And to add a (slight mis)quote from the late great Phil Hartman, “when life gives you lemons, throw them in the face of life until it gives you the oranges you originally asked for.”
“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! You don’t want their damn lemons! What are you supposed to do with those? Demand to see life’s manager!
Make life rue the day it thought it could give you lemons! Do you know who you are?! You’re the person who is gonna burn your house down – with the lemons”
Or, wait…Ethan/Amber shipname, maybe? (Not something I’d ship, personally, given their history, but…)
Octo
Ethan/Asher ship name lol. Personally I’d go with Ashthan.
a/snow/mous/e
How about “Ashen”? It might only have one letter of Ethan, but it does convey Ethan’s current complexion…
Dante
Oh goodness, NO. Ethan and Asher :’DD Those other two are NOT it, and it’s not only because Ethan isn’t into women.
Kamino Neko
Ah, got it. That makes WAY more sense. Not sure why my brain refused to click.
Mark
I got it right away, but the other interpretation seemed more fun so I went with that instead. Glad to see I’m not the only one who noticed it.
StClair
I despise shipnames, not least because knowledge of them is an ingroup/outgroup marker.
(Also because I grew up in an era where you simply had the actual names, separated by some form of punctuation. Much easier to parse, IMO; but again, a certain sort want them to be obscure.)
Arillius
That is such hard anti-gatekeeping you’ve circled right back around to saying people can’t have shipnames because it’s not what YOU want in a community, my dude.
All you have to do is ask. If the community won’t tell you, then their dicks. Otherwise in no way, shape or form is having a special way to refer to anything in a fandom gatekeeping, the same way there are a shit ton of terms you have to learn just to really get into speedrunning.
To defend her slightly, horny is generally more fun than trauma. With horny, you can just simply find pictures of Urbosa or something, whereas trauma requires a shopping addiction long-term solutions like therapy and murder.
Ethan forgave Sal, who was the actual person who did the stabbing. So I wouldn’t be that worried. The one “but” I have is, he did that forgiving back when he was, uh. Not this wildly depressed.
sdgksj I had a lapsus, you’re absolutely right :’3 Today’s a brain fog day. But yeah, Sal held him up with a knife and all, and he accepted the apology ^^
Ecchhh no, cigarette smell hangs out on your clothes and in your hair, the smell gets everywhere. I don’t know why all those commercials for teens not to smoke were like “smoking will hurt your lungs” when they could’ve been about “smoking will make you stinky, and then some people you like won’t want to kiss you”.
Due to him calling the cops escalating things, I guess? Shitty thing of him to do, but it’s not like he had any inkling that was going to happen.
To be honest, I forget who all knows what, so while I know Amber knows he called the cops, I also don’t think Ethan knows much of anything about that, does he? Given Ethan has no qualm with Sal, though, I don’t really know if he’d give any shits about Asher’s, especially in his current attitude.
Wait. “Called the cops”? What do you mean? Oh, are you talking about Sal’s teenage robbery attempt? I thought you meant the kidnapping, and I was all “uh, no, Asher arranged it!”
I don’t think anyone in the current cast knows Asher was involved in the kidnapping but him and maybe Faz.
HueSatLight
and probably Lester Bradford
DailyBrad
Yeah, and we do not really know a lot about his involvement past Blaine leaning on him to coerce a favor, and that Asher seemingly let the right people know Blaine was a full-blown liability, who then killed him. So, Amber definitely is excused for not holding that against him, even she has no reason to know about any of that.
184 thoughts on “Snagged”
Ana Chronistic
Now if Asher just got a stray, IRRESISTIBLE
(I’m surprised her exclamation mark is by the 1 on her phone, mine takes special effort to mistype)
Ana Chronistic
FUCK THAT TRAUMA
Lokitsu
Fuck the trauma away!
DarkoNeko
it’s not a typo !!1!1!
Dante
TBH I’ve used the !!1!! for so long I do it on purpose for SPECIAL emphasis. Amber might be the same :’33
Cholma
Yep. I’m not sure ANYone still does “by accident”. OH NOES!!1!! (although I often go crazy and do something like — !!!!!1111!
Icarus
Some will even type out “one” or “eleven”.
eh, whatever
eleventyeleven
jflb96
121?
Lieutenant Dan
Guilty!!!!111oneeleven
zims
Add that to the library hold list
Tawdry Quirks
Amber probably programmed it as a typing shortcut on her phone.
Ben
Kind of with Pratchett on this…
That being the idea that a person’s sanity is inversely proportional to the number of exclamation marks they use…
Lars
You mean Hevelock Vetinari.
DarkoNeko
Priorities.
NGPZ
Just like my cousin used to say,
“Life gives you lemons, chuck em at people.” ??
anonymsly
And to add a (slight mis)quote from the late great Phil Hartman, “when life gives you lemons, throw them in the face of life until it gives you the oranges you originally asked for.”
UrsulaDavina
“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! You don’t want their damn lemons! What are you supposed to do with those? Demand to see life’s manager!
Make life rue the day it thought it could give you lemons! Do you know who you are?! You’re the person who is gonna burn your house down – with the lemons”
NGPZ
??
Laura
When life gives you lemons…
“Hey, look! Lemons!”
jflb96
You’re going to have your engineers invent a combustible lemon that’ll burn life’s house down!
Kyrros
…WITH LEMONS!
Dante
I KNEW IT!!!1! sdlgjsdlgs
This might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. For them. I need Ether to fuck ♥
Kamino Neko
Not to kink-shame, but…ether is a bit finicky for play purposes. >_>
(I assume that’s actually a damnyouautocorrect for Ethan, but…)
Kamino Neko
Or, wait…Ethan/Amber shipname, maybe? (Not something I’d ship, personally, given their history, but…)
Octo
Ethan/Asher ship name lol. Personally I’d go with Ashthan.
a/snow/mous/e
How about “Ashen”? It might only have one letter of Ethan, but it does convey Ethan’s current complexion…
Dante
Oh goodness, NO. Ethan and Asher :’DD Those other two are NOT it, and it’s not only because Ethan isn’t into women.
Kamino Neko
Ah, got it. That makes WAY more sense. Not sure why my brain refused to click.
Mark
I got it right away, but the other interpretation seemed more fun so I went with that instead. Glad to see I’m not the only one who noticed it.
StClair
I despise shipnames, not least because knowledge of them is an ingroup/outgroup marker.
(Also because I grew up in an era where you simply had the actual names, separated by some form of punctuation. Much easier to parse, IMO; but again, a certain sort want them to be obscure.)
Arillius
That is such hard anti-gatekeeping you’ve circled right back around to saying people can’t have shipnames because it’s not what YOU want in a community, my dude.
All you have to do is ask. If the community won’t tell you, then their dicks. Otherwise in no way, shape or form is having a special way to refer to anything in a fandom gatekeeping, the same way there are a shit ton of terms you have to learn just to really get into speedrunning.
Bryy
um
um amber
WHAT THE FUCK
Jo_cubstar
Lol this is 100% completely within character for her ?
Dara
really, truly is
also amber’s uncontrollably horniness face is always hilarious
Bryy
I know but
STILLLLLLLL.
Derek
yeah and it sucks
Rose by Any Other Name
I presume that’s the plan.
Ethan’s gonna fuck that trauma out.
Ray Radlein
“Fuck the Pain Away,” advanced edition
Meagan
Love the reference
MM
It works in fanfic!
fridge_logic
Amber absolutely cannot pass up this enemies to lovers opportunity.
GholaHalleck
Garbage roof has spread to the entire campus.
Clif
Whatever makes you think it stopped there?
UrsulaDavina
Horniness > trauma I guess in Amber’s case
Taffy
To defend her slightly, horny is generally more fun than trauma. With horny, you can just simply find pictures of Urbosa or something, whereas trauma requires
a shopping addictionlong-term solutions like therapy and murder.Angel
Ethan can fuck his trauma now too https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/urges/
Tho it’d be unknowing in this cause
shoopdawhoop
Her real people shipping instincts override her PTSD
bwooom
Oh, I was worried for a minute there. Thank god Amber’s issues stopped her from gaining new issues!
DarkoNeko
this raises the question of… well, Amber obviously recognized the name, so wouldn’t Ethan too ?
Kyrik Michalowski
No, Amber and Walky learned about it while they were together, but I don’t think Amber ever told Ethan.
Nono
Walky told Amber about Asher, that’s it.
HueSatLight
She learned about his involvement from him, right before Walky punched him.
Miri
Anybody else see this being something else Ethan ends up blaming Amber for not mentioning to him?
Thag Simmons
Amber only learned this from talking with Walky and Sal, who Ethan’s only had a handful of brief interactions with.
Kyrik Michalowski
I can’t see this ending well, but Ethan might still be attracted to him even if he was part of the Sal thing.
Ignoring all that, anyone else excited by the possibility of an Asher×Ethan slipshine?
Dante
Ethan forgave Sal, who was the actual person who did the stabbing. So I wouldn’t be that worried. The one “but” I have is, he did that forgiving back when he was, uh. Not this wildly depressed.
(And yes, I’m excited for it :’DD)
BarerMender
Sal didn’t stab. Amber stabbed.
Dante
sdgksj I had a lapsus, you’re absolutely right :’3 Today’s a brain fog day. But yeah, Sal held him up with a knife and all, and he accepted the apology ^^
Nono
We haven’t had a M/M slipshine since Ethan/Mike so… yes.
Nono
Imagine if the deal breaker isn’t the convenience store, but Ethan just really hates the taste of cigarette smoke.
Thomas
Ethan’s currently too depressed to care about the taste of cigarette smoke. And Asher was eilling to quit anyway.
DarkoNeko
nothing some chewin gum can’t fix
Leorale
Ecchhh no, cigarette smell hangs out on your clothes and in your hair, the smell gets everywhere. I don’t know why all those commercials for teens not to smoke were like “smoking will hurt your lungs” when they could’ve been about “smoking will make you stinky, and then some people you like won’t want to kiss you”.
Warcodered
Screw my trauma I have slash fiction to write.
DailyBrad
Due to him calling the cops escalating things, I guess? Shitty thing of him to do, but it’s not like he had any inkling that was going to happen.
To be honest, I forget who all knows what, so while I know Amber knows he called the cops, I also don’t think Ethan knows much of anything about that, does he? Given Ethan has no qualm with Sal, though, I don’t really know if he’d give any shits about Asher’s, especially in his current attitude.
Cholma
Wait. “Called the cops”? What do you mean? Oh, are you talking about Sal’s teenage robbery attempt? I thought you meant the kidnapping, and I was all “uh, no, Asher arranged it!”
TulipKitten
I don’t think anyone in the current cast knows Asher was involved in the kidnapping but him and maybe Faz.
HueSatLight
and probably Lester Bradford
DailyBrad
Yeah, and we do not really know a lot about his involvement past Blaine leaning on him to coerce a favor, and that Asher seemingly let the right people know Blaine was a full-blown liability, who then killed him. So, Amber definitely is excused for not holding that against him, even she has no reason to know about any of that.
Mark