#tom rant

[geareduptom]

Would you be down to draw one of your favorite ships from one of the AU's you've created? 👀

Having to pick one was tough and I struggled to debate on which ships even were my favorites from each au. So I just turned this into a answer for each au. Cause I wanna draw em all.

I also ran out of motivation to re-draw the sketchs since it wasn't letting me size the canvas up and it was smaller than I anticipated so I tried to use my Snip tool to make it not Tiny.

Answer written: (Below)

Pretty Pill's Au: Julex. -Alex and Julius are always there for each other even though Alex has to leave by the beginning of the au. -(Moved from one asylum to another since their methods of 'curing him' weren't 'working')

Missing Alice: Tied between Julex and Osix. - Oswald kinda has Felix hostage through the whole thing but it slowly turns into them just hanging out and Felix being weirdly helpful. - Felix also get's to learn about Oswalds motivations and even his past which exposes Felix to a lot of realizations.

-Julius is legit possessing Alex and chose to save his soul before it could pass on, Alex may be in a dolls body, but the two work on escaping together and Alex values Julius's efforts to save him. Especially when he chooses Alex over himself in the story. (His crush is cute ok lemme have this.)

Alex Shot Cupid: ..... You knew it was going to be Julex right. It'd be silly if not lmao.

Field King: Okay.... so. Weirdly enough Osix is my favorite Ship out of this au. Don't get me wrong I still looooooovvveee Bendystraw for this au.

But they both were tortured by sovereigns and were saved by a Sovereign, had to slowly adjust to the situations thrown at them and even had issues trusting each other. Only to find they both share a lot in common.

And Felix is very cute when taking care of Oswald's remaining 35 kids.

The bois need comfort and why not from someone who understands their pain.

4 Dumbasses living together: Bendystraw

This was my first Bendystraw au and I've seriously clung to this thing for 5 years and you'll have to tear it from my cold dead hands.

It was a close call with the Osix in the story, but the only reason Osix didn't win was due to the fact that Felix doesn't really listen to Oswald through out the original story of the au.

It's changed a bit now, but even with the new additions. Felix and Oswald's souls are Deteriorating through out the whole story which drives the 2 pretty crazy and twists their love into something almost evil

if it weren't for the small moments where Felix and Oswald break through the warped soul connection and connect even if for 5 seconds they'd lose a lot more points.

The Sun Crashed : Another Tie. (Catnap x Dogday) & (Alastor x Simon)

I would have added Picky Piggy X Maggie Marco....

But then I'd go on and on about all of the ships I put into the au and all of them would be listed cause I love them all almost equally but the Sun Siblings relationships beat out the rest cause I like the argumentitive Simon and Alastor moments and just the cute Dogday and Catnap ones.

[ventingblacklist]

If I’d never joined the fandom it’d be a no-brainer. I’d just wait until season five popped up on netflix and skip through the crap I didn’t like.

Teacher Tom bored me. The whole domestic Keen scene bored me. I pretty much sleepwalked through those scenes the first go-round. And I didn’t see the point in him sticking around after 2b. Or 2a, really.

I didn’t hate him before 3b. I thought him coming back right away in 3a was pointless, but there was so much awesome stuff going on, it didn’t really bother me. I never thought in a million years they’d actually get him and Liz back together. Even with the pregnancy I didn’t think so.

The whole 3b I kept thinking that something was going to happen, that he had something up his sleeve.

Reuniting them is what did it. Before that, I literally could hardly be bothered to pay attention to Tom. He was a distracting gnat. I was ambivalent toward him, beyond not understanding why he was still around. Then they were like, ‘we’re gonna do a spin off.’ And I’m like. Oh, okay. At least there’s a reason he’s still here. It’s an out-of-show reason, but a reason I suppose.

I thought for sure they would break them up in season four; there would be reveals, he would hit bottom, Liz would dump him and he’d go off to work for mommy. And actually earn his redemption.

I thought there would be a reason for that rushed reunion. Some parallel to the past that would make Liz learn and grow. But apparently not. Apparently the writers just actually think this is a great love story.

I’ll never forget when I watched Lady Ambrosia the first time. Tom gets shot. Episode progresses. Then at some point it cuts back to Tom going into that house and collapsing in the shower.

That cut back to Tom literally jolted me. I was so caught up in the stuff I cared about, I had honestly forgotten Tom was even in the episode.

I got into Redemption a tiny bit. But between the end of that and the end of TBL season four, Tom’s drama slipped right out of my head. I forgot we were even supposed to be wondering about what happened to him as a kid.

What happened with his family? Is Whitehall going to destroy the world?

… Honestly don’t care. I hate Halcyon too. I hate that Agnes and Liz are now tied into that screwed up world.

I like the idea that Red is going to be driving a wedge between them in season five, but at the same time... we’ve been here before. This is pretty much the entire show at this point and it’s like... can we at any point move on? Preferably with no Tom at all.

Tom wearies me with his presence. I want to focus on all the reasons I fell in love with this show, and there his mug always is, popping in. Taking this thing off the tracks toward something completely different. Liz and Red’s relationship might have the same destination, but the rest of it feels irretrievable. *sigh*