#quadruple-double

[54625]

ah, fit lore

#qsmp #qsmp fitmc #fitmc #qsmp fit #qFit my favourite double triple quadruple agent #qsmp meme #qsmp memes

[zhukzucraft]

not-quite-Homestuck AU news and designs

first of all, big thank you to everyone who's shown support to this silly idea of mine. And yes, it's decided now! it will get made!! The estimated premiere date is April 13 for no particular reason

in the remaining time i'm going to figure out and post the designs for the players and explain some things about this project under readmores. So here goes the first batch!

about the game they're playing:

So first things first, the game i've decided they're going to be playing is basically Double Life²

my reasoning for this is:

it's great at encouraging teamups that wouldn't normally happen

it'll provide great opportunities for randomization and reader input

it was one of the shortest and least populated seasons

i want more of it dammit

but no worries, there will be a new twist or two added :3c and also new people. And all the soulbond pairs will be re-assigned

(this is probably as good of a place to mention that in my version all the players retain memories between sessions. B/c i thought it would be fun for them to have baggage)

#bdouble0 #bigbstatz #ethoslab #geminitay #goodtimeswithscar #grian #fan life smp session #not sure how to tag this AU yet #double life squared? #quadruple life? #double life 2 electric boogaloo the return of double life? #anyway my design philosophy with this is to make them simplified but recognizable #so i'll be adding some fanon features and my own interpretations into the mix #might change details later but in general i plan to use this post as a reference #b/c often it's honestly easier to find smth on my blog than in my files

[anerdindenver]

#anerdindenver #these are a few of my favorite things #riae #alex mucci #oof #double oof #quadruple oof if i'm being honest lol

[just-bee-lieve]

🎭

#my art #fnaf #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #william afton #henry emily #DO YOU GET IT. DUALITY. COMEDY TRAGEDY. THE PERFORMERS. #THE. THE. THEEEEEEEE. #the double meanings. triple. quadruple even. possible statement on autism as well. anyways. #i’m insane i think

[tangledinink]

kind of an uncanny resemblance, no...? :3c @tblsomedoodles @tmntseparatedaucompetition

#its ok leo will get some eventually #donnie thinks theyre cool but leo hates them on principle #and when i say principle i mean jealousy #but i think theyd get along overall u w u twin gang and all that lmao #leo: kill the doubles #donnie: i think theyre quadruples? #donnie is just gonna take this as an opporunity to rub the fact that he knows magick and leo doesnt in his face <3 #tmnt sep comp #gemini au #fidgetwing #mikeys imaginary friends au #propaganda #more or less anyway

[stbot]

vintage gays as vintage vinyl

#grease rise of the pink ladies #grease rotpl #rise of the pink ladies #rotpl #cynthia zdunowski #lydia rotpl #cynthia rotpl #lynthia #thesbians #i think i need a gif tag #rotplvinyl #i big love the set dressing changes in this number and how much the vibe shifts with each one while still staying consistant with the theme #it's really cool staging and i was just overcome with An Idea. #anywhosie! #maybe i'll try to do other songs or episodes or something #idk we'll see how i'm feeling about it #this was fun tho #geez i hope i didn't spell anything wrong #i genuinely can't even tell anymore #i've gone blind double-triple-quadruple checking the spelling on these #but all words have lost all meaning #what is merely??? what is players?? what is names????

[unorcadox]

i didn’t know it was possible to feel this at peace

#weirdcore #dreamcore #dereality #unreality #my edit #unorcadox #liminal #liminal spaces #nostalgiacore #y2kcore #old web #lovecore #trans wc #<- the double whammy!!! if you're t4t this edit is like quadruple for you

[sunshine-jesse]

The Incest End is Not The Bad End, Part 2: The Sane Ending Is Still A Bad Ending

In the first essay I wanted to deconstruct the idea that Ashley was the sole perpetrator of abuse. I wanted to take a look at how unhealthy their dynamic actually was and lay out clear indications that Ashley could, at the very least, fix her own problems, and wasn't a lost cause. I also wanted to show that them ending up together, be it romantically, in death, or even platonically (although I'm not convinced the Sane Burial ending can lead to that) was inevitable.

Here, however, I want to make a more difficult argument: That their relationship turning romantic is not just Not That Bad, but actually Good, at least in the context of what's best for the two of them in the long run. And to do that, I'm going to draw comparisons to the common narrative that it's the bad ending, again. I think it's the easiest way to explain my points, even though it might make me seem like I'm being contrarian or playing the Devil's Advocate.

But I'm not. I actually do think this is the only way they can heal. Why?

WELL.

My biggest driving factor for this belief is and always has been the difference in tone between the two endings. The 'correct' ending under conventional understandings of morality and relationships would be one where he breaks away from Ashley, but the only ending in which that's shown to be possible is the Decay ending. In the ending where Ashley has bullets in the gun (and therefore has control over the situation), she has to yield control over the situation to Andrew, and (going off the reading I established in the last essay) he understands and accepts just how much their dynamic means to him and how important Ashley really is to him.

In a sense, he self-actualizes in the same way he does in the Burial ending: Ashley yields control where it matters the most in both, resulting in him he fully understanding and accepting himself and what he wants, because Ashley's controlling nature no longer prevents him from seeing the truth. Ashley no longer casts a shadow that allows him to be blind to his true nature- his true desires.

In the Burial ending, he wants her either romantically and sexually (in the questionable ending) or as a friend (in the sane one). He lets go of his own need to control her, and accepts the fact that he was never better than her to begin with. In the Gun!Decay ending, he wants her dead. The damage has been done. Whatever final line was crossed made him realize that he can't control Ashley, and a world in which she cannot be controlled is one better off without her.

But in both, he can't live without her.

The tone of the Decay ending is tense. It's dismal. It's emotionally ravaging. Andrew is not acting like someone who wants to break free, he's acting like someone who has given up. He's angry and he's suicidal, but he no longer has any reservations about making intimate physical contact with Ashley.

…and Ashley looks terrified and sad, especially in the last screenshot, which gives off some seriously dark implications about what Andrew might do to her in the Decay route.

He's given up on healing. He's given up on being normal. His heart and his mind both Decay as he's dragged along by an Ashley who's doing whatever she can to try to not allow a murder-suicide to happen and only making it worse in the process, because SHE has no foundation through which to improve or change her perspective on the world, either (more on that below).

In the NoGun!Decay ending, we don't know what he does after. He fails to self-actualize because Ashley never yields that need for control, and he follows the same pattern he always does of resorting to violence the moment he thinks he's losing control. I highly doubt that the ending would be much different- he'd probably just mirror Ashley's reaction of violently kicking the body at first, but he probably wouldn't last long after. Both, in an attempt to regain control or save their own lives, feel temporary relief at the death of the other, because they no longer feel trapped and afraid of what will happen if they leave.

But they also both fail to come into their own as people. Their dynamic- of Ashley being the morally bankrupt one willing to do anything to further their own survival, and Andrew being the one who's careful and calculating and preventing her short-sightedness from causing unintentional consequences- was the only thing that allowed them to survive in the first chapter, and more than likely the second (we don't see the consequences of them not having the trinket's power in ep2 so it's impossible to say for sure). If they don't kill themselves after losing the other and failing to self-actualize, it's almost certain that the world will eat them alive. They're outlaws, on the run, and have nobody to lean on but themselves. Without each other to lean on, it's only a matter of time until they fall.

So. The Decay ending is very obviously bad. There is no freedom to be had from them breaking away from the other; only despair and death. There's catharsis to be had in miserable people meeting a miserable end, sure, but the story goes out of its way to show us that the path to that end will be miserable and unfun and horrifying with the only joy to be derived from it coming from pure schadenfreude. But the story itself makes it clear that this is not intended to be a happy ending and thinking of it as such means you're fundamentally incompatible with what it's trying to convey. It's just a horrifying tragedy of two people who never gave each other what they needed to heal and tore down everything around them in the process.

So, how is the Burial ending better?

The lighter tone is immediately obvious. Ashley trusts Andrew to believe in her, and Andrew goes up to bat for Ashley even in the face of an arguably superficial offer to improve his life; to start it anew. The two just generally have a good time together afterwards, joking around, having fun, and ribbing on each other in a way that comes off as playful rather than hurtful. Andrew, finally, makes progress towards -healing,- because he finally stopped lying to himself about how important Ashley is to him. Why do I think it's a sign of healing, exactly?

Because Andrew, for the first time in the story, is comfortable with what he's doing.

He's comfortable with dismembering their parents. He's rarely tense, hesitates much less, and comforts Ashley instead of just seeking comfort from her. He gives more than just temporary emotional validation; a lot more. So much more, in fact, that it makes ASHLEY uncomfortable. She has difficulty processing not having their push and pull dynamic. She thinks something is off, something is wrong, because she's never seen Andrew so comfortable around her before, or at least lacking reservations in showing that comfort.

She still thinks about the idea of controlling him, of trying to get him to stay. There's internal monologue about it. But that's the difference. Before, we rarely see any internal monologue of her thought patterns- she just acts. Not thinks. But here, she's unsure. Here, she has to look inward. She has to self-reflect. She still frames it as her trying to keep Andy around, but Andrew is making it obvious in both words and actions that he will always be there for her, and he's so COMFORTABLE about it.

Regardless of what her actions in episode 3 end up being, it's still clear to me that the foundation for her to heal is there. She's safe, because she has a warm, comfortable place to return to while she figures herself out.

"So," you might be asking, "doesn't this imply that she'll heal no matter what? Doesn't that make incest technically unnecessary?"

Yes and no. Yes, in the fact that we still see a marked improvement in their dynamic in the Refusal path.

No, in that the Sane ending's tone is still much different.

After the dream sequence, Andrew reveals that he never fell asleep. He never sees that vision. He still self-actualizes to some degree, probably, but he never has his desires laid so bare for him because he doesn't dream. But you have to place sunlight on the left side to see this, so it still leads me to believe that they still grasp the importance of their relationship in that ending. It's just that…

I don't think that they ever, truly heal. I think that they just grow distant. I'll elaborate on what I think that means later down the line.

In the Sane ending, they have much less fun with each other. They don't playfully rib on each other as much- the eulogy in particular seems more spiteful than playful- and they're much less physically affectionate towards each other. It's not dismal. It's not dark or depressing. It's not tense. It's just… there. It's boring. Nothing has changed, and neither has Andrew, which Ashley views him not sleeping as a sign of.

But in the Questionable ending, he -does- sleep.

So what does sleep mean here? It means he can't sleep if he feels he's missing something. It means something is lacking in his life. Something is missing. Is it Ashley's affection? Well, yes, but also not just that. Ashley is just a representation of what he needs: Comfort. Someone to rely on. Someone he know won't leave him. I believe they have the same needs, and those needs just manifest differently. Andrew never had to worry about Ashley leaving him because Ashley was so obsessive that she managed to fill in the all-consuming void that mental illness creates.

But I think in the Sane ending, he starts to doubt that. In the Sane ending, he starts to shake his desire for Ashley. Which is great, right? It means they can finally go down a more conventional, safe path and have a relationship that's societally acceptable. The safe, boring ending that normies would enjoy.

But the fact that he doesn't sleep means that, even if he shakes that desire, he can't shake the need for what she provides.

Because he never sees the vision, he never gets that confirmation that he can pursue a more physically affectionate relationship with Ashley, and given that physical affection is a huge part of the equation for making him feel comfortable and happy (see: the couch scene, where he's the happiest he is in the whole game before the Burial route), he never truly believes he can seek it from her. He never gets it from the one person he trusts to always be around. He never gets that final affirmation that it's okay to be with the one person who has always mattered to him the most, and always will.

If we're to take the scenes at the end of episode 2 as metaphors for what will happen- or has to happen- for the siblings to get the best outcome for their well being (even at the expense of others), then the Questionable route involves Ashley loosening her grip on Andrew and having him naturally fill in the roles she wanted him to all along. But in the Sane route, Ashley bottles up every soul see shes, aside from what's commonly assumed to be Andrew's, who she is uncharacteristically cavalier about letting go.

She's still the same. She still wants to entrap people, and never let them go. She just happens to no longer want to do it to Andrew. She never fundamentally changes. And Andrew?

His soul has nothing to say. It's pitch black. It almost looks demonic, having literally the same color scheme as the Entity and Lord Unknown. If it's already demonic, then it stands to reason that a demon wouldn't want it, because it's just more of the same. Nothing special, nothing they would want, nothing that would be useful to them. In other words… just like Ashley?

He has- or will have- a tar soul.

And what does tar do?

It sticks.

It's the Sane path to take because it involves them conforming to societal expectations. It involves them fitting in, acting as they should, and doing what's expected of them without much fuss. But in the world they're in, they're expected to harm everyone around them. To kill or be killed, eat or be eaten. To never become themselves, and never be truly happy. To never ask questions.

And they'll do all of that, whether they stick together or not. The only difference is how many people they stand to hurt, and whether they're truly happy at the end of it all.

There's a reason the souls of one of the parents- commonly thought to be Mrs. Graves- was unhatched. She probably wanted to love her children. Even Ashley. She just never did, because the world never let her be herself. She never became whole, because it would've resulted in her being too dark to fit into society. But the siblings have a chance to do so. They have a chance to truly focus on each other so they can heal and become better, happier, more complete people in a world that's doing everything it can to incentivize otherwise.

It's just a bit unfortunate for some that Andrew has to fill a hole to become whole.

#the coffin of andy and leyley #andrew graves #ashley graves #coffincest #i am absolutely doubling down on this #nay #quadrupling down

[sparklemotioneer]

the premise of all mxtx novels is really 'what if someone loved you unconditionally even tho you're a trashfire garbage person'

#mxtx #svsss gets double points #quadruple even #mdzs #tgcf

[aces-to-apples]

I think i like the idea of clones using mando'a/mandalorian cultural stuff because in my brain it always has an element (large or small) of spite to it. Like no we are not mandalorian yes our abusive progenitor was mandalorian no he did not want us to be mandalorian yes we will take what parts of this denied heritage we can use and discard the rest. It's another piece of rebellion, to my mind, like the paint on their armor and their insistence on names over numbers. They have to cobble together their own culture piecemeal because they aren't given (or allowed) one to begin with, and they'll start by cannibalizing the one that they were never supposed to touch in the first place. They'll take words and values and concepts, rituals and beliefs, and transform them into something that can be theirs, even (and sometimes especially) if it makes a bunch of shitty abusive bigots spin in their fucking graves. Like love and light to everyone who doesn't like/doesn't give a shit about mandalorian-inspired clone culture but we don't exactly have a lot to work with here and lbr mando'a and mandalorian armor kinda pops off.

#by apples #star wars #the clone wars #clone troopers #also there's definitely an element of spite with MY use of mando'a because of my Fandom Nemesis #that shithead who basically said 'stop using mando culture for clones and just have the jedi be their White Saviors' #so tbqfh i pretty much double- triple- and quadruple-downed on the use of mando'a by clones. choke 😘 #sw meta

[lagoonnebula6523]

Ironic to me that in a show called ghosts, the thing that haunts me the most is that we don't know why the Captain's medals and belt are on incorrectly

#hopefully series 5 will tell all #its so weird because his belt is also on wrong in the flashback??? #i saw someone say they think it was a mistake with costume but i really doubt that #ben would definitely double triple quadruple check that historical details about ww2 were correct #bbc ghosts

[sysig]

Skelefam

Unfortunately, as much as I love this mod - I mean, it’s beautiful! Just look at it! - it does have a game-crashing bug D: For some reason skeletons can’t get jobs, it crashes the game lol, so as much as I’d love to have Gaster in the Science career, he is a stay-at-home parent! That’s fine, nannies suck in TS2 lol. There’s also only a few clothing options but I’m gonna try some poking around to at least expand upon what’s there already :D

I ended up using the stretchSkeleton cheat - hehe, skeleton - to make Papyrus a bit taller and Sans a bit smaller. It’s only really noticeable in their ankles, and their animations are a bit misaligned, but other than that it’s very cute! :D Sans is also chubby but it’s kinda hard to tell :0

Sans, stop breaking the fourth wall!

Look how little he is compared to his brother hehe

Also, and I did not edit or plan this - they naturally started falling into their relationship dynamics! Gaster and Sans have a much lower Short Term Relationship here than Gaster and Papyrus haha

Would that I could! I was still testing at this point and yup, it crashed. Sadge

Well even if I can’t get the jobs, I can still cheat-unlock the Career Awards! Scientist behaviour lol

Look at their delicate little haaands

Did you know that Gaster sucks? He does!

Oh what are skeletons not your type? Don’t be rude

Sans even rejected him when Gaster offered to dance together! I love them

Gaster’s POV - he was listening to Sans tell a joke and next in the queue Papyrus wanted to show off to him. So accurate haha

Papyrus’ POV, of course he’s friends with both of them, sweet boy

And Sans’, look at how much more he thinks of his brother over Gaster! What more could I ask for honestly

Only concerned with Gaster seeing lol, Papyrus is way closer! He doesn’t count haha

Racecar bed babyyyy

Retextured the outfit for Papyrus, so now they’re much easier to tell apart! :D

Crossover babies ♪ One of the Todds walked by and I just now realized I also gave them a red/blue twin aesthetic haha

And that’s all he’ll want and care about from now on :)

Hehe. He gets it!

Papyrus is bad at making friends! Sans there in the background passively ++ing with Todd lol, he’s a natural

#WPVG #WPTS2 #The Sims 2 #The Sims #UT #Handplates #Just a bit of silliness! There's only so much I can do with them until I get them some Slightly better clothes haha #You can see I didn't even bother making them a proper house in this lot lol #I also keep accidentally making just ''normal'' Sims in this town - this is meant to be a test town to see clothes and mods in action! #I have made a couple more skeletons dotted around town just to double-triple-quadruple check about getting jobs and yeahhh #One went so sideways that her house caught fire and she died so I had to reload - it was a whole thing lol #But other than the limited clothes and inability to hold down gainful employment - lol - skeletons seem to work just fine :) #Chubbiness on kids is like - barely different pft #There Is a difference but it's so subtle! I guess it's fine #I know there are ways to make specific outfits their own body shape mesh - I wonder if that would be easier or harder for skeletons haha #It's not like I'd be changing the body shape just the way the clothes settle around it #Though I think there is actually a ''physical'' body it's just invisible? It's very strange! I like it #ANYway lol #I did download a couple new coats to see if I could figure out how to reverse-engineer an outfit but so far no success haha #Gonna keep trying! Slowly but surely #Until then it's so fun to see how they all interact and act hehe <3 #Papyrus runs everywhere for example - I set his Active to full I think haha - Sans of course is lazy ♪ #I could also have babybones or teen skeles - maybe at some point! The clothes... #So much customizable potential and then all the work that goes into it! Haha ♪

[bookwyrminspiration]

she doesn't know. oh my god she doesn't know that in two decades dozens of people will be debating the ass size of a silly little man that came from her head

(this is Shannon Messenger in 2000. yeah I know if you look it up it says she was born in 1990-91 so she'd theoretically only be 10 but I've double checked several times and places this is 100% from 2000. she's never disclosed it herself and the internet is lying about her birthday. this photo is from May, 2000. i can show my work)

#kotlc #shannon messenger #i am like 95% sure that's a butterfly clip shannon has taste #look at her. no idea what's comin for her #what she's going to incite #two shannon photos in a row #i was double checking something and now we're here! #i also like quadruple checked the 2000 thing #because of the birthday thing #but like. everything I've found points to 2000 #and there is no confirmation of her birthday #one site says 1990. another says 1991. another says 1981. they disagree on the day in november it is #all that to say i lost my mind a little but this is shannon messenger as a teenager/early 20 something in 2000 #and she's got no idea's what's in store for her #went down the age rabbit hole because I was gonna say 'hey is it just me or is shannon pretty cute' #but you know. age gaps are a thing. so I wanted to check. and now it's been like 20 minutes #because it apparently was not a simple question

[xiaoluclair]

idc if it's shallow, pro for lestappen: they'd be fucking hot together

#dude like #they'd be SO hot i cant even put into words #THAT sexy with THAT sexy ???? #double quadruple millionple sexy #xiao: waffle #waffle: mv1.cl16 #lestappen

[modernsuperhero]

Idk if it's too early in the season to get hella angst heavy but... am i the only one interpreting the whole timer thing as in everyone is slowly dying? Like, they can feel it, their bodies shutting down. But killing someone - it's like the opposite of /givelife, it's TAKING life, it's invigorating, even if a good portion of the life you stole bleeds out with the other person. How terrifying. How fascinating.

#limited life smp #trafficblr #lmlsmp #lml #life series smp #life series #traffic series #i wasn't gonna post this cuz it kinda hits close to home for me but. idk putting this out there lol! #limited life spoilers #also re: the watchers apparently feeding on fear before death (if you're a lore person like me) #this is a genius move. like double life was genius because no matter what happens the fear before death will be doubled #fear for yourself and your partner #or ig technically quadrupled because your partner is also panicking #but like this? slowly dying? ANY fear counts as fear before death. because they are all dying. constantly. just slowly

[clockwork-garden]

I don't usually write in books, but cookbooks are the one exception. I've never made an aggressive note before, but the recipe for this soup I made the other day really needed some help and some scolding.

#I'm white as fuck btw #but seriously white people just don't season their damn food #every time I make a new recipe that I know was written by a white person I do at least half again or double the spices #sometimes even that's not enough #for this soup I think I'm going to have to quadruple the spices and add some new ones #who the fuck thinks 1/4 teaspoon of anything is going to season a soup that needs like 7 cups of water for the broth‽‽‽‽