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also, in terms of dave’s time travel fucking everything up, you’ve read ontological paradox, right? that one is classic.

yes do exactly that. im blocking you now and you should give me your address so i can mail you a pipe bomb.

Johnson's Dictionary Online (thanks @yellowbelliedtoad!) – 1755 and 1773

Green's Dictionary of Slang – 1300s to today

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – 1788

the most obvious reason why:

in the “hey coolkid is this you” conversation, terezi outright compares dave to wheeler from captain planet. in the show, wheeler’s element is fire, which terezi explicitly notes in comparison to dave’s own temperament (dave’s associated alchemical element is also fire)! not only does he respond with unreasonable anger for literally no reason, he also uses the very particular adjective BREATHTAKING to describe wheeler. this is relevant because in the show wheeler has a VERY EXPLICIT CRUSH ON LINKA, whose power is WIND. the attention being drawn to dave’s element in this pesterlog combined with the SPECIFIC word choice of "breath taking" and CHARACTER choice of wheeler when john’s associated element is wind/air/breath (which has already been teased at this point) drives me NUTS.

dave also seems to have previously watched captain planet based on what he says in that conversation (“that guy’s an asshole”) which is probably TRUE considering in a wayyy wayyyyy earlier panel there’s a flash that lets you play with dave’s beat machine. and i’ve talked about it before but the secret songs on that thing arrreeeee

they’re all DEFINITELY john related EXCEPT for the captain planet theme. but that’s also john related BECAUSE OF WHEELER AND LINKA. keep in mind this is wayyy before the hey coolkid conversation so dave has no reason to associate himself with captain planet or wheeler UNLESS he just already DID. and has been projecting himself and his crush onto FUCKING WHEELER AND LINKA FROM CAPTAIN PLANET.

MORE. i know there are only so many ways to symbolically portray wind but the ring that gives linka her powers has a definite resemblance to the breath symbol color-wise. her character in and of itself is pretty comparable to john’s. and it’s WHEELER with the crush. and WHEELER is the one constantly getting rejected.

what i’m saying is this fucking kid kins wheeler from captain planet and compares his best friend/crush to linka. it is there for those with eyes to behold. RIDICULOUS