#sos this is such a messy rant

[agoddamneddelight]

me posting a christmas themed fiddauthor comic in mid-may? more likely than you think

[yippee-optimistically]

um. umm thinking about if mikey developed a like. kraang 6th sense. bc of the norman suit they obviously knew bishop was a kraang/utrom but just thinking about if, unlike mikeys usual ability to sniff out dangers and fakers (like aprils "mom") bishop and utrom just. unsettled him. its totally unintentional and he feels sort of bad but after everything in dimX he Cannot be comfortable around kraang/utrom. at least for a long time. idk!

also thinking if the brothers learned from mikeys proven abilities to sniff out these false allies, theyd maybe double check bishop with him. like "hey, mike, this guy isnt setting off any alarms, right?" and pushing past all the KRAANG KRAANG KRAANG DANGER signals hes begrudgingly like "...no. no hes good. grins"

related point... tokka vs the world you are so special to me... mikey and caseys bond is so so fun i wish we got to see a little more of it

PLSSS PLSS drop any 2012 fic recs ... im so hungry

[needtobehisprettyboy]

I hate the CaitVi Sex scene

Everytime I see someone thirsting after the scene and gushing about how it's so hot, I feel so disgusted and ticked cause of how the scene came about and where it's located.

Before we get onto my rant about the scene itself, I want to mention the CaitVi scene that happened before that.

"She saved your life!"

"If you will just calm down for on-"

If you will just calm down for once? Hypocrite. Caitlyn's allowed to be pissy, allowed to call Zaunites animals (oh, "except" Vi though) and then fight like an animal by biting Sevika—

Sidenote:

That's also another scene I don't find hot at all. Any time I see it, I can't focus on how attractive Sevika is when she's smug (even though she totes is). All I can focus on is how Caitlyn bit Sevika. I don't remember who pointed it out, if it was on Tumblr or TikTok which I have promptly deleted since the ban, but someone pointed out that Caitlyn is fighting dirty—like a Zaunite. Caitlyn was backed into a corner, so she fought like an animal.

Fuck her.

I guess now she can somewhat understand why Zaunites fight the way they do. When you're backed into a corner, feeling helpless, feeling desperate, you fight like it and she did the same exact same thing she judged them for.

Bastard.

Lol can you tell I'm feeling bitter over her character?

Back to OG rant

—biting Sevika, gas the undercity and harshly interrogate someone who was a victim of Jinx's shenanigans, hit Vi for trying to calm her down from her grief driven rage, but oh, no Vi must calm down even though she's barely angry compared to when Caitlyn's angry. Not to mention that Caitlyn throws a tantrum herself and throws the tiny figure in her hand to the ground.

"—since you don't trust her enough not to shove her in a box."

Can we please take note of the tremble in Vi's voice when she says that? 'Oh, Jinx brought back her trauma from being in Stillwater!1!2!1' First of all, shut up. Second of all, yeah. . . So did Caitlyn?? Caitlyn may not have known what to do with Jinx, but the option for her to let Jinx go to prison was there and Vi hated it.

"Cait, she's changed."

"We can't erase our mistakes. None of us."

All the while not doing any time of her own for the crimes she committed—and no, I'm not talking about her gassing the undercity. What she did as a dictator, letting Noxians take over, and hardly doing anything afterwards even though she caused so much pain and misery to both Piltovians and Zaunites goes unpunished. Her losing an eye is nothing compared to the fear many people will feel while living under a dictatorship.

Get the guillotine!!

"Who decides who gets a second chance?"

Exactly. Caitlyn did no better than Jinx. She knows it too. It tears her up inside—as it should!!! Besides, did she think Jinx wasn't going to eventually get out of Stillwater? Or was one of her options to let Jinx rot there until she died? Yeah, I'm sure your girlfriend would love that.

Now, let's get to the scene itself!

But first let me talk about what happened right before that—

Vi tries to get Jinx on her side, Jinx rejects her, and Vi watches her sister leave while being told by her that Vi "deserves to be happy" and not to "worry about her anymore".

Yikes.

People say that what happened next with Caitlyn was Vi "finally being selfish", but it just feels wrong to me. Don't get me wrong, Vi deserves to enjoy herself after everything that's been done to her; however, you aren't going to have normal, healthy, healing sex right after seeing a loved one leave you for good.

Trust me lol I've had enough grieving/traumatic experience to know that you can feel upset for hours and won't immediately be able to get into a happy mindset even if you find something to entertain yourself with. You can have people try to cheer you up and you feel a bit better, but you still feel that lingering horrible feeling inside that will eat at you for who knows how long. You could give me Steb wearing the cutest little red panties I have ever seen in my life and I'd still be sad while trying to eat him out. You need to give me that like a day or so AFTER my little breakdown cause I won't enjoy it right after crying about losing my sis.

Sidenote:

Someone please remind me to draw that.

It would take at least an hour for Vi to get back to normal with the way she was reacting. At least. Vi was in that cell for who knows how long, but she was still upset and rather vulnerable when Caitlyn found her. No doubt she needed more time to get herself together.

Okay, now, let's get to the scene itself!!!

Bro, don't fuck me while I'm crying unless I'm crying cause I'm laughing too hard or because of sexy overstimulation. Fuck me? Nah, fuck you.

"I choose wrong every time—and because of it. . . I've lost everyone."

"Did you really think I needed all the guards at the HexGates?"

SHUT UP! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT AWWWWWUUUPPPPPPP—anyway,

Your girl is clearly upset, grieving her lost relationship with her sister (and likely other loved ones shes lost like Vander/Warwick), feeling guilty, and clearly not in any type of good mood yet your first reaction is to smirk???? You think this is funny?? Now is not the time to tease, Ms. Dumbass.

Vi needs compassion and reassurance not. . . Whatever that was. Yes, showing that you knew all along and didn't do anything to stop her shows that you do care for her, but it also isn't what she needs. Caitlyn did not reassure her that Vi wasn't going to lose her so easily.

Mainly because if she did, that'd be a lie, but that's neither here nor there.

"Sorry to say, you've grown a bit predictable."

Girl, you are not sorry. Quit lying. I can smell the smoke coming off your pants, but I'm not getting the fire extinguisher.

Again, this isn't what Vi needs. Any therapist would be able to tell you that you should seek healthier coping mechanisms other than sex. Does cuddling not exist? Does making out and then putting a stop to it because you realize your girl is not in the right state of mind for this exist??? Seeking sex after feeling so vulnerable and horrible about yourself is in no way, shape, or form okay. Shit isn't cute.

Caitlyn, you are more of an animal than you realize.

"Listen! While you were gone, I. . . Saw someone."

All of a sudden you realize that you should stop things because you feel guilty, but that guilt isn't over letting your girl go down on you after being upset and grieving, but about. . . Having another girl while she was gone???? Girl, seriously, your priorities are wack.

She does hesitate for a moment once she sees VI's injury (I can't remember where the injury came from. I stg if it came from Caitlyn or whatever Caitlyn ordered her to do. . .) yet she continues on. There are multiple reasons why they shouldn't do it right then and there, but Caitlyn is so horny she lets Vi pleasure her.

The reasons:

1. Vi is not in the right place of mind, she just lost her sister. Please let her grieve.

2. That is a jail cell. After what happened to her, their first time should be somewhere comfortable. Vi deserves comfort. She deserves to be spoiled. You're in Piltover, Caitlyn has a mansion with a really good bed, but your first fuck is in a dirty jail cell??

3. That is a jail cell that contained her sister. Vi can't reclaim shit about having sex in a jail cell if it's a cell that contained her sister. If there was better writing, she'd feel guilty over having sex in the cell she lost her sister. Her guilt isn't going to immediately go away because of one fuck. That's not how it works. Wish it was, but it's not.

Can I also note that Vi is the one pleasuring Caitlyn and not the other way around? Maybe Vi prefers to eat out rather than be eaten, but I think it just speaks more to her always servicing others rather than servicing herself or being serviced. If the sex scene was gonna happen, at least show Vi being completely selfish and enjoying herself by showing Cait be the one to kiss her down to her coochie. Maybe she's a stone top, but she gives off switch vibes to me.

Fuck you, Cait. Always wanting things to benefit you.

(If it was me, I'd eat Vi out, but, again, that's neither here nor there. . . She's not even in my top favs. I just want the best for her cause I hate Caitlyn lol.)

"I'm feeling fantastic."

FUCK YOUUUU

Okay *drops mic* , rant over

[chkn-kit]

something stupid that's been cooking in my brain for a while MOOTS LOOK AWAY

[salty-an-disco]

are we at the point where we can admit most of the Shifty hate is just plain old misogyny, or are we still not ready for that conversation

[letthesunshinein]

I love Adam Parrish in almost every form but I can’t stand classically handsome blond angelic curly haired Adam?? Like Adam is beautiful and uncanny and delicate and has high cheekbones but also dusty and a little weird looking? Like yes, he is blondish but dusty! dirty! There’s no way this boy can afford a good haircut or product!! I can deal with some wave or even some curls if it’s messy. And yes he would want to look Presentable at all costs when he’s at school but there is only so much one can do when you get four hours of sleep and cut your hair yourself? And yes he is strong from boyds and from being a teenage dude but also this child is malnourished!

So anyways the football bro bone structure and build with the square jaw and the blessed angel golden blond curls need to stop…

[californiatowhee]

wedding day sunflower boutonniere for narumitsu week day 2: flowers

bonus (almost-)married texts (shoutout to phoenix's AA5 concept art for inspiring the opening line lol):

(p.s. unrelated, but since i didn't make a separate post for it, another chapter of nrmt soulmate AU is up if that strikes your fancy 🧡)

[orisretr0]

@ken-tfc I heard you like this guy

Dionysus sans goes to @javaxzun

[g4y-th0ughts]

the fact that lisa’s character is what it is also because of the grief she’s gone through and keeps going through and yet, people are going on about her grieving for long enough already is baffling to me.

i get it, it can feel repetitive or like the writing is going in circles but that’s how grief is in real life. progress isn’t linear, it takes time and it’s often one step forward and three steps back. change happens in the long run and it doesn’t involve forgetting or not talking about our dead loved one anymore. unfortunately you don’t get over losing your wife in a traumatic way by falling in love with a new person, even if you were to find out years later that your partner wasn’t who you thought they were. there is no expiration date on grieving.

and carla has gone through grief herself enough times and is emotionally intelligent enough to understand that “giving lisa an ultimatum” would be absolutely harmful for lisa and absolutely pointless for the relationship. carla entered this relationship knowing lisa carries a heavy burden and she probably always will. lisa’s grief is lisa’s responsibility, meaning she has to take the necessary steps to avoid having it impact carla or the relationship or everyone else around her. but once lisa is doing the work, we can’t punish her for still going on about her dead wife. from what we can see, carla isn’t and she’s been amazing at supporting her. it’d be much much weirder if becky had been mentioned once and never again, like that woman, her love and her death, has shaped lisa’s personality.

[losver07]

fan culture is saying "oh i'm reading this really good novel about a guy..." about a fanfiction you are writing and obsessed with

[brw]

Goodbye Krakoa. Stay dead bitch. No more mutant islands.

Can we stop making ethnostates now like can we stop doing that in comics. Can we not keep saying "minorities are safe nowhere but in their own country that doesn't let certain people and also they might not even be safe because Evil People might get jealous and kill them". Ultimately this era has done nothing to explore why ethnostates are bad in any real way. It has done nothing to actually explore how being complicit in the creation of an ethnostate is a Bad Thing. We had some events but we didn't explore anything because we were too scared of making some of our faves look bad. I just actually hate the statements this era has ended up saying and I hate the fact that heroic characters are mourning over the loss of an ethnostate founded by eugenicists. These politics are ugly. And worse yet I see people mourning the loss of the fictional ethnostate like have we all lost our minds.

[looney-mooney-studio]

Do y’all think Phineas and Ferb got to keep the outfits from when they were turned evil. Like. As a treat

[thornsinpudding]

I can't advise people enough to literally just view and treat level 2 / 3 autistic people as actual people...

Although I'm only level 1, my brother is level 3, and he's only partially verbal + developmentally disabled. Seeing how people constantly diminish his emotions and feelings and behaviors and marks anything he experiences down to autism and makes it seem like a huge joke is actually disgusting.

For example, a huge issue I see is in regard to his boundaries and emotions. I see so many people purposefully overstep my brothers boundaries and toy with his emotions and literally manipulate him because he doesn't have the words to stand up for himself. And when he starts looking mad or acting out, they're able to easily twist the situation on him, and suddenly, he's just hysterical, and he needs to be reprimanded.

Another huge concern I see is just how people will blatantly ignore symptoms he experiences and chalk them down to autism. OCD runs in my family, and although I was able to advocate for my own diagnosis, my brother, despite presenting obvious symptoms of OCD, doesn't have that ability. My mom, instead of treating his symptoms with the care he deserves, chalks all of his anxious and compulsive behaviors down to his autism, despite many of these behaviors not even SEEMING like autism.

So much abelism towards higher level autistic people can literally be solved if we weren't taught that autistic people with higher support needs are different than us. Just because somebody can't advocate for themself doesn't mean you're allowed to freely play around with their feelings and target them, and it doesn't give you the right to ignore their struggles either.

It seems like such a silly and obvious thing to preach, yet some people genuinely don't understand it...

[ducktracy]

no shade to tlts and especially not the people who worked on it but it does really feel like it's only relevant in the modern day because it's so Fandomable, by virtue of its sitcom nature simplifying, downright flanderizing everyone down to a few basic traits that make them so simple that it makes even the 30's shorts feel like they were full of complex and elaborate characterizations. daffy perhaps being the biggest example (well. and lola too, but lola is more obvious. and also i like her more). but because they're so simple, they're easy to make ship art for and slot into incorrect quotes without worrying "Hey, am I portraying these characters right?" because they're hardly characters at all. Or is that too mean to say

I LOVE YOU ANON. YES. i’m genuinely sorry to the couple dozen people who’ve seen me making the same few posts about this over and over the past few days, i’ve been in a crotchety mood because of this and i know it’s not very becoming of me but you have sent this at the perfect time because i’ve been stewing in the consequences of this all day. actually for the past 6 years even

I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS SAAAAME THING IT’S SO TRUE. look. i clearly don’t like TLTS but i understand why it’s as popular as it is. i understand why people like it. i completely understand why it’s the entry point that it is. i disagree with so much of the show fundamentally, but i completely understand why it’s the phenomenon that it is and just because i don’t like it doesn’t mean other people can’t. I WANT TO! i literally want people to enjoy it in my stead! if i can’t get any enjoyment out of it then i am so glad that someone else can. embrace it. have fun with it

but it’s so responsible for this game of telephone with these characters. i mean. okay not truly responsible, this game of telephone has been happening even as early as the classics themselves, but TLTS absolutely boils down the characters to their most bare essentials that vaguely fit the sitcom niche. these characters are modeled to fit a sitcom and the stereotyping therein, not the other way around of a sitcom about these complex and nuanced characters. “Porky can have a tendency to be meek” is transformed into “Porky can’t stand up for himself whatsoever and is the doormat to end all doormats”. “Daffy has an ego and does impulsive things” is turned into “Daffy is turned into the lovechild of Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson and treats everyone like shit because we saw how he treated Speedy Gonzales—not even Bugs—and decided he treats everyone that way”. it’s just. completely misrepresenting these characters and doing them so dirty. i don’t think i’ll ever not be mad at the way this show treats Porky and i sincerely do think it has contributed to a genuine bias against his character from most of the fandom, even if they don’t realize it. it genuinely gets me seething. the skinnier he is the more fat jokes we make and we’ll also make jokes about how nobody wants to hear him sing because he’s a stuttering idiot who can’t talk right isn’t that so funny (TLTS did not do this, that i remember, i’m ranting about a short that was so bad that Bob Bergen refused to voice Porky in it, but it’s still all stemming from that same game of telephone and chain reaction)

and i would be more okay with this if people didn’t take it as absolute gospel. but they do. and will act like you’re the wrong one. i know i’m being so mean right now but i had someone make a bunch of really nasty and vague posts about me just today that are a direct consequence of this issue and i’ve kind of been losing my mind all day lol. i don’t know how to word any of this without sounding like “it’s so hard because i’m smarter than you ❤️”, i don’t believe that at all, i’m always learning new things and correcting my own misinformation every single day. but. genuinely. the amount of times i’ve had people fansplain these characters and the series to me. i had someone say “well Daffy treats Porky like shit in TLTS because it’s revealed Porky bullied him in high school” FOR THAT ONE SINGLE EP THAT WAS CLEARLY A SUBVERSIVE GAG AND IS NEVER BROUGHT UP AGAIN? TLTS HAS CONTINUITY! IF THIS WAS THE CASE IT WOULD SAY SO! THE WHOLE JOKE IS THAT SUCH BEHAVIOR IS SO UNLIKE PORKY!!! …for the show, anuway. because HE CAN BE A BITCH! but people never realize it in the right way!

but yeah. i’m rambling i’m so sorry this is incoherent but i’ve been malding all day and so this just comes at a great time lol i’m genuinely sorry for how petty and annoying i must sound but it’s tortuous. the fandomization and easy digestibility of the characters is so true, and people get mad at you when you try to point out that the characters weren’t always that way or something is out of character. and it’s not that i don’t think people can like or headcanon these things. but so many people pass it off as being absolute FACT, Daffy Duck TOLD me his white band around the neck is actually a diamond necklace because isn’t that sooo effeminate and funny and weird lol. i. god. ahhhhhh. THE THINGS I COULD SAY. there’s also the point that so many TLTS fans making this argument don’t even seem to be using the material that the show gives them. i’m all for taking creative liberties and disregarding “canon” (pssst there is no canon it’s LT), but. well. there’s just so much hypocrisy. i’m holding back but there’s a lot of hypocrisy.

and what i also hate is that this transcends into disdain for the originals because they’re OLD or BORING. HOW UTTERLY DISRESPECTFUL TO THE LEGACY OF THESE CHARACTERS????? there are plenty of reasons to dislike elements of the classics, i am extremely well versed in all of the racism and misogyny and homophobia/transphobia and xenophobia and occasional antisemitism and jingoism in these shorts. they’re 95 years old (today, in fact! happy anniversary LT i’ve spent it all day malding over your ignorant fans) there are absolutely reasons not to like them or shy away from them, and these things should be talked about!! the characters and these shorts are of their time, and that’s for better or worse!

but people don’t even care enough about that!! they just don’t give the originals a chance and again, this wouldn’t bother me as much if everyone suddenly didn’t act like they’re the utmost authority on LT. and the amount of pushback i’ve seen for this is!!! shocking!!! i’ve had more than one person make a vague post about me that’s like “and if you correct me on something i get wrong because i didn’t mention something from this bumfuck 80 year old short or whatever, i don’t care”. like. ok nobody worded it that way but i feel like you can just say “disclaimer, there are probably details i’m missing because i haven’t seen these shorts, so my post will be concocted for that point of view” that’s FINE! THATS LITERALLY FINE! but there’s so much dishonesty and pretentiousness that goes around and it really hurts my head. especially because i feel like i’ll be the asshole know it all for saying that no, the characters were not always intended this way. i feel that way because i’ve been dealing with the repercussions of this all day lol

also, what they don’t want you to know is that the 30s shorts do have more complexity and depth to them!!!!!! it’s there if you look for it!! “it’s fucking Looney Tunes who cares” is an equally acceptable reaction, but, like! i don’t know! i just get really mad and upset at how so many people put down these shorts and, with it, the vision of the creators who have the end all be all SAY all of these characters whether you like it or not. nobody is gonna know these characters better than the people who made them. MYSELF INCLUDED! Bob Clampett could come to me tonight in a dream and say “all that stuff you analyzed about [insert random short here] isn’t true, i just did it because it’s funny” and i’d say you got it boss! i’m very aware of this because i work in cartoons too!! i’m sympathetic of both the cartoonist’s angle and the overzealous fan angle. but no i have no problem in saying that some of these 30s shorts genuinely are more meaningfully thought out and have more meaningful character analysis. and this isn’t to put down the TLTS crew. but this is just!!! idk. retaliation against this really weird fandom centric superiority complex so many people have

it’s just so tiring.. i want to interact with the LT fandom more but each time i do i’m so reminded of why i don’t. i never go in any tags and never look for any art beyond what my friends are drawing because i know i’ll just get mad at people displaying this weird cliquey pompousness about it all. and a lot of it is on my end! i am way too overprotective of these characters! i do have terminal “He Would Not Fucking Say That” disease and that’s something i gotta work on! but i just feel like… iunno. maybe this sounds whiny or victim-y but i’ve been complaining a lot recently about giving people a lot of grace and flexibility and making amends for these differences in opinion that i’m never given back. and instead i have people vague posting about me on their blog over a span of 12 hours mocking my posts and accusing me of their own behavior that they are clearly projecting themselves onto. now i know i’m getting whiny and immature and annoying by bringing this up i know it doesn’t do any good but i’m just so tired man :’) i’ve been dealing with these same issues for 6 years and my filter for it is beginning to slip.

i’m still going i’m sorry LOL. LOLA. i do like what they did with Lola because i hate her in Space Jam and tbh i pretend she doesn’t exist 95% of the time. TLTS did do Lola right, that and Kwesi Boakye as Gossamer/Roz Ryan as Hazel are the two things i will enjoy about the show.

man there is still so much more i can say but i’ve been malding all day and i am so tired. i’m sure it’s very noticeable. i’m so sorry for how pretentious and obnoxious i sound, you worded this so much better than i could, i agree with absolutely everything you said here. i don’t even mind that people do these things, but i mind the way that they act like it’s the end all be all and will literally get mad or accusatory when you say that’s not the intent. you’re free to interpret as you please, lord knows i do, but you have to be mindful of the intent that these characters were created in. if you prefer TLTS and prefer how these characters act in that show, if you prefer the more fandom centric viewpoints, genuinely that is awesome and i’m sincerely glad you can enjoy and engage in a way that i can’t. please don’t get mad at me if you act like an authority on this and i say that it’s not true. i hate acting like a know it all because i’m not, but i’ve had multiple people say something that amounts to “you act like you know more things than me simply because you know more things than me” and i just. What are we doing here. IT’S LOONEY TUNES. EVEN I CAN SAY THAT GUYS IT’S FUCKING LOONEY TUNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[the---hermit]

I 100% agree with the necessity of history chapters in non fiction books that don't focus on historical subjects, but exactly for how important it is to give historical contex and background it is imperative that you get your history chapters checked by an actual historian if that is not your area of expertise. I am begging you. No one needs wrong history terms and approximated stuff. If you fucked up a scientific term people would be at your throat in no time, why do we let this happen with historical topics so often.

[casual-socks]

HI IVE BEEN MASSIVELY HYPERFIXATED ON TMA FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND IVE SEEN MAYBE ONE (1) SINGULAR PERSON TALK ABOUT THIS and i am not even kidding when i say its been a passionate topic of conversation for that entire year. people know me for this. it comes up and my entire friend group SIGHS AUDIBLY because they know the 20 minute tangent i Will be taking

WHATTTTT IS GOING ON WITH GERARD KEAYS NAME. what. what???? okay i

youre telling me jonathan sims went to oxford college (relatively prestigious if my memory serves me correctly) for RESEARCH. for, to put it simply, READING. and he looks at the name gerard and goes Yeah looks like jared to me lets go with that!!! HELLO?? NO?? not even mentioning the fact that he is being what could easily be called possesed when reading these statements which leaves us with two options

1. the ENTIRETY OF ENGLAND CANNOT PRONOUNCE THE NAME GERARD.

2. jonathan sims is so monumentally stupid that he is somehow breaking this possesion for the 2 seconds it takes to say the name gerard (i love him i swear i will sound so so hateful for this entire post but its out of love)

and like??? its not even that EVERYONE is calling him jared? elias and gertrude have both called him gerard and thats just off the top of my head. i also think jon said it correctly ONEEEE SINGULAR TIME. Just the once.

now i feel it necessary to mention jared hopworth here as well. because why, why on gods green earth, would you name a character gerard. pronounce it jared. TURN AROUND AND GO. lets make another jared but this ones made out of meat and is sort of implied to not be too fond of gay people. Yeah he steals peoples bones. Yeah.

SO LIKE GERARD KEAY IS THE OBJECTIVELY SUPERIOR JARED EXCEPT HES NOT JARED HIS NAME IS LITERALLY GERARD?? FUCK YOU SO MUCH

so okay. sure whatever this podcast is sooo british that a bunch of people are just completely failing to pronounce gerard. sure. whatever you say.

GERRY?????? HIS FUCKING NICKNAME IS GERRY???????????? NO!!!!

NO. no. LOOK ME IN MY EYES. LOOK AT THE NAME GERARD. GER-ARD. AND YOURE TELLING ME YOURE GONNA CALL HIM JARED. SND THEN YOURE GONNA CALL HIM GERRY WITH A G???? gerry with a g. that is utterly ridiculous i cannot even believe this that is monumentally frustrating i cannot even begin to describe to you all the anger i have experienced over this particular bit because why on earth would you take that particular extra step??? gerard -> gerry. sure. thin ice, but sure. jared -> jerry. sure! yeah! makes sense! GERARD -> JARED -> GERRY? you must be playing some sick joke jonny sims. seriously. you are a cruel and usual man

now this is when i start to wind down, but far from where i finish. lets take a moment to really pause and soak in his actual name here.

gerard.

that is so unfortunate already i mean really, gerard is such a…. a name…. i mean his mom skins people and puts them in books and the cruelest thing i think she ever couldve done is honest to god name her son gerard.

keay.

now dont get me wrong. theres nothing seriously wrong with spelling it keay on principle. but god, really? youre gonna shove all this gerard gerry jared business in front of me and tell me his last name is just key but gone the extra mile. really feels like the cherry on top of a shit cake.

now if you consider gerards character i truly feel as though thats the deepest disservice here. gerard keay is an incredible character whos short appearance is so memorable and charming, and despite his VERY little screen time he still has an intriguing and well fleshed out character. really, gerard keay is so excellent character wise. But, every time i think about him for any more than 5 minutes, almost this exact rant is being told to whoever is unfortunate enough to be near me at the time.

another thing i think also really adds to this is just the nature of gerard keay. everything you can say about that guy could be ended with “and everone calls him jared for some reason”. hes emo and everyone calls him jared for some reason. his hair dye job is so miserable that EVERYONE mentions it and everyone calls him jared for some reason. he has mommy issues and everyone calls him jared for some reason.

okay i need to wrap this up before i start just repeating WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY for thousands of words but heres a graph i made for my friends in october 2022 when i was going on about this in the middle of my spanish class 👍👍