#and therefore does not exist

[clouseplayssims]

THE CRAFT ROOM HAS BEEN CLEANSED.

[chronophobica]

another

[starcurtain]

Sometimes, I think about how much Alhaitham's entire adult life has been shaped by Kaveh and I just... have to sit down for a second.

Kaveh was Alhaitham's first, and, as far as we've been told, only friend until recently. At the very least, Kaveh was likely his only close friend throughout Alhaitham's entire schooling years, from teens into adulthood.

Alhaitham lives in the house he received for his work with Kaveh. The house Alhaitham lives in wouldn't even exist without Kaveh.

Alhaitham's ideology and behavior have been shaped by his diametric opposition to Kaveh's perspectives. He acts and thinks the way he does in part because of how their debating over years shaped how Alhaitham sees the world.

He's become an active part of a friend group almost entirely because of Kaveh. Alhaitham's story quest says that he didn't become particularly friendly with the rest of Sumeru's saviors even after they saved the archon, but now we see him hanging out with Cyno and Tighnari all the time because Kaveh was friends with them first and eased the way.

He even drinks a particular brand of coffee because he and Kaveh picked it together.

If you removed all trace of Kaveh from Alhaitham's life, virtually nothing would be the same. He wouldn't live where he does now. His house wouldn't look like it does inside at all. He very likely wouldn't have a single close friend. His ideology would probably be significantly more pragmatic and cold. Literally the only thing in Alhaitham's current life that hasn't been shaped in some way by Kaveh is Alhaitham's job. Which is... probably why work is Alhaitham's least favorite aspect of life.

Meanwhile, Kaveh is honest to archons over here wondering "What does Alhaitham even think about me?"

I don't know, buddy, probably that you're his whole world?

[gingerswagfreckles]

Not really loving how my post about the left's love affair with eugenics and blood and soil ideology framed as "decolonization" got coopted into another "wait it's all Christianity??" "It always has been" post." Y'all are sticking your heads in the sand if you think this is a problem with "cultural Christianity." This is the exact same pattern we saw play out in the 1979 Iranian revolution and much of this ideology was coopted from the Nazis by the Soviets and reframed as progressive. This is not an issue with Western "cultural Christianity" and it would be great if Jumblr could stop engaging in the same "there's actually one secret root cause of every problem in the world and if we get rid of it we will have utopia" thing that antisemites have been using against Jews for 2000 years.

[the-merry-otter]

Just think, Dutton gets to wake up tomorrow morning and have one moment before the memory of his horrific defeat crashes down on him. What a lovely thought. I love democracy 🥹

[tempestmothstorm]

pt 2 of memes that vaguely relate to the ambiguous nihilism theme essay and stuff except this one is a lot dumber

[myuniverseinabox]

My brother and I have been yapping about Helluva Boss again lately and ngl, I'm probably going to just stop watching it at this point. Maybe I'll take a peek once s3 comes out, but if they especially keep going the way they have been I am Not Fucking Interested.

I'm kinda disappointed at myself for not spotting it sooner; I guess I was just dazzled by the whole show at first... but the writing in it is honestly just... abhorrent. The main ship is literally just slave x slave owner, where the writing paints the slave owner as the VICTIM. Stolas is an awful character and accidentally a realistic portrayal of an abusive person. Everything Blitzo has confronted Stolas about is correct and he has NO reason to EVER apologise to that mf. He needs to get out of there asap.

Then there's the misogyny. All the female characters in the show are just accessories to male characters with no personality of their own. Then Millie was revealed to be pregnant and that PISSED me off. She has no fucking character at all and now she's just, pregnant. Guarantee her having a child will be used to show how Stolas actually is a good dad guys!! he's a good dad!!! and Millie will just be sidelined.

Then not to mention the really shit villains, the show loosing it's focus entirely, and all the sexual assault jokes :)))

It is disgusting. Hate this shit.

[starryoak]

As someone raised by atheists and only exposed to Christianity through stuff like Veggietales, to this day I still can’t intellectually wrap my mind about a genuine belief in religion, as in actually believing any of that shit actually happened. Like. Literally all of the major events described in almost every religion is stuff that factually cannot have happened if you understand almost any science or even just the fact that nothing like that ever has any evidence it can happen now. And people just. Politely ignore that fact? Like I understand that to a lot of people religion is about community and rituals and not so much the actual texts, but like. The fact that magic isn’t real is entirely undeniable. Most everything in the holy texts of most major religions is stuff that we know from how science works doesn’t exist and can’t have happened. And that for some reason doesn’t bother people? They just. Believe in it anyway? I can’t understand that perspective. To me, something being true is actually important, and the fact that religions say that things that aren’t real exist says that they aren’t reliable sources for basing my understanding of the world on. Again, I understand that most people don’t think about that, that religion is primarily about social cohesion and tradition and rituals and not about whether it’s literally true or not. But that perspective is just incredibly alien to me. It’s just weird, that most people can apparently just. Politely ignore that science has completely invalidated nearly everything religion says is true, and still for some reason believe in it anyway.

[achroition]

momentary loss of sanity or something; a lapse of judgment, perhaps

[sneakyboymerlin]

Arthur saves people and it justifies his wealth and power. Merlin saves people and it’s a lowly peasant trying to be important. I see how it is 🚬-_-

[crystalpallette]

arle if you want to get re-elected stuco president you can't admit you beat up on your twin sister once many times never like that

[psychopomp-namine]

hmmmmmmm okay. I'll think about the last episode a bit more. I currently don't how I feel about what happened. it's. hmmm. unsurprisingly, more questions raised than answered

also, the timelines man. they're fucking up the timelines. I have to rethink how this ties to S1/S2 because way too many details don't line up. but I'm gonna guess now that we're not in S1/S2 timeline anymore, actually. we're in the timeline that was created after lu guang's S2 dive in the finale.

so is yingdu actually post-S1/S2? I'll try to logic this out in the weekend probably

I will say that I am very intrigued by wang qing's role in all of this and I'm glad she exists. link click doesn't always have a good track record with female characters but when they don't kill them off they are intriguing in their own right (qiao ling, wang qing, and even xu shanshan I really enjoyed. noodle soup ladies and anime con girl as well).

[leafpool-loves-ashfur]

guys we do realize Splashtail ISN'T an atheist right? we know the definition of atheist?

[musicalmoritz]

Finishing the first episode of Interview with the Vampire only to get on TikTok and see ppl calling MITSUHANA of all ships abusive and unshippable and putting it in the same category as incest ships was truly a surreal experience. Anyways friendly reminder that I am fully on board with these two and I love them dearly. MitsuHana world domination, I just know they would bully each other so hard

[ochrearia]

Cozy Solitude (Yet Not So Alone)

Eventually I will be able to write something for every BF in the RGBFverse and then I will finally stop feeling guilty for not being able to write everyone. Today isn't that day sadly. And there is, of course, something to be said in this. A little bit of truth of how YS acts or talks that isn't really him, but me instead. Eggshells or whatever

BFs in this one-shot: Biff (PoPr!BF, mine), Peacock (sfa!BF, Shed's), Bee (S2!BF, Isaac's), Yourself (YS)

Maybe the crisp bite of the cold wasn’t too bad in some situations. It wasn’t like YS was ever going to seek out being cold while in his right mind- (And he does have to specify that because he’s forced himself to be cold before when his mental state was way off a deep end.) But there were some upsides, despite them being things that he could literally just ask for if he had the balls. Which he normally didn’t so who’s fault was that really? His, it was his. There was some fucked up joke to be made here that he ripped something else off along with his wings that day.

He wasn’t going to be making that joke.

But it was fine. In the absence of his wings now he had brothers. And after the stupid shit he pulled last night there was, of course, no future where YS would get away with it every day. Because there were too many brothers and only one of him. He was bound to be caught and victimized sooner or later. It was just ironic that it happened to be the evening right after his night of numerous failed warmies attempts.

Three of them were here. And, honestly, not quite the three he’d first expect. Biff, of course, because it was basically impossible for YS to avoid that fucker when they’d grown so close so fast. And since they were around each other the longest, the connection they had was also strongest. He had to wonder if Biff maybe felt the sting of being hopelessly cold in his dreams last night. He hoped not.

The other two, though, weren’t YS’s first assumptions, but he was in no way complaining. Peacock was here, and Bee was here. And of course they were always welcome. Everyone was welcome. YS just didn’t have the courage to ever ask for it first. He felt guilty that he essentially had to hope and pray that they would figure it out first so he didn’t have to try and fail to do it on his end, because he would sooner tear his heart right out of his damn chest and crush it so it would stop aching so damn much out of sheer fear. Over asking.

“Does overthinking help with the warmth thing too or are you just being a dumbass?” Biff snarked.

Shithead.

Normally cuddle piles would be observed as such on his shitty living room couch with equally shitty cable TV running as background noise for them all to immediately ignore in favor of each other’s attention. But today was tiring, because YS hadn’t really slept the night before due to the cold. Cyber’s gift only helped for a few minutes at a time. It was too small for him to use as a reliable heat source, and while he could’ve probably used his shapeshifting to shrink for less surface area, he’d been shivering too much last night to even focus long enough on the idea of using his magic. So he hadn’t.

“I am actually just never allowed to have a conscious thought anymore, according to Biff.” YS bemoaned, though he was joking. “Fuck you, YS. Don’t think. Don’t breathe either, while you’re at it, dumbass.”

“That is LITERALLY not what I said.”

“Keep fighting, it’s very entertaining.” Peacock cut in to joke. “Got that brotherly arguing enrichment while I try and fail to fall asleep here.”

“You’re failing to fall asleep?” Bee mumbled from his spot. “I can barely fucking stay awake over here…”

Right. They weren’t on the couch this time because YS hadn’t the energy to even move to the other room. He’d been found like a pathetic wet cat, curled up in his bed shivering and whining about it being cold. And none of them dared to move him, so they were piled on top of each other on his bed. YS, of course, on the bottom. The other three just found any spot they could that also doubled as either lying on top of him, or right next to him. Surrounding his body with warmth that he desperately wished he could just make on his damn own.

“Overthinking does not, in fact, help the warmth thing, and also fuck you because that wasn’t what I was doing.” YS continued with a sniff. “God fucking forbid I have a thought longer than two seconds about a thing I could have done at some point in my past. That’s not overthinking, that’s just hindsight.”

“That is basically the same thing when it comes to you.” Biff batted back, shoving his face closer into YS’s side. “You think, and you think, about everything, literally every second of your living life if you could. And I think you do. Thinking about it all, because what if it was done wrong, or what if you made the wrong choice, what if something you said could’ve been worded better, a better choice, a better action. You are always thinking, man. And it’s some sort of godly miracle that you manage to keep those emotional walls up all the damn time while doing it. I think I would blow up.”

“I didn’t ask for a therapy session.” YS grumbled, looping his arm tighter around Biff. “I’m cold and my thoughts are slow as hell anyway. I didn’t sleep and I spent so much energy shivering because my stupid shit body doesn’t like to make heat. There is something fundamentally wrong with me.”

YS was fibbing about the heat thing. Only because he hadn’t told Bee yet about what he was, and today was not going to be the day for it. He was too tired and too grouchy.

“You still could’ve called one of us, man.” Peacock insisted. The fellow angel had taken residence sprawled over top YS, head laid gently on top of his chest. “There’s about… uh… too many of us now. Chances are one of us would’ve been awake. Chances are all of us would’ve been willing to help you.”

“All of you wouldn’t.” YS shrugged. “And I’m not saying that to be a dick. I am nowhere near close enough to some of the others compared to you three. And I’m very sure there’s actually still a few of us that actively dislike me. One I am certain of.  Few I might just be, I don’t know, assuming, but it’s hard for me to believe that I’m on good terms with that handful when my attempts so far have been disastrous blunders that ended up pushing them away in the moment. Because I’m stupid.”

There were a few scenarios in particular he was thinking about. Though he didn’t really want to even have them in mind. Thinking about them made YS sad. If he couldn’t get it all right on the first attempt then what was even the point? It was so much easier to fuck it all up than to rebuild it. He certainly wouldn’t have the energy to be perfect until it started warming up outside, and that was going to take months. But if he also didn’t even try, then what sort of impression was that going to leave on those he was walking on actual eggshells with?

He had to be the one to fix everything, didn’t he?

“You’re not stupid.” Bee frowned. Bee had taken the spot on YS’s other side. They really were all working together to surround him with warmth on every possible side. “I get the whole assumption thing, though. It’s like… having no object permanence, I think. Unless it’s with someone you have had long enough to learn you’re okay with, you’re always assuming you’re on thin ice with them?”

YS blanched. “I… yeah. I guess that’s a good way to put it. Everyone after Blue, I guess, I’m just… I don’t know. I don’t think I’ve done enough yet to earn feeling secure around them.”

“Understandable.” Biff said gently. “Though, hey, there was a time where that cutoff was even shorter. Shit, the cutoff used to be just me, didn’t it? And now it’s at Blue, at least, so you’re working on it. It takes time, man. Things change and shit.”

“I’m glad I’m inside the threshold for certain at least.” Peacock said with a grin. “Means I don’t have to necessarily worry about annoying you by showing up. Or saying some stupid shit, because let’s be real, we all do that. It’s nice to know where I stand with you, is what I’m saying. And you should know where you stand with me just by how willing I am to keep you trapped here and be physically affectionate. I don’t care about much. But the things I do care about get as much dedication as I could possibly give. You can figure out where you fall.”

YS let out a chuckle. “Yeah, okay, I got the memo. Thank you. I suppose the only people so far I feel like I don’t actively need to seek reassurance from anymore are Biff, Beef, and Boyf, though I’m not gonna complain about it if they want to repeat it. With you two, Beefer, and Blue, I think I still need to hear it confirmed from time to time. But maybe it will be different soon.”

YS paused, thinking before continuing.

“Cyber is. A special case. I know he cares about me by the way he acts when I’m around. He’s not done anything wrong. I might just have some unresolved thoughts about him in terms of, well, fuck, he doesn’t deserve any of the shit he’s been put through. And I just… I don’t know. I found him way earlier in his timeline than the rest of you. Maybe if I had just been a little bit earlier…”

“You probably shouldn’t tear yourself apart over what-ifs, YS.” Bee cut in. “You’re not like, this all-seeing, all-powerful savior that is in charge of us all. Sometimes shit happens. Bad timelines exist. I mean… Look what happened to you. You didn’t deserve any of it either.”

Biff and Peacock exchanged a look about the ‘savior in charge of them all’ comment. Bee was right, YS wasn’t, but it was a little ironic with what they knew about him. Biff wanted his big brother to be more honest about who he was, but he couldn’t force it. He’d told a few others. That was a start.

“Cyber did nothing wrong.” YS repeated. “But that’s the reason why I say my cutoff is at Blue. I know the eggshells I have around Cyber are just my own guilt that I couldn’t have prevented it. I wish I could’ve protected him better. And I can’t fully help him even now when I want to, so badly.”

“You’re already doing more than enough.” Biff stressed, hoping his point would get across. “There’s so many of us now, dude, there’s no way you can keep the exact same energy up with everyone. It takes time, and it takes effort. You’ve been over-exerting your effort for months. When will you just slow down and give yourself the rest you need?”

“He’s doing it now.” Peacock decided firmly. “Today. Right now. You are going to stop overthinking all this shit, stop worrying, do nothing. Just exist here, with us, while we take care of you and chase your cold away. And you’re also going to try to nap. That’s also very important, since you said you didn’t get to sleep.”

“Shit, since when were you this damn bossy?” YS snarked lightly.

“Since my big brother doesn’t do enough to take care of himself when all of his energy’s spread out across everyone else. You can stop doing that for one day. The world will not explode.”

Well, guess Peacock had a point. But also…

“You’re telling a chronic worrier to stop worrying.”

“Holy shit you know what I meant.”

Sure, fine. The overthinking did nothing to help with the warmth problem. All it did was make YS more stressed out than he already was. And of course, there was no real way that he was going to just be able to stop worrying. There was always going to be something on his mind related to his standings in his social relationships. The varying degrees of closeness he had with some of his brothers compared to others made him nervous. Would they think he was favoring some? Or think he just didn’t care about them? But then again, maybe they didn’t want to be close to him in the first place. None of them had ever asked for him to appear in their lives…

“Overthinking face.” Biff teased, snapping YS out of the thought train. “Tell your brain to shut up for like, twenty minutes. Only twenty minutes if you really can’t handle all day. Or, well, the rest of the day.”

The sky outside YS’s bedroom window was turning dusty- fading signs of the sun as it started to disappear below the horizon. It was going to only get colder from here. The angel sighed quietly, squeezing his arms around Bee and Biff again, and gently pushing his nose against the top of Peacock’s head. Maybe if he was lucky, he could get even one of them to stay overnight. But he couldn’t ask that, of course. They’d have to just volunteer, if they really wanted to. He’d prefer them all stay, but that was even more of a thing he couldn’t ask for.

His brothers were content with him, at least. For now, things were okay. They’d all tapered off into a comfortable silence, because they wanted him to try and get some sleep. Bee would probably join YS almost immediately assuming he could actually doze off. Biff and Peacock seemed more determined to outlast him to make sure he actually did fall asleep, which honestly, did something for his brain. Just an unspoken showing of care. Keeping him to a standard of which he’d starved himself for so long.

YS closed his eyes, content. He wasn’t shivering now. The air around him was still cold, and he could still feel its bite on his face, but his body was enveloped in warmth. Warmth of his brothers sharing space with him.

Warmth of his brothers, loving him.

[cryptid-jamie]

Mystery twins Headcannons

Mabel pines

Bisexual (obviously)

Realized at a young age (like 13-14) she liked girls and was very open and confident in it

Falls in love easily (sapphic girly fr)

Dated a lot throughout middle and high school and would immediately claim they they were the one (the longest one was two months lol)

Loves going to parties and always goes all out in the outfits (Goes to every and all pride events she can)

ADHD and autistic (all the pines are autistic but ya’know)

ADHD causes her to hyperfixate on her arts and crafts projects and can cause her to pull all nighters and forget to eat or drink

Has trouble focusing on things that don’t directly retain her interest (as seen in the show lol)

Very talkative

Stimming types

Arm/hands flapping

Pacing/running in circles/Spinning/ rolling around on the ground

Hair chewing

Vocal stims

Frequently changes her aesthetic all thought high school like every week

Makes her own clothes

Impulsively changes her hair (shaved it half off once because she saw some on TikTok with a half half shaved off with it dyed and thought it looked cool)

FaceTimes Grenada and Candi back in GF every night

After graduation she gets accepted into art school in Oregon

Travels down to gravity falls on holiday breaks and most weekends

Sells clothes online for extra cash (college is expensive lol)

Dipper pines

Trans masc

New he was a boy from a very young age but socially transitioned right before leaving for Gravity falls (like on the bus there lol)

Thinks Grunckle Stan doesn’t know but he was there when Dipper and Mabel where born (cannon I think) so he knows but is waiting for dipper to tell him before he brings it up

Has only officially came out to Mabel (as off the start of the summer;comes out to Stan at the end of summer before leaving where Stan reveals that he always known lol )

Autistic (duh)

His autism presents through lack of proper social skills, special interests, and stimming

Stimming types

Chewing (rip his pens lol)

Pacing

Repeating words/phrases

Special interests

Mysteries/Conspiracies

Cryptids/monster

Wears pretty much the same outfit every day lol (flannels too bro thinks he’s Alex hirsh)

Is into the unexplainable for the same reason as ford

He feels like an outcast so we relates a lot to Cryptids because who’s more of an outcast then the moth man

Develops a proper friend group (like two to three other people ) in high school they’re also nerds lol

Started dating Pacifica northwest one summer but his friends don’t believe him

“Like yeah dude you’re dating Pacifica Northwest the richest girl from a small town in the middle of nowhere yeah and you also got chased by an army of gnomes that was trying to marry your sister, sure dude.”

One day she shows up and everyone is shocked lol

Runs a ghost hunting YouTube channel and all his videos are real but everyone thinks it’s fake cause it’s to much evidence

After graduation he moved down the gravity falls full time and takes Ford’s apprenticeship

Take night college classes in film for that ghost hunting show he mentions in that one episode