#dykedarkwing

[meteorherd]

gar pride month

GAR PRIDE MONTH. wait i need to find his stupid little bi tuxedo in ntt

^gar pride month

[sweetvictorie]

Rules: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know/catch up with

Tagged by: @underwaterporcupines SRY I FORGOT TO DO THSI but i appreciate being tagged thank u!!!!!!!

Last Song: HEY MAUDE BY JUKEBOX THE GHOST they just dropped it and its great go listen go go

Last TV Show: MASH lol

Currently Watching: BARRY season 3 as its coming out!!! i am begging everyone to watch barry its fucking insane. um also i just finished rewatching free! teehee

Currently reading: my school textbooks unfortunately >_<

tag 9 people: UMM @dykedarkwing @meteorherd @hypersensationalism @cordiallygory @mossuaries @zephyruss @juiceblocks @sadman-morgan @quagthesire HI BESTIES feel free to ignore or go crazy (same goes for if u werent tagged and u wanna do it!!! i forgot a lot of ppls urls sorry GVFDJHG)

[meteorherd]

happy pride

no youre so right happy pride to brain and mallah only

[meteorherd]

neb it was your birthday yesterday cake and ice cream cancelled

NNNOOOOOO [my leftovers immediately vanish]

[meteorherd]

gar our friend gar :) (the beast boy not. the cat. or do the cat im not yr dad)

GOD okay this got insanely long because im unwell sorry. me when im mentally ill about the cat obviously

okay good GOD i would violently circle wasted potential 50 fucking times if i could. society if dc let gar age past 18-20. society if titans la actually happened and gar had his own team of titans to lead. society if gar was actually able to grow out of the titans and be a hero outside of it as well. SOCIETY IF HE WAS STILL FRIENDS WITH VIC. i miss them </3 and thats not even touching on his powers. i personally like that gar's powers dont have clear limitations (like how he can turn into alien animals that he shouldnt even be able to tap into or how he can turn into creatures that don't even exist if his emotions get the better of him) but it always seemed to me more of writers not knowing what to do with him rather than actually playing with the idea…i think to some extent, untapped potential that could be seen as wasted potential is kind of the point with gar since he's initially introduced as afraid to take responsibility, but well. it has been literal decades at this point, and i think most of its ended up being mistranslated from the original intention with gar to Actually being wasted potential with him. come on man

alsooo oh my god gar is like the EPITOME of everyone but me is wrong about them to me. its genuinely so jarring to me what fanon gar is like HDKJFKHJKG like he's not a silly sunshine boy or whatever (which if i am being honest comes most of the time from bbr//ae shippers who warp both of them entirely to fit their personal ship dynamic preference but i digress). the canon bb that i know is honestly pretty snarky with his humor and CAN 100% be a jerk when he's feeling like it. and he knows when he's being one. he also knows when he's being annoying he does it on purpose. ALSO probably the biggest thing i dislike about fanon gar is when people act like his only trauma was with tara when the guy literally has the most insanely traumatic backstory ever. like obviously there's the inferiority complex but what about his MASSIVE survivor's guilt (like, part of the tara angst is a subset of his survivor's guilt but no one ever seems to acknowledge that either) and his status as a metahuman. he's literally green. what about his history as an actor and how that bleeds into how he can act like a different person depending on the people he's around. and i know a lot of people get annoyed about his daddy issues with steve but i am personally intrigued. he's such a deeply fucked up guy that i will never understand how people think he only has One Deep Thing to explore about him. i think a lot of people blame the teen titans cartoon for what fanon gar is now and while obviously that version of gar isnt as Deep without full context i feel like its still pretty easy to pick up the pieces. if anything its the fans who create fanon based on a kids cartoon they havent seen in Years from what they very vaguely remember and shoving it into their own desired tropes who are to blame LOL especially when dc just ends up encouraging it too

however i DO think he works best on a team, he's very much a team sort of guy and thrives off of interacting with others. something i find so interesting about gar is that technically he's capable of doing solo work but very much prefers a team setting. and besides a big part of how his character works is by having people to bounce his little quips off of. and his serious moments aren't nearly as rewarding if theres no one there to witness them i think. and not to bring up vic again but he worked so well with vic 😔 from what i know gar literally does not have any sort of fun dynamic these days which sucks when he is very much a dynamic guy. anyways as you can tell i like him maybe i guess. just a little bit. this got embarrassingly long (probably because i do want to talk about titans stuff in general on here and then i just get shy </3). he's my bestie who kind of sucks and i love him. thank you and good fucking night!!!!!!

[meteorherd]

bro you're my garfield friend. yes i know. literally all of the sonic characters are right there. but you're my garfield loremaster friend and thats just how it is.

GARFY…..YES!!!! garfield is actually my favorite sonic character

[meteorherd]

✒️ snifsnifsnifsnifsnif

[sweetvictorie]

a6? :)

@dykedarkwing HELP yall said the same thing

[sweetvictorie]

well now I'm super curious about the MML thing, please elaborate for the public!

OKAY ill preface this by saying that 1. this is gonna be pretty stream of consciousness and 2. i didnt follow the show too closely as it was being released so i dont know the exact timeline or when any decisions were made. that being said

first of all doofenshmirtz just randomly being stuck in the murphy house meant the attention was on him instead of other characters and so they suffered from little screentime/development. the focus on him and perrys relationship was especially detrimental to what was happening to cavendish and dakota. doof and perry had a much more touching conclusion to their "breakup," while the conflict with cav and dakota was not solved in any satisfying way (cav just saying im sorry really shouldnt have covered it all LOL). also doof being there breaks up the A plot/B plot format that both shows relied on and it gets a little chaotic.

secondly i really just feel like he doesnt fit in with the rules of the mml universe - even though it is the same as the pnf universe technically, the Rules are a bit different due to the structure of season 1 and murphys law. i ranted about this topic to my dearest bestie TJ @dykedarkwing who made an EXCELLENT point about this: pnf is a very formulaic show of course, and due to its format, its ok if doofs building gets destroyed at the end of an episode bc itll be okay by the next one. thats how the rules work. but mml was attempting to be more serial with the season 1 overarching plot, and so when his building was destroyed it was gone "for good" and he had to move in with the murphys. but DESPITE THIS, the show still mostly operates on pnf humor and logic. for example murphys law is that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, but the way it affects milo doesnt like cause them all to get murdered or anything- it always wraps around conveniently, just like the scenarios in pnf that perfectly hid phineas and ferbs inventions. doofenshmirtz still operates by the same rules that he did before, so trying to combine that with the murphys law logic just like... gets really muddy and confusing, and makes milo's "power" feel way less significant.

it really just feels to me that they added doof as a way to cash in on pnf's popularity on the internet/memes/tiktok, when they shouldve just let mml be its own show. i have nothing against the crossover special, i thought that was a pretty cool thing to do, but to permanently intertwine them and turn mml into a kind of "pnf 2" was just not the move, cuz it made their own characters feel way less important. :( i will admit that mml's characters kinda lacked the charm and chemistry that pnf characters had, especially doof and perry, so i can understand they thought adding them back in would help fix the problem, but i feel like it just did the opposite

and i know a lot of these decisions were probably made because of disney and its lack of advertising for the show or even the disney+ pnf movie but im not gonna get into that rn since i dont have the research looool