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[downbythetidepools]

Sunbird

[rodentlegalteam]

doodles from conversations with @downbythetidepools

[downbythetidepools]

Guys I helped birth this. Isn’t it wonderful. 20 likes for transfem Red art next

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[downbythetidepools]

something about Moe and the ever present fact that the End is drawing closer

[downbythetidepools]

Thinking about how On A Bicycle Built For Two/Daisy Bell is associated with both Moe and Micha and daisies have a yellow centre and both Regect and Moe’s friend have yellow in their designs and the chest Moe found with the book is surrounded by yellow flowers and theres a ton of always dandelions in Micha’s dandelions and and and and Ok

[rodentlegalteam]

wip except i forgot the punchline

[creepy-c00kie]

Ok but like. The concept of patton's role is just. Fundamentally so fucked up.

He's the inner child and the inner parent at the same time. He's their paragon of innocence but he's also their strict moral compass. He's in charge of thomas's long-term memory- his nostalgia, his regrets, his longing for the past. He's the embodiment of all of thomas's emotions, good and bad. He's both the source of and subject to thomas's overwhelming sense of guilt. He's the man upstairs but he's just your dad knocking on your bedroom door but he's also the teary eyed kid who's kneeling at his bed and telling god that he's sorry.

Like holy fuck man i'd turn into a really big frog too

[ffreckleface]

Something about the sleeping pods seem so cozy to me

[downbythetidepools]

Patron Saints of Undying Hope 🚀

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Full image under cut ⭐️

[downbythetidepools]

one of the funniest things about Orange Side theories to me is that a lot of people protray Orange as supervillain levels of malicious or wanting to cause harm to the others (very specifically Logan) for no reason when Orange himself… hasn’t really done much to indicate that he’s ill-intentioned 😭

Now to be so fair, he hasn’t really Done Much, and Janus + Remus’s cryptic warnings haven’t exactly helped his case… BUT CMON GUYS the most he’s done is say hi and caused Logan’s outburst let’s give him the benefit of the doubt!!! Back off!!!!

[creepy-c00kie]

Makin some ponies. Griffon icarus be upon ye 👐

[downbythetidepools]

Space nerds

[creepy-c00kie]

Its crazy to me that this audio is already like. Two years old. Anyways

[downbythetidepools]

divorce squares GO!!

elaboration under cut:

- Don’t ask what I mean by divorce. It’s not really a single event and more like a slow erosion of their relationship.

- I’m gonna be a bit of a contrarian and say I do not think the dark sides were inheritly familial or had a similar dynamic to the light sides. I just don’t think it would work for their functions and how Thomas perceives them. I imagine they have/had a bit of an “Us vs Them” mentality, and they were probably closest in the earlier days (like how we saw the baby sides in WIDS) because all they really had was each other. Each of them were still finding their footing, trying to figure out what (and who) they really were (a headcanon of mine is that the dark sides probably took longer to develop their own identities compared to the light sides because they were so repressed) and suddenly they were being shunned simply for doing their jobs! And if those “light side” jerks are going to push them around, the least they can try and do is stick together (which eventually led to a real bond!). I really think their relationship was less of a genuine familial bond and more of a “these are MY people so I gotta stick by them no matter what.” They’re like a weird codependent high school friend group

- The exception to this is Virgil because HOT TAKE I DONT THINK HE WAS EVER THAT FAMILIAL WITH THE DARK SIDES (with the exception of Orange)!! At least not on the same level as with the Light Sides. Close? Absolutely! But much of that closeness was built out of circumstance rather than a genuine friendship. The amount of vitriol on both sides always gave me the impression that they… never really had a super positive relationship. I (and a friend) believe that Virgil was actually alone for a very long time and only joined the dark sides (despite being quite afraid of them) because 1. He believed working with them was the best way to protect Thomas, and 2. He wanted companionship. As they all grew, Virgil probably rejected the others the same way he does in canon (“they’re evil and can’t be trusted”)

- I think that (outside of my Orange and Virgil theoryslop) that Janus and Virgil were the closest because they had very similar methods to protecting Thomas (hiding!), while Remus and Virgil probably fed into each other’s worst traits which made them weird codependent sort of friends, and Janus and Remus felt as though they could be themselves around each other without judgement

- If I think about who actually “formed” the dark sides as a group, it was 100% Janus (he’s Repressionmaxxing), but I like to imagine Orange was like the heart of the group and kept them all together. He was very lonely.

- If I had to give them actual family roles? Janus is the crappy wine aunt who gets saddled with his three plucky orphan nephews. They sort of hate each other but they learn to coexist through the Power Of Love or something

- The only dark side (former or present) Orange even remotely likes anymore is Remus, and that’s pushing it

- They don’t miss each other but they also don’t DON’T miss each other. Secret third thing

[downbythetidepools]

Happy Birthday Orange!

Today is the 6 year anniversary of SVS Redux, and the first episode where Orange appears!

[8bitraee]

POOR MOE TOO DUDE JHASJAHSDHJSDALK

[downbythetidepools]

that little clown girl got ptsd