#troy with sam

[ahhrenata]

thinking of them finding each other in the Seam 🥲

[newtdrawz]

Fav phrase is "I just wanna put [character] in my pocket"

Like yeah I'm just gonna pick them right up, put them in my jacket pocket and leave

[little-red-fool]

Happy birthday Troy Baker.

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

while i will always love and appreciate the bisexual dean winchester agenda, i truly believe that if he was raised differently—or maybe if he grew up today instead—that boy would have been gay. like his love for women in a romantic/sexual context was always such a caricature and was continuously used as a symbol of masculinity that played against the roles assigned to him by his father growing up for the sake of suppressing any queerness he might exhibit. now whether that suppression was purposely written into his character or was a reaction to the character they had created, i’m not sure, but it’s there regardless.

i don’t mean to dismiss the love he felt for cassie or lisa, but particularly with lisa, i’m not sure he was ever in love with her, despite the fact that he did care for both her and ben. i get so frustrated watching the end of s5 because him going to her house and his perfect “apple pie life” being with her in suburbia genuinely came out of nowhere and i’ve never understood a) why it had to happen, and b) why it had to be lisa. but thinking about it in this sense, she was the closest thing he had in his life to everything he was raised to believe he should want by one john winchester, who lost his perfect wife, perfect family, perfect apple pie life and sent all of them down this path in the first place. so of course to dean, his happy ending would be with someone like lisa. but that’s the important part. someone like lisa, not lisa herself. he may have had love for her and he may have been able to picture a life with her, but it wasn’t necessarily because she was everything he wanted; she was a symbol of the things that tore his family apart and so to be with her felt like he was finally able to put some of it back together. and that makes me so sad for him because all of that is a result of the sense of responsibility ingrained in him growing up by john, not something he wanted for himself.

but back to his general attitude towards women, there was an excellent post that said he only acts like the typical womanizer he has a reputation for being around women deemed “stereotypical” by the misogynistic perspective. otherwise, he tends to take on a fairly brotherly role; he doesn’t tend to pursue any women he can “take seriously,” and is more intimidated or impressed by them than anything else. with the exception of cassie (which was pre-series and we never got full context for in the first place), he only ever pursued women with whom he would have a definitive ending—by that i mean women who he knows he’ll never see again or who would have a clearly defined role during the time they’re together that wouldn’t threaten the status quo. and yes these could also be the traits of a commitment-phobe or someone chronically on the move, but for one, sam doesn’t tend to do the same thing (see ruby, amelia, and eileen), and for two, given the things i mentioned already, it makes me consider it more of a result of him not actually being interested in women romantically.

his reaction to women when not purposely used as the butt of a joke or to perpetuate the “womanizer dean winchester” agenda is often so innately fraternal, caring in a way that doesn’t have any expectations behind it. and when there is a romantic context, so much of the relationship can be attributed to the way john raised him and the beliefs he has as a direct result; it’s never simply been built on the foundation of love.

every time he is dismissed as this macho het guy, it also dismisses so much of what makes him a wonderful character, and yes a lot of that is his queerness. so in a world where he didn’t grow up with roles and responsibilities that shaped him into someone he knew his dad hated and forced him to create this character for himself in order to survive? i think he would have been gay and he would have been okay with that.

[yellowballoon64]

him

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[asianrabbit]

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (2025)

[xxaequitasxx]

Pardon me while I go jump off a cliff

[three-unspoken-words]

A lot of the time I feel empty, hurt, and confused. But it all seems to disappear when it comes to you. I know who I want to be around you. You make me want to do better, and because of you I am better.

But as high as you make me feel the fall when you leave is deeper than before.

[skys-metro]

felt like making an edit of Norman's new post to be DS themed 😭

[the-fatal-impact]

Recycling of old jokes...

[zowiemortem]

Death Stranding scribbles

[person4924]

oh how i love you troy barnes :(

[raiden-brannigan]

Higgs from death stranding is so wild cause I beat the first game recently and i didn't really read or collect many of the interviews so the entire game presented him to be as just this batshit insane nihilistic terrorist with an almost cartoonishly desire to end life itself.

And then you go and actually read the journal entries that are his backstory and while he is still all of those things you learn he's also kind of the victim here between his childhood and constant exposure to death and BTs of COURSE he would grow up hateful of humanity and be "seduced" by someone who can give him godlike powers and promise extinction.

And then Sam comes into the picture and you can feel the jealousy being implied at in the story. Why does she pay attention to him and not me. Why does she love him and not me. The room full of pictures of Sam is insane when you read into everything and look at the bigger picture. He's not just obsessed with Sam, but he's so deeply jealous that Amelie genuinely loves Sam and not him that it's literally driving him insane.

Higgs isn't a one dimensional "crazy terrorist" antagonist like the cutscenes suggest. He's a scared, traumatized little boy who just wants to belong somewhere and is immediately swept up by the one person who is able to manipulate him by giving him unlimited power and a way to get back at humanity itself for "wronging" him. He isn't some grand criminal mastermind like the game tells you at first. He's a victim, yet another pawn in Amelie's game. It just sucks literally all of this is only found in the supplementary material.

[cheetyuwu]

[defconprime]

[lilinyxx]

What are you favorite fandoms.

A lot! So I drew them for y'all:3

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Cuphead (Cuphead; Don't deal with the Devil)

Spinel (Steven Universe)

Lotus Eater/Winnion (Epic the Musical)

Sun (TSAMS/The Sun And Moon Show)

Cupcake (FNAF)

And so much more I didn't mention