#ranboo is well. we know what’s up w them

[saviorpilled]

thinking abt how sneeg being the only one out of rbgtrio to not interact with hetch directly on the show would effect his relationship w him in hetchless au

[lowkeyrobin]

MCYT with an S/O who fosters kittens? :D

OH MY LORD YESYESYESHDNSKDNDN I had sm inspo w this bc I have 5 cats (cats are one of my favorite things ever I swear) and yeah dkkdkd THANK YOU FOR THE REQUEST

MCYT ; you foster kittens

includes ; tommyinnit, tubbo, ranboo, badlinu, nihachu, quackity, foolish gamers, karl jacobs, & slimecicle

warnings ; language, talk of harm towards animals

masterlist

TOMMYINNIT

genuinely feels so bad when you have to let the cats go

like he tears up nearly every fucking time

he watches some of these poor cats go from aggressive and distant, barely able to eat because they don't trust you yet, to warm, loving and cuddley little creatures

he literally watches them grow and he gets so emotional cause like why can't you keep all of them???

he'll be off to the side when you're handing them away to a new home wiping his tears

he's more emotional about it than you

he gifts you like new cat food bowls and cat towers and stuff once they get all beaten to a pulp

if you're fostering more than like three at a time, he'll have a gang of them on his lap while he's editing, recording, or lounging around

his hands are always covered in scratches and scars because he'll fuck around and find out even after you warn him about them being feisty at first

"this one got ran over by a car and he's blind now"

"can we keep him?? :("

TUBBO

"Oh fuckin christ- y/n! the children are invading!"

they're always running in and opening the doors with their lil hands when he's streaming LMFAO

he loves that you foster cats, the fact you take time out of your life for these precious little animals that just need a chance at a better life is so heartwarming to him

if he's not streaming or sleeping, he's spending time with those chaotic fuckers

he and freddie make an orange cat that you fostered -who was deaf- become a dj

he didn't know the cat was deaf until you asked what he was doing

"I mean, for a deaf man, he's making some bangers!"

"yeah, this cat knows how to party, y/n, come join us"

he can never be around when the cats have to leave though, he just sits there with a pout because he gets too attached to them

yall got a whole room dedicated to the foster cats, don't worry, they're spoiled as all hell

RANBOO

like tubbo, it warms his heart to see you care so much about the poor babies that just need a little help readjusting and understanding that not all people are bad/you're there to help them

absolutely loves when you bring back like little feisty babies that barely know how to walk but know how to hiss

they can't help but laugh like "awe oh my god, this is so sad but it's so cute"

when I tell you all those cats are so spoiled by them

it's sweet though, he really cares about all the cats you take in too, you honestly foster them together at this point

you guys end up keeping this tuxedo cat with one eye and name it Jellyfish (as per chats vote)

the amount of fanart of you two with jellyfish 💔💔💔 so cute

jellyfish becomes the mom of all the new fosters and looks over them and shit, that way they ease into the new environment a little better

buys all the fosters outfits. there's a barbie sized closet for all the clothes

FREDDIE BADLINU

it's like there's a new cat every week considering he brings back street cats as well LMAO

these mf cats are SO SPOILED but they deserve it

he gets so attached to the disabled ones because he loves having to help them out

he loves teaching them how to eat from his hands too

it's so funny, like they'll nick his fingers and he'll be like "fuck, that tickles, Mr. Peanut!"

gets so emotional when you have to give them to better homes

like hugs and kisses them goodbye 4 times

he genuinely thinks your magic, watches those cats go from shy and trying to stay away from you to like being attached to you by the hip and all wagging their tails

he's constantly running around the house playing with them too

he loves seeing them pop up on 2 legs like meerkats when he's serving them wet food or treats LMAO

NIKI NIHACHU

she couldn't care less that the house is loaded with cat stuff and a whole room is filled with cat towers, shelves and toys for them

loves making new little puzzles/mazes for the cats with the shelves, making a little competition to see who can get to the top fastest

she names the cats because she's gonna get attached either way, but after a while they become more and more silly

like they go from Sebastian and Pixel to Tater Tot and Simon From Alvin And The Chipmunks so quickly

she learns how to make homemade cat treats as well

she also, like ranboo, gets a little barbie closet and fills it with cat outfits

some cats like the outfits and others don't, but the ones who do, good god it's like britney manson on the runway

absolute ws in that house, photoshoots for days

QUACKITY

"AH WHAT THE FUCK? Y/n! come get Jessie and Walter, they've invaded my stream!"

he genuinely names most the foster cats characters from meme shows/movies/memes in general

actually named one Badass Grandmas Meme ; also named another Hurricane Tortilla after that one vine

always taking .5s of the cats once they've accepted that he exists as well

sometimes they hop on his desk and join the stream

"Oh, look! it's Goldfish, she's the newest foster that y/n took in"

constantly taking pictures of you and the fosters throughout the stages of rehabilitation

from hissing and scratching to cuddling on the couch and lazy naps

no cat leaves without a little pair of sunglasses

he's genuinely inspired to make quackity cat merch because most of the fosters you take in LOVE clothes LMAO

FOOLISH GAMERS

literally treats these mfs as babies

you'll walk in and see him holding one of the elderly cats you're rehabiliting from a bad home whom just got rescued and he's holding this poor girl like a literal infant

she loves it though, most the cats do

the fosters love playing with his hair too, and he plays into it, always bends down to their level and wobbles his hair around for them to smack around and try to chew on

he has such a soft spot for them

if you're having one of those rare moments where you might give up on a cat, he's right there to try and help you

flea baths on kittens are always done by him, he feels so bad for each of them, meanwhile you're on cat-drying duty and giving them a lil medication to kill any remaining fleas

he's 50/50 on names at first but gives up with trying to not name them bc he gets attached anyways

"Oh, lookit! this is Evergreen, she's been chilling with us for like, 3 months I think"

he loves when they interrupt his streams bc they're so cute and explorative and curious LMAO

KARL JACOBS

he's always snuggling with them and letting them climb all over him

let's them play with his hair/dangly earrings he's wearing all the time

uses his hoodie strings to play with them too

also teaches them how to eat from his hands

he giggles with a "Oh my God, that tickles!'

he gives them all human names

the litters usually look like Tom, Sally, Joe, Micheal, Cameron, and Mellissa

loves giving them clothes too

genuinely releases a little merch line of cat clothing considering he's got a mini closet full of cat clothes for the fosters, why not share the little cuteness

he's a cat whisperer istg

CHARLIE SLIMECICLE

he's the most supportive of you fostering cats like ever

loves fucking around with them and sliding them around on the floor, if there's any long hair cats, he loops very loose bows and clips around their fur and shit

cradles them like babies to sleep

and then slips them into the cat tower or on the couch/bed etc

even covers them with a little blanket

"Oh shit, they've invaded, they're raiding! the axe weilding brothers are here!"

gives them the most dumbass names like Microwave Popcorn and Toaster Strudle

he frames pictures of every cat in the hallway once they leave

[antimony-medusa]

Okay this is 100% discourse, so maybe avert your eyes if you don't want to see me wail at the heavens, but for a fandom so anxious about boundaries, we haven't actually been very good in practice at respecting the actual stated boundaries the streamers put down, and I think it shows what we're actually policing, which is not things to make the streamers comfortable, it's stuff to make us comfortable.

This ranges from inventing new boundaries for people (you can't use neopronouns for ranboo, their pronouns are he/they; there's no boundaries on dark content for streamers so obviously we have to invent and enforce dark sbi rules ourselves) and then harassing people based on those boundaries that we just made up, to ignoring the actual things that the streamers said if we don't agree with them (cc!dream said he was uncomfortable with gore art back during the revolutionary war/exile but he's a villain, right, so we can just do whatever we want with the character, right?) and just doing whatever we want.

This is a recurring problem, with people violently policing boundaries that the fandom has all agreed on, to the point of doxxing and harassment and death threats, and ignoring boundaries that they have decided "don't make sense".

Like here's the example I put in the tags earlier, which is Technoblade related. Everyone knows that family dynamic is great and shipping is a no-go, right? But if you actually go looking for the clips, (or listen to streams in the background recursively while you're doing other things), you'll find that what Technoblade said about shipping was that it was "kinda cringe" (I think the list of things he said was cringe included reading percy jackson books and talking like you're better at video games than you actually are), and he was MUCH stronger in saying that he didn't like family dynamic in canon, saying that he didn't like it, that it was non-canon, and he'd never betray his family like that.

But if you look at the entire "found family" tag on Ao3, 19,860 stories, Technoblade is tagged into 29% of them. That's 5,760 fics just blowing right past what Technoblade said. Boom. Taking that character from his political anarchist setting and setting him right down in a royalty au w. younger siblings.

Because obviously a family dynamic isn't actually going to hurt someone's feelings or make them feel weird, the fandom has agreed, so what he must mean was that saying that family dynamic was actual literal canon is the only bad thing (I have been clotheslined by family dynamic written into stuff tagged as "canon compliant" multiple times as well,) and we can continue with the fun family stuff, right? Because someone saying they don't like family dynamic doesn't make Sense, in the way that I like it, the fandom has agreed, so we can just ignore that clip. Honestly I think that a ton of people have no idea that Technoblade ever said anything negative about family dynamic, because that clip is never brought out or talked about. I literally only know about it because I've watched that stream.

Meanwhile, the much less firmly stated boundary when it comes to shipping is absolutely doubled down on and brought out to justify mobbing people off the internet, because everyone already knows that shipping is bad and terrible and tainted and horrible to do and we don't like it, so even the slightest indication that it's out has to be grabbed and used to police people. So that everyone can be very to sure themselves that what they're doing is not weird, and the streamers are okay with it, and if I showed them my fic they'd say they liked it.

They're not going to give the Ok to your fic, because the fic isn't FOR them, and it shouldn't be. It's for the other weird fans who can't stop thinking about the block men characters, it's not for the actors. The actors have their own lives, leave them alone.

To be clear, I am not saying that we should stop writing family dynamic to respect Technoblade's feelings. Among other things, I don't think he's checking his character tag on Ao3 right now. But like, I've talked before about the way that boundaries culture ends up working in practice, and how constantly bringing problems up to streamers just ends up showing them all the things that are the most weird to the streamer. You only have to look at what most of Benchtrio has done in terms of boundaries, which has been transitioning from very explict boundaries with details on everything to just saying "just use your manners," stopping answering questions, and telling people to actually think about what they're showing the streamer instead of expecting someone to weigh in on it for them.

But even when it comes to the boundaries that we do have, that we know about, the way people enforce them seems to be less about actually respecting what the creators like, and more about making sure we're morally pure and never have to see something that we personally don't like, and we don't happen to have any of that nasty boys kissing content in our work, because we all know that's terrible. (And as someone who's seen crackdowns on LGBTQIA content several times, that certainly has unfortunate overtones.)

As long as it's all kept away from the creators, I really think that fluffy cuddly family dynamic and kissing fic and hardcore whump all falls into the category of "not for the creators, they might find that one weird, but you do you". Like keep it away from the streamers, use your brain, but like, it's all a bit weird and for fun. Let it be weird and for fun in a secluded part of the internet, keep it away from the streamers, tag your shit for people who don't want to see it, and go to town.

So just like, I really think that "creator boundaries" should be more about using your brain as to what you show the streamer, and less about harassing someone off the internet cause they drew kissing art.

[leebooposting]

ahahaha partickles

summary: just a small silly fic of ran getting gotted by the particles ..

characters: lee!ranboo, ler!chat/particles [ STRICTLY platonic/sfw, do NOT touch this post if ur a nsfw blog i will break your fine china ]

w/c: 806 i think i forgor

a/n: i hate this i shouldnt have finished it while super tired but take it anyway also HOW DO YOU TITLE FICS

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Ranboo wasn’t sure where the particles came from, or why there were so many, but he made it clear he really didn’t mind having so many little buddies floating around his home.

He had just ended his stream, with about 7 particles hovering around him and watching him do so. He closed Twitch and looked up at the particles. “That was a fun stream, don’t you guys think?”

“It was,” one agreed. “Should’ve said gay rights like the dono said though.”

“When..?” He questioned, scrolling through his donations for confirmation. “..Ah.”

The particles around him burst into tiny giggles in response. “I didn’t see it!” Ran defended themselves. “I was in the middle of a horror game!”

“Excuses excuses.” Said the particle sitting on his shoulder. “We know where your true loyalties lie.”

“Guys- c’mon.” Ranboo sighed good naturedly, rolling their eyes. “You’re being ridiculous.”

A few gasps sounded from the particles. “Well, how dare you!” He heard one of them say. He chuckled as he stood up, turning off his pc and heading out of his office. The particles hovered behind him, a few others joining in as they spotted their streamer.

“You know I love you guys.” Ranboo said, an amused smile on their face. They got a series of varying responses. Many ’aww’s and ’i love you too’s were thrown back at them, leaving them with a happy grin on their face. 

They took off their varsity jacket, hooking it on the side of his wardrobe before flopping down on his bed with his phone. 

“I miss Ranboo.” He heard a particle say. 

He gave a blank response. “Guys, I’m right here.”

“It’s as if I still hear their voice..”

Ranboo shook his head with a fond laugh. “You guys never fail to amuse me.”

A few of the particles following him around had nestled by his shoulders now. Some of them falling asleep, other’s watching what he was scrolling through on his phone. He jumped a little as he felt a particle land on his stomach, looking down at them as they smiled right back at him knowingly. “What was that?” 

The realisation that he was utterly screwed began to set in. “Uh, nothing? You just startled me a little bit. I didn’t see you landing so the sudden contact just- yknow.”

The particle continued to smile at them. A couple other particles had begun to catch on - mainly just the ones awake - and lay there watching their streamer get bullied™ by someone much smaller than him.

It wasn’t long before said ’bully’ particle was rubbing their fuzzy body on his stomach, causing them to let out a small gasp. “Hey- hehey!” Ran yelped, almost dropping his phone. “Dohon’t- wahait!”

The other particles sprung into action - nuzzling against his neck and sides. Ranboo had to fight against rolling over out of fear of accidentally hurting any of the boobers. 

“Don’t wait?” He heard one of them say. “Well, if you insist!”

“Thahat’s not whahat I- hEY-!”

Suddenly, the feeling got so much worse when the particles thought it would be a good idea to blow little raspberries over his sides and stomach, resulting in him kicking out his legs with a squeal. “NohoHO-! GUHUYS! WaHAH- WHY?”

The only response he got was ’funny.’

They now wished they hadn’t taken their jacket off. Kinda.

“Hohow is thIHIS FUNNY?” They spoke, but got no response. Only a look from one of the particles as if it was the most obvious question ever.

“Whahahat?”

“You’re literally giggling yourself silly.” The particle answered, punctuating their sentence with a raspberry right on their navel just to make them squeal again. “It’s gotta be somewhat funny.” 

“B-BEHECAUSE- yoHOU guhuys are mahAKING ME LAHAUGH-” Ran yelped, covering his face with his hands. “What? No we’re not!” A particle by his ear spoke up, causing him to jump a little. “Where’d you get that idea from?”

“YOHOU’RE TICKLING MEHEHE?”

“Nuh uh.”

By now, the sleeping particles had been woken up by the noise, and a few others floated over to investigate the chaos. Ranboo heard a series of coos and compliments coming from the particles, causing his face to go a deeper shade of red.

Soon, though, the boobers understood their streamer had a limit, so they let up, as he let a few stray giggles spill from his lips.

“Are you okay?” A particle asked, to which Ranboo gave a thumbs up. “Yeheah, yeah.. I’m all tired out now..”

The particles seemed to agree with that. “Us too.” One mumbled, nestling in the space between his neck and shoulder. Eventually, they were completely surrounded with particles nestled around their bed, falling asleep cuddled up against them.

Ranboo wasn’t sure where the particles came from, or why there so many, but he wouldn’t give them up for the world.

[lanaxoxoxoxoxox]

why can't i get you out of my head ?

this is part 2 !! read part 1 here

original request by @heiijoy

warnings: cute fluff, slight panic ig???

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2 weeks later

If you have told 17 year old me that Ranboo and I were dating, I would have probably passed out. I've had a crush on him since we first met on the Dream SMP, and the fact that we're actually dating blows my mind.

I was chilling at Ran's house on his bed, scrolling through my phone as Ran worked on some writing for his horror series, Generation Loss on his desk. I peaked up from the edge of the bed and saw his back of his head and a slight few of his fingers typing on a Word document.

"You know, you better add me in the "Thank you" in the credits. We can tease the viewers and make them wonder who the hell I am! They're gonna go crazy when we tell them." I joked, putting my phone away in my pocket.

Ran turned his gaming chair around to face me and fixed his hair. I could see his chest moving up and down slowly from his breathing. "Speaking of telling." he paused. "I want to tell our friends about us. We're going to meet them later today, and I don't want to hide it anymore. I don't want to have to hold your hand under the table or wait until we're in private to kiss you. If you don't want to just yet, that's totally fine. We can take it in small steps, whatever you wan-"

I cut off his words. "Darling, I would love that!" I said, getting up to hug him. He sighed in relief and hugged me back, squeezing me tighter. "I do have an idea how we can tell them." I said, smiling, sitting on the floor next to him.

Ran perked his head up. "What if we don't tell them anything directly, but rather show it using actions? We try to make it obvious at the same time as well."

"Oh! Like we could hold hands in front of everyone very clearly and just wait for someone to react!" Ran smiled.

I smiled back at them. "That actually could be perfect."

4 hours later

Ranboo and I walked to the Brighton pier sign, and saw no one was there. We decided to take a quick photo to post on our socials to provide some "clout" for us. Ran grabbed his mask out of his pocket and put it on, and posed for the picture. As I was editing, we saw Tommy, Jack, and Niki start walking over to us.

I looked over to Ran and mouthed, "You ready?". He nodded and smiled at me.

We both walked over to them, not holding hands just yet. I ran over to Niki and gave her a hug. We all greeted everyone and I went over to Ran and grabbed his shoulder. Before we started dating, Ran would have been an absolute stuttering and blushing mess. Now, he's 100% more calm since we're together.

I looked over to take a quick peek at Jack's and Niki's face, and they both shared looks with each other. Tommy didn't even notice from his amount of energy. I giggled quietly into Ran's shoulder.

We were walking towards the arcade and I stopped to look up and Ran. I winked and said, "Love, can I have my wallet please?" I smiled at him.

Ran nodded and grabbed my wallet out of his pocket and gave it to me, smirking as he could see Jack and Niki shocked, even Tommy just standing there awkwardly.

Jack leaned over to Niki and spoke quietly to her, even though we could still hear them talking. "What the fuck?" he laughed.

We walked around the pier some more, and then went to the sea side to hang out for a bit. We walked down to the rocky area, and placed down our things on the log before sitting down. Ran was about to sit down on the log. This was the final step of our "plan" we had created earlier that day.

I pulled out my wallet and phone from my front pocket. "I'm going to buy water for myself, does anyone else want anything?" Jack, Tommy and Niki all shook their heads no.

Ran spoke up. "Can I have a water bottle as well?"

I nodded and went over to him and kissed him quickly on the lips.

I quickly saw Tommy and Jack stop in their tracks and stare at us.

Jack sputtered. "W-wha-what?"

Tommy yelled. "Why didn't you tell us, you bitch?!"

Niki just smiled.

Ran and I looked at each other and started laughing.

"Oops! Guess it's out now!" I said, sarcastically.

Gosh, I loved this man.

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[anonymous-dentist]

Hi anon, sorry to bring the sbi family fanfic discussion again and for the long post , (your posts ware what made realize why i hated this thing so much)

I don’t know if is the same type of fans but i noticed that some ficwritters that are really foucused on philza and wilbur (and sbi family i think?) Are kinda trying to add cellbit to this situation? Like i read some philza focused fanfic where he interacts with cellbit and the ficwritters act like cellbit is his kid? Its weird idk how to explain very well (this is also the same people that kinda write cellbit as a native english speaker (american and european) and not a brazilian (its something that is too hard to explain right now)

And its kinda stressing me out because cellbit is written in such a weid way and its infesting the spiderbit tag lol and i dont understand what is going on half of the time since idk what the hell sbi even is (brazilian with 0 understanding about english speaking mcty)

Sorry for the long post

Oh yeah no I don’t really get it but like. I also do! Because q!Phil has become one of only a literal handful of people on the island to actually properly trust q!Cellbit and so they’re like. Friends. But obviously you can never just be friends with someone not your age and so. Fandom assigned family dynamic. It’s super weird and lowkey like. Idk it’s just weird lol.

A discussion surely must follow!

First, a brief rundown of SBI:

SBI is Sleepy Boys Inc., a group made of up streamers Philza, Wilbur Soot, Tommyinnit, and Technoblade. (Originally it was just Phil, Wilbur, and Techno, but Tommy wiggled his way in somehow.) They’re Best Friends, but somewhere along the way their fandoms said. Fuck it. Family dynamic… mostly because the ccs lowkey thought it was funny and ran with it. Wilbur alone would rather die than not have Philza Minecraft be his father

This dynamic spread to their characters on the dsmp despite them literally not once ever referring to each other all as family; iirc Techno himself said he at least wasn’t part of the family because that dynamic would be fucked up after all the shit his character did to both c!Wilbur and c!Tommy. But c!Phil was c!Wilbur’s father even though he did fully murder his ass, and Wilbur and Tommy were brothers because they’re Wilbur and Tommy and you’d have to kill them to stop them from being brothers. Tommy was never established to be c!Phil’s son, and Phil never seemed to consider him one

But then the dsmp started dying around summer 2021 and everyone was kinda just left with fanon, and SBI fanon can get weird. I’m talking borderline fetishistic nuclear family stuff, especially when you get into ‘Dark SBI’ content with Phil kidnapping Tommy or whatever and forcibly making them family? It gets weird, take a look through the tag sometime

The thing with a lot of these fics is that like. It’s gotten to a point where it’s a fandomized version of both cc! and c!SBI with some really freaky characterizations and some really diehard fans. I’ve talked about that before, so I won’t do it again.

The weirdest thing I’ve noticed about these fics, though- and this goes back to what we were talking about with Cellbit inexplicably being added to the mix all of a sudden- is that everybody has to be a family.

You’ll be hard pressed to find a SBI fic where the characters have friends. Even Tubbo and Ranboo, usually delegated to a ‘Tommy’s friend!’ role despite them not interacting much like as a group ever are treated either as extensions of Tommy himself or as his found family ‘brothers’ who Phil also inevitably helps take care of rather than as friends, and they act that way. Niki isn’t usually ever written in as Wilbur’s friend, she’s Benchtrio’s sister/mother-figure, or she’s described as Wilbur’s found family sister. Jack Manifold? Lumped in with Niki with Benchtrio as their older brother/father-figure. Quackity? Either Wilbur’s boyfriend, thus a member of the family, or Tommy’s older brother/father-figure.

Even characters who never really interacted with SBI as a “family” on the dsmp get this treatment: you’ll read an SBI fic with c!Purpled in it and he’ll be Tommy’s brother figure. c!Sam is Tommy’s father figure. Schlatt is Tommy’s uncle or Wilbur’s brother. Puffy is an aunt. Sapnap and Dream? Tommy’s brother or father figures. Even Hannah is being written as Tommy’s cool older sister figure these days despite only really interacting with him once on the smp

And you can see this kind of behavior continuing now in the qsmp fandom… if the new ccs/characters in question aren’t “problematic”. Chayanne can’t see Techno as a personal hero, he has to see him as an older brother or an uncle. Tubbo is Phil and Fit’s son and Tommy’s brother. Niki is Tallulah’s mom. Quackity is Wilbur’s boyfriend.

What you’ll actually be hard pressed to see is this kind of dynamic with Phil and other, “problematic” ccs, aka ccs who aren’t like. English ccs.

Because you won’t find q!Forever included in the family dynamics despite him basically being q!Phil’s best friend and closest confidant. It took longer for q!Missa to be added to Phil’s wiki page than it did for Techno to despite them literally being explicit canon husbands, and you’ll be lucky if Missa is even mentioned in a “qsmp” SBI fic. Etoiles? Not even mentioned despite him and Phil more or less actually leaning into the family dynamic with the “brothers” thing. Even Tallulah and Chayanne are left out or mischaracterized in “qsmp” SBI fics, giving Tommy the spotlight.

You won’t find nearly anybody who isn’t an English cc in these fics, and this is NOT accusing anyone of xenophobia. It’s most likely just because the SBI people are used to watching only Phil or only Wilbur and they don’t speak enough of the other languages to really care about the non-English ccs and thus disregard their characters and lore. It’s not just SBI people who do this, it’s plenty of people speaking every language on the server not watching anyone whose languages they don’t speak. Yk?

But that brings us to q!Cellbit, and I’m surprised the SBI guys have latched onto him the way they did considering he’s everything they seem to dislike: his first language isn’t English, he doesn’t talk with Phil a lot, he and Tallulah get along really well, he makes fun of Wilbur being gone. And, honestly? The SBI guys did hate him for a long time because of those things, they constantly undermined his efforts and said Phil would be a better Order leader and said that he should never speak to Tallulah again because he was making her sad and he’s friends with their least favorite person ever, Forever.

But then q!Phil said he trusted Cellbit, and it’s like a switch was flipped. Starting around the Pills Arc when they first teamed up, SBI people were suddenly on board with Cellbit despite being part of the haters literally days before. Why? Well. Phil and Cellbit are friends now, and so now he gets the privilege of being in the fics.

The problem with this is that these people have never watched Cellbit. They’ve seen ten minutes of him total from Phil’s pov, and that’s all they’re going to use to write his character. So of course there will be mischaracterization.

And, of course, they’ll be family. Because, as I said, there’s this weird allergy to the concept of friendship in SBI fics. You’re family or you’re an enemy.

Constant fanon mischaracterization of Phil has basically turned him into a universal father figure even if he doesn’t have that dynamic with the characters he’s like the “father” of. q!Cellbit’s only familial figure outside of his actual canon family is generally seen as q!Bad, who even referred to him as family last night on stream. But, because Phil and Cellbit are friends now and Cellbit is younger than Phil is, they have to have a father-son dynamic, because that’s what Phil’s only character trait is in the SBI fics he’s in. He’s the dad whether it makes sense or not.

If that makes sense.

[white-collar-cannibal]

!! mutuals who are insane about frank. send me ideas for this post !!

fell down a hole. and now i have thoughts about gl!frank :( yes i know. hear me out. hear me out.

CANON:

this is his file from ep 3! some of it we'll disregard cause it's just there to be funny but we can get from the reading of it on during the sneegsnag episode three reaction video/vod that he's from new york, travelled to japan, thailand and cambodia, studied at an unknown university of fine art and is a painter (and makes nail polish sculptures???), has tattoos from college and. was not chill w/ austin. ("was very suspicious of the person on the right" -> austin was on the right from him to us on the carousel)

DUBIOUSLY CANON???: listen it's genloss i'm well within my right to take the silly goofy haha joke and make it real and heartbreaking. it's what we do here. gl!frank and gl!sneeg were gay as hell before frank died. (i promise there's themes and motifs to dissect there. politics even if you think about showfall as a corporation. especially if you read it so that charlie and sneeg were taken as children and raised by showfall. consider it i beg.) gl!sneeg during tse and other shows post frank dying is under heavy amounts of showfall filter to make him believe frank's still alive and talking to him. gl!ranboo is also being filtered to see him as fully skeletonized when he's actually in an earlier (grosser) state of decay. love-hate relationship with horses because he's an artist. short king. swore like a sailor. liked to steal gl!sneeg's hat to wear.

WHAT: no canon precedent i just. there are little versions of these characters running around in my brain and i'm observing them like it's my phD thesis. gl!niki and gl!frank were very good friends because gl!niki was so fucked up by showfall she pack bonded with the first other person to go "hey showfall's fucked up? they're fucked up actually." she got big time gender envy from him. she always remembers that he's dead. he was an anarchist and was constantly dealing with leftist infighting before showfall. he is trying his best in showfall to get the cast in one unified front and failing. so bad. showfall typecast him as the "cool guy" and they made him smoke. he fucking hated it but he still smoked whenever off set since there was no point in trying to quit while at showfall cause they kept making him do it. bisexual. embroiled in so so much relationship drama pre-showfall because of his dubious taste in dates. got a jfk pulled on him when he died for the last time.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

homestuck penis ouija: tntduo edition

QUACKITY: Ok8y, look, it’s perfectly simple.  KAHRRL: oh NO you ARE not DRAWING another SHIPPING grid DUDE QUACKITY: No no no, it’s not 8 grid, just 8 schedule.  KAHRRL: look WE’VE already ESTABLISHED that YOU’RE going TO end UP flushed FOR everyone JUST deal WITH it QUACKITY: No no no I’m gonna m8ke this WORK WILBUR: No, that’s a grid. You’re drawing a god damn grid. This is a shipping grid.  QUACKITY: Ok8y LOOK HERE QUACKITY: These 8re the d8ys of the week. We e8ch h8ve rows for those d8ys 8nd we c8n dr8w 8 he8rt, sp8de, or di8mond for 8ny given d8y.  QUACKITY: M8ybe even 8 club since K8hrrl 8nd I 8re in the m8rket for 8 new 8uspictice KAHRRL: OH my GOD QUACKITY: Th8t w8y, we know wh8t’s up in 8dv8nce 8nd c8n 8void 8ny possible conflicts. 

WILBUR: Put the fucking pen down.  QUACKITY: Hey, cut it out! Don’t touch me! WILBUR: Do not draw a shipping grid, do NOT do it.  QUACKITY: It’s not 8 shipping grid, you bulge ch8fing fuck8ss!  WILBUR: You are not drawing a shipping grid to organize our fucking dating lives.  WILBUR: That is— that is some bullshit, man.  WILBUR: Absolute bullshit, I will not stand for it

QUACKITY: This is not 8 shipping grid, this is 8 schedule to org8nize our qu8dr8nts! It’s 8 useful tool! WILBUR: You’re not drawing anything that even REMOTELY resembles a grid.  WILBUR: Do not draw an arrangement of squares or otherwise interlocking polygons QUACKITY: LET GO!!!!!!!! KAHRRL: oh MY god WILBUR: You will not draw a spreadsheet for the purpose of allocating mine and Kahrrl’s time spent with a potential mutual boyfriend.  WILBUR: That is exactly the shit I do not want to see  QUACKITY: Oh look, I just drew 8 squ8re! Get re8dy to see 8 lot more of those! WILBUR: No stop WILBUR: Do not draw any more squares I swear to god! WILBUR: Do not draw any quadrilaterals or trapezoids or rectangles or fucking n-drangles and especially as fuck not any god damned RHOMBUSES  WILBUR: I don’t want to see your lines making ANY right angles, do you understand? QUACKITY: Oh look 8nother squ8re! 8 bit wobbly but it’ll do.  WILBUR: That is the perfect example of what you should NOT be drawing.  QUACKITY: W8 here it comes! My first “ship” going into the squ8re! WILBUR: Put the fucking pen down! QUACKITY: OW! Wh8t is your problem? WILBUR: Does Sapnap know you’re doing this? QUACKITY: He will! WILBUR: How presumptuous of you to think he might be okay with being tossed into your bullshit shipping grid just because you decided to be “normal human boyfriends” now QUACKITY: Well I h8ven’t put his n8me on the grid yet, h8ve I? WILBUR: I am absolutely stunned that he understands human romance better than you do. Put the pen down, you’re messing up Ranboo’s book. 

QUACKITY: No! WILBUR: Do it QUACKITY: You suck! WILBUR: I haven’t sucked a single thing in my life what are you on about QUACKITY: You smell! WILBUR: Don’t talk to me about rank smells when you smell like a— like a fucking barn!  WILBUR: Yeah, I said it! QUACKITY: My lusus dr8gged in things th8t smelled better th8n you! QUACKITY: 8nd everything he brought home w8s either 8 de8d 8nim8l or liter8l feces! WILBUR: Yeah well that’s dumb and stupid just like you now gimme the pen QUACKITY: No, it’s mine now. I’m keeping it.  WILBUR: Quackity! Whoa, man what are you doing? WILBUR: Why are you drawing all these human dicks? WILBUR: How do you even know what they look like? What have you been watching??  QUACKITY: I 8M NOT DR8WING THOSE! YOU’RE M8KING ME DR8W THEM, STOP TH8T!!!!!!!! WILBUR: No way, this book is now like…  WILBUR: Our fight fueled ouija board of cock QUACKITY: 88888888RGH STOP!  QUACKITY: DON'T  QUACKITY: NO FUCK  QUACKITY: OK NO  QUACKITY: YOU DREW TH8T ONE  QUACKITY: YOU DREW TH8T ONE!!!! DON'T PRETEND YOU DIDN'T!  WILBUR: Are you sure man? WILBUR: See, that’s the spooky thing about penis ouija. You can never be sure who did the dicks.  WILBUR: Was it you or me or maybe a ghoooost??? QUACKITY: GIVE ME B8CK THE PEN! WILBUR: What? No, this is a fucking masterpiece.  WILBUR: We have to see this through.  WILBUR: We’re running out of room. Hey Kahrrl, can you turn the page for us?

QUACKITY: 88888888HHHHHH!!!!!!!! QUACKITY: This 8lterc8ion is becoming uncomfort8bly physic8l, get the FUCK 8w8y from me!!!!!!!! WILBUR: What the hell are you talking about? QUACKITY: You know EX8CTLY wh8t I’m t8lking 8bout!!!!!!!! WILBUR: Oh, shut up and draw another penis.  QUACKITY: You don’t even underst8nd the soci8l implic8ions of 8ll this hostile touching 8nd gr8bbing, do you? QUACKITY: THIS IS SO CLE8RLY C8LIGINOUS SOOT, JUST 8CKNOWLEDGE IT!!!!!!!! WILBUR: Well, if you want to look at it that way, then be my guest.  WILBUR: This is a common human ritual, don’t you know? It means we literally couldn’t give less of a fuck about each other. I don’t care about what you think is happening here.  QUACKITY: GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!!!!! WILBUR: Stop biting my jacket.  QUACKITY: FUFCK NYOUF.  WILBUR: We’ve really made a masterpiece here today, Quackity. You should be proud of yourself QUACKITY: OK8Y, TH8T’S IT. I’M FUCKING SICK OF THIS!

WILBUR: What? WILBUR: WHOA SHIT QUACKITY: His Honour8ble Tyr8nny h8s sentenced you to life in j8cket prison. WILBUR: HNFNGMGNHNFN WILBUR: KAHRRL HELP KAHRRL: SORRY man IM not MEDIATING this F*CKING trash FIRE youre ON your OWN

[a-non-ymouswriter]

Naturally, I am Very Interested in hearing literally anything about Remix. But aside from that, the titles of "God's Most Faithful Hater" and "My Son is the Final Boss" are very intriguing!

The later because I read that Webtoon (among many others); the former because I love Tommy angst /and/ religious themes in this fandom can be really fun. There's no telling what direction any given person will go for DSMP gods and thus no telling what new (to me) ideas they might have that I could fall completely in love with.

...And after looking up what CYMK is, I think I'm legally obligated to be curious about "Wandering The Border". Dimension hopping my beloved.

I hope that's not too many? I have so much fun with your stories, it's hard to cut it down from "all of them, please!"

i very much understand, there's a reason why i listed only those when i have a few more dusting away on my shelf lmao. BUT LET'S GET INTO THESE THREE!!

gonna cut this bc it's long

God's Most Faithful Hater - A DSMP Fantasy AU Summary -> Tommy Innit is the most devout, religious, faithful follower Ranboo has ever met. It's hard to believe at first, but everyday without fail, Tommy would pray to XD, hold the silver and green x-cross necklace (the symbol of his religion and his god's crest) whenever he got angry or anxious, and would reprimand Tubbo if he ever jokingly swore by XD or Prime's name.

Ranboo thinks it's nice that Tommy was so faithful to his god, it wasn't for him personally but hey, everyone had something they put their faith into.

Only he finds out that his initial thoughts to be very much, untrue. Well, Tommy is faithful. But he has no love for XD and his religion, no.

He has nothing but contempt and hatred for the malicious God that sunk its divinity into his very soul.

Details and Thoughts -> basically xd cursed tommy to be 'faithful' and be his unwilling follower.

i got this inspiration from Tanya the Evil, both the anime and manga. for those who don't know, it's about a man reincarnated as a little girl in fantasy imperial germany during world war 1 because he was agnostic and 'god' decides that the man needs to be faithful and believe in god. it's a cool anime, i suggest you pick it up.

but i only took 'forced to be religious' from the anime and applied it AND angst to tommy in this au. the more original side of it is that tommy is unwillingly immortal and constantly haunted and 'put to the test' by xd.

those tests are very dangerous, and the only way to get out of them? pray to xd, praise xd and such to save him, the unworthy and unwilling.

of course sometimes tommy can pass those 'tests' or other situations without praying to xd, but as time passes, tommy just ends up praying to xd. mostly after his past adopted family nearly died because he didnt pray to xd. that past family? sbi ofc but thats for later down the line.

the shot would be focused in ranboo's pov in the first part. how he and the others are friends with tommy and talking about how surprisingly religious tommy was. unknowing that tommy kept praying every day for their sake, and to stave off xd's malicious actions.

make no mistake, tho tommy prays and praises xd outwardly, he still fucking hates the damn god. and his internal prayers always, always has him damning xd. which both amuses and annoys said god, but somehow tommy's prayers are at least genuine and stuff, enough that he has to keep his word and not fuck shit up for tommy.

i'd say more but, we need to get to the others lmao.

My Son is the Final Boss - DSMP AU Wilbur-centric Summary-> None Yet

Details and Thoughts -> so this one is very unfinished and was back when techno was alive actually. around then i was reading a webtoon called My Daughter's the Final Boss or something- basically it was about a dad whose daughter, as told by title, became the final boss of a world-ending apocalypse.

it starts w the dad having to confront the daughter that he had abandoned in the past, who grew up terribly and abused and turned into an apocalyptic event boss. The Final Boss. and in that confrontation he...

turns his back on his allies and tries to protect his daughter from them. dying as a result.

but of course, the webtoon continues and the dad is time traveled back to BEFORE he sent his daughter away (he had issues and shit and was an asshole really) so he decides that he was gonna prevent every bad thing that happened to him, his daughter, prevent the death of his daughter's mother, etc etc

so yeah basically that, but with wilbur and fundy. i think i was reading a lot of fundy angst and sbi angst when i thought of it while reading.

i might revisit this shot again, but morph it bc im trying to catch up with QSMP and i love tallulah. and recently read a fic of fundy and tallulah being twins and i just love that. wilbur gets to be angsty over TWO children lol but no promises it's only an idea that hasn't even flourished

Wandering the Border - CMYK AU Dimension Hopping Summary -> Yeah this one doesn't have a summary either sorry

Details and Thoughts -> it says so on the tin; dimension hopping cmyk! EXCEPT

all four of them are dimension hopping separately and are constantly meeting each other... in the wrong order. in different spanning dimensions, and each of them hop dimensions in differing ways.

for example:

T̸̢̧̞̯̠̖̱͖̙͚͎̈́͒̅͑̇̋͐̃͒h̷͙̻̖̞̾̇̂̎̊̀̈̌̏͝ě̶͖̖͂̔͗̿̌̒͗̔̚s̷̛̫͙̤̯̬͕̺͂̐̊̓̐͒̂̕͠e̶̻̓̍̀͋͘û̶̲̾̊͒s̸͓̉͊̇̃̆͛̀͘͝͝ aka Tommy Innit- Chaos Demon currently cursed with dimension hopping because he pranked his dimension's Chaos Demoness Goddess Drista. He cannot stay in one dimension long, pain will overtake his body if he stays for more than a week, sometimes more than a few days or even hours. It's randomized whether or not he can stay or withstand the pain of staying. He is the 'youngest' and 'latest' of the friend group.

Experiment T-U88-Oasis aka Tubbo - A test tube experiment genius, actually the youngest (he's only been alive for 5 years, 3 of them dimension hopping) but technically the oldest in terms of dimension hopping? He always seems to be the one ahead of the curve, meeting others and referencing meet ups that haven't happened yet for the others. Rare instances of other others meeting a younger him that is so unlike the chaotic, hyper Tubbo that they know of. He stole an unfinished experimental device that lets him dimension hop, he keeps fiddling with it, which makes him hop dimensions- or well, it sometimes short circuits on its own and he's gone.

Lethe aka Ranboo - Initially from a superhero universe, Ranboo's powers were mostly about teleportation. Short range, sometimes long range if he could focus and had the stamina for it. He and his superhero mentor ended up busting a villain lair who was messing with powers. Something happened, Ranboo's powers got MAJORLY messed up and he ended up hopping dimensions and losing his memories. He didn't even know his name was Ranboo or his actual superhero name- Tubbo named him Lethe the first time they met, even gave him his trademarked memory journal. Ranboo's powers are unstable, each use has him forgetting all over again, but slowly, over time he doesn't forget. Slowly though.

Purpled - He's a regular teen and mercenary. He does odd jobs, REALLY odd jobs and somehow he's in every dimension all three of them have been to? Second 'eldest' to the group, he's been at this almost as long as Tubbo has. They have no idea how he's dimension hopping and Purpled refuses to answer it straight, not even Tubbo knows how he's going at it and technically he's the oldest! Purpled's the one with the most mystery, he's 'normal'. Fully human with no powers whatsoever, just pure martial skill, however from his travels that he somehow goes on, he has the most stuff. Weapons, items, etc.

so yeah, dimension hopping cmyk :) again i could go on but this has gone long enough.

maybe ask me again if you'd like to know more. or more about the other shots that are dusting away on my shelves. it was really fun talking about this stuff :DD

[bluiex]

Ok idea of an adoption AU

After many attempts with no success, Scar and Grian go to a doctor, to which they find out that unfortunately Grian is infertile, so he won’t ever be able to have biological child/children.

Scar and Grian are of course quiet very up set about the news, especially Grian, it was always a dream of his to have a huge family.

By the time they got home, it was night. Grian heads upstairs to the bedroom, not saying a word. So Scar decides to make Grian favorite for food. When he’s done heads up, to where he finds Grian bet down on the bed praying, with Jellie beside him.

Scar and Grian weren’t at all religious people, they both had some form of religious trauma, and so they never wanted to bring religion into their lives.

But at this moment, Scar could understand why. He goes to him, sets the food plate on a desk, and begins to massage his shoulders, telling everything will be alright and they’ll get through this together.

Suddenly there’s a shattering noise that comes from downstairs. Scar and Grian are quickly alert, hearts begin racing. Scar grabs a pistol they have in the bed-side table. They both head down cautiously.

There’s a noise coming from the kitchen. They carefully, they don’t see anyone, which means they might be crouched down behind the counter. So they make their way quietly as they can. When they turn to see what was behind, they were shocked.

Three small children, not looking older then 8, sitting on the tile floor, eating tortilla chips. The three children didn’t even seem to notice that they were there.

One of had split color, albinism white and jet black. He also seem to have heterochromia eyes, one green the other a crimson reddish-brown. They also seem to have vertigo. They wear a white dress shirt with a black vest, black pants and socks, no shoes.

The second was a brunette like Scar, however instead of it being straight, it was quiet fluffy looking. Dark brown eyes and just a few freckles. He seem to be the smallest one. He was wear a green button up shirt, and brown shorts.

The last one was a blonde, sky blue eyes, and frail body. He was wearing a white-red sleeve t-shirt and beige pants.

The two stared at these three children in disbelief, and were both completely frozen. They might have gotten in three the window, which was basically half way opened. They left it open for Jellie, but it had never accord to them that other creatures or in this case children could get in.

Finally, one of the children notices them, it was the blonde one. He seemed startled which alerted the other two to turn in their direction. They were frightened.

Scar finally snapped out of it, then remembered he was still pointing to pistol at them, he quickly lowers it and sets it on the counter.

“Hello there” he says as friendly sounding as he could.

The children didn’t respond, besides the split colored haired one giving a little wave.

“We’re going to hurt, we just want to know, why you are in our house”

“…W-we we’re hungry, and you left a window open so we just” brunette spoke.

“Yeah and we didn’t think anyone was home” the blonde followed with.

“Well it isn’t really nice to sneak into other people’s house, and steal their food” Grian finally said.

“We don’t have any other choice in the matter, stealing is our only option, it’s either that, or we starve” the split colored one explained.

This made both and Grian pause.

“You three don’t have a home” Scar asked.

“Would you think we would be stealing food if we did” the blonde responded.

There was a long pause, then Scar spoke.

“Ok how about we introduce ourselves and get this settled with. I’m Scar, and this is my husband Grian”

“I’m Tommy, the brunette is Tubbo, and split colored one is Ranboo” the blonde spoke.

“Well Tommy, Tubbo, Ranboo, why don’t we get you three something proper to eat” Grian explained.

“Can it be spaghetti” Ranboo asked excitedly, almost shouting.

The other two seem to role their eyes.

“As you probably guess, Ranboo loves spaghetti” said Tubbo.

“Well that good, because that’s what we have for left overs” Scar grinned.

Scar sets up three plates, preheat the spaghetti, before giving it to them, that were now sitting at the table, sense there only two chairs, Ranboo chose to sit on a high stool.

To say they are the meal quick, was an understatement, they ate like if ate any slower, some force was going to take it from. Which now that Scar and Grian thought about, for them being looking 8, they were all pretty under weight.

“May I ask, when the last time you three ate” Scar said.

“4-5 days” Tubbo responded.

Grian and Scar looked at each other, really concerned, they know Ranboo had said that neither of them had home, which got them wondering, how long have they been homeless.

“How long have you three been alone” Scar asked.

“Don’t know, I think for 8-9 months” Ranboo responded.

“It was 9, Ranboo doesn’t have the best memory” Tommy said.

“You three have been alone for 9 months, did no adult help” Grian asked, how very concerned.

“Well not alone, we had each other, and no, no one ever thought to stop to help us” Ranboo explained.

“Well then, how about for now, you three stay with us, we have plenty of room, and more than enough money to support you three” Scar said.

“Really, you’d take us in, even after we broke into your house” Tommy asked.

“We gave you three food didn’t we, if we’d have it any other way, we’d probably have to call police” Grian explained.

The three of them nodded.

“Last two questions, one how old are you three, I’m was assuming eight, but now that I know you three haven’t eaten in days, and are clearly malnourished, I could be wrong” Scar said.

“Well you’re not to far off, I’m 11, and Ranboo and Tubbo are twelve” Tommy said.

Scar only gave a single nod.

“Ok second, do you guess mind animals, we have a cat named Jellie, she’s very sweet, but I want to know if you three like them, or have allergies towards them” Scar explained.

Ranboo immediately perked up.

“You have a cat, I love cats” Ranboo said joyfully.

“As for us two, we also love animals, and no we’re not allergic” Tubbo said.

“Good, I’m sure Jellie would absolutely adore you three” Scar smiled.

“Now look, now that you three are done eating, you guys could use a bath and shampoo, we don’t have that will fit you, so we’ll have to wash and iron the clothes that guys already have” Grian explained.

“Speaking of which, when was the last time you three had a bath” Scar asked.

“3 weeks ago” Ranboo answered.

Scar sets up the bath, making sure the temperature was perfect. When asked who would like to go first, Tommy responded that they usually bathed together, and it was usually in their boxers. Unfortunately the tub wasn’t big enough for that so Ranboo went first, the water immediately turn a yellowish brown, it took three drains and refills for each one them, until that water stayed clear.

Grian was busy putting their clothes in the wash, he hadn’t realized how much dirt, mud, and grass stains were on them until he had a better look, which made found out that they were fleas. Once they were done, they looked almost brand new, if you don’t count the small tears and holes. He irons them, and then sets them in the guest bedroom.

Once all that was done, Tommy asked if they could sleep together in the guest bedroom, for they didn’t like sleeping apart, to which Scar and Grian of course agreed.

Once they were asleep, Scar and Grian head back to their bedroom, to talk about what they should do next.

“I want to adopt them” Grian immediately stated.

“I was thinking the same thing” Scar responded.

“They’re so sweet, I love them already” Grian explained.

“As do I, but we’ll have to ask them first, see if they’re ok with it” Scar followed.

“I know, I just hope they say yes” Grian replied.

(With the three)

“Sss, Tommy, Tubbo, are you two still awak” Ranboo whispered.

Both groaned be for shifting to turn towards him.

“Yes we’re awake Boo, now what is it” Tubbo asked.

“Do you guys think they’ll adopt us, I mean they seem so nice, and I’d really like to stay here” they explained.

“I don’t know but, I do too, they’re so friendly, and they weren’t mad that we basically broke into their house” Tommy responded.

“I don’t know, I mean, I’d love to stay here, if you guys do, but don’t know if I truly trust them yet, this could be all an act” Tubbo explained.

“Well if it is, then they’re pretty good actors, and they’ve gay me and Ranboo fooled” Tommy said jokingly.

Tubbo chuckled

“I guess you’re right, but I’ll need time to trust them” Tubbo said

“We understand, take your time, you don’t have to trust them right away” Ranboo responded.

“Thanks for understanding” Tubbo replied.

“You’re welcome” Tommy and Ranboo answered.

YEEEAH BENCH TRIO ADOPTED BY SCARIAN MY BELOVEDS

[lowkeyrobin]

I'm sorry for spamming you I'm just really excited--

Reader who also streams and just rants a lot while they play Stardew Valley?

Like mid milking a cow or something they pause the game and rant about how to kiss someone or smth?...

-🌕 anon! <3

AH OMG DONT WORRY ABOUT SPAMMING I LOVE YOU GUYS 🫶🫶🫶 but I absolutely love this LMAO I made this into a preference setup instead of a oneshot bc I didn't know exactly who you wanted and I was having difficulty finding a way to stretch it out that long anyways. idk much about stardew valley so bare with me, I rewatched Tommy's video of him playing w Molly to help me 💀💀

MCYT ; stardew valley rants

includes ; tommyinnit, ranboo, tubbo, freddie badlinu, niki nihachu, foolish gamers & quackity

warnings ; language

masterlist

TOMMYINNIT

you'll just be doing some tasks and be like "you know, I've never kissed anyone before. like, how does that work?"

meanwhile Tommy came over a little bit ago to hang out after stream and he just looks at you like 🤨😨

"youve never kissed anyone?? wait... we haven't kissed before? y/n/n, what?"

you shake your head no, confirming that you guys actually never kissed somehow, your relationship was kinda new in both of your defenses.

"we've only been dating like, 2 months, it's fine"

"ARE YOU TRYING TO BE A KISSING VIRGIN FOREVER????"

literally have your first kiss on stream bro

THE EDITS 🫶🙏 I CANT EVEN

the cutest shit ever

TUBBO

you were playing stardew valley for a little calm/lofi stream before you went out to film with tubbo & tommy for a little challenge video

you got a little quiet after a while and started ranting about drama at school

you had some class time with a bunch of popular girls and you didn't exactly fit in with them and drama was starting to arrise

for a solid hour you were ranting about it

tubbo had your stream on as bg noise as he was on the bus to meet up with you and tommy

when you meet up afterwards his first words to you are "did you actually just rant for an hour about school drama?"

you nod and awkwardly smile cause you didn't know he was watching

"you're interesting to say the least"

"you are too!"

RANBOO

you literally paused the whole game mid-farming to rant about some restaurant you and ranboo went to the past day

chat was exploding with "oooo they went on a date" and you were just like "guys it was good food, 10/10"

they get you to join a call with them and you guys talk about it together and your whole experience and how awesome the food was

not to mention the aesthetic of the restaurant was so well put together

you got back to your stream with a little story for your viewers

BADLINU

you started ranting about a movie/show you're fixated on at the moment

went through all the lore, all the characters, background info, etc

Freddie was watching and using tts to talk to you

he encouraged it dw

like he was holding a convo w you and everything it was the cutest shit ever

the edits.

also people clipped the whole like half hour long thing and posted it to YouTube like "y/u/n and badlinu talk about ___!"

you don't even remember it within a week but HE DOES

just one of those cute relationship moments he loves to think about

QUACKITY

you were playing stardew while he was playing gta and you were on a vc together

so obv it kinda sounded crazy 💀💀

"y/n I'm gonna drive my Honda Accord over there and kill all your cows!"

"I swear to God, quackity, don't even dare"

not really ranting but you were yelling threats at him and shit LMAO

NIHACHU

you guys were playing together 🫶

you were teaching her how to do everything and stuff

you eventually went on a tangent about things you do and don't like about the game

she was agreeing to your solid points and stuff

that turns into a rant about hair color and if she can color your hair for you LMAO

FOOLISH GAMERS

"Dude, how do people do that van life shit? I'd die doing that"

straight up hour and a half rant about how much you hate van life tik tokkers while playing stardew valley

he's in your chat like "Yes 100 percent" and adding onto your points LMAO

you both share a hate for van life mfs

[kathystheoriesandmore]

Wrapping this all up! Until next time maybe-

New analysis for a new episode. And, with it, a closer examination of all the facts we know and how they might fit. I recommend looking at my other post, if you want to be caught up on my theory from the last episode, and of course... ------Warning like always, spoilers and talk of disturbing stuff and long post!---- Now let's get on with it! :)

There isn't much that can be said about what the complete story is at this point, mostly because we theorists still need to piece the evidence together and figure out what's going on, but I decided to attempt to answer a question that seemed to be confusing a few people. So my next few posts will just be to clear up the confusion I have seen and put my thoughts on it. 

As I stated in my last theory post, my hypotheses were founded on small snippets from before the episodes aired with Ranboo discussing his initial plan. Causing me to assume that everything was on tape and not live. (Which I was correct on, and I'm loving this win because it makes me feel so smart XD)

With this in mind, we can also argue that most censors or things that are "Slime", and people that act like NPCs are "Generation Loss" or something like that. Also that this organization conducts "Social Experiments" on their subjects, and it's not just a TV show for them.

(To be honest, I'm not sure how it connects to what happened. Maybe by testing human choices when asked who lives or dies? or what they see are moral in their eyes? That I will not be able to answer for a while, but I'm open to hearing your thoughts! ^w^ )

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I can answer is the "Savior, Taken, Villain" riddle from Genloss' merch store's video game.

When it was initially released, it appeared to be a trailer game for the first episode. With Red Stranger/Savior representing Hetch, Blue Friend/Taken representing Sneeg, and Green Friend/Villan representing Charlie. But it became confusing when we noticed they showed up more than once, implying that it was not just for the first episode. That, and the game had weird components like going into a screen, pressing a red button to end it, and a glitched-out setting for clicking something behind the trash, which the stranger showed us. It didn't make any sense. That is until the third episode. With episode three, we knew that this game had foreshadowed what was to come. A man playing a tape, getting pulled in, finding his friends in the game, and a stranger who created the glitching. With us, the audience, feeling like we were helping and in control, only to discover that we weren't and making it worse. Ending with Ranboo clicking the button and causing his demise. Nonetheless, the titles in Binary no longer apply to the people after episode one. Charlie isn't a villain in episodes two or three, and Sneeg doesn't really show in episode three except dead on the floor for a few seconds.

So where do they fit in now? Well, would you believe me if I said they're not stating their titles, but rather the titles they give Ranboo?

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Let's begin with Sneeg because he's the most obvious. Ranboo, the hero, is seen as taken by Sneeg. Sneeg is still also a Taken, but to him, the titles are shared. In Sneeg's eyes, Ranboo is someone taken just like him and is suffering just as much as he is. He regards him as an equal. You can even see it with Sneeg going up to the bars when trying to escape, telling Ranboo he will be right back like he was making a promise to save Ranboo. Then to Hetch or Screen man. Hetch seemed to see Ranboo as a savior. Someone to fix all the messes. I am aware that Hetch betrays Ranboo at the end of episode three, but given my other theory that everyone is a clone, is it possible that the Hetch leading us and the Hetch at the end are not the same. I mean, it seemed odd that Hetch had him walk to the heart to shut it down, only to later inform him he could have just clicked a button to end it all. But that's a theory for another time. For this moment, we need to keep in mind that Hetch frequently stated that Ranboo would save everyone.

Then there is Charlie seeing Ranboo as the villain. This one was a little tough to notice with Episode 3, but it made sense later on. In the first episode, they battled to the death, then Ranboo practically ripped him apart to acquire a key in episode two, then in the third episode, he watched as Ranboo put himself in danger and murdered someone he knew was human from prior death in the episode, then he died. Watching as Ranboo did nothing to prevent him from being devoured by a wire monster. Charlie must believe him as the villain.

That's all for now :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BTW, I'm thinking of writing a post later this week to attempt to explain what the true story was, but not right now since I'm still gathering evidence, re-watching videos, and discovering secrets. So please stick around if you are interested in that! But other than that, I hope you all have a wonderful day/night!

[totallynotbat]

Always Where You Are

Summary: Ranboo visits Tubbo and Phil in the UK, and notices how Phil’s feeling down. (IRL) 

Can’t really post much until the forth for the next tickletober thing. So here ya go!

T/W: Swearing, Feet Tickles 

Update: 11/7/22: Made this before Ranboo used He/They.

RELATIONSHIP IS PLATONIC, NO SHIP TAGGING!

Tickle Fic, No like click off. 

Some ideas are by @someone1348 thank yooouuuu!

Enjoy!

Tubbo and Ranboo sat on the couch, chatting and talking about the Wipeout blog that happened last week.

Ranboo noticed something off, about Phil, who sat on the other edge of the couch, looking down at the floor, dazing off somewhere, and it happened right after Tubbo mentioned the few jokes about each other.

“Hey uh, Tubbo can I talk to you for a sec?” Ranboo asked, stern. 

“Uh yeah sure, what’s up boss man?” Tubbo replied.

Ranboo led the boy into Tubbo’s own bedroom, closing the door behind him, before sighing deeply. 

“You know the zombie jokes you and Phil mentioned?” 

“Yeah what about them?” Tubbo asked confused.

“Well, I noticed Phil was a bit down. You think that the jokes you’ve guys made, is a possible reason to why he’s so…out of it?” Ranboo noticed Tubbo thought for a moment then nodded. 

“Hmm…maybe there’s something we can do to help him out, he’s really tired..” Tubbo smirked at Ranboo. “Or at the very least take his mind off of it…” 

“What did you have in mind?” 

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Ranboo walked into the living room, seeing Phil look up at him with a weak smile and tired eyes made his heart break, but this might help him out a bit. 

“Hey Phil? Do you mind coming here for a second?” 

Phil got off the couch, sitting up and looking up at the man, who kneeled down a bit next to him. 

“What’s up Ra-AHAHAN!!” Phil’s sentence got cut off as Ranboo trailed his hand across Phil’s neck, Phil squeaking and giggling in surprise.  

“RAHAHAN! Whahahat thehehe hehehell?!” Phil squealed as Ranboo scooped up the shorter man into his arms, like a parent carrying their child, Phil squirmed around trying to get away, as Ranboo pinched his hips. 

“RAHAHAHAN! Stahahap!” Phil squeaked a bit, trying to slap his hands away.

Ranboo smirked behind the sunglasses and mask, continuing to tickle the man below him, sitting on the couch, Tubbo across from him on the left cushion.

“Rahahan! Eep!” Phil bit his lip a bit, covering his mouth with his free hand. 

“Dish it out? But can’t take it?” Ranboo teased, noticing Phil’s ears beginning to get a light shade of red. 

“Rahahan! Plehehease!!!” 

Ranboo chuckled, lowering his mask a bit, showing his mouth, pressing his lips together and blowing a raspberry right into Phil’s neck. 

Phil threw his head back, a dark red on his face as he squealed in high pitch laughter, trying to push Ranboo’s head back. 

“RAHAHAHAN HEHEHE! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!” Phil squealed, wheezing from how hard he was laughing, snorts and squeaks peppering in with hiccups that spilled out of his mouth. “Nahahat rahahasberriehehes!!!” 

“Okay, I’ll be nice.” Ranboo smiled, pulling the mask back on, setting the giggly man on the couch.

Tubbo pulled Phil back, lightly tracing his ears, Phil covering his mouth. 

“Aww! Phil has ticklish ears!” Tubbo smiled. 

Ranboo chuckled, tracing Phil’s sides, smiling at Phil who bit his lip when he removed his hands. 

“You know you wanna laugh~” Ranboo cooed, pressing firmly on the skin, noticing Phil’s ears started getting red. 

“Tickle Tickle,TickleTickleTickleTickle~” Tubbo teased, scribbling across Phil’s ears. 

“AH-EHEHE! Hahahaha! Nuhuhu!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!” Phil squeaked, giggling softly, a reddish pinkish hue on his face. 

“Awww! Phil’s getting all flustered and embarrassed, is tickling too much for him?” Tubbo cooed, noticing how flustered Phil was, the red on his face and ears made it a dead giveaway. 

“SHUHUHUT UP!!!” Phil squealed. 

“Hm! How about no!” Tubbo poked Phil’s upper ribs, earning him a squeak. 

“Tuhuhubbo Plehehease nahahat therehehe!” Phil giggled in anticipation. 

With that, Ranboo squeezed his top ribs, Tubbo on his bottom ribs, both men proceed to tickle the blondes ribs, sending Phil into instant laughter. 

“OHOH GOHOHOHODS!!! HAHAHAHA!!! NAHAHAT THE RIHIHIBS!!!” Phil squealed out, squirming left and right. “SHIHIHIT!!!” 

Ranboo pinched and wiggled his fingers in between the sensitive bones, Tubbo spidering across the area, squeezing a few times. 

Phil was in ticklish hell, squirming left and right to avoid the two’s wiggling fingers, as he laughed and squealed wildly. 

The two stopped after a bit, leaving Phil a giggly pile on the couch. 

Tubbo proceeded to hold Phil’s arms above his head. Ranboo lifting up the black dress shirt that Phil wore, tracing Phil’s stomach. 

Phil began giggling from the light tracing, a small squeal left his mouth when Ranboo traced around his belly button, Ranboo clearly noticed this and started doing circles right near the exposed area. 

“RAN PLEHEHEASE NAHAT THEREHEHE!” Phil squealed, squirming around a bit, it was light tickling and yet it was fucking torture for the man.

“Not where? Oh here!” Ranboo poked his fingers right into Phil’s naval, doing small circles into the area and sending the man into high pitch squeals.

“RAHAHAN I'M OHOHOLD! I CAHAHANT!" 

Ranboo rolls his eyes with a smile, shaking his head slowly. "Yet you yell at us for calling you old, how ironic and completely false that is, you're not old Phil you're handling this just fine, point disproven, argument won."

Tubbo chuckled a bit from Ranboo’s statement, continuing to tease the blonde mans ears, occasionally scratching Phil’s sides. 

Tubbo even got up and blew a raspberry onto Phil’s stomach, sending the man into high squeals as he pushed the back of his head into the pillow.

Ranboo squeezed Phil’s thigh, and nearly got a foot kicked in his face. 

“Oh god! Ranboo I didn’t mean to do that!” Phil quickly apologized, a hint of worry in his tone. 

“It’s alright Phil, small reflex.” Tubbo assured, Ranboo nodding in agreement, as Tubbo began holding down Phil’s legs a bit. Phil inhaled before Ranboo squeezed Phil’s thigh again.

Phil squeaked, kicking out his leg a bit as he laughed. Covering his flustered face with his hands, muffled giggles and squeaks escaping his lips. 

“Oh wow you really squeak here!” Ranboo said, a bit amazed and sarcastically. 

“Itit reheheally thihihickles!” Phil giggled behind his hands, kicking out his leg more.

“Well, that be the point!” Tubbo teased, scribbling across the streamers underarms, which Phil’s arms came down on top of his arms. 

“TUHUHUBBO! EHEHEHEHAHA!!!” Phil squealed, snorting.

The two stopped, Phil being a giggly mess, Tubbo sitting back down, resting Phil’s head on his lap. 

“Hmm where else haven’t we tried…maybe here?” Ranboo traced across Phil’s foot, tracing around the sole. 

Phil began squirming, his foot curling up as he tried to bite his lip to muffle the giggles in his throat.

“Awww! It’s okay Phil!” Tubbo cooed, seeing how Phil’s face began to flush again. “You can laugh, it’s adorable when you do anyways!” 

Phil thought for a minute, these two cared for him, they wouldn’t hurt him, maybe he could-

“Hehehe! Hehehehahahaha!!!” 

Phil began giggling, his foot curling in and out as Ranboo teased the sensitive sole, tracing down and back up to the arch. 

Tubbo cooed, smiling down at the giggling man. “There we go Phil.” 

“Ehehehehaha! Nuhuhu! Hahahaha!” Phil squeaked. 

Ranboo traced his fingers across Phil’s toes, going around the phalanges carefully, before trailing a finger down the base, which curled in on instinct. 

“Who has ticklish beans~” Ranboo cooed. “You do! Yes you do!” 

A small quick snort, followed by a squeak left Ranboo and Tubbo cooing more. 

Phil sat up once the two stopped, as Tubbo lightly traced Phil’s upper back.

And both Ranboo and Tubbo being surprised fucking immediately when Phil began giggling softly. 

Tubbo stopped for a minute, before both him and Ranboo awe’d at the giggles spilling out of Phil’s mouth. 

“Never heard of someone with a ticklish back! That’s adorable!” Ranboo smiled, a bit surprised but amazed at the idea of the streamer and his friend, who everyone considered a father figure, had a ticklish back. 

“Feels good Phil?” Tubbo asked sweetly. 

“Yeheheheahahah!” Phil chuckled, a red pinkish flush on his face, cheeks and ears. “Itit tihihihickles!” 

“Just relax, okay? That’s the point.” Ranboo smiled, tracing behind Phil’s ears. 

“Coochie Coochie Coo! Who’s a lil giggle monster? You are! Yes you are!” Tubbo teased, tracing shapes into the skin. 

“Hehehehahahaha!!!” Phil practically melted, placing his head down into his hands with a flustered face. 

Phil suddenly shrieked in surprise as a tingling sensation spread up his spine, squealing as he shook his head. 

Tubbo chuckled, blowing another raspberry into his spine, as Ranboo spidered up his ribs in the process. 

“STOP! STOPOPOP! STAHAHAP! GUHUHUYS PLEHEHEASE I-I CAHAHANT AHAHAHAHAHA!!! SHIHIHIT!!!” 

Phil screamed, laughing wildly as hiccups and snorts he couldn’t hope to control spilled out of his mouth, tears at the edge of his eyes. 

The two stopped immediately, Phil forcefully leaned back, Tubbo pulling Phil’s head onto his shoulder, Phil thought for a minute, before realizing, a possibility of an aftercare situation was in order. 

“There you go Phil, your okay now.” Tubbo lightly traced Phil’s back again, smiling at the muffled giggles escaping. 

“You did good Phil.” Ranboo replied softly. “Giggle Pog.” 

“I enjoyed that…uh…could you guys…keep going?” Phil found himself saying, Ranboo and Tubbo nodded, awing at the fact Phil asked. 

They were going to do Aftercare for him either way.

Tubbo lightly traced Phil’s back and ears again, Ranboo continuing to trace his neck and belly as Phil rested his head on Tubbo’s shoulder and chest as he giggled.

After a few minutes, that felt like an hour, Phil felt relaxed his eyelids drooping a bit but he forced himself to keep himself awake, he relaxed into the light tickling, trying to keep himself up and not fall asleep. 

Tubbo patted a hand on his chest, Phil placing his head where Tubbo gestured too, his giggling going up an octave as Tubbo and Ranboo grazed sweet spots on his back and neck. 

“It’s okay Phil, you can rest, we’re right here buddy.” Tubbo softly spoke, wrapping an arm around Phil, cuddling him close. 

“We’re always here for you Phil.” Ranboo added. 

Ranboo and Tubbo continued lightly tracing on the sensitive tickle spots, smiling at the soft giggles they got from Phil’s lips. 

“Hehehe!!!” Phil practically melted, closing his eyes as he relaxed, his vision fading into the darkness.

Both, Tubbo and Ranboo knew Phil fell asleep when his giggles died down a bit, but they continued anyway, at least Tubbo did, he only traced small shapes into Phil’s back, Ranboo joined in again after a little bit, lightly tracing Phil’s stomach and it only took a few minutes for Phil’s giggles to start back up again, sleepily mumbling. 

Tubbo pulled out his phone, taking a video of Phil and sending it over to Tommy. 

Clingy Man 

Look at what me and Ranboo did to Phil. He practically melted and is now sleeping. 

Clingy (BIG) Man 

Holy shit Tubs

I have something in mind for when I see him sometime >:) 

He’s adorable when he giggles like that. 

Clingy Man

Yeah, don’t kill him Toms. 

Why is he giggling so much now though? I’m just lightly tracing his back at this point.

Clingy (BIG) Man

Ah, 

It could be from the possible wrecking you and Ranboo gave him, from the tracing your giving him now, or it could be a tickle dream he’s having.

Clingy Man

Wtf is a tickle dream? 

Clingy (BIG) Man

He could be getting tickled by someone else in his sleep, watching someone get tickled or tickling someone else, and it’s just reflecting a bit onto him now. It might last like that the whole night. 

Clingy Man

Ah, okay. 

Have a good night Toms. 

Clingy (BIG) Man

Night Tubs, say Hi to Ran and Phil!

Tubbo and Ranboo cuddled up with each other on the couch, happy to see Phil the way he was at the moment, happy and relaxed, curled up onto Tubbo’s chest, happily giggling. 

They both will be there for him.

Always. 

~ To be continued ~

[irrealisms]

no one gets too much light liner notes

fic here if you haven't read it!

the title comes from the song As Many Candles as Possible by the mountain goats. the first verse especially makes me think of how c!tubbo approaches forgiveness, and was the inspiration for a lot of this fic, but i do also have a lot of feelings about the chorus and second verse and c!tubbo.

small detail: ranboo and ghostbur are around about the same amount of time because they're both splitting their time between L'manburg and the arctic!

the rocket launcher is brought up right at the beginning to introduce the general -- themes and era this fic is about. like, it is true to this era that tubbo has it in his inventory/enderchest while intending to move it to a barrel, but it's also in this fic as a signal: this fic is about the festival! tubbo is now the owner of this thing that is a symbol of his death at the festival!

c!tubbo is so interesting to me in his imitation of c!schlatt while he's president. the substance abuse is at least semi-canon-- after exiling tommy, he gets high (at 1:34:15), ditto when he discovers tommy's alive (clip). and of course everyone else is paralleling them-- tommy, quackity, and fundy all say tubbo acts "like schlatt" while president. this is definitely something tubbo is thinking about! and it's also something i think about a lot in regards to all of the manburg cabinet but especially tubbo (as president of NLM) and quackity (as president of LN).

there are actually two different tubbo-as-schlatt paralells going on here, one of which tubbo is thinking about and one of which ranboo is thinking about.

the first is: tubbo ordering tommy's exile as being equivalent to schlatt ordering tubbo's execution, in that neither of them directly killed their ~victim but their orders as president led to their death. this is what tubbo is thinking about throughout this whole section: he understands schlatt now because he sees himself as having done what schlatt did; he forgives schlatt because it'd be hypocritical not to. this is what tubbo feels incredibly, deeply guilty and fucked up about. he has picked up schlatt's bad habits and even as he takes part in them he's doing it from a place of being deeply traumatized by schlatt. he drinks whiskey to cope and as he does it he's thinking about what it smelled like on schlatt's breath while schlatt yelled at him. he is trying to justify schlatt's actions because he's trying to justify his own actions, but he still feels deeply guilty and miserable about them, because no matter how much he minimizes and ignores his own feelings he knows how much they hurt.

the second, which ranboo is panicking about, is: tubbo is getting a member of his cabinet to decorate a festival, and that member of his cabinet is a traitor/spy/friends with and feeding information and resources to the enemy. and tubbo is talking about how he understands executing that person!!!!! now, obviously, this is also a self-blame thing, where he blames himself rather than schlatt for killing him (and at times blames tommy rather than himself for exile! note that blaming dream for exile, while correct, is not really on his mental radar), but it's also deeply, deeply alarming to ranboo, who is trying to figure out if he's going to get killed. (tubbo does see the parallels here to some degree, but much less than ranboo does, and they're secondary in his mind to the parallels w tommy.)

speaking of ranboo's point of view on this conversation-- ranboo ... knows that tommy's alive. it is super uncomfortable for ranboo to be engaging with tubbo's guilt and grief about tommy's suicide, knowing that (a) tommy isn't actually dead, (b) he absolutely cannot tell tubbo this, because, well, see the previous bullet point!

on a different note-- we, the reader, know two things: (a) tommy isn't dead, tubbo hasn't killed him; and (b) when tubbo does in fact find out that ranboo is a traitor, he actively refuses to execute ranboo, even on quackity's urging, because he does not want to be like schlatt. tubbo and ranboo are both afraid of the parallels between tubbo and schlatt, but tubbo isn't, actually, schlatt. he may have picked up some unhealthy shit from his time in the cabinet--both unhealthy for himself and for his interactions w others--but he has not and will not do the thing that he spends this entire fic alternating between "beating himself up over" and "trying very hard to justify" (or, for that matter, the thing that ranboo spends the entire fic afraid of.)

also, i tried to sprinkle this in, tubbo is passively suicidal. he's passively suicidal throughout this whole era. you see this the most on doomsday and the disc finale but you also see it some in his conversation w ranboo the day before the green festival, which was a major inspiration for this fic. while he's talking to ranboo he consistently downplays his own death as Not A Big Deal! and while ranboo is, yes, panicky over what that means for himself, he is also deeply concerned for tubbo that tubbo doesn't value his own life very much.

the ending note of ranboo not decorating for a funeral is intended to be ambiguous between two possibilities: either ranboo forgot the whole conversation (cf: how Fucking Scared he is for it!), or ranboo remembers and is actively choosing not to decorate for a funeral because he knows that tommy's alive and hopes that tubbo will find this out soon. which is true? i didn't actually have an answer to this in mind while writing it. both. either. tubbo can't tell the difference, and neither can we.

(another complication to that line: decorating for a festival, after spending this much time talking about the manburg festival and tubbo's death, is decorating for a funeral.)

bonus fun fact: due to my timeline obsessions, this is set on a specific day: december 18, 2020.

[elytrafemme]

i am once again finding myself drafting up the ending notes for the next cough syrup chapter, and once again find myself too afraid to actually touch the draft.

cough syrup was-- is? was?-- a love letter to so many things. originally, a love letter to the DSMP, but i cannot deny that events within the DSMP community (mostly, the dream situation) are part of the reason why i could not bring myself to work on the fic. originally, a love letter to the mental health revelations i experienced, but so much has changed and i’m healing in a different way and it feels so strange, looking at the DSMP writing again, trying to imagine when i was there and why i’m still there yet everything has changed insurmountably. 

part of me wants the fic to be over with in a blink of an eye, so i can move on to other fandom works without feeling chained. another part of me wants to savor this, reignite the community that never really died. another part of me never wants to touch the fic again, to be bitter and angry at the amount of times i’ve used fanfiction as an escape, but then never really escaped. and there’s this other piece of me, too, so outraged at how much other people have loved this fic, so much more than i feel like i have even loved it. but is it outrage, or just me recognizing a responsibility? 

i knew that so many creators get upset about not writing frequently, write these long apologies in their notes only to receive responses like “it’s okay!” and “take your time!”. i think about this, and i think about the fics i have waited years for, and i knew this and i know this and part of me says, okay. you aren’t going to do that. you know that you had to step away, so you aren’t going to feel guilty. but i feel guilty for not feeling guilty. wasn’t i supposed to pour my heart out?

cs!tubbo has been theorized by some to have bpd. this was unintentional. i want this to stay unintentional, but in the time between last september and now i’m beginning to realize that bpd is the explanation for the questions i’ve had for so, so long. cs!ranboo’s psychosis was meant to help me with my own, but i’m no longer suffering avidly from psychosis, so whose story am i telling? this fic was my way of exploring a queerplatonic relationship, but i don’t experience queerplatonic attraction, at least i don’t think so, and what i had mistaken for that was just the way my brain works with love and i don’t know how to write this story because it’s no longer my own.

and here’s the selfish bit of it: i want to stop writing this fic because i know people don’t like the dsmp. i try not to care about that, people don’t like a lot of things. i don’t like taylor swift but one of my old friends and i are working on healing things, so we talk about their love of taylor swift and i listen to her songs and think about them and we’re fighting uphill. but in the same way that i demean my hometown to future college roommates, i want to demean my time in the dsmp fandom because i want to be loved so, so badly. and how much of me writing this fic was me just wanting to be loved, so badly. 

and i was loved! and the characters were and are loved. but i remember the exact point where the fic started getting popular, and things started changing, and i remember going “this isn’t going to end well”. and for all things considered, it didn’t end badly, but i still remember my first rage episode when i saw someone talking about a fic that wasn’t my own. i remember how scared i was when i did see people talking about it, realizing that there’s this clock ticking inside of me; i knew how this was going to end. and i realized that cough syrup was this living, breathing child of mine, one i cannot abandon or hate or write, all the warnings people gave me about not burning out, and i’m sitting with this fic writing a post about it not even knowing if this is true. not sure how to put it all into words.

my beginnings in fandom began in a broken place. i was thirteen when i really started, and i wanted to write and create and soon i got attention from my broken, messy things, and i got so much attention that people said i was so mature, and then i met some bad people, and i started having public breakdowns, and i left the fandom with a dramatic ending note because it felt like it ripped so much from me. and then i came to dsmp, and i wrote cough syrup from this place of finally, finally escaping this period of trauma-- i say it all the time, but cough syrup was written a month after the most traumatizing period of my life ended. i wrote it to feel free, to feel silly and creative. and it was loved and this time, i wasn’t chasing attention, until i did. and i loved it! i love it! it was a good thing in my life it was undeniably good and it still is! but i think part of me never really learned my lesson, i guess.

and now, i want to write from pain again. i want to write from pain and the little bittersweet spots in life because i am so much older than the girl who started cough syrup. i am older and i am so much more cowardly and i am seeing people realize that the blinding optimism i used to have is no longer a steady track. my life lost its control and cough syrup deserved nothing more than my control, but i can’t stomach it again. i don’t want this fic to fix me. because it isn’t going to do it right, this time.

in one of my ending note drafts, i wrote “this chapter is quite possibly one of the hardest things i have ever written”. the chapter isn’t done. so maybe i’m fatalistic. maybe i think people will be crueler to me than they are. maybe i’m still broken about the two or three mutuals i lost for inexplicable reasons, people who loved cough syrup but i wanted to forget about the fic, to just love me, to rip into me and make me whole again. maybe i’m just addicted to attention and this is all a consequence of that.

cough syrup ends happily. cough syrup ends happily, and part of me finds it unbearable to think that some people waited for that happy ending, only for me to start on the most painful chapters. i want to write this happy ending but i want it to feel like it’s a happy ending for me, but how the fuck can i write that? when is it most poetic? do i write it by graduation? by the time i start college? how do i even move forward with this fic i have to finish but a fic i never want to start?

there have been times i’ve been so anxious about how to progress with cough syrup that i felt like i was going to pass out. there have been times where i was so happy about cough syrup that i wanted to tell the entire world, look at this thing i wrote. look at what i’m capable of. look at the friends i am making because we are all searching for hope. there have been times, more recently, where i wish i was still searching for hope in the ways that feel marketable, creative. 

but mostly, i feel like a coward. i feel like i’m giving up on myself. i read the draft, and i hear the crowd roaring, why don’t you love your creation. 

and honestly, it’s not that. 

i think the mare who wrote cough syrup loved herself. and i think the mare that is writing this, now, is angry that she can’t ask herself, then, would you have ever loved me past the ending of this story? 

[bonesandthebees]

I am in shambles but I am taking a W since I was right about Ranboo's general involvement in the escape plot. Was not expecting Aimsey to come in with a metal chair and absolutely lose their shit but it was satisfying as hell.

The reveal that Ranboo had even given information from Aimsey to Techno about the flora was rough. Aimsey is a good person though so I'm not expecting them to punch him in the face but I really hope that they rip him a new one when they get the chance.

Also I love the use of oil as a metaphor for Wilbur's guilt in place of the waves and drowning when he's overwhelmed and suffering. I love how it ties to the waves being used for his mental state and I just ugh. I LOVE COOL LITERARY DEVICES‼️‼️‼️

Speaking of Phil though, holy shit. Their entire confrontation was insane /pos. I'm really curious as to what Phil and Techno were going to say before the boys cut them off. It makes you wonder if they could have convinced at least Wilbur to stay, given that he was having doubts about it. We will never know though but it gave us Wilbur using his Voice on Phil and holy shittt. Phil's pride from this reveal is so <33. Everything that Wilbur has said about the Voice makes sense to them; Techno and Phil have seen firsthand how little the sirens care about Tommy and Wilbur, that they're men and half sirens, they don't belong. The reveal that Wilbur can use his Voice (assuming that Ranboo hadn't woken up yet therefore hasn't told them that Tommy can also use his) is shattering. Despite all the trust that Wilbur and Phil have and the reports Ranboo has been giving, Wilbur still kept one final card to himself. Ofc he's proud.

Also Wilbur's tear before the shuttle door close eueueueu. Stars!sandduo my beloved. You are so </33

But fuck Essempi just waiting for them. Heartbreaking but also I am going to try make this more lighthearted by imagining Sapnap just waiting in that huge fucking ship for months on the off chance that if Wilbur and Tommy leave, they'll use their own shuttle. Probably not what happened but this is how I'm choosing to cope.

I wonder how the AE is going to react when they find out that Tommy and Wilbur were caught immediately after leaving orbit.

Great chapter, I am distraught

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LMAO YOU WERE DEAD ON ABOUT RANBOO'S INVOLVEMENT I READ YOUR ASK AND WAS LIKE OH THEY GOT IT

yeah, uh, aimsey is PISSED. they're not a major character in this, but i still wanted them to have their due part with this as well. they're ranboo's closest friend in the palace. they've been friends for a WHILE now. they trusted ranboo with so much, only to find out he's spying on their friends (and then finds out he shared private information they gave him with his mentor). ranboo lied to them, and they're very, very hurt by it.

aaa thank you!! I was very proud of the connection to oil. I wanted the guilt to be described as something gross and heavy in your gut, something you can't ignore. along with that, oil on troubled waters is an actual turn of phrase since sailors used to drop oil into the sea to calm the waves, so I thought it was a clever way to tie that in as well.

god i've had that confrontation with aeduo in my head for SO long. phil's proud smile after wilbur used his Voice on him was something I thought of over a year ago now when I was first brainrotting this au. it was so so fun to finally write out. phil is so proud of wilbur for holding that card to his chest for so long. he's so proud to see just how cunning his boy can be.

(ranboo hadn't woken up by that point so yeah, that was a shock for both him and techno to find out)

LMAO ngl essempi kind of has just been waiting for months to see if they leave the planet. sapnap wasn't necessarily there the whole time, but they've had eyes on the planet for a while. like, they knew the brothers were on zephys iv. they knew eventually they'd have to leave, and there was mostly just some surveillance on the planet to see if the brothers ended up leaving with a full military in tow so they'd know if they needed to prepare for an invasion. but then the brothers just left on their own! all alone! perfect opportunity to scoop them up :)

oh aeduo are not gonna be happy with this development