I’m making heaps and heaps of stock today, and I’m pumped. In the autumn/winter I love just drinking stock in the morning more than tea, it’s so comforting and nourishing. Highly recommend.
One of the great things about fiber arts (at least to me) is that... you outright own the things you make. It's hard for me to comprehend actually owning something, and that's that. The item you have created doesn't need to come with strings attached (pun intended).
In a world where you are constantly buying things but not owning any of it, truly, it's such an odd experience to actually have ownership of your labour, time, and love like that.
This kid, despite their name, was never lucky. They lived in poor, cramped conditions and were probably neglected and forced to grow up too fast, too. Even when they thought "hey I wonder how everyone up there's doing," the other part of them has "moved on."
All signs point to a bad life, or at least one that Clover found unsastisfying.
Then they climbed this dangerous mountain to deliver justice, to do something useful for once, to prove that they can be a hero, something more than they were (doesn't this remind you of a certain star monster?)
Starlo is this child's father you can't convince me he isn't
Did things change in the underground? Nope. They were literally killed who knows how many times before Flowey messed with the switch, and even on the pacifist route, the kid got beaten to the ground, tricked, attacked, discriminated against, used and insulted, yet they STILL always found it in their little yellow heart to look for the good hidden behind the 'bad sides' of these monsters, who became their family. And this underground, this messed up place, became their home. A home that they cared about so much they decided to lay their life down for it. For everyone they've come to love. Because Clover finally realized the truth: vengeance will only spread more hate, but through kindness and forgiveness, we can move past our mistakes and become better versions of ourselves. THAT in itself is the true meaning of justice. Giving others the opportunity to grow, to change, to improve, to live, to love. Even Star himself said it:
Clover was never meant to survive. But they did live and went out with no regrets and only the friends they made along the way on their mind.
They may not have been "lucky," but they brought luck to so many.
I know a lot of people don't want Cullen brought back for various reasons, BUT it would be really satisfying to have just a minor voice acted appearance of Cullen done by anyone else than Gregg Ellis to distance the character from him.
I’ve got my dropout subscription back after my bank got weird about it ❤️
And I’ve got to say, Bingo and Deja Vu are some of the most quintessentially Game Changer episodes of Game Changer. Currently watching Ify aggressively twerk at Siobhan over a math puzzle, while Trapp is trying to master the pronunciation of “Solzhenitsyn.” And everything is covered in spaghetti.
I’m saying this to advertise the show to those who might not have checked it out, by the way. If you like chaos, go Game Changer.
so today being the 5 year anniversary of BIG, i wanted to check out my old phannie insta (@phans_snowflake, check it out if you wish) to see what i posted when it came out, and funny enough i found myself getting quite emotional. like… it’s so silly. my instagram was a repost account where i just posted dnp memes that i thought were funny. but like… here i am, so many years later. doing the same thing. there’s something about me finding dan and phil at such a young age that made me so comfortable to be exactly who i am. like that young girl has so much ahead of her, so much heartbreak and sadness, yet through it all she was so unapologetically passionate, gay, and weird. she was truly herself. all because these british millennials showed her that is so okay to be weird! and then she got to watch as those same people who taught her to accept herself were able to accept their own selves. and five years later, they get to be more authentic then ever and you still get to squeal at their videos because your past self will always be such a huge part of you, and you know that she’d be thrilled. thrilled that you’re out as gay, thrilled that you’ve come so far, but most importantly thrilled that you get to watch new dan and phil games content. i had my priorities set straight! so hey, we all got through it. maybe there’s more to come, but we’ll get through that too. so cheers to my younger self who found her comfort through dan and phil memes and cheers to all of us years later, doing the exact same shit. and thank you to dan and phil for showing an entire generation of nerdy queers that they should embrace who they are, i’m so happy that you guys get to do the same. you deserve all the queer joy ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 happy five years of BIG! love you phannies