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I’m absolutely loving your tradwife au

thanks! but are you sure.

it gets worse whenever i draw it. i think im done though. this is the size i want peter to be btw.

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as far as obscure trivia goes "perry stole his jetpack from doof" is really up there for me. improves my experience of so many eps because i'm just going ah....wearing his bf's shirt again

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misc. from last week

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@pebbles-scatter most romantic outcome of perry marrying heinz is that it will kill frau doofenshmirtz instantly

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YURI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Not arguing with a man with a duckbill. Whatever you say gorgeous

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just normal healthy emotions

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screaming crying throwing up

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todays timefilling activity was trying to list all the ways perry's status as an animal has bearing on his circumstances/character. since a lot of these ideas crop up when im thinking about au or human versions of him

unique effects of perry being a platypus:

prefatory notes: -these aren’t all hard canon, they’re a blend of canon/speculation/my personal preference -some are inconsistent in the show, eg perry being banned from riding a bus but allowed at a casino / dubiously allowed to drive a car. these are potential challenges, not universal ones -some of these circumstances can be wielded strategically for perry's benefit (eg perry exploiting assumed mindlessness) so everything listed isn’t 100% negative -some of these can be superficially mapped onto a human version of perry (eg inability to speak), but they’ll have different nuances if he’s not an animal

note i’m not arguing that any one of these points is fundamental to perry’s character, although they do add up to a set of life circumstances with significant bearing on who perry is in the show. this isn’t a case for the eminent superiority of a canon compliant perry over any au version, which is a matter of personal preference. you could similarly list out all the human-specific qualities of an imagined human perry, and you could find that version of the character more or equally compelling -- but these are qualities unique to the canonical platypus perry. (and i do think all of them are fun to explore, on their own and in the context of him having a rship with doof)

note also there ARE canonical au versions of perry for whom these conditions don’t apply, due to him having a different rship with the flynn-fletchers or owca or doof, or him being a different species! e.g. agent p from ‘temple of juatchadoon’ doesn’t appear to have any relationship with the flynn-fletchers ; parable the dragonpus could have any number of physiological differences, like a massively extended lifespan ; the star wars version of perry likely doesn’t face the same kind of judgment/scrutiny over his species or over interspecies relationships

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neutral or positive qualities related to perry’s species:

best most immutable aspect of perry being a platypus: he’s a platypus. ie a cute lovable little animal guy with all these cool platypus features like his swimminess and his electro-bill and his whappy tail and his soft warm fur <3

2nd best (debatable) aspect of perry being a platypus: doof thinks all of the above daily

being an animal means he can communicate with / ally with other animals when he wants to

being an animal who isn't a common pet can occasionally yield specialized treatment, e.g. he gets more respect than a cat or dog in some public spaces, he can 'pass' for a human more easily, and many people can't identify what he is

has a unique rship with the flynn-fletchers and especially phineas&ferb -- they named and raised him, are functionally his parents, even if he catches up to / outpaces them developmentally. he gets to experience a loving parental dynamic from them.

also has a unique rship with monogram and carl, who brought him up through the academy. (based on the owca book, and perry’s current dynamic with mono in particular, this was probably less than wholesome/loving treatment)

no standard human education: is educated/propagandized at owca, and is otherwise self-educated or learns through osmosis

has no known biological family

(i like to assume) born/raised in danville, so isn't actually australian

would face less/no prejudice specifically along the axis of him being trans or intersex, it’s more invisiblized for him (otoh him being in a gay rship, less invisiblized)

is an endangered species

physical limitations/difficulties due to perry’s species:

is unable to speak human language (specifically because he’s an animal; he can make platypus sounds -- his rship with muteness would change if he was human) and (as far as we see in the show) is untrained in asl, so his communicative abilities are restricted

produces dangerous venom that he has to be careful of

very short and tiny (which he CAN use to his advantage but can also disadvantage him in human society, or in general - him trying and failing utterly to pull lyla up the train, lol)

likely has limited understanding of his own anatomy/physiology

(realistically) more vulnerable to heat than a human, potential dietary restrictions, less professional medical support available, seasonal hormone fluctuations

societal judgment/restriction of perry based on his species:

forbidden from accessing some human spaces / doing certain human activities

assumed to be mindless or unintelligent, assumed to be non-autonomous and a pet. generally disrespected (even doof is not innocent of this)

can be treated as a child, due to his young age (tho he's a mature adult in platypus years)

perceived by some as less-than-a-person, worth less than a human

by extension, heinz or any human partner/friend faces judgment for prioritizing/being in a rship with him as an animal (even a platonic one)

ways perry’s role as an owca agent is fucked due to his species:

raised as a child soldier, groomed into his career/given no choice in it, and in his short time on earth has had no opportunity to question or escape from it (due to the host family placement which effectively blackmails perry 24/7)

unclear if he has a right to his own person (owned by owca? and/or superficially owned by the flynn-fletchers?) or a legal government presence (e.g. can he legally own assets? he gets an income, but as an animal does the government acknowledge him as the owner of whatever accounts? is he forced to assume a false human identity? is he a citizen? can he rent?)

raised outside of his species, so quitting and living in nature among his own is not an option for him, he is forced to live in a society not built for his species

estranged from his fellow agents on the basis of species, esp. since the majority of them exhibit more instinctive/untamed animal behaviors that perry finds frustrating/unrelatable

forced to hide his intelligence/personhood/capacity for love and complex relationships among his family (much more severe than just hiding a secret job)

also: they make him eat canned worms and use a litterbox, and we know perry finds this humiliating :(

he has limited autonomy around his family -- is subject to the whims of their travel plans, etc. is technically always performing his job, since he has to maintain cover at home. down-time where he can openly express himself is extremely limited.

not legally protected on the level of a human, so if he dies owca likely will face no consequences - they perform animal experiments on him

has limited (if any) job prospects outside of owca - and doesn't get human worker protections

problematic aspects to perry’s romantic prospects:

literally a minor. literally a 41 year agegap with heinz. obscene

more to the point: ppl assuming perry can’t be in a healthy/consensual rship because he’s an animal

has limited life experience and no romantic experience. heinz is his first romantic connection, and there’s a huge imbalance of experience there.

has severely limited and complicated romantic prospects outside of heinz due to his species (an issue heinz does not share)

(presumably) can’t legally marry heinz, and even if he did many people would not regard him as a serious romantic partner (or stepdad, etc)

his natural lifespan is about a third of a human’s, so he and heinz probably have disparate time left, by a matter of decades (additionally, perry will probably die before most people he knows)

how the heck do a human and a platypus have sex… i’m gonna have to think about this one (more to the point: there’s no established precedent for a romantic and/or physical rship between their species, they have to figure it out on their own. that includes negotiating any imbalance in their sex drives)

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yesss. if you boost a theory that this is owca's secret strategy with the agents then that's stupid on every level because everything we see from owca and from perry in the show contradicts it. if anything this is exactly what i could see owca doing down the line to save face and scrounge up positive PR in the wake of scrutiny over them, like, running a violent government private army of animal kid soldiers -- no actually we're all about positivity and growth! see look at what agent p has achieved with his nemesis -- w-we taught him that. that was our idea. nice work agent p

but even if you're making a more lighthearted 'perry is doof's therapy animal' assertion it's... well it's still rude, lol, because he's more than that -- don't diminish him like that!!

oh ok heres a mildly warm take but not really i hate the ‘owca animals are therapy animals for the badguys’ meme theory. partly because it’s just not consistent with how owca is in the show, at all, it’s explicitly a shitty and exploitative military organization, god knows theyre not offering any therapy to their own paramilitary agents who occasionally die on the job and could really use it lol. but also it’s another way of reducing perry’s character, taking the realworld concept of a ‘therapy animal’ who’s basically there for you to pet and hug and grafting it onto a complex fully fledged-out guy if perry is therapeutic to heinz it’s as his equal, as his best friend and someone to talk to, that he’s an animal is inconsequential to this (because he’s definitely not letting heinz cuddle him haha. unless?) and it’s by perry’s choice, we see how his choices to spend time with doof and help him are explicitly outside of the role assigned to him by owca. but perry CAN be a ‘therapy animal’ to the flynn-fletchers, i love this for him and phineas specifically, because he’s forced to be a realistic pet there.

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oh ok heres a mildly warm take but not really i hate the ‘owca animals are therapy animals for the badguys’ meme theory. partly because it’s just not consistent with how owca is in the show, at all, it’s explicitly a shitty and exploitative military organization, god knows theyre not offering any therapy to their own paramilitary agents who occasionally die on the job and could really use it lol. but also it’s another way of reducing perry’s character, taking the realworld concept of a ‘therapy animal’ who’s basically there for you to pet and hug and grafting it onto a complex fully fledged-out guy if perry is therapeutic to heinz it’s as his equal, as his best friend and someone to talk to, that he’s an animal is inconsequential to this (because he’s definitely not letting heinz cuddle him haha. unless?) and it’s by perry’s choice, we see how his choices to spend time with doof and help him are explicitly outside of the role assigned to him by owca. but perry CAN be a ‘therapy animal’ to the flynn-fletchers, i love this for him and phineas specifically, because he’s forced to be a realistic pet there.

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they're having a brand meeting about the name which is bad and everyones got their head in their hands/paws stressed out brainstorming on several pots of coffee and perry walks up to the whiteboard and crosses out the three letters and the entire room gives him a standing ovation

owca rebranding as owca(organization with a cool acronym)

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candace has a lot of defenders but i dont see anyone holding her accountable for the time she did this