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Panic Cord [Part 1/3]

Synopsis: When Virgil and his fiancé, Logan, take in Virgil’s ex boyfriend Roman and his boyfriend, Patton, Virgil’s forced to come face to face with his guilt. 

Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Prinxiety, Analogical, LAMP, background logicality

Word count: 2684 out of roughly 8791

Trigger warnings: Implied abusive parents, very heavy guilt, financial problems, potentially unsympathetic Virgil? It’s complicated, everyone makes mistakes.

A/N: this whole fic was inspired by the song Panic Cord by Gabrielle Aplin, 10/10 song

    “Are you serious?”

    “Yes.” 

    Logan gave his stubborn fiance a defiant look. “You’re serious?” He asked again, just to be sure. 

    Virgil nodded insistently. “Yes! Look, we play DND every week, tell me it wouldn’t be badass playing on this.” 

    He gestured towards the coffee table he wanted, an overdramatic, gothic table that would take up half of their living room. 

    Logan quirked an eyebrow. “Okay, but we eat dinner every day. Lunch, too. Imagine trying to balance a cup on one of those ridges. We might as well not even have a table.”

    Virgil held his hands up. “I’d be glad to eat on the floor.”

    He couldn’t help but laugh. “Then why… Are we even here?” 

    Virgil cracked up, too, but shook his head. “I don’t want that boring ass table.” 

    Logan pouted. He liked the table. It was simple, but not ugly, with dark reddish brown panels of wood and black iron supports. It was big enough for them to eat, and play DND, too, albeit a bit cramped. He especially liked that it looked easy to clean, and it was the perfect height for their couch. 

    Virgil hesitated, and then sighed as the bell above the shop’s door dinged. “Okay. Fine. We’ll get that table. But! I get to pick the next three games we play.” 

    Logan smiled. That meant three sessions of DND, with Logan dm’ing. “If that’ll make you happy.”

    As giggling sounded from near the door, Virgil looked up and smiled sheepishly at him. Then his eyes slid over his fiance’s shoulder, towards the couple coming towards them- One excitedly pulling his boyfriend, the other nervously and subtly trying to lead him away. 

Virgil ducked down and behind Logan, whispering, “Shit, shit, shit!” 

Logan looked at him with a raised eyebrow. “What’s going on?”

“That’s my ex-boyfriend.”

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[laytonsartblog]

:000 This is amazing!!!!

[alchemist-shizun]

Deceit is no longer in my best posts so I gotta change that, reblog to hug the snek boi!

[de-vile]

I will absolutely hug this smug bastard

[thewritingrealm]

If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

[ezzydean]

# my favourite part about this post # is that nowhere does it say to reblog this # but we’re all reblogging it # because if we have to suffer # so do other writers

[painterpen]

Haha!

[emovirgil-sanders]

Okay, because everyone’s talking about the vidcon dad joke battle with Thomas/Patton. Here’s something I noticed while watching it. I don’t think Patton was the only one at the battle.

Considering Thomas’ reaction to the first dad joke was this:

Before he even pulled out the glasses. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that face before.

And then later, there’s these:

Annoyance

Focus

Boredom

And the most convincing one in my opinion. Very annoyed.

If that’s not Logan Sanders showing through at the horrible jokes, then I don’t know what is.

[brandstifter-sys]

Okay but that last face is definitely points to Deceit having some presence there.

Thomas has gotta lie to himself about finding the joke funny so he won’t laugh. It was a 3 side team there

[parano--vigilant]

I’m kinda bitter bc I was gonna make a post about this earlier and then I didn’t :( have my analysis anyway

Logan’s Part:

Very literal, what actually makes up one’s body. Also promotes Logan’s extremist water agenda. Nice.

Roman’s Part:

Focuses on telling stories, also the only part that doesn’t mention any tangible ingredients.

Virgil’s Part:

Mainly about insecurity and acceptance. Also parallel’s Virgil’s acceptance arc in that people don’t see him clearly/misunderstand him.

Patton’s Part:

Switches into a very optimistic tone, lots of puns here. It also technically doesn’t mention a real world ingredient except in the pun about flower/flour, which I’m counting.

[snail-giggles]

I was right (I noticed colours and merch appearances as well as text). This whole song/video was so deep. So much to process

[prismartist]

I really like the choice of intruments in their respective sections as well:

Synth: computer-generated, not really "real" instruments? Just more of sounds produced by a program, but can still add some extra depth to a song

Bells: reminds one of "grand" events, like weddings or coronations. Basically signifies something important. In a band, it adds sort of a nice tinkling sound

Strings/Acoustic guitar: I've always seen strings as not very loud, but melodic and soft. Gives a more natural sound?

Electric guitar: lively, loud and energetic. Can carry the basic melody and liven it up

[sanders-sidebyside]

my favorite part was Deceit going “Ssssssssuck up!” to Patton when he was buttering up Roman like

Deceit

pal

your name isn’t Jealousy, calm thy snaketits

[what-even-is-thiss]

Snake tits.

Snake titties.

Snitties

Tough snitties (snake titties)

[softestvirgil]

Roman, you good, fahm?

[what-even-is-thiss]

No, but that’s unrelated to the snake tits.

[softestvirgil]

Snits

[pattykrabbies]

Ok, but consider:

Snipples

[what-even-is-thiss]

Snipples

[lukegrim]

[pattykrabbies]

I’m sorry I couldn’t hear you over the snake titties clapping together what was that @dabub167

hhhng, Thomas, im trying to win a court case but I’m

Dummy Thicc

and the clap of my

Snitties

is distracting the judge

[sanders-sidebyside]

i’m going to get hella buff just so I can suplex all of u

[pattykrabbies]

Understandable, have a nice day

[warnadudenexttime]

Great news! This fandom is canceled :D

no one on this thread is free of sin

[de-vile]

Deceit:

I arrive to the court room.

Suit: on

Patton: pissed off

Roman: thirsty

Virgil: anxious

Logan: nowhere

Snitties: out

Hotel: trivago

Deceit: oh

Hell nah

Sorry Patton but that’s

My creativity

[trix-or-treatz]

Cursed. All of you.

[alltimevirgilant]

omg i hate this fandom

[royallyanxious]

god, i love this fandom

[alex-logan-w]

I simultaneously hate and love this fandom

[csauce-and-chips]

I mean y'all like,,, asked for this

[midnightmagi]

I don’t know how to react to this and the art is making it worse

I hate this entire thread-

Snits out for the court

[nymphaeaheka]

ASDFGHJKL

[alltimevirgilant]

IT GOT WORSE AND BETTER SOMEHOW

[dailysandersidesaudoodles]

I…

I NEED!

TO ADD ON TO THIS

[dailysandersidesaudoodles]

HERE HE COMES

sexy goofbal shirtless deeyeet

[the-yerkes-dodson-curve]

I love this fandom so much.

[lizord-lord]

thomas im so sorry

[beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti]

B’)

[roanoaks]

Snitties for them classy buddies

[cryypt1dsstuff]

I’m just gonna leave,,,this here..

[strickenwithclairvoyance-moved]

oh my lord i can’t believe i had to go into the notes of this post to find this specific thread

[fandersunite]

YALL I- WJEBENDJSHBSNSSN💀

I love this fandom

[trashbincats]

I have the sudden urge to add to shirtless deceit

Edit: I drew him and I feel like it was too well and now I’m just embarrassed 😂

[iamliteraltrash1]

SHOW HIM ANYWAY!!

WE DEMAND THE SNITTIES

[trashbincats]

@iamliteraltrash1 snits

In my defense, I do kinda know how to draw bodies from my first college class

OH FUCK, HE’S HOT

[rusted-but-golden-deactivated20]

oh

[pipebomb-malewife-deactivated20]

I’m gonna send this to my mum

[strickenwithclairvoyance-moved]

every addition makes roceit more canon

[virgilfingsanders]

Ok all if this…. but the op said “calm thy snaketits”

Thy

[sanders-sidebyside]

u wanna fite about my word usage, pal? U wanna heckin go?? Put up ur dukes, I’ll bap ya

[a-art-blog-aaaaaa]

I… I just need to save this for a rainy day.

[unsocialchapeau-deactivated2020]

i know no one asked for it but here’s my addition to the famous snipples post.

Thomas i’m so sorry-

[plaguethewaters]

So what if, for like two days, this is the only post we tag Thomas in

[unsocialchapeau-deactivated2020]

[artissijamm]

IT’S SO TEMPTING TO ADD AN ADDITION.

[imbasicallyshakespear-deactivat]

JUELS DO IT

[artissijamm]

Temptation accomplished

(Thomas im so sorry)

[alchemist-shizun]

Why has this post crossed my dash again

[mallowbees]

In the court room, the snitties come out

@yalltookmyurlideas​ @the-duke-of-deodorant​ @ephemeral-afterlight​ @strawberryjellystuff​

[the-duke-of-deodorant]

!!!!!

[pontsalin]

@dailysandersidesaudoodles​ since you wanted me to add something onto this…

[dailysandersidesaudoodles]

@pontsalin YEEEEEEEESSSSSS GOOOOOOOD

[nowitstimeforworldwar1-deactiva]

This is exactly why Joan had to tell us his name wasn’t Tiddylicious

[potassiumcyanides]

This is cursed

[discordzero]

Did anyone tag Thomas? Please do.

[theshippingroyalty]

…I’m gonna tag Thomas and Joan-

@thatsthat24 @thejoanglebook

[unsocialchapeau-deactivated2020]

Hey there’s more

[unsocialchapeau-deactivated2020]

My friend has made it apparent to me that if his titties are snitties, it is only appropriate to call his ass his snass/ snuttcheeks

[elvis-has-been-dug]

Yes of course his snitties are rivaled only by his snuttcheeks

[one-angry-man]

Please dont make it worse…

[mostcertainlynotcis]

oh boy.

[one-angry-man]

My friends made it worse…

[its-my-mental-breakdown]

Snitties, snuttcheeks, and a Snick

[sporkkles-irl]

i love them all holy fuck what is wrong with us

[mallowbees]

please ive tried to type like three different captions in response to this i cant

[ephemeral-afterlight]

NOT AGAIN

[strawberryjellystuff-deactivate]

what is goiNG ON

[bootsinthesun]

DECHEEKS

[dragonindigo245]

Me: Oh no it’s this post again

*Reads*

Me: WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE?!?!??!??!

[de-vile]

Its the holy trinity

Snitties

Snick

Snuttcheeks

[brandstifter-sys]

All this talk of snitties, snicks, and snuttcheeks is nice, but the most attractive aspects of Deceit are be his snart (snake heart) and snoul (snake soul)

[de-vile]

Ronni my guy you have never been more right.

We should love him for what’s inside

[beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti]

His Snorgans (Snake Organs)

[thewritingrealm]

If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

[ezzydean]

# my favourite part about this post # is that nowhere does it say to reblog this # but we’re all reblogging it # because if we have to suffer # so do other writers

[thejoanglebook-deactivated20210]

Why did you guys not include lesbians... I dont know if this was on purpose but in the beginning of the video, the flags were shown in order minus the L (G-B-T). Why didn't you guys include us?

Uggghhh we totally bought a lesbian flag. We ordered the pride flags far in advance, but the flags didn't show up until right before it was time to shoot with all of our guests, and unfortunately, the order was wrong. The flags that we did order, but didn't receive were: the lesbian flag, the nonbinary flag, and the asexual flag. It was too late at that point to place another online order. We attempted to do some last minute local shopping to see if we could find the missing flags, but we had no luck finding them. Rest assured, we were really fucking upset about it. I'm sorry that its absence made you feel unrepresented. That said, there were actually quite a few lesbians in the music video, but they held up the rainbow flag because it's also a symbol for lesbians. We never asked for anyone's sexual/romantic/gender identities so that we could hand them a flag-- we had a table full of pride flags, and if someone wanted to grab one, then they were free to do that. So any lesbian/gay women seen in the video holding a rainbow pride flag selected that flag themselves, because they felt that it represented them.

While we did have an ace spectrum flag and a genderqueer flag, there were some asexual and nonbinary people who told us that they didn't identify with either of those flags, so we made a point to animate the colors of their preferred flags around them. We would've done that for any lesbian women who felt similarly, but nobody ever voiced that to us specifically, and we don't think it would've been very appropriate to take it upon ourselves to decide that the lesbian flag is a better fit for someone who picked out the rainbow pride flag. I'm sorry again that you felt unrepresented. That's exactly what we were dreading when we discovered that some of the flags that we had ordered weren't delivered along with the others.

[beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti]

Thank you for clearing that up, I felt a little hurt by that as well since I never see my flag outside of Tumblr, but thank you for trying to include us. Sorry things didn't work out, but the video was awesome!!!

[ao3commentoftheday]

If your story has different points of view, is it annoying to switch between them in a single chapter? Thank you!

I do that all the time, so I hope not! lol

seriously, though - as long as the switches are clear and don’t cause confusion you should be fine. I find it helps to use the horizonal rule in between viewpoints to show the flip in perspective. 

Note: don’t use stylistic breaks between viewpoints (or scenes) like a series of asterisks or tildes etc. If someone is using a screen reader, it will read out each symbol that you use. Also using indicators like “Character A’s POV” tend to break up the story and take people out the narrative. Or at least they do for me.

[cdelphiki]

Oh my God, please don’t use asterisks as a line break.  

“Asteriskasteriskasteriskasteriskasterisk” is the literal worst. As someone who uses almost exclusively screen readers anymore when I read more than a couple paragraphs at a time, I have quit reading stories because there were too many line breaks with a dozen or two asterisks, or OoOoOo, or underscores, or any assortment of characters.  It looks pretty, but it doesn’t sound pretty!

Use hyphens or a coded line break.  On Ao3, that is done with <hr >. Those just cause brief pauses in the reading, so they are perfect for transitions and breaks between scenes!  Listening to a minute straight of “underscore” without pause is grating.  

If you use Microsoft word to write, it will check your document for accessibility (meaning, whether a screen reader can read it) for you, and tell you how to fix any problems it finds!  On Mac, it’s under Tools > Check for Accessibility and on Windows it’s under File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document > Check for Accessibility

[ultharkitty]

I had no idea about this, that’s really useful. When I’ve got the time I’ll go replace my scene break indicators on AO3. This may take some time, considering how many works I have on there though.

[patrexes]

a good “old fashioned” scene break indicator is the asterism (⁂), which is a single symbol, if you want something a little pretty but also accessible

[gryphonrhi]

Please, have patience with writers who haven’t done this (yet).  For years on the mailing lists and indie web pages – i.e., before AO3 and text readers, hell before good text to speech options on computers – a lot of us did whatever line breaks we liked or thought would work well with the theme of the story. 

I had no idea until this post that it was a problem until now.  Thank you for posting both the problem and solution!

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

AO3 Actually lets you code linebreaks, so if you want the visual experience of a long line of symbols, but don’t want the accessibility issues, that’s totally possible! Just remember the html code for page breaks you’ve created in CSS is NOT <hr> it’s <hr class=“hr”>, and you have to make or use a work skin to do it. Here’s a tutorial: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5817334

[skeletonmaster69]

fuck, im sorry

[haggendazs-dispersion]

Oh shoot... I didn’t even think about that being a thing, I’ll try to go back and fix it in my fics and try to remember this in the future

[bropocalyptic-deactivated202102]

Everyone who reblogs this before the new year will get their vibes checked by me personally.

Only if you have your asks open though.

[moved-accoun-t]

YES

[lilypadton-deactivated20250909]

vibe check

[adaydream222]

Reblog if your blog is a safe space for

- witches of color - male witches - lgbtqpiad+ witches - non religious witches - young witches - beginner witches - plus size witches - disabled witches - witches suffering mental illness

[bobolovesoze-deactivated2020042]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS TOOK ME TWO YEARS TO NOTICE!

So I was rewatching the Sanders Sides 12 Days of Christmas song and noticed that Logan was wearing a scarf.

He also looks confused by it. I started trying to figure out why he was wearing a scarf and no one else. But then it hit me.

THEY RECORDED THIS IN FRONT OF A GREEN SCREEN!

HE HAS GREEN ON HIS COLLAR!

To avoid Logan having a floating head, they added the scarf. Good job team!

[haggendazs-dispersion]

Omg!! I never noticed this!! His sleeves are rolled up too cuz the ends are also green!!! Omg!!! How did we never notice???

[thejoanglebook-deactivated20210]

Favorite thing about each side but you don’t tell which side it is? (and we have to guess?)

I’ll tryyy. It’s really hard for me to pick one favorite thing about each of them, so I’ll just go with my first insticts:

- His humor

- His style

- His utility

- His backstory

- His creepiness

- His flaws

[mostcertainlynotcis]

my guess:

-Patton

-Roman

-Logan

-Deceit

-Remus

-Virgil

[thejoanglebook-deactivated20210]

2/6

[glasssjungle]

-Thomas

-Thomas

-Thomas

-Thomas

-Thomas

-Thomas

[thejoanglebook-deactivated20210]

Technically correct, I guess. Half off for cheating. Autosave is now disabled.

[haggendazs-dispersion]

Imma try and guess

- Patton

- Deceit

- Logan

- Virgil

- Remus

- Roman

[sanderssidesuserboxes]

[hogwartzlou]

you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them

[uss-clairvoyant]

Reblog this and put what your phone background in the tags

[infinityuserboxes]

[simonghostrileys]

Incredibly fucking slow at it 🤧

[slagginbitch]

i fixed it

[greed-the-dorkalicious]

Wait what happened to Thomas Sanders???

Basically, Thomas Sanders (who, btw, is gay) used to be basically the celebrated Unproblematic Fav Uwu of Tumblr and Vine. Everyone loved him, everyone praised him for being inclusive and positive, making fun and unique vines that were appropriate and enjoyable for any age group.

Then one day he got an aphobic ask (I honestly don’t remember what this was even in response to, I think it was some really innocent one-off “I hope asexuals have a good day” type of post or something like that, idek), to which he wrote a long and sincere response that basically summed up to “Hey, that’s not a nice attitude to have, please take a moment to think about how other people must feel and why it’s so important to you to shut them down”

Within literal hours (and this is something I witnessed myself, I was online when it all went down), a smear campaign against him had started. Suddenly even people who had previously been huge fans of him were shit-talking him left and right, declaring him cringey, and grasping at straws to make “callout posts” for him. One popular argument I remember hearing was- And I shit you not, I am not making this up- He was a “pedophile” because he made videos for a family demographic and has a young-looking face, but was 29 or whatever and therefore “pretending to be a kid” or whatever the fuck. He even, gasp, made vines about high school, despite not being a high schooler himself! (Dan Green voice) That’s called “acting”, children!

His popularity never really recovered, and these days he’s mostly considered “cringey” by a large portion of the internet due to the main demographic most of his fans fall into, because you know it’s hip and cool to shame young girls and queer kids for the things that bring them joy.

So yeah, TL;DR used to be pretty well liked by the majority of Tumblr with nobody really having anything bad to say about him, expressed support for aspecs one day, immediately fell victim to exclusionist harrassment and is now at best considered just a cringey teenage girl thing.

[mintedwitcher]

Also part of the “pedophile” smear campaign included:

1. He has tags for not quite safe for work selfies on his blog (#nsfw and #tsbutt) (not nudes or even lewds, just pictures including his clothed butt.)

2. He accepts nsfw fanart from fans, but ONLY if the artist is 18+

3. There was ONE time where an underage artist submitted a nsfw art piece and Thomas posted it, because said artist removed their age from their bio, so Thomas had no idea it was made by a minor. He deleted the post as soon as this information came to light.

But exclusionists took all of this, mashed it with their “oh but he’s so childish, he acts like a kid even though he’s nearly 30, he must be hiding something!” And ran so far with it that Thomas Sanders severely suffered for it. Even his fans got shit for liking him. A lot abandoned him out of fear that a similar campaign would start against them.

So yeah. Fuck exclusionists, honestly.

[freak-priest]

He got smeared for videos he made With high schoolers as well, high schoolers from a drama club from his old high school, whom he was asked back to help out by his own teachers. Which is commonplace, and not sketchy in the slightest. He made wholesome, age-appropriate content and STILL got “cancelled” because exclusionists can’t handle it when good queer people who don’t share their dumb views are successful.

[inclusionist-mantha]

Reblogging again for the latest addition!

[paganinpurple]

I had no idea about any of this. I still adore Thomas’ videos and quote a bunch of his old vines all the time.

I hate what happened to him, but I adore him even more for sticking up for aces like myself

[hazeldomain]

Let Men Interact With Children 2k20

[rosemoonweaver]

Sometimes I feel like I’ve grown up in a completely different world from people who pull this kinda shit. I still remember people talking about how LGBT people were dangerous to children, how they were all secretly pedophiles and hoping to groom children and turn them gay. I remember that being used as justification for firing teachers and removing them as scout leaders and mentors. That stuff was still going on when I was in high school, back in 2010.

Pedophilic libel is dangerous and homophobic. And people need to seriously quit doing it, especially when to older lgbt+ people who are trying to be positive and welcoming to younger lgbt+ people. Save your anger for real predators, not men who want to be positive and constructive influences on young people.