#Morty gets to be silly . as a treat

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

"For a self-proclaimed researcher... I thought you'd know by now that Psychic-types are weak against Ghost." "Morty-ehehe! B-But I'm nohohot a type specialist!" "Maybe should've thought of that first before deciding to wake me up so early."

A spiritual successor to this lil doodle of mine 🫣💖💕

[avaisnerdytoo]

About "Rickfending Your Mort"

S7EP6

I finally found something I want to say about this episode, which in many ways is just repeating what @hazelnut-u-out already said.

But I seriously cannot stop thinking about the observation made about Rick wanting to treat and spoil Morty 🥺

The non-specific guns bit was not only really funny, but such a lovely Rick/Morty set of interactions.

Before, this happened only occasionally, tbh I can only think of Cronenberg world with the potion, which went horribly, and then basically only through Rick Bot did Morty get some semblance of a treat - as far as I remember - like the lightsaber, however through this episode we finally see that Rick actually does give Morty some care... Or at least...

The way he sees it...

Clearly he's terrible at knowing what to give to a kid, but he's genuinely freaking trying you guuuuuys 🥺, he's, as Dr. Wong said, changing, just veeeeery slowly (enough for 70 episodes at least slowly*🤭).

I also really liked the scene with the Principal, because Rick is asking him to not be harsh with Morty, and is, guess what, taking responsibility!!!

He has shown that from time to time, but I will never stop praising this kind of progress and characterization.

All in all, even if not all the clips are my favorite amongst Interdimensional Cable or Mindblowers, I like this set up the best, because it placed both Rick and Morty as both causing trouble, and both being smol silly little creatures 🥰🥰🥰

For their standards anyway... 🤭🤔

[arizonatea-and-nikolatesla]

Hazbin hate and bigotry

(This probably is rambly because it’s almost 2 in the morning and these are half asleep thoughts)

Maybe this is just a me thing- or maybe this is glaringly obvious, but it’s so strange to me that a lot of the fandoms that get the most hate are ones where non-conforming people make up a lot of the fandom.

Steven universe and Hazbin Hotel/ Helluva boss are the first things that come to mind. Women, LGBTQ+ people, and neurodivergent people are a huuuge part of the fandom. Do they do some questionable and problematic stuff sometimes? Yeah- but what fandom doesn’t?

Things like Fnaf, Star Wars, etc. that have a large male audience are rarely treated the same way. Even though they used to be considered “uncool”, you were just nerdy or a little weird if you were into them(especially if you were a dude). Now a days people generally would think you’re a dick if you’re making fun of people for liking these things.

There were way weirder cartoons on back when Steven universe was airing. There are weirder things on now- the boys, Rick and Morty, both shows I do enjoy, but If their audience didn’t have a large amount of members that were/are cis men- they’d also either be ‘weird’ or at the very least not as well liked.

Even shows that are popular- think shows enjoyed mostly by women. Twilight, the vampire diaries- they’re generally considered cringy by people who don’t enjoy them. And men will make fun of women for enjoying it- this is less obvious than my previous examples because a lot of women who are considered “normal” like these shows. That doesn’t stop them from getting made fun of for liking them, or judged- mostly by men. A lot of the hate I see for something like twilight outside of men just calling it dumb is actually well structured analysis of the books and movies, not just bullying.

I don’t think I’ve seen many shows that can get away with marketing to young adults who aren’t men. They are either blasted on the internet like the people who like them are some kind of cringy freaks (Steven universe, Hazbin hotel, etc), or they fade into obscurity or get canceled (inside job, tuca and birdie).

If something is weird- it has to be for men, or it’s suddenly a crime to enjoy it.

P.S.

This is also seen inside fandoms that have become more socially acceptable. When people are nerdy in ways that aren’t necessarily ���cool’ or generally accepted they are often bullied by not just other people, but people in the fandom. Honestly even when more diverse people get INTO fandoms some fans go crazy. “Omg girls and gay people like Star Wars?! They’re ruining the movies!” By simply existing or posting silly little fan art videos on TikTok because they’re enjoying their media and not just letting their eyes glaze over while they watch a movie.

P.P.S.

This is of course not to say these shows or some of their creators don’t have flaws- obviously they do. However people often magnify these flaws in order to have a ‘non-bigoted’ way to make fun of people who don’t fit into their world view.

You’re not a good person if you bully neurodivergent teenagers off the internet because they like something you don’t. Do some self reflection. You can not like something and just choose not to engage with it.

P.P.P.S

The leopards will also eat your face, btw. (For those of this who it applies to. You know who you are.)

[fandomwe1rd0]

It honestly upsets me to see people being so harsh to Morty in the fandom. Not so much in Tumblr, although I wouldn't be surprised if someone here is harsh to my boy, but like in Reddit and stuff, I've seen people blame Morty for stuff like the Purge episode or hell someone even victim blamed for Vat of Acid and Rattle Ricklatica. I'm not saying Morty's perfect, he's definitely has messed up at times, but he does try to do the right thing to fault and overall is just a very good natured kid, he's probably one of the most morally good characters in this show, since he wants so badly to do right, hell in the Gotron he even put his own life in danger by rejecting a bribe because he loves his family, even though they treated him horribly in that episode.

Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Rick, he's my favorite character, but he has done far worse things than Morty (The heist episode, anyone?) And has a MUCH higher kill count than Morty, probably killed hundreds if not thousands of Ricks when searching for the Rick that killed his wife. But he hardly gets any flak from the fandom. Doesn't help that the show will portray some of his worst actions as just him being a little silly *cough* VAT OF ACID *cough* THE HEIST EPISODE *cough* RATTLESTAR RICKLATICA *cough* oof, got something in my throat, anyway, these actions are legitimately horrible, yet I see nobody calling Rick irredeemable, and I never see him victimblamed for Diane's fault.

Im not saying Rick is irredeemable or that he should get victim blamed. Nobody deserves that. But there's a ridiculous double standard when it comes to Rick and Morty. When Rick kills people, he's super bad ass and cool. But when Morty kills someone, he's a horrible person.

I think it boils down to Rick being meant to be a horrible person, that's why he has a redemption arc, so when he does bad things, people kinda hand wave it away because "he's changing!" And while that's true, that doesn't make any of his previous actions okay, he still deeply traumatized Morty. He still deserves repercussions for that.

But with Morty, a lot of times he shown as being a pretty decent kid, so when he does something wrong, people see him as some horrible person, I'm not saying that he's a flawless angel, but people don't take into account that Rick is a big reason in why Morty has repressed rage, and is the very reason why he's violent a lot of time, yet Rick gets no blame while Morty gets all of it.

[dave-shit-kat]

One of the many problems with Homestuck is the target audience. I often tell people that I don't think kids younger than 15 should read the comic and I always get crazy looks for that.

Yes, I know the fandom (right now) has many kids. Yes, I've read the comic; I know its themes, contents and how they're presented. And the problems lie on that specifically.

Because Homestuck isn't and never wanted to be a fucking pedagogy example, it takes many liberties with what it narrates and how. While I agree that some themes can be treated in any media, and while I agree that adult jokes can be made in kids' medias, we have to keep in mind that certain things have to be treated properly when talking to younger audiences, and that adult jokes have to be made with a structure that doesn't allow the kid to understand what the joke acutally means (also, you can't base an entire show on adult jokes only, or having them too often, or it won't be an age appropriate show anymore). Basically; people who have in mind a target age STUDY the fucking targeted age; something Homestuck never did.

So the result is a colorful and silly and dumb webcomic, that seems appealing to unsupervised 11 year olds (I've met them in the fandom, I'm not inventing anything), that also have read a comic that talks about racism, sex, rape, pedophilia, incest, totalitarism, and things like that. As I said, you CAN have kids medias that treat those topics, but the situation with Homestuck is much more similar to the situation with Hazbin Hotel; where the media is shown as colorful and silly and funny, more inclined towards edgy kids' type of humor, yet not having kids in mind as the target audience, and so allowing way too many adult topics to be treated in the media itself, while expecting the audience to be mature enough to get it.

As I said and as I repeat myself: yes, Homestuck is dumb, but not for this reason good for kids. And when someone on TikTok dared to tell me "Oh, but these topics and details fly over children's heads" I got mad. HOW does that make it ok!? An adult joke made in 40 episodes of a kid show is one thing; a webcomic with 8k pages FULL of that stuff is another thing. Just because the themes are treated non-seriously, doesn't make stuff like, I don't know, RICK AND MORTY ok for kids.

SUMMARY: Keep kids away from Homestuck.

[countlessrealities]

Unprompted Halloween asks || No longer accepting.

@muses-inn sent:

[📓]  "Trick or Treat", are the words Rick is being greeted with as he opens the door. They're delivered in a monotonous, uninterested tone. The kid in question is short, blue-haired with brown cat ears that are slightly folded sideways, and he's wearing a science coat. It looks like a wildly thrown-together costume, but it is in fact the kid's normal attire.

'I will go Trick or Treating so you stop nagging me, but I will NOT wear any silly costumes!' Leon proclaimed several hours earlier to Cloud. And that's how the humanoid-feline alien has wound up where he is now. Also, taking on the challenge that he would collect more candies than Precis, who' also up and around collecting candies elsewhere.

So, he's stretching out the wooly pumpkin bag, with this undoubtedly annoyed expression all over his face. And repeats the words again, this time with a more demanding tone. Just in case that old geezer didn't hear him before. "Trick or Treat!"

// Leon D.S. Gehste for Rick? Fashionably late as always, but I thought 'hey why not giving this a shot'

Finding out that the planet he has travelled to celebrated Halloween wasn't in Rick's plans. He's here to do some harvesting, nothing complicated or dangerous, but still time-consuming. The flowers he needs bloom briefly at specific hours throughout the local night and day, which means that he has to wait each time for it to collect their pollen.

He has figured out that, since they'll be stuck there for a few days, he could as well get started on synthesizing the compound he's working on, while Morty keeps an eye on the flowers. It's a good idea...if not for the fact that he hasn't foreseen being interrupted by trick-or-treaters.

With Morty out, when someone starts to insistently knock at the door, Rick is forced to stop what he's doing to go and see who it is. With the intention of getting rid of them as quickly as possible, naturally.

The sight of some kid in what he assumes is a cheap costume is definitely not a surprise. He can't tell who the boy is supposed to be dressed as, and he couldn't care less. These people have animal traits and magic. Who knows what sort of medias they consume.

What catches his attention is the teen's tone, flat and devoid of emotions. What the fuck is wrong with this brat? He sounds like some old guy with depression.

"I-I heard you the first time," he snaps back, leaning against the doorjamb, arms crossed over his chest. "B-But more than treats, you should get your amigdala checked out. 'C-Cause, geez, there's obviously something wrong with your brain."

He taps his own temple with a snort, then reaches out as to close the door.

"I-I don't have any fuckin' candy anyway. N-Now piss off, I-I have some very unstable chemicals I-I need to keep an eye on. U-Unless you want us all to blow up."

[hms-no-fun]

where did the inspiration for cat!dave come from. i love it btw, im just curious where it came from

catdave, like a lot of stuff in the gf3 prologue, just sort of happened. it's one of those things where in writing that chapter, jade grabbed a button that did a thing as a way to keep their villain-narrator honeypot from collapsing, and i decided to roll with it. turning dave into a house cat seemed like a fun gag, especially considering awkweet purrmusk and davepeta and all that. karkat picking up catdave with horror and protectiveness was really funny to me, just like NO HE'S MY BOYFRIEND YOU LEAVE MY SPECIAL MAN ALONE. then i thought, wait, what if a cat had time-distortion powers. what if catdave was like, i'm the hottest fucken kitty that ever did strut, i'ma slow down time and make everyone admire me. that joke alone was enough to keep catdave in, and i figured okay, we'll roll with this for a minute and then reverse it at the end and it'll be a funny anecdote. "hey remember that time dave turned into a cat?"

but unfortunately for dave, this is godfeels. i can't ever just do a fun joke about transformation. if we're gonna accept that jade has a button that can turn people into the animal they secretly want to be, that's gotta have CONSEQUENCES. what is this, fucking rick & morty??? there will be no resetting to the status quo at the end of THIS episode thank you very much!

of course by the time i got to publishing that first catdave chapter i'd figured all this out. dave's sort of defined by his repression and embarrassment at himself and his wants. i've imagined him sticking to his "i don't want to be a hero" thing very closely, and with that just kinda chilling with karkat all the time. (oh there's actually a funny pseudo-continuity error related to this-- in gf1 someone mentions what makes dave and karkat such a good couple. i'd imagined then that davekat were absolutely a totally out gay together couple. then the epilogues said actually no they were still too repressed to actually DO anything, and i decided to lean into that because two incredibly gay men no-homoing together for seven years is really funny/tragic to me from a story perspective. and since i decided to make gf2 parallel the epilogues, it seemed appropriate to fold that back in. i think in gf2 this gets papered over with june being surprised that they hadn't kissed yet? but that's def a thing that changed between fics from my perspective lmao)

so it seemed to me that catdave was a minor analogue to trickster mode- an unexpected jump straight to Personal Apotheosis without the journey necessary to give it any meaning. and that quickly mapped onto the problem of out queer people treating obvious eggs like their own Pet Project, pressuring them and pushing their boundaries even when it IS to some extent what they want. so dave keeps his cat ears and tail because he's a closeted furry with Some Gender, but because his friends all thought the transformation was funny and cute the end result was actually pushing him even further back into the closet. and since i knew that we were aiming towards davekat divorce fever anyway, that felt like the *perfect* dramatic intervention on his character. this is the hardest part of building an ensemble cast drama; giving everyone something Clear and Concise to deal with that can stand in for all their problems, so we can cut right to the chase when necessary.

this process is, in microcosm, the fundamental backbone of godfeels. it's about taking deadly seriously the personal and existential ramifications of extraordinarily silly impossible bullshit.

[pestercide]

🦇 for DEVILWORSHIP !!!

🥀FOR OUIJA BONES

AND uhh im just gonna say 🌹for starsaviour even though you already said it was unhealthy i just. wanted to hear about it. /nf

🦇 : how did they meet? (Devilworship)

OMG thanks for askin this I've been wantin to talk about it for AGES!! (I was gonna save for a comic/story but I am a rambler at heart pff)

OKAY so they first met when Mortis joined the cult!! Bob had already been a member for a bit atp and they weren't super close at the time. So when news came out that Mortis had supposedly died shortly after leaving the cult Bob wasn't too devastated.

Fast forward a few years later (I'd say a good 10 or so years?) and they meet again. Though they didn't recognise each other as Bob was in his costume and Mortis had changed so drastically he looked like a completely different person (plus, again, it was presumed he died). They get into a violent altercation after Mortis mistakes Bob for a demon, try to kill each other, but when Mortis accidentally unmasks Bob it abruptly stops the whole thing and gives Mortis a chance to run.

Unfortunately, Mortis can't stop thinking about that night in the following days because he was paranoid that Bob had recognised him (he didn't) and would inform the cult that he was alive. So Mortis had one goal in mind, and that was to eradicate Bob. Little did Mortis know that Bob had a similar plan in mind as Mortis was now the only person in town that knew he was the man behind the devil mask and was ALSO paranoid about being reported to authorities.

They eventually meet again, intent on eradicating each other, but one scuffle later they realise they harbor each others darkest secrets. They agree to keep each others secret identities under wraps. Out of paranoia they end up staying relatively close to each other, inadvertently giving them time to get to know each other more. The rest is history :3c (also this was getting long oops)

🥀: favorite thing about your ship? (Ouijabones)

Imma be self-indulgent and say it's the fact it's my silly Moloch selfship qwq

BUT ALSO I love the fact they're so drastically different but get along due to their shared curiosities and need to learn to navigate certain things together (such as Grim navigating the weird 'curse' they have and Moloch learning to navigate the human world lol. They help each other out!!)

🌹: is their relationship healthy, or more unhealthy/complicated? (Starsaviour)

I'm glad to explain either way man!! I just wanted to specify they were unhealthy from the get-go since I didn't want people to think I was romanticising cultist x cult leader and treating it like a silly fun ship

But yeah it is extremely unhealthy. Dia has a one-sided obsession with Skid's Dad and reveres him as her saviour. She assumes he reciprocates her romantic feelings but he's just playing along as it makes it so much easier to manipulate her.

[thatsrickdiculous]

GUYS SEASON SEVEN EPISODE ONE FUCKING ROCKEDDDDDD

silly little episodic episode to get us started just as a little treat

loved seeing the whole gang BUT I MISS MORTY BRO WAS IN LIKE 2 SCENES but he was funny the whole time

are the voices gonna take some getting used to? definitely. we’re they amazing and did the new VA’s give it their all? YESSS!!

[poolboyservice]

talking abt one of my ocs because deal with it

this is like.. 100% inspired by a post a mutual made,, u'll never guess who... (@transfagfrank) but anyway :33

so he's a zombie and his name is Bret Cooper (no he's not named after transphobic commentator brett cooper, i just swapped the lettering in "bert" and got cooper from a name generator since i cldnt thimk of one), he's like... 33, 34-ish and he lives in a lil house thingy

because of his rigor mortis bret doesn't use stuff like daggers, lassos, or even guns but the rigor mortis does, in a way, help him keep a really tight grip on things

one of his (sort of, not rlly) friends is a vampire named Emmett Webb (I'll talk about him in a later post)

he doesn't remember much of his human life, but he was a single father of 3 before getting infected and dying a slow, painful death. his kids fully believes their dad is completely dead and none of them will even see him as an undead

anyway enough of all that dumb lore i have for him nd stuff, time to list silly shit abt him:

his favorite kind of "food" (if you can even call it that) is eyeball juiced with blood and a small bit of whisky, yk as a treat

he can't sleep for too long because then rigor mortis will progress pretty quickly and it'll be a pain in the ass to get the muscles to work again

he's often very quiet, yet explorative, which can sometimes scare the shit out of people by how quickly yet quietly he can get to places

he used to play guitar when he was alive but now he can't really since he died so he just has these random blisters on his hands and he doesn't know why

if he were in this current time period he'd probably be the one who'd have to go around in public with full on protective gloves and one of those backpack - leashes for kids because he'll either explore too much and get into trouble or accidentally hurt himself or others

he has a biting problem so he has to have a bunch of chewing tobacco or really anything he can chew on because if not he will literally tear down your entire house by biting at everything

yeah that's kind of all </3 so ya ,, sorry for bad grammar and shit

[ambreiiigns]

Ok wait. Yes tell me what episodes are good and everything else you said in the tags, but does rick and morty have lore? I thought it was episodic?

ok first Yes there's lore. there's like. the backdrop premise of rick having just came back into his daughter's life after being absent since she was a child for undisclosed reasons but it is a big part of beth's characterization and why he gets away w all the shit he gets away with. but there's also Lore that ties w rick's crybaby backstory™ and like the universe in general is probably more. Complicated? Expanded? than you'd think? bc yea it SHOULD be episodic and self contained but the team is at war w that concept since s2 if not s1 already. it's why i'm annoyed at people complaining abt the random filler episodes in s7 like girl that's the Normal Episodes. the Lore Heavy Episodes are the little special treat for you not the standard?? it's a sitcom unfort.

so. maybe still my favorite episode is STILL from s1 ep8. rixty minutes aka interdimensional cable ONE!!! let me set the scene. a few episodes earlier morty's school was doing prom and he asked rick to make him a love potion to get the girl he has a crush on to go to prom w him. rick fucks up SEVERELY bc his nihilistic scientist brain didn't understand love (??? i mean we know he Does. but it was s1) and he accidentally turns everyone first into morty stans who wont him desperately and then into straight up Monsters. he can't figure out how to fix it so what he does instead is move morty and himself into a new dimension where the incident had also happened but that dimension's rick had fixed the problem And gotten himself and morty killed accidentally. so they swoop in and dig a grave for Themselves and take those rick and morty's place. for rick it's Nothing it's Normal he's been doing this a while he's closely aware of the many dimensions and many versions of himself etc in fact it becomes a Huge plotpoint soon. but morty's still new to this and having to? handle his dead body? and put it in the ground? and take its place like nothing happened? that's tough for him! baby's traumatized. rip

but everything's been self contained enough so far that you sort of dismiss it right. then two episodes later interdimensional cable happens. aka rick fucks around w their tv to hook it up to. interdimensional. cable. so they can watch stuff from every other reality out there (whoa!) and as they binge they bump into jerry being interviewed on some late night show and they're like HUH???? THERE'S A VERSION OF REALITY OUT THERE WHERE JERRY'S RICH AND FAMOUS???? so now beth and summer are also wondering what They're up to in other realities and rick gives them some goggles that let you see what different versions of you are doing. rick himself and morty are the only ones who don't care and just keep watching silly tv having a laff. in the meanwhile summer complains that every version of her is doing nothing cool while her parents are hitting the jackpot and beth offhandedly mentions that "if we accomplished our dreams it probably means you were never born" which is obviously HORRIBLE TO HEAR so summer being an angsty dramatic teen wants to Run Away From Home and beth and jerry start fighting abt how you ruined my life and all. morty smells blood in the water so he goes upstairs to cheer up summer and she's like. they had you on purpose as a symptom of their problems you're not the Cause of their problems you can't make me feel better. so morty points out his and rick's graves in the yard outside the window and tells her he's not even her real brother he's as much of an incident as she is rn and now that he eats breakfast a few feet away from his corpse he knows better than most how meaningless all of this is anyway. and he tells her. something that still brings tears to my eyes. he goes "nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. come watch tv?"

ARGH! HE'S JUST A 14 YEAR OLD BOY WITH AN INSANE MAD SCIENTIST GRANDPA WHO'S BEEN DRAGGING HIM ON FUCKED UP ELDRITCH SPACE ADVENTURES THAT HAVE BEEN SHATTERING HIS INNOCENCE AND UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE! AND NOW HE JUST WANTS TO WATCH TV WITH HIS SISTER! it kills me it's so humane and childish and it was REALLY gutting to me. cause i didn't expect a callback at that point. i didn't expect the trauma to impact the characters. it was completely out of left field and it made me say oh. so this is good. so this is actually worth watching.

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

'Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.' What happens then, when the line separating that knowledge blurs?

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[independentzaun]

Okay okay now, darker -- what if JINX kept Silco's body after Act 3, to try and bring him back to life, but to no avail, just sitting around a house with her dolls and her dead rotting father, talking to him and treating him as if he were still alive?

(Alright I’m putting this entire thing under a read more. Content warnings? Jinx being obsessive with the dead rotting body of her father, maggots. Death. Bones. A body falling apart. Angst, sadness, and squishy dead bits lay ahead.)

It wasn’t until she’d gone back to check on Silco’s body after launching a rocket at the Council Chambers of Piltover that things had started to go a bit odd. Fishbones over one shoulder Jinx walked back into the building in which everything had gone wrong with tears still on her face only to hear his voice as her eyes found their way to his dead body. Magenta eyes had gone wide and she’d actually dropped the rocket launcher to the ground as she whispered. “S, Silco? Dad?”

I’m so proud of you. You’re perfect. It was a magnificent strike against Piltover, but I’m getting cold and seem to be having issues walking. No, no shhhh it’s okay my sweet lil wild dog. Could you take me home though?

A sob came from Jinx as a long gasping breath had gotten dragged into her lungs. Her dead father was still alive. He had to be! He was talking to her. It wasn’t like it could be just another voice. That’d be silly. She already had too many. A soft little laugh came from her as she took a few steps forward some part of her mind trying desperately to pull itself up from the depths of grief that had drowned it to scream that this wasn’t right even for her. That he was dead and would never rise again and there was nothing to be done about that. Head tilting a bit Jinx swallowed and shook her head as her hands came up to grip at her head before she leaned over and screamed as that cruel and mean thought just wouldn’t leave. That he was dead, dead, dead, dead, dead! Because of her! Because she was a Jinx! Fingers scraping down her cheeks she shook going down to her knees as a harsh sob came from her before a thought came to her. What if he didn’t have to be? What if he wasn’t completely dead, but only… mostly...dead?

Standing she grabbed Fishbones slinging it over her back before moving forward, and grabbing Silco’s coat Jinx wrapped it around him. “I’ll help you stay warm, it’s okay. I’ll take care of everything.” He couldn’t just be gone. Not Silco. Now surprisingly strong with the “treatments” Singed had given her Jinx picked him up, and took him home. Not to the Last Drop, or to his house however. Instead she took him to her workshop. She could keep him safe there, and no one would find them giving her plenty of time to fix her murder her mistake. Settling him down into a chair she tucked his coat in around him before kissing his cheek. “I’ll be right back. You just stay comfy.” There was a whisper in the back of her head that Jinx could swear sounded like his voice agreeing to stay there, but she’d turned and headed out already.

It took a few hours for her to return, but when she did it was with a number of things. A large comfortable reclining chair, a couple of blankets, a nice pillow, his injector, and quite a bit of shimmer. By now Silco was starting to noticeably cool, and his body stiffen with rigor mortis however Jinx just kind of ignored that. Putting him into his new chair with a pillow behind his head and the blankets over his lap she took his coat and draped it over her shoulders before staring at him for a few long moments. “You need to wake up. I don’t want to be all alone. I hate…” Pulling her pistol she fired it at something only she could see. “Shut up he’s not one of you! He’s not dead! And you don’t count anyways. You’re just a stupid, dead, thing.”

For a moment looking back to Silco she almost thought maybe he really was dead. Truly, completely dead and that idea made her start to tremble and her chest tighten before she shook her head. That couldn’t be. He wouldn’t allow himself to die and leave her all alone. They were family. They were all they each had, and family didn’t leave family. Grabbing some shimmer, and Silco’s injector Jinx casually sat on his lap pushing his head back a bit albeit with some difficulty and as she’d done a hundred times before and more that injector came down against his eye and with the flicker of a needle and a sudden purple tear drop she gave him his shimmer. Sliding off of his lap quickly in case he convulsed a bit as he normally did Jinx crouched down staring at him for a moment before sighing and sitting on the floor with her cheek against his leg.

He must need more shimmer. Maybe she should get Singed? No, not that mad twisted doctor. She’d help Silco herself. The next few weeks proceeded similarly. She’d talk to Silco, and sometimes she’d hear him actually respond but always he fell back asleep. Always he was cold no matter what blankets she put on him, and despite the slow burning fire she set up close by him in a contained barrel to ensure nothing else would get set on fire. The injections of shimmer she gave him went once every couple of days, to every day, and than they went from his regular small doses to larger and larger. None of it worked. After a month or so she’d fallen asleep sobbing on his lap and when woke up Jinx had frowned seeing maggots starting to emerge from his mouth. Pulling the blankets off, and than undoing his shirt she’d blinked seeing more moving around his chest. “Well that wont do… You don’t like that do you?...Alright, I’ll take care of it. No don’t worry I’d do anything for you.”

Turning on some music Jinx started to hum and pulled Silco over to her tub. Dumping him into it her eyes had gone a bit distant as though she wasn’t quite seeing what was really there, and crouching down she undressed him. Using her fingers Jinx simply started to pull the maggots off of him and toss them over the side of her workshop letting each fall down who knows how far to splatter. Again, and again, and again. Maggot, after maggot, after maggot was pulled off of him and than out of him each getting tossed away as though nothing more than dirt or grime to be discarded. When she finished she grabbed water, and bathed him singing along to the music she was listening to the entire time. Ensuring his entire body was clean Jinx stared at him for a moment, and the holes in his chest and his unseeing eyes and for a moment her mind screamed the truth at her.

Silco wasn’t moving. He was dead, and gone, and in her mind and that was it. Collapsing to her knees with her hands at her head Jinx let out an anguished scream shaking her head as the memories of The Table returned and she relieved that one fateful moment. Her minigun rattling, her finger squeezing out of reflex, bullets flying out and the look on Silco’s face as his life faded. It wasn’t something she could forget, or ignore. She had shot her dad, her father, her everything her home and life and universe. Why had she allowed herself to get mixed up and confused? It was all her fault. Everything. She should have done better and now she’d never have another chance! As she crouched shaking, and whining and sobbing a voice slid through her mind. Silco’s voice.

Don’t cry. You’re perfect. I still love you, and I always will. You’re a genius, and deserve the world. Take it. Take what you want most. It’s yours.

She could take what she wanted most? She could have what she wanted most. She wanted Silco. She needed Silco back. She needed… she had him? Didn’t she? He was right there and he’d just spoken to her. Slowly sitting up to look at his body Jinx slowly crawled into the tub with his clean body and letting out a long soft breath nuzzled into his stone cold unfeeling cheek. “I knew you’d never leave me.” It was okay. He was still here. She just had to do a better job helping him.

A few weeks, or months even passed and things continued much the same. From time to time she bathed him, slept on or with him, had little break downs and then came back up. Without really knowing why Jinx started working on a couple of projects that started off modeled off of Sevika’s arm however, and roaming around Zaun stole a few examples of prosthetics and implants from the engineers before experimenting with them herself. Something within her was unconsciously giving her the solution to the problem that was about to become clear before long. The problem was that Silco would only stay intact for so long.

At this point Jinx had fallen so far into a desperate belief that Silco was still there and could still be fixed that it didn’t phase her when skin started to separate, and his lower leg started to come apart at the knee. That just meant she had more options to get him up and going again. A lower leg was pulled off, cleaned, sterilized, and slowly she built a casing around it. The same happened with his other leg, and an arm and then eventually Jinx simply found herself left with a collection of bones after one too many baths… and a head. Because she’d never been able to scrub at it the same way as everything else, and because despite his blood not flowing the Shimmer injections she’d never stopped putting into his eye had managed to preserve the skin and that one eye of his head enough for it to stay recognizable.

That head was all she really needed of course. His eye, and lips, and smile and voice praising her for never giving up. It took months. His body collapsing. Cleaning it. Putting together a new body. Figuring out how to connect everything together and to ensure his bones formed the frame of his. That head that was quite obviously a dead thing to everyone except for her on the top of it, and a way to make it’s lips open as a croaking sound came from it. She promised to give him a better voice of course, but that wasn’t as important as making sure the thing she’d created could hug her which… it could. Cold metallic limbs with shining bone engraved and stained with shimmer and bolted into metal sliding around her and holding her close as for the first time in over a year Jinx finally slept peacefully. She’d done it. She’d saved her father and brought him back.

Of course he needed to be able to defend himself so she gave him talons like Sevika had, and a small version of her minigun on the other arm powered by a hextech crystal that shot splinters of stone. In his mouth she pulled out his teeth and replaced them with a sharks maw before finally clothing him so he wasn’t naked and cold. With Silco finally up and walking of course they had to go out into Zaun, and of course they had to go to Silco’s favorite coffee place.

One person had screamed seeing the construct which she’d incidentally given another foot and a half of height to making him seven and a half foot tall, and after asking why they were screaming only to have Silco insulted Jinx shot them. “Don’t be rude to Silco.” After that no one found it worth while to complain, and simply let the loose canon and her strange companion go about their business. Eventually Jinx got Silco his coffee, and opening a dead mouth the construct poured it down it’s throat only for the coffee to trickle downwards and into it’s boots giving it a faint squish sound as it walked. She didn’t care.

Silco was with her again.

He was alive.

And she was perfect. He’d said so.

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you know, my complaints about rick and morty were basically the same at one time except much more muted. i did like the show quite a lot in the first couple of seasons because the jokes and the plots were genuenly clever and the occassional moments of pathos and drama felt more earned and genuine.

there is this one joke in the good place that i hate, the jearemy bearemy one, i already complained about it in another post but to speed it up, its a dumb joke because it posits a genuenly cool, intriguing fascinating idea that would be fun to explore but is not interested in exploring that idea, in fact there is no depth to explore there, it doesnt make sense that the timeline would be shaped like that, there is no underlying explination, no real logic beyond "lol randum". and yet the characters treat it as weird and fucked up and mindblowing.

rick and morty, to its credit, would actually explore those ideas. and that granted it enough charity that i was willing to overlook its animation style (which also, to be fair, does things i do find genuenly interesting and cool to look at with what it has).

then after season 3 it started to lose me hard because it couldnt make its mind about wether it wanted to be a family guy tier wacky show about silly shitpost sci fi ideas and dick jokes or wether it wanted to be an actual story with a plot, lore, a coherent universe and actual continuity.

a lot of times characters would be reset just for the sake of keeping a joke or a running gag going. other times they would be flanderized or made meaner, again, just for the sake of selling a joke.

i said it in the past, albeit this is more for the sake of personal preference than the show doing something genuenly bad, that im not a fan of how they slowly morphed the character of rick from an insane, borderline senile, crazy old mad scientist whose experience of the multiverse and vast knowledge left him with a broken mind into yet another doctor house.

besides that, it was doing a little too much of that dan harmon humor that i hate which is either try to be more ironic than thou, where you lampshade everything that happens or is said, or try to be more meta than thou where if you point out how meta you are about how meta it is that you are meta about being meta then you dont have to face the unbearable shame of trying to earnestly be meta. and god forbid you try to just tell a joke that is just a funny joke on its own merits.

also the setting is too much of a kitchen sink for my taste. usually i dont kitchen sinks where you have like cyborgs and dinosaurs and fairies and wizards and spaceships and ninjas and dragons, etc all in the same world, plus a multiverse. it makes everything feel meaningless. it gives the writers an excuse to pull off whatever bullshit excuse or reason to resolve any conflict at any moment. rick was too much of a god and a lot of his powers were genuenly broken to the point that it was hard to take any stakes seriously.

there are only so many ways you can say nothing matters until the audience starts taking that message at face value and stops caring about your story.

on top of that they have the shows punching bag jerry where he is a constant loser who is constantly being put down or humilliated and also he is kind of an unlikeable jerk and also he is pathetic. those are just not fun or enjoyable characters to have around.

but then.

then something happened somewhere around season 6.

suddenly they started caring about the show as a story. the coin finally fell on heads, the wave function collapsed and the writers decided we do actually care about this universe and these characters. suddenly we started to have continuity, actual continuity! there were callbacks! old plot threads were picked up back again! arcs started to get completed! in satisfying ways! rick got quietly nerfed, characters started to show actual consistent growth! suddenly it was worth being invested into this story.

i heard there was a constant power struggle in the writers room between roiland and the rest of the writing team, with roiland just wanting to smoke weed, drink, pull stupid pranks and fuck around all day and the writers just wanted to write the show. it would be easy to say that roiland getting the boot is the main reason behind this but he got fired somewhere in early 2023 and the show has been genuenly improving since 2021-2022 so i dunno.

regardless i saw the last two seasons and i genuenly liked them a lot, like a lot a lot. the conclussion of the prime rick arc was great, the continuation of the evil morty character felt genuine, jerry finally stepping up and marginally improving as a person, his friendship with rick actually blossoming, morty starting to grow a proper spine. i dunno.

its just basic storytelling done well, that is all i want man, that is all i ever wanted.

bojack horse bad again

you know, i was thinking back to this show again, i watched three seasons of it and that was all that i could tomach and you know what? no.

i dont accept it

i dont care, it was a bad show, it was an objectively bad show and i dont accept that everyone else decided that it was good, i dont care, it was a bad show and im going to tell you why.

emotional terrorism

maybe im a simpleton but i am someone who cares quite a lot about catharsis in my stories. this show refused to grant that, adamantly and violently. im not saying i need a happy ending, i am more than capable of enjoying bittersweet or even tragic stories, but i need a sense of completeness, some satisfaction, some release, some sense that things matter or meant something. this show insisted on refusing to give that. all this show was interested in was get an emotional reaction out of you. it was the emotional equivalent of a jump scare. it was convinced that if it made you feel bad enough people would confuse that with beeing powerful and deep. you could get the same reaction by walking up to someone on the street and kicking them in the nuts. and it would take about as much subtlety or artistry.

2. writer led rather than animator led

you could tell this was one of those shows that were made on the writer's room, not by storyboarders or artists, by "comedians". by people with english degrees. so many scenes of characters just standing around and talking. so many "jokes" that were clearly meant to be funny as something you read on a piece of paper or on a tweet and chuckle as you read it but as animation it just gave limp, stagnant scenes. so much dialog that were references and quips and puns and fast witticisms of the type you come up in the shower when thinking of clever comebacks.

there were so many fucking scenes where everything would stop and a character would launch on some stupid profound monologue about life and philosophy and psychology and relationships. it was like the writers were trying on for size paragraphs of their future memoirs or self help books. so much dialog that was begging for an award for writing. so many "mic drop" moments that were designed to be quoted. i find that the best writing is not the one that you can just quote out of context as a cool pithy phrase. a lot of the best writing ive seen in my life is meaningless when devoid of context, is inextricable of the scene and indeed of the entire story surrounding it but in here i can almost see the seams where the writers look at the camera waiting to see if you are impressed

3. inconsistent tone

this show wanted to eat its cake and then still have it. there are stories that manage to deftly weave in and out of comedic moments into serious moments. everything everywhere all at once does an amazing job jumping from the stupidest, most childish jokes into the most profound commentary about human nature, sometimes doing both at the same time and it worked, one didint cheapen the other.

in here though, it wanted to both have a completly absurd world with the stupidest characters ever and then somehow make us care for it all as if the show hadnt shot itself in the foot. it wanted us to see caroline being in love with what is clearly three children in a trenchcoat and then take her seriously as an adult, to treat any forther relationship drama she has as if it werent completly farcical.

4. ugly animation

it continued the blight that is take over adult animation by doing that disgusting repugnant paper puppet rigged interpolated quasi flash animation that only gives you stiff poses and movements and incredibly boring shots of characters standing in 3/4 perspective in front of the camera. it dull and flat and clunky and ugly, and the character designs were ugly. the noses were ugly and the mouths were ugly and the hairs were ugly and the eyes were ugly. it was all ugly. the backgrounds were fucking ugly and the colors were ugly and it was an ugly show to look at. unbearably so. and even the obligatory "weird" stylized scenes put in to shake things off and try to pretend that it was visually interesting (for like one scene per season) were also fucking ugly.

5. it had not interesting point to make

all it could do was insist and belavor and extemporize about how this one guy sucks and also most people kind of suck but specifically this one guy really sucks and he is not going to get better, or maybe he will? eh maybe, but not really, because he sucks. and we are going to make you like him because we are the writers and we are going to make him relatable and charismatic and sympathetic but actually no he sucks, you fell for it! and what does it say about you that you almost kind of liked him eh????. season after season of him, and in case you almost found anything redeemable about him, we are going to make him even worse, painfully unsubtly so, we are going to make him look at the camera and say that he sucks, because that is the level of nuance we think you can handle, dear viewer. this is called "self aware writing" and its postmodern and meta, which means its clever.

i fucking hate this show and the more i think about it the angrier it makes me, and what makes me more angriest of all is that people like it. its popular. it won awards i think. its largely recognized as a good show and its not! it sucks and its bad and if you like it you are stupid.

[sleepsentry]

Whenever I see a rick and morty and gravity falls crossover it looks so uncanny and tone def. That's obviously just me tho, I really really don't like rick and morty so yeah makes sense.

It's a really popular idea though so I've seen it everywhere for years now. :/

Just makes my brain go "no what? Yuck- why are they next to eachother? That's not right. Shoo shoo"

But everyone else treats it like a match made in heaven. Why? What am I missing here?

I'm aware the creators are friends and there are Easter eggs and jokes ect...

But anything beyond that feels wrong, like magnets of opposing polarities being shoved together.

I obviously don't dislike anyone for liking the idea, that'd be silly, I just don't get it myself.

[ficletfan]

Could I be incredibly selfish and ask for either Dmitri or Liam (either way) with a short (trans) male s/o? I love those vampires and there isn't much rep for people like me :'3. Take your time, and thank you either way!!!

I hope I can do it justice for ya Anon! I'm assuming F2M Trans for this, apologies if I'm wrong

Short TransMale! S/O

Liam:

- He treats your transition with respect, you're his boyfriend, Its the least he could do for you honestly

- The biggest, most rolliest eye roll ever if someone brings up the old ways of people doing things about gender identity, "Such mainstream thinking, does anyone actually think your cool or just you?"

- Even though he says its not "mainstream" he knows its not for that purpose, this vampire is 4XX years old and knows a thing or two about identity

- Normal days he loves to take pictures of you two together at lunch for his blog and you can have his lunch afterwards if you want it

- Dates to underground music clubs, private, unique and he can excitedly tell you about the music he likes and doesn't like. Disagreeing is no issue though, if you like it thats fine

- In a private place he can be quite affectionate, kisses, leaning on you, but he's shy about PDA, although if you're bold enough he won't stop you from holding his hand or hugging him anywhere!

- Some times hes too focused on his Aloof outward image to realize he can be dismissing at times, but he is never ashamed of his S/O! Making it very clear "I picked you because I'm not ashamed of you and what I feel for you... That was extremely cheesy but you get it"

- on top of an award winning personality you're adorably short, Liams a bean pole of a guy but not super tall either, so he's used to shorter people.

- If you're against being called cute or small hes going to call you "Handsome Size"

- Has to Explain Dimitri to you when he starts calling you his dad's... "Okay, I'm not a father BUT I Did turn Dimitri into a Vampire 300ish years ago and-- he thinks I'm his immortal father figure"

Dimitri:

-This guy is too busy brooding and evil planning to know what you mean when you tell him your trans, he has no idea what you're talking about " No, you're my prince of darkness"

- He's going to need a little help, but the pieces will fit together eventually, give him time to learn

- It changes absolutely nothing in your relationship though, he comes back to you with as much understanding as he can get "You're still my dark prince"

- He's going to introduce you to his best friend Morty (the Minotaur) immediately as soon as you start dating- and their favorite Alpaca. His demeanor changes a lot around Morty and You, he's a lot happier, still evil but happy!

- You're going to see the coven gals often, they actually don't have a problem with you as much as they have a problem with Dimirti and his evil plans. They will check in on you to see how you're doing and if Dimitri is treating you right. As Hope explains it "Ya know, the whole evil thing"

- Dates of darkness! Aka a fancy dinner with wine, blood, evil lighting and fancy matching tuxes ( hes not wearing the shirt part on his, go figure)

- Will try to attempt to convince you to at least TRY the blood wine and he'll try some of dinner if you do

- His dark servants and minions tend to most of your needs but he doesn't trust them to feed you, give you drinks or Anything he thinks can be poisoned. He'll do it himself, as silly as it looks for the lord to be serving drinks

- Dimitri tells you Liam is his sire, no matter how many times Liam clearly tells him that "vampiric rebirth" is not like normal birth, he is not his dad

- "Meet my Boyfriend Y/N, papa!" Eye rolls into another dimension "Hey Y/N, so you've clearly met Dimitri"