I Think After Taylor First Joined The Undersiders When Alec Was Teasing Brian Abt A Hypothetical Romance

old worm art from circa 2022 that i never posted

Panacea: nice frontal lobe :)

Panacea: *stirs it like a latte*

Khepri: UYEVFyWHfrbgkeshrgYTb75wse

Panacea: the procedure was a success

it's really important if you're going to make alec gnc (everyone loves to do this) (it's so fucked up when once a blue moon i see someone drawing him like he's straight) that you understand it is not a personality trait. zero impact on his personality. zero cutesiness allowed. that is still a terrible 15yo boy who says slurs over fortnite and takes up the entire couch because fuck you and smells bad because he passed out after the last casino robbery without showering it's just that he's doing all of those things in a pale pink romper. rachel however you have to make her like if the imaginary butch woman cishets are afraid of was real and personally going to bite your arm off

concept: tristan decides to teach rain how to cook. rain is wary but the first attempts go well so they escalate to pan frying. tristan takes his eyes off the stove for two seconds and rain manages to start a fire. tristan, panicking, immediately switches to byron, who dumps a bunch of water on it (making it TEN TIMES WORSE). byron’s just like “fuck it, i’m out” and switches back to tristan and suddenly the entire kitchen is encased in stone

So, it seems like the fandom consensus on Pale is that you shouldn't bother reading it, because it is "too long". I'm going to push back against this. Yes, it is "too long". Yes it does loose focus near the end, and become a bit thematically muddled. Yes, it has it's share of Wildbow's patented Boring Action Schlock, particularly near the end (but not any more, proportionally, than Worm or Pact or any of the other ones that the fandom has decided are the "good" ones). But it is still 100% worth reading. The highs are just that high.

reading nona the ninth and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the train know i don't agree with building cow walls

It's so fucked up we never got a ward beach episode