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*picks you up and tosses you gently into the foam pit*

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ACCEPTING ANXIETY, Part 1&2: the real turning point

I thought a lot about how to analyze this first season finale.

At first, I wanted to make two separate posts, then one, then two again. In the end I decided to put part 1 & 2 together in one single post, otherwise I would’ve ended up talking about the same themes twice.

As you can guess, these themes are all centered around Anxiety and they are as juicy as you can imagine. So let’s not waste any more time and let’s talk about the first season finale.

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Mr. Sanders is messing with me

First of all, let’s take a moment to analyze the two titles given to the two parts of the season finale: Excepting Anxiety and Can Anxiety Be Good?

Speaking of the first title, I love the assonance/contrast it gives, when we read it in full. “ACCEPTING ANXIETY, Part ½: Excepting Anxiety!”: it sounds like a pun (accepting him, except accepting him ahaha), but we can also consider it a perfect recap of how Anxiety has been considered until that moment.

In Taking on Anxiety, Thomas said:

[Thomas]: I have anxiety. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s something I can control.

That means Thomas acknowledged Anxiety’s presence and accepted this Side as part of him.

However there is a difference between accepting a Side and accepting the presence of a Side. Think about Remus’ case: Thomas knows he is a natural part of himself and tolerates his presence, but that doesn’t mean Remus has been accepted (yet).

Same happened with Anxiety in season 1: Thomas accepted his presence and he’s okay if Anxiety sticks around. But he still refuses to acknowledge that this Side might be important for his well being. He’s still refusing Anxiety’s role. Paradoxically, Anxiety has been accepted… except for his anxiety.

While the second title not only reconnects to this idea of accepting Anxiety for his role, but it questions said role. For the first time, Thomas is tackling it from a different perspective: he’s not thinking about how to deal with anxiety, but about the nature of the role itself. Maybe this role isn’t intrinsically bad and he doesn’t just have to “control” it. Maybe Anxiety isn’t just a bad guy. Maybe there’s more to him. Maybe he can be good.

And, since Mr. Sanders is a bad person, he will definitely NOT use the same title for a future episode called Can LYING Be Good in which, guess what, we will see a character who doesn’t have ANY connections with Anxiety, nope nope, they definitely didn’t show any similarities until now.

See? See? It’s not me who sees them as father and son, everything is screaming at me that they are father and son! I can’t wait for the fucking episode in which they will say “hey, we actually know each other”, so I can throw my best “WOW WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT, WHAT A SURPRISE”.

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BOYFRIENDS!

The strange tumblr entities kiss

Roman would be a gemeni /j

I decided to make an updated list of all Sanders Sides and major series premier dates/tss main/recurring characters birthdays! Since whenever I search it, the one with the bad spelling always comes up lol (And I’m grateful to them 😊)

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Okay, so, Virgil likes horror movies, right? Virgil likes being scared.

Does that make Thomas a casual adrenaline junkie?

New discovery:

A ship between all the sides (Including Orange and Thomas) would spell out DIPLOMAT

Deceit

Intrusivity

Princey

Logic/Logan

Orange side

Morality

Anxiety

Thomas

Feel free to do with this as you please (as long as creativity twins is purely Platonic/Familial, of course)

I’m so sad :( I wanna go to vidcon to see Matpat and Ash but I have no one to go with :((((

Okay, big hear me out: Punk Roman. He might’ve had his casual emo days, but his mindset was most likely “Shit sucks, and I will scream and shout until it gets better!” And, like, that's punk behavior

Not be casually remembering that Thomas went through an emo phase meaning that ALL the sides were emo at once and Virgil just stayed like that for shits and giggles💀

(Side note: someone draw an emo Roman I need to see this now)

Where 👏 does 👏 Mark 👏 say👏 Wilford 👏 is 👏 pan 👏

Like don't just say 'Its confirmed' and then not tell me where I'm listening i want proof 👀

I already headcannons him AS PAN. But where's the proof???? Where's the stream????