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i could beat the fuck out of taylor hebert

#last journal entry made before being scorpioned. to death

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imagine getting banned from social media for saying what rose senior did to aimon behaim

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look I'm sorry to bring up 2010s web comic Homestuck on my worm blog but I need to acknowledge the similarities between the Travelers and the Alpha Kids. Teen friendgroup turned psychological torture chamber going through the horrors in a way that exacerbates how deeply dysfunctional their relationships with each other are

#parahumans #worm #travelers #homestuck #alpha kids. #if their places were reversed dirk would NOT be the krouse. roxy would be the krouse #posts with a target audience of literally exclusively me

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advantages to living on Earth Bet: mobas never invented

oh you just know they cooked up some even more rancid shit over there. theres like some guy who calls himself the gaming tinker and hes not even leet. hes about to invent something called 'nintendo you can fuck' and ruin five hundred million lives

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if i was inserted into worm i would not be saving taylor from any lockers i can tell you that much. i would be getting my brains obliterated by contessa because i was about to post "scion gay asf for saving kittens while his wife is spread open in another dimension" on Better (earth bet twitter)

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wolf 359 is a show that poses many important questions such as “how much training do you REALLY need to go to space,” “is it still a war crime if you’re light-years away from the nearest living soul,” “how many times can you send one guy into the limitless void before he gets pissed enough to kill you about it,” “what if the ship of Theseus was a person,” “how many different ways can you kill someone without them dying,” and of course, “would that be fucked up or what”

#everyone please please listen to w359 #theres women with fascinating things wrong with them #what if siri was a bitch and transgender and also kind of bad at her job #what if the company worked for sent elite agents who's entire job is manipulating people and they were each seperately incredibly funny #what if 2001: a space oddessy happened to a guy who only wears star wars tshirts

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#she is killing him #with spiders

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the only thing responsible for alecs bare minimum good roommate etiquette aside from "does actually want to live in a not horrifically unpleasant environment" is that lisa Knows Things and kept calling him out for like a year straight until he got annoyed enough to stop doing all of the problem items

#he was told to put dishes back in the kitchen after using them

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jess has always ached deep inside her heart to style krouses hair like a posh show dog and makes enough jokes abt it pre-simurgh that its obvious she genuinely wants to do it in a true and serious context and after they fuck up their first job he can sense that shes silently very very mad at him so hes like sigh……… go ahead……….. and shes like you mean……..really? and hes like yes. really. and he spends the rest of the night looking like this

#you understand her

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after the rest of the travellers drink their vials, krouse muses how all of them got something other then what they wanted or needed. this seems like its probably true, especially given all the additional info we as readers learn about other parahumans, how shards work, etc. however, i think most of the specific things he identifies (e.g. jess not being able to walk or luke not being able to fly) seem more like him not understanding the rest of the group. with that in mind, what do you think the "real" unfortunate/ironic twist for everyone else's powers was?

there actually was a wog on this !

(altho i dont believe luke was necessarily the “pillar” of the group bc pre-simurgh none of the travellers were more or less integral to the group dynamic besides oliver + chris who stayed reserve players the entire time .. tho i consider that an integral part of the dynamic too .. its more so that where krouse brought decisiveness + acuity / jess brought creativity + versatility / etc luke was a steady level-headed presence)

#hadnt even seen the wog before #but yippee!

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i was pondering some Thoughts about how people sometimes refer to worm as a "found family" story (& how this is sometimes mocked), how in-text alec explicitly says that the undersiders are the closest thing rachel has to family, how taylor tells them "you're my family, in a way," how the found family trope works in general, etc.

access to financial support, housing, medical care, And So On, is primarily attached to the institution of the family. the material necessities provided by membership to a nuclear family are why it's so common for people to reconcile with or keep in touch with family members they wouldn't if there was no material value attached to that relationship. the cultural prioritization of the nuclear family is how we get people offering "well, they're family" as an explanation for remaining associated with someone they wouldn't otherwise care about (or would even actively be trying to escape from, but this post is more about just Social Incompatibility in families than the outright abuse that the structure enables), with the expectation that the explanation is considered to make inherent sense.

aside from the found family trope demonstrating a lack of imagination about non-familial ways important relationships can take shape/demonstrating an inability to see relationships as truly important or deep unless they mimic the nuclear family, i think a lot of what appeals about the found family trope is a character dynamic that provides the same support, security, and undying love/depth of connection that the idealized nuclear family is purported to--and that does so as an escape from and superior replacement to the original blood family.

and what's interesting about the undersiders is that they're extremely not that. they're terrible at communicating. many of them don't get on with each other very well. they're oftentimes even actively shitty to each other: everyone but taylor towards rachel, brian towards alec (and aisha, but she's actually related to him), taylor towards alec and aisha. but there's still repeated in-text acknowledgement of a supposed familial dynamic between them! i think they're a "found family" in the sense that their group imitates the general role of the nuclear family--a small unit of people who (are supposed to) function as each other's fundamental supports in a world that, at large, does not care about any individual member, and who (are supposed to) do so regardless of any internal conflicts or lack of compatibility.

like, this is not a particularly articulate analysis of the nuclear family Whatsoever, but i don't think it's inaccurate to say that the compelling thing about the undersiders is that they are a "found family," but specifically in the sense that a lot of their dysfunctions are reminiscent of those found in typical, real-life familial bonds--people who wouldn't necessarily be getting along otherwise, or are even actively sorta bad for each other, forming very deep & intimate connections simply because they're materially forced to spend a lot of time together and have each others backs when there's no guarantee anyone else will.

for example: alec and aisha call taylor + brian 'team mom and dad' in a mocking manner not to indicate that they're kind/caring, but to indicate that they're being condescending micro-managing assholes...who aisha and alec are going to unquestionably listen to anyway, because they're a team, right? and you have to listen to your team leaders. i am onto an Observation here i think. deeply compelled by the idea of a ""found family"" where all of the similarities to an actual nuclear family are, despite being what drives the intimacy, also blatantly fucking dysfunctional

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lisa when she first saw the travellers

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most fucked up part of migration was when the travelers trapped cody’s soul in the body of a rat and left him on a deserted island

#why did they even do thwt

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jess coolest traveller no contest

#my blogs thesis

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jess coolest traveller no contest

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jess coolest traveller no contest