so...John’s planning on pulling the plug on the world, right? Like that’s what he’s doing here?
I’ve just been turning these bits of ntn over and over in my head and tbh I can’t stop thinking about the description of 10,000 years of civilization as a first draft. John’s first resurrection didn’t quite end up how he wanted -- closest friends all dead, turned traitor, or both, fighting a war on multiple fronts, his only allies the corpse of his accidental bastard daughter and a twenty-something princess with cannibalistic tendencies whom he canonized as part of a failed attempt to revitalize his polycule-- but hey, it doesn’t matter, because he can just start over. All of NTN he’s in this depression spiral; he’s falling apart, he’s having orgy parties with his senior staff, he’s got at least part of his subconscious camped out in the comatose mind of a half-dead nineteen year old he tried to have murdered, treating it like a confessional booth; because right there, in the background of his mind through all of this, is the off switch. He can have his breakdown, and then just...let Alecto out. Erase it all, start fresh, and this time he’s got one attempt under his belt, he’s got notes for what to do differently, and so let it all fall to shit! Nobody else is gonna remember any of this anyway. Two worlds, now, that only John will remember. Maybe three, later; maybe four, what’s to stop him from redoing it over and over til it’s just right?
The issue with that, of course, is there’s really no way to treat the world like this and still care about it in the way other people do. You’d lose your ability to be affected by life’s events after a couple reboots and then what’s there to get emotionally invested in? When you’ve turned a person off and back on two, three, four times and you know you’ll probably do it again the next time something happens you don’t quite vibe with, how can you possibly look at them as a real person? Are they a real person, if they only know what you want them to know and do what you want them to do? And once you reach that point, once people aren’t people but project components for you to edit, what are you even bothering with all this for?? John started down this path because he so loved the world; what happens when he reduces the world to something he can no longer afford to love? Might as well pull that plug for good, yeah?
Anyway. I’m fascinated by the way John’s shitty mental state is dooming the world and it’s everyone else’s bad luck. The rest of the cast is out there fighting for their lives and he’s like *sigh* let’s try that again. take two, everyone!
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the wild thing about vriska vs. marceline final woman round is that they both came into being in the summer of 2010. marceline predates vriska’s first appearance by only about two months.
something was in the water that year.
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PROPAGANDA FANART BE UPON YE
Yeah it's super low effort and using one of the free tracing pose things from IBIS paint X BUT for being in a mental and artistic slump for what feels like eons, I feel like it's aight.
I doubt this will be enough to get Riddle the win unfortunately, BUT I'm hoping maybe to get a tie for my girls!!! @transfemtwsttourney is in the finals rn and you should 10000% vote Riddle!! Her going to collage away from her mother for the first time, slowly and messily figuring out her identity with the help of her found family, not wanting to disappoint her mother but also not wanting to BECOME her mother- THERES SO MUCH HERE TO LOOK AT AND DISSECT Y'ALL!!!
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Also tired of people thinking meme should bow down to Cory and be his bestie just bc he wanted to work her. The moment she trusted him, he threw their final 4 under the bus hours later. Some of y’all acting like he was her white savior and it’s getting weird…
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I can’t explain it but Sweden qualifying with whatever they send has the same vibes as Todd Howard rereleasing Skyrim on every possible video game console
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First image: 5:36 AM day of cat’s release
Second image: 8:12 AM day of cat’s release
Third image: 8:16 AM day of cat’s release
It’ll probably (no it will) change again within the next couple of hours. But with how it’s going the 50/50 is leaning more towards forgiven, because as of 8:30 AM (as of posting this) he’s inching close to a 52% forgiven.
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