#and those are wildly different things

[altschmerzes]

ted lasso fandom stop posting things labeled as gen fic with both & and / tags listed for the same relationship leaving me wondering if i want to open the box of schrodinger’s gen fic and get shipping jumpscared today or not challenge

#gav gab #all fandoms do this but boy this one is bad about it eh #if im wondering if the fic you posted and labelled a gen fic #is a ship fic or not #something went very wrong with your tagging #while im at it ‘pre-relationship’ or ‘if you squint’ or ‘hints of x/y’ tags are just #functionally completely useless #because ive seen them regularly used to mean anything from like #‘these characters are worried about each other or possibly make physical contact at all’ #to ‘the pov character is actively pining for the other person in a direct way’ #and those are wildly different things #please say what you mean :’) #tbt the time i was reading a fic that was completely tagged as gen and with & tags #and a ‘hints of possible future x/y’ on it which given it was an h/c fic is like #are we referring to Care and Comforting Someone When They’re Hurt as hinting at a possible future romance? #bc often yes that’s the case! #in this case it was literally the pov character at the most situationally inappropriate moment fantasizing about a sex act w the other one #which is uh #call me a bitchy stick in the mud aro if you want but #that’s not covered by ‘hints of possible future’ if you ask me that’s pretty damn direct #stop putting it in the damn gen tag #it’s already hard enough to find gen fic without all the ‘actually ship fic but nobody fucks so people think somehow that makes it gen’ #shit that gets in there #at least it’s not the spn fandom out here tagging things like ‘gencest’ which truly proves that nobody in that fandom #can be normal about platonic relationships #like what the fuck are you talking about actually

[itwoodbeprefect]

the thing about bad buddy is that calling it enemies to lovers is not entirely wrong and is a very succinct and easy way to indicate the general plot, but also one of the only moments that the two main characters are actually personally in conflict with each other lasts about four minutes and is expressed mainly through upset shirtless xylophone playing contrasted with a montage of happy moments that features a time there was triumphant shirt-wearing xylophone playing. and then they both say sorry at literally the exact same time

#which as it turns out is EXACTLY how i want my enemies to lovers plots by the way. there is literally no way to beat this #if anything it's. enemies (through circumstance. unwillingly) to lovers (by choice. enthusiastically) #* #bad buddy #bad buddy the series #edit. actually ALSO worth noting that even this brief xylophone-expressed conflict only happens because of their differing views #on how to deal with outside influences on their relationship. which is doing just fine except for those pressures from around them #and then it's RESOLVED by pran going yeah i worry about people finding out but i care about you more #essentially already stating the whole final we can't change the world but that doesn't mean we have to let the world change us thing #and fjdkfj. yeah i'll stop adding tags now. ridiculous how wildly rewatchable a show is that at first glance seems so low on plot

[threegunbrainrot]

i dont have any trigun mutuals so i'm just gonna ramble my thoughts into the infinite void of tumblr. and im sure others have touched on this same topic but

it almost seems like vash is getting softer with every new installment of trigun? like incredibly consistently and incredibly specifically.

let me explain.

i'll start with tristamp and work backwards; the tristamp vash we all know and love there is incredibly adverse to violence.

more often than not he ACTIVELY refuses to fight and just WON'T draw his gun. this post loosely counted the amount of bullets that he shot throughout all of season 1, and almost ALL of them (like to an insane degree) were dished out against knives, who vash knew was strong enough to take the hit.

the few times vash does draw his gun against a human in tristamp, it's as a blunt force weapon (against the badlads gang and livio, for example) or to disarm others/save someone with ricochet (like shooting the punisher before wolfwood can kill livio).

he just doesn't shoot people. at ALL.

then if we look at 98 trigun, things change drastically.

here, vash isn't afraid to hurt people a little if it means more will be saved in the end. of course he never kills, but he actually shoots people here. not only that...

he holds a casual, sarcastic conversation while pointing his weapon at people.

he constantly shoots at limbs to immobilize people, fires warning shots extremely close to peoples' vitals, and performs several very insane trick shots throughout the show to wound those with armor.

tristamp vash wouldn't even draw, but 98 struts around firing warning shots into the sky and singing about bloodshed for intimidation! i'm not sure there's a single episode where he doesn't shoot someone at least once.

...so what about trimax, then?

(PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD)

he is so. shockingly. violent.

of course he never kills. of course he's still trying to save people, but there's this anger in him that i was completely taken off-guard by reading for the first time.

tristamp vash is so soft he's painful to watch. 98 vash makes a heartbreaking effort to be as silly and nonthreatening as possible, constantly making himself out to be the fool. but trimax?

he's... literally grief-stricken and out for revenge. explicit revenge. he's angry and he's hurt and he lays his intentions out so clearly. he's making THREATS.

seriously:

hunting legato. HUNTING him.

it's not even a matter of drawing his weapon anymore. he does it constantly, and fires just as much. never to kill, but he doesn't joke around the way 98 vash does. the most he'll offer is a sunny smile to reassure others and nothing more.

i'm not that far into the manga, either. i'm sure there's countless more (and probably better) panels to convey this side of trimax vash, but i suppose it also says something that i've found so many panels depicting this so early on.

but the progression of vash's personality is fascinating regardless.

from a tortured, angry loner desperately trying to cling to his morals for rem's sake

to an equally devastated man who devotes himself so completely to acting the role of the fool

and finally to the sad, chronically depressed shell of a person in tristamp who refuses to so much as draw his weapon.

#trigun #trigun stampede spoilers #tristamp spoilers #trigun 1998 spoilers #trigun 1998 #trigun 98 spoilers #trimax spoilers #trigun maximum #trigun maximum spoilers #vash #vash the stampede #ok god just trying to cover my bases with all those tags #the last thing i wanna do is spoil anyone #this is such an incredible series and i want everyone to enjoy it in its purest form #but yeah i could ramble about the different vashes aaaaaaaalllll day #i kinda wanna compare all the ww's too cuz even if the differences arent so violently distinct theyre like twice as intricate #but vash's relationship to violence over the years is the most fascinating thing. he's so quick to fire in trimax and 98 for the safety of #others- both with wildly different mental states behind those bullets- but tristamp just. doesnt. Period. #tho admittedly this s1 tristamp has kind of turned out to be the prequel. i wonder if he'll be quicker to the punch in s2 #anyway god gonna stop rambling now. this post was mostly just for me anyway cuz i wanted to put my thoughts in order #ill be surprised if this goes anywhere #trigun spoilers

[utilitycaster]

It's always so funny when people are like "I'm gatekeeping this character/ship from people who don't appreciate it or know it in the same way I do" like. How are you doing this. What brokenness within you has led you to believe it you can or should emulate a fedora-wearing geek guy who harasses women and POC at comic conventions for being fake bandwagon fans because they don't happen to know the name of a random x-men villain who appeared in a single issue.

#unless you're in a moderated space and you are the mod this is literally not a possible thing to do #people who have wildly different takes but still like the same things you do will always exist! #there's no door bitch! you can't put up a gate when there's infinite points of entry! #in all seriousness i feel like i said this but like. if you see fandom as a means of obtaining validation you will be MISERABLE #bc you won't be engaging honestly you'll be trying to appeal to everyone and pleasing no one including yourself #like absolutely block people who say dumb shit about your favorite characters or ships but like. they'll keep saying that shit #way more fun to write a good post about those characters than to try to prevent others from writing bad ones

[ineed-to-sleep]

I wanted to say, bc I saw someone mention Geralt as an example of a predetermined character in an rpg that works, that yeah, I fully agree it can work! But in Geralt's case, for example, he's a well established character who's fully written before you start the game. He has his own traits, his flaws and shortcomings, history, relationships, etc. He's just as well written as any other character in the story, and the only things you have power over are his choices and a bit of his fighting style(sometimes his hair as well), but everything is made to fit with who this character is as established before the game even starts. Think of the origin characters in Baldur's Gate 3, it's the same thing- they're not customizable, they're established before you even start, and the only control you have is over their journey. None of these are ever meant to be a blank slate, and they're written as such.

With this Phyre character it's like they're trying so so hard to tread the line between "this is a character that stands on their own" and "this is a blank slate you can fully customize". What you end up with is a very "meh" sort of character, who's not one or the other, without enough wiggle room to make your own story however you want and not enough to get attached to them as they are. We get attached to Geralt bc he's a fully written character in the game, you just control his actions. The problem with Phyre is that they're neither a fully written character nor fully yours to write.

#and like ok it's normal to have limitations #like for example dragon age has background limitations right #but things are still left open enough that you can easily make your own story with those limitations #a story which could be wildly different from another player who chose the same background #and that's the fun of it #but this isn't it #you can't even customize their appearence for starters #which is a big part of a character's writing. you can't write a black character for example if you're forced to play as a pale woman #how could you write a native american who maybe never cut their hair bc of their culture when you're forced to play as mr or mrs undercut #honestly I think either you commit to making them a blank slate and allow as much customization as possible #or you just write a predetermined character that's actually compelling #sleep.txt #vtmb2 #but anyway this is just my opinion rn with the current information #I could be wrong idk!! maybe they did it right. maybe when the game comes out it'll be so good I'll have to eat my words #but rn I'll be honest with u chief I'm not feeling very optimistic

[zukosdualdao]

people who hate zuko will list off things he did as a villain (or anti-hero, tbf) to try and convince other people they should hate him, also, and it’s like “???? yeah. i know. he for sure did all that stuff (edit: most of that stuff. people really do act like the narrative confirmed or implied things it never did.) and it was bad. the narrative treats it like it’s bad. other characters rightfully say those things are bad. he also then goes on to apologize, try to set things right and help people, and atone. that’s like. most of his character arc. that’s the whole narrative point of him.”

#people will also list things he did when he joined the gaang in book 3 to try to discredit his redemption #and most of those things are. taken wildly out of context and not said in good faith #i am willing to concede that like. ofc he’s not perfect by the end of the story! i don’t even want him to be! that would make him a less #interesting character! #but when people make the ‘people act like zuko’s so perfect and he’s not’ i’m just like….. you are inventing an argument i’ve seen very few #if any people make #there is a difference between liking and defending his redemption story and not liking when people talk about those things in bad faith #vs treating him as perfect #fandom critical #atla #zuko #ask to tag // #people don’t have to like zuko but sometimes it feels like people really just hate him bc he’s a popular character and that am #* and that makes it seem edgy and cool to hate him

[jessicas-pi]

TFW you go on one (1) fake date together to win a bet but then all your friends won't leave you alone about it

Ezra ignores Wedge's question and Tarik's scoff and Aylan's elbow, which is repeatedly jabbing him in the side, and looks across the mess hall, catching Sabine's eye. The girls surrounding her are absolutely freaking out. As he watches, the littlest Togruta clasps her hands to her cheeks and screeches while one of the pilots pretends to faint dead away.

(picture without text under the cut)

#had to draw it #it's probably terrible but whatever #it wouldnt leave me alone #no those togruta mechanic girls are not me and my sisters cameoing. why do you ask. #one fake date two wildly different friend group reactions #the guys hearing about how ezra didn't even try for a kiss: dude she's gonna think you're so lame #the girls hearing the same thing: PRAISE THE FORCE CHIVALRY ISN'T DEAD #sabezra #jessica's art #fake date au

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

I’m now incredibly motivated to write (inconveniently timed) but my current project is aggravatingly complicated why am I doing this

#chaoticbuggybitchboy #endangered gays fic #oh yeah have two things bouncing around at two wildly different times yeah #and have multiple things happening in those two things #speed putting this mess together because MAX 😭😭😭 #<- in my revenge era fr rn /hj/nsrs

[kyuala]

SOOOOOO hard to go through everyday life trying to ignore the never-ending feeling that im just irreparably fucked up and therefore should just give up on everything

#this aint exactly s******* but it aint exactly not s******* either #anyways it gets even harder when i have to live under the same roof as my brother who is so much better than me in every single conceivable #and imaginable way possible like #and i knowwww a LOT of it comes down to us having relatively similar yet wildly different lives despite being 1.5y apart and having the sam #family our entire lives like he has gone through NOTHING and i mean not a single societal issue ive had to face and endure my entire life #he's a man im a woman. he's white im black. he's straight im gay. he's skinny ive always been 'overweight'. he's always been the good #christian kid ive always had issues w faith and religion. he's never been mentally ill i was clinically depressed for nearly 8yrs of my lif #we both lost the same parent and im the only one who got pathological grief and a personality disorder out of it. he's had a great job for #the last 7yrs that now pays him 20k+ every month ive only had 3 odd jobs my entire life and 2 of those my MOTHER had to give me so i would #have SOMETHING and ive never made over 1.6k monthly n my last job was minimum wage only #he's had like 4 relationships and is nearly engaged im so traumatized + emotionally unavailable ive only ever been on 1 date my entire life #he has a good relationship w every family member we have i have Issues w like half the family. he's always been an active member of our #church i can barely listen to like 4 traditional hymns before i start losing my mind and spiraling. i think the only two ways we're pretty #much equal like socially is that we're both able bodied cis and christians but still the cis and christian thing is debatable for previousl #stated reasons so like. do yall see how much better he is doing than me in every little last area in life and how he's always gotten the #long straw when it comes to Not having to deal w certain obstacles in life. n i know its like yea idk what it actually is like to be him an #he could not be doing all that well first of all shut up. second of all if it was 1 or 2 things i'd get it but it's literally EVERYTHING #and i know bc of said things n our v different lives it's unfair to me to compare the two of us but then it begs the question: WHY #WHY did i have to go through these things. WHY do i have to deal w this. WHY did i get the short straw literally every goddamn time #WHY did i have to get THIS life like WHYYYYY why ME GOD. why have I had to put up w all this bullshit for 24 fucking years!!!!!!!!! im TIRE #and this is not me hating or resenting him i know it's not his fault and he is so good to me #but still. why was i left with these things? to live like this? #so yes i guess i do envy him a little bit. who wouldn't #mari.txt #personal #tw negative #dl #btw i do NOT mean some identities are better than others. i mean he is better and is doing better than me in life partially bc he's never #had to deal w certain social issues and obstacles that come w oppressed identities.

[cluescorner]

Some people: Kaeya’s bio father is an abusive monster who abandoned his son in order to achieve his own selfish goals. He is an evil man who deserves everything awful that might happen to him. 

Other people: Kaeya’s bio father did the right thing and leaving Kaeya in Mondstadt was the only way to give him a halfway-decent life. He is a better father than he is given credit for and should not be as hated as he is. 

Me: Kaeya’s bio father is integral to the general ‘war is hell and bad choices can reverberate across time’ thing that Genshin seems to be going for. He made unethical choices, but mostly because the ONLY OPTIONS HE HAD WERE UNETHICAL. If our understanding of the Alberich’s role in Khaenri’ah is accurate, General Alberich (my name for him until stated otherwise) was suddenly in charge of a hopeless and dead kingdom which begged to be saved. Assuming that there was a reason Kaeya specifically was chosen for this mission, General Alberich was forced into a position where he needed to choose between the lives/future of every Khaenri’an vs the life and future of his young son. Abandoning either is an awful thing to do and a horrible decision, but the bad decisions of Celestia and Rhinedottir have led to a scenario where General Alberich can only make bad decisions. In the end, he chose to prioritize his people and made his young son into a spy. We do not know the process for this, but knowing how much Hoyoverse loves to torment people (especially Khaenri’ans) we can assume that this process was horrific for Kaeya and could definitely be considered abuse. General Alberich is effectively making his son into a child soldier for a war that the majority of people never wanted or asked for, and one Kaeya was likely far too young to understand. At least, until he was forced to grow up far too quickly in order to fulfill his duty. General Alberich likely loathed everything about what was happening and even in his last moments with his son he asks for forgiveness. He knows that what he is doing is wrong, but to turn back now is to both abandon his subjects and make everything that happened to Kaeya in order to turn him into a child spy be for nothing. So yeah, General Alberich is a terrible person who made horrible choices. But war and the bad actions of others have created a situation where he has nothing BUT horrible choices and where being a terrible person is the only thing he can be. And that’s without considering how the curse/abyssal corruption could impact the scenario. 

#idk #I just think that Kaeya's father is kinda an Asgore situation #where the only decisions he could possibly make were awful and unethical ones but choosing neither would create an even worse outcome #also I want to clarify that both of the other interpretations that I parroted before giving my own thoughts are valid #because we are working with such limited information and yeah no shit people are gonna have differing thoughts #people have differing beliefs and perspectives on things which are CANONICALLY CONFIRMED to be clear situations with lots of info about it #so of course people are going to go in like 80 different directions with his character #BECAUSE WE HAVE NEXT TO NOTHING TO GO OFF OF #and basically every interpretation of him I've seen is pretty reasonable #Like yeah man's son is a child spy who was abandoned in a far away country for the purpose of being a spy for Khaenri'ah's interests #thinking that he was an abusive asshole isn't exactly unreasonable #nor is it unreasonable to believe that he was actually a decent man who left his son in Mondstadt as the 'only hope' of Khaenri'ah #because he just wanted Kaeya to live on and have a life outside of the Abyss #and Kaeya was mistaken when he thought he was simply being left behind as a pawn #Genshin is no stranger to unreliable narrators and this wouldn't be the first time a character story wildly mischaracterizes something #so like...both of those interpretations are valid #and pretty fair ones as well #But I think that it really is like an Asgore situation where yeah this guy sucks and he is an awful person who made so many bad choices #But also was left with nothing BUT bad choices through war and grief and other factors that were genuinely outside of his control #Sacrifice your son's childhood and happiness by forcing him to be a child spy and abandoning him in the middle of a deadly storm #or let your people (including yourself) rot away into nothingness while facing a fate worse than death while they all but scream to be saved #there are no good options #kaeya's father #don't take this too seriously I just really liked Undertale when I was younger and I'm getting Asgore vibes from General Alberich

[ice-and-starlight]

Today's 5AM thought:

Kingsley Tealeaf is nonbinary in the sense that if gender is a side-dish then he's too busy having adventures to sit down at the table and figure out if he likes it or not.

Mollymauk Tealeaf is nonbinary in the sense that if gender is a side-dish then he's the hedonist lounging about at the banquet eating a bit of everything on the table and a few things that weren't even supposed to be an option, too.

(Lucien is nonbinary in the sense that if gender is a side-dish, then he's the poor orphan whose comfort food isn't actually their favourite dish, but they eat it anyway because it's familiar.)

#critical role #mighty nein #tealeaf siblings #idek what's going on with the whole Molly/Kingsley thing these days #but you will pry the headcanon that they're different aspects of the same person #from my cold dead hands #and by aspects I do thoroughly mean in the Old Gods and Barbie kind of way #They are Fundamentally The Same #but each develops those similarities in such wildly different directions #as to be unique personalities #IDENTITY SHENANIGANS

[silverior968]

Sparkle on! It's pride month! Don't forget to be yourself!

(Someone asks Anton why he's holding Larrikin like that and he just sighs and explains that 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 tried to climb on him like a jungle gym and that was the best he could do in the 0.5 seconds he had to react when said someone inevitably fell. Love wins!)

[Image ID: A digital drawing of Anton Shudder, a muscular irish-eastern asian man with scar tissue on his chest and back of his left hand. He has prominent eyebags and his hair is black with gray streaks tied in a bun, and Larrikin, a person with light brown freckled skin and curly ginger-and-brown hair with a single white streak, in front of a yellow background. Anton is standing up, holding Larrikin in his arms, supporting their back and left leg. Larrikin's right leg is dangling and they have one arm around Anton's shoulder, waving a large genderfluid flag with the other. Anton's outfit consists of black dress shoes, white socks, black slacks, a white button-up sleeves and a small demiromantic flag placed as a pocket square. In his left hand he has a small asexual flag. He is laughing with his eyes closed. Larrikin's outfit consists of mismatched Converse-style tennis shoes, one purple with a moon and stars and the other orange with a sun and clouds. Their socks are also mismatched, one is pink with white stripes and the other yellow with white stripes. They are also wearing a pink skirt with a rainbow and daisies on it, a teal button-up shirt that is tied at the front, and a blue denim jacket with pins. The pins are a purple star with the text "love wins" in white, the progress pride flag, a pink heart, a coffin with a white cross on it, a teal star, a yellow heart and a black cat head with yellow eyes. They are smiling an open-mouth smile with their eyes shut. They're also wearing blue eyeshadow and purple nailpolish. They both have matching golden wedding rings. / End ID]

#skulduggery pleasant #fanart #anton shudder #larrikin fetter #pride month #genderfluid #demiromantic #asexual #fun fact I'm also all of those things :] #and yes in case you are wondering those lines took forever to color #and the coffin pin was my friend Train's idea #Larrikin keeps it because it reminds them of Anton #also the vibe of the reference image I used was wildly different from this one #shudderkin

[itspileofgoodthings]

but on a more serious note, I do hate when any adaptation--but especially this one!--decides to change the nature of specific uncomfortable or antagonistic character interactions to something softer or sweeter, or even just decided to give two characters that don't get along or interact much at all A Moment™. That really is not always the right call!

#this is about charlotte and lizzy #and to a lesser extent lizzy and mrs. bennet #i was talking to @ihaveonlymydreams the other day about Lizzy and Charlotte! and the thing is: #they were never truly friends #not on the deepest level. it's a friendship of convenience and a friendship built around judgy gossip #for the most part #charlotte marrying collins doesn't suddenly change their dynamic so Lizzy can never see her the same way again. #it reveals the truth that was there all along: that she and Charlotte do have wildly different priorities and values #and those differing values make them pretty incompatible #as anything more than acquaintances #and it's so uncomfortable for lizzy to face that #and there's no fixing it because das just who Charlotte IS #but now she can see it. and so she comes to visit and she writes letters for the sake of what was as Austen tells us #and because lizzy iS loyal #but that is truly not a moment where it's about lizzy being too harsh on charlotte and then having to be like 'we still love each other' #and i do kind of hate when stories do that in general. just flatten everything into something feel-good #sometimes things are bad and disappointing and flat and that's just the truth #I feel this with Mrs Bennet a little bit less because it's smaller but again. it's like. how much pathos do we need to feel for her #also she just doesn't like lizzy! never has. least favorite daughter #anyway a million more thoughts but yeah. one of the things about P&P is that Lizzy doesn't actually learn what friendship is #until after Darcy. #it's such a true growing up story. in the sense of: she thinks she's done and she's not #anyway anyway many more thoughts on how charlotte's decision to marry collins is framed too #too sympathetically tbh #it's not just fear. charlotte just also doesn't give a damn about romance asdlfas;fasfsafsaflkasl;fsjafsafsafsf #she said i want a home and i want a parlor and if i have a fool of a husband that's okay with ME #and it's not even about (for the moment) judging the choice. it's just seeing it clearly for what it actually is #2005 liveblog

[just-aro]

kinda curious - what are the parts of what you perceive as aro culture that you most and least vibe with? current or past.

I really vibe with the parts of the aro community who examine the complexities of navigating the world as an aro person - especially within the context of being loveless, apl, and/or experiencing sexual attraction. each part of those groups has brought me comfort and healing from social wounds I hadn't been aware ran so deep. i could identify some threads of hurt - but untangling them took both personal work and community to connect with.

on the other side of things, i find it quite difficult to relate to aros who wanted romance and marriage and the classic tale of a romantic life. this isn't to say that i dislike the people - just that i cannot seem to vibe with it on any level. even when i tried to be in romantic relationships, to find peace in the idea of a long-lasting romantic relationship, to want what others (especially my partner) wanted - i was so deeply uncomfortable. i felt sick when i imagined marriage, or being "together forever". i have no idea how to relate to dreaming of having that, and being devastated by not feeling the romantic attraction to lead down that path.

do y'all feel like certain aro groups, topics, or things in general are particularly easy or hard to relate to?

#aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #it's just something i was thinking about #like... i sometimes get asked about certain experiences and it's just wildly different than my personal stuff #esp because i am a quitter lol. i tried those things ^ but was like hm no thanks pretty fast #also like. romance favorable/indifferent/repulsed as identities???? how and why #it's emotions??? #like? they happen depending on so many factors that i don't see how i could label myself with one #despite the fact that i easily label myself as sex favorable overall lmao #romance stuff feels more complicated in that respect

[kind-of-a-shitty-wizard]

just met dyus in the dlc and i love it bc on the surface he and haskill are really similar (stoic, loyal, old, also chamberlains, yk). but then you talk to haskill after you meet dyus and you’re like Oh Yeah, there is indeed an Entire Gulf of ideological differences between you two

#you summon haskill and he immediately scoffs ‘well for those of us who *value personal choice*…’ like damn #yall really do have wildly different core beliefs underneath your bitching. is there history here or ?? #not to mention its the proactive/inactive thing w/ haskill doing whatever he can to help the HoK while dyus sits on his ass for ages lmfao #haskill #dyus #god. i love them. the sillies. #‘they had a one night stand’ <- god tier take from my non-tes friend when i presented these two to them #tes

[bellshazes]

I did figure out the necessary inevitable narrative tone of distant station's conclusion and I'm sad about it. not because it's a sad ending but because it's sort of just flatly true on a meta-level. see you in two years when I write it tho

#peter posts #idk ethos arc will be abt being the same person when youre fragmented linearly from your future/past #on the other hand bdubs' is about. turning inward so much you cant notice and will never be able to recover yr memory #of slowly thru iterations becoming a wildly different person who is very much still you. #and the thing abt bdubs in the story & also metalevel a) why im writing it and b) why it is niche #is that its ok. to have done that in the long term. #eventually people wont remember all those unfamiliar people you once were & no longer have access to either #so its fine if this fic never gets ppl to watch that era. it would only be a reconstruction of recorded memory anyway #none of this is meaningfuk to me just like the insomnia + roomie probs of DIA were NOT RELEVANT to my life #ANYWAY BYE. LOVE YA TO DEATH I GOTTA RESEARCH LIGHT BULBS