#and he isn't the reason Stan was homeless or had an awful life
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You defend Ford a lot, which is fine he needs a lot of defending. But do you think he's still got faults? With his ego and stuff.
Oh of course.
I say a lot that he's not at fault for turning out the way he did, but that doesn't mean the way in which he exacted his behaviour was faultless. You're still responsible for hurting people, no matter the reason behind it.
He isn't inherently a bad person because he knows he's done wrong and he regrets and apologises for it. It's up to the people that he hurt to forgive him and they tell us themselves that they don't think that he's a bad person for the way he acted.
I do believe that he got very sick (probably isolation sickness plus obsessive tendencies, combined with other poor mental health issues and then Bill's horrendous abuse making all of those things a million times worse) and became too unwell to be helped by people who weren't capable of dealing with such intense illness. He kept a lot to himself and that didn't help, either. He's an S-tier repressor.
I also believe the characters that he is linked to (Stan, Fidds) knew that and that contributed to their accepting of his apology. They knew it wasn't really the true version of the person they cared so deeply for doing those things, but was actually his illnesses and outside influences. Doesn't mean Ford wasn't in the wrong or that they weren't hurt, though.
So yeah, ultimately, he has a lot of faults and those faults die hard, but they don't make him a bad person and it's very tone deaf to examine those faults in a vacuum without considering the context in which they occur :)
#i'm not calling you tone deaf anon by the way i just mean i've seen other takes in which this is the case#asks#anon#your honor i rest my case#ALSO controversial but: I do not think that Ford is responsible for the behaviours of others who then inflicted pain upon themselves#Ford isn't the one who drove Fiddleford to erase his own memories and abandon his wife and kid#and he isn't the reason Stan was homeless or had an awful life#people blame him for too much because he's easy to dislike on a surface level#Fiddleford was literally warned by Ford about the memory gun#Ford told him not to keep it and Fiddleford used it on Ford non-consensually too#everyone made mistakes#ford asks
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the one with an intro several people have asked for an alternate version of . well . they're right to . nothing is sexier than a literal garbage dump
i love this chapter cover . i love how stupid the body sharing looks . it's the whole reason i wanted to write this fic . it looks so stupid and i laugh about it every time <3
that intro scene wasn't originally intended to be anything other than establish some dynamics between bill and ford, and establish the rules of their body sharing before kicking off the big family fight . glad to have found a way to reincorporate that golden statue - really fucking funny he just shoved it in his normal pocket . what's up with the pines men and shoving weird shit in their pockets? i love it
i loooooved writing this action scene . really funny to just have stanley scrambling for his fucking life while knowing the entire time ford doesn't understand why he's freaking out . i don't think the man understands how scary he comes across, genuinely, and it puts him into so many terrible situations . maybe he learns ! who knows ! he had zero intentions of hurting anyone but bill, again, only exists to make scenarios go better for everyone involved.
this chapter also introducing the motif of ropes, here, which is a running concept . stan's a normal dude and definitely has good self-preservation skills . i do love these brothers, tho -- their shit is rough . life has been awful for both of them . though one of them wasn't homeless, so . you know . not that it's a competition . but stan would win if it were
still so crazy for ford's tapestry he made about his moth collection . he has many such tapestrys . bro loves textiles and collections . maybe he and mabel get to bond over that later, who knoooowwwssss
also introducing the repression & the closet theming some more . again, just fun to set up things that will become more plot relevant later on . there's so many little things going wrong in stanford's mind but i still laugh at how his demeanor changes once getting some sleep in his system . i still love the brothers both burning themselves on their coffee . trying to find little moments like that which show the bond between characters makes me smile yay :)
trying to fit in the exposition of the deal was an interesting challenge ! i hope it was still entertaining for people to read . i really wanted one half of it to be the audience learning through what stanford is saying, and the other half to come from what he isn't saying . some lies are same as the show, such as him pretending he built the portal before meeting bill, and others... well, we'll get some more clarity on that soon.
overall, very information dense chapter . i still go buckwild for @stemmmm alt chapter cover . what a baller fucking composition + color
favorite part:
“Oh come on, Stanley–” Ford says, and Stan can hear his brother begin to walk after him, “Can we please just talk like adults? For once?” “Yeah! Stop being HYSTERICAL, like me , the REAL ACTUAL Stanford Pines!”
bill despite the fact you are not the focal part of this story, you still unfortunately are a focal part in my heart <3
Ford gets some much needed suggestions on his diet, Stanley learns the perils of fighting fair, and the entire family gets a lesson on the art of the deal.
Being a wanted criminal complicates things, sure, but that's just a Pines family standard at this point.
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Ngl, it would make sense and makes me feel less frustrated by that element of things - I'd accept it as canon lmao. I just feel immensely bothered by the fact that we never saw what happened to her, especially with Stan being all "I'm just extra happy to see you" with his family (I was literally like WHERE IS CARTMAN'S WIFE IS SHE HAPPY PLEASE TELL ME SHE ISN'T SAD"). She's a character who deserves good things and ngl I felt really bad for her and how upset she was, seeing him return to how he was in the way he was doing in desperation to keep the life he now had.
If done a bit differently it kind of could play into what I'd probably have done, which is his life still sucking massive balls but showing more of a signal of him repeatedly trying and failing to get it on track on his own (and Yentl is shown with a new husband or is otherwise happy, ofc). It's not that bad people aren't capable of good things - with Cartman certainly being that - but something about the whole pangolin thing and trying to help Kenny as their friend group was dissolving (and continuing to stay in touch with him) just really got me lmao. This might be because Kenny and Stan as kids are both characters that I feel are a fast track to feels though - I near enough wanted to cry when Stan did during the pangolin thing because that entire arc was a pandemic mood.
I think your headcanon could also work similarly with him meeting her before becoming homeless and working as a catalyst to that. I just wonder regardless though...like with what Stan said in this timeline, would she wake up alone and feel like something was missing in her life? Would she know it's a version of Eric Cartman that simply doesn't exist?
Maybe somewhere in here what I'm saying is it bugs me that it feels like Yentl never got a happy ending because Cartman couldn't be allowed one and I think it's bullshit because she did nothing wrong lmao. Something about the way she talks to him when she's worried they might never meet makes me imagine her in awful circumstances for some reason.
Please tell me I'm not the only one left wondering what happened to Rabbi Cartman's wife Yentl in the good timeline of Post-Covid
Like those two actually cared about each other and she was very "I can't live without youuuuuu!!!11!!" and I really wanna know if she like found someone else or if her life was genuinely worse off for not meeting the little bastard (also, god I'd love to know what all three of those kids would have been like at age 10 lmfao)
#also post covid kyle being a mood#like i had a childhood bully who was more blatant about trying to rub their improvements in my face in meeting again in high school#kind of ended with me getting suspended for three days because i snapped and tried to beat the crap out of her lmao#like even though i see cartman as teetering on more ambiguous than her i understand anyone irl who reacts like him to such a scenario lmao
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