john nonsense

turn off your brain and turn off your heart

[jiramiko]

youll never guess what this thread was actually about. leaving it open in case my followers are still active

[jiramiko]

brother this dj whose channel im watching needs get the fuck up on stage right now or else ill have wasted my time making a tracklist for several nobody performers in the livestream hes HOSTING

[jiramiko]

"what is the worst episode of season 8?"

[bitemarx]

and do so as we please

my vague designs for these three

[jiramiko]

"introduce a character in a series and have their overall arc completed without needing to make more continuations or get blown to smithereens"

adventure time writers:

[jiramiko]

no bullshit i just found out about the existence of this. opinions pending if i remember to

[jiramiko]

oh so that was the weird ass noise mike did in fishes

[jiramiko]

i dont get why people let there be so much confusion over where this would end up placing in the official timeline if its just gonna be a prequel. shouldve been like that one indiana jones tv spinoff where every episode focused on a different era of the protags life

[jiramiko]

no bullshit i just found out about the existence of this. opinions pending if i remember to

[jiramiko]

theres a whole other world out there

[jiramiko]

"other ships are rare too, right?"

"not this much."

"do we think we should wait until youre confirmed to be a-"

"it is what it is, lets just get jiramiko to finish his fic and go from there."

[discount-supervillain]

[jiramiko]

ive been watching the coachella livestreams lately. the david byrne-adriatique-interpol stage conflict wouldve been hard to figure out on my own had i not given up on my wifi in the middle of the strokes set and ended up rewatching fma *again*. consumerism final boss

[jiramiko]

??????????

[oc]

[abbenai]

and i mean, the other thing that bothers me about fintress fankids is that it often feels like a very familiar kind of narrative containment for a female character who is otherwise difficult to assimilate into ordinary gender roles. huntress wizard is one of the few women in adventure time whose desirability is not primarily organized around sweetness, courtliness, domesticity, or emotional availability. she is guarded, feral, and often resistant to being fully known. so when fandom bends her toward pregnancy or motherhood, it feels less like an organic extension of her characterization and more like a re-domestication of a woman whose whole appeal partly lies in her refusal of that script.

i dont mean that motherhood is inherently antifeminist, or that women like huntress couldnt choose it. what i mean is that fandom often treats motherhood as the soft, natural, humanizing endpoint for women once they are paired off, as though intimacy becomes most complete when it is made reproductive.

[abbenai]

i think what feels off to me about fintress kids is not that i think finn and huntress wizard are incapable of intimacy. moreso that their characterization across shows does not really frame their intimacy as moving toward that kind of settled heterosexual completion.

huntress wizard’s whole connection to finn is built around a fear that attachment will make her “soft” and unable to survive. even in adulthood, the relationship is still written through distance. in fionna and cake her inner life is explicitly tied to the childhood house fire that killed her adoptive parents, and her panic over losing finn reads as that old catastrophic loss getting reactivated rather than as someone peacefully moving toward domestic normalcy.

and finn as an adult is not exactly written as a man arriving at stable pastoral fatherhood either. he is still restless, still oriented toward danger, still trying to care for people by throwing himself into quests and near death situations. when their dynamic shows up on screen, the emphasis is on her dragging him back from the edge, him waking in her care and calling her babe, and other people awkwardly asking if they are “back on again,” not on any build toward a nursery or a family-unit endgame.

so for me fankids flatten what is actually interesting about them. fintress works because it is oblique and hard won. they love each other in a way that still feels strange to them, and the shows preserve that strangeness. making them neatly married with babies feels less like a natural extension of canon and more like fandom importing a very ordinary idea of romantic success onto two characters who are defined, over and over, by their difficulty fitting ordinary scripts.

even working through their holdups as older adults, i dont think that would automatically place them on a path toward children. if anything, i think their growth would look more like learning to inhabit intimacy with less fear and more willingness to remain present with one another. that feels to me like the real horizon of their relationship, rather than parenthood as a kind of default completion.

[jiramiko]

i gave up on the long hair (+ facial) id been growing out since i was still a teenager because it was awful to manage, i couldnt stand sweeping away all the strands that kept falling out from my scalp if i did as much as breathe, and no amount of thickness it still miraculously has could shroud all the awful self care that people could tell by simply looking at my face.

in the scenario parawarner doesnt ax the ip altogether and finn inevitably returns for a cameo the following season, if he doesnt do the same thing i just did then its a shit one from the jump

[jiramiko]

real text i saw my sister type and send to her friend: "shipping idols together ❌ shipping people in our own fandom together ✅"