra! ter!

[thrilloffirstlove]

Wow guys can you believe that I'm Epithets most eligible bachelor?? Can you believe it?

[endominator]

Barb needs assistance!

[cracklewink]

some small refs I made for my oc, Despair's End Terminal Namicha! (pronounced with a hard ch). I couldn't decide whether the black or blue outline was better

edit: I FORGOT THE I IN TERMINAL

[bigfemboyenergy]

yall HELP BRO THIS IS SO SILLY

okok i need to choose a rant of mine to read for my new theater thing im doing AND I NEED U TO HELP ME CHOOSE. SO PLEASEE

[starlooove]

Call me jaded bitter and black but I’ll never care about the nuances of the police fill in on tv. Like we already have to deal with the ‘my dad is a cop :(‘ or ‘my broke brother joined the military’ irl why the fuck am I wasting my brain power on Caitlyn or vi. Like we know materialistically the authority of being a cop can get u what u want faster and that emotionally u either need strict routine with an outlet for ur violence or ur so used to it that u have to be a cop. I still fucking hate u tho like idc about how sad u are about being privileged and I said cop fill in but it’s really every kind of that character on tv like Zuko esque sorry I genuinely have less empathy for you than I do for other people idc

[jekyll-doodles]

mean to me 😑

[hinamie]

my left wrist is still protesting but i napped and im normal again 😌

[cool-rain-world-creatures]

surprise :]

ohhh look isthe fuckinuhhh guy!!!! the guy ever!!!!

[nintendont2502]

yk its just. so goddamn fun watching the rise of llms as an artist, writer *and* programmer. oh haha yeah the computers are gonna take over literally any potentially tolerable career i could have? cool. great. i cant wait

[milkweedman]

I have a cute sparkly gif banner that just says 'terfs dni' in pink surrounded by gold stars and blue glitter.

It's very pretty and nice to put on my fibre posts because man do trad fem and terfs like to pretend fibre arts is gendered.

nice, thats awesome ! and yeah, they really do like to waltz in and act like they own the fuckin place

[majorasnightmare]

okay putting it out there because if i dont post ill go insane

[ej-artyarts]

Sorry I haven't been posting, I just dread the idea of having to make a bunch of tags lol

I'm a little more active on insta (ej_artyarts) currently cause I can spam sketches n whatnot in my stories