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Pretty sure Virge would HATE this wording for him, but I love it 😂
Why does it totally sound like Remus and Janus trying to annoy him
I need someone to draw the sasi living room from a birds eye view because sometimes it confuses me because I’ll imagine a character in a specific location, then another character will look at them looking COMPLETELY the wrong way from where I thought the other character was relative to the character doing the looking…….
Ive seen posts asking this with some regularity. and i like to think ive got that floorplan down p clearly, so. eh. here yall go:
I'm about 95% sure about the lay-out and everyone's relative positions. though the dimensions are probably off by some margin
⛪️: I Talked to a Catholic Canon Lawyer About Sanders Sides
An Essay on SVSR/POF’s Perspectives on Catholic Morality
It’s as the title says, I promise it’s not clickbait. If you’re familiar with my fanfiction “the smallest church” or have read my previous posts about Patton and his Catholic foundations, you may already know that I know a thing or two about Catholic theology more than the average person. For context, I’ve lived in the Philippines my whole life, and the schools I’ve gone to, from highschool to college, have required their students to attend subjects about Catholic Theology, morality, etc.
Even if I don’t necessarily identify as Catholic anymore, I still pick up on a lot of Sanders Sides’ religious themes because of my upbringing. In fact, it surprises me a lot of people do not find the series as an exploration of one’s own Catholic trauma, because the basic structure of the sides (the “Light” Sides vs the “Dark” Sides) is a result from internalized black-and-white thinking, something most Catholics unconsciously believe in.
Patton, in general, is a fascinating, well-thought out character that encompasses the misinterpretation of Catholicism’s morals and principles. This is explored in the episode SVS.R/POF, wherein Patton was badgered on his different takes on various moral dilemmas. Because of this, I’ve decided to contact one of my professors in college to sit down and talk about Patton: what Patton gets right, and what Patton gets wrong.
More than anything, Patton, like Thomas, is a victim of what my professor calls “midwit-ery”. Instead of being taught to read into Catholic code in a more thoughtful manner, Catholics like Thomas are merely taught to listen to what is being told to him, no questions asked. So, take this essay not as an attack on Patton or Thomas, but rather a place to better understand why these misinterpretations of Catholic code happen in the first place, and how they manifest externally.
(TW's: Religious discussion, Catholic guilt and trauma, discussions of oppression, racism, and misogyny, discussions of self-esteem issues)
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For the still images check their own post :3
[Logan] [Janus] [Patton] [Virgil] [Roman] [Remus]
*shouting into a megaphone* Calling upon the old fanders!
What were the most common names to give The Dragon Witch back in the day???????????
I know she had fanon names! but i can't for the life of me remember any of them!
Not much of a name but I did link her, in my stories, to the Queen. From the music video Don't Make Me - Malinda that starred Thomas.
janus' real role in thomas' life is professional rage-baiter
Small concept comic of the young sides. Not great because I don’t have my iPad rn but you get the idea.
I love the idea of Roman and Logan being very close at this time just because of the crazy brainstorm sessions that would HAVE TO take place in order to get to the point they are when we meet them in canon. Logan knows a lot about how being a fictional aspect of Thomas’ mind functions while Roman has a crazy power over the whole mind in general that is just sorta instinct for him and he doesn’t really think too hard on it. I just think they should team up a lot in the beginning.
A conversation in the nighttime
Part 1
Part 2
Here was the comic I was yapping about :D.
It got too long so I had to split it into two parts.
Help Patton grow his plush pile!
I tried to keep the goals realistic enough that it may happen and it'll give me enough time based on my previous posts but asjkdbasdbjk fingers crossed
Oh my god this is adorable, GIB HIM ALL THE PLUSHIES!
Do you like the color of the Orange
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this dude is maladaptive daydreaming the way people have never maladaptive daydreamed before
So, some placement charts
First one:
All the sides + Thomas in the living room.
Thomas's closet (before time travel)
take this one with a grain of salt... i only had eye directions to go from so idk if it's like this or mirrored XD I also have NO idea how Thomas can be in a corner... where is that corner?!
Thomas's closet (Early 20's)
Virgil and Patton are crouching on the floor with Janus and Roman standing behind them. Logan and Thomas are shoulder to shoulder.
Thomas's kitchen (Late 20's)
This was the easiest one... once i remembered how his kitchen looked like
And Lastly... Thomas's bedroom
i have no idea where Janus and Virgil were standing in this one... because i could not get the scenes to connect in ma brain. all i know is that Roman is on the floor... likely before Thomas or Patton.
I tried. But take this with a pinch of salt XD
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one thing i don't think remus' characterisation gets enough credit for is his function as a warning system for thomas' mental health
logan lays out explicitly (in both DWIT and WTIT) that thomas' intrusive thoughts feel more threatening or realistic when he feels unstable and like he has no control. if he's already spinning out of control in xyz ways, what happens if he loses even more control and acts on his definitely-real-not-fake impulses? etc.
that 'real' factor is very literally embodied by the duke showing up and manifesting each thought into video form (the closest to 'real' the sides can get).
WTIT is one of my favourite episodes bc of how well it exemplifies this. thomas' is at a SUPER low point w/ his mental health, and his living conditions have gone to hell. that's a deeply unpleasant way to live, and yet he doesn't have enough control over himself to fix it, so he's just sitting in misery. accordingly, the vast majority of remus' outbursts are about dangers related to the state of his house. sharp objects hidden amongst clutter, dishes becoming projectiles, his food being contaminated, an intruder getting in through an unlocked door, someone hiding in his cluttered closet. if the only avenue of insecurity he had was nico, the episode would have been much shorter (and would have involved 99% less rube-goldberg machines lmao).
as much of trying to wring meaning out of every one of remus' suggestions IS a terrible terrible idea, you can still find patterns in what angles of attack he chooses + when. remus has a remarkable knack for finding weaknesses!! someone doesn't want to think about things that upset them -> they repress those things -> remus ends up with a handily organised list of things he can throw in their faces to get a reaction. the circle of life <3
in the latest episode, everyone's reaction to remus bringing up sex (including janus!? friendly fire!!!) in a video about sexuality is like a big bold underline that the issue here is shame + struggling with self-acceptance. WTIT (in a much subtler, less talking-straight-to-camera way lmao) shows us logan's own sources of repression + shame -- helpfully for remus, he's been trying to deny he has any feelings at all recently lmao, so there's gotta be a lot to work with there.
i just think it's neat. remus' favoured sources of enrichment are a literal barometer for how well<-->poorly c!thomas is doing at any given moment!
(side note abt logan: i think more weight in theorycrafting could be given to what was happening just before the 'stop ignoring me!' outburst. logan's efforts at being communicative + understanding + ceding ground to remus tactics' as possibly being useful -- hard-won communicative + collaborative skills logan has been working really hard at developing! -- gets shit on and reduced to 'you're ignoring me :///'. a bad faith reduction of how hard logan is trying, completely ignoring how his solution would blatantly and objectively help thomas, because it didn't cater enough to remus. like... that's veeeery clearly a strawman MEANT to trigger logan's latent feelings of resentment directed at the other sides (+ thomas!). 'why does my effort come to nothing when they get twice as much reward for trying half as hard, why is how they feel more important than Actual Literal Reality™, why am i the problem if i put my foot down about any of this'.
crucially, remus spots this weakness before thomas gets visibly angry at nico, and sinks out before the phone-call is resolved. the anger logan experiences is super relevant, obvs, but i think so is the pain. anger comes after pain -- when somebody steps on your foot, anger is what gets you to tell them to back off. all of remus' scenarios for thomas involved pain (+ rejection...). being exposed to that pain over and over again w/ no resolution is what leads to thomas' anger. remus only hurt logan once (and we've HEAVILY emphasised that remus Could Not Injure Logan up until this point). so where did logan's injuries come from...? you get what i mean lol)
This is why I think orange is possibly a sense of justice - Thomas's sense of what is fair and what isn't fair to him and the anger, passion and frustration that goes with it and I think that's why Remus is REALLY excited to see Logan outburst with it. Sometimes shit isn;t fair and it sucks! And Remus knows this. He tries to rile Logan up in the Christmas gift video too- he wants Logan to go apeshit because if LOGIC breaks and finally says this isn't fair what the hell man then Remus's purpose, his entire reason for being, is validated, because he's been trying, in his Remus way, to say the same thing: you're ashamed of shit and you need to stop cause it's not fair to yourself and this shame isn't deserved. He's all that repressed stuff- he has no shame and doesn't care what anyone thinks about the thoughts he has because his being is sort of made out of all that stuff anyways. And the worse you shun him the worse his ideas become because he needs to be loud to be heard and his playground is full of elephants in the room nobody wants to stop trying to sweep under the rug. He's not JUST intrusive thoughts, he's all the creative ideas Thomas's brain doesn't want to think about and he has no other outlet. He's just manifesting that way because of he shame Thomas has for his sexuality and all that catholic guilt.
Even in the most recent video, the reason Remus pops up is because Thomas WAS thinking about wanting sex with Nico, and even if Thomas is like "that wasn't what I was going to say" he was still thinking it.
Thomas just can't stop pushing those parts of himself away unfortunately.
it took me a while to get to writing this post bc it was hard to gather my thoughts abt it, but something i've been rotating in my mind ever since the video came out is not only the fact roman didn't try that hard to defend himself when logan suggested something that went against his very core and propose; but even after everything was settled, when he tried for a moment to (very politely and calmly may i add!!) stand up for himself, he immediately backed down.
im talking about THIS moment:
after everyone (including even janus) thank logan and address his attempt at contribution, he looks at roman. roman, who so far has been uncharacteristically quiet. and what does he say?
"look, we can't all be good at romance, logan..."
"...but i would never advise thomas to give up on being logical, just because i don't understand it."
and look at logan's face in reaction to that. that line clearly strikes something in him, as it should. logan realizes here, i think, that by suggesting they remove from thomas's life something that is at the core of roman's being, he has unintentionally crosses a line that shouldn't be crossed. this is roman defending himself (again - look how CALM he is abt it! how rational. he is being the most mature and level headed abt this that he can, even tho he is undoubtfully hurt and shaken), and logan SEEING HIS WAY. this is logan accepting his point.
but then, immediately after:
roman backs down. he steps back. he downplays it, tries to say something nice to logan to prove he can see reason or be a team player and not make a scene; he lowers his voice back down.
and you can see in virgil's reaction that he notices. and furthermore, he doesn't approve.
also interesting to point that roman's eyes flick over to thomas in the middle of this. and it is a quick movement; i had to slow him to 0.25 speed to even take this screenshot. and he does it again right after the shot of virgil too:
and after that we can also see that not only did virgil noticed, but thomas and janus did too.
patton, interestingly enough, is the only one not showing signs of noticing something is amiss; he whispers to roman that he could have "given [logan] a little more".
so, what is my point?
i think roman is containing himself on purpose, out of fear of being too much. i think he's afraid of demanding things for himself, even when it's important, and i think he's scared shitless of thomas not approving.
all of this things we as viewers already knew of course. but i think the others are starting to notice as well. god i hope this is all gonna blows up.