#and jon's lasagna is the best

[lemonspades]

This is how it's going

[darknebula85]

Like everything in this life, once again, this wasn't planned XD. I saw on Twitter that there was a lot of buzz about the latest update of VS Gorefield, but I hadn't had the time to play it. But two days ago, I finally got around to doing it, and I truly have no words to describe how good CATaclysm is. The art is beautiful, the song is orgasmic, and playing it feels like a real battle against a boss fight; I would describe it as a fight where hope persists only to be defeated in the end. A very, very good song (And Nermal is the best Shonen protagonist). My opinion of the mod is that it's entertaining, it's not one of my favorites, but the work and care put into it are admirable... and CATaclysm is in the top 3 best fan boss fights of FNF, right there with All Stars, Finale and Athazagoraphobia.

My favorite part is the end... DIOS, que bien suena esa seccion final.

[steakout-05]

i think it's funny how some people insist that Jon is purposely and maliciously overfeeding Garfield and trying to poison him with inedible food, despite the fact that it's already been very well-established that Garfield can and actively has eaten several foods that normal cats can't because he is not a normal cat.

i've seen some people say "cats can't eat chocolate! cats can't eat donuts! cats can't eat pasta! why is Jon letting Garfield eat these foods!?" but you seem to forget that while yeah, normals cats can't eat these, Garfield can. why? he is not a normal cat. Garfield has been shown on several occasions to be eating these foods multiple times without any negative effects (apart from a tummyache) because he is simply just able to. he eats them because he can. and Jon isn't purposely feeding Garfield all this stuff either. Garfield actively steals Jon's food multiple times, despite Jon trying to put up boundaries to stop Garfield several times. Jon doesn't willingly feed Garfield like this for a majority of the comic strip, Garfield just does this on his own. it isn't until later that Jon slowly starts to loosen the rules regarding what he feeds Garfield because he knows that there aren't any negative effects Garfield suffers from eating what he eats. he has been shown making lasagna specifically for Garfield multiple times (including that one comic where the "why do they call it oven" edit comes from) because Jon knows he can eat it. Jon is well-aware of Garfield's bizarre but ultimately unharmful diet, and although he doesn't like Garfield eating everything in the fridge in 5 seconds flat, he's willing to indulge Garfield on occasion because at the end of the day, Jon loves his cat and just wants what's best for him. and if what's best for him is ludicrous amounts of pasta, meat and cheese, so be it.

Garfield is also shown eating and enjoying several junk foods that would normally be toxic and unhealthy for cats, such as chocolate, donuts, soft drinks (or soda for the usa readers), ice cream, cake, several vegetables and fruits and pastries. cats literally cannot eat a majority those foods without risking death and serious illness, but Garfield doesn't have to worry about that because Garfield can eat them just fine. Garfield can also drink coffee, which i'm pretty sure is toxic to cats. not to mention, most cats are lactose intolerant and can't eat or drink dairy products like milk and cheese, however Garfield has no problem with consuming absurd amounts of these products.

also about the Jon feeding Garfield raisins thing. yes raisins are toxic to normal cats, but Jon probably wouldn't assume that with Garfield because Garfield eats several foods that are toxic to normal cats with no problem. i don't think it would be fair to blame Jon for giving Garfield raisin toast, because Jon probably assumes that because Garfield can eat stuff like chocolate and donuts and ice cream just fine, that surely he could eat something a little healthier like raisin toast. and there's no indication that raisins make Garfield sick either. he simply just doesn't like them. why? no one likes raisins, and Garfield is supposed to be a relatable character, so he also wouldn't like them. i don't know why you wouldn't like them, raisin toast is lovely, but it's a common food for people to dislike, so of course Garfield, a character known for his marketable relatability, wouldn't like them either.

tldr; Jon isn't misfeeding Garfield because Garfield's normal diet consists of everything that doesn't taste bad, and because Garfield canonically has the ability to be able to consume these foods with no issue, and i think it's silly that some people unironically judge what Garfield eats based on real life cat diets because Garfield is a cartoon character and cartoon characters aren't real.

[ducktoonsfanart]

I have 6 sides - Cartoon and Comic Edition - Meme - Crossover - Donald Duck and The Three Caballeros, Looney Tunes, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Woody Woodpecker, Sponge Bob Squarepants, Tom and Jerry and Garfield - My version

I haven't drawn for a long time again, and now I'm drawing it, this time with other cartoon characters and comic book characters that I also loved to watch and read when I was little, and now I love to enjoy it. This time I did a different meme, and what I drew is similar to six of my favorite characters as my meme, otherwise this is more current on TikTok so you can see more here: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/i-have-six-sides-template

As my template from where I got it, of course. Not only do I draw Disney ducks, I drew other characters that I love that I enjoyed as a little boy, and I still enjoy now, so I decided to draw my other favorite characters from other franchises. I hope you recognize them.

The first is certainly the Three Caballeros (Donald Duck, Jose Carioca and Panchito Pistoles) together with Donald's nephews (Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck) and Aracuan Bird as my favorite characters from the Duckverse (the universe of Donald Duck, as the best part of Disney that I love the most), otherwise I drew as a redraw from The Legend of The Three Caballeros poster. The second is the Acme universe, which is the Looney Tunes, Tiny Toons and Animaniacs cartoons in one place, since I feel they share the same universe even though they deviate from the original Looney Tunes. I draw my favorite characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Buster Bunny and Plucky Duck (Bugs and Daffy's students) and the brothers Yakko and Wakko Warner. The third is Woody Woodpecker with his famous laugh, along with his nephew Knothead and niece Splinter plus his rival and neighbor Wally Walrus and friend Andy Panda. All these characters were invented by Walter Lantz and belong to Universal.

The fourth one is definitely SpongeBob SquarePants along with Patrick Starfish and Squidward Tentacles and drawn as a redraw from one of my favorite episodes "Idiot Box" where SpongeBob shows a rainbow as IMAGINATION! All these characters were invented by Stephen Hillenburg and this year SpongeBob had its 25th anniversary. The fifth cartoon is definitely Tom and Jerry, definitely the best golden era cartoon of all time, along with Nibbles (Jerry's nephew) with his dog Spike the Bulldog and his son Tyke. All these characters were invented by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. And finally the sixth drawing showing Garfield the cat eating lasagna, with Odie the dumb dog and Jon Arbuckle, his owner and best friend. All these characters were invented by Jim Davis and last year had its 45th anniversary (on Garfield). Yes, drawn on Monday, the day of the week that Garfield hates.

I hope you like these cartoons and feel free to like and reblog this and feel free to tell which are your favorite cartoons that you enjoyed. Just don't copy these same ideas of mine and these characters without mentioning me. Thank you!

[schm00by]

Making Sense of the Last Monday (yes the Garfield horror game)

The Last Monday is a psychological horror that starts with you trying to help Garfield find his house keys. It is free to play on itch.io and if you haven’t checked it out you definitely should. 

This game is broken up into numerous sections that are not in chronological order. From my research and analysis of the game, I will be breaking down each section, each POV we play as, and finally structure each section into a somewhat cohesive timeline at the end of the sections analysis to the best of my ability and observations. I have also named each section to remember it easier

There are three characters we play as:

The Stranger

The Kid (the kid will be referred to with he/him pronouns, but ultimately they don’t have a concrete gender stated in the games)

Jon Arbuckle

Section 1: Entering the House

We start the game in an unknown POV of neither the Kid nor Jon. This POV will be deemed the Stranger. We open up with a view of the sun before looking at a saturated colored house in the middle of no where. We are requested by Garfield to help him into his house. We retrieve a garage door opener from the backyard and find the key after Garfield gets up from the porch to stop us from opening the garage door. A small easter egg is found when the garage door opens and a small CD is thrown out before Garfield closes the garage. This CD can be used during Section 2. After grabbing the key you can access the basement. We are instructed by Garfield to paint over symbols that are drawn over the basement. There is a small black cage and a notepad filled with child drawings. This will be important later. The notepad contains a code to open a vault and retrieve a black cat relic before we run up the stairs of the basement chased by an angry Jon Arbuckle. We make it upstairs and spray paint the rest of the symbols before being commanded by a voice to throw the relic into the fire. 

Section 2: Chores

The second section we play either as the Kid or John. We are in a bright colorful house. The Entity/Garfield often uses saturated colors and hallucinations to manipulate the Kid, unlike with Jon whom because he is an adult, uses bleak colors. Again, this is up to you, either POV works for this section. We are told to put a lasagna in the oven and a 2-hour timer starts and, in that time, told to pick up some toys. This is also when you can put the CD found in Section 1 into the TV however nothing happens (at least not yet, when putting the CD in you get a secret message in morse code that I'll explain in a section below). (Very disappointing considering there is only one ending to this game as of now) When we are told to pick up the toys, if you notice, every single one of these toys are found in the Kid’s bedroom (explained in Section 3.1). This section I believe is kind of a sick way of making the Kid reliving his capture at the hands of John. Or it could be Garfield taunting Jon of what he did, kidnapping an innocent kid and making him cleanup the child’s toys as a mockery of him. After picking up all the toys and the relic, we see quick glitches of fire that spread throughout the house. Confirming that this takes place after the events of Section 3.1 (explained below) We know John burns down the Kid’s house after kidnapping him. Again this could either be the Kid reliving his capture in a sick way or John being forced to relive his actions he made whilst possessed. After picking up the toys we go to the backyard to dig up things Odie dug into the backyard. We find a ball, a bone, a newspaper clipping about a family murder and a child being missing (this will be important later), and finally a dog corpse. The corpse possibly being the dog you kill during Section 3.1. The house is burst into flames because the lasagna burned, and the section ends. It's important to note that this entire section…didn’t exactly happen. As I’ve stated this is more of a recollection of events that have already happened. To understand this section, you must understand sections 3 and 3.1 as this entire section occurs sometime after those events and is more so a dreamscape like retelling of those events. This does not have an official place on the timeline as I am considering this more so of a dream that The Kid or Jon had. I will place it on the timeline below, but this isn’t a very crucial section to understanding this game, other than the newspaper that is dug up.

Section 3: The House

I want to note that the events of the game don’t play in chronological order, and I will put a short summary of the timeline below. We play as John in this section, who after coming to from the Entity’s possession (Garfield) winds up at the very house the rest of the events of this game will play out. We know we play as John due to the reflection of the bathroom mirror when he cuts out his tongue. Here we pick up gasoline (which will be used to burn down the Kid’s house in Section 3.1), the gun (which the Kid will use and I’ll explain further down this analysis), and a roll of tape (which will be used when kidnapping the kid), and the wire cutters (which are used to uh remove Jon’s tongue and cut the powerline of the Kid’s house). We also find a bloody shovel and can infer that the Entity made John kill the family living in this house while possessed.

Section 3.1: The Kidnapping

In the beginning of this section we play as John, cutting the powerline, killing the dog, and the people in the house. The POV then switches to the Kid and we hide in the closet. Again, all the toys in the Kid’s bedroom are also found in Section 2 when we have to pick them all up. Jon kidnaps the Kid and the scene ends. 

Section 3.2: The Symbols

We are now in the POV of the Kid, locked in a cage by John, but not for malicious reasons. John is keeping the Kid in the cage because he is compromised by the Entity, his actions could be puppeteered by it at any given moment, thus keeping him in a cage.  I know we are the Kid because of his cries to ‘go home’ right after the house burning sequence, and also because John leaves cartoons in front of his cage to watch. We ask him questions and ask to go home only for John to not answer (unable to due to his tongue being gone). The Kid consumes the food and drinks the soda provided which was shown to be drugged. We walk through a bright door and pass through numerous symbols. These are the symbols that later on in the game are explained that they’re the only thing repelling the Entity. The Kid attempts to communicate with Jon once more only for him to cry when the Kid speaks. Probably from his guilt, Jon’s guilt for what he’s done is recurring.

Section 4: The Tower

Our POV starts right where we left off from Section 3.s, our POV still the Kid’s and we are watching TV. What is interesting to note is that Garfield only appears when John isn’t around and even refers to John as “his master” even though we know who is really in control. This is where the timeline gets wonky as these sections do not take place in chronological order. I am just explaining each section on a surface level and will sort each section into a somewhat cohesive timeline based on my observations that i am 75% sure is right at the end of my section analysis. In Section 4, John is no longer being controlled by the Entity, it’s presence now moved onto the Kid. This was possibly the reason why the Entity made John kidnap the Kid instead of killing him, a child being much more easier to influence incase John managed to break free. Anyways back to the analysis of this section. Garfield breaks us out of the cage and apologizes on his ‘master’s’ behalf. He instructs us to run up the stairs and grants us something called ‘firepower’ this fire power I believe is the gun John stole in Section 3. Another thing important to note is that, unlike with John, whenever the Entity possess or influences the child, it makes what the Kid is doing seem harmless and fun, the world saturated in color and illusion. Unlike in John’s case with everything bleak. Again fueling the idea that the Kid is much easier to influence and control. We are told to get to through the maze and to the tower and to shoot lasagnas that come after us. When we do make it to the tower, we are snapped back to reality and are in a gas station. We shoot the last stray lasagna before the illusion fully dispels and we see a man dead and the realization that all those lasagnas we shot were all people.  We hear a honk of a horn, who is later confirmed in a later section to be John. Basically, Garfield made the Kid massacre a shit ton of people and disguised it as a game and rides back to John’s house in his car. We wake up in a bed to see Garfield in front of the TV again referring to John as the ‘master’ even though we know he is feigning innocent. We get into John’s garage and read a book with the symbols we in Section 3.2.

Section 5: The Temple

In this POV we are entirely John. We are at a temple and place a familiar cat relic into a box with the symbols shown in Section 3.2, which I will refer to as just the symbols, drawn one the box. The box is sealed and a small ritual is performed that implies John was broken free of the Entity’s control. This section takes place sometime after John was first possessed and perhaps found a way to break free of the mind control. We are never explicitly shown when John was first possessed, but this is possibly the earliest account and this sequence happens before any other section occurs.

Section 5.1: Change of Heart

Sometime after the events of Section 5, John had a change of heart and decided to go back for the Relic with the promise of shared power with the Entity. This is the domino effect of everything that happens in the game. He steals the Relic and drives off before the Entity takes control of his body once more. He comes to after the Entity forces him to murder another family before the flashback ends with John arriving at the house in Section 3.

Section 6: Methods

We are back where 4 left off, back in the Kid’s POV. When we try to leave the garage we are immediately confronted by an angry Garfield who demands to know what is in the garage. The garage has the symbols drawn on the walls, thus is the reason why Garfield is unable to enter. We pass out and then when we leave the garage and enter the house Garfield is no where to be seen. A note from John is on the counter, explaining what is happening. In his note, it explains the Entity who once controlled him is now controlling us and the only way to stop it is at the end of the month when the stars align, until then we must wear the headphones to keep us from listening to the Entity. John warns us to not listen to its lies or illusions and that he is sorry. Obviously he is sorry for killing the Kid’s family and being the one to start this mess in the first place. This is also where we get the confirmation of the symbols being used to protect us from the Entity, with a note on the wall explaining each symbol’s meaning. When wandering in the basement, a note states that if we are overcome by the Entity we will be put into a cage, the same one seen in Section 1. Again this more proof we are in fact the Kid, with John using words like time-out to explain to us the usage of the cage. We go to the bedroom where John sleeps on a futon allowing us the bed. The Kid falls asleep.

Section 7: The Cage

We are back in the Kid’s POV with only ten more days to go until the end of the month. Ten more days until they can defeat the entity. We have the headphones John gave us on listening to music as the we sit down in front of the TV to draw in our notepad. The same notepad that was in the cage of Section 1. We draw about not listening to The Entity, fully trusting John. This happy moment does not last as Garfield/The Entity chastizes us for our mistrust in it, stating that they werent there for the horrible stuff that happened to the kid but John was. They weren’t there when John was at the Kid’s house, or at the gas station, and was the one that freed the Kid from the cage in Section 4. It claims it is our friend and pulls the Kid into another hallucination, beckoning him to come play outside. We are met with another illusion, back at the tower from Section 4, only now we are climbing up it. We fight off bats before the ‘monster’ gets us. We are flashed back to reality to see a scratched up John dragging us back to to the house as we somehow during our hallucination made it outside. The Kid is shown lying down in the cage before waking up and John interrogating us about what we saw before we were possessed, using a notepad. At the end of the interrogation, John advises the Kid to use the blindfold next time we see the Entity or “the Kitty” as the Kid has been calling it. 

Section 8: Means To An End

Once again, we are in the Kid’s POV. One more day until the stars a line. One more day until they can defeat the Entity. The music is noticeably gone, meaning we are not wearing the headphones John told us to wear. The scene plays out similar to Section 7, only this time when the Kid goes to draw it is clear he have lost trust in Jon and is possibly too far into the Entity’s influence, with drawings showing mockery of Jon’s warnings and a desire to go outside. On the last page of the notepad there is a code for a vault. The same vault from Section 1. The Entity commands the Kid to go down into the basement, which for the past two sections have been locked due to Jon being down there. However this time, Jon is sleeping in the bedroom and the basement is unlocked. The Kid creeps down the stairs to open the safe, which reveals the relic and we are thrusted back into another hallucination. This hallucination ends with the Kid snapping back to reality, shot by Jon to prevent him from escaping the basement with the relic and going on another possessed induced massacre, thus killing the child, just one day before they could defeat the Entity and be freed. 

Section 8.1: Devourer of Stars

We are in Jon’s POV after he killed the Kid. Draping his body in a blanket and putting the child in the garage, the Entity begins to speak to Jon. It tells him that Jon’s killing of the child has unleashed the Entity. It begins monologuing on the uselessness of Jon’s futile efforts to defeat it, stating in this chilling line: “You want to defeat me when the stars align? Then I shall take the stars from you.” The Entity then states that Jon shall see the child soon enough. It is revealed that Jon and the Kid are stuck in a time loop, created by the Entity, to repeat this timeline again and again until, in it’s words: “gets what it wants and until Jon breaks.” What it desires never being said explicitly, and to be honest I’m not very sure what it wants either. So the ugly truth has come to light, that this isn’t even the first time these events played out. The Kid is destined to be taken, corrupted, and killed over and over again with Jon’s efforts never being enough to save the both of them. 

Section 9: The Last Monday, Again.

We are back in a POV similar to the start of the game. The saturated house in view, no other house in sight. Only this time, the sun is gone. We are given the same task by Garfield to help him find his key. Only this time, when going to retrieve the garage door opener, it is nowhere to be found. When returning to Garfield he states: “I love playing with my food, don’t you?” 

The End Credits

When the credits roll, a morse code is to be heard which reads, “I don’t know who you are, and I don’t know what you know. You’ve been here before, hundreds of times. You’ve returned to me everyday and everyday I must stop you. I’ve tried killing you. I’ve tried keeping you alive. Please forgive me. Sometimes I want to give up, but I fear that if the voice is free (the Entity/Garfield), we will be tortured more than this. Please please forgive me.” (credit: Mak Angeleezy on YT). This is likely Jon to the Kid or in this case, us, since we the player are the Kid. Section 9 is the start to the next time loop or in other words the second timeline 

Conclusion

The Last Monday is a psychological horror with Lovecraftian elements. We flip flop between different POVs and different parts of the timeline. We have been through these events hundreds of times over, due to a time loop instilled by the Entity to repeat the last Monday over and over again right when our characters are just shy of victory. There is no happy ending for anyone, and despite this, Jon pursues freedom in each loop. To save us and himself from this forever hell. Something very notable and something to commemorate, even though it is his fault for its beginning. Hopefully someday for my own sanity the creator will make another ending to the game because my god, The Kid is going through it. 

Timelines

So…technically there are two timelines or two time loops if you will that this game marks. Each section is set to how I think the events of this game went chronologically.

Time Loop 1

Section 1: Entering the House (this marks the end of this time loop and thrusts us to the beginning of the second time loop aka the loop we play)

Time Loop 2 

Section 5: The Temple (Jon rejects the artifact which holds significance to the Entity)

Section 5.1: Change of Heart (Jon comes back to the artifact with the promise of shared power before being controlled and taken to the house)

Section 3: The House (Jon arrives at the house and collects supplies needed to kidnap the Kid)

Section 3.1: The Kidnapping (Jon kills the Kid’s parents and kidnaps him)

Section 2: Chores (a dream or daydream the Kid or Jon might’ve had about the kidnapping)

Section 3.2: The Symbols (Jon keeps the Kid locked up and performs a ritual on him in an attempt to protect him from the Entity)

Section 4: The Tower (Garfield/The Entity frees the Kid and sends him on a possessed, hallucinatory bender that causes him to kill a ton of people before Jon picks him up and takes him back to the house)

Section 6: Methods (After reading a book left for the Kid by Jon, he is told the only they’ll beat the Entity is at the end of the month when the stars align and is instructed a list of ways to keep the Entity at bay from his mind during their time waiting)

Section 7: The Cage (10 more days until the end of the month and the Entity manipulates the Kid into not trusting Jon before being thrust into another hallucination which causes him to escape the house. He is then  being dragged back inside by a battered Jon and kept in a cage until he is himself again)

Section 8: Means To An End (1 more day to go before the end of the month. The Kid is too far gone in the Entity’s manipulation and as instructed by the Entity, goes down to the basement to unlock the relic from the safe. The Kid is thrusted back into another hallucination before being shot by Jon when he attempts to leave the basement with the relic)

Section 8.1: Devourer of Stars (The Entity reveals Jon’s plans for defeating it were futile, revealing the existence of the time loop the Kid and Jon have been in for god knows how long)

Section 9: The Last Monday, Again (marks the end of this time loop and would be the catapult for the next time loop’s beginning)

Idk what’s with my fascination with characters who get mind controlled but yeah, I think about this game every day

[susidestroyerofworlds]

hello this is garfield the cat. i’m sending the anonymously so that no one finds out my blog name. i am writting to let you know that i was eating a big lasagna when i had a strange thought: you what if your credit card had been hacked! so i rushed into action to send t you some instructions. send all the names and phone numbers of any single moms you know to my contact @captainzigo so that she can tell me and then i can make sure your account is safe. odie and jon are here too and they also agree.

best regards, garfield “i hate modays” the cat

you are in luck, i know tons of single moms *red dot appears on my head* I will start listing their phone numbers, the first one is— *sniper takes me out*

[i-hear-a-sound]

lasagna cat is the best arg/YouTube unfiction series and you won’t change my mind no matter how hard you try

what other 15 year old arg dipped off the planet for half a decade only to return with bangers such as: guy talking for an entire hour about how garfield smoking a pipe changed the very fabric of his existence and his views on simply being at all and odie the dog putting a paper bag on his head and becoming a fashion icon before being condemned to hell while bad romance by Lady Gaga blares in the background, concluding in a 5 hour long video in which jon garfield and odie all take calls from anonymous sources telling them the amount of times they’ve ever banged before jon answers himself at the door and transforms the last 10 minutes of the video into this empty yet horrifying and confusing purgatory, in which an older looking jon made to resemble garfield’s creator is haunted by a taxidermied cat, is killed by a nude man skin-painted to resemble garfield in the mountains, before cutting to the aftermath of a girl giving birth in a bathroom in which she drops possibly the hardest monologue in any unfiction series since fucking emh to me about how she bore humanity’s curse in the form of this child, a fate which she will be condemned to for all of eternity, her soul to be swallowed and spat out and swallowed again, before cutting to a shot of the toilet where the baby is wearing a blue button shirt, and the video ends on a completely orange screen, all just to say garfield’s not that funny

[jrjeremy]

Jon/Jon Arbuckle/Jonathan/John/Jonathan Quincy Arbuckle/Coolest Guy On Earth/jon/Garfields Owner/Arbuckle/Arbucket/That Nevernuded Man/Most Pathetic Guy In Comic History/Garfield Guy/Man In Blu(e) Shirt/Insane Fella/The Main Joke Of The Garfield Series/Guy With No Bitches/Lasagna Man/Garfields Lasagna Maker/Gorefields Lasagna/Lasagna Boy/Jon The Pathetic/Smashable And Submissive Looking Dork Named Jon/J/Cartoonist In A Cartoon Series/Jim Davis Boy/James Garfields Toy/Jonathen/johnathritis/Monday Guy/Johnny/Garbuckle/im sorry Jon/Jonar/Bungus Jungus Jongus/Not Jon From garfielf/Definition Of Annoyance/Hated Yet Beloved Jon/Arbunck Fella/Brown Haired Funky Dancy Dude Who Actually Got Dope Dance Moves/Man That Talks To His Cat/Cat Lover/Cat Lover Talker/Cat Lover That Drove To Insanity That He Talks To His Cat And Should Genuinely Be Put Into A Mental Hospital By Now/Jon From Garfield/The Jon/That Blu(e) Shirt Guy With A Mug/Man Who Loves His Cat Very Much/Man Who Gets Hated By His Cat Very Much/Gorefield Gameboy'd Guy/The Jon That Has A Pipe/Odie's Owner/Lyman's Roommate/That Jon Who Locked Someone Named Lyman In His Basement/Garfield Minus Garfield Guy/Man Who Can Hear His Cat's Thoughts/I Thought His Name Was Garfield/The Jon With Zero Rizz Yet The Best Rizz/The Guy That Owns An Orange Cat/One Of The Saddest Man Ever

[pb-dot]

Film Friday Halloween Special: Dear David

Now today isn't Friday, but it is Halloween, and in tending my yearly tradition of lounging around watching horror movies, I stumbled across this mystifying thing. Now for people who are better at the internet than me this apparently started as a creepypasta-style Twitter thread, and I can imagine this context might explain a couple of things. Regardless of the internett-ness of it, though, I found this film fascinating through the lens of the "writing about writing"-meta aspect of the whole thing, which is good, because the scares were pretty mediocre.

For the uninitiated, Dear David is the story of comic artist Adam Ellis, whose comics you undoubtedly have seen shared around somewhere on social media on account of how acutely relatable his comics aim to be. Many jokes have been made by Ellis himself and the other "relatable comics guys" of the world of the faint whiff of existential terror producing such content might instill, the so called "Garfield Effect," I like to call it.

Rather than take the bland-by-design in the direction of say, Garfield Minus Garfield, Lasagna Cat or the "I'm Sorry Jon" subsubgenre (it is still wild to me that three so distinctly different projects have formed to pry meaning out of Garfield, but that's another story for another day,) Ellis goes for contrast. This tale starts with the assumption that churning out hashtag relatable hashtag content is a kind of soul-draining irony-poisoning kind of status quo to live in, and then throws a wrench into this (arguably unhealthy) stability in the form of an internet ghost really deciding to fuck with it all.

It is somewhat unclear how the ghost known as David, or Dear David, zeroes in on the content creator, other than being attracted to people being jerks online, in which case I have to assume Mr. DD is a very busy ghost. Once he has zeroed in on Adam, though, he finds the artist a fertile ground to hoe, starting with sleep paralysis, and escalating to delusions and digital fuckery to really separate Adam from his support network, not exactly oversized to begin with, as is the Milennial's lot.

If I have one main problem with the movie apart from the scares not being all that, it's the digital fuckery. I get that the ghost needs to have some control of devices Adam uses to connect to the internet, and that he might employ these to fuck with the hapless comic artist further. So, sending DMs in Adams name, yeah sure, that makes sense, redownloading Grindr to make Adam's boyfriend think he's being unfaithful, yeah that's fine, but when we see that the ghost has even provided spectral chat logs with randos, something about that seems to cross the line from believable to unbelievable for yours truly. Like how deep did this whole thing go? Did the ghost actually send out a bunch of messages? Did he send out a bunch of u up messages and then, pardon the terrible pun here, ghost them? Idk, I feel like the grindr bit kind of stretched the story a touch, as if there was an IRL infidelity here that the scriptwriters don't want to get into. Not flinging any accusations mind, it's just a very specific fracture in the suspension of disbelief.

The movie has a decent understanding of The Internet in how it portrays it, although I do find myself wondering if using a MSN Messenger lookalike as a medium for the trolls of yesteryear was the best choice. I'd have gone for a forum or, god forbid a chan-like. Granted, 4chan was not invented in 1996 when the ghostening were to occur, but Messenger didn't come online before 2000 either. I suppose it was a big ask to show the audience the mean streets of mIRC, although I would have liked that quite a lot, personally.

Now, where the movie gets interesting to me is in the character of Adam. Being irony-poisoned and Over It on the internet isn't exactly an unique ailment to have, but I do like the things the story does with plunging Adam into a highly subjective story. Literally nobody else sees the things that he sees when the ghost is fucking with him, and try as he might to communicate this in a way that he communicates most things gets met with cynical "pics or it didn't happen" type of a response. This is an idea I wish so dearly that the movie held on to all the way to the end. Sure, I can watch people possessed by ghosts turn the tables on their spectral foe through willpower or the will to live or the power of love all day, but just once it'd be cool to see genuine connection and empathy be the thing that saved the day. The movie does hint at this as Adam realizes David was a budding artist before disaster and/or The Internet Devil got its hold of him, but it doesn't really add up to anything.

Anyway, as I constantly have to remind myself, we review the movie we watched and not the one we wanted. As it is, it's an "artist confronted with his demons/the people he have hurt" type of story, and it does get a bit self-indulgent with it in a way that I feel a lot of creepypasta-adjacent media often get. Of course this whole big thing turns out to revolve around the POV character's neuroses and character, odds are good he's writing the damn thing. However indulgent it may be, though, I can't lie, it is heartening to see our protagonist realize that while he has hurt people and been kind of a dick, he shouldn't have to die for it.

In the end, Dear David is an OK movie, not great, but certainly good enough to give a watch. As far as "getting" the internet you may get better results watching Cam (2018,) and Host (2020) and Unfriended (2014) might have better scares. On the other hand, it is kind of nice to see a horror movie with a MLM protagonist and the gay bit not being this huge pivotal thing (yes I know Grindr is a plot point, if it was het it'd be Ashley Madison, nbd.) Overall, I'm not mad I watched it, but I'm going to have to cue up some classics to get the spook percentages up while I finish off these boops.

[theweirdspacejellyfish]

tv shows recs

beetlejuice - 4 seasons/1991

summary: 12-year old lydia deetz escapes the mundane through hilariously bizarre adventures with her new best friend, the attention- straved ghost beetlejuice

Garfield and friends - 8 seasons/1994

summary: lazy, lasagna-loving cat Garfield has fun adventures with his pal odie and owner jon

oblongs - 1 seaons/2001

summary: an eccentric family lives downstream from a toxic waste site, and finds that life is always presenting a series of unusual challenges for them

cardcaptor sakura - 1 season/1998

summary: a fun loving 10-year-old who lives with her brother and widowed father becomes a collector of magical cards when she makes a glowing discovery

being human - 5 season/2017

summary: a trio of friends who happen to be a werewolf, a ghost, and a vampire try to eke out a normal existence while rooming together in bristol

camp camp - 4 season/2023

summary: max, a jaded ten-year-old, finds himself stuck at a dysfunctional summer camp run by a shady business mogul looking to turn a profit anyway he can

braceface - 6 season/2004

summary: fourteen-year-old sharon just wants to survive her first year of high school but an accident at the orthodontist makes her braces do some wild stuff

alf - 4 seasons/1990

summary: the furry alien life form ALF, who crashes into a suburban family's house and takes his place there as a total smart-aleck

[lemonspades]

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So like, what if Sorry Jon but where Garfield is a giant eldritch horror but found out he'd much rather eat Jon's lasagna cause it's the best.

[hideawaysis]

my best friend slutty garfield: hey jon...i've been having an awful monday...you got any lasagna to spare...if you know what i mean, hehe...

me, in the midst of a psychotic episode, watching the spiders on my walls gradually blend and congeal into a thick calcified paste: I Tgink I Have A Fever

[steakout-05]

my favourite thing about Garfield video games is that no matter the quality of the actual game, the soundtracks are always really decent to really good. literally every single Garfield game i have come across has a good soundtrack and there has yet to be one i've disliked even a little bit. the Garfield Kart games have a decent soundtrack with a few really good bangers in there, i LOVE the Garfield 2004 game's goofy soundtrack, the Amiga Garfield games, the Garfield's Defense games, Garfield Lasagna Party, Nickelodeon All Star Brawl and Garfield: Caught In The Act have GREAT soundtracks, even that really sloppily made Garfield Gets Real DS game has a pretty damn good soundtrack!! like yeah it's all MIDI but it's quite enjoyable to listen to and it's literally the best part of the game (apart from the fact they gave Jon Arbuckle really cute freckles but that is besides the point)

[waffle-fox-42]

The Comic cat month

I keep wanting to make more creative names for these post, ANYWAYS BEHOLD THE ORANGE CAT RETURNS!

#7 (Garf) barbie

Make your very own comics at home with Garbie! This Wonderful toy includes his best friend Pookie and his iconic food: Lasagna!

Jon and Odie not included

#7 (Gore) Twisted

I thought i'd use this for todays prompt as well but that's too easy and it wont be total of 31 prompts.

Catch me on the flip slide my dudes for todays prompt! (i'm doing them a day behind cause i work on the prompt late)

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

I mean, to the best of my memory he's not not an orange lasagna cat. And like, to me any potential furry aspects are less of a turn-off than uh, anything and everything else about him.

But you're right, he's not the orange lasagna cat Garfield from the comic strip and expanded universe of Garfield. To the best of my knowledge he does not live with a dog named Odie or a human named Jon Arbuckle.

no i would fuck garfield the deals warlock. i'd end up selling my soul in the process or some shit but i would

That's absolutely fair. I don't think he's unfuckable. I just think he's probably a more niche sexual interest than the 1,180 (and counting) votes would suggest.

[king-galaxius]

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