#but less insane at school

[dustykneed]

i just think spock has great mom friend potential tbh. strong contender for the cutest thing i've ever drawn

[yippee-optimistically]

Funny oj doodles ^_^

this is the evil ii2 song 🔥

And finally.. I offer u ... A measly colored human apple ... Ain't she a cutie !

[castielsprostate]

supernatural if it had been a sitcom. oh what we could've had

[tethered-heartstrings]

genuinely am not sure how I'm expected to get enough sleep, go to school, do all my assignments, study, exercise, keep up with dishes and laundry, keep my house clean, shower everyday, buy groceries, prepare 3 (healthy) meals a day and eat them, and not explode in the process???

[spitblaze]

I'm not a psychologist or a politician or anything approaching an expert about literally anything except a few specific video games but I feel like so many people wouldn't be agonizing over the moral implications of one (1) vote if we as the less-than-uppest-of-upper-crust had the ability to meaningfully affect change in ways other than 'spend money/do not spend money, vote for the red or blue tie'

[coconut-cluster]

hello all I just wanted to pop in and say I am in fact writing chapter 5 of Crowns and Cutlasses, I didn’t just dip after posting the notes lol but I WON A FULBRIGHT so i have been busy and insane

[discjude]

it is literally 4 in the morning and I can't fully articulate this but like. I spent a whole lot of time trying to work out who the "third" in Rise + Fall is (given the 'two works well, three complicates things' rule in Fall) mostly because its the sort of thing that works really well for parallels (example: my insane Hook theory). Obviously there has to be a Third for the Prequels twins (since Soman wouldn't've made it that big of a deal if there wasn't), just as there is a third for the TSY and TCY twins: Tedros is the Third in TSY, and the Complicator Of Things himself - Aric - is the Third in TCY, but there's a lot more candidates for Prequels: you could make cases for Hook, the Pirate Captain, Pan, and Vulcan, from my memory. But none of them really stay around long enough for them to be the third, so I was struggling to pick one out that worked well.

Based on how the Rule Of Three is described, the Third has to be someone that gets in the way of two others, who are going to be the twins, and needs to do a significant amount of Complication. Aric is literally the blueprint for this (potentially also Evelyn, but also not Evelyn, for Reasons). So anyway looking back on it the Third in Rise and Fall is SO OBVIOUSLY the Storian itself and im mad I didn't clock this earlier

It's present through both prequels, where most of the other candidates aren't. It DEFINITELY gets in the way and DEFINITELY does some significant Complication, looking at the end of Fall. If I were to reach slightly, the first image we see in Rise and Fall is of the Storian physically between the brothers, mirroring how it ends up coming between them emotionally, and I like to think that's intentional (Book 2's cover does this as well).

More importantly, there's another part to the Rule Of Three pattern with the sets of twins that isn't explicitly stated, but is consistent between all three: the Third always replaces one twin to form the Two with the other. in TSY, this happens with Tedros and Agatha (predominantly). In TCY, this happens with Aric and Japeth - this is why Evelyn can't be the TCY third in my opinion, since she doesn't replace either twin, and breaks this pattern. in Rise and Fall, this happens with the Storian and Rafal. There isn't really a pattern to whether the Good/Evil twin gets replaced, unless you want to go into some very very very bit leaps ive thought about regarding the whole "was Rhian II evil or good before becoming Rafal, and does that also affect Japeth doing the same thing" thingy but I could not fully explain that stuff ever. There is probably so much more nuance I could add to this if only I reread TSY but that will happen Some Other Time

[anak1n]

have u ever tried to get into a canonically freak4freak het ship on this site? it's like watching a beautiful wild predator be declawed

[neurotypical-sonic]

green hills population: 1981

my home town population: 1673 (according to 2021 census)

I'm gonna be uhhh. egotistical isnt the word I'm looking for. whatever I like to think that I am a little bit of an authority on what small rural towns *can* be like, and as much as I like the idea of sonic getting to be involved in the community and openly existing or even going to school. I just cant picture it. king would be suffocating

[crimeronan]

" Today, Eda says, “Luz told me he was made for her.”

“That’s... sweet?” "

holy shittt. fuck. this is how i know you made this fic because i spent the entire time going "you two are the worst possible people to have this conversation". raines entire reaction to that statement. Terrible. Nightmare. Raine You Should be Better Than This. "Ask Darius" raine says, being terrible on purpose.

everything about this was flawless. shout out to eda for going "shes just like you. shes So Much Like You. you mustve raised her" and then adding "and also Entirely Fucking Crazy. Permanently Damaged. just. Broken. a Mess" beautiful. no implications. no ones ever said it better worse.

sick vs. crazy as a dichotomy. crazy as an acknowledgement of what it is, no cover ups, no bullshit, just fucking CRAZY. sick as the reasonable, actual, kind way to see it. sick also making me Viscerally Nauseous compared to Crazy.

"i'd like to know her after shes sick too." wow! most of this fic focuses on eda being terrible, but raine, i think thats The Worst Thing you could've said. thats just. wow. Bad. beautiful. just fucking Terrible. its perfect. like even if eda is outwardly crazy, i was mostly thinking "jesus christ raine"

healing being a demand of the sick from edas pov, and healing being a gift to the sick from raines pov. Nightmare Nightmare Nightmare.

i fucking love this

i love raine So Dearly. and may have character assassinated them a little in this fic, but with love. they're genuinely not malicious, at least (it was CRUCIAL that none of this is ever said anywhere that luz can hear, and that eda went "don't you dare repeat that anywhere near her"). but i wanted to play with the illness versus crazy dichotomy and may have weighted too much of my own fear of therapists into it. LMAO

people are constantly talking about characters who "talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy," who are super emotionally self-aware and take other people's feelings into account and use all the right statements when they're speaking. and how irritating it is to encounter this

canon raine is one of the better-emotionally-adjusted characters in toh despite suffering more than jesus and making a lot of godawful decisions. so i wanted the friction between someone who's very self-controlled and has the """right""" outlook on mental health, and someone who Absolutely Does Not. and what a fight about that looks like.

raine is also trying to navigate the concept of mental illness in a world that loosely doesn't really have it -- i think if i drop 'em in a room with camila for a few hours they'll come out of it Much more settled and much less likely to put their foot in their mouth. AND eda's narration about them isn't necessarily reliable. "you just wanted to cure me!!!" eda yells, when what actually happened was more like her shouting "I WILL KILL US BOTH BEFORE I TELL YOU WHY I AM SAD. STOP SMOTHERING MEEEE"

....they're stupid. waow.

the hunter thing might be unforgivable tho SKDLJFLKS. sorry everyone. i was thinking about how much canon time raine spent putting eda through hell while pretending to be brainwashed & was like yeah.... yeah this feels..... about how this particular scenario would go.

[shions-chin-scar]

Love the lil detail of Haruta's hair getting longer in the few months between the exchange event and the Shibuya incident

[silverview]

cataloguing obscure bits of dh lore/best gags from the live q&a posts they did in 2017 ... "sometimes people are just good friends"

[pleasedontcareaboutme]

The urge to spend a 100$ on merch before getting my paycheck is so strong. I might not survive soldiers

[bootown]

people who get a medal

1. friend who said he loves my stutter behind my back

2. substitute teacher who smiled at me today waiting for me to start my sentence w absolutely no judgement involved

3. lady who let me point out a menu item to her instead of waiting for me to struggle say it and called me honey when i was 11

4. everyone who has ever said they don't mind my stutter ever

people who are going to JAIL!!!

1. everyone who has ever been mean to me about how i talk

[euphorial-docx]

maybe this is very gen z of me but i think kids should be allowed to have their phones at school and also be allowed on their phones if they have any down time.

[infeksiya]