The House That Tad Ghostal Built

A podcast retrospective on the animation history of Adult Swim Hosted by Glitch Tatham and Quinn Welsh Wilson http://ghostpod.house/

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have i ever shown u people my hand sofa

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my prized possession is this loveseat I bought from a divorced dad who couldn’t tell me anything about it and in the years i’ve owned it i’ve never been able to find out who made it or where it came from. it’s got nails and finger creases and palm lines but they’re all kinda hard to see in this pic.

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Love how Pokemon games will spend 5 billion hours giving a complete tutorial on every single mechanic possible and then turn around and have the Mold Breaker ability say "[X] breaks the mold!" and never give any further context

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it draws 2 cards

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already kicking the hornet’s nest by criticizing Tolkien today so I may as well praise Steven Universe lmao. I listened to a few of the better songs last night and man that show really grappled with a level of interpersonal emotional complexity that even adult shows rarely handle. at the time all valid criticisms of the show really got lost in the deluge of arguments that boiled down to “it’s bad to depict toxic dynamics between humanized characters who care about each other” which lol.

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obviously it was groundbreaking for depicting lesbian relationships and genderfluid characters but it was really quite a nuanced depiction of like. the parentified child forced to bear the burden of emotional intelligence because no one else will or can. Rose as a benevolent antagonist who’s avoidant and inconsiderate to the point of profound cruelty and the frustration of not really being able to have the catharsis of properly hating your mother. everthing going on with pearl lmao. genuinely a very ambitious exploration of what it means to hurt and be hurt by the people you love and the kind of toxic baggage literally everyone carries into their relationships without intending to. didn’t always hit the mark of course but imho it was usually a smarter show than tumblr gives it credit for.

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framing @yellowstonewolves-main’s comment because it made me laugh so hard I farted

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not to move on from the worthy subject of gollumfucking but. a lot of the criticism about Steven Universe was about how well it functioned as a critique of empire and colonialism which. it didn’t really. imho it was at its weakest when it dabbled in that because it was fundamentally a show about toxic family dynamics and intergenerational trauma. “rainbow-colored anthropomorphic lesbian space rocks” are about as abstracted from real-world imperialism as you can get and so, while it is an inherently politically fraught metaphor, I think it’s still worth evaluating it as a metaphor. Steven doesn’t destroy the diamonds not because genocidal dictators deserve mercy, but because you can’t kill your shitty family who doesn’t understand your values or your identity or why you can’t just be the version of you they’ve built up in their heads. I think the resolution of “we can’t ever be close but we can learn to stop actively harming each other” is pretty satisfying. of course the limitations of like, “valuing human life” as a metaphor for independence and rejecting the viewpoints and traditions of your family are really obvious in stuff like the people zoo that sometimes hit too close to reality.

anyway. imagine if frodo died giving birth to gollum’s son and sam had to raise him. that’s something that’s really something.

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i love shipping magazines and i especially love them when they sound like they were written by a mildly aggravated cargo ship

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Y'all holy smokes

We found a rip of Adult Swim's entire premiere night including commercials.