#somoene kill me

[lyranix1201]

why does god hate me so much

my phone just funking died. it fell on the floor and now it doesnt work any more. all of my things were on it, my art, the fanfic that i was writing, and everthing that i have. it is a miracal that i still have this account on my computer.

i was completing the annabell drawing that i made and now i cant do shit to finish it. all of the firt chapters and the plot summery s of those fanfic are on my phone and i cant get them because they are on my notes app and my phone is unresponsive. i cant get any thing from my phone and nothing is going to be able to get my stuff out. im to broke to repair it. luckly my mom had bought me a new phone already, but i will only get it over 2 weeks, so i might not be responsive for some time.

so basicaly, everthing that i have is going to shit.

i did all of it for nothing.

(the fanfic curse is reall. someon kill me)

[aroace-poly-show]

SHIZUKU.

[mcworm]

TUMNLR MOBILE. STOP SENDING RANDOM POSTS TO PEOPLE.

[rpfisfine]

> spend a year and 1 month away from my big computer

> write essays on laptop

> “man I wish I was writing this on my big computer”

> find a place to live

> get big computer back

> write essays

> “man I wish I was writing this on my laptop”

[oathofkaslana]

i cannt look at the unicorn one the same every since that one albedo fan art i mistook as him being a unicorn connected with the last unicorn it makes me ill now guys do you see

[doppelgangerleaverite]

im literally going to turn into the fucking joker and kill everyone at my job today

[flooftyfizzlebeans]

by the way CROMDO WOULD TASTE TERRIBLE. I'm not just saying this becuase of my emotional attatchment to him he's an old starving little man. hes probably not picky about what he eats and thus you can probably taste the cheap expired bread in his blood. and he's not even the easiest to kill! You guys are just cowards.

I recently ran a poll asking everyone what they would eat on Snaktooth Island if Bugsnax weren't an option. The second most chosen option aside from the obvious (Sauce) was Cannibalism. So that begs the question.

This question has layers to it. Because not only do you have to successfully kill them (we're talking physical toll here, not emotional. Gramble would be easier to kill than Wambus, for example) but you also have to consider how much food they would actually get you.

Who are you eating. There is no show results. Answer for yourselves.

(Please describe how you would go about killing them in the tags. I need to know)

[dirtytransmasc]

Taika Waititi has sided with israel.

stop watching ofmd, stop talking about it, stop giving it attention, stop giving him your attention and support, stop, please, stop.

thousands have been killed. 2.2 million people have been denied food, water, electricity, stable internet as of the last few weeks and are now in a total black out, medical aid, humanitarian aid. hospitals, churches, schools, residential buildings and neighborhoods have been bombed. people are still stuck in the rubble. there are hundreds if not thousands of orphans... and he's thanked Joe Biden for his support of israel, for his support of a fucking genocide.

I get that ofmd was good, that it gave y'all the taste of queer joy that it did, prior to finding about his support I myself was talking about it, I loved it, but now just thinking about it makes me feel sick.

stop supporting somoene who was praised an ungoing genocide of innocent people.

[nothingtherefornow]

About Evil teenagers antagonists in Miraculous

I currently wonder how can some fans still want a redemption for somoene like Chloé who willingly hurt people just because that's was her definition of "fun".

Why not accept Chloé as somoene evil ? Just because she's 14 years old ? Just because Gabriel was worst than her doesn't take away the fact that Chloé is a truly bad person who has the potential to become as evil, if not worse than Gabriel while growing up.

Even in real life, adults are not the only ones who are capable of cruelty and crimes. If only adults were capable of monstrosity, I wouldn't have 14-year-olds killing each other with callache nikoffs in the drug trafficking districts of my city. we wouldn't have young people beating up little ones and pushing others to suicide and absolutely not regretting their actions. And we wouldn't have stories to raise eyebrows about kids capable of committing murder and acts of torture without necessarily having been abused in their lives.

To me, anyone who loves to make others suffer for their own sick pleasure (and their victims are people who objectively don't deserve such cruelty) has serious mental issues and can be a danger to others.

Both Chloé and Lila love to make others people suffer or don't care about hurting innocents, and they certainly don't feel any empathy for anyone, or in Chloé's case, no longer feel any empathy (she may have felt sympathy and empathy for Adrien at some point, like during the episode Felix in season 3, but that's definitly no longer the case as soon as Adrien asked her to stop being a biatch). Maybe Lila may feel a form of attachment toward her mothers, yet that doesn't stop her from manipulating them and fooling them in a way that's pretty cruel if you dig deeper in Lila's scale of truancy and imposterization.

I know that technically when a 14 year old kid behaves like Lila and Chloé we could say to ourselves that it is unfair to give them no chance and to condemn them when they are only 14-15 years old and could change for the better if they could be guided on the right path.

But Miraculouse is a show in which the superheroes with the fate of the world in their hands are 14 year old kids. And as such in this fictitious reality, other 14 year olds are perfectly likely to become real cruel and threatening villains i without any scruples, especialy if they are influenced by the wickedness of an adult supervillain.

And I believe that Gabriel's evilness only made Chloé's and Lila's wickedness worse.

He put those two girls in positions of power where they could hurt others and act according to their darkest and Manichean impulses. And Lila and Chloé would only want more taste of that power to crush others. And you know how power easilly corrupt the most greedy hearts.

On several occasions, Gabriel even approved of Lila and Chloe's horrible plans and actions. He has encouraged Lila on numerous occasions to "get rid of" Marinette, thus giving the impression that he supports Lila's jealousy, and during collusion he will have the nerve to say that Chloé's ideas, which consist literally ruining the academic future of your classmates and putting your pregnant teacher in jail for no good reason are good ideas. Having a rich adult in a position to approve of their actions in this way will only have given Lila and Chloe the feeling that their acts of cruelty and malice are justified, and thus reinforced their evil nature.

On several occasions we have seen Chloe and Lila voluntarily let themselves be akumatized, and worse than that, we have seen them plan to be akumatized (Chloe in Penalteam, and Lila in Revelation) and not for understandable reasons like that of a desperate Jalil brainwashed by lies on social media. Because Lila and Chloe have only ever been motivated by their narcicism, their ego, and their desire to get revenge on people they hate for the most pettiest, vain and selfish reasons possible.

Lila and Chloé may be kids, but they are evil teenagers, because they would gladly become supervillain if that means getting what they want. And what they want is anything but noble. For their selfish goals, Lila and Chloé were willing to endanger the city they live in and all its inhabitants. I don't even know if I can still call Lila and Chloé kids or teenagers, with how far they're willing to go and hurt people for the sake of their ambitions.

Although there's still the possibility that Lila may be an adult with a youngfull appearance or a hormonal abnormality making her look like a teenager when she could be an adult. But that would risk making her a pedophile so I don't think the show will go that far ^^ At most they could give her the same as Théo Barbot

But an antagonist adult would be needed then to balance an antagonist teenager supervillain.

Good thing we still have Tomoe Tsurugi then

It's tragic that Chloé and Lila wickedness and evilness could be due to serious mental issues or Chloé's bad upbringing, and the show may have decided that it's more important to protect others from the harm Chloé and Lila can cause rather than to prioritize "helping" them with their issues. Both Marinette and Adrien proposed another path for Chloé to chose, one that could have helped her heal from the emotional and mental wounds her mother's abandonment and neglect. Chloé instead chose Hawkmoth's/Monarch

Ladybug offered Lila her friendship, and Adrien also offered Lila to be there for her as long as she didn't hurt those he loved. Yet both Lila and Chloe voluntarily chose to continue committing bad deeds and hurting others, regardless of the fact that someone reached out to them and offered them another path to get love, acknowledgement and recognition from people. Adrien and Marinette don't have to sacrifice their mental health for people who wish them harm, so I understand very well that it wasn't and won't be their priority to help Chloé and Lila find potential redemption. And especially when Lila and Chloe seem determined to refuse to change and continue to cling to their wickedness.

It should be the adults responsabilities to deal with Chloé and Lila issues, and unfortunatelly the adults in Miraculous are pretty lousy and incompetents. It's very tragic when we don't know that one kid is a psychopath, and if another has always gotten away with his narcissistic behavior disorder and nothing had ever been done to help them deal with that issue, that only leaves the opportunity for the seed of evil in these kids to germinate and flourish, and then reach the level of nastiness that is more often found in adults.

[geostelar5]

So I am not usually one to rain on shipping parades and try to ruin anyones fun but can someone, anyone really explain to me what the FUCK the appeal of Bowigi is? Like what are you all going for because the Bowser I see in these posts are NOTHING like actual Boswer. "Luigi has two hands so he can date both Daisy and Bowser!" Do you really think BOWSER Mr."I'll lock you up in a cage above lava or in a giant tower until you love me" wouldn't be super fucking possessive and jealous of Luigi if they dated? What makes you think he would be loving or Caring? He would try to cut Luigi off from EVERYONE els ein his life to give ALL the attention to him, he would Sow Seeds of doubt, play on his insecuturies, Bowser would reassure Luigi that everyone thought of him as number two and he was the only one who Truely loved him because thats who Bowser IS Bowser is a Toxic Fucking Genocidal Turtle who has gleefully tried to enslave many races, destroy others and loves it when he is Evil. The only times he helps with the main plot is when people are invading on his schtick and he thinks it is unfair. He would be Abusive, hes KNOWN for his short temper, hes FAMOUS for being very Destructive and super fucking scary when hes Angry and do you think Luigi wouldn't be tiptoeing around him at all times trying not to get hit or hurt? What the fuck is the Appeal? Bowser acts goofy yeah but he has tried to kill both Mario Brothers multiple times and hell... He doesnt even fucking know who Luigi is! He doesnt acknolwedge him as anything more than the Green One hes always there helping Mario but doesnt give a fucking shit about him and tries to kill him anyways. And anyone who reads romantic tension into the scene where he is interrigated by Bowser worries me a bit. Guys MEETING SOMEONE WHO TERRIFIES YOU AND IS THREATENING YOU PHYSICALLY ISNT A MEET-CUTE. Somoene actively trying to murder your brother in a jealous rage over his crush ISNT a MEET-CUTE THAT ISNT FLIRTING. And like I would get it if you just wanted a Mario Ship where one of the brothers was Gay, not my thing personally as I find Daisy and Luigi really cute but like. If you want a Gay Luigi Ship Prince Peasly is Right There! And he's much better for the Lean Green Machine than Boswer has ever Been! All throughout Superstar Saga a consistent Joke is No one knows who the hell Luigi is, no one acknowledges him as someone to be treated with much respect other than Mario but Peasy right from the start knows that Luigi is a Superstar, he cares for Luigi, he gives Luigi a Rose, he has a fun, flirty rivalry with Lugi in a good portion of the game. They tease eachother, they have fun together and its clear that they enjoy eachother's company in the few interactions they have. Peasly is a fun little forign romantic bean for Luigi to have a relationship with, he actually Likes Lugii. He aknoweldges his competence and has a friendly bet with Luigi and is a good sport about it and he wouldn't try to turn anything against Luigi and would probably be good for his confidence.

[aropride]

ok after thinking about it for several years i think what my deal is is that i had some form of subclinical pots that no one picked up on bc a) it wasnt debilitating b) most of my symptoms were attributed to asthma (fairly, again i dont think i Had Pots until i was older) and c) the others were attributed to anxiety (less fairly. Smile). Bc i do have memories of being pre-covid (and even as a kid/young teen but it definitely worsened when i was an older teen) being like. I cant wash my hair bc i feel like im gonna black out or If somoene doesnt get me a salty snack im gonna kill myself or when i was older i was really into losing vision when i stood up (which i attributed to having an ED which was probably also accurate- the worst of my ED was also when the symptoms started getting worse too) So it went like.

normal boy few (physical) problems -> develop eating disorder -> it gets Worst when im like 16 -> wow i kind of feel like shit all the time + am always tired + cant walk very long + i feel like im gonna black out standing but it doesn't affect my daily life too bad so it's chill (-> also attributed it to MI/dissociation Again why should i see a doctor i can gaslight myself on my own for free) -> get "really bad cold" in feb20 -> shaking covered in sweat ears ringing walking up stairs during in-person school sep20 -> started craving salt a lot more too -> think nothing of it, assumed my problems were universal -> eating disorder healing era but did not feel physically much better -> get covid in dec21 -> nearly pass out walking to the store -> frequently would actually pass out on my floor after going to the store -> dizzy all the time, weird cough that never went away -> find out what long covid is sometime in spring22, assume i don't have it (idky) -> find out what pots is in may22 -> Well i definitely dont have that Because my experiences are universal But just in case im gonna get really into salt -> wait that actually helps i think -> really bad body aches/etc when walking for too long (more than 5k steps) -> i thought for a while i got covid in june22 but in retrospect i don't think i did? (complicated reasons but tldr i think i misremembered due to the disorders) -> stay in my house for a year, now when i talk abt symptoms my mother just says it's bc i don't walk enough -> finally connect the dots btwn "bad cold" in 2020 and The Symptoms -> start school aug23 and hope my mother is right and not me -> my mother is wrong (MANY SUCH CASES) -> "bad cold" in nov23 (i tested twice on day 2 and 5 and both were negative, & wore kn95 whenever i was around people in case, but in retrospect it might have been covid) -> symptoms get worse -> i start Complaining bc im slowly realizing my symptoms Are Not Universal and most people are Not always in pain -> get covid in may24 -> Symptoms get worse -> my friends start pretty universally saying stuff like "please see a doctor" and "have you considered using mobility aids" and "i think you have a disability" -> Etc...

[pussypopstiel]

“Draped yourself in the flag of heaven but it was all about saving one human” i am going into a comatose state are you kidding

“Hes in love...with humanity” can you be so fucking serious

[herbertpock3t]

Pov: How some of yall be seeing Coworker amd Protag

I AM SICK OF YALL MAKING PROTA SOME LIL TWINK WHO IS SOFTIE AND CANT DEFEND HIMSELF. THIS MAN HAS BEEN TO THINGS UNIMAGINABLE AND HE KILLED HIS COWORKER. AND I SWEAR IF YALL MAKE COWORKER SOME 'daddy alpha wolf' I AM GOING TO FIND WHERE U LIVE.

COWORKER HAS CLEARLY SHOWN FEAR, DISGUST, ECT. NOT JUST BEING SMUG. THIS MAN WAS AFRAID OF A HARMLESS RAT. AND YALL THINK HIM TO BE SOME ALPHA PROTECTOR OF PROTAG?? YES COWORKER IS MOSTLY SHOWN TO BE SOME PRIDFUL CHILL RICH GUY BUT UGHHHHH.

YALL MAKING PROTAG JUST SOME BRAINLESS TSUNDERE AND COWORKER SOME SIGMA ALPHA DUDE IS THE END OF ME. HISTORY REPEATES OVER AND OVER AGAIN. ALWAYS THE SAME GAY STEREOTYPE WITH EACH EXSITING GAY SHIP.

I COULD RANT ABOUT THIS FOR HOUUUUUURRRRRSSS😭😭😭😭. AND ALSO YALL MAKING COWORKEE THIS TERRIBLE DUDE? LIEK I GET HE HAS SOME RED FLAGS LIKE HIS PRIDFULLESS AND HOW IT IS SHOWN HE IS JUDGEMENTAL. BUT UGHHHHH PROTAG HAS HIS RED FLAGS TOO.

YALL ARE MAKING COWORKER TRANSPHOBIC, HOMOPHOBIC, AND SOMETIMES A RAPIST? LIKE WTF IS WRONG WITH YALL? I BET SOMOEN HAS TALKED ABOUT RHIS BEFORE. BUT I AM JUST STATING MY EXPERIENCE AS WELL. I JUST JOINED THIS FANDOM AND I WAS SLAPPED IN THE FACE WITH THISSS???

I JUST LEFT THE REGRETEVATOR FANDOM WITH THIS SAME EXPERIENCE WITH MARK AND WALLTER. I CANT EVER CATCH A BREATHE OF FRESH AIR

I SWEAR IF ONE OF U LITTLE BRATS GO '"ermm...I never saw this before🤓☝️" GO ONE AO3 AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.

[scorpio-karma]

I honestly really don't get it, why after all these years, are people still obsessed and invested in TVD or with the cast? That show nothing but a complete shit show and dumpster fire garbage from start to finish (though the first few seasons did a better job in hiding it, because the show had promise and potential). Nothing  but one problematic thing after another and just so much negativity and toxicity surrounding it. And a lot of your stances raise a lot of questions and put a lot of things into perspective for me. 

First, it's so funny to me that you single out Nina for being a mediocre actress and using that as a reason to say her career after TVD flopped, or that she hasn't done anything since leaving the show. Because the majority of the TVD/TO cast (with the exception of only a few select), were also mediocre and not particularly good either. And honestly, what did you expect from a CW show, of all things? Also, the other cast members haven't done anything or gotten jobs after TVD either. 

Second, only singling out Nina for being problematic and doing shady things, when all of the TVD cast, including your dear and lovely Kat Graham, have done a lot of fucked up, problematic, and shady shit as well. Absolutely none of them are innocent or saints. Ian acted like a straight up, petty, and bitter manchild after he and Nina broke up and he got with Nikki Reed, while Nina handled that whole situation with grace and maturity, even with how shitty both Ian and Nikki treated her. On top of that, he's a fucking abuser who threw away Nikki's birth control pills, coerced her into pregnancy, and bragged about it publicly on a podcast as if it was something to be proud of. 

Third, singling out Nina for supposedly being racist (which to my knowledge, I've never seen her make any racist posts or comments), but say fuck all about Matt Davis, the biggest racist piece of shit in the whole show. Or Nate Buzolic, who on top of being racist, is also a raging homophobic and anti abortion rights. Most of the men on the show have done way worse than Nina or any of the girls, yet I don't see any posts from you calling them out on their shit behavior. Because as always, men can do the most abhorrent shit, they can be racist, homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, they can abuse, rape, or even kill somoene, and still have people defend and support them. But god forbid women aren't perfect and have flaws or make mistakes and fuck up. 

And you all wonder why the TVD fandom had such a bad rep back then, and still continue to have such a bad rep now. The very definition of toxic. 

First of all sweetie, you seem to be responding to some old ass posts from like 2019, so you the one that's still obsessed. Second of all, if you searched my Tumblr thoroughly (which I know is hard given Tumblr piss poor searching system) you'd find posts critical of all cast members. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only one I'm not critical of is Trevino because he knows when to stay quiet. And lastly, I'm definitely only skimming that whole message because you're clearly an unhinged Nina fan who went searching for shit to be mad at since they're tagged as "anti" meaning your not the audience for these opinions. Maybe find more recent and relevant criticisms before blowing up someone's inbox anonymously with a dissertation as to why they're wrong. In fact, maybe put this in an actual response to that post so they know what the fuck you're going on about.

[popculturebuffet]

Big City Greens: Gwendolyn Zapp Retrospective (All 5 Episodes, Movie Next Month) (Comission for WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy people! We continue the halloween celebration with the spookiest monster of all: A NARCSITIC DANGEROUSLY UNCHECKED TECH BILLIONARE!

Yes it's time to talk not about Elon Musk, thank god, but about his marginally less unsettling Disney counterpart

No the other one. The one I made the whole picture of whose in the title. It's Big City Green's Gwendolyn Zapp!

Most of ya'll reading this probably know Big City Greens, a wholesome series about a family of colorful country folk living in the city, the son's rich best friend, and their adopted purple adult daughter what lives in their basement after she gave up her job to protect them. I've previously covered this series ongoing story arc with Chip Whistler, and likely will again whenever the current story arc with him coming back wraps, and have nothing but praise for it: it's a calm fun series with lots of great gags, a stellar main cast and which avoids being a status quo sho: the basic premise remains the same, but things do change and it's lovely.

But Chip isn't the series only ongoing antagonist and with this recurring character having upgraded herself to Big Bad for the movie, me and kev thought it was a good time to look at Gwendolyn Zapp and her hyjinks. This was also fun for me as I hadn't seen ANY of Gwendolyn Zapp's episodes before this, only the movie. Lucky for me watching the film the first time when it came out, Gwendolyn was chosen over chip entirley because her gimmick is pretty simple: She shows up, is entertaining and kinda nuts, and her reckless disregard for proper testing or human life means whatever she built this week is going to make our heroes lives harder. Unlike Chip who went on a whole journey of picking a fight with a small child, facing the consequences for that, not leanring anything and faknig his way to being a CEO, trying to ruin the Green Family out of pety spite, trying to murder said child and being exiled from town, and that's not getting into his recent journey of trying to live a normal life before fleeing to the sewers to plot his vengance and putting the family in a saw trap.

In contrast Gwendoln's Schtick is set from her very first lines on the show:

She's the other side of the dangerous billionare one step from being a super villian coin that Mark Beaks represents: Mark represnets the petty childish cide of people like Elon Musk, the obession with getting likes, with being seen as hip, the petty obession with anyone who bothers them and willing to tank their reputation and billions just to spite their enemies, even if that enemy is their own daughter. Gwendolyn Zapp, as the movie shows IS just as petty, no question but taps more into the ethical problems: While science is neat and should progress, Gwen is the side that says "so what if it might kill people market it anyway!", who gleefully talks about giving away a robot for free because control over lives is more precious, and who thinks humanities flaws just need to be laser gunned away.

While Zapp exagerates this to the levels a cartoon can it really ISN'T by much. We're really not far from trying to use programs to modify personlities, farm vegtables on the moon, send cars to mars because why the fuck not, and we're already pretty damn close to space vacations for the rich and already at replacing workers with robots whose ai are is nowhere near where it needs to be for a complicated task. Gwen's a great satire of tech ceo bullshittery at a time we need it most. I hate saying Elon Musk's name so much as I know he gets just a little hard anytime somoene says his name, but it's hard not to compare the two as while Mark Beaks fits him WAY more personality wise, Zapp represents how little he cares for testing, human life and how rich assholes like him could get us all killed one day by pure hubris.

So let's unpack her 5 appearnces in the show proper and then next month i'll look at the movie, as we see her take the tiny step to full on cartoonish supervilliany.. and by that I mean she actually does this shit on purpose.

Gwendolyn is one of the few recurring characters not from Smalton who dosen't debut till season 2, but she enters the series fast as she can in only the season's second episode.

Car Trouble focuses around Bill, which is a trend for most of these Zapp focused stories, and fits perfectly. Bill is a very traditional guy not really into tech in any way shape or form, the most he uses are various farm tools, the tv on occasion and his Truck, The Kludge. He's not anti tech or today's youth or any of that nonsense but he's often baffled by it. He's open enough to try it as he loves getting out and generally trying to explore the city, within budget, but he's also stuck in his ways and cautious enough for there to still be a story.

In this case the Kludge is breaking down, not helped by Bill's spiffy new addition to the buisness: Vegtable Delivery. This being a cartoon hit's breakdowns are seats so broken they nearly impale tilly on their springs and the floor being so brittle Cricket nearly falls out. The family , like many , simply can't afford a new car and the car means too much to bill.

So enter Gwendolyn Zapp. Zapp is played by SNL album Cheri Oteri and Oteri.. is fucking phenominal here. I didn't really remember her much from SNL but here, she's hilarous and the animation helps, given Gwendlon a lot of weird jerky movements. She comes off like a muppet wearing a human costume and it's great to see.

Zapp in addition to making Robo Pants, had a Kludge herself, and I like this bit of humanizing to an objectively zany nonsense character. She wants to shoot it off into space, not that she tells bill that last part, because she generally wants the Truck on mars with her. That's... really it.

She offers one of her fancy tesla like cars.. back when they made cars people would want and not giant metallic divorce machines that malfunction if you so much breathe on them wrong. THe family agrees and again I like that Bill isn't being a stick in the mud, that he dosen't always HAVE to be against something and accepts the car.

I gotta admit I wasn't looking forward to this plot as it's one i'd seen before: Bobs Burgers did a similar plot with Sacred Couch, albeit with Louise destroying the couch so they'd get another, and King of the HIll's Chasing Bobby, which had Hank Stubbornly refuse to get rid of his old truck till a train makes the decision for him. Sadly this episode dosen't quite hit the highs of those others, and I wasn't a huge fan of sacred couch to begin with: the family likes the new car, which Cricket names Dr Bubblebutt because of course he does, until they don't with Gramma too overly relaxed by the massage features and Tilly nearly dying being cooked like a waffle.

While Cricket gets restrained by Dr. B mistaking him for being a baby.. which... fair. But what I like is Bill admits Dr Bubblebutt is objectively better, he just misses his old truck as do they all and wants what he considers a member of the family. My problem with that is it kinda.. breaks the groundeness of the series. And yes this is the same series where soon after they have to scramble to save their old truck from being sent to mars, I admit that, but the core of the series is grounded, like early simpsons: The Greens aren't destitute but do struggle with money, having come to the city in the first place because they had to sell the farm and by this point are on managable but still uneasy footing. It takes a lot of hard work and the upswing of sales from the Deliveries and farmers market to get them solvent and the later increased crops from getting the farm back to put them in the black and even then it's more a modest success. So Bill taking back a car that's pretty much broken without any solution just dosen't quite work. I can buy the series elastic reality, but not when it breaks the series more grounded bits.

The climax is decent with Dr Bubblebut sacrifing themself for it's new family.. which again makes me think this would work better if they just.. had ot accept hte new car. This episode is okay.. it's a great introduction to Gwendlolyn Zapp, but otherwise is a plot i've both seen before and done better, getting the sentiment part down but grounding in reality better. Thankfully the later episdoes with Gwendolyn have the cartoony fun without ignoring the series more grounded bits, ala early simpsons.

This one opens with Cricket and Bill going to get farm tools as their down to just .. er.. uh...

Melissa yeah that's it, she's the mower. Also Melissa's wiki page needs serious work. The wiki for this show is fantastic otherwisse and has been an absolute dream in getting this review done. And gramma ramming into things just isn't a good hammer. Cricket's annoyed at loosing his day which is fair, why Bill needed Cricket or thought he'd be at all helpful I don't rightly know. But Cricket hates Chorin and wishes there was an end to it. Cue a Gwendolyn Zapp hologram who introduces her latest invention: the Farmbot: A robot made to resemble farmers using actual farmer dna.

Yeah we're only two episodes into having Gwendolyn Zapp and we're already up to her cloning baby farmers to harvest their dna. And the saddest part was were this at all legal we'd already have tesla baby farms. Tesla Baby Farms: only one in every two babies catches fire!

So despite the dubious sci fi hellscape methods made to create the farmbot, named F.R.A.N.K., Cricket is intrested as he's one worker who WANTS to be replaced by automation. Suprisingly Cricket actually thinks of the cost for once and knows they probably can't afford F.R.A.N.K. but there's a free 30 day trial and Bill figures eh why not, more hands make less work.

The setup is really well done with Bill once again not being a stick in the mud. Sadly the bulk of the episode.. is a plot we've seen before. And look while I complain about having seen a tried and trued sitcom plot on this blog a lot, I just did earlier, i'm not against it if you can do something fresh with it. That King of the Hill Ep I mentioned, Chasing Bobby, is one of the series best and the more i've had to think about it for this article, the more I love it. It's not one I go to often, because hank really is a jackass at times, but it's a well done story about accepting loss and listening to your children. All through a truck.

This however is just "X Character suddenly has too much free time and annoys the hell out of everyone". It happens a lot usually when a characters between job and while the setup is unique, Bill is such a workaholic him not having to work hard leaves him with NOTHING to do, the jokes are just kinda eh: Bill is too hands on for Cricket's latest shenanigan, a leaf blower jet pack, accidently sits on one of Tilly's toys at a teaparty (The one joke that really works) and annoys Gramma by ruining her painting. Bob Joles tries, lord does he, but the plot is just too by the jokes aren't just there. You can elevate a stock plot with jokes, as the Loud House did a hiccups episode that was actually funny thanks TO it's jokes, but this isn't their finest hour.

Cricket tries to teach bill to relax by watching tv, but that backfires and he overdoes it. I do love the tv's notifcations as he's binge watching

This episode isn't TERRIBLE it's just kinda there. The climax is good as Cricket realizes he needs his actual dad back and goes to destroy the farmbot... who refuses to shut down, rebels and leads to a fight with cricket, then him tilly and gramma nad finally bill who gets into a fist fight iwth a robot. Look I may not LIKE this episode, but I can't hate one that has a fist fight with a robot. I just can't.

I do love the ending punchline too of them returning it.. and the Saleman's casual and smiley "Yeah that's been happening a lot! Cash or credit?"

I do like the black mirror shout out here. While I don't watch Black Mirror, I do apricate doing something similar to it's cracked screen motif it uses for it's logo and various promos. I also like that this is more an homage than a direct parody: most kids probably won't have seen black mirror, but using the basic concept, seeing how a modern technology could be taken to scifi distopia levels in the not too distant future, works and they already had the perfect character for that. Also just as a note it would be REALLY fun to get Cheri Oteri to guest in a black mirror episode. Just saying.

At any rate this episode, while still having jokes, is more a character piece as once again the family is delivering to Big Tech, a name that's so on the nose it works. I mean they already live in big city, the pun is right there, i'd use it too.

Bill wants everyone else to stay in the car as everywhere they go there's chaos. It's a nice bit of lampshading you see from a show after a bit and I like what they do with it, with Tilly, being the quiet completlative type, wondering if that's true and what they could do about it. And while I do feel bill was wrong to leave Tilly behind, he wasn't exactly wrong on his mother and son as Gramma and Cricket bounce the second they can.

So TIlly goes to fetch her family only to find Gwendolyn Zapp's latest product presentation: New You! Using computers subjects would upload their brains, have their flaws removed and come back being perfect. It's an idea that honestly could be a black mirror episode, the idea of humanity erasing it's flaws not realizing why those matter. It's simple, horrific, and plausable.

And to seemingly prove bill's own point the greens end up destroyign the presentation: Bill accidently got trapped in a pod due to nerves, Gramma stole a fucking mech suit to piece by piece replace herself, and Cricket stole a golden egg from a bunch of geese, a truly amazing refrence.

Tilly apologizes and Gwendolyn, true to form.. is instead HAPPY.. mostly because the greens seem like the perfect test subjects for New You. They all agree, if reluctantly aside from Tilly.

So our heroes get their brains uploaded and end up in the digtial world. Sadly there are no agumon in this episode but we do get a LOT more Gwendolyn Zapp. So the plan is simple: she gets their flaws to pop up, using the computer so they appear as binary code she can use a big gun to

Away. I do like the line the episode threads: this idea is inherently unsettling, but they do thread enough comedy in the first half or so to ease you into it. And the comedy is great. We have Gwendolyn casually, and horrifyingly making backups "ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR WORK", and while you can see where we're going with those, it's enough of a great bit of black comedy to see her drag full copies of the greens minus tilly into a folder to work. I also like her using a giant cable sized gun and casually answering "No" when asked if it has to be this big.

So it's time to zippy zapp their problems away: Bill's anxiety which stems from , unsuprisingly, his mother crticizing how he picked flowers as a child. Alice is just.. always angry like a hulk and Cricket got attention the first time he destroyed somethign. It's a nice bit of character in this fun high concept episodes.

So seemingly this isn't the worst thing: removing one's worst flaws probably isn't a bad idea and Bill's anxiety, Alice's rage and Cricket's destrcutiveness, impulsivness and need for attention could be worked on. The problem is Zapp.. goes too far.. she finds EVERY fault htey have and lasers it away and the result is deeply unsettling. The Perfected Greens are smily shells of who they were: Cricket is the perfect child, Alice makes cookies and is sedate and Bill is no longer afraid. What makes it so creepy, besides the nice touch of bags under the eyes, is that .. it's not them. It's something resembling them, but it's not the characters we've come to love. Thes how makes a valid if hard aseop: that yes we all have flaws... but their also part of us. They can be worked on and I appricate the show having bill, we'll get to that, make it clear they do have room for improvment, but you can't just.. remove something like Anxiety or anger issues. You can work on them, I need to work on both, but you have to accept it's part of you or you'll never get better.

So Tilly wants her old family back and Gwendolyn naturally sees this as a flaw. Thankfully we have that handy chekovs gun and Tilly frees the copies. This leads to a mirorr match, with the backups winning because their flaws give them the edge and escaping just in time as the digital world collapses, seemingly killing gwendolyn.

So this leaves a moral quandry I hadn't thought about till going to the tv tropes page that even the creators aren't sure on: Are the greens that came out really THEM? After all it apparently used the backups and the real ones were apparently erased.

My take? Yes the originals were destroyed. Which is horrifying as it means one version of the family was essnetially brainwashed and then died horribly. But the copies are ultimately the same characters: they were put away in a folder before the big change in these two versions of the greens, have all the same emotoins, memories, and what not. Like a data backup their the family BEFORE the procedure took place, and thus I treat them like the family we've been following this whole time. It'd be like if you perfectly duplicated a file on a computer: The only distinction till you change either version is that one came second. There is a lot of exestential questions from this: are the original greens technically dead? How many times can you copy yourself and still be you? But there not ones this episode sets out. It put the greens in a folder, copies perfectly so we could do this high concept without loosing them. And given they and Gwendloyn, who also backed herself up are the same, i'm inclined to treat them as the same people for the most part, just not the ones who died horribly.

Green Mirror is now one of my faviorite episodes, a creative, creepy romp with a lot of good jokes, a good message told just right, and a LOT of Gwendolyn Zapp. And even the ending as weird as it is that the greens are technically copies of themselves, had a lot of intresting implications to think about. They did a perfect homage that would fit right alongside the original.

The biggest episode of this collection and one of the series few half hour specials. It's also their second halloween special which is why we're doing this retrospective in october even though only 2/5 of the episodes are horror. I might do the other two halloween specials next year if your all intrested.

For now though Squashed! takes us to season 3, with this being the premiere though the next episode, Boss Life, seems to be the intended season premire. Still it doesen't harm the season any and is a LOT of fun.

So we open with Gwendolyn Zapp's latest project having seemingly failed. She takes some martian goop with her and leaves her staff behind to be mauled by possessed vegetables while she takes this dangerous chemical that already nearly killed people to earth.

On earth our heroes are preparing for Halloween! Their second one after Blood Moon aka that time they tied up gloria and left her for dead.

I double checked with Kev. The poor girl just gets a chuckle for this and understandably intends to just work through this at the Cafe she now owns. With the family trying to assure her that

Hopefully once season 4 wraps we can do a Gloria retrospective but for now our heroes are all getting set with Cricket and Tilly showing off their costumes: Cricket is Trickor, a jester who plays pranks and looks like Pomni before that character existed, and Tilly is bill complete with a padding pillow. Bill is touched though tells her one is enough. He has to have pride.

Said pride is shattered right after as while everyone's excited for pumpkins this years are teeny tiny. Bill goes to deliver some to Big Tech, dejected and Tilly comes along because cheering her up is what Bill does so as Bill she should cheer Bill up.

So they go to big tech and Gwen is delighted at the tiny pumpkins.. because she can juice them up with the space goo she what found. For once Bill.. isn't intrested and it makes sense. The previous three times he was offered a car that was proven to be safe, reliable and more than any trade in on the kludge could provide. He was offered extra help for a month. He was offered some mental health he didn't know going in was going to be "erase your personality with a raygun". None of them worked sure but it makes sense it'd take a few tries to make him warry of Big Tech. Granted her destroying their minds with a big ole laser and killing corrupted versions of them shoudl've also made him pull out buisness with Gwendolyn, Tilly sums up why they put up with her "She has money papa". IT's that sly commentary that sometimes when your a small buisness you have to deal with people you don't want to. Zapp is dangerous as fuck.. but she DOES clearly pay well which is more than you can say for most bilionares.

So Bill declines the untested grow juice that looked like it came out of a stygian hole in the ground. Tilly however swipes some because she just wants her dad to be happy.

So i'ts party time! That includes both a bunch of recurring characters like Officer Keys, Kiki, Bennie and Wheezie and.. whoever these people are

If you know tell me. I'm digging purple witch lady.

So the party is in full swing and everythings going smoothly for all but two guests. Vasquez is in a bad way as while he's wearing matching dinosaur costumes with Remy, which is just.. adorable, he can't quite grasp that everythings not real but also scary so his papa wolf senses are all upside down.

The other is bill whose attempts to carve the tiny pumpkins scaare the children but is delighted at the juiced up results. Naturally this being a halloween episode and us having seen Gwen leave people for dead over the results, this can't remotely go well. The fact Tilly lied on a family sitcom does not help.

Tilly gets paranoid as Benny swears he sees a face on one, and when checking in on a prank by cricket, finds out that nope, their real when one attacks them. And I LOVEEEE the designs on the alien mutant pumpkins

Three eyes and that sickly glow is all they really need to be deeply terrifying and the red pumpkin guts adds to it while adding a gore factor to their smashing. Somehow the censors okayed this and that's wonderful.

So our heroes TRY to stop the party but community sue ain't going to stop partying till community sue is ready to stop partyin.. also the pumpkins attack publicly making it hard to hdie and reveal another trick.. they can posses people by getting on their heads, taking out most everyone except bill, whose captured, tilly, cricket and Remy, and poor, poor poor gloria who closed up early to join the party only to get attacked once again

I'm really happy she seems to sit out the most recent halloween special, both segments as Gloria has been through enoguh shit. Let her make out with Katy Lynn or do some poetry in a beret in a dark room. She already has enough stress in her life.

So we're down to a small party of survivors. The good news, as Cricket finds out fighting a pumpkinfied vasquez they can be free. And better news while they got him in the first place because he thought it was another halloween fright and not an alien invasion, Vasquez is back in his comfort zone.

They do make the mistake of splitting up gang, but for valid reasons. Bill was dragged outside so Tilly goes to free him and that leaves DA Boys to clean house.

So while they do and find a weird.. horrifying eldrtich pumpkin spire growing out of people.

Gotta say love the scares in this one. It's not too extreme for kids but grown ass me is still creeped out.

So Tilly rescues Billy.. ugh.. no.. she rescues bill. Never calling him that again. Feels so wrong. Tilly rescues her daddy guy and he finds out she done fucked up and is upset. .but then gets grabbed by pumpkins again, leading to an awesome fight as Tilly and Bill go back to back:

"How are we going to fight them? "By doing what we do best.. we farm"

So we get a kickass farm tool zombie pupmkin fight with cricket eventually joining in. It's sadly for nough as our heroes get overwhelmed.. but luckily Cricket has a plan. He makes it look like he got stabbed what bad, which IS okay by network standards as this happened a few months prior

This fake death allows Tilly to run over the last pumpkin with a fucking lawnmower. Bill forgives her as hey she saved the human race from plant monsters instead of feeding them, and Zapp shows up, realizes i'ts over and heads back to mars.

Squashed is my faviorite of the five, with green mirror a close second. A fun zombie romp with a unique twist, toneso f great scares and child friendly kills, and a heck of a finale. Truly fantastic and I can see why their next special was two shorts instead. This one would be hard to top and given how the season ends, I suspect season 3 was written knowing this might be it given that's usually when Disney forces a series to clock out, hence the big swing in the second half and going all out for halloween.

So with that we end this.. oh right... that one.

We end on an.. okay one. I do like the concept: Cricket is doing deliveries for the Gloria + Green Cafe and takes HOURS to do them due to stopping off to play pingpong with Miss Torrees, a widow played by the legendary Rosie Perez. I do like the opening, cricket going around, delvering coffees and having a report with the customers.

Sadly he's also four hours late and Gloria is stressed to all hell because he disappears for hours on end, even though she knew who she was hiring and the cafe probably can , even this early on, afford to hire help that is'nt a children. So you see both sides: Gloria is right to be stressed but Cricket.. is a children and is keeping the customer company and getting another grandma out of the deal.

So in comes Gwendolyn Zapp who happened to be sitting there and offers Gloria a free delivernator, a dog like robot that is honestly the most down to earth thing she's made all series a si'ts fairly close to where real life bots are at. It can do it fast, dosen't need pay or unions. Cricket however LIKES doing deliveries so a contest is held: may the best noun win, and winner gets the job, looser gets inventory.

It goes how you'd expect: The delivernator easily laps cricket even with Remy and Vasquez slowing it down, even rebuilding itself, whlie Cricket gets held up with Ms Torres. But ultimately the fact Cricket actually spends time with the customers, if way too much on the ping pong court, that wins him as while he's not FAST the customers love him. That and he promises to cut it down. Gwendolyn can't fathom her choice but leaves with the dog anyway.

There's also a whole subplot about Gramma declaring war on the ants in the house and stabbing them with a sword after they destroy her cinnamon roles. This at least solves inventory as bill comes in half crazed willing to do anything for them and lucky he made the right turn into the coffee shop and not an alley way.

I just kinda glazed over as I watched this one so I don't have much to say. It exists, i've seen better man vs machine stories, but I appricate it for pointing out WHY workers are more valuable than souless robots. When the robots get souls then we'll be in trouble.

So that's Gwendolyn Zapp, CEO, Lunatic and one of the shows best chartacters. I admit 3/5 of these episodes are okay, not bad but not really great, but her presecne alone livens them up, while also allowing the show to take on sci fi plots with Green Mirror and Squashed. Part of why those eps could be as ambitous and fun as they were is that Gwendolyn Zapp helps break the show out of it's usually grounded nature and into it's more simpsony-over the top aspects that lay just under the surface. Again I may of only LOVED two of these episodes.. but i'm glad I saw all of them.

So that' sit.. for now as next month we take a GREEN FAMILY VACATION and look at the recent movie, with Gwendolyn front and center as our big bad. See you then and thanks to reading.

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I was thinking about the end of the first FMA anime

So it's gonna be heavy spoil.

But you know, we discover that homonculus are what is create when you try to revive somoene. And on the last episode, you discover that all the rage that Envy got toward the Elric brothers because he was the first son of Hohenheim. His dead son, bring back to life, but abandonned quickly. So Envy have a lot of rrssentement toward Ed and Al and it's just sad that in the end od the show he just turn into a dragon in order to pursue Ed while he's passinf the gate.

Since most of the character don't know what happened in the final and that Alphonse came back without his memory and younger...Well...I just love imagining Envy taking the place of Edward instead of following him. Like "Oh, this son of a bitch is dead. Good. I'm gonna take what I deserve" and he act like he was Edwatd. And everyone is confused af, think it's weird...But hiving what happened to Al, they don't think that Envy actually replaced Edward.

And it could be the beggining of some kind of redemption arc for Envy, since he's gonna act lile a big borther for Al in order to not be spotted.

I love imagining that, at some point people discover that their Ed is actually Envy, and there's a lot of ressetement ; most character feel betrayed and just to kill our fav homonculus. I think that Al would habe been the less histile than the other character because he don't know the plot of the anime so he will just have ressentement for the whole "you lied to me" thing. But Mustang...Oh, he will go wild XD

It'll be cool if Envy was discovered because Edward came back and it could be a very awkward situation between Envy and him, while the two are triying to convince everyone else they're the true Edward but since Ed had, too, chabged because he lived the WWII in a parralele Univers, it's gonna be hard to see wich one is true.

I just love imagining it ending in some kind of found familly because the Elric's relative have grown attached to Envy and Alphonse see him as his big brother now. And both Envy and Edward could bound by bitching on Hohenheim since he's a bad father and they both hate him lmao