Your immune system getting weaker when you're stressed has got to be the dumbest stress response ever like oh you've been having a horrible terrible no good week? Let Me Make It Worse.
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Your immune system getting weaker when you're stressed has got to be the dumbest stress response ever like oh you've been having a horrible terrible no good week? Let Me Make It Worse.

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No one asked for this but, my final take on the villies/pearl/etho dynamic
"Why do we need that one wish at the end when there are so many shooting stars right now?" Hey watch me get emotionally attached to this throwaway line for the next 3 months and be unconsolable about it
Not maintagging this cause I want to test the waters before getting dogpiled but surely I'm not the only person who's vibe on traffic!gempearl is gem trying very, very hard to make pearl worse while also not knowing the pearl that'll come from being worse isn't the pearl she thinks she'll get. Hello. Is this mic on. Gem wants the scary unhinged bloodthirsty scarlet pearl that she's heard so much of while not knowing that scarlet pearl never existed. She never did. Scarlet pearl was the result of other players reactions/memories of pearl while she was being actively ostracized by the rest of the dl cast. It was a title that overshadowed how lonely pearl actually was. Yes she did play into the character near the end but not before everyone else did the heavylifting of convincing themselves she was way more dangerous than she actually was. Gem's looking for a version of pearl that never existed
My current favourite pattern is waking up in the morning to see dream situation trending, then disappear from the page, then trend again at night when everyone on the western hemisphere wakes up

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Got jumpscared by like 30 people showing up in my house hearing my madman ramblings so uh, guess I should make a more detailed post about it???? Anyways the traffic!gempearl appeal for me at least is that gem is looking for a version of pearl that doesn't exist. She's trying so desperately to make her worse in hopes it'll bring out the scarlet pearl she heard so much about, while also not knowing that scarlet pearl was never real. Scarlet pearl was a character. A rumour. A story that didn't even really exist in double life but in the seasons after it. Honestly it's hard to lay out the points without them getting messy in paragraphs so wait I need to list them out. To point is
Gem wants to bring the Scarlet Pearl out of Pearl
Scarlet Pearl doesn't exist, and never did
Scarlet Pearl was a reputation that overshadowed how dl!Pearl acted herself. It was a tool, a vague threat, a reason to ostracize the odd one out in a game of pairs, whether anyone was aware of what they were doing or not
Scarlet Pearl never existed in double life. At least, not until the finale. What existed in double life was someone weird. Someone alone. Why was she alone? No one knows why, but there must be a reason, so she should stay alone
Gem has a reputation that precedes her, just like the Scarlet Pearl
If Pearl could just stop holding back for once, maybe Gem can have a glace at that legendary, almost fantastical version of Pearl. The one that killed with glee. The one that fights with ease. The one leagues above everyone else. The threat.
Gem wants a version of Pearl that matches Gem's own reputation
That version of Pearl doesn't exist, and never will.
The wandering Pearl, the drifter, the one who is too quick to criticize their own lighthouse and too friendly to the other alliances, that's the version of Pearl that exists
Gem and Grian keep poking at her, questioning her loyalty, trying to find the Scarlet Pearl hidden underneath her
Scarlet Pearl doesn't exist, but Pearl does. And Pearl doesn't deal well with loneliness.
Theoretically my favourite life series seasons are last and double life but in practice when I watch dl and see pearl get ostracized by the entire cast episode after episode I start taking poison damage
Survived alone in the woods for a while before dying
Wasn't known as a fighter when alive
Last thing she remembers was wandering through the woods not feeling all that great
Extremely nonchalant about the idea of having to kill people until there's one man standing
Pantheon!pearl's past life was double life!pearl