#Morty is more unhinged and more murderous

[sadiecoocoo]

When u rlly think about it… Morty prime is more evil than evil Morty…

[just-your-average-household]

Hello!

Welcome to my Smith family ask blog!

For starters, the owner of this blog is @sanchezsimp. (Yes, that is why this has practically the same intro as my other ask blog. I'm lazy. Check out @a-good-family-tree!)

BIG warnings here; this blog supposed to be the Smith family from Rick and Morty. If you've seen the show, you KNOW it has mentions of incest, suicide, nsfw shit, murder, blah blah blah- Point is, I, for the most part, enjoy this crappy type of humor, so expect those things to be here. (I think there's been a total of one joke in RaM I disliked, honestly.)

Onto some other information...

• Characters will have different colours to represent who's who (as my other blog does)

To keep it simple,

Rick is blue, like his shirt and hair.

Morty is yellow(ish), like his shirt.

Summer is pink, like her tank.

Beth is red, like her shirt.

Jerry is green, like his.

• This'll take place at where the show is now, so post-season seven and pre-season eight.

• SPOILERS, duh.

• I might use this blog for some short writing prompts or incorrect quotes as well. Feel free to ask for those!

• If the colour changes in the middle of a sentence, those two characters are speaking in unison.

• Tags will be out of character.

• A little "/" will mean two characters are speaking at the same time! (Not in unison.)

• Go ahead and ask anything! Be unhinged! I'll always read it! This is a RaM ask blog! The show itself is unhinged! BE UNHINGED!!

• The owner of this blog is a Gravity Falls fan, so feel free to reference anything from that fandom!

• Other characters may reply to your ask, so if you want just one character specifically to answer, use [To: Summer] or something like that. (It could be more than one character, and you can also use [To: everyone BUT Summer], and I'll be just as happy to answer those!)

• I'm not sure if other ask blogs do this, but if not, then I'm starting something. Feel free to ask a character something as another character! For example, you could use yellow (Morty) to ask Rick about something. You could also add in [As: Morty] to make it even easier. This could also be multiple characters. (You'll most likely get more personal answers from characters this way.) Try to sound like the character though! If it sounds out of character, I might make my own post with it. (I'll tag you if you're not anon. OR I'll just use your out-of-character ask and tag it as incorrect quotes--it'll be funny.)

• You can also use a spy thing to see what a character or two are doing! Like [Spy on: Rick] to see where he's causing chaos at the moment. (Great for when a character leaves!)

And that should be all! (Might edit this post later)

Have fun asking the Smiths!!

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

btw heres the truth of the EV-0 incident (i reserve the right to change any of it.) under the cut bc spoilers for the final 2 cases so... if u wanna hold out hope that this au will ever become somrthing complete-ish u can stay unspoiled i guess

Seven years ago, Grian Xelqua was the district's chief prosecutor. He came into the position with big dreams, but was broken down by the harsh realities he saw. He saw defendants escape justice one too many times, and started to lose faith in the prosecutor's office. Finally, his will broke when the police arrested crime bosses Muka Minnkowski and System Zee. The two were charged, but Grian knew that the charges would never stick as there was no evidence on them directly. Finally, the day before their trial, Grian snapped and killed the two. Thus began the string of murders known as the EV-0 Incident.

At the scene of the crime, Grian left behind a symbol of an eye drawn on the wall in the pair's blood. He intended this symbol to represent that the killer was watching criminals, in an attempt to dissuade further crime. Because of this symbol, the police and the media began referring to the potential killer in this incident as The Watcher. Detectives Scott Major and Martyn Littlewood, who were partners at the time, teamed up with prosecutors Cleopatra de Mortis and Pearlescent Moon, and began chasing the killer as a group. During the months they were investigating, Grian killed four more people - Taurtis Schell, Salem Lay Dee, Tom O'Hawk, and Netty Littlewood. All four were people who had been charged with crimes that would have awarded them the death penalty had they been proven guilty, and that Grian killed before their cases could go to trial. At each of the crime scenes, Grian left the symbol of the eye in the blood of the victim.

However, the final victim, Netty Littlewood, proved to be Grian's undoing. Netty was Martyn's wife, and because of that, Grian knew her personally. This rattled him enough that he slipped up and left evidence behind at the crime scene - not much, but enough for Pearl to piece together that Grian was the killer. She confronts him in his office, and the confrontation escalates to an argument. Pearl begins to fear for her life during the argument due to Grian's agitation and unhinged mental state, and she shoots and kills him.

Pearl then calls Scott, the detective she worked the majority of her cases with and the person she trusts most in the world. He comes to the crime scene and she explains the entire situation to her. Scott convinces Pearl that - with the killer now stopped - revealing the truth of the Watcher's identity and what happened that day would only cause undue pain. Scott arranges the scene, removing evidence that implicates Pearl in Grian's death, and then completes it by drawing an eye on the wall in Grian's blood to make it look like he was another victim of the Watcher.

But he doesn't clean up the scene well enough. Martyn, investigating it the next day alongside Scott, notices that some parts of the evidence have been forged. Scott confesses his and Pearl's role in the incident to Martyn, and Martyn agrees to keep it quiet due to his own hatred of Grian for having killed Netty. Scott and Pearl quit their prior jobs and become defense attorneys, having now lost faith in the Prosecutor's Office, while Martyn grows distant from everyone around her. Cleo is left as the only one of the four who doesn't know the truth, but she can tell the other three are hiding something from her. They grow to despise Scott and Pearl for abandoning them, and Martyn for hiding the truth. The EV-0 case goes cold, but Cleo - convinced that the others know the truth - becomes obsessed with finding it.

Seven years later, at the time the game begins, an opportunity presents itself in the form of Martyn's new partner - freshly-minted Detective Jimmy Solidarity. Cleo has tried to get the truth from Martyn on her own, but he unequivocally shuts her out - so instead, she gets Jimmy to do it on her behalf. He becomes close friends with Martyn, and eventually, when they trust each other, he finally begins to ask about the EV-0 incident on the anniversary of Martyn and Netty's wedding. Martyn reveals the whole truth to Jimmy, but Scott learns of Martyn's confession. Desperate to protect Pearl from being charged for Grian's murder, Scott kills Martyn and frames Jimmy for the murder.

Cleo takes on the prosecution for this case, and though Scott advises against it, the two junior attorneys at his and Pearl's law office - Impulse Siev and Gemini Tay - take on Jimmy's defense. During the trial, Impulse and Gem eventually end up questioning Jimmy himself. He reveals that he was talking with Martyn just before the murder, and that they were talking about the EV-0 incident. Cleo interrupts the cross-examination and calls an immediate recess to question the defendant, which the judge grants. However, during the recess, Jimmy is killed, and Cleo is arrested for his murder. At Scott's suggestion, Pearl returns to the Prosecutor's office to take on the prosecution for Cleo's trial. However, Pearl also goes to Gem and Impulse and requests that they defend Cleo, which they agree to.

At Cleo's trial, it eventually comes out that the motive for Jimmy's murder is tied to the EV-0 incident, and Gem and Impulse make the connection to Scott. They call Scott to the stand and, after cross-examining him, begin to reveal the possibility that he murdered Martyn and Jimmy. Eventually, after they prove his role in this murder, Scott breaks down and confesses to all of it - including Grian's murder by his own hand. However, Gem spots an inconsistency in Scott's description of Grian's murder, and after pointing out this contradiction - as Scott begs her to stop pressing the issue - Pearl quiets him and confesses to her role in the crime.

[willowisapillow]

❤️ The Animated Misadventures Of Chucky And Andy (CONCEPT) ❤️

🎉 Friends till the end! 🎉

I have been way too obsessed with this AU y’all. While I was drunk on water, I was thinking about that, “If there was a movie or TV show where Chucky and Andy were friends, I would definitely watch it” comment I made in my Child’s Play AU post, and being me, I felt like making that a reality… sorta.

I’ve been making tons of sketches of a hypothetical TV show based on my whole AU, and yesterday, I decided to draw this goofy ahh little mock-up of what it would look like if it actually became a cartoon. And oh boy, do I have so many ideas for this that I so desperately wanna share :]

So since Chucky ain’t a murderer in this, it’s a (slightly) more wholesome take on the series, but that doesn’t mean that I’m gonna water it down, make it more saccharine or kiddify it. There would be some crude humor, dark jokes/black comedy, and lots of strong language, mostly coming from ol’ Charles himself, since he is also iconic for his very “colorful” language. Basically, it would be an adult cartoon in the same vein as other shows like South Park or Rick and Morty, but a bit more toned down.

So while there’s no extreme violence, I’d still think the series would probably be rated TV-14, along with a DL warning for suggestive dialogue and coarse and/or crude language. As for which channel the series would possibly air on, I’m thinking that it would most likely be on SYFY, or maybe Adult Swim.

Now for the plot! The whole plot is basically the whole, “lonely and eccentric young kid finds a magical/supernatural creature or thing and becomes friends with it” type plot. Think Lilo and Stitch, or Ponyo, but instead of an alien or a goldfish, it’s a talking doll. And as I’ve mentioned in my Child’s Play AU post, the events that would happen in the show would be similar to that of a slice-of-life anime like Azumanga Daioh, or literally any sitcom you can think of.

Chucky tries doing something unhinged and outlandish, often dragging and coercing Andy into his shenanigans, but the both of them would get caught in 4k by Karen.

Here’s a little summary of what the premise would be; 

“Young Andy Barclay’s life changes forever once he gets a Good Guy doll as a present from his mother. Little did the both of them know that this doll is a little more special than the others. Join him and his foul-mouthed sentient Good Guy doll, Chucky in wacky hijinks in this fun and irreverent slice-of-life comedy!”

In the show, the only people who would know about Chucky’s coming-to-life gimmick would be Andy and Karen (of course), and a few of Andy’s classmates, since there would be some episodes where he would sneak him into school to show his classmates, and um… you can imagine how it would go down lol

Actually, at the time of writing this, I thought up this super cursed scenario where Andy brings Chucky for show and tell, and some other girl brings a Barbie doll, and Chucky starts flirting with it. Jesus H. Christ, I can’t unsee it 💀

Since this does take place in the late 80s (specifically 1988), there would, of course, there would be things like MTV, big poofy hair, neon clothing, aerobic videos, etc. I absolutely adore anything 80s-related, so you know I’m definitely gonna go hard with the retro aesthetic for this show. There would be episodes where Andy and Chucky are hanging out at the local arcade, and just them playing NES games at home.

And last but certainly not least, there’s the voice actors. Obviously, I’m gonna keep Brad Doriff as Chucky, because mans is absolutely iconic. Though I’m not really sure who the hell would voice Andy or Karen. I do kind of imagine Karen being voiced by Dorothy Elias-Fahn or Tara Platt, but what would be your suggestions?

❤️ 🎉 ❤️

[miami-lolz]

The many canonical crimes of Morty Smith (Prime/C-137)

please enjoy written proof that Morty Prime is absolutely unhinged and a total menace.

This isn’t any character slander I just feel like he’s often underestimated, especially considering everything he has done up to this point.

note: these are all listed as “federal crimes” and crimes committed on earth however I still consider them even if it was committed on another planet or against The Citadel/ Council of Ricks as that is a form of government and murder is still murder even if it’s an alien. The Villain wiki has a crime list for him however it’s extremely small and feels old/ inaccurate with the new season coming out.

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Advocating Overthrow of Government (Citadel and White House)

Aggravated Assault/Battery (nearly in every episode)

Airplane Hijacking (technically a space craft, also a real plane during a dream)

Racketeering (Citadel and White House)

Armed Robbery (nearly in every episode)

Arson (Has burned/destroyed Citadel multiple times)

Assassination (Assisted murdering the Council of Ricks)

Assault with a Deadly Weapon (nearly in every episode)

Assaulting or Killing Federal Officer ( if you consider the Rick Soldiers/Officers)

Assisting or Instigating Escape (Rescuing Rick from Prison)

Attempt to commit Murder/Manslaughter (nearly in every episode)

Bombing Matters (Blew up alien planet in “Promortyus”)

Breaking and/or Entering Carrier Facilities (stole ships and Citadels vessels)

Concealing Escaped Prisoner (Rescuing Rick from Prison, Saving the gas cloud in Mortynight Run)

Concealing Person from Arrest (Rescuing Rick from Prison, Saving the gas cloud in Mortynight Run)

Conspiracy (Involving The Citadel)

Conspiracy to Impede or Injure an Officer ( Soldiers in Thanksploitation Spectacular, and if you consider the Rick Soldiers/Officers)

Contempt of Court (during Ricks trail and when the Council of Ricks were searching for C-137)

Counterintelligence Crimes (during Ricks trail and when the Council of Ricks were searching for C-137)

Crime Aboard Aircraft (again in dream)

Crimes on Government Reservations (Citadel and American Government)

Demands Against the U.S. (The multiple fights against the president)

Destruction of Aircraft or Motor Vehicles Used in Foreign Commerce (Citadel and American Government)

Domestic Terrorism (Citadel and American Government)

Drug Smuggling (During Pilot, The Jerrick Trap and Vat of Acid Episode)

Drug Trafficking (During Pilot, The Jerrick Trap and Vat of Acid Episode)

Economic Espionage (again only if considering the citadel as government)

Exportation of Drugs (During Pilot, The Jerrick Trap and Vat of Acid Episode)

Extortion (Citadel and American Government)

Federal Civil Rights Violations (hate crimes, police misconduct, both Citadel and American Government)

First Degree Murder (Citadel, and in “Mort Dinner Rick Andre" and throughout show)

Fraud Against the Government (Citadel)

Genocide (Citadel, and in Mort Dinner Rick Andre, Promortyus and his original universe in “Rick Potion #9”

Harboring Terrorists ( Mortynight Run, just living with Rick at this point)

Homicide (Nearly every episode)

Hostage Taking (At least once, definitely during Mr. Goldenfolds dream)

Illegal Possession of Firearms (Weponds both Morty and Rick “own”)

Importation of Drugs (During Pilot and Vat of Acid Episode)

International Terrorism (Citadel and White House)

Major Fraud Against the U.S. (this is more of a technicality then anything and may not count)

Motor Vehicle Theft (Stolen/Hijacked other Ships. Stole Ricks ship in “Amortycan Grickfitti”)

Murder Committed in Federal Government Facility (Citadel and White House)

Obstruction of Justice (Rick Vs Council of Rick trial)

Obstruction of Criminal Investigations (Rick Vs Council of Rick trial)

Possession by Restricted Persons (Literally just living with Rick at this point)

Racketeering (Citadel and White House)

Robbery (Stealing Planes, money and vaguely through out show)

Sabotage (Citadel and White House)

Serial Murders (Citadel, and in “Mort Dinner Rick Andre" and through out show)

Smuggling (Drugs, and foreign objects)

Solicitation to Commit a Crime of Violence (Vaguely through out show)

Suits Against Government Officials (Citadel and White House)

Torture (Tortured Alien in “Morty Mind Blowers” and few other times throughout show)

Transportation of Terrorists (“The Rickshank Rickdemption”)

Treason (Citadel and White House)

Trespassing (Citadel and White House)

Use of Fire or Explosives to Destroy Property ( Gearworld in “Mortynight Run” the Village in “Look Who's Purging Now” and the whole generation of Hoovys in “Mort Dinner Rick”)

Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction ( Gearworld in “Mortynight Run” the Village in “Look Who's Purging Now” and the whole generation of Hoovys in “Mort Dinner Rick”)

Violation of Prohibitions Governing Atomic Weapons

[lordviridis]

Incorrect Quotes Game

Rule: Go to this quote generator, enter your characters’ names and have a good laugh

Thank you @serenscarlett for tagging me in this! I had lot of fun doing this, so it might have gotten bit out of hand aka long. So hiding it under a read more.

Aleena and Zane

Zane: Do you have any idea what you’re doing? Aleena: Why start now?

Zane: Hey, I’m getting in the shower. Wanna help me out? Aleena: ...Have you never taken a shower before?

Aleena: I don't need to go to bed. I'm not tired, I'll be fine. Zane: But, darling, I'll be so lonely without you. Come curl up in my arms so I can feel whole again. Aleena: O-oh. Well. Are you trying to seduce me into healthy sleeping patterns?? Zane: Is it working?

Zane: You are the love of my life and I would do anything within reason to make you happy. Aleena: I would be happy if you ate, stayed hydrated and got a reasonable amount of sleep. Zane: I said within reason, Aleena. How about I murder that guy? Aleena: So murder is in reason but proper self care isn't? Zane: Well, duh. What kind of question is that?

Aleena: We have a problem. Zane: No, YOU have a problem. I have an idiot who keeps making them.

Aleena: Are we fighting or flirting? Zane: I'm pinning you against a wall with my hand around your neck- Aleena: Your point?

Aleena, Zane, and Hadar

Zane: I have a bad feeling about this... Hadar: What do you mean? Zane: Don't you ever get that little voice in your head that tells you if you're going to get into trouble? Hadar: No? Aleena: That actually explains so much. Hadar: The moon looks beautiful, doesn’t it? Zane, looking at Hadar: Yeah… but do you know what’s more beautiful? Hadar and Zane in unison: *sighs* Aleena Aleena: Are you drunk? Hadar: Only on the spirit of Christmas! Zane: And the spirit of whisky.

Aleena: *is wearing silk pants* How does this look? Zane: Like its slips on and off really easily. Aleena: Zane: No, I didn't mean it like that- Hadar: We know what you meant.

Hadar, Ocipia, and Helmi

Helmi: Something tells me Hadar’s going to be a bit more unhinged today... Hadar, holding a lit match and a bag of cheetos: Leave me be, Ocipia isn't home to stop me, I'm going feral.

Hadar: We’re about to do the taser challenge. You want in? Helmi: What's the taser challenge? Ocipia: We tase eachother, then drink. Helmi: How do you win? Hadar: What are you, a lawyer? You want in or not? *playing twister* Hadar: Right hand red. Helmi: *ends up on top of Ocipia* Ocipia: You're doing this on purpose, aren't you? Hadar: I stopped spinning like 15 minutes ago. Honestly, I'm surprised you didn't notice.

Mortis and Indran

Mortis: Well, Indran and I finally did it! The rest of the squad: *gasps, shocked expressions, etc.* Mortis: That's right... We kissed!

Mortis, sweating: Indran, there’s something I need to ask you- Indran: Finally! You’re proposing! Mortis: How’d you know? Indran: Mortis, you’ve dropped the ring five times during dinner. Indran: I even picked it up once.

Indran: The stars are so beautiful... Mortis: They're just giant balls of gas. Indran: You know what, if you're just going to ruin this, then- Mortis: And yet none of them are as huge as my love for you. Indran: Oh…

No-pressure tagging: @sithhoplite, @swtorpadawan, @anecdotesandelderthings, and @depizan and anyone else who wants to do this!

[laviedavantgarde]

Tell us about Julien 👀

I could talk about Julien all night long. I could write a whole damn thesis and dissertation on him.

He was only originally intended to be a random guest character to appear in one scene of my entire fanfic, but my fanfic's main plot is centered around him from the eyes of Trevor.

His biography (in the context of Grand Theft Immortal, my fanfic):

He was born to a French Canadian mother and an American father. His mother died as an infant, and his father shortly relocated back to the US and remarried his American step-mother. The audience knows from Trevor's perspective that he has living maternal grandparents in Québec (fictionalized as Nouveau Souvenirs- lit. translation "New Memory"). Julien denounced his father and stepmother (and half brother) because of their rejection of him being trans. His grandparents, however, love him for him. Part of his ongoing trauma is not forming close bonds, in part due to his unsupportive parents, and in part due to moving around a lot growing up, and having to grow up fast.

One time playing GTA Online, while in a heist, someone asked if I were from a native French speaking country because of my username "avantgardegeek." I told them no, I'm an American. I love avant garde ideas and movements throughout history, and I love the word. I'm also a big fucking nerd. Sorry to everyone who assumes I'm French, Québecois, or another Francophone nationality/group. I'm just an American. That moment in time really solidified Julien's character in terms of family relations and was a major inspiration in formulating his character, and thus his dual citizenship to the US and Canada. However, he hardly knows French, but is working on it via his grandparents. (Little spoiler alert!)

Julien holds a Ph.D. in Anglophone North American Literature from ULSA. Thus he is DR. Julien Hyde and will let you know too, mainly because he has a passion for higher education and academe. (And he can be a wee bit pompous and full of himself too, but is trying to work on that.)

Julien and Criminality: He had an affiliation to a transnational vigilante organization in which members were to eradicate or make invisible the horrors of society that plagues them. He was known to gather intel to his affiliation to assist in pinpointing whom to harass and/or kill because the "authorities" refused to look into the situation or people clearly. Is someone from a social movement oppressing others that doesn't fit the organization's core values of equity? Kill them and hide the trail. Julien is known as "Scriptor Mortis" - "Writer of Death." (Another spoiler!) His devotion to research led by his intelligence aids to his criminal deeds makes him one of the masterminds behind assault and murder. He hasn't done the physical deed of murder, but has plenty of white collar crimes under his belt.

Julien and Weaponry: In melee, he uses a dagger because he's a fucking theatre gay. In moments where he can, he will use non lethal force in person (i.e. tranquilizers and sedatives). In an absolute life or death situation, he uses a combat gun. He does have an affinity for arson, and would love to use grenade launchers and RPGs. When he is in control of a person's fate, he wants to cause the least harm, if there is not an indication of the attacker wanting to lethally harm Julien. However, Julien has no issue of wishing or signing death warrants, as he won't see the person. He wants to rid oppressing, bigoted people. Only his activism in the academy goes so far: he goes to the extreme in vigilante justice.

Julien struggles with depression, anxiety, and some PTSD. He can't just admit to his academic pals that he's a vigilante criminal. In my fanfic, he is entangled in a nasty game of deadly cat and mouse where Julien is the mouse and must try to outwit the cat. This is where he gets help in upping his ante as a criminal from The Unholy Fucking Trinity and Lamar. As someone who wants to be the brawn of operations, Julien is a wee bit bloodthirsty and wants to let himself go unhinged and give in to his more spontaneous desires, as he had to follow a strict life plan and career path for so long.

We will see Julien and his psyche unfold in subsequent chapters of Grand Theft Immortal, and I hope this little almost 1,000 word essay helps summarize Dr. Julien Hyde, the heretic homosexual with an affinity for justice served bloody.

Also, I reblog posts that are fitting for Julien, so always look for my tags to see what more I add to him!

Thank you for asking me about Julien!!!

[thesoftboiledegg]

I didn't watch Rick and Morty until the first three seasons were out, but judging by some of the fan art I've seen, I get the impression that fans were speculating that Morty (or the whole family) would break Rick out of space prison. Plus, I feel like the season 2 finale gave the impression that Rick had finally turned over a new leaf.

Yeah...that didn't happen. Instead of waiting for his family to rescue him--which wasn't going to happen--Rick broke out of prison, destroyed the citadel, murdered countless Ricks (directly and indirectly), barged back into his family's lives, manipulated Beth and Summer to get Jerry out of the house, and basically just made everyone's lives worse. This all culminated with Rick going on an unhinged rant in the garage about how this was going to be the "darkest year of our adventures" and he had full control over this family and he didn't care about anybody and a bunch of other bullshit that got more incoherent as he went on.

So much for Rick turning over a new leaf. In the end, he was still as cruel and selfish as he's always been.

[dailymolliarty]

The Mouse and the Spider by I’m Over There: Jim Moriarty gets bored. Molly Hooper gets lonely. They’re just two planets revolving around the brilliant sun that is Sherlock Holmes, drawn in by his gravity. And his light. But everybody needs distractions… 

Song as Old as Rhyme by @wherestoriescomefrom:  Hush, the wind is blowing hard. Be quiet, child, sleep soundly - Or the Dark One will steal your heart. [Beauty and the Beast AU]

Nameless by @wherestoriescomefrom: The first name was expected - even welcomed. The second, on the other hand, left much to be desired. And Jim would never understand what it was about it that was compelling. [Soulmate AU: On one hand, the name of your soulmate, on the other - your enemy. Molliarty.]

The Rose Point Manor:  A young woman struggling in an unjust society takes a break from the theatrics of pretending to be her male counterpart, Mark Hooper, and decides to relax at the quiet but foreboding Rose Point Manor. There she comes to a realization that something far more sinister lurks there than at her morgue back home - Victorian AU

We’re Ancient History:  When Molly Hooper had begun her scientific expedition, she never knew her time on the dig sites would unearth more than the dead.

Forget Me Not:  “This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.” What happens when two lost souls find each other? Are they still forgotten? - Amnesia!AU

Capture My Good Side: “Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”

Deus Mortis: "You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.“ - Victorian AU

Face Value: “I’m not sure how to describe this nonsense, basically Molly looks good in a moustache and Jim notices.”

Not a Body Farm: Molly really should’ve known better than to download FarmVille on a criminal mastermind’s cell phone, even if it had been a hilarious joke at the time. Since one day she wakes up in a bed in some random farm in the middle of nowhere, and the deed to the property in her name.

Oh God, Not the Westwood!:  In which timid Molly Hooper must hide a heinous crime from a man who likes to watch a murder take place while drinking his morning coffee.

Life Preserver: “Missing you comes in waves and tonight I am drowning.”

Midnight Edition: The Bittersweet: Pop-rocks can be unpredictable. In an instance, a delight to the senses, or startling painful the next - smut

The Bittersweet:  Even delicious things can be sour, at another glance.

Third Date Syndrome: Long bouts of silence and awkwardness on first dates are inevitable, and for the hundredth time Molly wished she was exempted from it.

We’ll Always Have St. Barts: “I wish I didn’t love you so much.” - Casablanca AU

Apex: Molly Hooper thinks fondly of Jim from IT, but can’t get enough of Jim Moriarty - contains smut~

The Parting Glass: After Reichenbach, Molly Hooper is drowning. She receives a package, request and tradition from a very dead Jim Moriarty. She receives nothing but burdens from a very alive Sherlock Holmes.

Rust and Stardust: “The last long lap is the hardest. I shall be dumped where the weed decays, and the rest is rust and stardust.” - Jim is a ghost, and wouldn’t it just figure that he haunts Molly Hooper.

Wild and Precious: “Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” - How Molly fell in love with a ghost, and tried not to waste her life beside him. She failed. - settled in the same universe of Rust and Stardust

Release: Written for the prompt “Jim fucking Molly so hard and so good that she can’t even get a full word out, only moans and half-uttered curses “: In which Jim surprises Molly after work - contains smut~

A Love Outside of Time: There’s a lot of strange happenings at 2945 S Willow Street, shrieks and screams and moans that have terrorized the neighbors and left the house unsold for generations. Can the great paranormal investigator, Sherlock Holmes, exorcise the spirits living there?

Gifts Given and Received: Sherlock ruined Molly’s Christmas gift and Jim is determined to make her holiday better. - ASIB AU, contains smut~

Cabernet Sauvignon: Written for the prompt “Jim’s ready to propose, but wants the event to be special, and so he hides the ring in Molly’s wine. Molly drinks it down too fast and chokes on the ring”: A fluffy slice of life, where Molly makes Jim’s life just a little less lonely.

Power Dynamic: Molly can’t help trying to control the insanity that is Jim Moriarty. A framework for his mind to lean on, a collar to hold him together, a mistress to keep him mostly sane.

Asphodel: “When you need slightly-less-than-legal magic substances, you seek out ‘Moriarty’s Special Imports and Fineries’. A new branch of Necromancy, pathologist-in-training Molly Hooper returns a set of counterfeit goods and receives a job offer in return.” - Fantasy AU

Her beast feature: “As he studied her from afar, Jim thought Molly’s best feature was her neck. He really didn’t anticipate her reaction to Sherlock beating a dead man with a riding crop.” - Molly x Jim, PWP, set at the beginning of A Study in Pink

Junior: So what’s a beleaguered pathologist to do when the UK’s Most Wanted turns up to visit her cat?

Mr Sex: Jim doesn’t ask her what she likes or what she needs; it’s not necessary. But he asks her what she wants - contains smut

Sunday Afternoon: Sleep with Molly Hooper:  Molly canceled their date at the last minute, but no one messes with Jim’s precisely organized calendar and gets away with it.

Why Don’t You Do Right?:  Seb arranges for Molly to get an extra special, early birthday present. Jim gets to learn something new about Molly. And Molly discovers one of Jim’s deepest secrets.

Club Calavera: Downing five zombies doesn’t give Jim the liquid courage he needs to ask Molly a very important question. It only makes him forget that he and Molly are already together.

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Boy: Jim’s never had a good birthday. Molly’s determined to buck the trend. - contains smut

It’s A Nice Day For a [White Wedding]: The wedding of James Moriarty to Molly Hooper can be nothing less than a momentous occasion. In his speech, their best man recounts some of the juicier bits of Jim and Molly’s journey into matrimony.

Cold War: She had to admit Jim was creative. Who else would think to kill three ice cream salesmen from different towns and attach a one-worded note to each corpse, forming the sentence, “Ready to concede?”

My Persuasion Can Build a Nation: In a world where Eurus had a best friend growing up, she doesn’t go to Sherrinford, nor does she turn out as unhinged as she did in canon. However, she’s still Eurus, and her brothers absolutely forbid her from meeting Jim Moriarty. She’ll just have to fix that, won’t she? Also: Matchmaker!Eurus ftw.

What Sober Couldn’t Say: “(11:23 pm) Drinking again(11:24 pm) And since it makes me too sad to go on my blog anymore thanks to you, I figured it’s only fair you become my new place to vent(11:25 pm) You’re probably not receiving these messages anyway so no harm no foul(11:25 pm) Right?” - Molly drunk-texts Jim over the course of several months.

I Wanna Feel Like I Am Floating: “Now the question is…" He vamp-flipped them over so she was lying down and his body was pinning hers. “Should I tie you up and make you take it, or are you going to be a good little vampire and let Daddy have his way with you?” Jim & Molly’s journey: blood-sharing edition.- Vampire!Molliarty AU, s-m-u-t.

Coffin Shopping: Sebastian could only imagine what the other, mostly ancient customers perusing the store must be thinking of the couple in their thirties, bubbling with laughter and fooling around as they ran about in search of the perfect coffin.

Come To Daddy: Jim failed to see how Molly’s physicality could ever not be arousing. The size of her lips did nothing to detract from how amazing she was at sucking cock. The size of her breasts made it no less fun for Jim to cup them in his hands, tease her nipples into hard peaks, suck on them until she squirmed and made those delightful little sounds. - smuttish ;)

Intention: A take on how the brief but unforgettable office romance between Jim from IT and Molly from Pathology began and how it just might become more than just a simple office romance.

An Exchange: Jim Moriarty comes across a familiar face and realises, from just one exchange, that it is not merely Sherlock Holmes that connects them, but a connection of their own.

A Beginning: Jim Moriarty tries to make sense of new waves of sentiment as his office romance with Molly Hooper transits to become something more.

Interruptions: Molly Hooper is made to face a stunning revelation about Jim Moriarty, but it is her reaction that stuns him most.

An Enemy’s Gift: In the pursuit of his greatest enemy, Jim Moriarty makes an unexpected discovery.

On Fanfiction.net:

Life: James Moriarty is in trouble, so much trouble that he fears for his life. He soon learns, however, he has absolutely nothing to fear, not with Molly Hooper around.

Spiders: Molly and Jim have a casual chat laced with hints of their plans, revealing a side to Molly that both surprises and seduces Jim.

(Re)kindle: Jim Moriarty is perplexed at the lasting impression a certain Molly Hooper has left on him. When his rekindled fascination with her meets an unexpected obstacle, an animosity is ignited.

Other fics:

- The Demon I cling to

- The Anatomist

- What Slinks Unseen (one-shot)

- Safety in Small Numbers (one-shot)

- Heart Shaped Buttons  (one-shot)

- I.O.U (in progress, Season 4 AU)

- A change of clothes (one-shot, smut)

- The Uninvited House Guest

- Home is where (one-shot)

- Danse Macabre (one-shot) mine

- Lay your body next to mine (one-shot, mine, smut, dark themes)

- Symmetry (one-shot)

- Kisses for the Devil (one-shot)

- Descend (one-shot)

- Death and the Maiden

- The Number Is (one-shot)

- The Devil’s Own (warning: dark themes)

- Reality of Innocence (warning:smut)

- Gifts (one-shot)

- Thanaptosis (warning: dark themes)

- Pulse (one-shot)

- Yorick’s grin

- Hades (one-shot)

- Gay (warning:smut)

- Oaths, affidavits and Other Lies

- Brain Drain (one-shot)

- Counting Days (one-shot)

- A conversation starter (one-shot)

- Spinning Tornadoes (one-shot)

- Secret Veins and Arteries (warning:dark themes)

- Watching the world burn (one-shot, smut)

- Death and the Maiden

- Unloveable

- Sweet Dreams (one-shot)

- Frozen Feelings

- Forever and Always

- I will burn the heart out of you

- Choke  (one-shot)

- His Dark Mistress (one-shot)

- He saved the last dance for me

- Exsanguination (one-shot, very kinky smut)

- Almost Anyone  (one-shot)

- No Space between Us  (one-shot, smut)

- Brain Drain  (one-shot)

- Between the bars  (one-shot, smut)

- Troubleshooting  (one-shot, smut)

- Falling  (one-shot, smut)

- Knots in this noose of mine  (one-shot)

- Glass shatters softly  (one-shot)

- Victor, meet spoils (one-shot)

- He kindly stopped me  (one-shot)

- Blow the House Down (one-shot)

- The answer is one  (one-shot)

- Strings  (one-shot)

- Heartbeats in the Dark

- The Fox (one-shot, smut)

- Bad Romance

- Lion and the Lamb (one-shot)

- Red Song in the Night

- The Rules Are (one-shot)

- Molly Mine (one-shot, smut)

- Restless Things (warning: very dark themes + Johnlock)

- Intention (one-shot)

- At the End of it all (one-shot, smuttish)

- An Incorrect Deduction

[sadiecoocoo]

Rick and Morty Headcannon - 18

I’ve already stated in a character analysis post that Morty is pretty unhinged sometimes, but where does he get this trait?

From none other than Jerry! I’ve seen some ppl agree that Jerry is definitely secretly unhinged af, and I need there to be more murderous Jerry moments

Side note, anyone have any good fic recommendations for Jerry-centric stuff that’s at least 1,500 words on AO3? Also no incest (alternate versions of Jerry don’t count as incest)

[thegrandbunny]

The last half-decade has seen a renaissance of sorts in animated, adult-oriented TV comedies. New series like BoJack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Big Mouth, Tuca and Bertie, and Undone probe extremes of the human experience—from mental illness to existentialism to puberty to spirituality—with humor, empathy, and the kind of ambition made possible only by the limitless potential of the medium. Confronting the drudgery of being alive, it turns out, is often a more bearable, and even more truthful, exercise through the elastic, colorful lens of cartoons. 

‘Rick and Morty’ Season 4 Premiere Smashes the Reset Button

Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty has to be the rowdiest of the bunch, with its gleefully brutal view of an uncaring universe and the flawed, infinitesimal people trying to find meaning in it. Its third season marked a creative high point for the series. It pulled off staggering, practically Verhoevian feats of dystopian sci-fi political allegory (“The Ricklantis Mixup”), notched the series’ first Emmy Award (for the singular “Pickle Rick”), and launched an incisive, often shattering interrogation of Rick’s pathologies: his self-hatred, his narcissism, and his carelessness, which destabilized and eventually broke down his family. He emerged, if not a better man, at least intermittently more self-aware. For a minute, he was even repentant. 

In the season three finale, “The Rickchurian Mortydate,” the Smith family (Rick’s daughter Beth, her husband Jerry, and their kids Summer and Morty) reunited, promising a fresh start for each other and the show. (“In many ways, things will be like season one but more streamlined,” Beth says brightly in the episode’s final scene.) The season four premiere, “Edge of Tomorty: Rick, Die, Rickpeat,” arrives more than two years later but stays true to Beth’s word. In ways both refreshing and disappointing, it is indeed a throwback to a simpler Rick and Morty, with lower emotional stakes, some of the show’s signature inventiveness, and more straightforward sci-fi adventure.

“Edge of Tomorty” isn’t the funniest the show has ever been, and it is far from the most meaningful. But the episode does boast a wildly profane imagination, gruesome visual contortions, and the self-awareness needed to poke fun at its own slightness: “Oh boy, so you actually learned something today? What is this, Full House?” Rick mocks Morty in the final minutes after he vows to start living in the moment. It is advice the show has already dispensed several times. But that seems to be part of the point of this episode—to shake off the heavy emotional lifting of last season and reassert Rick and Morty’s right to just run to hell with a ridiculous idea, make us laugh for a bit, and call it a day. 

The episode’s cold open smashes the reset button with remarkable efficacy. Rick is again bored by his family, auto-responding to their dinnertime chatter through a chip in his brain that allows his real consciousness to wander elsewhere; he’d rather make an Amazon wish list than talk to his daughter. The only mark of change in Rick comes as he begrudgingly rephrases a demand into a request for Morty to come along on a mission to collect “death crystals.” The cold open also does a whirlwind job of re-establishing the family’s dynamics: Everyone laughs at Morty; Beth protects a helpless Jerry; Summer whines about being excluded. All is well. (And for now, at least, Beth no longer suspects she’s a clone.)

Those relationships take a back seat to hairpin turns from comedy to gore to action and back in “Edge of Tomorty,” which ranks among the bloodiest installments of the series so far. Morty gets his hands on one of the death crystals, which shows him every way he might die based on his actions in the present. The effect creates a kaleidoscope of morbid hilarity. In one panel, Morty dies in a Terminator 2-style nuclear blast; in another, every inch of his skin melts off; we see him die in balding middle age of a heart attack on a toilet; hit by a truck while walking and texting; impaled, eaten, sledgehammered, and crushed, all at once in an uproarious little symphony of chaos. 

That is until Morty sees a vision of himself dying peacefully of old age with his high school crush, Jessica, professing her love beside him. Instantly obsessed, Morty steers Rick’s spaceship in whichever direction keeps her image in the death crystal. The crash and Rick sails through the broken windshield and square onto a jagged rock, dying so abruptly and violently that the only human response to the shock is to laugh. 

“People that spend their life avoiding death are already dead,” Rick tells Morty at the top of the episode, for all the good it does either of them. While Rick’s consciousness downloads into a backup clone belonging to a Rick from another universe (he dies and re-downloads again and again in a nod to Edge of Tomorrow, with increasingly unhinged results), Morty is consumed by a single-minded desire to drive himself toward death at Jessica’s side. It’s a new side of the show’s playful take on pre-determinism—remember Rick’s butter-passing robot?—and, while more violent and chaotic, it may even be a more optimistic one. Every decision Rick and Morty make drastically alters their potential fates; nothing they do is pointless. “Nobody exists on purpose,” as Morty once said, and “nobody belongs anywhere,” but their smallest decisions affect visible change. It’s mostly horrifying, sure, but also kind of… nice? 

Back on Earth, Morty’s mission leads to the episode’s funniest sequence, the kind of idea someone gets to only after devoting incredible time and thought to an incredibly silly concept—a Rick and Morty specialty. Morty stands trial for going overboard in defending himself against a bully—then the police, then the National Guard; news anchors dub him the “unstoppable science fiction boy”—and just moans out whatever sounds that keep Jessica’s image in his death crystal. Through trial and error, he apes the last words his judge’s dead husband said to her (“I’ll always remember our time in Peru”), sounding deranged, and gets off scot-free.

All the while, Morty contends with a hologram version of Rick that invites some of the episode’s more lukewarm jokes. Holo-Rick is a caricature of overly sensitive liberal types and a master of puns: “Calling density-privileged entities ‘real’ is incredibly holo-phobic,” he sniffs, and then, “Do me a solid, problematic wordplay aside?” He snipes at Morty just for holding the death crystal (“that’s a little offensive”) and stages a protest with multiple versions of himself (including a pothead he calls “Berkeley”). The excellent wordplay saves these jokes from sounding too hacky, though they do veer unexpectedly close to cliché for a series that prizes unpredictability and outrageousness. 

Still, the payoff to Holo-Rick delivers, at least visually. He flips into a giant, murderous maniac after accidentally being converted into solid matter. Then his head explodes after Wasp Rick stings him, laying eggs that hatch into larvae and eat his brain. It’s Holo-Rick’s karmic comeuppance for being a hypocrite. The implication is that he only policed the “density-privileged” because he wished he could be one of them. Once he was, he abandoned all principles and instantly became what he used to denounce.

[recentanimenews]

The Music Never Dies: Rising From the Grave with ZOMBIE LAND SAGA

  Halloween has come and gone, but just as our taste for half-off candy at the local grocery store remains, so too does our hunger for delicious, delicious anime. And so the Fall 2018 Review by “Cruising the Crunchy-Catalog” lives on, rising from a state of eternal slumber to haunt the living with an exploration of some of the hit titles from the anime season of one year ago.

  This time, we're exploring a story of musical dreams, undeath, and the rigors (and rigor mortis) of performing live (?) on-stage with a look back at ZOMBIE LAND SAGA.

    What's ZOMBIE LAND SAGA?

  ZOMBIE LAND SAGA is a 2018 TV anime with direction by Munehisa Sakai and animation production by MAPPA. Crunchyroll describes the series as follows:

  A typical morning. The usual music. Their normal lives. The peace these seven girls experience will suddenly be destroyed. By the living dead... zombies. A reality that they never wanted a part of, an amazing and terrifying zombie world. They all share one wish: "We want to live." These girls will struggle through this saga, in order to achieve a miracle. MAPPA, Avex Pictures, and Cygames team up to bring you a juicy, 100% original anime. A timeless shocker for all audiences, a brand new style of zombie anime, will soon rise.

    It's worth remembering that ZOMBIE LAND SAGA is an original project (i.e. one that isn't based on an earlier manga or light novel series), and prior to the first episode airing, no one knew exactly what to expect. Aside from some cryptic videos featuring voice-actor Mamoru Miyano performing in-character, a bit of key art, and some deliberately misleading teaser trailers, there was little indication that this show would be a horror-comedy about a troupe of zombie idols seeking to revitalize Saga Prefecture.

    Murdering Genres

  ZOMBIE LAND SAGA has a very particular sense of humor, one that combines groan-inducing puns (“saga” as both the recounting of an epic story and “Saga Prefecture”, “live” refering both to “live music concerts” and Franchochou's undead status, etc.), slapstick humor, and slasher movie sensabilities.

  Horror-comedy as a subgenre walks a very fine line, but ZOMBIE LAND SAGA does an excellent job navigating this territory, because most of the gruesome dismemberments and decapitations are played for laughs. The sound direction (also by Munehisa Sakai) is especially good, and prior to settling into a more conventional pop idol formula, the series parodies other musical stylings, such as death metal and hardcore rap.

    Putting the 'Romance' in Necromancy

  While primarily a comedy packed with plenty of horror elements, ZOMBIE LAND SAGA also has its dramatic and sentimental moments, particularly when dealing with the difficulties that the girls of Franchouchou face both in adjusting to their undead state and tackling the challenges posed by rehearsing, performing, and marketing themselves in a media-saturated world.

  The series deals with such diverse impediments as depression, culture shock, family troubles, and the trauma of remembering one's own untimely demise, and some of the best moments in ZOMBIE LAND SAGA occur when it strikes a more serious tone.

    The Voice of (Un)Reason

  ZOMBIE LAND SAGA wouldn't be nearly as effective either dramatically or comedically if not for some truly inspired voice casting. While the entire cast deserves praise for their performances, two roles in particular stand out, albeit for different reasons.

  Mamoru Miyano is completely unhinged as band manager / amateur necromancer Kotaro Tatsumi, delivering rants worthy of a Nicolas Cage movie, while veteran voice actress Kotono Mitsuishi (the Japanese voice of Usagi Tsukino in all versions of Sailor Moon) grunts and growls her way to hilarity as the legendary (and non-verbal) Tae Yamada. The two steal every scene that they're in, and their presence elevates ZOMBIE LAND SAGA to a higher echelon.

    Rise From Your Grave

  Crunchyroll currently streams ZOMBIE LAND SAGA in some 206 territories worldwide. The series is available in the original Japanese language with subtitles in English, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, and Arabic. Funimation will release ZOMBIE LAND SAGA on U.S. home video on January 07, 2020, and if you need more of the working dead in your life, a sequel anime entitled ZOMBIE LAND SAGA REVENGE is currently in-development.

  Straddling the balance between absurdity and sentimentality, ZOMBIE LAND SAGA is a unique viewing experience and the perfect way to shake off the post-Halloween blues. If you're in the mood for oddball comedy, and if the series is available in your area, then please consider giving ZOMBIE LAND SAGA a try.

    Thanks for joining us on this most recent installment of the Fall 2018 Review by “Cruising the Crunchy-Catalog." Be sure to tune in next time when we experience a blast from the series that's sure to pull the trigger on your mid-Nineties nostalgia for all things superhuman, samurai, and “syber."

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[thesoftboiledegg]

Oh yeah, I think Rick's had a full-on mental break multiple times. "The Vat of Acid Episode" and his unhinged rant at the end of "The Rickshank Redemption" are the two examples that come to mind (interestingly, I think those are the best two episodes of the series.) He also lost his mind in the Vindicators episode just because Morty liked the Vindicators more than him. And there's all the times he flipped his shit because Morty turned his back on him...I could go on.

Rick tries to keep it under control by self-medicating and occasionally venting his anger, but...yeah. When something triggers him, he goes off the deep end pretty fast.

Good point there, I never thought about that. I think Rick fears attachment but doesn't want to let go of Morty, so he dragged him into this insane back-and-forth where they experience these drastic highs and lows.

And yeah, Morty's been getting sick of Rick's bullshit all the way back in season 2, so I can't wait to see what happens as they gradually become equals. Morty straight-up threatened to murder Rick as early as the purge episode. People say that Morty is innately forgiving and doesn't have much of a choice, but we've seen him NOT forgive Rick many, many times.

This scene from Rick’s backstory makes me sad and intrigued at the same time. It’s so…jarringly normal, lol. Rick smiles fondly at Morty as he shows him the portal gun, then opens a portal and laughs with him as they go on their first adventure. There’s no other scene in the show like it.

I think Rick spiraling downward was pretty much inevitable, but when did he start getting mean? It seems like he tried to be a loving grandfather in the beginning. Why did he abandon their healthy relationship and drag Morty into this insane, codependent power struggle?