#i love be cool scooby doo

[ilovefredjones]

it’s insane to me that you WOULDNT consider which iteration the gang are in. like their interpersonal dynamics change with each show/film, eg the gang in the sword and the scoob are NOT the same gang as mystery incorporated. each interpretation has their own strengths & weaknesses and better/worse traits for the characters, but the story being told changes parts of the gang and therefore how they interact with each other & their dynamics as a whole

[cinnaminstar]

Everyone go play sea of stars right now please🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Do it for pretty assassin lady

[nemmet]

i can’t believe that be cool scooby doo is a show that actually exists (/pos)

[dinosaurwithablog]

You gotta love a guy with a Scooby Doo baseball bat!!! ⚾️ I like Gunnar Henderson because he uses a Scooby Doo bat!! That's freaking awesome 😊😍 very cool, Gunnar!! 😊

[keh-art]

anyways be cool is still the best thank u for asking

[broke-on-books]

We NEED more sarcastic Velma comments actually. We lost something with the death of "What a Ham!" for real

[cryptidjeepers]

I think its ridiculous to ridicule bcsd for its art style when it has such incredible costume design

These are mostly daphne, but ive always loved how detailed the character designers got, even with he limiting the style is. They show so much of the characters personality through their outfits instead of just giving them basic colour coded clothing like in wnsd

[tubapun]

AUGH I FINISHED BE COOL SCOOBY-DOO THIS IS MY FAVORITE SCOOBY SERIES

It's so wild that they almost ended on the episode where Fred gets Emotional Closure with his criminal father but instead they ended up ending on an ep that's 2 11 minute chunks, one of which is FNAF and the other is an ep that was clearly meant to be a season long arc featuring a classic villain

[stick-by-me]

The gang's all here!

New follower sticker for: @babbiepuppie!

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[cws: psychiatric abuse, torture, homophobia, ableism, sanism, racism, pictures of taxidermy. boy this show is a lot sometimes lmfao]

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so something @thecottageinthedark noticed recently that i'm still fucked up about is that pericles' cage in the asylum isn't actually a bird cage.

it's a bell jar.

for those who don't know what a bell jar is, it's a type of taxidermy display for preserving delicate specimens, most often birds. it's easy for their feathers to get dusty or disintegrate over time if they're left out in the open; a bell jar not only keeps off dirt and keeps people from touching them, but it's made to create a vacuum inside to keep everything where it is.

another layer to this reference is that the book The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, is a retelling of her own experiences with mental illness and the attempts made to treat it at the time. notably, one of the major themes of the book is psychiatric abuse.

pericles is also not only a gay man forcefully committed to an asylum in what is most likely intended to be the 70s, but a very obvious and already horribly handled fantasy metaphor for both physically disabled people and POC. (in particular the talking animals' role in the worldbuilding heavily mirrors Black americans irl, which holy shit there is so much to unpack there all by itself. there is So Much)

(fun little bonus on the side: he's kept in a cell with extremely bright blue/white light 24/7, at an angle where it'd be even more difficult to block it out than if it were overhead. this would make it impossible to get any decent fucking sleep, which is widely recognized as one of the worst forms of torture to exist. they did this to him for 20 years straight.)

so, to recap: gay man and analogue for disabled people/POC, who is also portrayed as an ~evil crazy malicious psychopath,~ is kept in not only a display case for scientific specimens, but one specifically made--in-universe and out--to recreate something that is done to his demographic as a metaphorical disabled person/POC.

and not only that, and not only do people talk about him--in front of him, like he's not even there--as a specimen while gawking at him in this position, but he is being displayed like the stuffed and mounted corpse of a disabled person/POC.

he is said to belong on that display for 'the rest of his miserable [disabled/POC] life.' no one disagrees with this. he's painted as smugly bullying the violent abusive guard. in general he's portrayed as Scary and Evil Now for having been in this situation. and when he escapes, it kicks off what end up being the most heavy-duty problems for the protagonists, which result in the Bad Ending for the nibiru timeline; if he had stayed there, continued to be objectified and tortured with homophobic/racist/ableist violence for the rest of his life, the timeline almost certainly wouldn't have been doomed.

and they used a real person's autobiography about their experiences with psychiatric abuse for this. and to position them in the role of someone it should have not only happened to, but been even more horrifically dehumanizing and cruel.

yeah. i..... yeah.

the creators of this show are genuinely really good at putting together layered references like this, some more obscure than others, which are rewarding to discover and add depth when you do, and it is a crying fucking shame that they like to use it for shit like this. god damn lmao

[muddlemore]

Storyboard art for "A Mystery Solving Gang Divided" by Llyn Hunter

[threephantomrey]

tbh what also kinda pisses me off in the Scooby fandom is the like 4 people online that are so mad about the hate that 13th Ghost and RTZI get and get so defensive over these movies because of it that they’ll say things like “oh look at these grown adults getting so mad about retcons🤣�� and claim that people who don’t like these movies just hate fun. and they’ll say things like “well the fandom ASKED for a 13 Ghosts sequel and now they’re CRYING about it because they wanted to see a demon get stuffed in a box but that didn’t happen cause we got another thing instead boohoo get over it” like bro first of all, you are NOT helping the reputations of these movies AT ALL. if anything, you’re actually making their reputations worse than they already are. and you can’t force people to like stuff and also, making fun of fans especially 13 Ghosts fans for not liking something/being disappointed about 13th Ghost’s ending because they wanted the 13th Ghost to be recaptured is incredibly rude. i like RTZI and i love 13th Ghost and i love the 13th ghost’s redemption thing and i like the villain reveal and i think it’s a good ending but OH MY GOD you can’t be that mad about people wanting the 13th ghost to get recaptured in the chest, literally the entire 13 Ghosts show was about the gang recapturing the ghosts from the chest after Shaggy and Scooby let them out that was the whole plot OF COURSE people were expecting the 13th ghost to be caught. they’re allowed to want that!!! they’re allowed to express their disappointment!!! so to sit here and say “well actually it’s THE FANS FAULT” is incorrect and rude and stupid. you guys are so mean. i understand being mad about the amount of hate that these movies get like i get annoyed about it too sometimes believe me i’ve talked about it before. but YOU CAN’T SAY THINGS LIKE THAT!!!! or that one confession i saw that was like “well maybe if you guys didn’t voice how much you love ZI, we wouldn’t have gotten RTZI so maybe think about that” which is also stupid and is also just being very rude to the fans. you are disrespecting other Scooby fans and also giving yourself and others 13th Ghost and RTZI fans a bad rep! also i hate when they try to convince other fans that no actually 13th Ghost was better than the series and the series was garbage or that no actually RTZI was better than the original. like my guy, you can think that these movies are better than the originals and not like 13 Ghosts or ZI and voice your opinion online but don’t @ the fans and try to force them to think the same as you and be disrespectful towards them just because they didn’t like a movie that YOU liked. it’s okay for people to not like a movie/feel disappointed about it i promise you it’s not that deep😭

in conclusion: let’s just all chill and support other Scooby fans and come up with theories about 13th Ghost and RTZI and make fun little jokes thank you❤️🙏🏻

[ilovefredjones]

eyes forward, jones

[nemmet]

guess which show i’m finally watching in its entirety

[abandonedshops]

the best critique of the velma series i heard was that shaggy should not have had a clean cut because he is not the guy to sit through a haircut longer than 30 minutes. and that's real

[miblue]

Scooby hot take.

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is the reason the scooby doo fans perspective of the show has gotten as fucked up as it is.

For a show that has been on the air sence 1969. Had at minimum 11 reincarnation, this was the one that broke it. Warped everyone's perspective on who these characters are and what the show is supposed to be like.

Because of incorporated, is why we got Velma. A broken, unfunny, uncharming, terrible mystery, and lack of actual for thaught and or care put into it.

A simple tight friend group, going on adventures and pulling masks off over the top goons trying to scare for money, solving mystery and eating snacks. Has morphed into a group of random people, super glued together because the formula demands it, making horror/Gothic or modern references. With aliens and real monsters and LORE vomiting in my lap.

Listen. Scooby doo has never been a perfect series, there are great ups and horrible downs with it all through out the years. But this current direction is going to kill it. Kill it hard into the ground until it's unrecognizable.

Incorporated is not as good as you think it is. Watch scooby do, where are you. Or what's new scooby do. And tell me, those are the same characters.

Fucking scrapy doo was a better choice then what was made in the show.