guy with two clocks

just MET SOMEONE organically who has READ HORNETS NEST???????? WHAT. WHAT.

literally at someone’s 23rd bday party. medieval themed. i go as a castle. obviously. i meet a jester who makes me a beret with a little green leaf stapled to it. they tell me they write on ao3. i mention i write and that when i was at uni i was busy writing 100k dsmp/hg crossovers on ao3. they immediately go, oh, i think i’ve read that. fear like a small prey animal enters my eyes. yes, it turns out they HAVE read it. genuinely what are even the chances of this.

something I really love is how the revivebook was created because cc!dream needed a reason for why his character would switch sides during the pogtopia war, and it ended up being just such a classic literalization for the way that his character is just unable to let go of the past. because there is really no stronger metaphor/allegory for an inability to let go than necromancy.

anyway I think that c!dream should feel a sort of connection to some nether cultures, especially blazeborn culture and demon(?) culture because of c!sapnap and c!bad and growing up with them. It's all fine and dandy early on, but once he grows apart from them, he really starts to question his right to the culture. he's not from the nether. the parts of the culture that are dear to him have only ever been shared with him. does he really have any claim to it? it doesn't matter that a part of it feels like home. it doesn't matter that his earliest memory is in the nether. it's basically cultural appropriation if he indulges in old habits that happen to be connected to those cultures, right? so like many things, he keeps it under lock and key, and he pretends that he doesn't ache with the force of missing it.

people bring this back just to hurt me.

HOLY SHIT. HAPPY FIVE YEARS TO THIDS

holy shit it hit 8k. in 2026

people bring this back just to hurt me.

HOLY SHIT. HAPPY FIVE YEARS TO THIDS