breaking news: utah man returns to workplace after 2 years!

"dance with me, wil!”

I'm gonna be real no matter how I feel about... the whole Utah thing, no quote will ever be as emotionally devastating to me as "But I never did quite forgive myself."

silly little poll in honor of the anniversary and because I’ve seen mixed opinions about this;

feel free to give your thoughts and reasoning in the tags, and even if you don’t want to please reblog this so I can get some actual results since the poll is only 24 hours

Boundless Sands

Hiiii my discourse is that the Utah stream was cool n fun but from a storytelling perspective it was one of the strongest beats in Wilbur’s arc but one of weakest beats in Tommy’s arc. Wilbur leaving Tommy behind felt like it was pandering to the side of the fandom that always frames Tommy as a perpetual victim. Wilbur should’ve asked Tommy to come with him and Tommy should’ve refused = Tommy finally asserting his agency as separate from Wilbur + a demonstration of Tommy’s inability to give up on his obsession w Dream. Weird hill to die on but I’m dying here.

strongly agree / agree / ambivalent / disagree / strongly disagree / don’t care whatsoever

I don't precisely disagree that it exemplifies a weak beat for c!Tommy wrt his independence from Wilbur, but I do disagree that c!Tommy was emotionally situated to tell c!Wilbur to leave him in that stream.

Reframing things in the way you're describing would constitute a reversal of Wilbur and Tommy's priorities--that is, Wilbur would now be the one who can't let go, and Tommy would be the one willing to relinquish the relationship. While this does give Tommy more agency, I think it runs far too contrary to the entire point of Boundless Sands (and tbh Wilbur's other goodbye streams) as it exists for me to really think it's in character: which is Wilbur wanting to separate himself from Tommy/the server and move on, Tommy being unable to move on. This is a theme that, for Wilbur, has been building over his entire apology tour, and that, for Tommy, will be continued in the finale streams.

It would also reverse Tommy's priorities wrt Dream and Wilbur. Like, I do not think that Tommy's inability to give up on his obsession with Dream is something particular to Dream or something that outweighs the strength of his relationship with Wilbur. I think it all stems from a similar place emotionally, and his preoccupation with Dream has always been framed as secondary to what he's got going on with Wilbur. Given the choice between "follow Wilbur" and "stay and hunt Dream" I simply cannot see Tommy choosing the latter. Moreover, Wilbur's reliance on Tommy in return has always been a crucial part of that dynamic (unlike with Dream, in which Dream is a totally uninterested party at this point in the story.) So Wilbur breaking one vertex of that triangle is, I'd argue, totally necessary to finalize that relationship and to cue up what's coming in Tommy's development, which is a continued inability to let go right up until the finale. Relatedly, I view the genuine finale as thematically impossible while Wilbur remains around: Tommy is only able to see how stupid the conflict with Dream has become once Wilbur's out of his life, and that's because Wilbur was too powerful an influence for him to push away on his own.

Not to mention that Tommy thinks that Wilbur's hinting at suicide for a good part of that stream--I just don't think that's very conducive for Tommy to tell Wilbur to go off on his own. also also I think Tommy threatening Wilbur with a sword when he says he's leaving is very cool and fun.

you’ve been abandoned yet again

strawberry juice and the sea

Inspired by @ghosts-and-blue-sweaters ‘s poem, which in turn was inspired by @aliveburs ‘s fic. Also inspiration taken from my own poems

okay i still cant get over boundless sands where c!tommy threatens c!wilbur with the sword. he resorts to violence so he doesn't leave him because that's all he's ever known :(((((((

Boundless Sands

I really struggled with this one. didn‘t know how to combine the line style of the background with the semi realistic foreground and kinda gave up on the lillies on the right side, haha. It adds flowiness this way, but idk if i‘m truly satisfied with them. My solution for combining the two styles was mainly adding more texture to the realistic parts, like screentones on the lillies, but what really pulled it together was the stark shadows behind the flowers. Its a good transition between the two elements i think.

I hate this fucking place

so I think I've come to terms with it. sure, it was f'ckin' stupid and drove me up the wall for a month. sure, it was both the most unsatisfying and funniest thing in the world. but I think I've got it. he gets in a boat and sails to a land-locked state. sure, whatever.

and THEN I go to type the word 'it' and instead type 'ut' and I AM ONCE AGAIN REMINDED that he left a note for c!eret saying "c u in ut" and that UTAH was one of the JOKE GUESSES and then it was actually REAL and sorry how is this the reality we live in.

wdym boating to Utah it's a LANDLOCKED STATE

sometimes I really wanna sail away

How r we feeling about recent lore fellas???

Just rewatched boundless sands for no good reason and like. BAD idea I am shaken to my core but also upon further reflection (and seeing the other dsmp endings).... yea it was good