#*mutters to myself*

[midnite--cruiser]

what’s the phenomenon when you buy a cart that tastes so disgusting you gag every time u take a hit but you spent 30 bones on it so u gotta smoke all of it and now several weeks later you can still taste it in the back of your throat if you imagine hard enough and it makes you dry heave

[fushigidanshi]

★セーラー戦士★ I'm sure this has been done before, but I couldn't pass up drawing a Sailor Senshi Senshi

[tevintersnakes]

After the struggle of their previous fight being entirely unarmed (combined unarmed skill of 35* [*with buffout]), Arcade coming out swinging with his high melee & decent strength to one hit crit was A Moment

[bonecrownreaching]

Do U think that Exos say "thanks, Clovis" like Bethesda players go "thanks, Todd" when something goes wrong?

[hp-mineccraft]

How much pea would a peacock cock if a peacock could cock pea.

[dansemacabre]

decoded a stan twins “fun” fact from book of bill below the cut. SPOILERZ

if you assign the bros secret code to a thru z in order (see figure 1):

then you can decode what ford writes in the journal when he’s thinking about calling stanley (see figure 2, already decoded)

this is devastating right? this is bad and evil and makes you want to curl up and weep? because he misses his brother so dearly and it’s really tragic that they’ve been so angry with each other for so long? Well it gets worse

there’s a bit in the end where stanley cussed out bill. i recognized the code and Chat i wanted this word to be fuck so badly you had no idea. i would’ve been happy with a bullshit. but INSTEAD it’s SAD AND DISMAL.

assuming that ! is y (since it’s not legible from the photo) it says LOVE YA BRO. SHUT THE FUCK UP.

this hurts right? this too is bad? because now you’ve let The Implications sink in. because The Implications are that over decades and decades of hating each other and missing each other and Being Complicated both stanley and stanford REMEMBERED the secret code they made together at 12.

and then you go, duh! stanley got his memory wiped. stanford must have RETAUGHT HIM THE BROS SECRET CODE. WHICH IS ALMOST SADDER AND SWEETER.

DUDE. DUDEEEEEE

they are so brothers. this made me really abnormal. if u can’t tell

[puppyeared]

in his silly era

[chubote]

Full and feeling like an overfed prize hog…

Feed and fatten me even more? 🐽

[comingdownwithme]

People say that you need to make a good first impression but uhhh, idk where this would be on the "this is alright" to "holy shit what was that" scale.

Anyways, woe, ticcijeff be upon ye because I read ONE, singular fanfic that was too good for something made in 2016 and it changed my brain chemistry forever

[lovefrombegonia]

Shen Jiu should make dark jokes about his time as a slave but no one gets the jokes coz everyone thinks he is a spoilt young lord from a noble family.

(Except, Yue Qingyuan. He gets it. He is currently screaming, wailing inside coz sometimes SJ is a bit too detailed JUST to make him feel even MORE guilty.)

[p4nishers]

wait a fucking minute. MOBIUS was the one who taught loki they didn't want to be alone. it was MOBIUS who made them realize that, only they couldn't articulate it at the time. it was MOBIUS that asked them "do you really think you deserve to be alone" and SHOWED them the answer by being there for them at every turn. like. dude.

[demi-pixellated]

a redesign: to sate my personal sensibilities

[cabinetduo]

what it is is like, on a meta level there were characters in the dream smp who were played by ccs who didn't have a large enough fanbase or "lore importance" to impact the writers room. like there were characters with specific written roles and there were characters whose arcs and internal conflict weren’t even being considered right. people's inability to separate cc from c also contributed, with cgnfs lore importance correlating w the ccs large audience (and ties to the main antagonist), he never would've been relevant otherwise. cniki was lightning in a bottle bcs she had just enough involvement with the guy's involved in the "main plot" to get eyes on her and what she did with that stage and focus was so captivating her character was able to stand alone with a fanbase of her own

however because of the nature of the dsmp, being able to see every characters individual perspective, the idea of 'side characters' only exists on a kinda narrative level, like for all intents and purposes ctommy was the main character (ignoring that old ass debate), the story was being sort of written with him at the center so thats how he was treated narratively but also on a meta level, many characters arcs were weighted based on how ctommy interacted with them. there were no side characters in the dsmp bcs of the nature of streaming as a medium but in the like, overarching story, ctommy is the mc

ALL OF THIS TO SAY ctubbo exists paradoxically. like technically he's one of the 'main guys' the fandom would focus on and was close enough to garner his own dedicated fanbase but [the thoughtstream that would spur this post] in modern discussions about dsmp nostalgia and character quotes and stuff I've never once seen ctubbos name.

So but but butttttttt on a meta level, narrative level, and TEXTUALLY LIKE IN THE ACTUAL TEXT he is regarded as a side character. like cctubbo gained a large enough fanbase to stand on his own but despite his proximity to the writers room he wasn't very involved in the writing of the "script" however the importance of his character to ctommy made it so that his character was always considered in the script (well characterized or not). with ctommy as the mc and ctubbo as his best friend, in the story of the overall dsmp ctubbo is the sidekick to main main character. now that's all well and good if it was only on a meta/textual level but this dynamic is actually crucial to his arc like actually IN THE TEXT

like in season 2 cdream is the main antagonist with making ctommys life a living hell being his main goal. he meticulously separates them and incites a canyon sized rift in their relationship. then while tubbo is holding up the sky and being [new] lmanburgs youngest acting president. cdream fully befriend him at his lowest with the intention of using him against ctommy. ctubbo was never a person in cdream's eyes. he, like many other characters, goes out of his way to dehumanize ctubbo, viewing him as an extension of ctommy the same way the discs are, something to taunt him with or destroy for a reaction. we see this in the white house fight and disc saga finale. despite going out of his way to gain ctubbos trust and play chess with him everyday, cdream never even saw him as a person (how fucked is that)

Anyway where was I goibg with this..ctubbo had enough ties to the 'main characters' to be tied to the 'main narrative' of the dsmp (in quotes bcs there's nuances to those phrases) but not enough to be allowed to stand alone on a meta level, narrative level, and in the text when regarded by other characters. it isn't until later in the story [thru streamer and tubbling efforts that he kinda gets his own legs? until the story requires otherwise from him and he's dragged along to whatever role the main story needs him to play (which in retrospect led to a lott of mischaraterization huh who knew

[elftwink]

how am i doing? well every time anything bad happens i can feel my tenuous grip on reality slipping and i creep ever closer to wailing like a banshee and tearing whatever poor soul happens to be next to me limb from limb before stripping down and running into the river to become one with the sturgeon, never to be seen or heard from again. but other than that everything's great

[the-dormant-ocean]

You know what is making me lose my sanity and rattle the bars of my cage? The fact that when Hiyori roughly grabs Zoro's arm he snaps at her and screams "Don't touch me!" but when Sanji manhandles Zoro he lets him and shows absolutely no signs of aversion.

[servantleverslutdrop]

I think many of the Crows are subject to unbelievable humiliations, and in turn create their own dignities. Thinking of Kaz in particular though, it's like his own resolve to put up with literally anything that serves his needs, no matter how hard or how low, is a form dignity. His actions may be detestable sometimes, but his perseverance itself is worth its own respect. The little boy who scrubs piss pots. The bastard son of the city of filth and violence. King of the rats. The best. The survivor.