#im NORMAL abojt this

[churmandurr]

no im NOT crying about some dumb guy in a musical that doesn't even exist!!!! they were literally best friends and he got his best friend in his war and then inadvertently got him killed by being a dumbass and now the best friend haunts the whole fucking narrative!!!!!

[aiden-artsy]

Sunny Day ☀️

[grainscharacter]

In the grand scheme of things, it could be worse. That’s what he’s telling himself. In his head, again and again, it could be worse.

He even gave himself a fake task! He’s set himself up for success!

It’s terrifying.

Etho isn’t sure why he chose Bdubs—well. That’s not quite true. But he’s regretting it. Bdubs, he has unfortunately learned, is quite committed to eye contact. Normally, this is fine. Sometimes it’s even a good thing.

Now, every time Bdubs looks at him, Etho has a split second of terror, a split second to stop what he is doing if it’s dangerous, before his limbs lock up and his muscles turn to cement and no matter how hard he wishes he could, he cannot move his body.

To be honest, he hasn’t tried that hard to. Look, he wants to win as much as the next person! It’s just—when the skeleton was shooting at him, he had a split second to put his shield up and then Bdubs was looking at him and he couldn’t even flinch.

All of this to say—Etho is avoiding people. It’s not—it’s not forever. He just. He needs a break. And he’s being helpful! Bdub’s bedroom could use some decorations! It didn’t have to be so drab! So he’s adding some moss bits, and just all around sprucing the place up. It’s fine. He’s fine.

He’s so fine that he doesn’t notice Grian has opened the door until he’s halfway to adjusting the blankets on Bdubs’ bed and his arms just. freeze.

For a second, he forgets. For a second, all he knows is that he was trying to be nice and helpful and suddenly he can’t move. For a second—

That’s not the point.

The door creaks as it shuts. Etho hears footsteps around the room, and then—

“Etho!”

Grian. It’s Grian—not a yellow name. Not a red name. He’s terrified of getting caught out by a red name. He’d be such an easy target, not even able to flinch, but no, it’s just Grian.

“Hey Grian!” Etho thinks that maybe the y in that word didn’t have to be so long. It’s fine. He’s fine.

“I was just checking in—I hadn’t heard from you in a while, no one’s seen you around recently. You alright man?”

“Yeah, yeah. I’m fine, I’m just—fixing up Bdubs’ bed. Y’know, so that when he comes back it’ll be… clean.”

Grian comes into his field of view, nodding, and for a moment Etho is so relieved that the Secret Keeper didn’t take away his ability to talk before reality sets in.

His arms are still frozen incriminatingly over Bdubs’ bed. He hasn’t moved them. Etho knows he and Grian are on the same side, but Grian is. Grian is Grian.

It’ll be fine.

“Okay, I’m just going to. Look, Etho, this desk shelving unit thing you’ve got is really cool looking, I’m just going to”—Grian doesn’t finish his sentence, but Etho’s arms unfreeze, and he’s so relieved he doesn’t even bother to wonder why Grian is looking at the unimpressive desk setup.

He shakes out his arms, sore and painful from where they’d been held up for so long, and then throws himself onto Bdubs’ bed. It’s comfortable, at least.

“Look, Grian. I appriciate that you’re here, and checking in on me and all that, but I’m fine so if you could just”—

“I’m not looking.”

What? “What?”

“I mean—I’m not. I’m not going to look. You can leave if you want. I won’t stop you.”

“But you’re not”—

“I’m not looking.”

Etho flounders for a second. “You know my task!”

“I do,” Grian tilts his head to the side. If he were looking, Etho knows, he’d have a sheepish expression, “I’m not going to—to sell you out or anything.”

Etho stares at him.

“You can. You can go, if you want.”

“When you say you won’t stop me…”

“I mean—yeah. I won’t. I won’t look at you.”

Etho considers this. Grian is still standing at the desk, staring at the wall. He sits up straighter.

“You can look.”

“What?”

“You can look,” Etho repeats, “Just for a second.”

Grian turns around, and there’s something open and vulnerable on his face Etho’s not quite sure how to read. He’s not sure he wants to, so he closes his eyes tight. The all consuming lack of movement doesn’t get to him as much when he can’t see what he should be running away from.

“I’m not going to—to force you to sit there all day.”

“No! No. I mean, you could. But you could also just, I don’t know, get comfortable. Somewhere you can’t see me. Lie down on the bed and look at the ceiling or something.”

Grian considers this. Etho can almost hear the idea tick in his mind.

“…Why?”

“Well,” Etho starts, and then realizes he doesn’t actually know why, “It would be nice to not have to worry, I guess. I won’t make you.”

“No,” Grian agrees, “It would be nice.”

He moves around the room until he’s lying at the door of the bed staring at the ceiling. Etho feels the discomfort of concrete in his veins.

Finally, the sounds of movement stop. Etho cracks his eyes open, watches as Grian closes his eyes and lets out a soft sigh.

“I’m not looking.”

[twlvie]

the measure of a man

[emotionalsupportrodent]

literally the worst part about the zits acronym for team zits is that. you separated skizz and zedaph. you can't do that. you're not allowed to do thar. please don't separate 🥺 frequently bought togerher 🥺

[voltrixz]

Shocker is rlly funny to me becuase even though in the show he explictily says he doesn't like working with the s6 in show, to me he eventually does grow a liking to the s6 and being around them (friendship/found family win!!!!l )

So basically he's just a 'bitches be like "I can't stand these guys. To "me and the besties!!" Mf..

[ghoulicides]

another piers… brother in law said that he should have had frosted tips.

[stuffedsand]

Hii 6 and 11 from the salty ask thing?

Ooh okok! Under the cut I talk too much

6. Has a fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?

To be completely fair I don't ship much so there aren't many ships I hated in the first place 💀 plus I hc my favs as aroace half the time... in terms of fandom making me like a ship in general tho....... I guess ruikasa? (Proseka) Not that I disliked it but fandom made it grow on me. Also polysho

11. Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn't? Why?

:| does. Does shidou kirisaki coun-gunshot

Ok but considering what I've seen I'm assuming shidou counts. He's not widely disliked but at least on Tumblr he's relatively unpopular so hey!!!!! I get to talk about Blorbo Bleebus again. Apologies in advance

Ok initially I latched onto him for the fact that I thought him straight up going "hi I hope for the death penalty. Thank you in advance" was the funniest shit back when I watched the voice trailers.

Then it was because I loved his flower imagery and how pretty throw down was in general. And the fact that throw down is not of my favourite t1 songs

And then it was because triage made me tear up.

His themes of grief and guilt fuck me up man I love those themes. Of being eternally unable to let go and move on. Stuck in place entirely because you refuse to move on. He makes me sad.

ALSO the flower imagery oughghhggh I love flowers. I love flowers so much. And the monochrome-ness of all the "real life" scenes, from a purplish greyish tint on everything to a blue hue over everything compared to the warm colours and saturation of the greenhouse. How the MV slowly becomes desaturated as the song goes on. That the flowers are the only true pops of colour (save his lanyard) like !!! I fw that aesthetic man

And triage too!!!!!!! Looking back at what you know can never be again. Seeing what you had and yearning for it but being removed from it because it's gone and just a memory. Like fuck man. The younger him being a "ghost" too?? Like. Your experiences and actions have changed you so much that you're a fundamentally different (worse) person. You can never go back. Fuck. Augh. The fact that it's the only time he's depicted as happy too. At least within triage, within trial 2, he cannot see himself as a man that smiles as genuinely as when his family were alive.

Tldr he makes me sad and that made me like him

Alternative answer, of which you are Not allowed to make fun of me for, is c!Phil back when d/smp was running. And c!techno but Phil was both more unpopular and more strangely hated (cough cough had to make a new tag to avoid neg posts cough) anyways that shit was a battlefield if you were never into d/smp consider yourself lucky. Please. Anyways I liked him cuz he had wings and I liked drawing them. Also phil the creator was funny

I'm sorry for the rant on why I like shidou as a character that ended up being way too long. And sorta off topic. but also you know who I am you shoulda expected this/joke

[sallytwo]

that was a category 5 sam bitch monebt that was not even funny

[nintendont2502]

*rotating my homestuck au idea in my head*

[lighthouseas]

listening to the first lie and thinking about byler kiss 13948483928447 dead 193959503938337 injured

[blown-blooms]

I know he was only in three episodes but there is such an under-appreciation for Sir John. Everyone's all about fucking that old man until he's not conventionally attractive. Where are all the fat old men lovers, huh?

[fellhellion]

[milo-is-rambling]

Me pretending I’m not having intense emotions about them moving in together and the way it’s filmed through the window and all the time skipping and how you can interpret that winter in so many different ways based on the information they’re excluding. The act of closeness the intimacy of sharing a space like that, teaching each other bonding playing music laughing crying oh my god oh my god oh my god

[avatardoggo]

we were texting, i asked a question and he left me on read

[draculagerard]