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i think strange and off-putting wylan is the best. you know how he is in those fanfictions where he just. stares. and creeps people out. in the inside, he's having ten different panic attacks, but on the outside it's all just big blue bambi eyes and an entirely unresponsive demeanor. things happen around him and he doesn't react. he doesn't move. he doesn't blink. he just stares. he's weird and there and that's it. jesper instantly needs him carnally and all he did was look at him blankly and ignore him from then on. nina finds him hilarious. matthias finds him a little weird but also the most normal person in the crows. inej gives him a knife to protect himself but he's already got a whole lot of bombs hidden in his little gay satchel that he's told no one about and will bring out in the middle of a random fight where he will romantically lock eyes with jesper and then blow up a bunch of people. kaz glares at him and wylan just looks back without flinching so kaz hires him because how the fuck??? how??

idk i just love off-putting wylan he's my favorite

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rip inej ghafa you would've loved that trend where you only move when the light is off

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thank you jack wolfe for deciding that wylan holds objects with both hands

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Inej and Wylan, possibly the most underrated Six of Crows duo🐦‍⬛🩶

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wylan van eck at the merchant council meetings

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WE HAVE A TANK!!!

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my phone might be a wylan stan too

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Jesper: I'm 80% water 20% waffles and 100% sexy

Matthias: That's 200%

Jesper: I'm twice the man you'll ever be

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whenever people say that they dont think the crows act like teenagers i have to laugh because. like. as a teenager. they do. they're relatively mature because they're all severely traumatized and had to grow up fast (also because considering the time period it's based on it's completely reasonable for younger kids to be expected to do more) but they still act like teenagers. i've seen a bunch of people mention the "my ghost wont associate with your ghost" convo and "pay someone to pay someone to burn your kruge" but also, Jesper makes multiple sex jokes. Inej purposefully takes the harder route Kaz can't handle so he'll let her go alone. Wylan complains about pretty much everything. Nina spends most of the first book needling and pissing off her ex because she enjoys it. Kaz spends half his energy trying to be mysterious and cool. Matthias calls Kaz a demon for most of the books because he doesn't like him. Kuwei uses the fact that he looks like his crush's crush to kiss his crush. he also pretends he doesn't know Kerch because he didnt want to talk to people.

and, hands down the most teenager scene in the entire duology, Kaz and Jesper get in an argument and start a fucking fist fight. they are literally rolling on the ground punching each other. and everyone just fucking stands there. watching. Wylan wants someone to stop them but no one does. because they're not actively trying to kill each other. so whatever its fine. and then afterwards they're besties again. that is how 99% of the fights at my school go my dude, they are SUCH teenagers.

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zoya forgetting wylan's last name out of all things about him holds so much power. the meaninglessness of the van eck name is reinforced since wylan has shed it. and it shows how the name hendriks has no correlation to wylan's father and is emerging from something unknown. in this scene, wylan is painted to be somewhat of a new person, someone different from when zoya last saw him.

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i know that we, as a fandom, talk alot about how great it would be if the dsmp got turned into a tv show, or a movie, or something, but honestly?? i don’t think it would realistically live up to our expectations. i mean, don’t get me wrong — if netflix announced that they were making a series based off the smp, i would be as ecstatic as anyone. but think about it. it would be created by, directed by, and acted in by people who most likely hadn’t been there to watch it firsthand. it’s not impossible that they had been, but probably not. and while i have no doubt that the people who would create it would be extremely talented, how true could it actually be?? because even if they watched all the vods and every character analysis on youtube, the dsmp wasn’t just the story, it was the culture around it. it was the farart, the animatics, the fic, the twitter threads. it was the fans, blurring the line between fanon and canon, and sometimes stepping over it completely. it was some canon events being completely ignored, while some fanon things were accepted as fact. it wasn’t just plot, it was the countless streams of just messing around. it was the bloopers. it was the wild donos in the middle of an intense scene. it was twitch crashing. it was asking for subs, or primes, and being part of the character. if you weren’t there, how could you ever truly understand it? the sheer scope? i think that if the dsmp was turned into a series, we would get the plot, yeah. but not the feel. never the feel.

i think that if we truly wanted to have a film adaptation, the best (or only, really) way to get the soul of the smp would to have it be a low-budget production made by the fans, posted on youtube. like so much fan content before. bad wigs, newbie actors, a stilted script — a bunch of people just goofing off, having fun, and interacting with the content they love. that would capture the feel. 

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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Today a very friendly Golden Retriever came up to me and I said "hey buddy :D" and the owner asked "do you know each other?" like his dog had a social life he didn't know about

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when I was a kid I wished I had nosebleeds. I had some friends who had them and I was like. that looks so fucking cool. you're just sitting there and suddenly you're covered in blood. it looks so dramatic. it looks so... and here my language failed me. at such a humble age I did not have the vocabulary to describe the sublime. I just sat in incomprehensible jealousy. I turned out totally normal by the way

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nlm tubbo you pathetic little thing..... i love uou

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does anyone else think that its crazy (remembers i’m in discourse time-out this week) how the wind blowing thru the grass is so common yet so beautiful. one of many marvelous experiences in this wonderful life