Falsehood!

Virgil thinks it's embarassingly cute. And then in true tumblr fasion, logan's affectionate phrases get Worse.

To give some context, my (34M) former friend (34M) left me a while ago for another friend group, which I'm totally fine with and not bitter about at all.

I don't think he wanted to see me again, but because of my job I ended up having to speak to his new friends. I knew none of them would trust me, so I figured the best way to get them to listen was to impersonate my ex-friend's dad (also 34M). I had them all put on a four-act play illustrating why I was right, which I thought was pretty convincing. But when my disguise was revealed, they decided not to go with what I suggested and be boring and honest.

I was just doing my job, but they all seem mad at me and it's really awkward because we're all technically the same person. Am I the asshole here?

i just imagined an entire episode where thomas thinks that just talking to his sides isn’t enough and he needs a therapist and logan is like “finally” but turns out what thomas wants to do is. to imagine a therapist and have an imaginary session. and he makes it very clear that this is not a side of his personality, but supposed to be an entirely different person to get an “outside perspective” and logan is like. “this is literally still an inside perspective this is all happening inside your head.”

A promised product (in this case the videos) gets popular, and the creator thinks that they have to make the product bigger and better and more impressive to please the people, and thus takes longer and longer to make. And then it's never good enough for the hype, and the creator forgot that people wanted the original promised product, that that was good enough and doesn't have to be so big. That the original product was what got people invested, not this big impressive thing they've decided they must make forever.

I'd say I hope Thomas realizes this and breaks from it, but he's claimed he's learned before and nothing changed. All I can say now is I hope his other projects don't fall into this trap, too.

yeah i think this same thing.

i’ve said before it’s like a vicious cycle where bigger productions require more time, which means longer waits, which require bigger productions to make up for them and to keep the audience’s attention, which require more time and so on. the photoshoots are also a good example of this like. just look at the skirt photos in chronological order.

we’ve told thomas many times that we’re alright with simple videos even if they take longer so thomas can take breaks. and he seems to understand this but then get trapped again. first he said they would make the Asides and he didn’t promise that they would be smaller but that they should come quicker and be irrelevant to the main plot, so he seemed to be aware that the series needs more lighthearted simple episodes. but then they forgot and got ambitious again. and then he did say after the last video, the one for the plushies, that it was fun making that simple thing and he will consider doing it more often. which like okay. good. good that you realize this for the third or fourth time? hope this time it actually helps break the cycle.

sanders sides commission for @hello-its-an-aj!

sidestober day 2: space!

Logan doodle.💫