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I was at Barnes and Noble today looking at legos and this really buff, toxic masculinity looking guy comes up and starts looking at legos. I get a bit nervous bc, yk, it’s a full grown man and i’m half his size in an empty part of the store. Anyways i just kinda shuffle away from the Star Wars section to let him do his thing. But then like three minutes later i get a tap on the shoulder and inside im just like “oh, fuck. this is it” But when i turn around this dude holds up this little bird lego set and the freaking mona lisa set and just says “im indecisive. which one?” I stare at them for a good minute, bc im trying to be genuine about which one he would like best. The bird one looked kinda childish and like it would be a quick build, so i was like “Mona lisa. Takes longer” and without even nodding he just oh so carefully set down the birds and walked off with the mona lisa. Idk how to feel abt that interaction but ive been thinking about it on and off all day

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"Doctor, you may begin the process"

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Hunter: We have ways of making people talk Crosshair: *brandishes knife* *Omega walks in* Hunter: Omega, we're working right now Omega: *holds up a drawing* Hunter: Oh wow! Did you draw this? This is so good!

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i was like 11-12… 🥲

Sometimes I forget that a notable portion of dsmp fans actually were like. literal children

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man of progress

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Old ass huntlow sketch that i never finished

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In case anyone walks into a Bass Pro during Christmas and would like to know how they hold the large red banners up:

Binder clips would be your answer

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c!Tommy phrasing the end of the dream smp as "when everyone went away" and clarifying that the nukes weren't canon is so interesting to me. Everyone, minus perhaps c!Jack and c!Tubbo just.. Went away. They moved on. The Syndicate made their way to the end with c!Kristin, c!Ranboo left with Michael to the nether, Jack.... Got into gambling, I guess. Everyone, for some reason or another, left the place behind.

And they left Tommy with it.

Of course, Tommy left too, but he's the only one who comes back to l'manberg. Comes back to the greater dsmp in general. It's as though he could never truly sever his ties with it. He says he's almost happy. And I think that's because he can never truly move on from it all. And I don't think its a coincidence that Tubbo is the only other one who's mentioned to still be kicking around the place. Tubbo and Tommy are inexorably tied to L'manberg. They're the only ones alive that have that connection to it.

Tubbo was around for the longest in L'manberg. Longer than its creator. He was there for the war, for the schlatt administration, for new l'manberg, and for its final demise. He couldn't leave it behind once and for all because so much of his life was spent there.

Tommy is part of L'manberg. L'manberg was created in his visage, it was an extension of him. He couldn't leave it behind once and for all because it was so much of his life. The idea of L'manberg persisted throughout all of his life. Even in exile, it was the only thing keeping him going.

They're the only ones who can't move on. Not fully. They're trying. They're almost happy. But they can't leave it all behind. I've seen a lot of people calling this a c!Tommy happy ending, but really, it was Almost Happy.

And I think one day he can be Happy. But we won't see it. We got our closure, but he hasn't. Not yet.

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midas touch

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OK OW

i think about this moment and beyond so often.

this earth-shattering grief, how the whole world, despite it currently ending, drops off into blackness for joel right here.

i so often wonder how long he sat there with her. how long he was able to sit there with her. whether he carried her limp and cooling body as far as he could, whether tommy begged him through his own grief to leave her sleeping where she fell, knowing that he couldn't lose another member of his family.

did they get the chance to bury her? is sarah laid in a shallow grave not far from her home, her bones secret to all but her father and uncle and animals who stumble across them over the years?

would joel ever be able to find her again? if he rode out to texas, would he find that sunken ground and know it was his baby girl who rests there? would he be able to look?

or would he search for hours, panic clawing up his throat when he realises he can't find her, maybe can't even remember the exact spot he left her? along with all the other things he has started to forget - the sound of her laugh, the exact pattern of her freckles, her smell when he held her, what colour the bobble in her hair was on the first day of school.

he feels like even more of a failure. he couldn't protect her, couldn't take her place on the other side of earth then, can't remember where he let her slip through his fingers now. the bloody print of her hand on his arm that he could not wash off, the watch he has worn every day for the twenty years since.

if they couldn't bury her, does the thought of her body laying to waste out in the open haunt him? does he sink the thought down so deep it's like she never left at all, or does it come to him in nightmares? in moments sat at the kitchen table surrounded by new family, people who should have known her too?

does he have a place for her in boston? somewhere he goes to remember her? does he have one in jackson, aside from tommy and maria's chalkboard? a place on a hillside beyond the walls, surrounded by butterflies and wildflowers, a little cairn he raises just for her. a place where he can be with his sarah, talk with her into the sunset, and when he turns his head he's still so surprised she's not there.

and maybe, maybe, when his time comes around, he finds himself surrounded by wildflowers and butterflies just outside jackson. maybe, maybe, in the home he built in texas, untouched by years and tragedy. he can hear her bound down the stairs - finally, you're here - or he turns his head on the hillside and his baby girl is already there, sarah -

sat beside him like he knew she had been all this time.

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have we got any owl house fans in the house ,,,

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Finally found these promo arts in high quality!

Also the hearts around Lumity are crazy, this is from s1😭

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turtle helmet👑🐢

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rewatching toh

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villain bedrockbros