#whatever. whatever

[unfamiliaris]

anyone saying stuff like "I could NEVER get severed I don't know how ANYONE could do that" is wildly missing the forest for the trees. WE know that it's an abusive procedure that ultimately gives you more trauma than just doing the unpleasant things would have ever given you, because we've watched the innies in their environment this whole time. your average person in the literal town of Kier, PE, would have no way of knowing this. you might like to think that you'd remain morally superior were you ever to find yourself in this universe, but severance isn't a show about watching what happens to other characters and coming up with better ways to do everything so you can win at severance. the show is a cautionary tale about the dangers of compartmentalizing your grief, and a reminder that every minute of every day takes up the same space in our lives. severance says that fracturing yourself from all negative experiences is essentially separating yourself from humanity, refusing to allow your life to be balanced with experiences you can't be bothered to feel. you can debate the reasoning for anyone's decision to get severed if you want, but to be very clear, no one decided to sever themselves because they knew they'd be getting tortured for 8 hours a day and thought "yess this is awesome"

[fangwhoria]

oh so nobody want to play toys (accidental buck pregnancy) with me

[blueskittlesart]

in the nicest and most non-confrontational way possible. i feel like some of you think that anything that isn't directly openly spelled out for you within a story is "missed potential" or "unexplored." like. sometimes there are implied narratives. sometimes the point is that you as the reader are supposed to think and draw your own conclusions and participate in the story. the writers not directly spelling every little detail out for you doesn't mean that the story is poorly written or missed its own plot details somehow. PLEASE.

[nodosauriday]

i know she ate a cheese(cake)

[socksran]

i dont care I DONT EVEN FUCKING CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[officialmichaelnesmith]

(at the function trying to socialize) haha so do you guys think as dundy was dying he begged ned to eat him à la fitzjames on his death bed. do you think ned looked him in the eye knowing this man is the closest thing left to an equal he has at this rate and he’s dying right in front of him and honoring this awful request is the last thing he could reasonably do to make himself useful and somehow matter to somebody. do you think he cried tears he didn’t have with dundy’s flesh between his teeth. do you think he hated him for it. for even asking such a thing of him. do you think he spent any of those last moments, any of the last modicum of consciousness he had, to even entertain the thought of forgiving him for it

[katrinasis]

happy 413 homestuck number day etc etc now look. the interesting thing about spades slick is that he alone out of all the versions of jack noir managed to develop emotionally beyond “born to kill universe is a fuck 19383727 kids dead” and “if i just murder enough people maybe i can satiate my hatred for all creation and utter boredom with reality.” now im not saying slick isn’t a ultra violent mass murderer because he is. the difference is slick has actual purpose in life beyond wanting to mindlessly kill people for the shits and giggles— he made a fucking city! he partook in creation despite the fact that he’s supposed to be diametrically opposed to it! he’s got a crew to run and needlessly complex heists to plan! spade slick avoids bec noir’s ennui and eventual exhaustion by actually doing something with his life, by actually working towards something productive rather than just trying to subsist off the temporary catharsis of mass murder forever. he is the most actualized jack noir in the sense that he is the only on to go beyond his base instincts and actually create something of value for once.

and the tragedy is that it’s all for nothing. every true spades slick scholar knows the line “nothing left to lose, or live for” but i think it’s worth unpacking what this actually implies— that being, slick is actively trying to end his life in cascade rather than just wanting to settle his score with sn0wman and not caring about the consequences. everything he has ever done has just been part of an LE-typical long con to get all his friends killed, get him into the exile vault, get him to doc scratch, and eventually put him into a position where he has absolutely nothing left and into a headspace where he thinks he might as well be dead anyway. he did literally everything he could have done right as part of the game— helped the players, rebuilt society, aided creation— and yet in the end was still fucked over harder than anyone has ever been fucked over before or since. sorry slick you’re going to be replaced with the version of you with no emotional development at all. sorry slick. but after all, who would ever mourn a jack noir?

tl;dr spades slick is the most tragic character in all of homestuck. WV is a close second but only because he was a grown ass man and a traumatized war veteran and then the narrative decided to make him davekat’s dog

[matteoberrettini]

genuinely hilarious btw how people on twt want soo bad to make matteo a villain in jannik's story or some shit like it's a disney movie. less than a month ago he said they'd talked recently and he's never had anything but good things to say about jannik but to some people it'll never be enough because he made a decision for his career that i understand is hard to digest but it has nothing to do with his relationship with jannik, jannik himself said it doesn't bother him, they both have never indicated they weren't on good terms. like yeah we can't ever really know the truth behind what they say in public, but i think we should stick with what we can see and read, yeah? because making wild assumptions based on nothing doesn't lead to anything good, it's just speculation and i don't see what anyone gains from it?? i think maybe some people need to grow up and accept that they don't know these people. they don't know jannik and what he thinks or feels or who he talks to or who avoids him or whatever. we know what he shows and tells us and that has to be enough because otherwise we go down dangerous paths

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

im gonna have an american werewolf in london style transformation in the middle of my workplace so i can go home early

[zzoupz]

Three M⊕r†is for Sweet Revenge

[teethkid67]

The z a

i do declare they are smoking that shit

[halflifebutawesome]

something something Gordon looking unchanged from the last time Barney saw him. he must’ve looked like a ghost

[lapdogchase]

i know it's well intentioned + in the world where everything is beautiful i agree completely. but the amount of "just start hormones right now no matter what fuck the consequences" i see around makes me so sad . bc i Can't bc if i do my parents will take me off their health insurance. & i can't work let alone work enough to be able to pay for my own insurance. and even if i didnt get it thru insurance i couldn't really hide my voice dropping and stuff. Not to mention the danger of being a visibly trans man while also visibly small and weak and also disabled. especially while still having boobs which takes away almost any chance of passing especially since i cant bind anymore. like it is just not a possibility right now and i knooowww its a Me Problem and nobody is thinking of My Specific Situation etc but god it makes me sad

[avbvee]

really fast redraw errr

[sanchomps]

doom eternal being so obsessed with face reveals they forget the captivating mystic of leaving the helmet/hood on and letting people fill in the gaps with their imagination