(twt threateningcakes)

the remus cakes

Dad Things™ Patton Sanders most certainly does: 

Absolutely yes to all of these

the grill thing is canon

like actually canon

he literally set a grill on fire 

that sounds like me playing sims

okay so Patton got sick during the wedding and Janus nearly got sunburnt so it could be better but at least they got married

you know what? y’all need to see these tags

“Remus took a nap on the ground”

That sounds very peaceful if I’m being honest.

yeah I'm surprised he didn’t try to start a fire or something

guess he was just really tired

Ok

Was talking to my friends about this and ALL IF THEM THOUGHT IT MEANT MASTURBATION TOO. @thejoanglebook were you aware of this? lol

I thought that too but this is so much worse

!? i thought it meant masturbate too cause it made sense with the song choice in a sense??? but i mean

go off Remus

doing the unexpected like he supposed to be

thomas gonna shake shake shake shake shake

shake it off

shake it off

Ok

Was talking to my friends about this and ALL IF THEM THOUGHT IT MEANT MASTURBATION TOO. @thejoanglebook were you aware of this? lol

I thought that too but this is so much worse

That would leave an impression

I just thought it was some kind of dance

I mean Thomas dancing naked on camera would definitely leave an impression but 

self sacrifice

Something for the quarantine💚

Originally from @/heylittlesmile on Instagram! Not my template, i found it on Twitter on some thai celebrity account. If anyone knows this person's tumblr then feel free to let me know💌

Imo personality tests and house quizzes should be like this

6/25

Definitely not lol

11/25

I used to be griffindor, not anymore tho

15/25

Huh, didn't know my second was ravenclaw. Makes sense tho

13/25

WHAT how is my house so low?????

:(

Not surprised that my house is the highest!

5/25 for Hufflepuff

9/25 for Gryffindor

12/25 for Ravenclaw

11/25 for Slytherin

I'm not surprised that none of these are high

no surprise that hufflepuff was my highest number :p

hufflepuff: 18/25

gryffindor: 5/25

ravenclaw: 6/25

slytherin: 6/25

slytherin - 16/17 / 25

ravenclaw - 11/25

gryffindor - 10/25

hufflepuff - 11/12 / 25

got most points for Ravenclaw, not surprising

but the rest of the results are a bit surprising

Patton befriending the dark sides

Patton: I wanna be ur fren!!

Virgil: ew no

Patton: *is nice to him, accepts him, first to notice he was gone when he ducked out, is Patton*

Virgil: never mind, I luv u, ur my best fren give me cuddles

Janus: disgusting, ima impersonate him

Svs Redux: *Patton takes his advice and stuff after de-frogging, starts to take his side, listens to him, is Patton*

Janus: I lied, I lov u, hold my hand plz

Remus: pussies, simping for that light side

Dad’s Big Game Tips: *Patton adds a dangerous amount of spicy spices to sum food, causes a fire hazard, draws on someone’s face w permanent marker, is Patton*

Remus: *aggressively pauses the video when Pat commits arson* I want you to fuck me pat

Remus: F U C K M E

remus: oh this man he spreads chaos and fucks up everything i'm that close to just proposing

patton: i was always more of a thrower than a catcher lol

remus: okay that was the final straw PATTON MARRY ME i wanna be your catcher ;3

Random line analyses

Just some random thoughts I had about a few of the lines in the episode. Nothing groundbreaking and in no particular order. 

- I know this isn’t a line specifically but I keep thinking about how the sides are all part of Thomas. Not separate entities with their own motivations–PART of Thomas. Meaning it’s not “Patton” that’s being hard on Thomas or holding him to impossible standards, it’s Thomas himself. Patton is just the vehicle by which Thomas understands those impulses. I know that’s literally just summarizing the whole concept of the show, but I think it’s important to remember. 

- “We are ethically compromised if we give the bananaconda a seat at the table!” Just a really really good illustration of the fact that Roman is two halves of a single whole, and has been basically relegated to a very black-and-white view of good and evil. His ability to see nuance is very compromised, due to the fact that he is literally only one half of an abstract idea. Will that change as morality changes? Quite likely, but it makes sense that with morality still in turmoil and flux, Roman’s trying to cling to what he’s always known. Like he said, these are the things they’ve always known to be right and wrong–the things that literally shape his existence. Of course he’s clinging to them. (For more on this, @otaku-marijane​ delves more deeply into this idea in this awesome essay)

- “Janus, do you think…”  Not the line itself (though I like it), what I love about this part, when Patton asks Janus for advice, is that it demonstrates one of the things I’ve always adored about Patton: he’s always very, very willing to learn. He listens to others, as soon as he’s basically given “permission” to do so from Thomas (and sometimes even before, like with Virgil). To me, he’s always been very open to hearing from and learning from the others, and he does so immediately, without needing to deal with a bruised ego or damaged sense of self-righteousness first. He went from crying out “Deceit!” (as a sign of danger) to asking for genuine advice in the span of only a few minutes. And that has always been one of my very favorite things about Patton: His willingness to be wrong and his genuine effort to do better. 

- “That depends.”  In direct follow-up we have Janus starting out with a snarky response, one that demonstrates how he’s felt he had to communicate up until now because no one really listened to him and he could only get his point across by being overly sarcastic. It really honestly reminds me of Virgil. Remember the line from Incomplete? “I knew you’d listen to me as too scary to ignore…I felt bad in a different way, by bad I mean, well, mean, but I did what I thought that I had to.” Virgil was once driven to taking extreme measures just to make himself heard, and I think Janus’s own brand of villain campiness and scathing sarcasm is his version of that. He had to be sarcastic and over-the-top because unless he spoke in sarcastic extremes, no one listened. 

Now, though? Well, now Patton is genuinely asking his advice. And as soon as he realizes that, he softens considerably. Sure, there’s still a little bit of an edge to him–I think that’s just his personality–but he does give Patton an honest answer, and even tempers it with the acknowledgement that the most important thing to watch for is whether or not someone is making a genuine effort to improve. Which everyone has acknowledged Patton is, even if he hasn’t figured out how to do so effectively yet. Just. My feels.

- “I know what it means, Deceit being here as a part of me. …I’m not perfect.”  In my first watch of this line, I anticipated that “I’m not perfect” part to be “I’m human,” and I honestly still kind of wish it had been. Thomas may just not be there yet, I guess, but this idea that a “perfect person” would never have bad impulses is just…wrong, at least in my opinion. 

To carry on with the game metaphor, think of it this way: let’s say you’re playing an RPG, and you enter a shop. An action wheel pops up on your screen with the following choices: 

- Look at shop inventory -Talk to clerk - Leave shop. All of those options are fairly benign, and they are your only options. Are you a good character for picking one of them? Not really; you’re just choosing from a limited option wheel. 

Now let’s say you enter the shop and a wheel pops up with THESE choices:  - Look at inventory - Steal something - Talk to clerk - Punch clerk - Leave shop - Set shop on fire

Suddenly, your series of choices just got a whole lot more complex, right? In this case, choosing one of the benign options when you COULD have made a different, more destructive choice, makes your will to do something decent (or at least non-destructive) more deliberate. You’re not choosing to do something decent because you couldn’t chose otherwise; you’re doing it in spite of having other, less savory options. 

So which character is the more “good,” the one who had no choice, or the one who DID have a choice but chose not to harm? 

Of course, we could get into a lot of gray area here. Maybe earlier in the narrative, we witnessed this same shop clerk abusing his wife or screaming at his kids, or mistreating his workers. In that case, could “punch clerk” become the valorous option? Maybe, maybe not! Depends on your own personal brand of ethics. 

And that’s where we are with Janus having a seat at Thomas’s table: we’restarting to look at those gray areas. I just wish, though, that the presence of a character capable of seeing in shades of gray wasn’t presented as a sign of Thomas’s imperfection. The capacity for deception is neutral. It’s how you use that deception that determines the kind of person you are. 

- “But seriously, using a mobile game to hide from your sadness and regret at the wedding doesn’t count as leisure time.” 

THIS. IS. SO. IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW. This line, I literally had to pause because I was fist pumping and hissing “YESSS!!!” so hard. 

Right now, with everything going on in the world, there are all these ideas out there that “Hey, you finally have that free time you wanted! Go create things! Go write your novel, finish your WIP, learn a second language! You said you wanted this time well here you go, and if you don’t do it now then you  never lacked time, you only lacked discipline!” –And honestly? That is such a toxic, bullshit narrative. 

Leisure isn’t just about the activity you’re doing. It’s about when and how you chose to do it. Sleeping a lot because you’re depressed doesn’t count as getting good rest. A lot of free time resulting from sudden unemployment or school cancellations or forced isolation doesn’t count as “leisure time.” Why not? Because it wasn’t your choice. It has to be your choice to take that time. If it’s forced upon you, ESPECIALLY under horrible circumstances, then you’re not going to be able to really make good use of it. (Or maybe you are, and hey, that’s awesome! But it still doesn’t mean those who can’t are wasting an opportunity. This isn’t an opportunity; it’s an emergency.)

Whew this post is long enough. I might look at more later but I’m done for now.