I love how we made all those jokes about Phil having a crisis when Dan was away, like needing to be babysat by their friends and killing all the plants, but we just got the lore drop that Phil actually had a mini crisis and started dying everything in the house green for no apparent reason?? Like Dan leaving truly made Phil so bored and/or unhinged he decided dying his bathmat green would be fun. Is Daniel Howell of all people this man’s impulse control? How many weird impulses has Dan successfully stopped? How many has he encouraged?

me when i'm hyping up the hyperfixations

me, after v9e7: things are bad oh no

me, after v9e8: THINGS ARE REALLY BAD OH FUCK OH NO

ok. i see u complaining about how long it takes to get to shb, how are you supposed to get your friends into the fucking WONDER that is shb when they have to get through all of The Other Stuff First

I used to have this problem with Homestuck, people who wanted to skip to the trolls, or pass on the intermissions. I will repeat what I said then now:

The later stuff is mind-blowingly good BECAUSE of the setup slog. which is also fun btw, you’re having trouble selling it because you keep saying it’s a slog. it’s good storytelling! yes even arr and sb (i didn’t say it was the best storytelling!! but i’ve seen way fuckin worse!!!). You need to spend 300 hours with the characters and to watch them grow gradually for a LOT of the little character moments to even register later on, and i’m not even talking about the ascian reveals. estinien is a completely different character. thancred’s deep-seated issues have been brewing subtly since 1.0. the socio-economic political climate of the universe is SO important and SO well set up by the arr random task/fetch quests (BABY INCONSEQUENTIAL QUESTS. YEAH THE STUPID ONES IN THE INTRO PRE-SASTASHA SEQUENCES WITH THE NPCS YOU DONT REMEMBER. THOSE.) and that info is integral to character decisions made in every expansion afterwords, and is built upon consistently. the consistent build-up of the lore is, in my opinion, almost entirely the reason ffxiv’s writing stands out against other games of the genre. and it’s BOLSTERED by the fact that it’s a live service game with a shit ton of expansions you HAVE to play through single file when you start fresh. narrative games are usually 15-20 hours. ffxiv is giving you 500+ in msq alone (won’t get into how much the optional and side quests support the storytelling as well).

It’s like one of those long-running book series. you can’t ask someone to read Just the last book of animorphs and expect them to understand the narrative implications of what’s happening, or to get attached to the characters enough to care. that attachment and understanding is built by spending time and reading the other 1500 books prior. shb should not be treated as a stand-alone. in fact it’d be a bad standalone. it’s good BECAUSE there’s 500+ hours of playtime required to get there.

Coping by embracing and romanticizing getting doomed by the narrative

Mafia!Bucky arranged marriage AU coming Tuesday at 5pm EST!

Sup Losers, It’s Meg McCaffrey! And here is my Crazy Family

@annabeth-the-wise-girl (Smart)

@calypso-daughter-of-atlas (Annoying short person’s tall girlfriend)

@the-argo-2-matchmaker (Has a jedi mind trick)

@bow-down-to-rara (The best)

@sunny-boy-solace (Glow stick)

@best-dam-huntress (Jason’s sis)

@team-leoo (Annoying short person)

@tyson-the-cyclops (percy’s brother)

@the-amazhang-teddybear (big baby)

@that-one-dead-sister (Dead)

@why-did-i-get-acne (I owne him)

@everyone-is-a-punk (punk girl)

@silena-styles (also dead)

@percys-blue-food-vendor (best dam mom)

@percy-jackson-is-a-seaweed-brain (kinda cute…)

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fic psa if anyone is on my blog searching for update news: my laptop is broken! it’s been sent to florida to get fixed! I was going to try and write on my tablet but my car broke down in an unfamiliar city and I waited 27 hours for a tow and someone saw me on the side of the road and tried to help me and then he cut his finger off and I had to go with him to the ER and my tablet died (as did my spirit)

all this to say the chapter actually is written I’ve just had no way to post it, but you can expect it at some point???? girl help

will you still think i’m hot if i bring up the patriarchy and acknowledge the roles we both play in giving it power over women especially through the establishment of an unattainable and labor-intensive beauty standard

New April Fools day theory just dropped: Dan and Phil post a photograph of them and a dog on April 1st and everyone freaks out. How dare they dogbait us! How dare they play with our fragile hearts! But sike! They have had this dog for weeks - no months - and were just waiting for us to be at our most high alert and vulnerable to reveal it. The dog is named Norman because they may be cruel but they are not particularly creative in the naming department (see every single Susan). The dog appears in literally every video from then on <3

oh my god

oh my god

this renzei cg. his very first one.

his ass.

look beyond his ass.

it has taken me. FOUR. FOUR!!!!!!!!!!

FOUR ENTIRE YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

to notice there is a fucking dead man there. what the fuck dude. ass so fine that the guy you killed did not register to me for four fucking years. incredible.

alright you can go back to looking at his ass now thanks for your time

new percy jackson trailer reminded me of this meme so i had to make it (s/o to @auradon-bore-a-don for the idea)

emet selch + text posts (1/??)

Sometimes I worry about Selwyn Kane as if he were a real person. Like why does my chest hurt

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Hello hello! I've had a lot of new followers since posting "The Cards We're Dealt", so I thought I'd introduce myself a little. First of all, thank you for following me and for all the positive feedback on my fic! I'm seriously blown away. Thank you. ❤️

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