#I CANT DEAL WITH THIS FOR REAL

[gh0st-lie]

SIR!?!?!

THE STANCE! THE HAND ON THE HIP! GYYYAAAD DAMMNNNN

[orangehalfpeeled]

the only roommates ever !!!!!!

[ennawrite]

rereading the scene of Rhys tormenting Tamlin in ACOFAS is just like…wow…i wish y’all would BANG IT OUT ALREADY ‼️‼️‼️

“I have EVERYTHING and I’m so HAPPY and so ABOVE YOU but I’m gonna come torment you anyway, just because I feel like it and NOT because I’ve secretly been attracted to you for the past four centuries…🙄”

yeah…i bet they’re not the only thing aching to be near his throat 😏

noticing his muscle mass is crazyyyy like this shit is GAY YOUR HONOR!!! 👩‍⚖️

your…mate…who…is…everything…you’ve…WISHED…and…DREAMED…of…and…BEGGED…for…isn’t…ENOUGH??? (he literally just thought that 20 lines earlier btw😭)

ohhh don’t we ALL want feral Tamlin oh brother, back of the line, buddy!!! 😑🫵

I just know Rhys was punchin the fuck out of the air on the way home he wanted to wrestle with that man badddddd

feeling a “hollowness” in the stomach over seeing someone in despair is just the other end of the spectrum for “something glowed in his chest” I’M SORRY I DONT MAKE THE RULES!!!

[eggie0]

reinsuba ft. that april fools version

what I had in envisioned in mind:

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

in the category of things true in my heart: Steve has knocked out three of Pony's teeth rough housing, Soda has done the door n string trick to pull one out (pony TRIED to do this alone one time but he was too chicken to slam the door n two bit stuck up behind him n SLAMMED it n pony HOWLED like he'd been SHOT), n collectively as kids darry soda n pony helped pony get like four of his BARELY wiggly teeth out for cold hard tooth fairy cash

[evilkaeya]

this might actually be the realest reaction to realizing you have romantic feelings for someone. you start running. literally.

[urthefartmike]

OH YES WE WILL.

I AM CLAWING AT MY WALLS GOODNIGHT.

[lesbianralzarek]

the notion that if you legally obtain a drug for medical reasons you cant get addicted to it has done irreparable harm. we dont, like, remove the addictive part when we hand people their prescription vyvanse, thats not possible. people with adhd get addicted to stimulants that were made to treat adhd all. the. time. adhd doesnt make you immune. the hottest "street version" of adderall is just... adderall. dealers do just stock straight up adderall, and lots of the people obtaining it illegally do have adhd

im not saying dont take what you need, amphetamines changed my fucking life, but i am saying you need to be careful and watch for signs of addiction. it can happen to you too, and sharing myths about how good adhd-havers have magic wards against addiction, unlike those filthy druggies who obviously never have adhd, has a substantial negative impact that i have seen firsthand. you cannot convince me that "be careful with adhd stimulants" is an ableist sentence. use what you need, but dont ignore signs of addiction. we are not immune

[akkivee]

GHOST DICE IS COMING GHOST DICE IS COMING!!!!!!!!

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

GUYS!!! Y"ALL KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!! once again tidbit tuesday has accidently turned into pretty much a full fic but y'know what? the more the merrier AUGH ENJOY!!

"Hullo?" Johnny pushes the screen door open without knockin', sticks his head in through the door.

"Well, hello back atcha." Soda's layin' flat on his stomach on the carpet, socked feet kickin' idly in the air 'n a card game nonsensical to everyone but him laid out in front of him. He flips over onto his back, sits up, frowns at the cards 'n moves two of 'em around.

"Darry or Pone home?" Johnny toes his converse off at the door, swiped for him compliments of Two, 'n lays 'em neatly next to the door, grabbin' a pair of Soda's he'd kicked off wildly 'n layin' 'em side by side.

"Wow, 'n what am I Johnnycakes? Chopped liver?" Soda cracks a grin, beams a pillow that'd been layin' nearby on the floor at his head.

"Aw, man. I didn't mean it like that." He deftly ducks, grabs it from where it lands in the kitchen 'n punts it back. Darry always swore one day they were gonna go to chuck a pillow 'n it was gonna explode 'n they better not even think to ask Darry to help them clean it up.

Soda catches it, goes to throw it back, finds a hole in the edge 'n thinks better of it. He shoots Johnny a wink 'n plops it down right in front where the next person'll be sure to grab it, poppin' to his feet, card game forgotten. "Ya need somethin', Johnny?"

"Not really. Don't worry 'bout it, Soda." His stomach growls 'n he ducks his head, decidedly avoidin' Soda's prodin' stare.

"Well, while you're here you might as well stay 'n keep me company. Dar's got me on house arrest." Soda musses up Johnny's hair as he crosses into the kitchen, pops the icebox open 'n peers inside.

Johnny rocks back 'n forth on the balls of his feet, worries at his lip 'n watches Soda. He can sense him pullin' his old tricks, makin' one of 'em do somethin' on the preface of helpin' him when he knew it was the other way 'round. "I don't wanna bug ya-"

"You can make it up to me by eatin' these leftover sweet potatoes 'n tellin' Dar I finished them." He fishes them outta the fridge 'n tosses the container to Johnny.

"Since when didya stop likin' sweet potatoes?" Johnny cocks an eyebrow but follows him in the kitchen, movin' from cabinet to cabinet to pull out glasses 'n plates 'n forks.

"Since forever. Johnny, your memory's goin' in your old age." Soda presses the container of casserole he's pullin' out to his chest solemnly.

"Aw, hush. You're older'n me Soda." Soda pauses thoughtfully, taps a finger to his chin.

"Huh. Didn't thinka that."

"Maybe you oughta be worried about your memory, man." Johnny plunks down a plate 'n Soda howls, reachin' over to snap him up by the shoulder 'n fold him into his side.

"Damn, you're too quick for your own good." Soda hollers 'n jabs Johnny in the side 'n Johnny tries real hard to hide the wince. He really really does. But here's the thing with Soda. There ain't much he misses.

The smile drops straight off his face. Eyes darkenin'. 'N Soda's got that kinda eyes that can do that. Be all laughin' 'n grinnin' one moment 'n then pickin' you right apart the next. "Y'good, Johnny?"

"Yeah, man. I'm all good. Don't worry about it." He twists away from Soda, or at least he tries to, but now Soda's holdin' right onto him, hand wrapped good 'n tight around his bicep.

"Then you don't mind provin' it? Do ya?" 'N it's not a question. Not really.

'N here's the thing. Johnny don't really like to talk about it. Don't like to pretend he's anythin' but fine. 'Cause people ain't ever normal about it. Even when they think they are. There's always a look. An odd word. It can make a person real sick. Always feelin' like people pity you.

But this ain't just anyone. It's Soda. 'N Johnny knows he just cares. His fingers find the edge of his shirt, lift it up just along his ribs where they're painted dark with bruises like fingers stained with blackberry juice in the fall.

Soda doesn't say anythin'. Doesn't hiss in realization or understandin'. Just presses the back of his hand to the spot 'n frowns lightly when he feels heat there. He pulls away 'n Johnny drops his shirt back down.

"Anythin' new?" He lets Johnny go, turns around to break off some of the built-up ice from the fridge.

"Naw. Same old, same old." Soda nods, keeps his back to Johnny 'n he can tell his turnin' somethin' around in his mind.

"Would ya tell me if there was? Somethin' different?" He reaches over to snatch one of the kitchen towels, wraps the ice up in it, hands the whole bundle out.

'N for a moment Johnny doesn't move at all. 'Cause Soda don't look... anythin'. Just... Soda. 'N that doesn't make much sense. But it's the best he can put it.

'Cause when Darry 'n Dallas found new bruises 'n cuts 'n whatever the hell else his da could do to him there was always anger there. Not to him. God, never at him. But it was like they couldn't help themselves. Couldn't help the righteous rage that built right up in them.

'N Pony always looked at him. But Pony couldn't get it. God, Mr. 'n Mrs. C had been real good to their kids. 'N so had Dar. After, well, everythin'. He had always been a lil' horrified by violence 'n hate. 'N Johnny sorely hoped he always would be.

It made Two uncomfortable. Steve restless. He'd seen it all. 'N he knew they all just cared. He knew. But it never made it any easier.

But Soda ain't doin' none of that. He's just lookin' down at Johnny patiently, wide, dark eyes he got from their daddy blinkin' down at him, olive branch in the form of a meltin' towel of ice in his hands. Like he don't see him any different.

"Johnnycakes?" He tilts his head to the side, offers him the towel 'n this time he takes it.

"Yeah?" 'N He promises them all things all the time. I won't go home tonight. I ain't gonna get myself hurt. I'd tell ya if I did.

"You'd tell someone if it was different. Right?" But this one feels... manageable. A start.

"Sure, Soda. Yeah. I will." He takes the ice, presses it against his ribs 'n Soda watches him a moment more, ruffles his hair. Drops the casserole on the table 'n deals out a healthy portion to Johnny with a conspiratorial grin.

"Good. Now help me finish these potatoes before Dar gets home 'n makes me sit here all night until they're gone." 'N that's that.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

To elaborate more on the Pesterquest stuff -

Alternia is a hell world. It's shitty to live in, even if you're a highblood, unless you fit a very specific mold of person AND are lucky enough to be born of a high caste. Every troll character we care about is, in some way, fucked over by their relationship to their society; Eridan and Vriska get it the worst, having been forced to participate in the murdering side of things since they were young, but every lowblood is screwed and every highblood is made worse even just by their passive participation. Kanaya becomes less sympathetic because she seems completely at peace with the society she grew up in, and Feferi wants to enforce casteism, even if it's of a different flavor. Gamzee and Equius both hold genuinely casteist beliefs and attitudes, which slip out and alienate them from the people they care about.

Putting a friendship simulator into the middle of all this is... a choice, I guess. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for wanting that or liking that, but it's going to be inherently at odds with what Alternia is and is meant to represent, and thus, fundamentally at odds with many of the characters' arcs and even basic personality traits, so heavily are they influenced by the shit society they grew up in.

For a non-Eridan example, Karkat loathes himself in massive part because his society loathes him. He's kill-on-sight and lives in daily terror of death. He wears a symbol at all because not having one marks him as even more of a freak, even though he knows that that symbol is connected to the empire's biggest rebel, whose footsteps he is expected to follow. The reason he's so obsessed with being leader-y and earning his teammates' reapect, or the respect of anybody, is because he's so deeply insecure about whether or not he even deserves to exist.

If you soften Alternia to the point you can write a lighthearted friendship simulator in it, then that characterization... goes away. Karkat is no longer motivated by deep, overwhelming insecurities, which drive him to idolize the society that deems him unworthy, mistakenly believing that if he can find validation in that society, he'll feel less bad about himself. Instead, Karkat is just kind of an asshole!

It's the same way with Eridan. He and Karkat are equal and opposite in this way - while Karkat is marked for death by his society, Eridan belongs to the extremely privileged caste of sea dweller royalty - even moreso than Feferi, as Feferi is slated to be murdered by the Condesce as soon as she comes of age (and her ridiculous optimism is likely something she cultivated in outright defiance of this fate). But it turns out that being a sea dweller sucks shit, too, if you aren't the extremely niche type of person that society deems "correct."

Eridan is not actually casteist and genuinely likes his land dweller friends - and this is unacceptible. Not only that, but smaller "unacceptible" offenses are wrapped up in big ones - despite not liking murder and feeling guilty about it, murder is objectively the correct thing for Eridan to be doing, constantly, to the point of it being "all [he's] ever done practically," because if he doesn't fulfil the duty of his bloodline to be murdering lusii (and by extension, their charges, who are culled when their lusii die), EVERYBODY dies. The constant push-pull of trauma, societal expectations and obligations, the fate of the species, and the fact that he is inherently not the "right" kind of person for his society, are pretty much his entire character. He's basically a walking ball of anxiety and emotional turmoil.

So, again, if you soften Alternia to the point where you can write a story about Eridan wanting to see Shrek in a public theater (something he would not actually be able to peacefully do in canon Alternia - at least not without taking off his cape, hiding his fins, and going anonblood - as sea dwellers are considered ridiculously hostile to the point even Gamzee's nervous about being on the beach for too long), Eridan ends up being just kind of an asshole!

Pesterquest!Eridan is, and I cannot stress this enough, fundamentally not the same guy as canon Eridan. They have practically nothing in common, from the fact that PQ!Eridan is willing to do something for leisure, to the fact that he isn't widely feared and the movie theater doesn't empty out in a panic when he turns up, even down to the fact that he likes femme fashion (canon Eridan goes to Lengths to lean into masc fashion) and Shrek (canon Eridan is a hipster). Hell, even the fact that PQ!Eridan SMILES is a massive deviation from canon!Eridan, who has never once been depicted smiling, and probably hasn't for many sweeps.

Also that he has that much beef with Sollux when, canonically, the two had a lukewarm mutual dislike and didn't even bother interacting until Feferi was added to the mix and Eridan became mad that Sollux was dating her. He wasn't even casteist about him until then, and after, even Sollux and Feferi don't think he's casteist, they just think he's ashenflirting so he can get into a quad with Feferi. Like come on, if you're going to feature another troll in Eridan's route, 1) make it be Karkat, and 2) have Eridan cheat on you the whole time with Karkat like he does to Feferi.

Eridan is just overall a wild choice in a friendship sim - I can't even blame them for just writing an OC and putting an Eridan skin on top - because societally, Eridan isn't even supposed to have non-sea dweller friends. The sea dweller/land dweller race war is something the Condesce deliberately put into place in order to keep land dwelling nobility in line, and Equius cites it as one of the reasons he never got along with Eridan. Like, the very fact that Eridan talks to two land dwellers on friendly terms (Kanaya and Karkat) is a MASSIVE deviation from what he's "supposed" to be like, and a huge hint that he's not as casteist as he'd like to appear. You are genuinely hundreds, if not thousands, of times likelier to end an encounter with Eridan either orphaned or dead than as his friend. He's an unstable maniac, and there's a reason so many members of his team don't like him even though he's legitimately not casteist and they mostly seem aware of it (nobody really complains about or even notices Eridan's casteism by the time they're on the meteor - his contradictions are really obvious, and it's likely that they've more or less realized that he's full of shit).

Again, I don't begrudge anybody for wanting or liking PQ. Who cares, really. I'm just saying that as a canon discussion blog, there's not really any place for PQ because it's so far removed from canon that, like, there's not really anything meaningful to discuss about it. The setting and characters in PQ are fundamentally divested from canon, and not even in an AU way. And it's totally fine if that's what you like, but, yeah, like.

Was Eridan written well (where "well" = accurate to canon): no. Maybe he's fine as an OC with an Eridan Minecraft skin slapped on, but that's not my beautiful son, that's not my baby boy.

What did they get wrong about Eridan (where "wrong" = inaccurate to canon): all.

What route would I have written for Eridan: he shoots you with a gun and you die. And then maybe cheats on you with Karkat

[butch-bakugo]

Why are vetted accounts sending people stuff like this.

I mean it's clearly copy-pasted and sent to multiple people but this isn't even a donations ask. Imma guess the reason people aren't responding is because you're accusing them of not doing enough for Palestine and sending it to multiple people who you clearly don't check because I've been posting about and for Palestine since oct 7th when I learned about it.

Also yes he is looking for donations, you can check his account and find it. Why are you sending this guilt trippy stuff to people and accusing them of not caring enough? You don't know me? You send these to multiple people so your clearly not checking the account in question. This dose nothing to help you personally or the Palestinian cause, it just pisses people off and makes them question vetters.

[playgroundeyes]

HRLP HELP HELP HELP HELP HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS WWWY IS LITERALLY IN 2 DAYS THEYRE PLAING ALL OF TBP AND LIKE WHAT IF GERARD WEARS A NEW INSANELY ICONIC OUTFIT AND LIKE WHAT IF MCR5 GETS ANNOUNCED PLUS LIKE

NO BUT SERIOUSLY IMAGINE IT

AND FALL OUT BOY IS PLAYING AAAAAH YAY AND ALL OF COLLIDE WITH THE SKY TOO IM SO EXCITED HELP

NOT TO MENTION THERES BEEN NEW GERARD AND RYAN SIGHTINGS IN THE PAST DAY??!!!!!

[the-meme-monarch]

about to start season 2 of gravity falls and hey are we done with Mabel Has To So Much As Tolerate A Guy Who Wants To Date her That She’s Not Fucking Interested In plots

[jellomphetamine]

drowning in work so only sketches for now. tell me some of your ogata thoughts. i think he'd never turn on the lights in his apartment

[constelationprize]

actually there is something else I want to say. Bryson Wilshire when I FUCKING get you.

Like, for real. Getting your own 17yo grieving emotionally abused brother hooked on cocaine has got to be top 3 foulest things an AFTG character has ever done and I'm counting all the torture.

Because honest to God why the FUCK did he do that. What did he have to gain? Pocket money?

And then he gets to sit back for forever knowing that no one believes Jeremy's side of the story because Jeremy himself hasn't fully grasped what Bryson did to him. He recounts it to Jean as if Bryson was just being a bad influence, and sure, Jeremy was old enough to know better (that's the whole tragedy of his situation, that he could have made the right choices, and didn't) but it was also the most stressful time of his life and he trusted his brother. What guts me is that if this was just Bryson on a spiral dragging Jeremy down with him, why would he make Jeremy pay for the pills? The pills Bryson had access to for free. And there's a lot of subtext/text pointing to their finances being controlled by Mathilda even back then.

I think that there's something about this specific time frame between Jeremy's rebelious senior year and the scandal at the banquet that hasn't been revealed yet because Jeremy mentions that there's something he's only ever told William about, that he did it recently, and it can't have been that Bryson was his dealer because in their confrontation after the dinner Bryson references that Jeremy did indeed try to blame his addiction on Bryson and failed. I don't know if this could explain Bryson's motivations because right now I'm just inclined to believe that he is The Devil.

This feels like I've just found my absolute weirdest moral line but there's something about this situation I find legitimately unforgivable. And the fact that I can't even wrap my head around why he would fucking do that will drive me insane.

And I knoooow he'll get what's coming to him next book because after his growing vendetta against Jean he's skirting closer and closer to the line of main antagonist rather than just sticking to the Jeremy's Issues plotline and that truly will not end well for him. But I in fact need it to happen literally right now.