A party that Vash isn't invited to? Boo.

Ethan is going to have mixed feelings when he finds out.

Yelena just “maybe one of us will get lucky and be next”.

want me to throw arthur at this one? owo

if you think it would be IC for Arthur to react to it then I would be VERY curious to see how it goes for sure!

I was going to take a little period of time (probably an entire day) to collect myself and then go forward with the gazebo starter I was telling you, but absolutely, if you have an idea reacting to this then I'd prefer that

o7 i'm just overexcited, lmao, i can wait for sure

Walter thinks Malcolm is so delicate bc he never really gives him a chance. He doesn’t want u to disappear buddy.

A TL for Sweeney

CLAP

Maybe... Maybe I can arrange second chance for Malcolm... We will see...

Ian plz let me know if you need a 2/2 on this short tag I wrote for comedic purposes

xD no no its okay, I laughed tho

Walter: I wish Malcolm would push me a little
Malcolm: pushes him a little when his closest friend has just vanished/died which may or may not be related to finally crossing a threshold of complete psychological torture
Walter: ...are you kidding me

he wasn't even trying to push. he had a question. 😆

he's going to take that as a "no" to the question of whether they can tall about that.

"can we talk about X extremely sensitive topic?"
"ok yes maybe some"
"Hey can we also talk about Y extremely sensitive topic?"
Walter just like ARE YOU KIDDING ME

he didn't seem to want to actually talk about X so he thought... maybe Y.

he really will be devastated if he fails to help Walter.

not that he never made a mistake with Neal or Kiki but they mostly seemed to want his help if they had to have someone's help.

he's never really sure about Walter.

but he promised

and he meant it

This moment just has not been particularly good for Walter on the "becoming a warden strips you of literally all dignity and sensitivity" front

He is still crashing out very hard from Misty being completely unable to understand why her lies have destroyed their friendship

So with Malcolm also completely unable to understand (both in this moment and over time e.g. "whee we're having a sleepover" during flood, even as an initial reaction that he could quickly realize he had to temper, Walter is still like WHY) Walter is just... mad...

Fair tho.

(But yes. He did quickly realize he had to temper it 🤣)

Anyway he likes the guy a lot, does not really understand what he wants or needs because a) it seems to change and b) he seems to lie about it and basically he doesn't want him to die because he thinks he can have a really great life if they can just bust through the wall they keep banging both their heads on.

He thinks Malcolm could also have a great life if he went back to ACTUALLY helping people instead of whatever the hell this is <3

Now I'm just imagining Walter becoming a detective out of sheer spite

Malcolm thinks it's a great career! 😃

spite graduating because he wants to do a better job actually helping people

It counts!

Venn diagram of great careers and what wardens do is two separate circles

Detective
Police officer
Therapist
Nurse
Medical researcher
Parent (technically a vocation)

Love how wardens are not a single one of those things <3

What SHOULD they be on the Barge if the Admiral can’t be stopped from taking inmates?

"We have to do this because he can't be stopped" doesn't work as an argument when they've made 0 attempts to stop him, is the problem.

This also

It may seem contradictory that Walter flips around like "oh, so you're admitting the barge is bad? Not some not-so-bad thing that ultimately helps people?" but he's... struggling...

Attempts to stop him have been made pls see Steve Rogers.

Aw Walter. He knows you're grieving but since nothing helps, have a little bitchiness.

Will's trying to reach out a little. He usually stays out of Malcolm's inmate stuff, but it's not been feasible lately. (see: flood)

I am picking away at my Will tags the best I can

Walter may currently perceive Will as ultimately opposed to his interests but at least he doesn't say stuff as extremely misguided as... this...

Walter open your mind to other points of view

Walter is seriously as pissed off about this as he was about "inmates. Some of them are trying their best" or "you can just poke a vampire in the eye" except this is even more personal

I feel like the next convo after this they could get to you need to go home and deal with All That.

I do have a certain angle in mind that can connect to that

The funniest fucking thing in the world has been delaying my Varker tag to retcon in Walter being this pissed off at Malcolm

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR... YOUR PATIENCE...

xD oh???

He’s.... here to........ help?

magicom there will be some stuff in brackets in here that I originally intended to cover in the "first waking up on the stuck together flood" thread

Also Malcolm DOES want to still talk to Walter about his blood offerings to Misty.

Yes this is exactly what I meant with "serious conversation in the future" on the other plurk

Simpsons We've Tried Nothing And We're All Out Of Id...regarding "Steve tried it"

I managed to write a comment. I'm trying to advance this Malcolm content, it is important...

But I've been having unusual sleepiness these past couple days which may be heat wave related

Ew heat i hate it

But yummy tag i love it

Me sad about Walter pushing Malcolm away but... Second important conversation sooner so... Hooray...?? T_T

YAY!

IT'S HERE

magicom

for those playing along at home

good job(?) walter!

we will see if you still think that when you find out why

me looking at my character "you sure are doing the things you're doing"

Also

I will have you know that Varker would be incredibly offended if he knew 'old' had been a descriptor used for him in any way. he's not old, he dyes and moisturizes to make sure that word has no business being anywhere near his name xD

I am sorry to say that is itself very much 'old queen' behavior. maybe just 'queen' would be more appropriate but I feel in that context it would have seemed more like it could mean royalty or whatever
Walter is just here like "is that how he wants people to think of him? noted, good for him"

Walter is convinced Norton knows those emojis

he has not forgotten the time that Norton apparently spent like 90 minutes in the future and managed to get on The Apps within that time

alright now the people can know
that Arthur would be particularly disappointed in Walter saying out loud "ulterior motives"

I was looking at this to check the comment about The Apps and I'm losing it at "John Doe's significant other" so like yes Arthur's Polycule. honestly John does have more lines in the web but well. usually Walter gets more mileage out of Arthur's Polycule

This charmed me. The exclamation points are so 19th century

oh my god everything in that link is perfection.

he came of age in San Francisco in the eighties, so definitely apart of the culture, just quietly. hes much more secure in it now that he's 55.

yeah exactly. "is that the cultural role you have? awesome, noted"

thread tracker UPDATED.

I'm now going to be wandering off for much of the night

Arthur Lester's Extended Polycule...

it kills me every time

Ugh i had to do a chore and missed ur prime time. I hope you have a good much of the night!

Please do not worry, I am the one being patchy!!

Aaaaaaand then I woke up ungodly early by my standards and couldn't get back to sleep so um. I'm gonna have to muddle through work as best I can for a while before anything else

ugh work why

I say from work

So yeah today was a near total wash. I'm getting a batch of what I can done, now. I think I'll personally be physically okay tomorrow but I don't want to make specific claims

Okay what I ultimately managed to do was a round of my own post tags. This excluded Malcolm BUT it is because I am planning a fun surprise!!!

the surprise is now READY

I should!! be able to phone tag a decent amount today!!

me toooo I have one errand first!!

where it says "leaves an empty space" in walter's new room description, i'm picturing the admiral taking it super literally and there just being a pocket of void where the shower should be

Yeah this was the surprise. I had to write up all that shit

it's horrible I love it

Honestly I should write up more cool shit for the file like photos but we'll see if that's actually helpful or not

I actually had this cabin plan for a long time but a lot of details were added over time

help I love these requests that are even more decadent though also more powerful and effective

norton being amazing as usual. Varker is getting spoiled and actually unable to find anything to complain about when presented with these

Norton is always outstanding

An effort is being made. A shit is being given

Shout out to Norton thinking of this stuff BEFORE the suspected port unlike his last talk about showers immediatelyafterwards

its half wasted on Varker, but he does actually like Norton so there is that. Just endearing him to Varker more, though it will absolutely not change how rude and petty he is to him, but thats a game they both like playing, so its fine.

Every so often I'm just thinking about like
Walter: I'm graduating now. The admiral is done screwing with me. I don't want to be part of any evil anymore. It's over
Malcolm: you mean this place gave you a second chance in life and opportunities to experience different things? And maybe even... a warden with good advice?
Walter: [fingerguns] NOPE!

It's worth a try.

magicom: just so you know in our thread Walter did mean "you" as in "one", you know, general you, and in particular "being faced with no reasonable alternative to survive" more about how inmates are forced to graduate

So I'm not saying you have to change it, just, you know, if it's like this, Walter will probably be like "oh my fuckin god he assumed it was All About Him and went on yet another one of his rambles about how everything before was so terrible and everything now is so wonderful. Again"

Ah ok i misread

Or correctly read but misunderstood

Will edit. Give me a few.

I thought he was leading into the go home thing you were talking about so was using his specific example.

Ah. Cry. That is eventually going to happen rest assured!!

I actually seriously considered putting "one" in the original tag so I can see why it was so confusing

I am aware it is a cumbersome edit so no rush at all I just wanted to check in

But yeah like Walter does truly believe like... Trevor rubbing salt in the wound Pyotr received from Blitzø... Allan and Ken murdering John silver... Will and Shaw tolerating this place despite the breaches... Whatever the hell Misty and Natalie and John and Arthur have going on... Becoming such a demon is a fate worse than death

Malcolm just plain DOES NOT KNOW about a lot of that stuff because Walter is so ridiculously shifty and secretive

Walter being confronted is slowly starting to disclose it... A little...

He is of a mind to confront

lol

Sorry, that was to fingerguns

The fingerguns were intended to be funny, no worries

I just missed the scroll down and had that moment of OH SHIT

Relatable

On Mobile plurk I often copy out my comment, refresh, then paste it back in. Just in case there's suddenly a new context where it would be offensive or confusing

It's a good plan

I do that too! When I remember.

Because damn phone typing is so slow.

Sometimes... I do not... and it's easy to miss things in between, too. Oops.

Thank u for edit Sarah. I am having dinner now

btw I did find his disclosure about his sister very interesting. It will be interesting if that can come back eventually because it could definitely add to Walter's argument YOU NEED THE TRUTH AT HOME!!11

No truth at home only murder and maybe prison

but yes they can def talk about that at some point

due to some manageable but mildly annoying IRL environmental factors I may not do too many tags tonight

Update that was the right answer. able to work today and that's gonna have to be the main thing. TIRED.

<3