#frog friendship

[writesailingdreams]

What are your ideas on Amphibia’s idea of self-love and how it’s tackled?

I’m afraid I don’t have very in-depth thoughts (or more precisely I hadn’t thought about this idea until asked*). But from my few days brewing on it my answer is: I think it’s idea of self-love is something I would have been grateful for when I was Anne’s age and I think it’s tackled pretty well.

As an addendum, I felt only Anne really had an arc defined by discovering self-love. To me, Marcy’s arc was about coming to term with facing unpleasant things, and Sasha’s was recognizing how she wanted to be a better person/grow. I also don’t see any of the Plantars needing to learn self-love. Sprig might come closest but to me, his arc is more about finding a friend, someone who will actually like him/spend time with him, and it’s less him learning to love himself but finding the friend who will love the himself he already is pretty open about expressing/seems to like.

As to what I mean in more specifics (because of course), I’m having a hard time arranging it my head coherently. But essentially: I felt Anne’s arc to self-love was handled very gradually.

She’s starts out (Best Fronds) as very concerned with what her friends will think if she isn’t agreeable to what they say; she has to be likable, she has to be what others want her to be. But then she meets Sprig (and family) and live in Wartwood, where she has to make decisions on her own/withiut her usual friends. Wartwood is disturbed & distrustful but she earns their trust & respect (Toad Tax). Then later there’s Wally’s bit of “you can be whoever you want to be here” advice and her becoming less worried about whether she’s the “town weirdo” (Wally and Anne). Then there’s the whole Reunion bit with Sprig defending her and saying she’s a good person & brave & not going to be pushed around; she’s someone—as she has presented herself in Wartwood—of value and love (at least in the eyes of this pink frog boy. See this is why I get so emotional about these two?)

I’d say there’s less direct instances in S2a (at least nothing immediately jumps to mind), but by the time she’s there she has had some growth. I think this is most evident in her relationship with Marcy. By the end of her stay in Newtopia, she’s opened up to Sprig (and vice versus) (Hopping Mall). She’s learning to express how she feels and be okay with that. So by the time the show gets to Bessie and Microangelo (I love that ep), she’s happy with herself. (Oh, Tritonio helped, less in his ultimate goal reveal but in instilling in Anne an actually desire to work at something and see herself as worthy as be capable of working at something. Oh, and Stumpy’s statement that her parents would proud of what she did feels like it boosted some kind of ‘You’re ideas may be over the top but they come from a good place.”)

Like omg! To 13 yr old me those kinds subtle and but very clear & audial expressions of my value and worth would have been amazing. Maybe it’s okay to just be the weirdo you are. Maybe others *will* like you. Maybe someone will be your friend even if you share your weird and sentimental feelings. Aaaah! (Heck, I’m in my 30s and I’d still love this).

In that sense, to me, Anne’s self-love grew very much from the space where others (frogs) allowed her to be who she was and as she grew more expressive, she became more sure of herself and the more sure she became the more self-love was genuine. Anyway, I think it’s beautiful.

*this ask reminded me that I’ve been wanting to rewatch Amphibia; I have been reminded that I usually dig my teeth into fandom media when it’s complete, One Piece being the nearest thing to an exception and even then (1) it’s a lot easier to analyze Ace than other characters and (2) I usually narrowly focus or broadly react

[happyheidi]

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[deweyduck]

@pscentral event 30: friendship

↳ tiana & charlotte

"All my life, I read about true love and fairytales, and… Tia, you found it! I’ll kiss him! For you, honey! No marriage required."

[chibird]

Two froggy friends! 🐸💕 Remember that people love you, appreciate you in their lives, and support you in your hardships!

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[bixels]

Messy Trixie Charleston dance roughs.

[devdoption]

refrance

[wtowingedtragicobsidian]

Yuji and Megumi have never really had close friends, or any honestly. So, they don't really know what friends do. Yuji decides that if spending some time with Megumi is good, more must be better and drags the other boy around to accompany him in literally everything. Megumi is pretty sure this is not how friends normally act, but since he has no way to verify this —lacking prior experience and all— he (reluctantly) goes along with it.

[titsay]

when you all have nothing to do but you still wanna hang out

[smoluglies]

Brighter Days ☀️

Hey everyone! I hope you’re doing well 🫶 I had this idea of adding animated elements to some of my illustrations :) here is one I’ve done recently of a frog and his lily of the valley ghost friend.

This piece is available on my inprnt store (please check the link below if you’re interested!). I’ve also turned it into a phone wallpaper which you can grab for free on my kofi shop ☺️

Wishing you a lovely weekend and bright days (regardless of the weather 😉)

• Prints of this piece are available here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/smoluglies/brighter-days/

• Phone wallpaper on kofi: https://ko-fi.com/s/43c4e2b9ec

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

Boulder but tiny and give him a frog flowerpot!!

[froggie-at-home]

will solace and his small touches with his friends.

he runs away from angry ares kids after a successful prank, his legs brushing against cecil's. he drags nyssa away from the fire by the back of her overrals, his fingers brushing against the back of her neck. he finds and puts on glasses for malcolm, when he searches for the pair. he brushes the hair away from mitchell's eyes when he tries to choose between two nail polishes. he lightly bumps heads with lou ellen while they laugh together over funny spells. he hugs drew's shoulders when she starts talking about her siblings. he gives a plate of food to annabeth when she locks herself up in cabin 3.

sometimes after, he caresses nico's scars on his hands. he ties alabaster's hair in a tiny ponytail during a stressful night.

[writesailingdreams]

If there was a compilation of all the Spranne moments from each season finale, I’d probably cry over it

“For someone who’s Anne’s best friend, you sure don’t know her very well”

“Give him back”

“You’re my everything”

[musubiki]

lime habit

[froginamoodboard]

Richie and Grace best friends moodboard

Requested by: me

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[oldinterneticons]

[hwashitape]

giant frogs if they slayed