I just finished chapter 15 of 'Love, Death and Rollerskates' and Oh Damn
This post will contain slight spoilers so beware
Guys we already know that Sun also has his memories wiped by Afton but has anyone picked up on the fact that Afton also manipulates both Sun and Moon to hate each other?
I mean listen.
They are both so deeply convinced that the other is a monster. It's not just some manipulative tactic to keep the reader for themselves (as I thought for Sun in the beginning tbh). They really do think it's the truth. But how did they end up thinking this way, and why?
Welp those are very interesting questions but they're not exactly the right ones. What we have to ask here is who does this hatred profit to?
And here we have an answer, and this answer is William Afton.
Why? Because as long as they hate each other, they 1) forget that he's the one controlling them because they both have a scapegoat to blame for their situation and 2) can't team up to beat him, leaving them isolated and powerless.
Which is so damn clever to be honest.
So yes Afton erases their memories, but I also believe he takes this opportunity to fill in the blanks with some made up stories and/or manipulate the truth to nourish their hatred.
The worst part is the fact that he doesn't have to participate that much in it: all he has to do is twist the facts just enough for them to drift apart and stop communicating, and the rest is only a vicious circle of misunderstandings, negative emotions and lack of communication, that will never stop unless they actively seek to break that pattern and communicate.
For now I think Moon is the one who would recognise this pattern the most easily, because he's the most logical one of the two, and he already knows that Sun is being manipulated as well and experiences memory losses, he just doesn't know to what extent this affects his counterpart. Whereas Sun is in complete denial of it all, covering it with some sort of toxic positivity, and the narrative he gives is incredibly self-centred and based on his feelings rather than the facts, making it impossible for him to see the whole picture.
Reader have a crucial role in this dynamic, because both Sun and Moon care about them deeply, making them more keen on listening to y/n and taking their words into account. This is both a disadvantage and a good news: reader can aggravate this circle if they start picking sides and talking negatively about one of them to the other, but on the other hand, they could be able to push through the mutual hatred and get them to talk together again, with a common goal for the two of them: keeping y/n safe, and maybe, break free from Afton's emprise.
Anyway thank you for listening to my rants, I had to type this WHOLE SHIT twice because Tumblr didn't save my first draft lmao
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Guys I need you to know about my weird ass dream:
Bart and Wally were hanging out. Everything was a pinkish-purple and slightly distorted, like I was watching them through a wall of rock candy.
Wally leaned over to Bart and said "I like men, I think. I'm bi. I always have been, I've just never said it out loud. It changes nothing in my life and it changes nothing about me but I think it's good to be myself. It's good to be honest about myself."
Now at this point I was shocked. Elated but completely bamboozled. I wasn't aware that this was a dream so I was F R E A K I N G out. I remember thinking "Holy shit, did DC just say that Wally is bi??? And have it just be a casual thing that changes nothing??? Without it disrupting his relationship with his wife or family?!?!"
My mind was running wild, which is why it took me a few minutes to process when Bart said "Oh cool. Me too."
Guys.
People.
I was ready to explode.
Then the pinkish-purple crystal wall they were in changed from sorta bi colors to just straight up the bi flag.
Which was weird because neither one had acknowledged the strange setting before this but suddenly Bart seemed to notice and he was incredibly confused.
Wally laughed. Like a cartoony villain laugh. And said "I knew it!"
Then he turned into Mirror Master.
I was sent reeling as I realized a) Goddammit, Wally isn't canonically bi, that was just Mirror Master apparently b) Oh holy, shit they've been inside a crystal/crystal dimension this entire time and c) Mirror Master's evil plan was apparently tricking Bart into coming out??
Anyway, I woke up after that but... what.
What the fuck.
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EDIT: HEY this is a take of mine from a bit ago that I no longer agree with. No idea why it's getting some likes still. I am keeping the original take under the cut because I don't want to act like it doesn't exist but we have since gotten a lot more info from Tubbo about how he feels about labels and such, but even before we got that extra confirmation this take was not great. Sorry if this post is getting recommended to people for some reason!
One more thing. "Don't assume streamers are straight in the first place" can and should coexist with "Don't use words for them they don't use for themself." If everyone had started calling Tubbo a Gay Man after he put that emoji in his bio that wouldn't have been great because he's never used that label for himself. Like you can just be patient and wait until a cc is ready to elaborate on what words they do/don't like to use for themself (if they ever decide to share) you don't have to rush to find a word to use to tell the whole world a streamer may not be straight
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have seen at least two posts of “photographs” of flowers where at least one is definitely ai generated (it was tagged thank god) and the other looks suspiciously similar so I’m looking into it. just a heads up that thats something we have to look out for now for some godforsaken reason
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Honestly, as always, and I need to say this bc I do keep telling people in the CritRole fandom to look shit up, you need to CHECK the sources the wiki cites when it gives information bc I swear, I keep noticing really grave errors. Like, it's a good idea to double-check the source on the information bc it might be very wrong or completely mis-representative.
Don't just take the damn wiki's word for it, check the source if you can, because I've historically had experiences where the wiki is outright wrong. I'm telling you this as a regular contributor.
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Anyone else get to a point in lesbian gender weirdness that makes you incapable of being attracted to straight girls? Like as a lesbian I'm specifically attracted to people who have a similar gender to me, and being sapphic makes up such an important part of my gender that I can't consider someone who's not wlw to even be in the same realm. Straight women are definitely not the same gender as me, and non-wlw nonbinary people aren't really either. Nonbinary is an umbrella term after all, and in my case the gender under that umbrella is "dyke." To me that means that other sapphics, whether they're nonbinary, transfem, or cis, are automatically gonna be closer in gender to me than anyone else. I can't be attracted to straight girls
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