Welcome to The Nest

Rocky chose a hand to match Grace's scar!

i went over and was about to put in “single” or “it’s complicated” and, well..

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

Spongebob doesn't flinch at his own queerness. He dresses in drag, he doesn't mind pronoun misusage, he doesn't care that his friendships come off to others as unconventional. He knows who he is. which is an asexual (canon by both Stephen Hillenburg AND Nickelodeon) sponge. He's openly fluid in his expression and is full of a love and hope that has been crushed out of Squidward a long time ago. Squidward is bitter from his past situationships with people like Squilliam and his only outlet for personal expression is through his art and music which people respond to with abject hatred and disgust, and because it is so personal to him, in fact it IS HIM because he is the subject of his artistic serial form is his literal face, the people are thus rejecting him personally.

Squidward secretly likes Spongebob, not because he's attracted to him but because he represents that sappy doe eyed queer twentysomething that Squidward used to be, and outwardly resents Spongebob because of how readily he's accepted by the community. What Squidward can't or flatly refuses to accept is that the town would be willing to accept him as well if he ever did come out of the closet but he's weighed down in his own bitterness and loathing both towards himself and others. The times where he creates art that speaks to others or when he plays the clarinet well in the show are all instances where his facade slips and he loses his inhibitions either through violent anger or when he feels genuine confidence rather than forcing it into his work. He CAN make beautiful art and he CAN play the clarinet but he choses to shoot himself in the foot in a self fufilling prophecy of miserable failure because ultimately he believes he is a failure and that he deserves his misery.

friend whos always available: i can do whenever

friend whos constantly busy: im sorry i have work and then school and then the labyrinth and then more work :( i can do tuesday at 3:00 am for five minutes tho

friend with the randomly generated sleep schedule: (no response)

friend who went missing in the woods behind their house 12 years ago and hasn't been heard from since: (no response)