I Ended Up Loving Travis Way More Than I Ever Expected By The End Of Book 4. Wouldn’t Have Minded In

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Tales from the Gas Station Volume 3: Travis

As part of his self-imposed redemption arc, Travis has appointed himself shipper-on-deck for Jack and anyone he thinks Jack might be interested in dating. Rosa. Jerry. O'Brien. Doc Howard. The Bathroom Cowboy. Travis has headshots of Jack and a dating profile that is only almost completely lies,and he will talk up his boy to anyone and everyone who'll listen.

Everyone's like, uh, Travis, this sounds like maybe YOU want to date Jack? And Travis is like, not really, but I will stretch to dinner, a movie and some light petting if it means he forgives me

Jack is desperately trying to collect every copy of that stupid dating profile and destroy them and get through to Travis that this is making him MORE angry, not less

Travis, as usual, does not get it

Tftgs Spoilers:

I just started listening to book one again and I had a realization that when Jack is at one of his appointments with Dr. V and the Dr. starts talking about that if Jack offed himself no one would blame him just make sure you keep your brain in tact cause that's all they need after he's gone. It hit me that in book 4 Rodger makes the comment that they only need Jack's brain and just holy crap Roger has had so much influence over Jacks life and just every time I read or listen to the books again just more and more dots connect.

My Secret Santa gift for @saglaophonos! A comic for her post-s2 fic you do something to my patience

a secret between you and me 🤫

//so there's a new theatrical remaster of the tftgs volume 1 audiobook and chai's been sending me clips from it so we can go AAAAAAA at the voice-acting. and like to be fair yes i'm holding the new voice-actors to a bit of an unfair standard because i have such a specific image in my brain of the characters and their voices, but tbf i also feel the same way about some of the original audiobook voices. so y'know what it works

anyway no one asked but here's my thoughts on the voices i've heard so far:

jack - i'm sorry that's just not jack. that's not my boy. who the fuck is this. (<- too attached to the MCP narration)

jerry - i don't hate it but jerry's voice being higher pitched and not deep and kinda goofy is throwing me the fuck off!!!

tony - i don't know who this man is but that's not tony. i can't explain why without sounding insane but this man's voice is too round and sure of himself.

spencer - this spencer sounds too much like a normal respectable human being. i do not believe for a second that the man saying these lines would compare himself to the joker unironically as an intimidation tactic/to prove how cool he is.

*fighting some fucked up creature*

jerry: oh shit that reminds me of when i went to Woodstock, shit was wild. i met with thi-

jack: Woodstock? jerry, that happened like 25 years before you were born.

jerry: yeah, Woodstock! anyways, i was talking to this guy, completely nude-

rosa: how did you go to Woodstock?! are you talking about some kind of anniversary for it?

jerry: nope! the real thing. i found an old time machine after i fought off a hoard of Napoleon clones. i still have a scar from it! so, this guy was nude, so was i. it was a whole thing-

jack: TIME MACHINE?!

rosa: jerry why did Napoleon clones have a TIME MACHINE!? and where is it now????

jerry: oh, i gave it to Jimi Hendrix. did you know acid was only like a buck there? i gotta go back sometime

jack: YOU HAD A TIME MACHINE AND WENT TO WOODSTOCK INSTEAD OF OH I DONT KNOW SOMETIME USEFUL???

jerry: HEY! Woodstock was INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT to rock history! plus, i got myself a fursuit and went walking in the woods and someone got a pic me. do you know how important bigfoot is?

rosa: oh my god.

jerry: continuing my story you guys just had to interrupt. i was talking to this dude, and he told me my beard doesn’t fit me. he said it clashed with my blue eyes and pubes, and i’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. i don’t want to shave it, but now im feeling self conscious.

rosa: your… pubes?

jerry: i already said we were naked, get with the times rosa!

jack: your beard is fine, jerry. if anything it probably elevates your overall look. there.

rosa: yeah, i feel like it’s very Jerry, you know? cant have jerry without his beard.

jerry: alright! thanks y’all, now back to the problem at hand. how do we banish a space god from this school bathroom?

Hate to be stranded in the middle of nowhere on the road

The five four finger discount on other people’s phones.

no one talks about how good jack townsend is at pick pocketing. there’s like five points where he’s in a rough situation and he just goes “so i stole his wallet/phone while he was beating the shit out of me lol” and NO ONES NOTICED HIM YET

There isn’t enough Jackerry in the world and it breaks my heart.

GOD I love jackerry. been in a car for 10 hours thinking about jackerry smut the whole time. I love them so much. 10/10 Mr Townsend great characters.