#rick et morty

[histoire-glitchienne]

Rick est-il une version "underground " de Merlin l'Enchanteur ?

 Merlin l’enchanteur, sans doute l’un des personnages les plus connus dans la littérature occidentale…

 Cependant, certaines interrogations demeurent tenaces : qui est-il ? Il semble qu’il s’agisse d’un personnage historiquequi ayant vécu au VIème siècle. Toutefois, jusqu’au XIIème siècle son histoire n’a été transmise que de manière orale.Pourtant, un jour, Geoffroy de Monmouth décide lui de consacrer trois textes : Prophitiae Merlini, Vita Merlini et HistoriaRegum Britanniae[1]. C’est par ces œuvres qu’il se manifeste en tant que célèbre conseiller du roi Arthur. Le personnagedemeure omniprésent dans les dessins animés, la littérature enfantine et adulte, les bds…[2]

 C’est en lisant le mémoire de Gaëlle Zussa que je me suis aperçue que le personnage de Rick Sanchez de la sérieRick et Morty correspondait étrangement à la personnalité et aux attributs de Merlin. Je dis « étrangement », car si monintuition s’avère exacte, le personnage de la série nous est présenté comme étant un savant fou complètement dépravé(Rick Sanchez) aimant un peu trop fort la bouteille. De surcroît, ce Merlin version moderne, embarque constamment sonpetit-fils (Morty) dans des aventures insolites sur d’autres planètes pleines de créatures monstrueuses. Cette série, censéeêtre une parodie de Retour vers le futur connaît rapidement un grand succès. De ce fait, les réalisateurs décident de sedétacher de l'aspect parodique et de développer leurs personnages à part entière.

 Afin d’étayer mon (hypo)-thèse( ?) je me baserai tout particulièrement sur la série Rick et Morty créée par DanHarmon et Justin Roiland. Désormais, le défi qui est le mien m’apparaît clairement : il s’agit dans ce travail de démontrerque Rick et Morty est une réécriture de Merlin l’Enchanteur dans un monde de Science-fiction.

 Le premier point de similitude entre Merlin l’Enchanteur et Rick Sanchez est sans aucun doute la misanthropie. Eneffet, Merlin semble fuir à tout prix la compagnie des hommes, préfère vivre en ermite dans la nature [3].  Rick Sanchez,lui, ne se réfugie pas dans la nature mais dans d’autres dimensions spatiales et extraterrestres. Chez les auteurs médiévauxtels que Geoffroy de Monmouth (Vita Merlini), Merlin se réfugie dans les bois suite en réaction à perte de trois de seshommes lors d’une bataille. Les bois sont alors synonymes de recueillement, une manière de fuir la réalité. De même,Rick Sanchez est représenté comme un personnage désabusé et profondément triste et asocial, il ressent un profondmalaise dans la société des hommes.

 En outre, les auteurs contemporains nous dépeignent Merlin comme détenteur d’un pouvoir bien particulier lié à saconnaissance des végétaux et de la nature en général. Rick Sanchez tire également son pouvoir de sa connaissance desplantes extraterrestres. Dans le premier épisode[4], Rick Sanchez voyage en compagnie de Morty sur une autre planèteafin de cueillir des fruits aux pouvoirs spécifiques. Le physique de Rick est aussi énigmatique que celui de Merlin. Eneffet, Gaelle Zussa relève que Merlin a un aspect d’«enfant vieillard[5]».

 En somme, nous pourrions considérer le personnage de Rick comme une version underground de Merlinl’Enchanteur et plus précisément, la version de Merlin l’Enchanteur en habit de prophète-magicien. En effet, selon AnneBerthelot, Merlin est perçu comme étant un prophète-magicien dans certains textes médiévaux. Il est capable de connaîtretous les secrets du passé, du présent et du futur[6]. En admettant que Merlin l’Enchanteur soit : « en un mot, le magicienpar excellence, qui, par nature ou du fait d’un savoir « pré-scientifique » acquis on ne sait trop comment, triomphe des loishumaines et physiques[7]. »  Rick est, également doué de ces pouvoirs même si, contrairement à Merlin, il doit recourir àl’utilisation de machines ultra-technologiques ; en effet, Rick est en quelque sorte un savant-fou, ayant construit desmachines à voyager dans plusieurs univers et multivers dans lesquels il est capable d’interagir afin de changer le cours deschoses.

 Néanmoins, Rick serait un "Merlin " ayant un regard désabusé, lucide voire cynique sur le monde contemporain...

Clin d'oeil parodique et désabusé?

 Dans l'épisode 9 de la saison 1, le robot à beurre s'adresse à Rick:

- Robot à beurre: "Quel est mon but?"

-Rick: "Passer le beurre"

- Robot à beurre: "Oh mon dieu"

- Rick:"Oui, bienvenu au club mec"

Le personnage principal, au lieu d'apprendre à son robot qu'une quête incroyable l'attend,  lui fait comprendre que son seulbut dans la vie doit être de servir les humains. Fatalement, la "quête du Graal " ou autrement dit "l'espoir d'une viemeilleure " pour ce robot n'est que peine perdue.

 En réalité, il apparaît que, même si l’on peut souligner quelques similitudes entre Merlin et Rick, nous devonségalement mettre en évidence un certain nombre de différences entre ces deux personnages. Premièrement, Merlin est leguide d'Arthur, il l'accompagne tout au long de sa quête. A contrario, Rick Sanchez a tendance à considérer son petit-fils,Morty et les autres personnages qui l'entourent comme ses larbins afin d'arriver à ses fins.

 Merlin, malgré ses pouvoirs de métamorphose décrits dans le roman de Barjavel, ne s’est jamais transformé encornichon afin de crier : « Je suis un Merlin cornichon ! » En effet, cela sonne fortement moins bien que : « I’m pickleRiiiick[8]» Nous  pouvons donc conclure que Merlin, bien que parfois misanthrope, ne semble pas un amoureux de labouteille (ni de substances illicites bien entendu) à l’inverse de son «jumeau » 2.0.

[1] Tusseau, J.-P. (1995). Merlin : de l’histoire à la légende. Nuit blanche,(60), 34–35. [2] Gaëlle Zussa. Merlin, rémanences contemporaines d’un personnage littéraire médiéval dans la pro- duction culturelle francophone (fin 20e siècle et début 21e siècle) : origines et pouvoirs. Littératures. Université Paris-Est; Universität Basel, 200, p.3 [3] Gaëlle Zoussa, op.cit., p.110. [4] Rick et Morty, épisode 01, saison 1. [5] Gaelle Zussa, op.cit., p.317 [6] BERTHELOT, Anne. Merlin magicien ? In : Magie et illusion au Moyen Âge [en ligne]. Aix-en-Provence : Presses universitaires de Provence, 1999 (généré le 27 septembre 2022), p.2. [7] Ibidem, p.1. [8] Épisode 03-saison 3.

[stephaniedola]

literally the OT3 of all time tbh

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Y'all I promise this is true

I love fandom requests

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[moonysfavoritetoast]

Introduction !!

im so sorry to the people who aren’t used to my antics

sorry if this is rude, but please stop sending the gofundme asks. they’re overwhelming me.

last updated 11/10/24**

*month/day/year

*updated tags, husband list, fandom list

about me

hi i’m evan or james or cosmo :) i love love LOVE nicknames! as long as they aren’t sexual or directly calling me a girl, i don’t mind! *

i’m a MINOR in eighth grade, don’t be a creep. im a MINOR.

i use he/they/it/star pronouns

i’m transmasc, non-binary, bisexual & aceflux (i also use demi-boy as a label!)

* i especially love the nickname ‘ev’, as my sister had it first and my family will not call me that. i don’t want to be sexualized, it makes me uncomfortable. i am a boy, and i don’t want to be called a girl. eg; ‘good girl’ ‘my girl’ ‘girlfriend’. as for sexual stuff, i mean LITERALLY any nickname said with sexual undertones. i don’t mind being called a good boy, but the moment it’s said with anything sexual you might be blocked. for that reason, please use tone tags, as i am pretty bad at figuring out what some things mean at times.

i don’t usually answer chain asks because they scare me but do know they don’t go unnoticed i appreciate them

rambling

FREE PALESTINE

PFP WAS DRAWN BY MY LOVELY WIFE @meerealsssss

currently matching pfps with @meerealsssss

first post limit 3/12/24

expect vent posts from time to time

i’m always going batshit crazy over ghost and fallout (honorable mentions are house md, gravity falls, and sally face !)

i complain a lot, sorry

will x isaac

deer :3 and and german shepherds :3

jizz pants (will anf dom know what this means)

watch just add magic, do it please /nf

i love love love minecraft diaries (aphmau) gagagag lawrence and aaron are my fave characters (please talk to me about aphmau i swear i’m not cringe)

nico <3

starr <3

alex <3

ace <3

mee <3

my wife is @meerealsssss

my wife is @homoashell

my wife is @catinasink

my wife is dominic

my wife is also undyne

my wife is also mrs claus

my wife is trashcan carla

my husband is @aceiined / @muthafuckinaro

my husband is @homoashell

my husband is @catinasink

my husband is @the-rizzly-bear

my husband is the man in the yellow hat

my husband is terzo. i will not be taking criticism at this time.

my husband is also rick sanchez

my husband is also jazon broadly

my husband is also izerah (fuck you what is his last name, mee?)

pac-man is also my husband

my husband is alastor (hazbin hotel)

lucifer is my husband (hazbin hotel)

my husband is rj maccready:3

my husband is john hancock (the gay one)

my husband is the ghoul (on my knees for that cowboy ass mf)

my husband is ford pines

lord farquaad is my husband

my husband is jeremy fragrance

my husband is prae jack ;3

MY HUSBAND IS DR HOSUE

my partner is @alex-the-bard <3 <3 <3

my partner is @homoashell <3

my partner is @catinasink <3

likes/dislikes

like: music, tv, friends, my cat, cool socks, writing, rick sanchez, genloss, tadc, musicals/theatre, undertale/deltarune, ducks, omori

dislike: loud noises, silence, school

i’m currently obsessed with: ghost, dreamscape nexus, rick and morty, gravity falls, etc

i post about:

• marauders

• (mostly) random thoughts

• dreamscape nexus

• other random things

• rick and morty

• gravity falls

• percy jackson

• undertale/deltarune

• hazbin hotel

• helluva boss

• fallout

• omori

• sally face

• ghost

• mad max

• house md

family/pets

i have a younger sibling, evie (any pronouns)

i have a cat named daniel tiger

i have two dogs, gunner and roxie

timezone

EST

if you’re interacting with me past midnight, i’ll probably be a bit sillier than normal

DNI

maps/pedophiles, z00philes, bigots, ED and porn blogs

if you have ‘mdni’ in ur bio

simon cowell

donald trump

neo-nazis

if you don’t like furries and therians please get the fuck away from my blog

and if you shit on other’s religions, get away

what can you call me?

no: feminine related terms (unless you’re using them in a gender neutral way or as a joke) like girl, sister, wife, etc (bbg is always ok)

yes: boy, guy, partner, husband, dude, man (basically anything masculine/gender neutral)

sideblogs

@ricksanchezsboyfriend is my rick and morty sideblog

@mountainsmissingshoes is my ghost sideblog

@alastorsbigdick is my hazbin hotel rp sideblog (matching ace)

@giddingstexasenthusiast is my southern mom rp blog

@cryingunderstars is my writing sideblog

i am also @hadesfavoritechild

i run @rosie-rosier as well (marauders rp blog)

@scandalous-triangle and @myst3rytw1n are my gravity falls rp blogs (dm to join?)

extra info

birthday is august 7 :3

tone tags appreciated

i’m some flavor of neurodivergent (except i’m not diagnosed (parents r more worried about my sister) soz)

i play trumpet + i want to learn electric guitar or drums

i’m a gryffindor

child of hades

my favorite band is ghost

i speak english and i am currently learning french (might learn swedish)

satanist

feminist

alterhuman

fictionkin

theatre kid (crew) currently doing little shop of horrors

my fav number is 173

i write

i live in my own head. sorry.

i live in michigan and i guess this is shameful (shrimp bullies me for it)

i kin dipper pines

i have another sideblog. if you find it, idk i’ll give you chocolate or something (it’s embarrassing)

fuck wilbur soot. if i post about lovejoy, please know that i do not support him.

ask me about ghost (band) i have an oc and want to talk about them

send anon asks

tags!

• screenshots of dm’s/discord/texts: #evan leaks their texts

• lyrics: #evan screams lyrics at you

• my asks: #evan gets an ask *gasp*

• anything related to my book w/ @meerealsssss: #brokenly beloved

• anything related to moonlex (@alexthescaredenby and i’s ship name): #moonlex tag

• dreamscape nexus: #dreamscape nexus / #dn

• bracelets i make: #evan’s bracelets

• ace’s shit quotes: #ace needs to shit

• me talking about the man in the yellow hat: #tevan tag

• pictures of me: #literally evan

• me screaming about something: #on todays episode of evan is slowly going insane

• certain anon who signs off with a ☀️: #☀️ anon

• shit about omori: #evan plays omori

• shit about sally face: #evan plays sally face

• reblogging mutual’s art: #REBLOG (mutuals art)

• stuff that i post at theatre: #theatre shenanigans

• anything about house md: #evan gay dr house

• everything else: #evan's rambles

people i talk about

my teachers :3

• mr sharpie/mr shark is my band teacher (he/him)

• madam eddinger is my french teacher

• mr crowner is my science teacher

• mrs bryant is my math teacher

• mr stowe is my social studies teacher

• mrs erskine is my ela teacher

• mrs seals is the old ass transphobic building substitute

• mr jacobs is our theatre director

• ms carmen is from theatre

——— previous teachers

• mama is a teacher from sixth grade (she/her)

• mrs kopykat - seventh, ela (she/her)

• ms k - seventh, ela student teacher (she/her)

• mr bones/skeleton - seventh, science (he/him)

• mr margarita/montague - seventh, social studies (he/him)

• mrs doty/dodds - seventh, math (she/her)

my irl friends :3

• crotch demon is my sister (any pronouns)

• my sweet little expired english muffin is @meerealsssss (she/her)

• ace @aceiined / @muthafuckinaro (they/them, mal/they)

• wife part two is my wife, they asked me to not name her here (she/they)

• al/allie is from school :3 (she/her)

• smurf is from school (blue hair, hence the nickname) (he/him)

• tomato is from school (silly :3) (he/him)

• boom boy/isaac is from school (he made me a netherite pickaxe after someone else burned mine // the pick had unbreaking // boom boy likes tnt) (he/him)

• boomerang/matt is from school (he/him)

• (irl) alex is from school :3 (he/they)

• khris is from school

• colten is from school (father) (he/him)

• will @skibitygamer is from school (he/him)

• dom is from school (he/him)

• luca was from theatre (mf graduated)

• maryn is from theatre

• gavin is from theatre

• chris is from theatre

• andrew is from theatre

parents are now getting their own nicknames

• hades is my dad (he/him)

• will come up with one for my mom (she/her)

where else can you find me?

pinterest (moonysfavoritetoast)

pinterest (cryingunderstars)

youtube

wattpad (please don’t take this seriously)

tiktok (moonysfavoritetoast)

tiktok (cryingunderstars)

facebook mom account

my nintendo switch friend code is SW-4260-6971-6714

roblox is /@moonysfavorite_toast

and discord (@moonysfavoritetoast)

[rickortyweek]

Welcome to ‘tis, our very first Rickorty Week!

All forms of fanwork are accepted, and the prompts are subject to your own interpretation. Don’t forget to mention us, or use #rickortyweek2023 within the first five tags of your post so we can see it!

As a thanks for all the positive feedback we’ve decided to give you 2 bonus prompts for the week!

Without further ado, here they are:

June 18

“If you don’t care if you die, why do you care if I die?”

Fake Dating AU

Beggin’ by Måneskin

June 19

Alternate Selves

Firsts

June 20

“You’re gonna be fine. Grandpa’s here.”

Accidental Romance

June 21

Seduction

Do You Feel It? by Chaos Chaos

June 22

About to Die

“I’m okay with this. Be good, Morty. Be better than me.”

June 23

Confession

Mutual Pining

June 24

ET by Katy Perry

Soulmates AU

“You’re my Grandpa, Rick. Rick and Morty — 100 years.”

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[bunudaburayayazdim]

Brels ve Kahve hakkında

Eveet, merhaba merhaba ve merhaba sevgili arkadaşım. Şu an bu satırlara başladım, ne hakkında yazacağımı bilmiyorum o yüzden başlıkta da "Şimdilik başlıksız" yazıyor. Belki kalır, bilmiyorum bi sevdim gibi ama değişebilir. İyi olmak üzerine, depresif düşünceler üzerine, bazen evrene serzenişlerle ve farklı dışavurumlarla burada seninle çok konuştuk, seni de bu konuda fazlasıyla darladım gibi hissediyorum. O yüzden bugün biraz konu değiştirelim, biraz bu düşüncelerden, bu ülkeden, bu gezegenden uzaklaşalım istiyorum. Zihnimdeki uçsuz bucaksız uzaydaki Pandoria Galaksisinde, ufacık bir yıldız sisteminde misafir edeceğim seni bugün eğer sıkılıp erkenden gitmeyi seçmezsen.

Kalmayı seçtiğini görmek mutluluk vericii. Sen koltuğuna otur, geminin kumandası zaten yapay zekada. Ben de kahveleri hazırlayıp müziği koyayım, çok da acele etmeden, uzayın güzelliğini kaçırmadan devam edelim yolumuza. Yalnız dikkat et kahve biraz fazla sıcak, yakmasın.

Burayı inşa etmek epey zamanımı aldı, hala bitmiş değil aslında. Yer yer eklemeler yapıyorum, birkaç yaşam formu eklemeyi düşünüyorum şuradaki galaksiye. Şu sağdakinde yakında bir süpernova yaşanacak ama umarım sağlam kurtulurlar, oradakileri geliştirmeyi biraz unutmuş olabilirim çünk��, heheh. Neyse, geçelim hemen, ben şu gemiyi hızlandırayım..

İştee başyapıtım, Pandoria Galaksisi.. Her seferinde biraz daha aşık oluyorum bu manzaraya, kaostan doğan bu güzelliği şans eseri ortaya çıkardım. Normalde bu kadar canlı bir tonda olmayacaktı, kıvamını tutturayım derken fazla koydum malzemeyi.. İyi ki de öyle olmuş tabi, insanlardan sıkıldığımda burası bana çok güzel bir sığınak oluyor. Hadi gel yavaşça gezegene inelim.

Bu yıldız sistemine Sandrow adını vermişti yerlileri hemen hemen 350 yıl kadar önce. En azından bu gezegendekiler tabi heheh. Gelelim gezegenimizeee. Çok sevdiğim bir öyküsü var buranın. Bundan yaklaşık 2700-2800 yıl önce bu gezegen savaş yeriydi bildiğin. Mükemmel ötesi bir cehalet vardı gezegende. O kısım pek anlatılmaya değer bir şey değil, saçma taht savaşları işte, koltuk sevdalıları, yapacak bir şey yok.

Neyse neyse, bu savaş tabi iyice kontrolden çıkınca dedim ki buna bir müdahale etmek gerek. Ben oluşturmadım mı lan burayı oldum bi'. Gittim gezegene, dedim ki ya siz bu savaşı bitirirsiniz, ya da ben tüm silahlarınızı yok ederim, galaksiye karşı savunmasız kalırsınız. Yapman guzum, savaşman guzum dedim. Başta bi' sallamadılar tabi ama nükleer silahları bir anda kaybolunca biraz daha ılımlı hâl almaya başladılar. Tam olarak her şey o noktada değişti işte.

Çünkü zorunlu olarak yaptıkları dinleme, aynı yerde bulunma olayı onları karşı düşünceyi de anlama, dinleme yetisini kattı yavaş yavaş. Tabi epey uzun ve sancılı oldu bu süreç. 200-250 yıl falan neredeyse. Sonrasında o uzun soluklu barış dönemi başladı, o zamandan beri durumlar daha iyi gezegende. Şimdi birazdan halka karışırız, daha iyi anlarsın demek istediğimi.

Eee şöyle bir dolaş bakalım, biraz halka karış, dedikodularını dinle, bir şeyler alacak olursan benim hesabıma yazdır ben hallederim hehe. Merak etme, uzay gemisinin etki alanındasın, çeviri gibi derdin olmayacak, orası teknolojinin derdi. Ben tam burada bekliyorum, söz karışmayacağım gezintine, salça olmak da yok.

Eveet, gezip tozman bittiysee, ooo bakıyorum da Brelslerden de kapmışsın hemen görünce. Aramızda kalsın kahve yanında çok iyi gidiyor ama burada kahve içmek ölüm cezası sebebi. Sebebini yolda anlatırım. Atla atla gidelim hemen..

Aaay ay, öyle işte sevgili arkadaşım. Biraz farklı bir yer gör, kafamız dağılsın istedim. Umarım senin için keyifli bir yolculuk olmuştur. Brelsleri kahveyle denemeyi unutma, bir de buzdolabında tutma, çok kötü kokuyor öyle olunca, acı tecrübe edildi... Kendine çok dikkat et lütfen, bir sonraki yolcuğumuz için şimdiden sabırsızlanıyoruum, hadi baybaay!

[ask-rick-c137-and-morty-prime]

Opinion on Rickorty ?

Not this a-*burp*-gain...

Again? I don't remember an ask like this...

We don't ne-*burp*-ed to answer this one.

What's...rickorty?

Dont search it up.

It kinda sounds like our names mixed together...I'll search it up.

Don't-

*Morty searches it up and freezes up, his eyes widen and he drops the phone*

Morty you fucking idiot. I told you not to search it up!

I...what...? Why would someone...?

I know, it's fucki-*burp*-ng gross.

Can you...?

Erase the memory from your mind?

....Please?

Sure buddy.

*Rick leaves to get the memory eraser*

U-uhm my opinion...it's just kinda...gross...like....really really gross...I...don't get why someone would like that...I mean Rick is my grandpa...and there's no way I would ever be attracted to him...and Rick is...a lot of things...but he would never touch a child like that...especially me

*Rick comes back with the memory eraser*

My opinion? It's fuck-*burp*-ing gross, but nothing surprises me anymore.

*Rick erases Morty's memory and Morty rubs his eyes afterward*

Ugh...huh...? Did we.. get an ask on our blog?

Not y-*burp*-et buddy.

[theo-vilaceque]

🦐 SAM LA CREVETTE 🦐

Foncez chez votre libraire, commandez le ou alors, espérez juste l’avoir un jour, c’est déjà bien d’espérer.

[woodaba]

Travelling into Trover

The Magic Circle is a concept articulated by Johan Huizinga in the naive and racist Homo Ludens, and later codified by Salen and Zimmerman in the even more naive and utterly wrongheaded Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, which posits that the rules of a game create what is effectively a separate reality that exists within our own, one wherein the concerns and realities of our lives do not intrude, where the work envelops us in its entirety.

Like a lot of game theory that I've read, the Magic Circle is more of a wishful thought than something that is actually observable and true to the reality of the experience. Play does not exist as separate from reality, it is a product of it, just as we are. Game designers can't make a game wholly separate from the person they are, and the person they are cannot be separated from the circumstances that made them, and neither can players. You aren't entering another world when you read The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, you're just using an object to try to shut the world out. To put it simply, we've all got baggage, and we're carrying that shit everywhere with us, whether we want to admit it or not.

Which hasn't stopped us chasing the idea of the Magic Circle. The dream of a game we play becoming a world we inhabit has forever been intoxicating, from when tabletop wargame Chainmail transformed into role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, to the modern rhetoric of The Metaverse, there's an argument to be made that all of this speaks for us attempting to wish the Magic Circle into existence: to create a space we can truly escape into, where the failings of the physical no longer apply. And no vision is more intoxicating than VR.

The eternal non-starter, the future that is always coming but always failing to arrive, VR, in our modern conception of it, is something I have almost entirely experienced vicariously. I am poor, I have always been poor, and I have never been in a position where I am capable of dropping the absurd amounts of money these things routinely ask for in exchange for what is - still! - largely a method to play Beam Saber, VR Chat, and Half-Life Alyx. Like the Metaverse that attaches itself to VR for a shred of credibility, VR continues to insist that it is The Future from atop a house built on sand, sinking down below more and more with each year that passes where Half-Life: Alyx is still the only game that truly gets people talking about VR.

But perhaps this is unfair. I don't own one, after all: this is all the speculation of an outsider. So, let's pick another VR game, more of a median example of this sub-medium. Consider this mu report from observations of an expedition, undertaken by a braver explorer than I, into the Magic Circle as conceived by Justin Roiland: Trover Saves the Universe.

I'll give TStU this much: I actually like the idea of the central gameplay loop. It's a fairly rare example of "second-person" gameplay, wherein you control a character controlling Trover, and teleport to various points in the levels, from which you can observe Trover as he does the sub-Lego Game third person platforming action that this game is made up of. It felt, weirdly, like a more player-authored version of the fixed camera angles of Resident Evil et al, a language of cinematography that we unfortunately lost when it become expected that the player would take full control of the camera. I'd like to see another game explore this concept more, and more purposefully.

That's the end of my praise. You hardly need me to tell you this, but yes, Trover Saves the Universe is fucking terrible, in the same way Rick and Morty is, in the same way every Justin Roiland production is (though, subtracting Dan Harmon from the equation does remove the part of Rick and Morty that I find worst of all, that being its cloying and manipulative sentimental streak that never reads as sincere). It is a 4-hour session of the worst improv comedy class imaginable, tolerable only to baked teenage boys and those who share their disposition, made worse by adopting the exact same tenor, writing, and observations that every hack comedian who thinks they have a Wry Eye on Video Game Cliches deploys. All this game has as a selling point is Justin, and all Justin has is sub-Cake Is A Lie 2009 webcomic jokes processed through a work determined to explain every single joke at length, whilst engaging in gross-out humor that always finds a way to make fat women the butt of the joke, with increasing viciousness that is genuinely sickening.

Every moment of Trover Saves the Universe was excruciating. Sometimes it was excruciatingly annoying, sometimes it was excruciatingly dull, and sometimes was excruciatingly offensive, but it was always excruciating. If I was playing it, I would have turned it off and refunded it within minutes. If I was watching it, I would have found something else to watch within seconds.

But I didn't. I watched this for nearly 4 hours. I saw the whole thing, beginning to end. I sat there for every moment of the playthrough because I was with friends, and they were making me smile and laugh, because for whatever stupid absurd faux camaraderie it was, I wanted to be there for my friend until they ran over the finish line and could free themselves from this self-inflicted torment. Is that dumb? It sure sounds dumb, to read it written out like that. But it's true. And I'd do it again! But only if, like this time, I am allowed to break the Magic Circle, and bring with me myself, and everyone I carry with me, in my head and in my heart.

The Magic Circle does not posit the non-existence of the people I care about within it, but it does argue that they are ultimately supplicant to the rules the circle creates, that the game provides a wholly separate context for them to exist in. But if that was true, they wouldn't have made me laugh the way they did. They wouldn't have made me smile and roll my eyes and groan the way I did. Because they - and that - are the product of this world, not Trover's world.

Proponents of the Magic Circle will push back against the interpretation I've made of it, here, but I do think this kind of preclusive argument is where the fantasy The Magic Circle leads you: if the world is truly entirely separate, maintained until it is fractured by the breaking of it's rules, then the participants must also agree to cease the continuity of their lives, to suspend them, for the sake of the game. And I wouldn't want to do that, even if that were possible. None of Trover's jokes were funny, but I laughed anyway because my friends brought their worlds into this one.

VR is not the future that exists in the present, it's not the gateway to tomorrow. It's just a way to experience play, to engage with rules and visuals entwined together, like the unique gameplay loop of this game (which works perfectly well without VR but it is undoubtedly informed by VR). No matter what way we interface with them, nothing we can do will make Games into something that will let us escape reality. They are not other worlds, they are not places to become wholly different people separate from ourselves, they are not the means by which we can seal ourselves off from the stings of reality, as much as we might wish them to be. And that's for the best. Because if Trover Saves the Universe was a Magic Circle where I left everything behind at its door before entering, I would not be able to survive it. I did so because I brought people into it with me, people who I care immensely about, people that TStU, in however a slight and silly manner it may have been, let me see in new lights and appreciate in new ways. It wasn't a doorway to another dimension. It was a funhouse mirror. And when I laugh at a funhouse mirror, I'm not laughing at the material of the mirror itself. I'm laughing at the reflection of me and my friends in it, provided by the mirror's context.

Trover's Universe may not have all the pains the world inflicts on us in it, but it does not have anything inside it that I love. My universe does. And because of that, I'll never, ever let it go.

[chloegeorges]

Voici le début d'une modélisation 3D du personnage Rick, qui provient du même nom de la série d'animation Rick et Morty !

Grâce au tutoriel de CGCM, j'ai compris l'importance de subdivision de mesh.🌿

[putaindesarace]

ptn j'ai fini rick et morty jsp quoi regarder grrrrr

pas bojack léa pas bojack stp

[stephaniedola]

one of these days jerry is gonna fuck rick and its gonna fuck up his marriage to beth(s) all over again

[lucy-belon-portfolio-2023]

Exercice de storyboard: faire intéragir 2 personnages (Rick de “Rick & Morty” et Gumball de “The Amazing World of Gumball”); format A4; crayon à papier, crayon de couleur.

[sandylife2234]

stuff to know

call me: sandy, sandylife, sadhbh, princess sandy, unicat

pronouns: she/her

birthday: october 24

gender identity: female

orientation: aromantic asexual

i have: autism

favorite color(s): pink, purple, blue, rainbow

favorite animals: cats, dogs, capybaras, guinea pigs, wolves, cheetahs, rabbits, penguins

hobbies: art, singing, makeup,

dni: bigotry, nazis, pro shippers, pedos, incest, bullies, art theft, cringe culture, anti-vax, anti-furries, anti-science, slut shamers/kink shamers, purity culture, r*pists, bodyshaming, religious extremists, zoophiles (dni if you do/agree with any of these)

im into goth, emo, scene, e girl, vsco girl, softie, prep, grunge, and furry stuff lol. And I’m a weeb, cartoon fan and Gacha girl lol  

Cartoons: Salad Fingers, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, Happy Tree Friends, Littlest Pet Shop, Charlie and Lola, My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, EddsWorld, The Simpsons,cartoon saloon (the guys behind wolfwalkers), Rick and morty, South Park, The amazing world of gumball, hazbin hotel etc. are my favourite cartoons   

Anime: Sailor moon, azumanga daioh, death note, hello kitty, fruit baskets, toradora, moomins (it counts as an anime, as well a Dutch and Finnish show), spirited away, the promised neverland, dragon ball, attack on titan, Hunter x Hunter, uresei yatsura, Beastars, neon genesis evangelion, cowboy bebop, Alfred j Kwak (it’s a Dutch Japanese production), Ouran High School Host Club, saiki k, gals, K-ON, Lucky Star, etc are my fav anime…     

music imo. Like Aerosmith, nirvana, tally hall, blonde redhead, queen, beach house, Bonnie Tyler, the cranberries, yoasobi, Foster the people, Avicii, the killers, Keane, the offspring, mcr, good Charlotte, green day, astral doors, skillet, Gorillaz etc

I do like Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Billie eillish

Also my fav video games are Minecraft, Sam and Max, Team Fortress Two, Subway Surfers, Parappa the Rapper, Psychonauts, Animal Crossing, baldis basics, bendy and the ink machine, Undertale, fran bow, FNaF, Mario, sonic, Pokémon, etc

Also best movies are Hachiko Monogatari, Totoro, Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Cartoon Saloon, Ernest et Celestine, Bambi, 

[tumblblabber]

Rick and Morty: Watch A New Girlboss Promo For The Upcoming Seventh Season

Adult Swim announced a couple of weeks ago that new episodes of “Rick and Morty,” the hit adult animated series that follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe, will premiere around the world and across the multiverse starting on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT on Adult Swim. A global phenomenon, the…

[platnumpaz]

#   𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒛        an   indie.   pri.   sel.   roleplay   blog   featuring:   an   extremely   headcanon   based        pacifica   elise   northwest     of   g.ravity   f.alls;   low   activity.   mutuals   only.   written   by   sean.   (   he/   him.   twenty-seven   )   READ   RULES   BEFORE   INTERACTING.  ( rules under cut )

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an exploration of ; rich girl problems , breaking the cycle , other things that i will put here later lol

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▍ ❝ 001. ACTIVITY.

This blog will be very sporadically active, taking long hiatuses without much or any warning. I'm sure everyone in the rpc can understand it when I say muse come and goes and it can't always be prevented or predicted! ▍ ❝ 002. REPLIES.

Replies can come kinda slow and usually get published on the weekends since I work full time. I format with small text and icons, though I am more than willing to accommodate if my partners need larger text. please, do not pester me for replies or messages on either discord or on Tumblr. If it becomes excessive, I will block. ▍ ❝ 003. FOLLOWING.

personals can follow just so long as you do not reblog headcanon posts/roleplay threads. I am willing to write with minors, however in no way will I write NSFW with minors. blood/gore/ injury nsfw is okay though! There is no special unfollow stipulation; you can unfollow/block me if you need, no need to tell me why. Just know that I will also follow this rule and might unfollow/block without warning. ▍ ❝ 004. TRIGGERS & NSFW.

This blog will feature many, many dark themes, as I will write and emphasize the horror of weirdmageddon, bill cipher, and pacifica's shitty parents, as well as other potentially triggering subjects including; anxiety, PTSD, depression, murder, suicide, etc. I tag my posts with // ( ie. blood // ), please let me know if I miss any! NSFW may be present on the blog, but nothing sexual for hopefully obvious reasons. FANDOMS I PREFER NOT TO RP WITH : rick and morty, harry potter, homestuck, && stranger things. OCs created for these fandom are negotiable. *if you run a multimuse with muses that come from any of these fandoms I may still follow! ▍ ❝ 005. SHIPPING.

I LIKE SHIPPING WITH CHEMISTRY, but force shipping will result in a block. obvious nastiness won't be tolerated, and there will be no nsfw even in pacifica's older verse. dipcifica is my favorite ship but i am open to mabcifica and anything with ocs just so long as there is chemistry! ▍ ❝ 006. ET CETERA.

✨ THIS BLOG WILL NOT BE SPOILER FREE. I will not be tagging spoilers for Gravity Falls or The Book of Bill, so if you do not want things to be spoiled, I suggest you finish the show/book before following! ✨ My portrayal of stanford is through the lens of my own experience with mental illness and trauma — so many might consider him very headcanon based instead of canon compliant. ✨ all graphics and psds are made by me unless otherwise stated! ✨ Just don’t be an asshole and we’ll get along great ! <3