Yeah...it's Crunch Time. I Have A Resume/portfolio To Write And A 50 Min Presentation On It And 3 Gov

Not the Mets Radio making me cry...I wanted a WS so bad but fuck it the Mets have the best vibes in baseball so at the end of the day who really won.

like okay Ohtani be MVP u earned it, we had grimace and pumpkins and my girl and OMG and OMG concerts franchise moments and we had the underdog energy.

And hey, if we only change the staff a little bit? a few more pitchers? keep the energy up in 2025, and perhaps this season could become the start to an Era. Like not just a good year - an actual Era of a few years of the Mets being a playoff team. And I'd love Nimmo and Alonso and a healthy Senga to be part of it all - they have time to rest, now. They'll be at full strength. They can keep going. Wouldn't that be amazing?

I'll return to my 24/7 position as a small-fandom fanfic writer now. Till I see you all in the Mets tag next season,

Mister Rose :)

love thissssss agree 100%

hows each of the shanegang like depressed

I think some might different takes on this, but these are just mine

Eli, is one of those people who keep it to themselves. He doesn't like others seeing him sad, not because he thinks it makes him look weak, but because he doesn't want anyone to worry about him, and has this massive issue of setting aside his own problems and focusing on anything but his own problems. Like putting aside the search for his dad in favor of helping Junjie and the Eastern Caverns. (There is more context to that, but i swear every single time Will is brought up, Eli gets sad, then almost immediately perks up and redirects the conversation)

Speaking of Junjie, he's actually kinda the same way as Eli. In the early episodes of the Eastern Caverns arc, Junjie is having nightmares, and in ROTE, he admitted to as much as well to Eli in the garage, the difference is that the EC arc nightmares are worse, where as the ROTE one was probably a buried memory. He keeps shit to himself and trains to keep his mind off it.

When both Eli and Junjie eventually crash, they crash hard

Trixie also keeps it to herself, but she is more snippy and irritable. It's also kinda easy to tell when she's getting depressed because she's not filming or editing videos as often.

Pronto is eating his feelings. But not in the overly gross exaggerated way.

Kord buries himself in mechanic work. Troll's got to feel useful. He also gets in like a slump and is very clearly upset. I like to think Kord is like the most emotionally intelligent member of the Gang, so he is rather open about how he's feeling most of the time. But knows not to trauma dump, everyone in the Gangs got there own stuff to deal with.

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

horrifying thought for the day:

*takes big breathe* HOW DOES MARRIAGE WORK IN SLUGTERRA?!?

like, how do our religious and secular norms of things translate to down there? How does it legally affect couples in terms of owning property? And healthcare?!?

honestly, do they HAVE marriage as a concept legally? It's pretty anarchist/capitalist down there. Would they even HAVE a legal mechanism to tie 2 ppl together like that?

...genuinely, maybe they don't, or only some caverns do.

I CONDUCTED AND PLAYED PIANO PROFESSIONALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!

I made mistakes but I DID IT!!!

they have absolutely recited the entire avatar intro together at least once, especially after they tell tad about the elementals.

I like to think that if/when Eli and Tad have to duel, they always delve as deeply into being incomprehensible to terrans as possible by speaking in quotes from the surface

E.g.

Tad: “[sigh] I miss my wife Eli. I’ll be back”

Or

Eli: “did you know you have rights? The constitution says you do”

Or just the whole “buying clothes at the soup store” argument

Note: they have both mutually agreed to never actually give away info on the sun or the sky or the surface in general. This started entirely as a slip up from Tad that Eli just doubled down on. It started out with one quote per duel until months down the line they’re both simultaneously recounting the entire eggman announcement (minus the moon) word for word in perfect harmony

SNAPCUBE!

An individual of culture i see-

Honestly Anon, best take on Eli and Tad ever-

Eli, for an entire year, has and no one to meme with till Tad showed up, and it's absolutely hilarious for the two of them, and hella confusing for everyone else!

Also the agreement on staying nothing about the Sky is amazing because they're going to have to fill it in with something different and leads to outlandish statements lmao

welcome back, everyone!

I agree! We are scholaring so hard rn

I only have 2 additiona considerations. One: all the shane's are secretive, but I think will shane was SUPER secretive and concerned for the future. I don't think previous shanes would have a) not told their only son anything, b) left a bunch of holograms in case they died c) left out crucial information (like dana's perspective of Tom Por), and ANYTHING about doctor blakk...the list goes on. I think this isn't just a shane thing; something MADE Will this paranoid and fearful.

I have a few theories. Will could have carelessly lost his uncle's journal, and someone bad cracked the code about the surface/shadow clan secrets/other stuff (blakk? someone we dont know?) and thats why he's so terrified of another mistake. Another is that will LET someone read the journal w the code (blakk?!?) and they betrayed him, so he becomes a guy who trusts no one, and cares deeply for a very few - and perhaps, if he had the chance to see him older, eli would have helped him regain trust in humanity and stuff.

BUT, here's one harrowing detail that i've seen no one bring up but its haunted me (how it alluded me in the will shane post i have no idea):

Slugterra, episode 2. Blakk and Eli meet. Blakk's first words to Eli were:

"What your friends say is true. Will Shane was a true hero. I owe my life to him, in fact."

...

.........

BITCH WHAT.

okay, lets ignore that blakk KNEW from going to the deep caverns will was alive and was trying to keep eli from knowing his dad was alive. SURE. because somehow that emotional bullshit is secondary to how HOW DID WILL SHANE GIVE YOU YOUR LIFE, THADDEUS?!?

Like we all know they were rivals, but what the actual fuck happened?!? What a fascinating first sentence for your main villain. There's LORE here. Maybe they actually helped each other sometimes, back when they were around Eli's age. Maybe blakk had nothing to do with the journal. maybe he and their situationship had EVERYTHING to do with that journal, and will's shane legacy.

There's so much here. So much and yet we have no answers. All we have are theories, and u bet ur ass im writing out every single one I have. Thank you for joining me on my crusade :)

Will Shane.

the character I am drawn to in this particularly anxiety inducing month of my life.

literately NOTHING is normal about him. Eli's mom? Had to leave somehow. Bestie? He and Tom Por had a massive fall out. Blakk? From what we gather from the master, they used to not hate each other apparently. Jimmo? Straightforward enough, but that leaves the question of what happened to wills parents! like he's a decent dude but also shady af and paranoid as hell and, WHY is he like that? Idk and it's fascinating?!? he's the definition of just being human, and I love him. He's got a complicated history and PLENTY of unsolved beef, because everyone associated w him's got a VERY different take on the guy and they all have changed their opinion of him massively at some point or other. Like yall I WILL write everything but I will especially write TomxWill and ThadxWill I need to explore his CHAOS

also never, NEVER forget, because I never will; Will KNEW about Blakk knowing about the surface right?!? Surely?!? He would find out, either w his son or with the alliance w dark bane?!? WHAT IS THE STORY HERE?!?

give me your headcanons, they lower my heart rate and stop my panic attacks from my executive dysfunction problems.

Slugterra: a cautionary tale on why queer people need to stay friends with their ex's