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went gathering reference for my next Beef drawing and I fear this is the closest we're ever going to get to bisexual lighting Beef

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I got one of those silly "wolf howling at the moon" shirts without even thinking about tgn until I read the tag that just said "WOLF MOON"

I can't believe they turned my sons into shirt

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they updated the preview thumbnail for the great north on hulu to be the season 5 poster, I get jumpscared every time by Beef looking at me so confidently

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My lifes purpose...

I just think Craig and Beef should kiss tbh

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Thinking about how I spent the bulk of the first 2 seasons thinking Beef was a chosen name because there's no way a parent would actually name their child that.

How little I know of the Tobin way back then.

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I think I'm ill and the only cure is this man with his coffee and muffin

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Judy should kiss a girl on screen

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I'm going to make Beef in the next MH Wilds beta. He's not going to hunt monsters he's just going to fish and gaze at the beautiful landscapes.

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Long and sentimental post about TGN incoming!

So I've finally finished all current episodes of The Great North and I have a lot of feelings I want to dump into one post. If you guys don't want to see me putting my metaphorical heart on the table I understand this post may not be for you lol.

General Overview

I just wanted to open this by saying these past few months I've spent getting sucked into this show have been an incredible time. I never expected this silly cartoon to have such an impact on me but at the end of the day I'm SO grateful it did.

There's a lot to get through here so I'm going to divide the contents of this post into 3 parts.

1)The Community, 2)Personal Experience, and 3)What's Next?

Part I: The Community

The community surrounding this show may be relatively small, but I have to admit that it's one of the reasons I've grown rather attached to the show.

This show has introduced me to some of the kindest, coolest, and most creative people on the internet. The passion I see in each and every one of you for such a small fandom really has inspired me to keep creating things. No matter how small the conversation all appreciation of art really does matter.

The fact that ANYONE would listen to some guy calling himself "beefkisser" still has me beyond words, I love you guys so much, thank you for being here and being yourselves.

Part II: Personal Experience

This is probably going to be the sappiest part of this post oh boy.

So I first got into TGN around Late October/Early November last year by some unbelievable series of coincidences and I'm really glad that I did. Admittedly at first my interest was only caught because I saw Beef and a primal part of my brain activates when I see large hairy men, I'm not entirely proud of that being what roped me in BUT-

As I watched more episodes I became helplessly entangled with the positive relationships I was seeing in the Tobin family, each character having their own kind of love to give. I saw a family I wanted to be a part of (hence my self-insert OC lmao) and I truly believe the Tobins had a positive influence on my outlook on life.

I don't normally put my problems out to be seen but TGN caught me at a time when I was dangerously close to falling into a kind of despair I hadn't felt in years (Life can be fucked up, ya know!). TGN really reinforced to me some things I already knew, particularly the idea of your closest family not always being by blood (Thank you Honeybee Shaw-Tobin I love you) and being able to fall back on the people you love when you're at your lowest. I genuinely believe this show had a HUGE impact on me being able to be vulnerable again, and since I've allowed myself to be soft I've never been happier. Even if I'm afraid I think I have it in me to raise people's spirits again.

Above all, TGN has cemented in me my desire to make art that could help other people the way it's helped me.

Part III: What's next?

With Season 5 picking up again soon, I'm probably going to go back to drawing Beef and co. more often. I won't be live-blogging the new episodes but I will gladly discuss them with anyone who wants to!

I'm probably also going to get back to working on my self-insert fanfiction if anyone is interested in that, it's just something silly I make to make myself happy but who knows I might just start posting about it.

Thank you for hearing me out if you've made it this far in the post, it's been a pleasure putting my thoughts out for you!

-Lapis 🐻

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I love the closing note of the family doing the last Bonesy job together, even if Beef, Honeybee, and Dirt have absolutely no stake in it.

But with that... it is done.

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Wolf's past girlfriends are way too cool, like not in a bad way I'm just kind of in awe how he's only ever dated cool women, I guess he is the world's second most perfect man.

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Ohh noo, spending a whole day in the cold and quiet with Beef Tobin, that sounds so terrible. Honeybee if you want to back out now I nominate myself to take your place, you don't need to repay my sacrifice I'm only playing the part of a hero.

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TGN really likes to do something I wish more shows did where they take members of the cast that don't interact as often as others and gives them full plots to make their relationships seem more real.

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Omg Wolf's shirt in this episode's opening was "My Fart Will Go On", just like the season 1 finale where he got married, the episode hasn't even properly started and I'm a little emotional.

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Well, it's time for the final episode of season 4.

Final episode, S4E20 "Am I the Ice Hole? Adventure".

I will be posting a rather long, somewhat heartfelt post about this show once the episode is over so stay tuned for that in a bit.

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AH! I love Moon's attention to detail in Beef's story. If we aren't rivals we could so be co-detectives in the noir AU