Initial drawings of that old man… I literally, I haven’t finished reading the book of bill yet!!! I had to stop and take a break for a week to feverishly draw fanart of myself petting fords floofy hair and giving him attention and shit…!!!! The urge was too great….!! I’ve literally. I had a crush on this guy the instant he was first REVEALED in the show, but I did not have the artistic prowess to draw good looking old men back then… but I do now… thank god… thank fucking god
ik they’re like sworn enemies and stuff- but i’ve been thinking abt how one day in the faaar future alcor just brings bill cipher back for the shits and giggles (in a good ol the-more-u-fuck-around-the-more-u-find-out fashion) after being bored out of his mind for a good millenia or something (im sure this goes against some alcor lore but it’d just be so funny). alternatively, in the fashion of someone like me, bill comes back after like, centuries after dying and alcor’s got a small tea party set up waiting for him
musing outloud. ford clearly liked and cared about mabel but he was also. kindof dismissive of her as someone to trust OR worry after too much? up until she was directly put into mortal peril to threaten him and (more speculatively) up until she was the only one who kept trying to help stan. he didn't consider her until it affected him.
he did similar to dipper, he liked the kid well enough but didn't really take him into consideration until he could see himself in dipper (and even in that consideration, he didn't really see dipper's relationships as something to consider. don't tell the others, trust no one)
of course I say this with all the love in my heart because him being self-centered is very much a compelling and well-considered character trait. the times he'd relied on others- with stan and with bill and with fiddleford- had all fallen apart, with him alone and left hurting or having hurt. interpersonal relationships weren't really something he thought of with anything warmer than the bittersweet. and in that blindspot of relationships he didn't really seem to fully grasp the responsibility that comes with his 'teen' grandnephew's trust and admiration, what would come if the apprenticeship as proposed went through. or the staggering enormity of love that was stan rebuilding the portal for 30 years despite every single warning and hardship despite all odds to get ford back
watching a documentary about food and how it connects to various immigrants who came to the UK at different times, and everyone is like "well. england was ugly when i first arrived. and depressing. it's fine for me now but damn."
its like. i fucking hate the Isle. its the only dino sim worth playing. I hate the devs and their stupid choices. Thank you devs for making the first and only good dino sim. I think about how playing the isle results in boredom and frustration 90% of the time. i listen to the soundtrack and Act of God makes my eyes sting. I remember every time i hid and prayed the cerato wouldn't find my bleeding utah. when i sacrificed my teno's life to get the young ones i was raising to safety. every time i got snatched by the deinosuchus, every time i ran in terror from the ambushing carno, every time my pack faced off against the stego scourge. god i love this game
y'know im thinking about how kuwabara really only calls yusuke by his first name when he's talking to other characters about yusuke, and how he never claims yusuke's his best friend (iirc. although yusuke does in the eng dub when he's beating him up post dt toguro fight lol) and those times he trails off when he's trying to express what yusuke is to him and what his final words to him should be
like. what were you going to say gayboy 😶
my point is he skirts around the issue in ways that still reveal a great deal of emotion. he's not good at bottling it up, so he funnels it into stuff like this. yeah 👍
wait nvm im not done im also thinking about how yusuke tells keiko he's protective of kuwabara when he's about to do the bike chase in chapter black (STOP MESSING WITH MY GIRLFRIEND), which is partially bc he (like the rest of the team) doesn't see him as equally capable but also bc like. he loves him and wants him to be safe.
so there's this THING where they only ever express their feelings when the other's in trouble/presumed dead ("you're supposed to be here... for me....." sir this is a wake) but yusuke is still more bluntly honest about it than kuwabara is. he'll say kuwabara's his best friend while beating him up or that he's protective of kuwa when he's not around, but he still says it very directly. whereas kuwa can't quite get it out even when yusuke can't hear him (but he's still trying to reach him, i.e. the wake scene, the kuwabara agony hour when he's trying to convince him not to die to sensui). he can't quite say what yusuke means to him, more like.. conceptual things. you're supposed to be here for me = a statement on how the world should be and the essence/role of yusuke in it, especially regarding his purpose in kuwabara's life story. there's nothing wrong with guys needing each other = a statement on how the world works and, indirectly, how kuwa needs yusuke.
[this is kinda interesting when taken in context of kuwa's rejection of these notions of rules and designed paths, which allows him to escape itsuki's creature just in time to watch urameshi kick it again. "what the hell could be the reason for this?" (said after protesting that "it doesn't fit the rules", that he's supposed to "power up and save the day" seeing him hurt) is a rejection of the rules that he tried to express/justify his feelings for yusuke with (it's only natural that i'd feel this way about you kinda sentiment), those justifications that did not reach yusuke, nor let him save yusuke (how fitting, that yusuke would break those rules for him). ANYWAY]
contrast all that indirectness (also include things like him sacrificing his life energy to save yusuke post-suzaku fight, literally giving his life for him) with how yusuke blurts these things out directly because he's panicking. his indirectness is more in urging him to let him help during fights and preparing to intervene (a trait we see with kurama as well, though only during the bakken fight when he's literally unconscious and thus helpless) despite being threatened by kuwa himself, meaning interference could damage their friendship.
anyway my point is men will say anything Except that they're madly in love with their best friend slash rival 🙄🙄🙄 good thing yusuke's not a man phew
“How do Aziraphale and Crowley not just communicate and admit their love for each other why do they make it so hard” you have never been in a lesbian relationship have you
I just know deep down in my heart that the Tarnished and Ranni have the raunchiest sex up in wherever tf they are after leaving the Lands Between lmaooo they are absolute freaks