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I hope Markiplier knows he's being shipped with Ryan Gosling
It's such a shame the Secret Soulmates thing is so often portrayed as Grian being selfish or vindictive for no reason because I think the actual events leading up to Grian's decision to seek out BigB are way more interesting than just "Grian's a selfish cheater". So like, because it's not covered much, I'm just going to detail the entire narrative from Grian's pov leading up to his decision to go to BigB.
For the first part of the first episode, Grian actually really seems to be romanticizing the idea of soulmates. Multiple times, he describes his search for his soulmate as "looking for love" and he hits everyone he meets with almost excited anticipation.
The moment Grian and BigB first look at each other is surprisingly romantic? I mean, it feels like what you'd expect from someone meeting their soulmate, from someone who just knows.
BigB and Scott finish testing if they're soulmates, and BigB is mid sentence when he turns around and look at Grian, and BigB just stops mid sentence and goes "Oh", which Grian echos (also when bigb looks at grian, grian holds his shield up for a good few seconds which just gives me the image of him hiding behind it and peering over the top which is uncharacteristically shy for grian but also really cute). "Are you ready?", BigB asks, and he waits for Grian to give him the go ahead before hitting him.
And..nothing. They aren't soulmates. BigB sounds disappointed. Grian sounds almost distraught, "I was so sure- I've never had such a broken heart in my life."
Shortly after Grian's soulmate takes significant damage. Everyone present rushes to give him food, though Grian would later credit BigB specifically with the very warm sentiment of having "saved" him.
And Grian's first meeting with Scar is..different.
Grian already doesn't seem to want to be Scar's soulmate, doesn't want to be teamed again, for one reason or another. And Scar..doesn't make it easier. Grian tries to talk to him, as the realization sets in, tries to say it, that they're soulmates. Grian does say it. But Scar isn't listening. Scar actively talks over Grian to brush Grian off, walking away while Grian is trying to grapple with the fact that they're soulmates.
Scar doesn't notice. Grian said it, mind you, in plain English- "Scar I think we're soulmates"- and Scar heard him, Scar responded to him, Scar just wasn't listening. Scar doesn't look for his soulmate, and he doesn't figure it out either for the rest of the episode. Grian tries to tell him twice more, and twice more Scar isn't listening. The first time, Grian calls after Scar twice as he's running off, "Scar I need to tell you something", but Scar doesn't turn around. The final time, Grian literally forces Scar to look at him and drops dripstone on their heads. Scar somehow still doesn't see him. Grian demands Scar look at him, actually look, this time, and finally, with great effort, he manages to get the point across.
One of Scar's first questions is "do we have to live together?", and Grian responds that it would be nice to, a sentiment Scar doesn't immediately echo. Grian pulls Scar along, back to the base Grian got working on by himself earlier.
At the start of the next episode, they have a disagreement. Scar brings home some pandas without consulting Grian, and Grian reacts very negatively, making a no pandas in the house rule and prompting Scar to help him with work instead. Grian specifically delegates the job of getting oak wood to Scar while Grian continues working on..everything else..himself. And after a bit of procrastinating from Scar, he does go to do his "chores" as Scar describes them.
Except that Scar doesn't actually.
Well, I mean, he does do the "chore" Grian gave him, but while he's out, he takes a break to think of a way to punish Grian, coming up with the idea of using powdered snow to hurt Grian as a punishment for Grian not letting the animals in the house and making Scar do a "chore". Grian doesn't technically know Scar did this on purpose, but with tick damage being a very distinctive type of damage that you usually would have to do on purpose to take as much as Scar did, I wouldn't be surprised if Grian figured it out.
It's at this point, that Grian decides to go to BigB. And it doesn't feel like he's just doing it for shallow reasons or to be mean, it fully checks out.
Because Grian's not happy with Scar at this point!
Partially because Scar himself doesn't seem interested in Grian at all, wouldn't listen to Grian to the point of talking over and brushing him off when Grian tried to tell him, and didn't want to live together after finding out. For Grian, who genuinely did seem to have a rather romantic view of soulmates at the start of the first episode, it probably kinda sucked to have his soulmate look past him like that. I can't fault Scar for not being particularly interested, but just because Scar didn't do anything technically wrong doesn't mean Grian's not allowed to be unhappy.
And then there's the other problem. The one I see surprisingly few fans talk about in regards to Scar and Grian. "Why does everyone else get a real partner except me?", Grian asked shortly before deciding to go to BigB. It's a sentiment we get from Grian multiple times. He says being Scar's partner is like babysitting, like having a toddler, Scar doesn't feel like a partner, he feels like a source of emotional labor who has no interest in lessening the burden for Grian. And. Yeah. Grian has good reason to feel like Scar makes him do all the labor in their relationship. I mean, Grian needed to get very pushy to even get Scar to agree to help build their shared base, Grian had to do the job of managing Scar on what specific task to do, Grian gave Scar a very small job comparative to the work Grian was doing around the house, and Scar still complained and found a way to punish Grian (the powdered snow) for "making" him do "chores" and not wanting animals in the house.
Which isn't to say Scar is bad or malicious or something, I love Scar, hell, I love Desert Duo, I think they work very well together in a lot of cases, but I think there is very much a labor imbalance- both in actual work and in emotional labor- here and it's understandably upsetting for Grian.
And in comparison, BigB looks..wonderful, to Grian?
BigB wanted him, for starters. They both felt it, the previous day. Scar kept looking through Grian, but BigB's eyes met Grian's and they both felt something. BigB seems considerate too. Grian feels like he has to pull teeth to get Scar to help him with the house (and then gets punished for it), meanwhile BigB is the one who "saved" Grian the previous day, jumping to give him food, not to mention the considerate gesture of BigB checking in to make sure Grian is ready before hitting him for the soulmate check. And, well, Grian clearly likes BigB.
Grian wasn't just going to someone else to be mean to Scar, and he didn't go for BigB just because he wanted someone, Grian was- validly!- unhappy with Scar (who didn't seem to want to be together much either) and actively liked BigB and thought he'd be a good partner.
Also, Grian very notably announces that he's defying destiny and asserts that he has a choice in who to be with, which adds a thematic layer of personal agency to the whole thing too. You get the impression Grian was mostly with Scar because he felt like he had to be, because the universe tied them together. But here Grian considers, for the first time, the thought that maybe it's okay to be with someone he wants, and who makes him happy, instead of resigning himself to be with the one he's 'supposed' to be with just because he's 'supposed' to.
(this idea of agency in who you love is relevant to double life as a whole, as i've made many posts about, but also is relevant to desert duo specifically. as much as i think they really cared about each other in third life, grian was also with scar because he was supposed to be for most of the season. being with scar had always, up to that point, been something grian was obligated to do, something grian didn't feel he had much choice in. so grian finally asserting here to the audience that he has a choice feels very relevant thematically.)
maybe the real world that doesn't exist was the yaoi we made along with the way
so like, imagine
crazier than you from the Addams family musical but scarian
do we see the vision? please 🙏🙏 they are so excited to be insane I love it
I need everyone to look at me. Look me dead in my eyes.
Cleo, the real human person who will be face revealing next weekend, is, by their own definition, a heavyset White femme presenting nonbinary person who is in their early-mid 40s. That's what they will look like. I need you to get that in your mind right now so that I don't see any dumb as shit comments about Cleo not looking like fanart or a cartoon or their anime style V-Tuber. They will look like a real human person. You will be normal about this.
EVERYONE STOP I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A LIFE SERIES PERSON TO RESPOND
Y'know I'm glad we have Tumblr because I read and watched Project Hail Mary and no one I knew cared for it but of course here there are CULTURED people who care about the stupid little alien+man friendship
ok hello so I went SEARCHING because tumblr's search engine sucks 😭😭. I read a thing you wrote from an ask about comparing ranchers through your works? if you remember? and you mentioned a page from your Grammar book that you posted right before chapter four and it would give insight to why you use parentheticals for Jimmy and like. I FOUND IT
NOW I'M JUST MORE CONFUSED :((((
(Not actually I had fun sorry if u got a bunch of notifications of me liking different things as I scrolled 😭)
Hi Ser!!!
So this will be a bit botched, I dont have my computer today so Im doing tumblr mobile while on break lol. 1)I love spam notifs, I always read the reblog tags too. 2) GOSH THIS YEAH
So I wasnt gonna explain it to yall but lord knows im hiding enough with how long it takes me to write so heres the run down.
This is the photo Ser is talking about
Fun fact, I took this picture while I was still in university, 2 hours before I spoke in a professional educator conference!! What a time to be alive.
But but but, please note this section of text "parentheses also contain pithy asides from the writer--kind of a direct line to their inner thoughts and opinions."
This is the litteral sense of the grammar. If I wanted to give you a side bar (and i do, this is a side bar) I would use a parenthetical. This is something you see a little less in third person fiction like MoE is, because it doesn't always fit. Youre already in the characters head, why would you need a side bar?
Well, dear reader. It's because I dont always use them to tack on added information. Grammar is my playground and rhetoric is my best friend. I wish I wasnt on my phone so I could find you better examples, im sorry Ser, this will have to do for now.
But if you read through chapter 3, or any of Jimmy's povs. You'll notice hes the only to use parentheticals. (I think tango does it ONCE for it pure grammatical purpose of adding on, not so important information.) He does this to
1) add context (as prescriptive grammar use intends)
2) show you, the reader, that Jimmy is ignoring something. Hes thinking it and not realizing it. Or hes thinking it and purposefully not letting it be part of the "main" narration. He is not a reliable narrator, he hides from the reader just as much as he hides from himself.
And 3) intrusive thoughts.
Ive never seen intrusive thoughts done this way and im kind of vibrating thinking about how cool it is. But I put reasons 2 and 3 together in the same grammar tool because even Jimmy doesn't know what intrusive and whats something hes ignoring on his own accord. He says hes fine and he believes it. You, the reader, the knower of almost everything, can see hes not actually fine.
So!! With this fun little bit in mind. Please have fear.png about Jimmy no longer using his parentheses, and just letting full stream of conscious go wild. And...Tango earning parentheses.
Thats all for now!! Thank you for the ask i was buzzing waiting to go on break and answer. <3 much love!!!!
Something they don't tell you about being aroace is that sometimes you do know you're not broken. sometimes you'll hang out with your friends, and they'll talk about their relationships and you know you're not broken. you know that you're just not into that. and you'll still feel shoved outside, you'll still feel sick when you realize that you can't relate in this way. and sometimes you have to live with that.
I wish I had stopped to savor it, the last time I saw a kung pow penis. I never knew it was to be my last
IM CLUTCHING MY FUCKING PEARLS
GOOD NEWS KUNG POW PENIS IS RETURNING WE MADE THEM REVERSE THE CHANGE
LUNG POW PENIS IS BACK ON THE MENU!!
yo so there's a girl next to me on the bus absolutely reading a/b/o on ao3 rn
as a non a/b/o fic reader I feel both at home with my love of ao3 and very very far from it...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUNKY MUSIC IRISH MANNNNN
“men can’t be oppressed” -> men of colour
“white men can’t be oppressed” -> gay men
“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men
“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men
“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men
“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men
“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and
we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
imma do anything atp why not
i love potatoes
and this is shiny potatoe
luck or no luck, i will reblog this
I love the giggs dnd so much,,, but no amount of mcyt fanfiction reading with their weird names can help me gaslight myself into taking the name Mr. Wizard seriously 😭😭😭
soooo, this stream did something to me
as a Dsmp retired veteran, DAAAAANG 😭😭😭😭
Me, trying to write a letter to get sponsors for a fundraiser: (writhing on the floor in pain) I will not use chatgpt I will not use chatgpt I will NOT USE CHATGPTTTTT