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Mars and my own stupidity are trying to kill me | Neutral Good-ish | ✝️ | aroace agender | INFP-T | multifandom

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heyo, im mouse

i don't have a blog theme or subject because the brainrot is real and i cannot separate it out. i tried, and you can find the attempts scattered around under various other anony-mouse-[word] blog names

my tags are both comments and also for blacklisting. i'll tag for spoilers within a day or so of something new coming out unless someone asks me to keep tagging it for longer.

blacklist tags: #us politics, #food. (previously #food cw), #abuse cw, #rape cw

fandom tags: regulars: #tma, #batfam, #dc, #marvel, #leverage, #su

minecraft youtube: #mcyt (applies to all), #hermitcraft, #hc9, #trafficblr, #dlsmp, #empires smp, #dsmp

personal tags: #op, #mouse's life, #mouse's writing, #mouse's soapbox, #mouse's musings

let me know if I miss any tags or if you need me to add a new blacklist tag!

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i can think of very few plot points of homestuck that were not hilarious. like the trolls can talk to the kids at any points in their timeline, but the first time karkat talks to john he embarrasses himself so badly that he refuses to talk to john at any point in time following that. so he continuously talks to john earlier and earlier in the timeline, and john never knows what he’s talking about because all of the conversations he’s had with karkat were from his future. and from john’s perspective, karkat knows less and less of what he’s talking about as he moves forward in time, bc he’s only ever talking to younger versions of him. this is the exact level of intricacy almost all of the plot points operate on 

and the payoff of finally getting to see the first conversation karkat ever had with john is like

had a dream that I got free top surgery from a mysterious man in the woods. the man was joe hills

this is what happened

[ID: A messy 10-panel comic drawn in pen.

Image 1: A back view of Moony walking through a dark forest. Moony is a demon with horns, pointy ears, and shoulder length hair.

Image 2: The viewer can still only see the back of Moony's head. Joe hills stands in front of them, among the trees. He is drawn faceless except for his glasses. Joe says, "howdy i'm @ joehills. I can remove your lectern and full cauldron"

Image 3: Moony's face. They have circular eyes and no mouth or nose. They say, "wonderful. just the lectern please :)"

Image 4: Joe stands over Moony holding a knife and a pizza cutter, while Moony lays on his back on a large rock. Joe says, "lay down here." Moony says "i trust you with my life."

Image 5: Joe's face. He says, "ok you're done"

Image 6: Moony is drawn from the chest up, with his arms spread, giving two thumbs-up. He is shirtless and now has top surgery scars with stitches in them on his chest. Words across the page read, "NO MORE TIT!"

Image 7: A side view of Moony laying down in bed. They are drawn as a human this time. Their eyes are closed.

Image 8: Moony sits up in bed, their eyes opening.

Image 9: Moony slaps his chest. A caption reads, "(still tit)".

Image 10: Moony glares with his eyebrows furrowed, dark shadows under his eyes. He says, "god damn it @ joehills"

End ID]

Aquatis: the lost empire of the seas and the swamp. once magical and prosperous, there are tales of a massive disaster that sunk the heart of the ocean, and with its disappearance and the disappearance of the ocean empire, her sister swamp empire fell to ruin, seeming to dry up and vanish overnight. aquatis was rumored to be a place of great magics and powerful beings, but such things are dismissed as fantasy by modern scholars.

Obsessed with the characters who stay light hearted and joyous but who have stolen it from the darkness. There is blood under their fingernails — there is pain under their eyes — there is hurt in their timeline and they have felt every blow. But they have refused to let it take their joy, their sun, their kindness, their heart. This. This is mine. This is the thing no one gets to touch. The people who are unbeatable simply because they will always look up from the ground with blood on their lip and a light in their eyes. And nothing can ever cut out the light in their chest. Nothing can touch their rebellious, boundless belief that the universe has a sense of humor. I stay silly, I stay open, I stay alive and alive and I lived when the whole world said otherwise. the dandelion in the pavement. The vine on the wall. I lived and I loved the inherent brokenness of a once whole thing and it was me, I was the thing that is whole no longer. I gave flowers to the darkness. I gave my soul to the light. 

Aquatis: the lost empire of the seas and the swamp. once magical and prosperous, there are tales of a massive disaster that sunk the heart of the ocean, and with its disappearance and the disappearance of the ocean empire, her sister swamp empire fell to ruin, seeming to dry up and vanish overnight. aquatis was rumored to be a place of great magics and powerful beings, but such things are dismissed as fantasy by modern scholars.

listen to me y'all. listen. hear me out. i know the hesitating to kill the monsters with your children's face angst is spicy. i know it's tempting. don't fall for it.

phil didn't fucking hesitate for a second. he's the one who got everyone else to stop hesitating. once he logged back in, he attacked the codes immediately and shouted for everyone else to do the same. he hates the imposters and he hates them more for daring to use his children's faces. the angst isn't the idea that he would struggle to obliterate a threat to his family.

no, the angst is what happens after.

the angst is the next time tallulah needs her papa's attention when he has his airpods in and she shakes her maracas and he doesn't hear and she has to decide between asking him about the botantical garden and "it shook its maracas too much so i killed it"

the angst is the next time chayanne is feeling clingy or scared and wants to stick close to his father's side but in the back of his mind is just "it got close to me too much so i killed it"

the angst is that phil can see their fear because he knows them and he reassures him as much as he can that he would never hurt them and he would always know the real them but all of them have to live with the question of "but what if you don't"

the angst is phil giving them passwords and code phrases to memorize to prove its really them to soothe their fear of him not being able to recognize them because he solves his problems in the most straightforward, practical way he can but now they're just scared of what if the codes learn the passwords and phil explains that the passwords are just another layer of protection they're not everything and then they're right back where they started

the angst is two children huddled up together in a hotel away from the windows trying to decide if it would be better for their father to kill them by mistake or die by the hand of a monster wearing their face because he didn't think to strike first

the angst is chayanne privately asking phil the question he's trying desperately to pretend tallulah hasn't also thought of: what happens if wilbur comes back and it isn't wilbur?

the angst is phil replying with "he's my son too. i'll recognize him." and he doesn't remember everything from before the island but there's an old ache in his wing that seems to tell him that recognition may not have been enough

the angst isn't that phil hesitates. the angst is that phil doesn't. the angst is that phil loves his children too much to hesitate. the angst is that sometimes doing the best you possibly can by your children will still fuck them up so so so bad