big trouble in little sanchez

r&m is an ancient eldritch horror that's been following me around since 2013. send help! read my rick & morty fic here

[luciphyllousradial]

Rickorty but not in a romantic way. But in a will-they-wont-they, queerbaiting, on-and-off-again, what-are-we, unspoken toxic connection way.

[irrationalattachment]

THOUGHTS ON THE NEW EP????

INSANE INSANE INSANE.LIKE . ARE YOU KIDDING ME. rick cheating on his grandsonboyfriend with a SECOND grandsonboyfriend because ONE WASN'T ENOUGH ? and caring enough to HIDE IT ? framing the entire thing like an affair and titling the episode after a romcom? morty finally getting to be the bitch he didn't get to be in Unmortricken ? "he has a big ol crush on you," "sorry he made it weird," what the hell, ???? what the hell was that????? the subtext has become text.... morty foaming at the mouth with jealousy and rick showing his hand at every fucking turn.... it feels like s3 again in the best way....

at face value it does bother me they continue to make morty look so dumb/weak in comparison to EM, but i know there's a reason for this... truly i think morty has the same brains and fighting capacity as EM, and their base personalities are almost identical - they're both petty, manipulative, selfish, stubborn - but our morty is held back by rick's abuse; he's needy and insecure and fawning, and he becomes even less competent around EM because he FEELS less competent. morty made that comment about EM being smarter and about not being able to do his chemistry homework, but the truth is that when morty truly cares about something and feels sure of himself, he can do so much. he can disarm neutrino bombs ! he can manipulate rick fucking sanchez ! he was cleaning up rick's messes without rick and he has an incredible amount of fighting experience - he fights almost all of the same battles rick does. the only reason he isn't as skilled or snarky as EM is because 1) he doesn't need to be and 2) rick won't let him be. rick takes care of all the engineering all the most dangerous fights; rick keeps morty's confidence low and his reliance on him high; like any abuser, rick feels like he needs to keep morty down or morty will eventually leave him. he needs all that control because he's paranoid.

and he's paranoid because he's obsessed with morty, with being his Everything, with being the person morty loves most in the world. but paradoxically he can't ever be 100% confident in that love and can't ever have 100% of morty because he's abusing him !!! and he's too afraid to ever pull back completely on that abuse. he can't risk losing morty - even if he thinks morty will probably stay with him, the possibility that he'll assume his own agency and separate from the rickandmorty codependency is too agonizing. at the same time, he can't dig his heels in too hard or he will lose everything that makes morty morty, all the things he loves that he is in denial about loving.

but then here comes evil morty, who is proof that there's a morty out there who will be his even without the abuse. EM blackmailing rick is a veil for them both: rick gets to pour attention into a morty without looking weak, he gets to be submissive to a morty under the guise of coercion, and conversely EM gets a rick's attention from a position of power instead of from a place of oppression. EM has all the traits of morty's that rick enjoys but can't encourage because it would make morty more likely to leave him. the reason rick needs to juggle them both and hide it from morty - the reason he needs to have an affair instead of just openly hanging out with EM - is because he still doesn't want to lose morty. he literally wants to have his cake and eat it too; he wants wifey at home and side piece outside of the central finite curve; for once in his life rick can get everything he wants - he just needs two mortys to do it. it's soooo fucking fascinating it's SOOOO GOOD

[irrationalattachment]

i feel like they dipped me in the vat of acid for real. i had to pause every 30 FUCKING SECONDS. can't quote a single thing because i'd have to quote everything. jesus fucking christ

[irrationalattachment]

any rnm fic recs? your writing style conveys so much, I would love to know if you’ve got any inspirations and if you’ve got any hidden gems you’ve enjoyed around the fandom :D

so sorry for the late answer i'm notoriously shit at answering asks but THANK you for the kind words and thank you for asking. my favorite rnm fic of ALL TIME, and the fic that has inspired me not only to write better rnm fic but better prose in everything i do, is this is not an exit door. there will never be another bitch like this is not an exit door. there will never be another rnm fic as gutting and clever and worthy of attention as this is not an exit door. if you like my writing, you will love this is not an exit door.

im a huge fan of anything sheeplaurelzzz writes but my all-time favorite is and my grandson wants the sex robot. there's also If that's the only way I don't want to be saved which is disgusting and horrible and such a good exploration of rick's abuse.

borrowed time is my favorite newer fic, a masterclass in brevity, cutting and clean. stunning little work investigating the insanity that was the s8 premiere.

and finally, A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE is the only good take on the miamis ever written, possibly.

thank you again for the ask!! i hope you see this and enjoy these fics if you haven't read them already!!!

[joonirooni]

I need more of Rick actually taking care of Morty like a grandpa should 🥹

[guiltfactory]

nothing is more thrilling to me than two men NOT fucking

[guiltfactory]

i <3 unresolved sexual tension especially if at least one person is borderline suicidal about it

[pumpkinlutik]

they're my guilty pleasure

[irrationalattachment]

rick and morty is really like: i need you. you’re hurting me. i want you gone. i’m hurting you. i know you better than anyone. you’re a stranger to me. i’ve seen you die a thousand times. i’ve tried to save you and failed. i’ve aimed a gun at your heart. i’ve tried to kill you and failed. i need your respect. i couldn’t care less what you think of me. get away, i need to breathe. come back, i am drowning. i don’t trust you. i don’t trust anyone but you. look at me. look at me. look at me. i am sinking my teeth into your arm. i am breaking skin. i am hitting bone. i am stitching your wounds. i am not looking you in the eye. i want to forget. i need to remember. i wish you’d never come here. i wish i’d never found you. without you i’m lost.  if i don’t have you, who do i have. you get me. you made me. you’re what i made of you. please don’t think i’m a bad person. please know i’m a bad person and love me anyway. and im just supposed to be normal about that?

[mortysmith]

Thought about the toxic ep Almost died

[sigmri]

the episode in a nutshell

and happy future parents🥳🥚🎉

[metamorefishsis]

i cannot express enough how fucking ecstatic i am that "morty-whipped" is now a canonical term in rick and morty

[sopaiby]

Testing other brushes of my comfort zone

[brainrotcake]

Grandpa Rick CANNOT be trusted with making a reliable love spell antidote [ eng | рус ]

[sigmri]

fun fact! homesteader rick is alive and happy with arcade morty on their farm! *cries while listening to tori amos*

[irrationalattachment]

the thing about r&m that's so enamoring to me is the Why, or lack thereof. why are you together? why won't one of you leave? why can't you be normal about each other? and why have you accepted this as destiny?

[xardigrade]

mmmm stay winning rickorty fam <3333333333

[xardigrade]

i heard folks out there think that easter ep was a loss for us. fools. you wish your ship talked about kissing and jerking it in canon

[irrationalattachment]

ok re: the reply that said that they were horny in the ship on the way over bc they got low dose pheremoned through the vaccine: i pitch to you, they didn't fuck but they got real close to kissing, like chests heaving foreheads pressed against each other and it was so lustful and romantic that it was honestly worse than if they had just jerked each other off

[xardigrade]

mmmm stay winning rickorty fam <3333333333

[xardigrade]

i heard folks out there think that easter ep was a loss for us. fools. you wish your ship talked about kissing and jerking it in canon