#i just love marcy so much

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

I love Marcy as an example of a morally grey character... so often you think of morally grey characters are these cocky bastards with a heart of gold, traumatized DILFS and murderous lesbians and funny anti-heros and and fox style furries in animated movies and cunning, evil manipulating and very attractive women who love One (1) person.

It's rarely an adorkable kid whose main love language is physical contact and spends most of her time excitedly gushing about how much she loves the world she found herself in, who can't seem to be able to say one mean thing and who loves her friends more than life itself.

BEHOLD: The morally grey... antagonist?

[notadreamurr]

Charles schulz jesterdoll bc yall seemed to like the bunnydoll one

[kyurochurro]

simon dobbles :DD

[puppppppppy]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[arcadiii]

another cadi thought of the day

[guildling]

i appreciate him very much

[brb-screaming-over-amphibia]

When,,, when colors,,,, calamity,,,, , cookie,,, ,, ,

[sysig]

Now that they can, would they want to spend a lot of time together? (Patreon)

[tindove]

Man, Simon. That seasonal depression must suck for you. That’s rough buddy. No more Holly Jolly Secrets for you.

[wyvilleijelli]

MORE MARCY AND PB PICS FROM HALLOWEEN💕

I think we were so cute. 😭

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

The difference between amphibia and the owl house is that amphibia is like if luz wasn't the protagonist but some kind of twist villain-adjacent morally grey chessmaster type of character who gets put in the electric chair as punishment for getting too distracted by the fantasy of it all

[alphashley14]

“HoT dOg WAtEr?????”

[lemonthepotato]

I diagnose her with tism.

will do nontism pink icons too. wanted to add the infinity symbol somewhere but uh… I couldn’t get it to look fine so w/e.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

there are a lot of reasons i'm really, really impressed by how well sdmi portrayed the dynamic of an abusive relationship with pericles and ricky, and one of the big ones is how accurately they show what it looks like when abuse starts to escalate.

the extent of that is yet another thing that'll take a longpost of its own to go into, because it spans like.... the entire arc of their relationship in the show. but one thing that stands out to me in particular is their portrayal of the massive red flag that is a partner trotting out bigoted behavior against a group you're in. especially insults, and especially directed right at you.

this show has a LOT of fatphobia, jesus christ does it ever, and there are certainly some fatphobic tropes going on with ricky; but i've always been surprised and impressed by how many of the nastier ones they avoided, especially considering his role in the story and what his arc is about.

he is a major, nuanced character whose trauma is treated with full weight and sincerity. it's implied that his body type changed the way it did due to the trauma he went through when he was younger, and the ensuing mental illness, which is a pretty realistic experience for a lot of people. the things that happen to him are played for full tragedy and horror, when it would have been so, so easy for them to make light of it because Tee Hee Fat Guy and Tee Hee Male Abuse Victims Funnee. despite how his whole thing involves corporate greed, they don't go the route of portraying him as Gluttonous and Hedonistic; if anything he is very obviously not using all that money for even basic physical self-care, and the only time we ever see him eating anything it's when he's drinking wine grape juice with pericles. which, like, there's issues to be unpacked with that too, but jesus christ it's an improvement over what usually happens with characters like him.

he's a fat queer man who isn't degendered or made feminine in a mocking and/or predatory way. (there's nothing wrong with feminine fat queer men and they need more non-shitty rep, please and thank you god, but there is a lot of nastiness in the tropes they're often used for in mainstream media, and one of those tropes is when people consider 'fat queer man' and 'masc' to be oxymorons.) no one ever once calls him ugly; if anything multiple people in his life think he's attractive and desirable, for better or for worse. no one body-shames him. and no one ever mentions his weight.

except pericles.

'The Horrible Herd' and 'The Devouring' are two halves of a whole here, re: escalation of abuse. 'Devouring' is when the abuser goes full mask off and shit hits the fan; 'Horrible Herd' is the wind-up before the punch. HH is when ricky realizes things are getting Bad and he needs to put a stop to this now, and Devouring shows what happens when he tries, because by the point where it's gotten bad enough to give him a wakeup call it's already too late. it's how abusive relationships tend to go, and it's chillingly accurate.

and what's one of the things pericles says during Horrible Herd when that punch is winding up? something no one's ever said before now, including him? 'you pudding-faced dummkopf.'

he body-shames him. he insults his weight, and that's a major turning point. bigotry is something that's often there to some degree from the start, but not always, because some abusers are good at hiding things like that until they're confident they've got you where they want you. the message with ricky and pericles is loud and clear: when this happens, the walls are dripping blood. get out.

(if you can. and be careful when you try.)

when this show is good, it is really, truly good. god damn.

[catmeme]

my son's newly upgraded mansion (which he hates so far)

and the baby and its mansion (which it loves so much it's started making crazy ass webs behind the wood)

[wolfplushlz]

Doodles of glowstick Anne au by @RaveSpix and @Gumballfanatic1 (ambrewisniewski)

May got the character's personality wrong a bit in these doodles