Confession: I have a friend who likes to text me at like 4am when he’s had nightmares or he can’t sleep or he just needs a friend. He thinks I’m always awake at 4am but really I go to bed around 12am and I change his text-tone to the loudest one I have just so it wakes me up when he needs me.
you’re the kind of friend everyone needs
I think that since its been a year since I made this post its time for an update. In the past year I’ve watched this post grow and grow, people I work with have told me about it as “this post I saw the other day” and they have no idea it’s my post. The person I wrote this about has even reblogged it. He is no longer texting me at 4am. Not because we no longer speak but because the nightmares have stopped. He and I both are in a much better place. Most often the only times he’s waking me up at 4am is when he’s pulling me closer to him while we sleep. He’s more than a friend now and I’m forever thankful to have him. Everyone messaged me saying he was lucky to have me but I think I was just as lucky to have him and I would do it all over.
The update just makes it even better ❤️
??? OMG. My heart.
More new universe things since you guys liked my last post so much:
Jade having her hair played with CONSTANTLY. She has the longest hair + doggy ears so it’s inevitable. The girls will take turns brushing her hair and braiding flowers in it and such. The boys will scratch her behind her ears affectionately. The carapaces tend to touch it reverently.
Dirk actually does use the line “You’re going to have yo decapitate me.” A lot until Dave (they share a room) wakes up from a nightmare and crawls into Dirk’s bed with him. After Dave explains what happens, Dirk promises not to joke about it any more.
Kanaya makes a legitimate, official mayoral sash for the mayor as well as a fancy tophat. PM got her old uniform back and became the universe’s first mail person.
In addition to pumpkins, Jade plants several apple trees. With her space powers and Dave’s time powers, they accelerate the growth of the trees. Dave finally gets his own unlimited supply of apple juice.
Dad decided to build a playground in the backyard, unbeknownst to everyone else. He sort of stayed up all night to do it. The kids were all, “pfft whatever dad/mr. crocker this is for little kids.” until Karkat goes out and sits on a swing and is all “OKAY SO WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO NOW?” And then it’s like the floodgates are opened.
Jade and Kanaya trying to familiarize themselves with this new night sky that was unlike anything that Earth or Alternia had.
All the kids dying their hair because “we’ve been stuck doing nothing but fighting and worrying for years let’s just be stupid.” For some reason, the dye doesn’t stick to troll hair. “But Eridan’s Hair…” “MUST BE A SEADWELLER THING.”
Dave and Dirk not wearing their shades because “eh i just dont feel like it today” and “I don’t always wear my shades, you know.”
Dad making super healthy meals because these kids have been off of cake and alchemized and canned food and he’s like “you all are eating some real food and you’re going to like it.” (Spoiler alert: they do)
Making new holidays to celebrate, most notably November 11. They also celebrate old Earth and Alternia holidays.
Casey the Salamander shows up at some point and John and Rose will go on walks with her. She has an unusually long life span. Rose chalks it up to dark majjkycs.
John will make it breezy on days that are too hot.
When they first get to their new world, they spend all their time outside because of being stuck on a meteor and battleship so they just spend so much time outside. Jade and Jake are the only ones without sunburns.
Jade will shrink everyone (including herself) for really intense games of hide and seek.
The sheer amount of glasses cleaner that dad keeps on hand now almost out numbers the cans of shaving cream he has. (Not that anyone uses the glasses cleaner)
Dirk still likes puppets and begins making them. But he keeps them for more ah… normal than any Strider puppet we’ve seen in the past.
Super extreme snowball fights in the winter followed by sweater wearing, hot chocolate drinking, and movie watching.
Kanaya and Karkat get to work on the mother grub. But who’s gonna raise all the eventual little guys without lusii? A bunch of kids and trolls who never did any raising anything in their lives? Good thing there’s one person around who is an EXPERT in all things paternal.
(dad. it’s dad. dad oversees the whole operation. the biology might be a little different, but babies are babies.)
Some Post-game Strider Headcanons
Dirk and Dave hang out a lot in the new universe. They binge-watch SBAHJ movovies, visit the remains of their home city and talk about their experiences. They walk by a supermarket and Dave’s like, “bro left me here a few times,” and Dirk is like, “Fuck, I used to swim down to this supermarket foraging for supplies and canned foods.”
Dave takes on Paleontology, digging up not only dinosaurs but also ancient human stuff and Dirk helps him on expeditions. Dirk creates his own versions of rump-loving chat bots. Any time he wants to do something too complicated and self-awareness-inducing to their code, Dave’s always there to tell him to dial it back.
They invent their own sport and call it “Sporntsball” filled with complicated esoteric rules, terms and gameplay that basically makes no sense. Annual tournaments are held in Can Town alongside Roxy’s weird wooden horse riding magical SPORTS game.
They help each other make movies and reinstate their own Hopywoodoo which is a mishmash of SBAHJ-style nonsense and puppet snuff/porn. Jake loves all of them. Their terribleness inspires others to make better stuff and Karkat takes up crappy romcom screenwriting out of spite. Jake and Dave love all of them.
Karkat initially can’t stand Dirk. He gets angry any time Dave spends a lot of time with him and absolutely refuses any invitations to join them. He briefly pursues a kismesitude with Dirk until he realizes his black feelings stem from simple jealousy rather than a true rivalry. They eventually become friends even if Karkat’s still a bit jealous of that strange ironic humor wavelength Dirk and Dave share.
ok so i just made the stupidest fucking connection: when the beta kids and trolls were riding the meteor to the new session, they were basically hacking SBURB the same way the “half a press” guy was hacking super mario 64. like.
rose lalonde, talking into her mic for her SBURB Let’s Play youtube channel: If we direct the meteor in this precise direction on the game’s map and maintain the appropriate speed for three years, we can, conceivably, navigate the uncharted void to a parallel universe,
the beforus fan album has over 8 hours of music on it holy shit
“can playing a video game be spiritual?” bruh play animal crossing at 2:23 am on a calm rainy night and u will transcend space and time and find peace
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Molly and Arthur Weasley raised seven kids on one government salary.
Molly and Arthur Weasley raised those seven children to be courageous and loyal and kind.
Molly and Arthur Weasley were purebloods who made it a point to be known as “the biggest blood traitors there are”.
Molly and Arthur Weasley raised Fred and George during their accidental magic stages without letting the house burn down.
Molly and Arthur Weasley treated Harry as their own child, not because of his fame, but because he was Ron’s friend and he was in desperate need of a family.
Molly and Arthur Weasley made sure that everyone who entered their home felt loved and cared for and well fed.
Molly and Arthur Weasley won money and spent it on a family trip to see their son and help their daughter out of the depression she was sinking into.
Molly and Arthur Weasley sent Easter eggs and Christmas sweaters and fudge to their children while making sure to include enough for friends.
Molly and Arthur Weasley went out of their way to secure two tickets to the Quidditch World Cup on top of the eight for their own family, just to ensure that Hermione and Harry were included.
Molly and Arthur Weasley warned Harry about Sirius Black and tried to keep him with them after Voldemort’s return and tried to shield him from Order business because they remembered how young he was, how utterly unfair it was for the world to expect so much from him.
Molly and Arthur Weasley are so damn important.