#at theory

[aria-greenhoodie]

So, I was rewatching the episode Little Guy (s5e10) with a friend of mine that I forced to watch Adventure Time and I noticed something strange when Little Guy possessed Gumball Guardian...

You see those weird geometric shapes? Aren't they... Familiar?

THATS GOLB MAGIC. THATS MOTHERFUCKING CHAOS GOD MAGIC.

THIS IS THE SAME TYPE OF MAGIC. WHY CAN LIFE GIVING MAGUS'S CREATION WEILD GOLB MAGIC? He mentions a "chaotic, destructive force" embeds itself into anything he gives life to (at least when he thinks of his father while giving it life) IS THAT GOLB??????? IS HE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT THE GOD OF CHAOS???

[sldlovescartoons]

Okay, so, I’ve been noodling around with what wish might have made the Winter King’s universe and I think I’ve got at least a vague idea of a possibility.

I think, maybe, someone wished for something about Marcy. To never have met her, for her to never become the Vampire Queen, something, and the long and short of it is that Simon fails to protect her and she dies young in that universe.

Problem being, she’s sort of key to Simon’s story playing out in a lot of way, but let’s start with the big one: the reason Betty disappears is because she jumped through that portal into the future. Thus preserving Our Simon’s relationship with her as happily in love engaged couple. Winter King’s Betty wouldn’t disappear, she’d show back up or he’d find her. It’s not much of a stretch to imagine Betty and Simon’s relationship starting to degrade, with her discouraging his use of the crown, suggesting other tests. She doesn’t understand, though. She doesn’t hear the secrets. See the visions. Winter King’s Betty probably died when the bombs dropped. To him, Betty has been dead 1000 years. And she isn’t the love of his life, she was his naggy fiancé who he was maybe going to break it off with, or something.

It’s not hard to imagine that without Marcy trying to influence him every some years when he found her before would snap and move again, he’d be in a place when he was at his mist lucid and thus most miserable to pull that curse shit.

[atarashura]

so spoilers for fionna and cake-

the first episode took place in simon's head, right? like this is what simon would make instead of ice king? like that's why there's a betty statue like the one in his house, and why cheers is always playing? like i thought that was the obvious takeaway but the wiki seems to think it's just an au?

[silvermoon424]

Another banger from the "we can always tell" crowd 💀

(for those who don't get it: the picture is of MatPat, a cis man)

[nondivisable]

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

[crystaltoa]

And now for something completely different.

This is the ADHD Teapot. I made it in a ceramics class a few years ago. I use it to explain executive dysfunction to people who haven’t come across the term before (and those who think of ADHD mostly as Hyperactive Eight Year Old Boy Syndrome).

So, most people’s brains are like a regular shaped teapot with a single spout. Let’s say that your time, energy, focus etc is the liquid you have in the teapot. Your executive function is the spout, that directs the tea into the specific cup you want to fill-aka the task that you’re meant to be doing. Spills happen occasionally, but generally most of the tea goes in the right cup.

If you have executive dysfunction, (a symptom of ADHD, trauma, autism, schizophrenia etc.) you have multiple spouts going in different directions. You can try pointing one of them at your chosen cup and you will probably get some liquid in there, perhaps you will even fill it right up (finish the task). But meanwhile, tea is also pouring out of several other places and not going where you want it. If you have another container nearby, perhaps some of it will end up in there. But quite a lot of it is going to end up on the floor and accomplish nothing.

And at the end of the day you’ll have filled one or two cups ( or sometimes not even one) compared to the five or six that somebody with the same sized teapot (but only one spout) has filled, and everyone wonders why you’re so bad at getting tea poured, and why you make such a mess in the process.

One day I’d like to spend more time learning pottery and create a really technically good fucked up little adhd teapot. But that’s a long way off since i currently live in the outback and the nearest pottery workshop is some 400km away. But I figure that for now, it might be a useful or interesting metaphor to somebody even in its rough draft form.

This post is the cup I filled instead of cleaning my house btw.

[daylane]

Free resource for artists and designers!!

I made a website where artists and designers can get color palette inspo from fire hydrants I've 3D scanned all over the US

Some of my favorites:

There are about 100 hydrants so far and I'm continuing to add more all the time

Public infrastructure is sexy, baby!!!!!! Pass it on!!

dayroselane.com/hydrants

[brightlotusmoon]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[arcanefanpage]

SHE’S ALIVE!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL! THE AIRSHIP AT THE END!!! THE GLITCHY END CREDITS!! THE AIR VENTS!!! THE GLITCH! CAITLYN’S SMIRK AT THE END!!!

[orchidbreezefc]

i made a variant of [link: two cakes] to illustrate a related principle

[skipppppy]

Broke: Giovanni is Ash's father

Woke: Giovanni has mistakenly believed Ash was his hookup mistake for like a decade and is about to get the surprise of the century seeing that not only are they not related, but the employee he fired a few years ago for being too stupid is now living with him and being a more active father than he was

[sldlovescartoons]

Okay, so I've been thinking (always a dangerous activity lol) about Beth, or specifically: Which of Jake's Pups does she descend from and thus which Pup's family line went on to found/rule the kingdom. I have come up with two (2) answers. The biggest thing I'm going on is the last name Jakson and what we know about the pups.

My main theory is that the pup population only really started to expand rapidly when Pups who are prone to having litters have kids, a few years after Come Along With Me. Kim and Charlie had singletons like rainicorns (as horses mostly have singletons). And so when the population exploded, there was a lot of chaos with large numbers of magical creatures roaming the land. Conflicts in the kingdoms they were living in because of their rapidly expanding numbers and maybe trophy hunters looking for a sort of holy grail? And so they needed to establish a place for the pup where they could be safe. Figuring out how they get the land isn't even difficult: Kim or his descendants could use his real estate connects to get land to build a city/kingdom on. From there, it's just a matter of... who leads them. and thus who Beth descends from.

The first option: Jake Jr.

Jakson is pretty clearly 'Jake's Son' smashed together. Thats normally how names come to exist. This would indicate that, as long as the family ruling the kingdom was always ruled by a direct descendant of a specific pup, that the founder/first ruler of the pup kingdom was... Jake's Son. Jake Senior has 2 and only one is the ambitious sort (I'll get to him later). But another option is that they were Jake Jr's son. So thus still Jake's Son. The long and short of this one is that Jake Jr has a son, and they were either the first leader of the pup kingdom, having acquired the land through their cousins, or that someone from Jake Jr's male line (a descendant of one her sons that she would have at some point) took the throne sometime later down the line whether peacefully or through force. 1,000 years is a long ass time and we don't know what their lifespans actually end up leveling out to be.

The Second option, and the most boring one: Kim Kil Wan.

Kim, Jake's Son, founds the pup kingdom by using his real estate business to accumulate land, becomes the first leader of the Pup Kingdom. People in power, who knew his dad from his hero work with Finn, call him Kim Kil Wan, Jake's Son, ruler of the Pup Kingdom. The Pup Kingdom is ruled by the Jaksons.

I think about the Pups way too much, tbh. To get to 38,000 pups by the time Beth is born, roughly 38 pups would have to be born every year from CAwM onwards. Of course, that's not how population growth works, so more likely is their was a massive explosion in population towards the start when some pups would have litters and before the pups rapid aging wasn't fully curbed yet, and eventually things settled, like genetically, and pups started aging more normally and having singelton (and sometimes twins as creatures who have singletons are prone to do) pregnancies. At which point population growth stabilized and slowed, making the chaos from the super powers their biggest problem. Enter Gibbon.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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[aster-ish]

I've had this thought for a while but only just realized I have a tumblr now so I can actually get that thought to reach ppl who'll share my level of madness.

So Sonic yeah? Pretty much the entire main cast are all anthropomorphic animals, excluding Eggman and his family tree. Across adaptations of Sonic, there's not a lot of consistency on what the general population outside of Sonic and the Gang are composed of. In shows like Boom, Prime, and the IDW comics, it's almost entirely animals, and Eggman's the odd one out:

But in other versions, where there are humans, Eggman still sticks out like a sore thumb:

It's also worth noting that in some Sonic games, there are regular, non-anthropomorphic animals in addition to anthropomorphic versions

(Yes, Vector is a crocodile not an alligator, but they're close enough taxonomically to be significant. You can't convince me that the difference between alligators and crocodiles in this universe is that one swims in freshwater and the other has bills to pay)

So here's my theory: there's cartoonish, anthropomorphic versions and realistic, non-anthropomorphic versions of the animals, right? So why wouldn't this extend to humans? After all, they're mammals just like hedgehogs and foxes are. AND THAT'S WHAT EGGMAN IS. He's an anthropomorphic animal like Sonic, it just happens to be that the animal he's based on is a human.

Eggman is an anthropomorphic human. He's human squared.

Thank you