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bolly--quinn · 18 days ago

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"This is how we stay a family" | Starburned and Unkissed (Caroline Polachek)

#reblogging this here too because uh why not?#i need to invent a machine that beams me into a television show but also back in time so i could raise beth right #rick and morty #my edit

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bolly--quinn · 18 days ago

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Hi! Sorry if this is a really random ask, you don’t have to respond - but I was curious about what you think about Rick and Morty’s dynamic over the course of the show so far?

Oh and also, I absolutely love your artstyle!!

Oh!! Rick and Morty's dynamic over the course of the show is so interesting to me because sometimes they're kinda just like two best buds and I enjoy their mismatched personality interactions !! (They're actually the funniest pair in the show to me, like when they're paired up it is so much fun !!)

On the otherhand, Rick and Morty are sometimes written to have an extremely toxic, codependent, and abusive relationship for Morty which sucks (like I get the ramifications of it plot-wise but also I kinda hate Rick for it and want Morty to just be okay!!) I think when they have a more balanced representation of their dynamic (half Doc and Marty, half Walt and Jesse) I enjoy them the most so like the purge ep or total rickall is like peak Rick and Morty dynamic imo

Over time, I've appreciated how they have mixed and matched the family into different dynamics (the strength of a good ensemble show imo is how you can pair anyone off and they have a unique but still interesting dynamic -- I think Community does this incredibly well and I know Rick and Morty shares dna with it *cough* Harmon) but I will admit that the Rick and Morty dynamic that I've come to enjoy has kinda been sidelined recently (I personally think it is because in later seasons Rick's abuse to Morty has just been so over the top that the show kinda put themselves in a corner with how it can just jump back into their humor anymore ??? Like esp after all the stuff with Evil Morty and how the show has shifted into like all this Rick lore, it's kinda hard to fit their silly little dynamic in ?)

Even in episodes that they do share this season like Cryo Mort a Rickver or Ricker than Fiction, they still kinda split them up into separate storylines that eventually reconverge but that's not the same as their silly duo banter imo

(also thank you so so so so much I miss drawing I promise I will again soon!!! ❤��)

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #asks #not that i'm complaining about the other characters because i love them and like i love rick and beth episodes #and rick and jerry are fun too but i do miss the sillies with the boys #also we need like a jerry and morty ep again like the pluto one or the one with the app #and a true beth and morty ep since i don't think we've ever really had one #the show is starting to feel very rick-centered which like i said although he's not my fave i don't mind #because beth is my fave and then we get good eps about the two of them by proxy #but like when the show started it felt like it was morty-centered as he juggled school and his crush with grandpa's scifi shenanigans #and now he's barely even there ?? hmm #south park syndrome where they moved from stan to randy

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bolly--quinn · 22 days ago

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When you see you shitty parent being good and kind, you wonder "why couldn't you be that person for me?" :(

#reblogging this here too because ... i think i cooked ?#sorry to hijack your post op but like wow what a sequence #rick and morty #rick sanchez #beth smith #hot rick

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bolly--quinn · 22 days ago

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So… how are you doing after that Season 8 finale? I’d love to hear your thoughts, but ai Lu I hope you’re okay.

Oh I’m literally running all over the walls and gnawing at my arms ok I absolutely loved it!! It truly was a Beth season after all!! 💕

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about it so this might all be a ramble rn but I especially loved how the climax of the episode was Rick (and Memory Rick and Memory Diane too) choosing the path that was best for Beth. Like narratively, I will always love Diane and definitely wish to see more of her and Rick and their life together and having their daughter etc, but at the same time Diane isn’t a character anymore you know?

She’s an idea, a ghost, a memory, she’s Rick’s past.

Clinging onto her both stagnates the characters from growing and the show as a whole by always having to circle back to her, in a way this kinda felt like letting go of that storyline but in a poetically beautiful way that actually shows how this idea of Diane affects her family.

Memory Rick was so fixated on her and reuniting with Rick’s memory of her that he actively (although maybe not intentionally) hurt his daughter by using her as a conduit to reach Diane. Sure they had bonding moments too but it was always with the ulterior motive to reach Diane. All of that literally brainwashed Beth into thinking that she needed to do whatever she could to keep her parents together, to keep Diane “alive” even if that meant killing herself. She considered driving off the cliff Thelma and Louise style in hopes that mommy and daddy would be together … and she would be there too, not even necessarily as a priority but as a bystander to her parents’ relationship like an additional accessory and she was ok with that since all she really wants is to be with him.

It reminded me of how in “Fear no Mort”, Morty’s fear is essentially Rick not caring about him and the rest of the family if Diane is in the picture and while I wouldn’t say that is Beth’s fear, it is definitely something similar that she feels guilt over and why it was very easy to exploit that in her mind.

She wants her father to be happy but the only way she thinks that is truly possible is by holding on to her dead mother, even if it is at the expense of herself.

What I loved especially though is that despite being memories with little not no parenting experience, both Memory Rick and Memory Diane also (not just Rick and Space Beth) freak out once they realize what she’s doing. They want to be together, of course they do … but not at the expense of their daughter because she’s real. Despite the fact that Rick C-137 lost his Beth as a child as well as his Diane, he has a daughter in his life … in fact he has two!

Adult Beth (both Home and Space) is alive, she is real, and she is Rick’s present. She is who matters now.

Regardless of how beautiful and in love Rick and Diane were (or in the case of the memory versions … are lol), their relationship is not worth the cost of their daughter.

Rick himself sees that when he opens up to her and talks her down from her breakdown.

I really do love this episode because it hinges on this idea of Rick needing to move on from Diane, which may be true, but it doesn’t necessarily mean romantically (although in time he might be able to do that as well) as we see it doesn’t work out with Bug Anne. Instead, the moving on occurs by saving Beth (the current — and most important at least rn imo — woman in his life 🥹❤️) from these thoughts and feelings that consume her but letting go of the past and focusing on the present … she being his daughter and he being her dad, and the family they now have: Space Beth, Morty, Summer, and Jerry, as opposed to the family they had.

Like Morty said in “Cryo Mort a Rickver”, “But I am family, and you did choose me” has become a running theme throughout the show now and this episode only solidified that as Rick does choose Beth and her sanity, over clinging on to his past.

Also Rick letting his idealized memory of his wife be happy with an idealized version of himself is amazing actually and took real growth, it was probably the best for the situation imo

The whole thing was heartbreaking and heartwarming and beautiful and it was quite possibly the episode I’ve been waiting for.

#rick and morty #hot rick #rick sanchez #beth smith #beth sanchez #diane sanchez #space beth smith #rick and morty season 8 #asks #i really loved this episode ok it was everything I was waiting for #rick and beth are truly platonic soulmates and i loved how this ep proved morty's fear wrong even more than it already was #rick wouldn't choose his dead wife over his live family esp not his live daughter #rick has to let go of the love of his life (past) and embrace his life with the love of their life (present) and that's sooooo <3 #like yeah let rick have a gf bf or s.o. later or not idc about love interest of the week but him choosing beth in this ep was everything ok #*barney stinson voice* you are the love of my life. everything i have and everything i am is yours forever <3 #(idc that himym aged badly that scene will always be everything)

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bolly--quinn · 2 months ago

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pride and joy 🥹

#rick and morty #rick and morty fanart #rick sanchez #beth smith #beth sanchez #space beth #the curicksous case of bethjamin button #rick and morty season 8 #amramart #anyway they were everything to me. we're so lucky to be alive where this ep exists #also 360 year old rick is so gross lmao but that's their dad 🥹#i wish the beths nothing but happiness just love from their father and the ability to stab gene as much as they want. amen #idk if this looks good i think i lost my ability to tell if my drawing is chicky scratch or not lmao

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bolly--quinn · 2 months ago

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what did you think of the new episode with the little Beth's? I LOVED it

OMG YOU KNOW I LOVED IT ANON 😍😍😍 my little (demons) angels were perfect and I loved seeing them and how smart and clever and insane they were and how they were just sooooo babey and daddy's girls to their core it was perfect 100000/10 no notes

#asks #the curicksous case of bethjamin button #beth sanchez #i also loved how rick was unflinching at their traps and attacks #like she may be a 'scary kid' but that's HIS scary kid ok he ain't scared of her he's the only person who can pacify her (them)#that's HIS BABY #also the whole scene with 360 yr old rick and the beths saved my life ok like ???#they saw their daddy 🥹🥹🥹 that's their favorite person and for the first time in a LONG time they saw him ❤️❤️❤️#ugh they are each other's people ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️#also the ending killed me because of course jerry ruined the moment crying about his eyes in space or whatever lmao

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bolly--quinn · 2 months ago

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What did you think of the RAM anime? I thought it was mid but I kinda did like elle (thoughts on that too?)

(sorry for answering this ask so late omg) I had to rewatch the anime since I forgot everything that happened and it was kinda ... mid? I liked the art though and it was fun to see my girls idk I did think elle was kinda cool too but she had to grow on me imo (I normally don't care too much about characters outside the fam sorry)

here's some doodles though because I had fun rewatching!