Girl Failure

rielle 👻 II she/her II 🖤🩶🤍💜 on my nerd shit

[nadjaofstatenisland]

[stone-stars]

[Video Description: A clip from Hot Date. Murph and Emily are sitting on a couch as Murph reads a magazine. Emily says "Y'know what? Stay if you like, but I'm going!" and gets up and leaves. Murph calls after her: "What? No! If you're going, then I have to! I need to temper your raw charisma with my sour spirit!" He sets his magazine aside and gets up to follow her.]

murph called this line 'too real' on a short rest <3

[ionlyeatcomfortfood]

God, Maxwell and Olethra's equal but opposite character arcs are really getting to me.

Olethra is sky-eyed from the start, granddaughter of the legendary adventurer Comfrey MacLeod. She's desperate to escape the boring life that her parents lead in Pilby and to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother. She's a huge fan of the Zephyr crew, and she read all of Monty's books about their adventures.

But as she goes on this adventure, she realizes that while it is certainly fantastical, it's also dangerous as well. She's lucky enough to have the mech, but the other people around her don't have that kind of protection. She watches them get beaten bloody and struggle to fight back. When she tries to get in a good quip for Monty's next book, he's distracted in the middle of his fight. Things aren't like the stories.

And on top of all of this, the grandmother that she adored so much is slowly revealing herself to be a not-so-great person. She was reckless and single-minded, prone to taking on debts that she knew she couldn't pay. She was sometimes unkind to the people who had once been family to her, and sometimes her recklessness really hurt them. Her grandmother is not the false idol that Olethra has made her out to be, she is a real and flawed woman.

On the other hand, Maxwell is incredibly serious and practical. While he holds onto his grandfather's idea that finding Zood is a worthy investment, he does not hold onto any whimsical ideas of exploring it. He simply wishes to note that it exists to restore the Gotch family name before immediately returning to Gath. Even his fighting is based in rules and structure, even if it's incredibly violent. Mordecestershire is "breaking the rules" by wearing a jetpack to escape instead of simply dying from being thrown off the ship. It's all logical.

But the longer that Maxwell spends in Zood, the more impractical and almost whimsical he becomes. Yes he's still incredibly serious, but he also believes for a moment that he could fight a dinosaur. He jokes with Monty about his books being terrible. He makes the "rowdy" and reckless choice to give Torse his heart. He throws a snowball at Monty when they're at the Ectic Research Station. Even the "you're meat" scene is its own kind of twisted whimsy, comically violent and highly impractical. Of course he's still a bit of a wet blanket sometimes, but he's slowly learning why his grandfather was so sky-eyed.

Olethra's arc is about a dreamer having to ground her dreams in reality, and Maxwell's arc is about getting a realist to start dreaming again.

[owl-s-personal-bs]

Sometimes I just giggle to myself about this

[opeoism]

a not-so-quiet confession

[asophines]

#moomin #snufkin #snufmin

[dyke-uncle]

No fucking way I found my little rubber fetus

[00venator]

Your hwat

[dyke-uncle]

When I was like 7 I got this little rubber fetus that was being handed out by pro-life people at a concert. For like 10 years he was my stress ball I would chew on him or throw him at the wall and watch him bounce around. But he started to decay so put him in this prescription bottle and now I just pretend he's a test tube baby

[00venator]

Ok.

[asophines]

#i want a little rubber fetus in a prescription bottle #gimme

[tourdion]

reece shearsmith & steve pemberton

[kublakola]

no one plays weird little guys with the same commitment and verve as Brian Kevin Murphy. kugrash doesn't just go to the park to find some pigeons, he raises his 'little rat arms' and summons them en masse to kingston's gorgeous, pristine apartment. riz doesn't just hide behind a car, he rolls into a ball, hides in fabian's backpack, promptly throws up out of excitement, gets lobbed across the parking lot, and then bites gorgug's shirt in half to make himself a toga, because gorgug's big and he's so small, and so covered in his own vomit. murph just gets it. shoutout krudbert. shoutout gerard prince of greenleigh.

[aphoticfirefly]

fantasy high @ game changer pt.2 i cant tell you how many times i had to stop drawing for a second just to pull back and laugh I SWEAR shjdlhfsdkfjhsf anyway angry siobhan from this ep is literally adaine to me i hope yall see the vision too

link to pt. 1

[asophines]

hc: all of the penguins of madagascar are bisexual

[exposing-the-truth]

SAY #NO TO MEDS!!!!!