#also! obligatory disclaimer here!

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

ok so my second semester has started in full swing, meaning i don't have time to actually make any fanworks for @mcytphysicaldisabilityweek but i WANT TO SO BAD. so today i'm telling you all about my hcs about empires!sausage and vision impairment.

so this hc spawned from a joke sausage made in jimmy's season 2 episode 13 (around the 9 minute mark) while they're searching for the warden fwhip gave as a "present". he refers to his free cam as his "detachable eye" and this offhanded joke kinda spiraled in my mind.

so s1 sausage gets into a very bad fight when he's in his late teens/early 20s. the injuries are very severe, and one particularly bad one results in the loss of his left eye. he gets a glass eye after this, but it's solely an aesthetic thing, it is not a visual prosthetic and does not supplement his vision in any way, as that technology/magic (it's weird in empires, it's inherently weird in any world where magic just Exists) either doesn't exist or isn't particularly developed yet. i haven't decided which it is but either way he does not have a bionic eye/visual prosthetic.

he only has the one glass eye, which perfectly matches his natural eye color (he's got the money to make it a really nice one, as king). when he starts to be overtaken by the corruption, however, his right eye starts turning red. this means it no longer matches the glass eye. after he gets kicked out of the wra and goes Full Evil he says "hm, fuck it" and starts wearing an eye patch instead. he thinks the red eye looks cooler if it's not offset by the blue one. once again, this man values aesthetics over all else. he could always get a red eye made, but he decides not to, he's too busy with Evil Plans and the like.

after blood sausage + good boy sausage get separated, good boy sausage goes back to wearing the glass eye immediately. in his mind, people associate the lack of it+the eye patch with him being evil, so he doesn't want to wear them (and like, people don't not associate that with blood sausage, but they also wouldn't have begrudged him for wearing it. he's just got! a lot of insecurities and issues! but i digress).

blood sausage obviously uh. can't access any tech in The Void and even when he makes his way into his own world, he sticks to the eye patch cause, like, why would he do anything different. he thinks he looks sick as fuck (he's right). in my mind he's got one of these cool decorative ones like this lady shows off on her social media:

anyways. s2 sausage also injures his eye resulting in the scar+vision impairment, though his injury happens when he's a child (like, 7-10 years old). it's not an injury from some sort of weapon like s1 sausage. i'm thinking, like, a rock or a tree branch or something else a small child is liable to get near and hurt themselves with. by the time this happens to him, however, it's been 1,000 years and something akin to the bionic eyes/visual prosthetics we have in the real world have been developed (though not exactly like the real world ones, as from what i understand, patients only qualify for them irl if the vision damage is in both eyes. which, with how different the vision is in a bionic eye than a normal eye, makes sense but. i don't care i wanna give more characters visual impairments because more characters SHOULD have cannon visual impairments. anyways.)

so he gets a visual prosthetic akin to a bionic eye but adjusted for. yknow. existing in a world where there's magic. vision in his left eye is not completely restored, ala a bionic eye in the real world, but it does help him get a limited scope of vision in that eye back.

however, when blood sausage+s2 sausage merge, this is a very big jump for blood sausage. he's never had vision in that eye before, and suddenly having it, even if it's not to the same scope as their right eye, is extremely off putting and difficult to get used to. for a while, the two of them cut a deal in order to allow blood sausage to get used to the additional sensory input. while sausage has had this for like, 30 years of his life at this point, and is used to doing everything with it, he's willing to wear an eye patch while not doing particularly strenuous or dangerous activities (during which he'd need the full extent of his vision so he doesn't hurt himself) in order to give blood sausage a break from the stimulation as he gets used to the change. he's already getting used to so much by issue of being in a different body than his own, and one that like... ages and shit too, so they work out a way to accommodate the changes. idk man i just think they're neat.

#empires smp #mythicalsausage #also! obligatory disclaimer here! #i am projecting Vision Issues onto characters because i do have vision issues myself #(i have worn glasses for the majority of my life and cannot function without them) #however! i do not have a glass eye a bionic eye or any sort of visual prosthetic! #so if i sound like an idiot here please tell me! #i do not want to sound like an idiot or be making assumptions i shouldn't be making!

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[introspectivememories]

too many of you guys think nico is the loser and not lewis for letting the divorce go on for so long. like they're both losers about each other. emotionally constipated idiots who can't talk about their toxic homoerotic friendship that imploded on itself like 8 years ago and are now making it everyone else's problem. yeah nico's on television or in beer gardens talking about lewis all the time but like every other month some reporter is like "lewis, what's your favorite moment in your career?" and lewis no hesitation is like "oh man, karting, y'know? everything was simpler then" and then spends another six months skirting around nico's name. like this whole thing they're doing in the media isn't some kinda extended foreplay for them. they're both still pressing on the bruise to make sure it's still there!!! every few months, they're literally just asking on public television, does it still hurt for you like it does for me? and like clockwork, someone will release new information about them or one of them will say something about each other (in my heart, he's still my best friend/yes... and teammate) and the answer will remain the same, yes, of course, always.

#lewis is unarguably more famous than nico. like i feel like this a fact. and yet every other day nico is in the press saying some crazy shit #about lewis. if i was famous i woulda shut that shit down soo long ago. my ex-bf is in the press talkin bout me constantly??? that feels #like such bad pr and yet!!! lewis has not done anything. why? cause he likes it!!! cause they've never moved on from the 1st moment they #broke each other's hearts. like this is genuinely insane. #im always so nervous to post my thoughts on brocedes cause so many of you were here b4 me and have a better understanding on them #and like being a wrong is like a death sentence to me but still please tell me if i got them completely wrong #i have a lot of thoughts on lewis and his reluctance to talk about nico... most of them being that one quote from emma #if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more #ok obligatory disclaimer: a lot of this is hyperbole. i don't think that they're asking lewis that ? every other month #but there are like at least 5 interviews where he talks about karting like they're his most precious memories #so make of that what you will #and obv i don't know these people but as someone who's brain chemistry has been permanently changed by them #i think i'm allowed to not only project onto them but also make stupid little posts analyzing them #anyway yeah #f1 #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg #brocedes

[pathos-logical]

hello! saw that you add image descriptions and I was wondering if you think the alt text feature tumblr has is good for image descriptions or if it’s better to just write it out in the post? I’m not the most knowledgeable on how to do good image descriptions but I wanna start making the habit of putting them on things

Hello!!! This is a great question, thank you for reaching out!!! The alt feature is great for descriptions, but the most recent consensus I've seen is that doing both alt text and plain text (body text) IDs in the post is actually the most broadly accessible way to describe a post!! Here's an example of what I mean (you'll notice there's some more detail in the plain text, and that the alt isn't appended by brackets or extra ID formatting):

[ID: My icon, an emoji fish carrying an emoji love letter in its mouth surrounded by hearts and set against a pink gradient. End ID]

The blind community has competing access needs, which means there isn't a one-size-fits-all format, and your final choice comes down to what you prefer on your blog, as long as your IDs are useful and clear :)

Some bullet points to help you get your bearings:

Alt text is occasionally plagued by glitches and is sometimes considered less accessible to people who may not use a screenreader. It's still the most useful form of ID for screenreader users, from what I've gathered!

Plain text IDs should be written in fully plain text-- no small text or excessive italics/caps lock! However, I've seen that bold is generally more acceptable as special formatting. Utilize line breaks if necessary, but try to emphasize clarity and conciseness rather than exhaustive detail. Also, IDs go directly below (or above) the image, not at the end of a post!

People who do use both forms of description will frequently, as I did above, write a relatively bare-bones alt and a more in-depth ID so screenreader users can choose whether they want to sit through repeated information or not!

And last: Thank you again for reaching out!!!! Every person who chooses to make their spaces accessible makes the world a better place :))))

#hi i really really hope this helps!!!!! #feel free to peruse my #accessibility #and #image descriptions #tags for more assorted info!! there are some very good tutorials in there :D and also some more asks i've answered! #obligatory disclaimer that i am very much sighted and am working off what i know and have gleaned #i'm always open to correction and you should take me with a grain of salt! #sinhasfluffyheadfur #asks #kay talks #described #described by me #jesus christ why is my ask tag not 💌 #NOOOO WAIT I JUST REMEMBERED. BC I ALREADY MADE THAT A TAG HERE AUGHHHHHHHHHHH

[duvewing]

#saint.txt #polls #dmc #based on that wc poll i've seen since i know some of the devil may cry fanon here can be a bit grating as well #obligatory disclaimer that i know that fandom will flanderize for jokes and it's fine for ppl to not 100% take the characters seriously #all the time. #anyway i think girlboss lady who has to wrangle dante around is annoying and so is alpha sigma male vergil #edit: [head in hands] v. how did i forget abt v #is it just bc i don't seek him out a lot unless i'm directly thinking of vergil too #sorry v. um. this is embarrassing #anyway also my issue with fanon trish is that a lot of the time she simply Does Not Exist and when she does it's just 'girlboss step on me' #shares the same issue w/ kyrie in that she has an interesting base as a character but a lot of what i like abt her exists in my head #and in the heads of like the 5 other ppl who enjoy the character as well

[beatcroc]

Is your pfp an oc of urs? Any story?

yah that's N.K.

primer: a former god of fear who has since resigned, and now runs what is essentially an intergalactic tourist trap on his cursed planet, simply known as ''nk's domain''

i don't really do "stories" per se i just have my guys in their 'verse and they have their lore and sometimes that's actionable in a plot sort of way, but most of the time they are just doing their things. nk is one of my oldest oc's and as such probably the most, like, centralizing? nk's domain is sort of a meetup hub for most other characters that don't have their own defined Thing going on, as well as what several characters' Things are directly related to, but nk himself isn't all that much of an active player any more and most of the current story type stuff i'm working with has kinda moved beyond him.

aside from that it's just his history tying him to other stuff; there's a lotta old-guard guys who fuckin hate him back from when he was still doing the whole 'reign of terror' fear deity thing [nk used to stand for 'nightmare king' but he just goes by nk now], there's a bunch a new-guard guys he's pissed off for being the main force behind the universal outlawing of capitalism[honestly not that important and some worlds still do it anyway bc gods are bad at caring enough to actually enforce their rules unless it's like a Really egregious violation], and there's also the history of said "cursed planet" itself [he didnt do that he doesnt know why its like that he just saw it wand went ooooh free real estate. but theres a reason its like that and he's starting to pay the price for having taken it over [accidentally unleashed an imprisoned god-parasite plague][uh oh][its that yellow thing in the last image][this is actually what my "main" "story"/alleged webcomic is about] [go here go in the dark]]

#obligatory disclaimer again all of my working with oc stuff is going to remain dormant until i get out of pizza hell #which i dont know how long that will take. another year maybe. hopefully not that long but hey. im having fun here #i said i would start working on tumblr-formatted refposts for my guys and ummm wellll i did not do that #eventually. we'll get there eventually #everybody want nk's ass dead so bad. smile #though since retiring his priority on most people's hitlists has sunk considerably #which is a good thing too since he's also gotten considerably weaker since retiring. stupid mechanics behind being a god you understand #still very much a god though so he's really only got to worry about shit if another god comes for him #but most consider themselves above his level these days. #that and the uhhh anti-god weaponry but ive not built that stuff out super well yet

[jennycalendar]

sooooo thinking a bit about it because i never got around to finishing gingerbread & then subsequently saw some takes that seemed more than just a bit outraged at my perspective on joyce, which was lacking that critical finishing piece? which is that i think it is weird as hell that multiple times we get episodes where we see her create a traumatic experience for buffy & then the show goes “oops actually that was the magic” and these are the episodes where we spend the most time with joyce. when she’s under the influence of powerful magics that seriously impair her relationship with buffy.

and i think this is indicative of the larger problem in the way that joyce is written! said this a billion years ago but her love for buffy is consistently presented as a Narrative Hindrance that prevents her from fully understanding buffy’s calling, which is such a weird sad stance to take when she’s the only adult woman consistently present. like what does it say that the adult women who are actually well versed in the supernatural on a giles level are either evil (walsh, post) or must defer to giles & be found sexually attractive by him to be good (jenny)?? joyce is allowed to be seen as a morally uncomplicated presence because she’s not a threat to the existing status quo. blanket disclaimer i am rewatching at a snail’s pace and i still have to hit later seasons, but from where i am now, her concerns about buffy are soooo often made to seem ridiculous in the face of what buffy is going through, and coupled w the fact that the episodes we see the most of her in are all either her criticizing buffy for not trying hard enough to Be Normal OR her under the influence of powerful magics??? sends a really particular and inconsistent message. we don’t get enough time to sit with her as a person and not as someone for buffy to have friction with.

#miscellany #also there is an obligatory & fairly obvious disclaimer as to why i personally might have a very complicated take on joyce #but since it is not too hard to read btwn the lines here i will simply allude to it in tags.

[party-gilmore]

ngl the way some of y’all goyim on here are using the word “zionist” right now reminds me an awful lot of how americans in media and news and propaganda used the word “communist” during the Red Scare and its more than a bit concerning

#That word… doesn’t mean what you think it means… #like im neither of those things for the record/obligatory disclaimer for yall to stay out of my inbox #but watching whoe swaths of people using the general term for A Concept as The Most Dangerous Radical Extreme Version Of That Concept… #its just causing a little itch in my brain thats all #i had a whole longer thing but my phone died right before i could save & post which was probably a wink-wink-nudge let all that go sign #but the core concept is bugging until i say something about it. just on a personal level #i would love to tag for people to filter out but i also dont want it IN the actual tags so heres hoping the filtering is working properly #for in body text too

[nakanx]

no actually, you know what the most insane example of osa privilege on radblr is? this whole thing with macroclit. a couple people are saying misogynistic things on anon because she had sex with a moid and people are attempting to doxx the anons. when has anyone ever cared about lesbophobia like that? i have been on radblr for four years and i have NEVER seen anyone threaten to doxx anons in the name of lesbians. in fact, whenever anyone calls out lesbophobia, they’re told that they’re creating “drama” and “unnecessary infighting”. you know what actually creates unnecessary drama? partnering with men. centering men in your life to any degree. that drama ends with rape, assault, and death.

so why go to these lengths to excuse it? what’s the point?

#obligatory ‘i’m bisexual not lesbian’ disclaimer #obligatory ‘i don’t agree with the anons’ disclaimer #i’m also NOT criticizing macroclit here #i’m criticizing some of the ladies i follow that are responding to it #radblr homophobia

[musical-chick-13]

Okay, no, sorry, I’m still mad about this. “Be critical of the media you consume and examine why you react to it in the way that you do, support marginalized and stigmatized identities.” Yeah, until it’s about mental illness.

A woman (or even man, if he’s deemed over-emotional) makes music about suffering from mental illness and people just go, “What are they complaining about, that’s so immature, hashtag wangst.” (And then, sometimes, inexplicably, if the mentally ill woman gets better and writes happier music, they then talk about how artistically bankrupt she is now and that she should go back to hating herself.) People LOVE cis white pRoBLeMaTiC (straight) fictional men until they are realistically mentally ill, in which case they’re “whiny” and “insufferable” and deserve to die violently, apparently (or, if fandom is merciful, they’re ignored). (And then they celebrate when they DO inevitably get killed off.) “Do your duty and watch [thing I, mc13, personally find insufferable] For The (white) Gays because it has Gays.” Sure, will you watch c4 Pure, the ONLY show specifically about OCD, then? (No, the answer is no, it’s always no.)

I can’t get anyone to watch Doom Patrol. I couldn’t get people (in general-I did convince a few irl friends thank GOD) to watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. One of the most popular and acclaimed shows right now has a character with schizophrenia who was turned into the Big Bad Villain for no fucking reason. One of the most commonly-cited examples of Iconic™ queer media involves a mentally ill man being broken over and over and over again before The Ship™ can reasonably happen. DW introduced a major character who was at one point suffering from mental illness in her past, AND THEN ALL MENTION OF THIS WAS COMPLETELY DROPPED IN THE FUTURE, WITH NO BEARING ON ANYTHING TO THE POINT WHERE I FORGOT IT EVEN EXISTED??!?!? R*tched was a thing that existed despite the Sad Sympathetic Backstory treatment being IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION OF WHAT PURPOSE THIS CHARACTER SERVED IN One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. THEY GAVE. A SAD WOOBIE VILLAIN TREATMENT. TO THE /LITERAL PERSONIFICATION/ OF ABLEISM. THAT IS HER FUNCTION. TO EXIST AS A SYMBOL OF ALL THE WAYS SOCIETY OPPRESSES THE DISABLED AND MENTALLY ILL.

I am!!! Literally!!!!! The only one!!!!!!!!! Complaining about these things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one else has said ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one is talking about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#*OBLIGATORY COMMENT ABOUT HOW REPRESENTATION/FICTIONAL DISABILITY IS NOT THE END ALL BE ALL OF ACTIVISM* #*OTHER OBLIGATORY COMMENT ABOUT HOW LIKING '''pRoBLeMaTiC''' CONTENT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A BAD PERSON OR A HORRIFYING ABLEIST* #THIS WAS JUST ME GETTING MAD IT'S NOT THAT DEEP #In the Vents #the real horror was the ableism we found along the way #like. in some of these cases yes I /KNOW/ it was not meant to come across like that!!! but y'all accept that as a valid type of media #criticism when it's about anything else!!!!!!!! just not this apparently????!?!!!! #I do not understand how there is such an ABYSMAL treatment of the subject of mental illness in fiction when this is the #memetic Mental Illness Website like genuinely I do not get it I am scaling my walls and banging pots and pans and growling like a rabid dog #IF YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THE MESSAGE A STORY IS TELLING YOU GOTTA APPLY IT HERE TOO #I AM ALSO THE LAST PERSON TO SAY THAT YOU'VE GOTTA ADD A DISCLAIMER OF SOMETHING'S LAUNDRY LIST OF FLAWS BEFORE YOU TALK ABOUT IT #BUT JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE ON SOME LEVEL EVEN IF IT'S JUST TO YOURSELF THAT THINGS HAVE FLAWS #YOU'VE GOTTA BE AWARE OF SHIT #WHEN WILL WE HAVE THE OUTCRY OVER BURY YOUR DISABLED THAT WE DO OVER BYG (WHICH IS ALSO BAD BTW) #I GUARANTEE YOU WE WON'T BE GETTING A SEPARATE FUCKING CON OVER FANDOM OUTCRY THAT'S FOR SURE #I'm making a rule: if you can prove to me that you've started cxgf after reading this and/or if you can prove to me #that you've watched pure (channel 4/hbo max-the one with charly clive) I'll write a fic for you #let's see if I get sniped for criticizing both the beloved sacred mads show AND the plane crash girls show #if I see ONE more comment about how either of those is a perfect show that Gets What All The People Want I will in fact spontaneously #combust. #(and before you @ me yes I have any and all permutations of show tags blocked I'm not just being mean to be mean) #my god remember what happened the last time I tried to talk about this a;lsdfkajs;ldfkj #good thing I turned off anonymous asks!! #this is not even getting into some of the SMALLER fandoms #like I do not ever want to think about the takes I saw for ctrlz EVER again

[lotrmusical]

What are your top 3 symphonies?

1. tchaik 6, 2. tchaik 6, 3. tchaik 6 --

in all seriousness my top 3 apart from that are probably 1. dvořák 9 (obvious), 2. shostakovich 7 (first symphony i heard performed live and it hooked itself into my brain), aaand 3... probably sibelius 2 at the moment tbh (symphonybracket introduced me to this one and i keep going back to it, the second movement in particular makes me lose my mind)

#obligatory disclaimer my Symphony Appreciation Skills are amateur-level! i don't know a lot i'm just here for fun! #(for 'fun' read 'unwarrantedly strong opinions') #i do really really like mahler 2 as well. it's my nemesis in the bracket at the min but if we lose i won't be able to be too mad abt it #on account of mahler 2 being really very good #aand uh shoutout to schubert 5 as well for something more classical-flavoured. it's not on this list bc it doesnt explode my brain but i #listen to it fairly often. cozy :)) #also hello thanks for asking!!! what are your favourites!!! sorry we're obliged to be mortal enemies in the tchaik 6 vs mahler 2 battle! #ask #recapitulation #gay belligerence

[troublewithvampires]

//god a plotline i think might be REALLY fun would be something involving salvatore having a stalker,

#❝ ain't no jesus here‚ billy boy ❞ 「 ooc 」 #❝ i'd kill you too if i had the chance ; you and everyone you knew ❞ 「 wishlist 」 #//was listening to the kim dracula cover of 'paparazzi' again and having Thoughts #stalking cw #//just a mention but still! #//idk i think it would be kind of interesting- like regardless of the stalker's motives just like. putting sal in a situation like that #//and examining how he deals with it #//and how it also affects the people around him #//obligatory disclaimer: i am not at all expecting anybody to jump on this if it's not their thing #//nor would i pressure anyone into this plotline if they don't wanna #//if no one's interested i honestly might just explore this in my own writing

[neitherthehoneynorthebee]

Hi folks. Please send me the most creatively messed up Skulduggery Pleasant writing prompts you can think of. Something that will make me laugh and cry at the same time.

#skulduggery pleasant #the dead men #valkyrie cain #im not saying ill write it #im just curious #also please be mindful of the spirit of this request and Don't send anything that would be triggering to a large amount of folks #^obligatory disclaimer there but like everyone I interact with here is generally really nice so it's probably not necessary

[icharchivist]

early a3 is really funny at times

#im specifically putting in the characters izumi reached out to in the crowd or leaped into weird logic to have them join #im stretching it to not include EVERYONES but those especially that can make you pause like damn really? #which is also why Banri is on the list despite technically have come to the audition by himself #ichablogging a3 #ichashitpost a3 #obligatory disclaimer in case it leaves my bubble #i adore all of them and the on fire garbage can is either just for the joke or affectionate #depending on the chara #no actual meanie here!!

[a-zif]

i spent 4 hours painting doll shoes and i can feel the mental illness in my brain being cured

#obligatory disclaimer this is obviously a joke bc there's always someone ready to be an asshole #anyways I haven't been much here bc I haven't been using my phone or laptop much #10/10 would recommend creative hobbies away from screens #now I have to decide on a design to make clothes for my zif doll but im so indecisive #scaling things down to doll size is also SO hard #replicating her hairstyle is virtually impossible 😭 #doll customizers and mini painters pls interact and share ur tips with me #˗ˏˋ ʚ🩷ɞ ˎˊ˗⠀ooc.

[jennycalendar]

Do you have any feelings on Jenny x Wesley?

i have seen the ship in at least one fic but i don’t think it works for me! wesley is very close to jenny’s type, but the critical thing that giles has and wesley lacks is a fundamental deep seated desire to destroy things — a desire that goes well beyond just hating a fucked up system. giles is also extremely selfish and self centered and i think jenny resonates with that SOOOO HARD. wesley is certainly capable of those impulses but i think at his core he is still very driven by determined (if exhausted) hope!!! he is a very sad man in the later seasons but he is not actively fucking other people over. giles dipped for england because it felt more comfortable for him.

like wesley most of the time is trying to be a dick to drive people away or because he’s a little socially clueless, which is very different from when giles is a dick; he will say just the most out of pocket hurtful and dismissive things with complete conviction and without particularly caring that they hurt people. jenny i think is so very very into the latter, not so much the former. (she likes when her partner draws blood.)

#asks #i feel like jenny and her partner have to be able to talk shit together #i also feel like jenny needs someone she can push down a flight of stairs without worrying about hurting them #giles can handle that no sweat! i am not sure if wesley would Fully Get what’s behind jenny’s antagonism #ALSO OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER IT HAS BEEN A MINUTE SINCE I WATCHED ATS #going on vibes alone here