*disappears under mysterious circumstances*

merle (well, clint) asked for burnt umber to be funny without even realizing what color it was

it's hardly a joke, it's hardly touched on, though i'm sure it's more obvious in the graphic novel. but to me it was more shocking than their jokes about living for hundreds of years, of always having their memories, of never forgetting barry bluejeans

and i don’t mean faith as in religion. well, i do a little bit–i can talk about fungston, and how merle was so powerfully hopeful that his words inspired a doomed world to hope again, even after he vanished before them as their world ended–but in this particular post i just mean regular old faith. faith in other people.

i’m talking about john hunger.

john hunger was bent on destroying everything. he had no faith in anything. he thought the world is pointless, and it would be better if it didn’t exist at all. he trusted nothing, believed in nothing, loved nothing.

enter merle.

merle, who doesn’t go for his weak points. who tried for at least fifty-seven years to show john that hope isn’t weakness. that there’s strength in trust. that there is love even in places you wouldn’t think to look. 

and he fucking succeeds. 

it takes him a long time, but of course it does: john resigned himself to this path long ago. it takes him more than half a century, but eventually, merle’s faith–in himself, in other people, in john, in john’s capacity to choose joy, as he does, to be a better person–is so powerful that john turns against the hunger. 

I love lup so much i wrote a song about her beat THAT barry bluejeans

[audio description: a song on guitar and vocals about Lup Taaco from The Adventure Zone. The lyrics to the song are lower down on the post. The cover art is a drawing of Lup from the waist to the neck. She is surrounded by smoke and burning embers, and she is holding the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet to her heart. It’s glowing brightly.]

Lyrics: Lived on the run and on the open road But I knew that I was never alone Spent so much time with my other half But no one’s here for my now inside this fucking staff

6 friends, 9 lives, a hundred ways to die Flying away from shadows in the sky Come undone, put us back where we came from No one said dying made all the pain numb

Who are we now? Who were we then? We die, come back, and try again

A glow like fire comes from a light Break off a piece, hide it out of sight Burning away my skin I fear I’m wearing thin

A fire burns, Consuming all, Who could resist its thrall

The walls are bleak and covered in ash Curtains all burnt into a looming black One light, one hope, one voice Your life, your hand, your choice