Tenna’s been through hell and high water and seen the artificial nature of their reality and had to grapple with all of that and meanwhile Swapton is sitting at his phone after they start talking again, feet kicking in the air. Fully rejuvenated a horribly annoying schoolgirl crush from the ether of his psyche. Tenna says “I love that you remembered that memory” and the word love smacks Swapton across the face. Immediate full faced flush. Goes right to the hologram. He can’t stop it. Holospam is way more expressive than him, so the hologram just makes it worse. He’s stupid 💖 but Tenna thinks it’s funny and kinda cute so he’ll excuse getting curtained by an expensive jacket.
An important aspect of the weird route is that the destructive ideas presented were always part of noelle.
Her desire to escape, to be released from the person she is "supposed to be" and do "something crazy"
The main difference is in how that desire is framed. With Susie, its about compassion, to encourage her to break out of the mold and be her authentic self to everyone, no matter the consequences. But in the weird route, its to depersonalize herself, to the point of becoming the willing tool of a greater force.
The fact that you cant stop her anymore is a great twist. The player manipulation was so effective, that even we lost control over what we created. Noelle become nothing but to drive to break out of the boundaries that are holding everyone captive and we have no choice but to go along with it.
(please consider voting for him, I worked very hard on this drawing)
Some reasons to vote for Tenna:
He made a huge cultural impact online, spawning many AU's, fanfiction, fanart, ASMR Videos, a dating sim fangame and much more! People are feral for this TV!
He's middle aged, past his prime and terrified of becoming obsolete (so we must show him that he's loved!)
He's bad with modern technology and doesn't even know what an e-mail is
He is a deeply flawed, relatable comfort character for many
He'd be the FIRST object head to win the contest!
He is canonically queer
He canonically whines when he's asking for a walk and wants you to be gentle if you want to touch that dial (yep, he says that)
He introduced a lot of people to wireplay and contributed a lot to the entire robo smut genre (a lot of new tags exist solely because of him)
He is around 15 feet tall and can shrink to the size of an ant ("Tall enough to be a giant, handsome, apron- wearing older husband, and small enough so he can be like a glooby, cute pet that can be kept in a cage.")
He was originally supposed to look more like an Ant and had four arms in his early concept drawings
He'd do ANYTHING to entertain you and is desperate for validation
He has abandonment issues and deeply misses his ex who also happens to be a tumblr sexyman
He's emotionally unstable and has rapid moodswings
He would definetly cry and be depressed for weeks if he lost the contest
He's a single dad who loves his daughter
He is essentially a traumatized child of divorce and just wants to be loved
Vote for Tenna here if you love TV!
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Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt
Have you seen Jimothy the raccoon. I feel like you would enjoy that guy
BOY HAVE I!! Jimothy is from my city, not too far away either! I hope to witness him some time. He makes me emotional
For those that don't know, Jimothy is a raccoon with Short Spine Syndrome. According to local wildlife specialists, he appears perfectly healthy otherwise. He's even a few years old, those bottom two images are him as a baby!!! There's a lot of video footage from locals going around so I'd definitely go look at those, seeing him in action is incredible
Please vote for Tenna guys I need this as much as he does
VOTE TENNA FOR TUMBLR SEXYMAN 2026 NOW!!!
Guys if Tenna wins I will open Tenna art requests (including 18+ requests on bsky) for an entire day ok and I will do as many as I’m physically capable of ok PLEASE PLEASE LET TENNA WIN!!
Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.
He said the exact same thing, which I did not know before that, so spreading this knowledge.