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"average siffrin makes 3 deals during the loops" factoid actually just statistical error. average siffrin makes 0 deals during themloops. Deals "Dusk" Georg, who makes 10 siffilion deals per loop is an outlier and should not have been counted

// dusk voice: but what if this time I fix everything and make life perfect and happy for everyone and that'll make my suffering meaningful and worth it and I'll be happy forever. This'll happen. #bet

// and then meanwhile Director is just counting out their metaphorical cash earnings, just nodding along like uh huh, uh huh. Keep betting you'll have to win eventually! #gambling

joltmix

no art today so here Dave strider ass rambling time

I wanna talk about post canon Jane a bit. I really hate it when people say Jane wouldn’t become a capitalist xenophobic asshole because

one of her main character traits is being a capitalist and a ruthless business woman/detective

she was from a young age fed propaganda from the condense and after she found out that the person/company she looked up to most was evil and wanted to kill her friends she would be understandably mad at her (and for candy!jane trolls in general)

she is kinda an asshole in the comic. And people seem to forget that I’m not saying she’s a bad person just rude and stubborn which can snowball into being a full time asshole.

now where am I going with this you may ask? Nowhere

okay I kinda lied I’m going somewhere which is trans masc Jane (im going to use he/him for this section) and why it’s perfect for his character (in post canon) a lot of his ambitions and interests (apart from baking but back to that in a minute) are considered masculine, another major part of his character is their loyalty to crockercorp (even after realizing the truth) and a way I could see them going with meat!jane is rejecting crockercorp as opposed to candy!jane who embraces it and if you think about what crockercorp is a baking empire ran by an facist woman, baking is the one interest of janes that is considered feminine normally so if meat!jane ends up rejecting crockercorp then by rejecting femininity as a whole and embracing masculinity.

That was my ramble about Jane

the-condesce-did-nothing-wrong

My hot take is that the criticism that Jane is “boring” can genuinely also apply to John. The primary reason John isn’t called boring is because we spent more time with him. But Jane and John fill the same role, with a twist.

Both are supposed to be the normal, grounded characters who are meant to play off of a more colorful cast. John is a normal kid into magic who is thrust into a magical new world, while Jane is a normal teenager who lives in a world that isn’t quite right. She’s into detectives, and ironically her A6A1 character arc is about uncovering the mysteries of her world, and verifying the claims of her friends.

But Jane’s role as the primary alpha kid gets usurped in favor of Roxy, so people just assume she only exists to be a fanservice dispenser or a plot device.

the-condesce-did-nothing-wrong

The sooner fans accept that Jane is a loser dork girl instead of a hot girlboss CEO the fandom will finally be healed

mr-foods

people places and things

quietwingsinthesky

do you think bowser ever gets anxious after kidnapping peach again that he went too far this time and he calls mario up in the middle of the night to make sure they’re still on for tennis and gokarting next weekend

butchfaith

every time a female character gets called the mom friend i shoot another hostage

#kanaya homestuck #her whole character arc is about people treating her like a caretaker #and her standing up for herself

critique-masochist

uwathebestgirl

I know i couldn't afford him 🥀

#i have liek 20 bucks if we pool money it could work

teaboot

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

teaboot

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

epicallyepicnerdery

bleekay

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(

bleekay

i'm glad people are finding this fun as a concept and making references to stuff that this reminds them of but i really gotta express how bad of a nightmare this was for me. i had fallen in love with the original story and characters (though on waking i couldn't tell you the details), unintentionally warped their story beyond recognition, and found myself an unwitting god that could not provide mercy for some without doling torment to others. one of the characters started offing themselves every time i started another reread. stress dream doesn't even begin to cover it

afriendofblahaj

It would take a shit ton of writing to actually make this work

But

It would be really really cool to have a webpage that hosts a story that changes a very very small amount every time someone reads it. And have an entire meta-story about how it changes over time. Idk I might just love interactive art tbh.