#The Fish and the Whale

[happygirl2oo2]

just leaving this scene (from the newest episode) here, not saying anything...

[laz-kay]

Brad needs prescription glasses but wears contacts all the time finally canon?!👀

Mythic Quest, The Fish and The Whale (S4: E6)

[morningfangirl]

Overall I did like The Fish and the Whale as an episode, but I really think the poker plot outshined the baby shower plot... and maybe not in the way people think.

The Brad voice over was giving Contemporary American Poultry which as a Community fan I was here for and it seems a lot of people really enjoyed it. The poker storyline overall was really well done from Brad to David to even Ian. All three were acting as foils to each other with how they deal with their canonical shitty childhoods in adulthood. Like Ian bringing up his father abusing him and then David just being like that's irrelevant was great. Also, Ian starting to get annoyed that David didn't know Poppy hated her sister and then getting distracted by trying to get a dig in at David was really funny.

Which brings me of course to the Poppy plot of the episode. I feel like this part of the episode was a bit more stereotypical sitcom than most episodic storylines that MQ does. The scene that was released ahead of the episode was Tracy showing up at the baby shower, so I thought we might get an insight into why Poppy is on bad terms with her family as an adult because Sarian made it seem like Poppy's parents just didn't really understand her (which is not uncommon with how her character is neurodivergent coded) and her and her sister just had nothing in common so they felt pitted against each other for their mom's approval. Like in terms of set design, there are pictures from Sarian bts of young Poppy, Tracy, and their dad when Poppy tells Storm she is pregnant in Second Skeleton.

Also, like Mythic Quest has had really great internal consistence, and the Jo-Poppy-Rachel dynamic did not seem quite consistent with Crushing It. Like Rachel and Dana were at Storm's gallery opening in Boundaries. Although, I did think it was funny having Rachel question if Poppy had any kind of social life (which leads me to the question of how did Poppy, who prior to this season only had a work life, meet Storm?).

There just didn't seem to be any internal logic for Tracy to fly halfway across the world just to be a bitch to her pregnant sister? I feel like it would have been more satisfying for Tracy to have been a normal person who gained her parents approval when Poppy dropped out of college who is now trying to be a good sister but ultimately lashing out because Poppy never grew out of being, in her eyes, a "freakazoid" and that's when Rachel, Jo, Carol, and Dana jump into Poppy's defense. Having Tracy think Poppy was the problem with their relationship only to have it turned back on her. The Poppy-Tracy storyline just was not as revealing in terms as backstory as I would have liked and did not really build onto Sarian. It just felt like Tracy was a little too much like Zack but without the emotional depth/rationalization. Like in Breaking Brad, it is clear that Zack is continuing a cycle of abuse and genuinely has the sociopathic & narcissistic traits Brad uses as a mask in the first two seasons. But I felt like Tracy was very one-dimensional which seems out of character for the show.

[somerunner]

A Shell in the Pit makes such good music. So crazy that it was like a year before I realized they made music for Smarter Every Day as well (I didn’t look at the albums very closely)

[hotcinnamonsunset]

The Tiger (from the poem by Nael, age 6)🐅

[lovertm]

x x

[coolerhope]

This is the tweet that is really making me consider spending 6$ on a cute fishing game

[amanitahouses]

Salmon hats: sweeping the nation by storm watercolor on paper, digitally overlaid on photo

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus

[samimarkart]

whale fall 🦴

[goobersplat]

Mind Wave Sea Life Fish Sticker Sheet

[amnhnyc]

Not only is the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) the world’s largest shark—it’s also the world’s largest fish! Growing up to 40 ft (12 m) long and weighing more than 40,000 lbs (18,144 kg), it’s often regarded as a gentle giant. Don’t be alarmed by its colossal mouth: This slow-moving species is a filter feeder, gulping down small marine animals like shrimp and plankton. It can be spotted in warm waters around the world, traveling thousands of miles each year to find food.

Did you know? Sharks and their relatives have been swimming in Earth’s oceans for about 450 million years. That's long before there were humans, dinosaurs, or even trees!

For more fun facts, check out All About Sharks on OLogy, the Museum’s science website for kids—and everyone else!

Photo: Muhammad syaran, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

[laz-kay]

This episode has well and truly rekindled my love of media analysis. Your boy is BACK🫡

[plaguedocboi]

BIG NEWS I got a permanent job (as opposed to seasonal) at a local aquaculture facility so I get to stay in Maine for the foreseeable future and keep working with fish (yay!!!!). I also bought Him to celebrate

I can have a little whale. As a treat.

[somerunner]

Coulda sworn I’ve reblogged more music. Eh. I just reblogged the majority of my old posts/reblogs that had an audio player or Spotify link. Minus a couple ones that might be harder to find or that I didn’t care about, and a couple very personal and religious ones I was tempted to reblog and didn’t.

Anyway. A mutual has responded to my link to the A Night in the Woods’ song “Die Anywhere Else” so I’m gonna put that game in my Steam wishlist.

[soviet-furries]

The Little Humpbacked Horse (Конёк-горбунок)

Soyuzmultfilm, 1975