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#unstable smp #unstable universe #wemmbu #parrotx2 #wato1876 #spokeishere #flamefrags #jamatop

With the more Parrot fics I read I'm really starting to believe that there's a fundamental misunderstanding in this fandom about what clipping a birds wings entails. It's just feathers yall, you cut the end of the flight feathers so that they can't fly but can still glide

#but yeah as a bird owner this is true lol #they’ll usually clip a pet bird’s feathers so they can get used to being in your house before they fly face first into windows #and then they grow back in like. a few weeks.#personally I’ve always been of the opinion that parrot might’ve picked up the habit of plucking his own feathers #as that is a habit a lot of abused and neglected birds do when they are stressed #especially when isolated and contained in an area too small for them/not let out of the cage #👍#unstable universe #unstable smp #parrotx2 #odyssey duo #wifies #he might aswell be there

stellocchia

I wonder if the reason why Spoke is often held to higher standards than anyone else on Unstable (including the villains that caused the deaths of thousands, committed mass kidnappings, coerced thousands into joining their criminal enterprise, or abused him in particular) is because he's an unreliable narrator in a way people aren't used to.

Spoke has a tendency to hold onto guilt far more than any of the other protagonists. He sees himself as worse than he actually factually is. And he claims often to be evil (examples: he had a whole speech trying to convince Jumper not to work with him even when their goals aligned because he saw himself as not good enough, he tried to point out to Jamato that what he was doing was fucked up by saying "you're just as evil as me" when Jamato is just objectively so much worse) and holds himself accountable for things he wouldn't judge others for (see him not getting upset at all at Vix for having made escape plans that didn't include him despite having thought it important to clarify every time that even if he escaped he'd come back to free everyone, or even his only judging Jamato for his continuos use of exploits only after finding the water in the Nether despite having been made to feel like a monster for ever exploiting in the first place himself).

Usually, unreliable narrators are more so used to minimize the flaws of a character's actions, not to enhance them. And I wonder if this twist to the norm is what throws people off so much. If most don't notice the unreliability of his narration at all. Or if they notice it, but somehow mistake it for minimizing instead.

So what has Spoke done? He killed Rose and a bunch of Jumper's spies. All relatively innocent characters that didn't need to die.

What is one prominent character that hasn't?

He stole. Like literally everyone else. Lied and manipulated, like literally everyone else.

He threatened to blow up Capital City. Wemmbu actually carried through with it and without any reasonable justification for it.

Wemmbu also exploded Highwater, sacrificing thousands for Egg. Flame joined a faction whose stated goal is to kill all the new people (literally murdering immigrants as a solution to systemic problems that existed well before their arrival). And Parrot rushed into opening Spawn when he didn't have food production or safety under control, which led to the deaths of presumably thousands.

And yet the judgment toward them is nowhere near as harsh as it is for the one guy who's done nothing that egregious because they're all standard unreliable narrators. They present themselves better. They see themselves as heroes or as justified in some way...

It's interesting in an odd way

#this is a wonderfully refreshing take #I’ve tried to write out my thoughts on this three times but I end up just rewording what you’ve already said lol #very cool #sometimes I think all spoke needs is a hug and maybe some antidepressants #unstable universe #unstable smp #spokeishere

samyayyy

parrot in the new parrot video

#unstable universe #parrotx2 #unstable smp

melupshur69

#god I love this style #there’s almost a nostalgic anguish in it #unstable smp #unstable universe #parrotx2 #wifies

chaos-ducks

Odyssey duo superhero au where someone (wifies) keeps murdering all of the bad guys that parrot is meant to be dealing with right before he gets to them

#oh wait that’s actually sick #bonus points if parrot is accidentally framed for murder because he keeps finding all these dead villains #wifies internally: whatever it takes to protect him ig #parrot: Wifies I think I’m cursed?#odyssey duo #unstable universe #parrotx2 #wifies #unstable smp

commonantics

Id follow him to hell and back I just wish hed stop going there

#flamefrags #lomedy #torchflower duo #unstable smp #unstable universe

plastic-straww

#unstable universe #unstable smp #spokeishere #parrotx2 #flamefrags #wemmbu

jiang-yuan

charcherbert

#wemmbu #eggchan #unstable universe #unstable smp #look you guys are making me believe in tax duo breakup(/p) arc #god… antag eggchan would be insane…#between director and mapicc and lomedy(to a degree) all going against their protags.. bro wemmbu you’re next

hopefully-helpful-daemon

What I've learned the most from the unstable fandom is that yall don't love your friends enough. Not every relationship needs to be romantic and/or sexual and thinking it does means you don't put enough value on platonic relationships, and that's something you should work on

#YES! and also also #y’all don’t make your friendships weird enough #the divide between platonic romantic and sexual relationships is largely a social construct #any specific action being inherently romantic or too much for platonic relationships is just. wrong lol #and this applies to the opposite end of the spectrum where platonic relationships can be the most evil and fucked up thing ever #they can be overbearing and abusive and manipulative and awful #ahhh sorry for the rant I just have a lot of thoughts abt relationships lol