#I’d like to think beth has seen a lot of shit but art always manages to give her another reason to sigh in disappointment

[theundeadgospel]

What the fuck.

Brows furrow in evident disdain toward the…lavishing outfit he wardrobed himself with. A Santa suit all decked out with holly jolly bits of viscera and stained, fresh blood. The scent of rich iron stung the nosferatu’s flared nostrils, a low sigh leaving her.

Gross.

“ …Nice costume choice, leetle pierrot.

Dare I ask how you celebrate this holiday? “

Probably not the answer she’s seeking.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐈𝐒𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐘 - 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐍'𝐓 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆. but he was the center of attention thanks to his uniform. the moment that they had approached him, he puts his hands in a heart shape for @theundeadgospel - giving them a warm welcome. he accepts the company of everyone - joyous because of the season. it was close enough to christmas, enough that he was making his appearance as santa.

[blindfoldxx]

AT FINALE THOUGHTS

OHHHHHHHHHHHMYGOODNESS.

OKAY. SO I JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE AT SERIES FINALE AND…. HOOOOOOOOOO BOY.  I just sat in silence and stared at my black computer screen after the episode ended for a long time… and my hands feel so numb.  I can’t believe Adventure Time is actually over. I’ve been watching this series since 2012 and continuously since 2015… so 6 years invested fam. 6 years and it’s over today.

I really loved this episode because of all the references that it had to all the past episodes.  It was really nice to see the AT continuity at work once more, and how everything was so nicely put together in the end.  

Another thing I loved about this episode was all the themes & metaphors, the themes circling around being the very last episode of the legacy that is Adventure Time.  The themes of: “going on a new adventure” but yet “the fun will never end”.  Even though it’s all over, we’ll still keep moving forward, keep living our lives, keep going on new adventures, but yet forever hold Adventure Time dear to our hearts and carry the memories of the past with us.  This also kind of reminds me of the Stakes theme, “different but yet the same”, “everything stays, but it still changes.”  

"You and I will always be back then.”

This song was just so bittersweet and tearjerking. Even if we haven’t seen each other for a long time, even if we haven’t talked, even if we’ve all gone our separate ways, we’ll always still hold the memories of the past, the precious memories of when we were together, dear to our hearts.  Even if 1000 years has passed, despite everything that will happen, is happening, has happened, when we look back upon our past memories, held up like a billion tiny picture frames, you and I will always be back then.  And because you and I will always be back then, that’s why, you and I will always be best friends.

“Time is an illusion that helps things makes sense. So we're always living in the present tense.”

We don’t know everything about the past or the people who lived before us, but that’s okay.  When 1000 years have passed, the past may be forgotten, our lives may be forgotten, people in the future won’t remember who we are, and sure that’s scary, but it’s okay.  Time is an illusion: life goes on forever behind and ahead of us - in both the past and the future.  Everything stays, but nothing stays the same.  Our own lives are undoubtedly short, but yet it’s important, not because of the fact that we need to be remembered and make a mark on the world, not because we need to write down every minuscule detail so that those in the future will know who we are.  Life is important because of the abruptly forgotten happiness and undeniable joy that we experience each and every day, in all of our waking hours. 

“Everything stays, but it still changes.”

Things will happen, happening, happened.  Adventure Time has happen, happening, happened.  Even if it’s over… no matter what, we will move forward and just keep living our lives.  We will move on to a new adventure, a new home, new struggles & new people… we will move on to a new journey.  So when it’s happening, enjoy the time we have.  But when it’s happened, we will never forget the times we shared in the past, the times we shared as best friends and lived so merrily.   Things will happen again and again.  They may be different, and they may happen to different people in different times, but they will be familiar.  Life will go on forever behind and ahead of us, and the people who lived both before and after us will be different, but yet familiar in the ways that matter.  Maybe one day everything will come to an end, but because we remember, because we experienced joy, because time goes on forever and we’ll find ourselves in the people of both the past and future…  that’s why the fun will never end.  So, just go out, live your lives, be brave, have fun, and enjoy the ride.

“Time will unbind our memory glue. And I’ll be as nobody-ish as all of you.  So don’t care about a thing now.”

Adventure Time tells us to always live in the present, have fun, and be happy.  Don’t care about the past, don’t care about the future. The past has happened, the future will happen.  All that matters is to have fun, right now.  Dance your heart out.  Embarrass yourself.  Wear those unused socks you’ve been afraid of getting dirty.  Use that untouched silverware you’ve been saving for a “special day”.  Don’t care about what other people think.  Ask someone out.  Go on 3AM spontaneous adventures.  Spend lots of time with your friends and family.  Cry.  Laugh.  Live. Love yourself.  Just enjoy your life.  Don’t wait for the future, don’t fall back on the past.  Enjoy it now.

“Maybe by next summer, we won’t have changed our tune.”

A new adventure is starting and we’ll keep living our lives, but you and I will always be back then, and we won’t ever forget Adventure Time.  I think this finale portrayed these themes in such a beautiful way through Shermy, Beth, and of BMO telling the story of 1000 years ago.

One thing I was really hoping for in the finale was for it to wrap up all loose plot ends & to have bubbline be canon lol.  And I think it achieved both! Although rushed for sure, this finale did manage to wrap up all the loose plot ends.  There are absolutely still a lot of things that I would’ve liked to see, more things I wanted wrapped up, more lead up, more character development, more plot & world building…. especially with the open ends that the finale left off. Of course there’s so more that I want to see.  I know there’s so, so, so much more story to tell, so many more adventures to go on, so many plot gaps to wrap up. But all in all, for once I can finally say, I’m satisfied with this ending.  And I’m glad the crew pulled off this ending, despite the limited time & lead up they had to do it.

I think Adventure Time has shaped my childhood as well as my adulthood.  To be honest, it’s the reason I want to keep pursuing art as a career today, why I’m striving so hard now to get into the animation/art industry so maybe I can create masterpieces such as this show.  It’s the reason I want to write deep, lavish, and loving stories for others to read or watch.  It’s the reason I want to become a hero… just like Finn.

Thank you for shaping me into who I am.  Thank you for teaching me how to be brave and how to be myself.  Thank you for everything, Adventure Time.

Even though Adventure Time is now over, you and I will always be back then.  Let’s go on a new adventure together, and the fun will never end.

Come Along With Me - 10/10

Adventure Time (2010-2018) - 10/10

Thoughts about the finale episode itself below read more. Obvs spoilers.

SO. THOUGHTS… jumbled order because my mind is a mess rn. Will maybe organize later

Shermy & Beth.  Descendants or future lives of Finn & Jake?  A new adventure. “Everything stays, but yet it still changes.”  “The people that come after us may be different, but they’ll be familiar in the ways that matter.”

BMO AS THE KING OF OOO

Having all that stuff in his house, including Grob Gob Glob Grod’s head, princess crowns, Finn & Jake’s signs….

It’s been 1000 years since Finn & Jake huh…

BMO forgetting Finn’s name was really funny at first, but then it felt really bittersweet.  It kind of reminds me of this quote from Angel Beats: “Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.”  Maybe BMO has forgotten Finn & Jake’s names and faces, it’s been 1000 years after all.  But their impact and their bonds on each other, are everlasting.

“Have fun on the other side of this door”

I feel like this is a direct comment to the viewers from AT itself… :’(

“What happened to Phil and Jake in the end? Or Princess Bubblegum?”

“Well, you know, they kept living their lives.”

… so bittersweet :’)

It’s so bittersweet to imagine a world without Finn & Jake, a world where they’re not there.  But they just kept living their lives, having fun…

I feel like the crew is trying to tell us to keep living our lives, even after the show’s over, even after the adventure’s over.  I love this ending.  Shoot, I’m tearing up again.

“Thank you for visiting the King of Ooo”

Honestly I feel like all these little things that BMO told Shermy & Beth were metaphors/parallels directed at us viewers.  The crew is telling us, “Thank you for watching Adventure Time.”

Really like the dream scene. I was very confused at first, but I ended up really liking it.  It was a chance for the crew to showcase and reference past episodes and characters.  And I also really like how the dream paralleled PB - Gumbald, Finn - Fern, Jake - Jermaine. 

I liked that in the dream sequence, Finn became a butterfly (his past life). Maybe Shermy is a future life of Finn?

BUBBLINE IS CANON

MY FAVORITE OTP SINCE 2015 IS FINALLY CANON WTF OHHHMYGOODNESS THE FEELSSSS

2015 ME IS REALLY POPPING THOSE BOTTLES RIGHT NOW

Yeah sure the reveal/lead up could’ve been better, but I’m honestly just so glad that it happened at all. I think I’ve been dreaming about this day for four years now

HOLY SHIT FERN 

HOLY SHIT BETTY

HOLY SHIT SIMON

WHY TF DID BETTY JUST DIE….???!?!???

I know she died saving Simon and destroyed GOLB but like WTF BETTY

“I always thought I’d go out saving someone.”

“No one gets to chose how it happens” -Simon

WTF WHYYYYYY SIMON. That’s hard…

“Please listen to me! We’ve been friends for a long time.” - Finn… Then PB immediately saw Shoko in Finn.  Shoko’s metal arm to Finn’s….  Once more all the feels.

“THEY’RE ALL DEAD!”

“Un-Make Me”

FERN IS FINALLY SAVED… his anguish is gone. FINN AND FERN FINALLY FACED THE VAULT. THEY FINALLY FACED THEIR FEARS AND GOTTEN RID OF THEIR FEARS.

Honestly I’ve kind of forgotten about the Vault until this episode. And I’m so so so glad that Vault was finally brought up again, and that BOTH Finn & Fern are finally facing their deepest fears.  I think that sends a really good message… to face your fears so you can heal.

WHY DID FERN HAVE TO DIE MY SWEET ANGSTY GRASS BOY HE JUST RECOVERED, DESTROYING HIS TRAUMA AND HE DIED… AND HE JUST WANTED TO SEE THE TREEHOUSE ONCE LAST TIME BEFORE HE DIED OH MY GOD I CAN’T

Finn planting the remains of Fern in the ruined Treehouse

AND THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE FINN SWORD…. TO MAKE A NEW TREEHOUSE.  a new journey… a new adventure. FERN WANTED TO SEE THE TREEHOUSE BEFORE HE DIED SO HE BECAME THE TREEHOUSE.  the feels are too heavy why is it raining

LUMPS & LEMON. W T F.

Honestly this surprised me more than the Bubbline kiss. Like WTF lol.

GOLB

OMG GOLB FINALLY MAKES HIS APPEARANCE???

Tbh I felt like the lead up to GOLB could’ve been A LOT better rather than just a quick flashback into Simon’s memory when he read about GOLB in a book.  But I guess the AT crew did what they could with the limited time they had.

GOLB BECAME BETTY THO???That scene of GOLB leveling up/becoming Betty WAS LIT AF… when everything turned black & white and chalky? OH MANNN I LOVE animations that do that.  Kinda reminds of Gurren Lagann or Evangelion lol.

SWEET PEA PROTECTING HIS PARENTS

I really thought that the Lich arc was going to take off again, somewhere, somehow, before the end of the series.  But I guess not, I guess the Lich will stay a Sweet Pea forever.

SWEET PEA IS BECOMING BILLY?!?!??

Marcy’s Mushroom War flashback

MARCY ONCE MORE RELEASED HER POWER FROM STAKES AND TURNED GOAT MODE TO PROTECT HER GIRLFRIENDDDD

Simon is finally, finally saved. Although they had to kill off Betty in the process… Not sure how I feel about this yet…

However, if Simon trying to save Betty now? The reverse is happening?  That ending scene when he went to visit Prismo… he must’ve been trying to ask Prismo for a wish to save Betty but Prismo didn’t know how, he just shrugged his shoulders.  I vaguely remember in the past that Betty has also went to Prismo to ask to save Simon.  So Simon & Betty kinda swapped positions now.  I just hope all the same thing aren’t happening all over again but with Simon instead of Betty……..

I LOVE BMO’S SONG. EVERYONE STARTED SINGING TOGETHER.  IN THE END, MUSIC HEALED AND SAVED THE WORLD.  YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS BE BACK THEN.

GUNTER BECAME EVERGREEN/ICE THING?????

Comment from Reddit: If Betty’s intuition was right, the crown reset back to it’s pre-golb state once it was no longer in the confines of Golb. So the crown went back to the default wish prehistoric gunter made; to be like Evergreen.

So like… is Orgalog still there? Orgalog = Evergreen?  Would have liked to have seen more details/light on this.

I mean he doesn’t look too evil checking out books at the library and marrying Turtle Princess lol.

I also would’ve like to see more insight about the Elements, since they were just recently introduced, and how the elements all come to play a part in everything.

Was also imagining a Jake death for the finale but I’m SO glad that didn’t happen. I guess Jake’s banana space prophecy dream was just a dream after all.

FINN IS ALMOST THE SAME HEIGHT AS PB.  FINN GOT SO MUCH OLDER & TALLER & MATURE.  WHY DOES THIS REMIND ME OF FMAB SO MUCHHHH. 

I LOVED THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE MUSIC HOLE. I REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVED THE FINALE’S USE OF PAST EPISODES/PLOT/CHARACTERS.

I LOST IT WHEN THE MUSIC HOLE STARTED SINGING THE ENDING SONG. THAT ENDING SEQUENCE D E S T R O Y E D ME. I CRIED SO MUCH.  Just watching all the characters go about their post-show lives… UGH these kind of ending sequences in any show ALWAYS GETS ME.  This ending just brought back so many FMAB ending sequence feels… :’)

GUNTER AND TURTLE PRINCESS…. WTF LOL

SWEET PEA GRADUATED

SIMON VISITING PRISMO TO ASK HOW TO SAVE BETTY :’(

PB & Lolly hanging out, being pals, singing to Neddy :’)

The fern tree/treehouse 1000 years later. Kind of reminds me of the 1000 years later scene from that one graybles episode.

Normal Man and Margles… I guess he never got to save her, but he’ll always remember her.  THE FEELS……..

GIRL SQUAD

BONNIE AND MARCY SNUGGLING IN BED TOGETHER.  MY GAY FEELS I CAN’T.  Also LOL Peppermint Butler’s “Dark Magic 101″  (wait is he still peppermint kid? lol)

Finn only one arm forever now?  Finn didn’t end up with anyone in the end, and I’m actually really happy about that.  It was SUCH a great choice to not force Finn into a romance, and I’m loving it.

Finn’s mom & other humans finally came to Ooo!!!!!!!

I liked how the entire ending’s theme is, “a new adventure”, “things will never end, everything goes around in a circle”.  This show will live on forever.  Especially with Shermy & Beth pulling out the Finn Sword Finn & Jake style.  “The fun will never end”.

“It seems unforgiving when a good thing ends. But you and I will always be back then.  Will happen, happening, happened. And will happen again and again. Cause you and I will always be back then. That’s why, you and I will always be best friends.”

“Everything stays, right where you left it.  Everything stays, but it still changes.  Ever so slightly, daily and nightly. In little ways, when everything stays.”

“Maybe by next summer, we won’t have changed our tune. We’ll still want to be with the butterflies and bees.  Making up new numbers, living so merrily….”

YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS BE BACK THEN

COME ALONG WITH ME