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#but what monkeys paw shit is this
silverbirching · 8 months
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Love, Sweet Love.
So the Husbando and I recently went on our belated honeymoon (got married in a hurry last year because of the Supreme Court thing) and we picked up some prints by the talented Dan Elster (https://bigpicturegreetings.com).
Let me take you on a tour of our selections, and thereby give you a tour of my marriage. Please keep your greasy mitts to yourself, the soft furnishings are 'look don't touch' and I swear to god if you tap the glass on the aquarium and startle my chiclids I'm going to have a docent taze you.
My first selection:
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Look at this pretty boy, peeking out from a tree! He is beauty, he is grace, he's going to leap down from the tree and eat your fucking face. V. Decorative.
My second selection:
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Elegant, wonderful composition, slightly goth. Am I the only person who was keeping his fingers crossed that John Uskglass was going to crash King Charles' coronation and give him a wedgie? Not just me? Wonderful.
AND MY HUSBAND PICKED OUT:
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THIS horrendous thing, a Cthulhu nightmare bird, which I will be looking at first thing in the morning every day for the rest of my life. His beady eyes watch me sleep. I cannot escape. If I wake up mind-flayed one of these mornings YOU ALL KNOW WHO TO BLAME.
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snarkylinda · 1 year
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The first half of s8 really said I will give Spencer everything before leaving him in a semi-catatonic state for half a month huh.
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megaawkwardhuman · 9 months
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This whole guillermo vampire thing this season reads like a monkey paw wish
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allgremlinart · 3 months
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re: lrb sorry I didn't rb that dutch addition on that post but it was like. TOO funny for me to take seriously. and it's something that SHOULD be taken seriously!! "globalization" is often another word for "destruction of localized language and culture/neo-colonialism" so like. very much on page w that post.
. .. but the dutch thing was TOO funny sdhshs
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Not sure if it's incredibly stupid or incredibly smart to give Wally access to this lab.
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On the one hand? Unspeakable horrors. On the other hand? It's supervised unspeakable horrors.
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abyssal-soul · 1 year
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I know everyone is probably talking about the new obligatory waifu in the 6.3 pictures but all I have eyes for is the dungeon gear????????????? Is it finally time to get the dyeable diabolic stuff of my dreams??????????????? EXCEPT THE TANK IN THE SCREENSHOT SEEMS TO WEARING THE MAIMING VERSION?????????????????????????????????????
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viviantimmet · 11 months
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Dream Journal 6/15/2023:
there is an orange and white ball python behind the bookshelf. I feed it, and take a photo, where you can see the two geckos it has swallowed beneath its skin. Wait What? But I had to give Koy away! On a second glance, it is just a giant lizard, which is fine, sometimes there are giant lizards. PSYCHE there's both, the snake has just left. It is perhaps some offspring of Koy (that is never something I question too deeply in my snake dreams). It is crawling about, leaving bloody streaks on the floor(??!!). Its movement is weaving and wobbly, its head at an odd angle, sort of collapsed. The blood is from its heatpits, smeared down its chin and belly. Dad appears in the hallway. We converse. The snake looks more and more broken. I assent to putting it out of its misery. Dad holds it down by the neck and crushes its misshapen skull beneath his heel.
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penisincorporated · 1 year
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I gotta admit. I am jealous of your anon fans. No one asks me anything.
I used to get jealous of blogs that got lots of very soft and gentle asks like "your blog reminds me of a cozy library" or "hope you're having a beautiful day lovely, may the sun kiss your skin" but I eventually realized getting anons about elves being denied bathroom privileges, vacuuming grass, and knowing next time I log in there's a nonzero chance someone's gonna put something fucking insane like "don't eat out of the toilet at Chipotle. More seasoning at Taco Bell. Just took a fat shit, ayeet 🇧🇩 " is significantly more exciting to come home to
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clownjacket · 16 days
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Okay but what if this is a cosmic Monkey’s Paw situation Kipperlilly is fucking MISERABLE right now. Like, she was a shithead teen that was jealous of Riz for having a dead dad and a ‘tragic backstory’ because it ‘made him a better adventurer and was an unfair advantage’, and then on her first real mission her entire party got killed and coerced into serving an evil rage god, except for her very best friend who stayed dead. And she HATES IT. It’s like one of those old fairytales where a kid doesn’t do their chores and talked back to their parents, so their parents abandon them and the child gets eaten by a demon and somehow that’s ‘justice’, so you better behave kid! I mean, Ankarna IS a corrupted goddess of justice. It just seems funny to me that she’s LIVING her tragic backstory RIGHT NOW after complaining to Jawbone for two years about not having one. And the worst part is, from a CERTAIN PERSPECTIVE, she was a little bit right. Kipperlilly DID only start doing actual adventuring and rouge shit after she was forced to by an evil god who killed her and is currently holding her friend hostage. Like, it didn’t have to be that way. She could have done that stuff at any time. But her current ‘tragic situation’ is what’s currently FORCING her to get off her ass and adventure. Just the most fucked up, disproportional, unfair approximation of cosmic ‘justice’ imaginable.
Anyway this is a theory??? I guess. Just a direction I hope the story goes in/acknowledges. Because it would be funny
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mayasaura · 1 year
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So... about Kiriona and why she's Like That, and what's been happening these past six months.
She hasn't just been living her worst monkey's paw life as Ianthe's chew toy and bored prince, acting as emotional support for her new dad in his dismyriad crisis. Which would all be bad enough on its own. At least half that time she's also been actively deployed. Like, in the military, in a combat zone. Probably in a command position with very little experience and exactly zero training.
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From the scattered mentions we've seen of Antioch, Kiriona was most likely deployed there to quell a rebellion. No doubt a terrible experience that would have expected her to do horrible things. Then these things—the devils—turned up.
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Anyone who was infected by the devils, she had to dismember them and burn the corpses. Edenites, House, and civilians. That means regular old people who had nothing to do with the fighting, and people under her command. Either they became shambling zombies with mouths for eyes, or they were mercy-killed and burned before they could be taken.
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How many people did she see die? How many people did she kill, and how many of them did she consider herself responsible for?
So if we're counting the reasons Gideon might seem a little off, we might want to take into account how she took a detour though a fucking zombie apocalypse while we weren't looking. Shit.
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thecheesesposts · 13 days
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"Okay everybody just calm down. We're gonna fix this. My boyfriend back there in our apartment found a cursed monkey paw and I made the mistake of wishing for 'a giant, huge, ass' and the cursed thing made me a giant with a huge ass. I know it was a vain wish but I figured it was innocuous. Clearly I was wrong. Don't worry though we have four more wishes. Just give us a second and everything will be back to normal."
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"Okay, I know this looks bad. Oh shit is that the stadium? Isnt there a game today? Oh hello back there. Full house I see. I hope everyone's okay! I'm trying to be careful but I'm getting too big. My legs barely fit between buildings anymore. We are working on it though. A lot of your are getting free shade so that's a plus right? Just trying to be optimistic about this. Those last two wishes were just practice, we're zoning in on a wording that will fix this. Just one more wish and everything will be normal. Trust me."
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"I'll be the first to admit mistakes were made. I really thought I had it guys. I think we can all see this is..what the? Hey did you shoot me missles at me!? I mean it didn't hurt but RUDE. We have one more wish okay? No need to declare war on me or anything. Jeez. We've got it now, we've exhausted all the tricky wording and have a wish that can't possibly make me bigger."
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"WELL SHIT. THAT WAS WISH FIVE EVERYONE, GAME OVER. I REALLY DID THINK I HAD IT. OOF IM BIGGER THAN THE PLANET! WHAT MUST I LOOK LIKE TO YOU ALL DOWN THERE? WOW NORTH AMERICA IS GETTING ONE HELL OF A BOOB VIEW HUH? I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW I CAN BREATH. THIS IS... I GOTTA BE HONEST, AMAZING. MAYBE ITS JUST THE CURSE TALKING BUT IM NOT MAD ABOUT THIS, NOT MAD AT ALL. BABE IM NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT WHERE YOU ARE DOWN THERE BUT I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD VIEW."
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two-dolla-bills · 3 months
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Since the first introduction of Frankenstein being a real person in this universe, Jekyll has expressed that she was a great inspiration for his field of study, and I mean, how couldn't she be. She made a whole person from mismatched corpses using nothing but the science at her disposal and being driven by pation, who wouldn't want to be like her? Because of this, once Jekyll finally meets Frankenstein in the flesh, he is very obviously saddened by being called nothing short of a narc as well as being accused of being an "imposter," but at this point we all know that. What I love about this is that despite being insulted to his face and told that he was a last resort, Jekyll AND HYDE both desperately wanted her approval, or at least that she would give them the time of day.
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BUT, because he's seen as a clean and polished version of what true mad science really is, Frankenstein does not give two shits about these two. From her perspective, she has little to no reason to assume anything might be even the slightest bit off about Jekyll... except for the whole green eyes incident. It was only a crack, but other than that Henry just seems like a normal English gentleman but ohhhhh OHHHHHH
Now, with the whole truth being laid out for Frankenstein to see, Jekyll and Hyde have have her undivided attention, but in the absolute worst way possible. Instead of approving of their work like a teacher would a student or even as equals in the same field, she's seeing them as a specimen to poke and prod and find out what makes it tick. Hell, before Jekyll transformed, Frankenstein was kicking him out of her room and even opened the door for him, only to shut it the moment she saw what happened, and even went so far as to call it fascinating.
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No, yeah, this is technically what they wanted (having Frankenstein's approval) but it's given to them at such a low point in their lives that it ends up being an entire monkey's paw of a wish come true
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thewertsearch · 9 months
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GG: when i was REALLY young, i was sure the doll sitting across from him did it GG: and for a long time i was terrified of the evil blue girl!!! GG: she sort of haunted my childhood and i had trouble sleeping for a long time
The funny thing is, you probably did have trouble sleeping because of an evil blue girl. Vriska's been awfully trigger-happy lately.
GG: but of course i got older and realized that was silly, but then i just speculated that maybe it was suicide
Homestuck's overall tone isn't too dark, but sometimes it sucker-punches you with shit like this.
The Jade who 'got older' was still younger than thirteen. She thought he killed himself, and then she stuffed and mounted his corpse.
AT: i JUST WANTED, AT: tO MAKE IT POSSIBLE SO THAT i WAS THE ONE INVOLVED WITH BEING THE HERO THERE, AT: tO SAVE YOU, AT: lIKE, tO PUT MYSELF IN YOUR STORY, iN A BRAVE CAPACITY, [...]
I think I just got monkey-pawed.
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Tavros, when I said I wanted you to learn from Vriska...
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This was not what I meant!
AT: tHAT'S WHAT FEELING GOOD AND POSITIVE ABOUT YOURSELF IS ALL ABOUT,
Kanaya and the rest did their best, but the simple fact of the matter is that Tavros doesn't understand self-esteem. He needs therapy, not well-meaning teenagers.
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AT: rEMEMBER, i TALKED TO YOU A LOT WHEN YOU WERE SLEEPING, [...] AT: wE TALKED ABOUT LOTS OF THINGS, aND WE HAD SOME THINGS IN COMMON, aND IT WAS NICE, [...] AT: aND i THINK [...] AT: tHAT MAYBE i HAVE SOME POSSIBLE RED FEELINGS FOR YOU,
My expression is Jade's. We are in sync here.
GG: i dont think i can reciprocate! [...] AT: bUT WHAT ABOUT, AT: mY ATTRACTIVE BRAVADO, [...] AT: iSN'T THAT, AT: sUPPOSED TO BE VERY ATTRACTIVE, aND ENCOURAGE THE MAJOR HAVING OF FLUSHED FEELINGS IN OTHERS,
Forget Karkat and Vriska. I think it's Tavros who's been watching too many Earth movies.
I can't dunk on him like Eridan - there's a world of difference between the two - but I am a little worried that the Prince of Hope has been coaching Tavros behind the scenes.
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ramshackledtrickster · 4 months
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Thoughts on the tyranny of king Washington dlc?
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Not good.
I believe I’ve talked about this before on my blog but I can’t find the posts to link back to rn unfortunately.,,
But uhh I’ll just. Lightning round it real fast
“it’s all a dream” dumbassery
Racism behind the scenes (exclusion of indigenous talent and consultants that were present in the main game, very little care or no usage of the Kanienkehá:ka language, etc)
P much non of the indigenous cast returned except for Noah as Ratonhnhaké:ton. Ziio, Kanen’tó:kon, Oiá:ner… all different people (and all white or non indigenous if memory serves me right. I heard a story where Tiio Horn didn’t even know the dlc was being made until Noah told her at a con)
Killing ziio again for no god damn reason. And Kanen’tó:kon. Oh how about we kill Oiá:ner this time too. All of em died shamefully.
Writing Ratonhnhaké:ton pretty badly,,?? Idc if it’s bc of the weird tea he drank he shouldn’t be an asshole to Kanen’tó:kon and have that go unaddressed
Making him more animalistic and a jerk in general. Like the animal spirit dream segments keep making him run around on all fours n snarling n shit STOP IT
THEY WROTE ZIIO SO BADLY????? She only appears as this big floating head after her death shaming him for drinking the tea and she finally says “you’re no son of mine” JESUS CHRIST???????? This is not my Kaniehtí:io who are you and what did you do to her. No amount of girlbossism is gonna fix this for me
The spirit animals powers and plot … self explanatory (I love how ac3 took efforts to avoid harmful stereotypes and then just mega beamed it into the dlc)
His outfit,,, most of the game is in winter why aren’t u dressed more practically omg. Also I get.. weird vibes from it idk. It low key feels like an excuse to just make him scantily clad eye candy (also they debuffed him a lil which makes me sad. You are dehydrated !!!!)
“Wouldn’t it be wild if George Washington was genocidal good thing he never had the apple irl” hate to break it to you but— (I’m sorry I just. The framing in the game irks me where they treat him being racist as being the result of the apple and that he’s just a misunderstood guy that wants a vineyard or whatever tf he said in the game)
Thomas Jefferson being here and being a good guy. Idk I just. I don’t like it.
It has a salvageable premise,, a reimagined history timeline of a largely indigenous cast rising against a maniacal George Washington that shoots lasers. In the hands of a better crew and artist i think it would have been great and fun but as is.,,
I also like bad end alternate universe stories where someone gets dropped into a world where everything they know is wrong!! Call me silly but. Phineas and Ferb across the second dimension. But no yeah this is awful awful awful despite using a trope I like.
The only good thing I can say about tokw is that it has a great score. Lorne Balfe knocks it out of the park again but no yeah this kinda sucks ass imo. Also Noah’s voice performance really went off here but that’s it.
If I find the posts I talked abt this before in I’ll link it here but yeah. Lucky me that my favorite ac game also has the worst dlc of the entire franchise. And so the monkey paw curled.
Also heads up I’m not indigenous so when I talk abt the more racial stuff here, I’m not speaking from experience but rather what I’ve learned from other people who discuss stereotypes in media and what should be done to allow better representation
Anyways that’s abt it will edit if I find my old posts
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derkattun · 3 months
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i dont ever post my own shit but im thinking about magnus protocol so hard. i dont know if anyone else has made these connections yet so please dont come at me too hard.
i DO know people have drawn connections to these cases and the monkeys paw, and im building off of that. i know this most recent statement seems to draw most to the fears, ie slaughter violin, but i still dont think the TMA fears, smirke's 14(/15) exist here at all. i think it is ALL desire.
think about it (lots more under the cut)
(also some stuff specifically with alice and the security notification too because it leads into that)
case 1.1 - lover wanted their partner to come back. partner does come back, or "some of him". they got what they wanted, but not really. got it back wrong
case 1.2 - redcanary wanted to explore the magnus ruins, wanted pictures, wanted to figure out what was going on in there. we all know what happened to redcanary, at least enough to assume they figured it out and then Paid The Price
case 2 - she wanted to be perfect, she wanted something about her to be perfect, she wanted the tattoo, she wanted to fix the parts of herself that werent "right"
case 3 - he wanted his partner back (again) he wanted to live happily and for a long time with her, he wanted to escape what he had done
case 4 - he wanted to shed the shackles of his family, make something of himself, be a musician, be famous, and was willing to do whatever it took to get to that point
i think, i THINK, if we stop trying to categorize this as fear and start thinking of it more as desire, MAYBE gwen isnt as much of a red herring as i, at least personally, thought. she wants nothing more than to be in lena's position, and lena has told her, literally, she "doesn't have what it takes"
sam's desire, we're figuring out pretty quickly
i also think we have colin pegged pretty well
alice. alice is a fun one. i think she was the most well-adjusted in the OIAR because she didn't have, or at least didnt act, on any specific desire. but she is now. alice's desire is all about keeping sam safe, showing him it's better to NOT have desires about the job.
how did she get access to a security notification that didnt go to someone with adequate clearance?
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coreofmyfruits · 2 months
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HEAD CANNONS !
★ Billy Loomis + Stu Macher
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Stu Macher ↓
Physical traits
Pigeon toed
6'4
Has to usually duck down through door ways
Slouchy posture
Has immense upper back pain
Prone to head aches
Left handed
Large hands (Billy calls them monkey paws)
Warm hands
Has a bunch of scars on his knuckles
Has a lot of scars in general but they accumulate in the same general areas
Personality
ADHD
ASD (autism spectrum disorder)
NPD (narcissistic personality disorder)
Stu got diagnosed with ADHD at a young age due to always being an interruption in class and especially silent reading, always having to get up and be doing something. Not too long after he got diagnosed with ASD because of his lack of awareness and his parents concerns about him being behind in class work (he just wasn't doing it). Stu never got properly diagnosed with NPD he never even thought of himself being a narcissist.
Likes and interests
Horror movies (mainly psychological thrillers)
His favorite movie is Eraserhead
Favorite color is black (because when he first met Billy he thought Billy's eyes looked black)
Loves to read
likes to read to Billy in silly voices (especially when it gets to a 'serious scary' part of the book)
Likes Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde
He likes hip hop and rap but really likes ska punk and surfer punk (queercore is also a must)
Likes low riders
Unironicaly loves the show Pimp my Ride
Actively ghost rides the whip
Wants a jacuzzi in his car because of Pimp my Ride
Likes to compare hand sizes with Billy because it pisses Billy off
Uses Billy's head as an arm rest
Steals Billy's clothes specifically his pants because they're baggy enough to fit but he can wear them as low-rise and he loves when Billy tells him to take off HIS pants because Stu looks 'stupid'
Stu just likes it when Billy turns red and tells him to take off his clothes
Always an opportunity to carry Billy anywhere bridal style never an opportunity not to
The scent of Billy's shampoo and how he naturally smells like pinecones and rain
Antique surgical tools
Dislikes
Bitches, cunts, liars oh my!
Sydney, not because he's jealous of her and Billy but because he used to have a crush on her
Betrayal
Abandonment
Being ignored
Talked over
Fish he fucking hates fish
The beach after it rains
Tooth pain
Unneeded laugh tracks
Sitcoms
YA romance novels
White women audacity
Starbucks
Lines
Victim mentality and complexes
Billy's stubborness
Love languages
Acts of service
Words of affirmation
Physical touch
Sexuality
Bisexual
Billy Loomis ↓
Physical traits
Slightly bow legged
5'9
Overly Straight posture
General neck pain
Tense shoulder muscles
Has Hyperacusis
Prone to migraines
Left handed
Shorter fingers wide palms and strong grip strength
Always has cold as fuck hands
Has a lot of scars mainly on his middle to lower back
Half Mexican
Easily tans
Frizzy hair
(slightly) Allergic to red food dye
Personality
ASD (autism spectrum disorder)
ASPD (anti social personality disorder)
Billy has not been diagnosed with either ASD or ASPD he's not even aware of the possibility of him having one especially not both at once. Billy's father was never around enough to notice Billy's acute behaviors or to even think of getting a specialist to diagnose him also Mr.Loomis is a lawyer it wouldn't look good for his job if his son was 'crazy'.
Likes and interests
Horror movies (slashers)
Favorite movie is before sunrise
Favorite color is teal (he would never admit it but it's because Stu looks good in teal)
Mainly listens to the same three bands (pixies, Radiohead, my bloody Valentine)
Loves the song pink triangle by weezer
Has a guilty pleasure for 40s and 50s love songs
Likes to draw
Favorite artist are Keith Haring, Andy Worhal and Francis Bacon
Draws like Franz Kafka (he doesn't know who Franz Kafka is this is just a reference to what I think his drawings would look like)
Really likes playing in the mud and jumping in puddles
Loves worms
Eats the shit out of some Oreos
Plain hotdogs
Likes how large Stu's hands are
How Stu smells like warm wool and fire
When Stu picks him up
Biting Stu (mainly his shoulders)
Stu in HIS pants
Tea
When Stu reads to him
Blood
Phantom skulls
Dislikes
Sydney, he's never even liked Sydney not before he found out about her mom and his dad and especially not after... He just always had this feeling
Tatum Riley (he looks better on Stu)
Cops pigs and donuts
Healthcare system in America
Abandonment
Betrayal
Being cut off
Being hung up on
Noise in general
Phone bills
Lawyers
Ableist(ism)
Ableist infrastructure
Gender pay gap
Misogynists
Hamburgers
Poppyseed buns
Layering clothes (he would rather freeze than put more than over shirt on)
Socks
Shoes in the house
Hot weather
Sweating
Baths
Coffee
Reading
Love languages
Words of affirmation
Acts of service
Gift giving
Sexuality
Asexual (non sex repulsed) and queer
Tags !
@ghostfacemp3
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