i actually really dig the purple

@thatsthat24 instagram q&a - 07/21/20

Sander Sides themes!

Logan “Hilarious Comedy Monologue”

Link: https://audiojungle.net/item/hilarious-comedy-monologue/4120361

Roman- “The Blue Danube”

Link: https://audiojungle.net/item/the-blue-danube-strauss/22115157

Patton- “Jazz Cafe”

Link: https://audiojungle.net/item/jazz-cafe/17228960?s_rank=223

Virgil- “Eerie”

Link: https://audiojungle.net/item/eerie/10000975

Remus- “Forbidden Fruit”

Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pmlh7epFVMA

Janus-“Mysterious Paths”

okay LISTEN,,

You’re so valid. And lucky for you I planned to do exactly nothing on this day so here we go!

Virgil was the first to notice that there was something different about the four of them.

He’d been researching into mental illness/anxiety stuff on tumblr and stumbled upon some posts in the actuallyautistic hashtag that hit a little too close to home, so he looked into it a little bit more and realised, hey, those posts describe them all really well. He was too anxious to say anything though because he was scared he was wrong or that the others would think he was making stuff up.

Then one day Patton had a meltdown—a very rare occurrence that frightened all of them. Logan and Roman hadn’t known it was a meltdown and had mostly just stood there, unsure of what to do. Because of the research he’d been doing though, Virgil knew what to do in order to make things okay a little bit quicker than normal.

At that point, Virgil just couldn’t keep it to himself anymore. Plus, he was getting really tired of having to act more neurotypical than he was.

Logan agreed almost as soon as Virgil mentioned his suspicions. He felt like he’d been nearing the point of realising it himself, he just hadn’t got there yet, though Logan also quietly worried that he couldn’t be autistic because he was smart and generally articulate. Virgil mostly dispersed those fears by mentioning all the autistic traits he did have—something Virge had been paying a lot more attention to since he realised.

Patton was initially quite confused. He didn’t really know anything about autism, but he was clearly interested in finding out.

Once they’d explained to him the general premise of autism and, more specifically, which of his behaviours seemed to be as a result of it he was ecstatic. It was very much a moment of, “there’s a reason I want to do these things?? I’m allowed to do them???” which resulted in Patton doing a little jumpy, stimmy dance thing around the room for a second.

Roman was the only one who refused to accept it at first. He was Creativity! He wasn’t supposed to be limited like that by sensory issues or speech difficulties, that’s ridiculous!

He didn’t deny that the others were autistic, because that would be cruel, but he was very much of the mindset that they were like that and he was different. As a result, he pushed himself far past his limits to prove to the others he was capable until eventually, he ended up experiencing autistic burnout.

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Deceit can’t share information on his own. Thomas has to want to know - whether it’s said explicitly or just implicitly.

The fact that Deceit hasn’t shared his name yet means that while Thomas might be curious, the majority of him doesn’t want to know, doesn’t want to put in the effort to ask. And why?

Because giving him a name makes him real. Makes him complex. Makes it that much harder to push him away and forget that he’s just as important as a side of Thomas as all the others.

So Thomas doesn’t ask.

And Deceit can’t tell him.

And he has to sit there and know that Thomas doesn’t really want him around, but he’s too proud to prove him wrong the way he urged Virgil to. So he won’t sink out.

“Are you sure?” Deceit asks, doubt thick in his voice. His relationship with Patton has been a surprise to everyone and while it’s helped him be accepted to an extent, he knows the other so-called light sides still regard him with suspicion at times.

“Paws-itive!” Patton says, making sweater paws and bouncing on the balls of his feet. Deceit will never tell him, but he reminds Dee an awful lot of Remus when he does that. The dark side of Creativity gets similarly excited all the time. Of course, when he gets excited, it tends to be over something terribly gruesome, not a movie night invitation.

In celebration of the new video (that I loved btw), I want to remind everyone that Sanders Asides isn’t too.. canon.

So the last thing we got in the storyline was still....

Logan: ... What are you doing?

Remus *closes the lid*: Mac and cheese

Logan: ... That's not-

Remus: *holds the computer like a sandwich and takes a bite*

Logan, after pausing to take a sip of coffee: Taken together with the phrase “what the actual fuck" – which implies the existence of imaginary fucks – we may thus conclude that fuckery is isomorphic with the complex field.

Who wants to see Virgil with piercings, painted nails and a choker? This b*tch right here 🙌 @thatsthat24