Fox, [2023-07-30 10:45 AM]
Okay, so the story is called 'Tom Fucks A Retarded Child'.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:45 AM]
Lmao I saw that

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:45 AM]
And its supposed to come off as a really politically incorrect comedy.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:46 AM]
Sort of poking fun of intellectual disability.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:46 AM]
The lore you've got going is pretty interesting

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:46 AM]
But its actually a really strong character development romance story.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:46 AM]
About these two really fucked up people.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:46 AM]
Oh I think I kinda missed the point then lol
I just think waffles is adorable

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:46 AM]
Wait. Where did I even show Waffles?

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:46 AM]
The fox and the cat?

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:46 AM]
Toy story

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:47 AM]
The start of it

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:47 AM]
Oh.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:47 AM]
Yeah his character has changed from that.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:47 AM]
Oh?

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:48 AM]
Tom is actually at a really low point in his life. He's a sucidially depressed drug addicted pedophile that lacks social skills or a job and the only reason he hasn't killed himself is he got accepted into this program.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:48 AM]
Ooooh the government cub thing

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:48 AM]
But he's such a bad candidate it seems like the only cub he is matched with is this kid nobody wants.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:48 AM]
The retarded fox

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:49 AM]
Yeah, well you get to know the character and realize he's not as retarded as he seems. He used to be very smart but he was involved in a car accident that killed his parents and left him with brain damage.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:49 AM]
Aww

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:49 AM]
That's actually

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:49 AM]
Rlly sad lol

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:49 AM]
And he remembers being smart and struggles with his new inability to do things like read. He's not even that dumb but he is like several grades lower than his age.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:50 AM]
I wanna hug him already

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:50 AM]
And at first Tom is this self-consumed asshole who just laments the fact that he's stuck with this retarded kid. One reason he was chosen is that even though Waffles can talk he's so ashamed of his voice he only signs his words, and Tom knows sign language.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:51 AM]
But that also means aside from a few of the staff Waffles /never/ talks to anyone. He always wears a hoodie because he is ashamed of the scars on his head and his missing ears.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:51 AM]
The government put then together because it selects cubs it feels might benefit from those kind if relationships.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:52 AM]
Anyway so before Tom meets this kid he warned several times he can't use the word 'retarded' he has to say 'intellectually disabled'.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:53 AM]
And the first thing Tom says when they are left in a room together is "Hey, uh, do you mind if I call you 'retarded'? Because you're retarded so that's what I'm going to call you."

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:53 AM]
Like the kid hasn't even spoken to Tom yet and he's already just such a dick.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:53 AM]
But his character really develops as the story goes on and he realizes to his surprise he really likes the kid.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:53 AM]
That's like

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:53 AM]
How tf do u come up with this stuff

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:54 AM]
That's adorable

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 10:54 AM]
I'm already really fuckin invested lmao

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:54 AM]
Tom only accepts dating this kid because he wants to be transferred to someone else but if he quits the program he will have to be on the waitlist again.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:55 AM]
He was so depressed originally he also enrolled into ButLer. (A parody of Canada MAiD) which is an assisted suicide program the state offers.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:56 AM]
Tom and the kid go through experiences where they end up sharing things about themselves, but the kid has such bad motor control often times he makes the wrong sign language and his sentences are hilariously bizarre.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:56 AM]
And he doesn't know that many words so he uses other words.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:56 AM]
So instead of saying 'I want to kill myself.' He says 'I commit neck rope.'

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:56 AM]
But this kid is also still fiercely curious and loves for Tom to read to him.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:57 AM]
Loves to do art, and still dreams of being a scientist one day even though he knows he never will be.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:57 AM]
He's just so frustrated with himself for not being able to remember things or learn like Tom. Or like he used to. So much self-loathing, just like Tom.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:58 AM]
Neither of them fit into society.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:58 AM]
Later on in the story the kid is eavesdropping on Tom talking to his case worker on the phone.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:58 AM]
Tom admits he is surprised how much he likes Waffles, which Waffles is very happy about.

Fox, [2023-07-30 10:59 AM]
But Tom candidly explains he is also sad when he sees Waffles. How he sees this impression of who Waffles could become but never will. How Waffles can never be as happy as 'normal people'.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:00 AM]
Waffles is deeply hurt and the next day Tom discovers that Waffles unilaterally terminated their arrangement. He is not allowed to see Waffles again.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:01 AM]
At first Tom thinks he is in trouble but his caseworker assures him Waffles gave him a rave review and he is now eligible to date another cub just like he wanted.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:01 AM]
Please say he keeps with waffles

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:01 AM]
Or wants to

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:01 AM]
But Tom discovers that Waffles has actually enrolled in Butler too, and chosen to euphenize himself.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:02 AM]
Jesus

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:02 AM]
He has this darkly hilarious confrontarion with the case worker where he claims waffles is just a kid and can't consent to that and she gives him a look and says 'Really? You don't see the irony in that statement?'

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:02 AM]
HA

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:03 AM]
Turns out Waffles was put in the program as a last ditch alternative to that.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:03 AM]
Yeesh

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:04 AM]
Oh I forgot to mention, after Tom is told by the caseworker he got a good review she casually mentions that she was really skeptical of pairing Tom up with Waffles but it looks like the boy choose well.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:04 AM]
Tom asks what she means.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:04 AM]
Tom thought that he was only eligible for Waffles and Waffles only for him.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:05 AM]
She laughs and says Tom is too full of himself. The competition for this program is immense. Waffles had over a thousand eligable profiles to choose from (even though he was intellectually disabled), he /choose/ Tom.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:05 AM]
Which Tom didn't realize until after they were done dating.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:05 AM]
Omfg please don't say waffles dies

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:06 AM]
Tom breaks protocol even though he knows he could be arrested and kicked out of the program forever to go to confront Waffles.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:06 AM]
As he should

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:06 AM]
Look, I just gotta warn you, I like sad endings. I have a lot of sad endings in my stories. Like unironically. The ending of Plastic People and Avalon for example and even Everybody Yiffs is bittersweet.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:07 AM]
Ohno

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:07 AM]
I am tired of all the unrealistic happy endings on IB porn stories, pedophilia rarely ends happily.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:07 AM]
That doesn't give me much hope for the boy lol

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:07 AM]
Ye

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:08 AM]
So he confronts Waffles who runs away from him and Tom ends up chasing him in the rain and Waffles slips in the mud and they are just standing there and Waffles screams 'FUUUUUCCKK' in anger.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:08 AM]
And its the first time he has spoken in the story.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:08 AM]
And his voice is all fucked up, but he's so angry and yelling at Tom.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:09 AM]
He's asking if he's a joke to Tom, something to laugh at. Demanding to know if Tom is still laughing.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:09 AM]
But he's not really talking to Tom, the way it is phrased he is talking to the audience.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:09 AM]
My idea is to lure you into this story with the impression that its making fun of retarded people to make you feel like an asshole for making fun of retarded people.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:10 AM]
All of Waffle's anger comes out, how frustrated he is that he still remembers being smart and now he's just broken and will never be fixed.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:10 AM]
And Tom realizes Waffle is saying all the times Tom tells himself.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:11 AM]
And Waffles explains it would be better for everyone if he was dead. Especially Tom, who deserves a real cub. Someone who has potential.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:11 AM]
Waffles is just so afraid and confused all the time, he doesn't understand anything ever.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:12 AM]
And Tom explains he doesn't understand anything either. This world is so alien to him, like a big joke everyone is in on but him. Its like he's in a play and everyone else has a been given a script.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:13 AM]
So the thing about this story is it has some absolutely insane absurd humor. Like the constant dominos references, or the fact that Tom and a plushie he fucks that is actually his dead dog as a kid that his parents had stuffed, or that there are ads on TV referencing child porn, or that when he goes to talk to his caseworker he realizes everyone in the waiting room is a priest.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:14 AM]
The world /is/ bizzarre and insane, but only Tom and Waffles seem to notice it.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:14 AM]
All their dialogue with each other and Tom's internal monologue are all serious.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:14 AM]
And as the story goes on you begin to see that Tom isn't laughing at the jokes either, he's actually deeply afraid himself.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:15 AM]
Anyway, Tom basically tells the cub that he wanted to kill himself too. But now he just wants to be with Waffles. And maybe if they live there is hope for a future.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:15 AM]
And he's hugging the boy.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:15 AM]
But waffles shakes his head and says he doesn't want to date Tom anymore.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:16 AM]
And the scene ends with them just huddled together in the rain.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:16 AM]
Jesus fucking christ man

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:16 AM]
So the last chapter is Tom out of his shitty apartment in a library looking through books to read to his cubs.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:16 AM]
It is years later and he is doing much better in life, even his clothing.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:17 AM]
He comes across the first book he read to Waffles on pauses on it with a sad smile, and decides to check it out.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:18 AM]
Oh I forgot to mention Waffles was living in this really shitty orphaninch for retarded children and its super darkly hilarious remind me to tell you.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:19 AM]
Anyway Tom goes to his appointment, with a well to do house where the parents greet him at the door warnly and these two fox boys who he's obviously fucking run up to him with a delighted squeal calling him 'Uncle Tom'.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:19 AM]
And later in the house after his visit he excuses himself to leave, taking the book with him.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:20 AM]
And he's in his car reflecting on his life and some if the themes in the story and how he wishes he could have done things different and how he can't but he can keep moving forward.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:20 AM]
And a bunch of things he passes reminds him of Waffles.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:21 AM]
And he goes to that retarded kid orphaninch thing and you realize he's helping out.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:21 AM]
And a lot of the kids know him and he knows them.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:21 AM]
And he leaves that too, and it's getting to be the evening.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:21 AM]
(He used to never wake up early but in this last chapter he has).

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:22 AM]
And he goes to his new home and exits the car but realizes he left the kids book. And he goes to grab it, lingering on it again.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:22 AM]
And goes into his new house and new life.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:22 AM]
And then there's a afterwards from the author thanking them for reading the story and acknowledging how fucking weird it was.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:23 AM]
And talking about some of the themes I wanted to explore, like the relationship between intellectual ability and self-worth. The weird mix of humor and drama.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:23 AM]
And at the very end the last scene is Tom entering him home and someone giving him shit and who else is it but Waffles?

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:24 AM]
Now a teenager, who Tom has adopted.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:24 AM]
OMG OMG OMG

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:24 AM]
I THOUGHT HE DIED

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:24 AM]
YOU ANGEL

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:24 AM]
And Tom greets him and apologizes for being late and shows him the book they found, which Waffles scoffs at.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:24 AM]
He's learned to read and has moved on to better books.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:25 AM]
But they agree to let Tom read him that boom again, and Tom does, repeating their first bonding experience years ago.

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:25 AM]
And the story ends.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:25 AM]
I don't even know what to say first

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:25 AM]
Uh

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:25 AM]
Holy shit

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:26 AM]
It's like you broke my nose, nursed me back to health then took a hatchet to my legs, only to take care of me for the rest of my life

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:26 AM]
How tf did you give me a description of the storyline and already take me on a whole ass emotional roller-coaster

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:27 AM]
Istfg u put me close to tears

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:27 AM]
Lol. Really?

Fox, [2023-07-30 11:27 AM]
I've basically spoiled the whole thing though.

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:27 AM]
Once I get the chance to actually read it I will need tissues

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:27 AM]
Just like

Sparks94, [2023-07-30 11:27 AM]
Holy shit