I have a defense of Jake

I dunno how liked Jake is here as an individual. But people didn’t like the poor guy on YouTube so… I’m here, hello hi 😊 my credentials are: I love Jake and I binged seasons 1 and 2 last week 😊

Jake is characterized as… well… gullible. Too trusting and too sensitive. But is that fair? … Yes 😓 I like Jake. But yes 😊 BUT! Okay, but >_> Jake… went through A LOT on Disventure Camp and before it. Before the show he said he recently ended a toxic relationship. And DURING the show, he lost his grandmother, who he really loved and cared, while he was on a reality show. He couldn’t see her, he couldn’t say goodbye >_<

THEN, a couple episodes, if not the next episode I don’t remember, later, he finds out his best friend, and crush, was lying to him the whole game. He’s already messed up emotionally from his grandmother passing, now this? Of course the guys gonna lash out >_>

Now, the part I think people were ACTUALLY upset at him about, The Ellie Thing, which extends into The Tom Thing. Now, listen. We saw Jake and Ellie bonding from the day Ellie transferred to the Teal Team. They became good friends. You can say what you want about him, but you can’t say he’s not loyal. he was loyal to the guys alliance with Dan and Tom, he was loyal to Miriam, and he WAS loyal to Ellie. I think it’s… fairly reasonable to expect the same loyalty in return.

Now, yes, it’s a game. But Jake never treated it as such. He forged GENUINE connections. With Miriam, with Tom of course, and, he thought, with Ellie. So, when his Good Friend Ellie tells him he overheard Tom saying horrible things, he doesn’t want to believe it. But he also doesn’t want to believe his Good Friend Ellie would blatantly lie to his face. And, let’s not forget, he did TRY to talk to Tom, but Ellie would NOT let him. Immediately after Ellie said her lie he said ‘I should go talk to Tom and get his side.’ but she shuts it down and feeds more to him. Now, again, was he being gullible? Yes 😊 that’s not the argument here, that he’s not gullible >_> the ARGUMENT is… the guy was FUCKED up from episode 5 all the way up until his elimination

Now time for ✨The Tom Thing✨ I would like to start this by saying… I legitimately love Jake and Tom as a couple. And I hope they get back together in All Stars. Call me delusional if you want, I don’t care 😊. With that saaaaid… Yeah Jake and Tom were uh… a little messy. To put it lightly. They started off as friends, and as the show went on they started flirting and they started to develop feelings for each other. Very cute :3 But the problems start when Jake finds out Tom was lying to him about being a spy and why he was even there. Now, you’re on tumblr. Chances are you have mental illness 😊 /j. Tell me you wouldn’t ALSO go down Jake’s train of thought? … Exactly, I would too >_>

We find out that due to Jake and Tom’s argument being uploaded to the internet, Tom was fired from his job. Jake immediately apologizes, or tries to, but is pushed away. Literally. Later that same episode they get to talk properly and Jake DOES apologize and promise to be better. Tom apologizes too and they promise to be better with communicating with each other. In the spirit of that, Tom tells Jake the real reason he was on the show, and his job, takes off his mask, he confesses he’s ashamed of his scars. Jake says he thinks Tom looks good and then they kiss, starting their relationship properly. Yay happy ending :3

… I wish >_> THEN, the aforementioned Ellie Thing happens. And, again, Jake, to his credit, DOES try to talk to Tom right up to the end but is always cockblocked by Ellie. Fiore and Alec, mostly Fiore, enact their own plan of exposing Ellie and making Tom use his Immunity Totem incorrectly on Jake which causes him to go home, with Tom blaming Jake for it because he believed Ellie and ‘didn’t try to hear his side’, when Jake did try >_>, but Tom was angry, I get it. On his way out, he yells at Jake to never talk to him again. If it seems like the official launch of their relationship didn’t last long it’s because it didn’t 😓 but not in a queer baity way, I don’t think.

Anyway, in conclusion: I love Jake. His character was genuinely interesting and sympathetic to me. Especially his storyline with Miriam, those were my favorite parts to see ☺️ Was Jake perfect? No. Did he make mistakes? Yes. Will he fix these mistakes in All Stars? He better >_> depending on how much time has passed between these seasons he really could have worked on himself, maybe even started therapy ☺️ I want the best for Jake and I want the best for Tom and I want the best for the both of them together because I love them together >_>

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I like putting my art on here so take these I drew tofay 🥰

Stanley’s design came out waaay softer than I wanted him to look but I’ll fix it in future art I just wanted to draw him smiling

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Aww, that's so swee-

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heart hands by jimin🥹

bonus + hands: putting his rings on

people really thought afo was just going to fade away into the background without tomura getting any proper resolution huh, even with afo explicitly before dying saying he's still got a trump card up his sleeve with the vestige

..I think it's very obvious when a mixed poc listens more to their white parent 😶

The brain dead takes I be seeing in regards to G3 Clawdeen is staggering like..yall don't have enough biracial characters to harp on?? The fuck.

G3 is so outrageously..white and made for white and other white passing people. Idk how to explain it but thats all I see what this show.

(And no. Some lgbt rep doesn't make this a good show. A few steps forward shouldn't ignore the several other steps back. Be so fr.)

It wouldve been GREAT if they just used new characters cuz like..I think we've gotten past the need for reboots, they're NEVER good (and they've made monster high seem far less accepting which..is a choice. And its not even about fashion anymore?? Like..do kids these days not like fashion dolls or something?? Cmon now.)

ruinbringer › galvus.

i went "haha what if i tried this url because it's obviously going to be taken," and then this happened.

broccoli boy 🥺

I just found out about a tradition in Indian colleges (at least, in my parents' time)

There was an event called Rose Day, (which went on for a couple of days), where people would anonymously give others roses (white = peace, yellow = friendship, red = romantic love). There would be a board in the canteen where there would be a tally for who had the most roses and the guy and the girl who had the most roses would be crowned Rose King and Rose Queen.

Now I'm tempted go write (another) Mindy College AU based on this event 💀

(if I placed you under a clear night sky and rotated it through the year, how many would you be able to recognize just based on memory?)

a very random rant in the tags lol

well i...i don't know. i mean. i mean, for me...i could love someone even if i...you know..wasn't paid for it. i love you, and...you don't pay me.. (mike..) i really wanna kiss you man.

i love alphys. i love when women suck *

(* this is a deliberately obtuse statement for humor's sake. alphys is smart and inventive and she has a unique perspective of the world, allowing her to achieve things that not even gaster could have dreamed of attempting. she feels as though she has to follow in gaster's footsteps, an impossible, daunting role. but she doesn't. because she is a completely different kind of scientist and her research and accomplishments are just as monumental as gaster's were. she doesn't need to continue a dead legacy--she's creating her own.)

(above all else, alphys wants to help people. she wants to do good things and make life easier for those around her. when it comes to her lying to frisk and setting up all those "challenges" throughout hotland, i think she was so overcome with guilt and self-loathing that she just... wanted to feel like a hero. even if only for a moment. even if it were staged. everyone looked up to her as a hero, and she let them all down. and she needed something, anything, to hold onto at this point. [of course her priorities are completely out of wack but i think her irrational selfish decisions and actions and all the mistakes she makes help her feel more real.] and then... she let another person down, didn't she?)

(she spends so long running from any sort of accountability but she stops. digs her heels in. she turns around and faces the enormity of what she has done. the scene in the true lab where she tells everyone, "it's time to go home." is one of undertale's strongest moments. she understands that admitting to her lies and attempts to hide does not mean she'll be forgiven. she's not doing it to seek out that forgiveness and relieve herself of guilt; she's doing it because it's what's right. even if it costs her friends and loved ones. even if it's scary and hard and hurts more than hiding away forever.)

(i hope to see her shine again in deltarune at some point. i suspect we will. she is the high school teacher, after all. because she's a fundamentally good person, she undoubtedly cares deeply for all of her students, and that care and concern for their well-being will likely be what causes her to stumble into the mess that's brewing just beneath hometown's prim, boring surface. i look forward to getting to know her again in this new world, because she is a very, very well-written character and one of my favorites. *)

(** also she sucks)

it's just i tend to forget how controversially lae'zel is perceived by the playerbase bc i'm online mostly just on tumblr and i guard the content i see :") a week ago i was reminded of that tho when an irl invited me to her coop game and she was extremelyyyyy weird about me romancing lae'zel as a half-orc whueeehhh hinting that they r both ugly not in a subtle manner at all

Ended up binging the first book in 5 days and loved it so much, I bought the rest of the series today 📚