#spext

[kringelorde]

frantically googling how to have sex with a sad fictional cowboy with tuberculosis and not getting any answers please call an ambulance i'm so horny I might die

[6-2heresy]

sovereign citizen dutch x mlm scheme hosea is this anything

[prwlnglthr]

not to put you on blast, but eheh glad someone commented on them! they're actually the old chocolate chip camo issued in the gulf where dave was deployed... :')

I'm a sucker for Hal having to get comfy borrowing Dave's hand-me-downs while crashing at the cabin post-Shadow Moses; I cannot imagine anything smaller in that wardrobe than old standard issue from when Dave was 18/19, so Hal gets to look like an army brat while Dave looks like a backwoods logger

[kringelorde]

and while I'm just saying some shit

I have a love-hate relationship with modern AUs in that I think they can be incredibly fun but almost every person who does them does them reeeeeal poorly lmfao

like for this to work, you have to keep the essence of the character intact. you have to really get the character and the world they canonically inhabit. if you don't, you're going to write some of the most milquetoast, by-the-numbers, trope-choked, self-indulgent bullshit imaginable (more power to you but I don't wanna read it, with all due respect) that bears no resemblance to canon in any way at all.

I think part of this also ties in to how exposed to modern reality people are. people lead such boring, introverted lives (whether it's their own fault or not) and are often so detached from their surroundings that they can only conceptualize equally uninteresting lives for their favourite characters. hence all the cookie cutter barista/florist-and-tattoo-artist AUs that all read like the author only has the most passing, surface level understanding of what they chose as the centerpiece yet also lacks the writing chops to at least make the surroundings compelling. schlock.

[kringelorde]

just learned what a radqueer was and I wish I didn't what the fuck

[6-2heresy]

love that john is built like a dorito on stilts, genuinely. he's so cute. and the fact that he wears those saucy little bootcuts with the fraying hems bc he steps on 'em? very moè individual.

[kringelorde]

liking straight bait characters as a faggy masc thing means I suffer more than christ did

[6-2heresy]

dutch van der linde is incredible bc he manages to be the sum total of both the evils of mothers and the evils of fathers in one sizzling sexy little package