Moldy Rainbow Butter

Under the cut since it lags

"Here." Drift handed Cleo a bowl of soup.

She took it, but didn't drink. The herbal, spiced aroma floated in the air between them.

"You're doing it again," she said. "Just like the first day. We need to prioritize ourselves. I appreciate it, but you're going to need to stop giving so much, especially with so few of us left. I can handle myself."

She made to hand the bowl back to Drift, who pushed it away.

"I know, I know. But there's more cooking. I'm not sharing a limited resource. Besides, there's not much time left of us being friends."

Cleo sighed deeply. "You've gotten attached."

Drift shrugged. "Maybe I have," she conceded, "but honestly, spending time with friends while I can...that's worth a little heartbreak, don't you think?"

Cleo shook her head, but still brought the bowl to her mouth and drank.

"Alright then," the Champion of Apollo said with a pained smile, "agree to disagree?"

Cleo set down the bowl. Her green, goat-like eyes bored into Drift's honey-colored ones.

Finally, after a long silence which was only deepened by the chirping of night insects, "I—I need to go."

She got up in a rush, and before Drift could fully process, had crested the ridge and vanished from sight. Drift stared forlornly at where she had been, before picking up the discarded bowl and pouring its contents into the bushes.

The others had agreed to vote for her and Cleo in the arena tomorrow. Cleo had drunk a potent enough dose. The warmth of the sun lingered around Drift's heart.

“Behold this vicious feral vermin!”

this post is inspired in part by this one by @cheshirepirouette and sponsored in part by convos w @asteriis and @indouscurse here’s to y’all!! this post also goes out to my brothers, who are pale as hell for reasons unbeknownst to all of us (this is a joke).

like any good headcanon, this started as a joke because i thought to myself: Ryland sounds like the type of name that somebody’s Black child would have and only use on church sundays. nobody actually has ever called him that in his whole entire life, except maybe his mama SOMETIMES and that’s why he doesn’t remember it right away. i feel like every Black person knows somebody who is called literally anything except their god given name. people call him lil r, lil grace, gracie, ry, ryry, riri, RG, lando, mr. grace, dr. grace, but nobody calls him Ryland, which is part of why he Can’t Remember for so long.

so of course i went back to the source material to see if he ever actually mentioned being white anywhere and unfortunately it is very much at the beginning of the book. so THEN i started to think about how i could get around that while remaining at least largely canon compliant (as a little treat for myself). what i came up with is what i have affectionately dubbed my “litebrite baby” headcanon.

THIS WAS NOT AN APOLOGY THIS WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT DO NOT CALL IT AN APOLOGY

half of the “im sorry”s were followed by “if i xyz”. if i offended you. if you felt hurt. thats not an apology. 

also. he said “orientalism” twice and racism ZERO TIMES. thats not an apology, that’s crowd control.

lets examine some of the shit that he DID say, actually.

"read more on the line of Asian culture and uhm.. Orientalism. and I didnt realize because i didnt do much research.”

thats ur fault. why are u saying like an excuse. its not.

“because this isnt a way to teach you greek mythology.”

im sorry?? your saying you dont have to research greek culture because you arent teaching it?? mate, your whole smp is ancinet greek based, tf do you mean?

“it bleeds into a lot of Japanese patterns which i know because ive been to Japan.”

what the fuck are u on about. 

“ i didnt get to know that other people were being pointed greek.”

what does this have to do with the racism

“ ive had a very difficult year”

the racism. what about taht.

“i didnt know it was bad rep because it was the first thing that appeared when it showed up. “

not my problem . the racism is still Your Fault

“im sorry if it affected you. it was never something i would try and do. “

yeah i dont believe you. prove it.

“i thought everyone else was going fantasy.”

THATS STILL WRONG. EVEN IF EVERYONE ELSE HAD FANTASY DESIGNS YOU WERE STILL ORIENTALIST AND RACIST

“ apologizes if anyone was offended it was not my intention. “

fuck off

“ive seen people saying my character being orientalist and my character going to be very flirty, those were dots i was not connecting.”

ur so right!!! (sarcastic) people are just imagining things. (sarcastic.) theres no racism, its just silly Asians getting all worried over nothing (sarcastic.)

Fandom needs to STOP IGNORING PEOPLE OF COLOR. Stop saying that caring about this is a 'white' thing to do, that is ERASURE.