#its just whack thinking about

[sealbuffed]

post covid south park game where everyone still calls you the new kid but you're a grown ass adult who has lived there for thirty years

[charmac]

is there any season that you'd say does the best (or worst) at character development for the gang? personally, i've always thought that season 1 did wonders in helping the audience understand the gang's individual characters (minus frank) right away, but i'm interested in your opinion on the topic

Season 10 absolutely, 100%. It’s my favourite season of Sunny (and one of my favourite seasons of television ever), especially for the fact that it does so much insane character work in its span of ten episodes.

I don’t want to discount seasons before it, there’s an insane amount of foundational work that should be mentioned, but Season 10 being a milestone they never thought they would reach really sticks out as a major turn in the idea that the Gang don’t “develop” as characters by making the Gang face their own devolution. I've written about how Misses the Boat touches on this on the Paddy's Pub Blog, but Season 10 really as a whole just turns a lot more inward to the characters.

Charlie Work rotates around one of the Gang's schemes while having quite literally nothing to do with the scheme at all and everything to do with Charlie's character. This is the perfect example as to how the whole season operates, pushing the characters ahead of the plots, the schemes are just background work to revolve around. (Really, this is how the show operates a chunk of the time, but Season 10 is really really telling you that.)

It's hard to talk about each individual character without spiralling and trying to hit every S10 episode for everyone, but in brief summary: Frank unearths his own childhood trauma and starts to understand he's running out of time here; Dennis is diagnosed and his mask starts slipping more and more as he's forced to face (and attempt to disregard) how he is seen by outsiders; Mac is no longer able to front to himself that he's into women and he destroys his relationship with his father one step further; Charlie really sees he's viewed as less-than by Mac and Dennis and grows much more persistent to (dis)prove Frank is his father; Dee is shown as an even more 'successful' predator than Dennis, though just as pathetic at each turn.

All of this is not only built off what their characters were, but really are the very central parts of their characters that they clearly keep in mind as we push into the later seasons. (Arguably every character is still grappling with these core issues except Mac.)

(Briefly on worst season for character development, I think 13 is kind of the obvious choice. While there are some things I think they did well and are built on later (i.e. Bathroom Problem), episodes like The Gang Wins the Big Game are a prime example of how Sunny does not work well when the whole basis of an episode has nothing to do with the characters and everything to do with the plot. There was really negative character work done there, imo.)

I think it's funny you mention Season 1 for character development, because while I think it’s so so insanely essential to watch (and understand) as a foundation for the show and who the characters become, those versions of the characters are pretty distant from the Gang to me. Season 1 reads very much as Rob’s original idea: these are the worst versions of themselves; characters, but still a little too clearly RCG. Season 2 took those guys and built on them to create actual characters outside of themselves as terrible people, but I don't see the Gang as fully formed individuals until ~S4 (which I think RCG have mostly (?) admitted as much on TASP, lol)

Obviously every season contributes a lot to the characters as we know them, and some do a lot more for certain characters than others, so these are just my personal opinions... But I will argue for the rest of time that Season 10 is that bitch (and the best example of who the characters are).

[stiffyck]

I want Daredevil in marvel rivals just so his melee ability can be him hitting you over the head with his cane

[lollytea]

Tbh I think the Barbie movie handled its theme of existentialism better than the feminism.

[mr-stottlemonk]

made a timeline for monk tv for the folks cause it makes no sense sometimes.

[more in the tags]

[update: stottlemeyer's timeline found here]

[paranoidgemsbok]

It's so wild to me that people don't instinctively hold doors for the person behind them. Like I'm not even complaining someone didn't hold the door for me I'm saying people are SURPRISED when I hold the door for them

[phagodyke]

they need to make a killing myself I can do every weekend but only on the weekends so I can get up fine on monday and go to work again

[sandinmybed]

there are people struggling in poverty in awful situations who can't get a single donation on their gfms for vital medicines and housing help and someones made £600 on one for dnp tickets :/

[vogelmeister]

anyways in 2019/2020 i went on a rampage on eurovision youtube regarding lena and maNga (nothing too wild, i was 18, but mainly just calling them out on being plain delusional and then getting called racist in return) and i still get salty maNga stans replying years later and its honestly so pathetic the more time goes by. grow up. get a hobby. who the fuck cares. you found my four year old comment and you decided to argue back.

[molter-writes]

just thinking about how lucerys and aemond are really the sons that define rhaenyra and alicent as mothers; both of their eldests are kinda non-entities to them -- jace because he's perfect and aegon because he's a lost cause -- but these second boys are really their foils and their hearts and the embodiments of their worst fears: Luke, with a weak claim and a weak dragon, always shown in positions of uninvited pressure and powerlessness and while hiding behind his mother holding her hand and all the things Rhaenyra was afraid to be in Viserys' eyes; Aemond, a royal Valyrian in command of virtually unchecked power -- all the agency and authority and implicit safety that unwillingly pregnant fifteen-year-old minor noble Alicent could have only imagined, with all the cruelty and resentment that Alicent was always horrified to find in her own actions, that she fought (and prayed) to drive from her own heart; i think it makes sense so much of the audience is taken by these characters. and it's also why aemond's killing (however unintentional) of lucerys is so tragic. the strong side of alicent killed the weak side of rhaenyra. just like when alicent married her father. just like when alicent crowned aegon king

[llitchilitchi]

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[isa-ah]

fionna and cake was so good I haven't been able to stop thinking about it like at all since I finished watching it

[ferahntics]

Hello! I hope you have a lovely day/evening!

It took some courage to even send this ask and express my appreciation and gratitude to you.

I was introduced by your kirby ocs (it was Robin first before Quiver) and I adore them a lot and their stories are fantastic too, that actually made me sprung up to go back and work on my kirby ocs' backstories. So far I did one a little bit and working on another, they're aren't much but its an honest work lol.

I just want to say thank you for being an inspiration and motivation for all that. There are many others but you're the first person that inspired me!

Kirby oc content isn't strong in my blog but eventually they'll gain some love kdjdkdns

okay yeah, again i hope you have a nice time!

Google, how do I send hugs via the internet

Anon, this was such a heartfelt message to read omg 🥺💖💖💖 I'm so happy and flattered to be one of the people that inspired you, AAA;;;;;;;

Go absolutely ham with your OCs, at your own pace and time and don't worry about how much traction they get, and just have fun with them and their stories - that's the whole key to it 💖

[youngpettyqueen]

I like BJ quite a lot and his character development involving him becoming angrier as the show goes on I think it's a really interesting choice to take the one character we actually see BEFORE he witnesses the war and make his progression about becoming angrier and rebellious and even mean because to me BJ represents not only the way the war corrupts people and corrupts the ideal American nuclear family man, but also the really ugly side of being a victim where sometimes it's not nightmares and crying and sickness, sometimes it's just a lot of anger thrown everywhere and fucking up and hurting the people you love

all that said his character absolutely suffers for the fact that for some reason the narrative is allergic to portraying him as being in the wrong

[kissingarthurclaus]

Also my friend sent me a few little fun things about Toshinori and I found out that he's a nature lover and he even has a favorite type of tree?? He's so fucking precious I can't stand it sometimes!! and I also love trees so I imagine we could talk about them and swap facts and stuff and I'd just really love to see him gush about it 🥺💘💘

We also talked a bit about how he would probably really enjoy gardening since he REALLY needs some hobbies after retiring lol and I can picture him in a sunhat with the apron and gardening gloves looking all adorable! My s/i comes home from work and he's telling her to come and see how good the begonias are doing and aren't the eucalyptus looking lovely and maybe he brings her flowers that he grew himself and it always fills him with pride when she wears one in her hair!! 💖💖

[catgirlmissy]

Someone explain the correlation between point A and point B to me like I'm 5 years old idc about this book but the fuck does the prose have to do with anything here