Don't stop me now!

no one cares about this anyway

[jolly-lo]

could you please explain the "bub" thing to me i'm also not a native speaker and i have no idea what it means 😭😭😭

It's a way to address a guy in informal way, like 'buddy', 'bro' or 'dude', but as I get it it has somewhat aggressive connotations. Also it seems to be a bit old-fashioned.

Edit: It *can* be a form of endearment btw, it just really depends on a context as it seems

[jolly-lo]

After I've seen D&W for the very first time I had one great confusion and oh damn, okay, I need to say that I'm not a native English speaker, and sometimes I just don't know the meaning of some words, and, well.

I didn't know what 'bub' meant. I had absolutely no idea and figured, just by a general tone and the way it sounds, that it's some kind of a pet name or a term of endearment used mockingly. Like 'babe' or 'pup' or something.

So, you can imagine how during all movie I sat here with a constant 'bombastic side eye' every time Logan called Wade 'bub' and wondered why on earth didn't they kiss at the end of the movie and why anyone would deny that they have a thing for each other 😭 when I was walking out of the cinema I was like 'well that was one hell of queerbait 😠' lmaoooo

Boy was I disappointed when I figured this out

[jolly-lo]

pink lipstick stains sigarette butts

i lie in pool i hate my guts

[glitteringcrab]

I've seen this technology before

...Have we... really considered the implications of this?

The first possibility is that the creators of Rick and Morty kinda made certain things up as they went along (which makes sense) and this was simply Evil Morty's introduction: he's clever, he's ruthless, he can perform mind control. Cool. Spooky.

The second possibility, if Evil Morty's whole arc is planned from the very beginning and he's always been intended to be an overarching villain/antihero (honestly, it feels this way) is that in some point in the past there was either (at least one) Villain Of The Week (let's call him Random Puppetmaster Villain) or a Rick (let's call him Puppetmaster Rick) who would puppeteer people to promote his own agenda.

The Citadel Ricks examining Evil Rick had evidently no clue who could have been puppeteering Evil Rick. This can be read in two ways:

A) Random Puppetmaster Villain/Puppetmaster Rick is still at large, never been caught. The Citadel Ricks have no idea where to even begin looking. Evil Morty would likely know who it is.

I feel like this theory has some basis plot-wise, given that with Rick Prime dead and the Intergalactic Federation gone we're sorta running out of overarching villains.

B) Random Puppetmaster Villain/Puppetmaster Rick is dead, his villain lair destroyed, all his mooks defeated. The Citadel Ricks are like "wtf, what's this up now?" as all possible leads are long gone. They have no idea who could possibly be using the same technology now.

This theory has some basis if we consider the fact that Evil Morty does not appear particularly scared--just angry. His motivation to leave was because he was sick of being trapped with Ricks, not because he was worried a past enemy might hunt him down. I guess one possibility doesn't rule out the other (you can be scared and angry at the same time) but Evil Morty seems to be the living incarnation of the toxicity of the Rick-Morty dynamic; nudging that on the side with a generic being-a-victim-to-a-villain backstory feels very disappointing.

I guess in theory both possibilities could be true; Puppetmaster might have been defeated, Evil Morty might, along everyone else, think the dude (or dudette) is dead, but that person could have escaped.

There is also the possibility that Puppetmaster and Evil Morty parted in good-ish terms with each other, so one has no reason to fear the other.

C) Evil Rick was the Puppetmaster. I feel this is unlikely, same as I feel it is unlikely that Evil Rick was ever physically abusive with Evil Morty, despite Evil Morty's reaction to his yells. If he was in habit of hitting Evil Morty (or worse), I doubt Evil Morty would have worked up the courage to get in his face over something as mundane as a shitty (literally lol) adventure. (Other Ricks might have been though, which would explain Evil Morty's reaction).

IN ANY CASE

Evil Morty had the... good fortune (?) to interact with this person in the past. In the same way Morty Prime is used to disarming neutrino bombs drunkenly assembled by Rick C-137, Evil Morty was experienced enough to successfully perform brain surgery on Evil Rick. This is supported by Evil Morty's large range of brain-related abilities, and I'm not referring to the manipulation:

1. Performing brain surgery on at least two Ricks. It wasn't a one-time thing. He did it with Evil Rick, and he did it again when he was running for president:

Look at the Rick in the picture: he doesn't have the eye bags nor mouth scar that Evil Rick had, and Evil Morty is wearing his Candidate Suit.

It's unclear if Evil Morty set his assistant up for a failed assassination attempt to gain votes through sympathy, or if someone had really been keeping tabs of him... But whichever is true, I can totally see any people in the know being afraid to speak up: any of the Ricks accompanying Evil Morty might in reality be puppeteered by Evil Morty. Some of the guards that shot the District Ricks might have been Evil Morty. The Ricks that approved of him participating in the campaign run might have been Evil Morty. Good luck speaking to anyone; you risk basically confessing to Evil Morty.

2. Scanning Rick C-137's entire brain (when he finished this in the Citadel, he did it with no visible apparatus, I might add).

3. Scanning dead Ricks' entire brains. You'd think that the death would deteriorate the memories, but nope. Evil Morty was good to go.

4. Being able to instantly scan another person's brain and find out what they're planning:

5. Creating small devices that can instantly hijack robotic brains and enslave them to his own will:

6. Downloading specific data from another person more-or-less on the spot:

I mean, that wasn't even Evil Morty's tablet! He threw it away after he was done, and it seems that he had hastily wrecked Rick Prime's control room to hook him up with some cables so he could get what he wants.

(Interesting that he didn't bother downloading Rick Prime's insta-healing ability though; one with think that it'd be quite a catch, but Evil Morty apparently does not want to be able to live forever)

I mean, we've seen the Galactic Federation going into a lot of trouble to get Rick C-137's interdimensional travel secret, and those weird little dudes that specialized on simulations going to equally lot of trouble just to get Rick C-137's concentrated dark matter recipe.

They'd all wish they had the same abilities Evil Morty has, it'd all be over in a jiffy.

SO.

What I'm concluding when taking all the above into consideration is that Evil Morty was at some point paired with a Rick who specialized in brain control. Evil Morty got to observe the surgeries, assist in the surgeries...

...and have a surgery done to him.

Because he might be able to perform brain surgery on an incapacitated Rick, but I doubt he'd be able to do it to himself in his bedroom.

He had no trouble hooking his own cables with the eyepatch, even though the cables were sticking out of his freaking eye. He knew how to connect them. He knew how to make the eyepatch work. He knew what he was doing. This was all familiar to him.

And given that once he became fed up with Evil Rick he acted with no hesitation, it's clear that he had already considered this technique as a possible way out, and up to then had been simply deciding against it.

Now.

Best case scenario. BEST CASE:

Evil Morty was simply one of the Puppetmaster's experiments. (No hard feelings.) After all, Evil Morty had no transmitter in his skull. He had to hook up one externally. This means that Puppetmaster never considered him a partner; Evil Morty was never given free reign to puppet others. He was one of the people being puppeteered.

It's unclear whether Evil Morty has a receiver of his own still stuck somewhere in his brain (I mean, if Puppetmaster's transmitter is destroyed, I guess that Evil Morty would stop receiving orders and he'd be free) although even if that's the case, I'm sure once he became president and got access to more superior tech he'd make sure to fix this possible contingency.

The cables sticking out of his freaking eye kinda point out to Puppetmaster connecting Evil Morty to a machine while immobile (especially if Evil Morty was the initial experiment, needed updates, maintenance, etc) or having him wear a mook mask or helmet of some sort. Those cables are not really easy to use otherwise. Or maybe there was a receiver once in his skull, was later removed (e.g. once Puppetmaster was defeated) but the cables hooking up the removed receiver to his brain have remained.

Worst case scenario:

Evil Morty was not simply an experiment, but one of the people regularly puppeteered. Theoretically possible, although given that Ricks don't think highly of Mortys, and that Mortys usually do what they're told (a clone Morty with nowhere else to go even more so), I'm not really sure what kind of things Puppetmaster thought Evil Morty would be useful for and thought that the best way to get obeyed was literal brain control.

In any case, this wasn't just "a body modification" nor "just an implant", in the same way that Morty Prime can turn into a boat or breathe in space. This is a lot, A LOT more intrusive.

In conclusion:

Possible villain still at large.

Someone hug Evil Morty ASAP.

[jolly-lo]

Okay, I wanna play with theory about Evil Morty's origin too.

It's definitely implied that Morty didn't put mind controlling tech in his own mind himself. He was shown creating some stuff in his room, but there was no scalpels or med kits ready, nothing that could possibly imply that he was going to fuck around with his own brains. So, with almost one hundred percent certainty we can say that it was something one of his previous Ricks did.

And I fucking BET that Puppet Master Rick (the one who installed tech in Morty's brain) was Evil Morty's first Rick (either assigned if Morty is a clone or blood related if he isn't, which is irrelevant to the theory), the same guy Morty referred to as 'super weird' if we accept that Rick's scale in season 1 is a real thing.

I bet they started as a regular Rick and Morty, just this Rick got his megaseeds early on and experimented. Probably figured out how to use them in mind controlling devices, since they obviously have a huge impact on human brains in both railing them up and slowing them down. Then he set the first implant into Morty, and for some time this probably was just a running cruel joke, to stop Morty's body or make it move again. Nothing big, just a first step to the abyss.

But then things got out of hand. As we know, Ricks are fast to fall for a new vice, and such power over others is a strong one. Most likely he got the whole family under control (if it was his blood related Morty) or extended the control on other people/aliens/Ricks (if it was a clone Morty and they didn't settle at some random Smith house). Both cases lead to him gaining more power through mind controlling people around him, and eventually it would drive him insane. As Rick C-137 stated about hiveminds, no human brain can keep itself together while controlling millions of people, and it's common for Ricks to try to hack the system for their advantage but also failing by overstepping their abilities. Not too surprising if our Puppet Master Rick tried to play the game on Unity level but completely lost it, and maybe that was the moment when Morty got his chance to act.

I doubt that Evil Morty could kill his Rick, at least by his own hands at given moment and state. It was too dangerous to even try, since the consequences of a failure might've been incredibly vile. Maybe he even tried to get out without a murder attempt once or twice, got punished, and figured that he has to built a patience, become calm and calculating in order to go through this whole situation and come out of it alive and free.

My best guess is that he arranged an accident involving a portal gun, since we know that Morty is able to fuck with portal guns settings and hack them, but what also is really important, Citadel Guard Ricks appear when a portal gun owned by a Rick who got it from the Citadel gets damaged. So, they may refer to this case as the case when they saw this technology before and that's how Morty got [back] in the system of Mortys adoption and also found out that his Rick was a 'weird one', because this tech isn't something widely used among other Ricks (guard Ricks were familiar with the concept but still surprised to see it, which indicates it's oddity).

Also being mind manipulated by his very first Rick and being able to escape anyways can explain Evil Morty's ability to stand up to other Ricks, even if he's scared shitless of them. He's aware of their potential, he knows the extremes, but also knows them at their lowest, they just can't scare him further. There is nothing they can take away from him that wasn't taken away before in the most violating manner by the person he was supposed to trust.

[fanbun]

Rick Sanchez & The Stages of Grooming (intro)

Hi hello. Yes, you read that title right. This is the first part of a series of posts about how Rick’s behavior towards Morty matches the well-documented stages of grooming that child predators are known to follow. A lot of this is evident even from the pilot episode but is admittedly not the whole picture of the character as we have come to know him over the course of the show.

I know Rick is the fandom’s poor little meow meow so a lot of people are going to be uncomfortable with me making these comparisons. I understand that I am speaking about a sensitive subject that many may prefer not to think about. But even so, I felt the need to write a gross dissection of the character and I’m willing to back up my slander with direct evidence from the show. The instances I point out will be scenes with general overtones of this specific form of abuse, whether that be through clear allusions in the dialogue or through the greater context of Rick and Morty’s relationship. 

I’d also like to get it out of the way first that Rick is not canonically preying on Morty for sexual reasons. I am not suggesting that. However, I have reason to believe that the show has made jokes that purposefully allude to sexual abuse for shock value and I find those instances significant enough to mention.

Now let’s start with a clear definition…

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Grooming: a form of abuse that involves manipulating someone until they’re isolated, dependent, and more vulnerable to exploitation (x)

Grooming is not just about sexual activity. It can take many forms including to commit criminal acts, carry drugs or become involved in radicalisation. It is a carefully planned process with the aim of controlling a young person, to ensure that they do exactly what the perpetrator wants. Initially, a young person may receive gifts and be showered with attention and affection, but this may later turn to blackmail, threats of violence or actual violence. (x)

We already know that Rick has plenty to gain from securing complete control over Morty. There is, of course, the cloaking brainwaves reason that he provides in Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind. Then there are the practical uses that come from Rick having access to an impressionable youth who he can convince to do things like smuggle contraband through interdimensional customs for him by way of terribly invasive methods. Morty is quite literally Rick’s partner in crime, though notably against his will at the beginning (“I mean, you know, I-I don’t wanna shoot nobody!”) until constant exposure to such “adventures” leads him to become accustomed to the role. This is part of Rick’s grooming process.

But on top of that, and perhaps most crucially, their partnership has the added benefit of filling the void of Rick’s crippling loneliness. This is where the classic icky, too-close-for-comfort side of grooming shows its face. Because at a certain point it becomes clear that Rick is conditioning Morty to fulfill his emotional needs and dedicate himself entirely to Rick’s benefit, regardless of what Morty actually wants. Suddenly it’s not just about crime and material goals. Suddenly it’s personal. Because Rick wants Morty to stay by his side forever and he will do whatever it takes to keep Morty from leaving him.

Without even getting into specifics on the individual stages of grooming, Rick’s tendency to utilize manipulation tactics coupled with his desire to monopolize his grandson’s life is the ultimate red flag.

And all of this gets a whole lot more predatory when you count the Ricks of the Citadel, who systematically bred Mortys and raised them to be subservient to Ricks and forgiving of the abuse they endure. It goes to show that not just one or two Ricks do this. The season 5 finale revealed a whole mass grooming operation carried out by Ricks (a “Morty Market” in the episode’s own words), though it’s clear they were not always successful at making Mortys into their ideal partners. The main antagonist of the Citadel arc, Evil Morty, is the most prominent example of that failure.

You may sense where I’m going with this. Considering the recurring themes of abuse in the show, I don’t think the Citadel’s narrative similarities to the real life horrors of child trafficking was an accident. A large part of the shock of that reveal is the blatant commodification of a minor by an old man, and the revulsion that such a scenario inspires in the viewer is meant to make Evil Morty’s motives for violence more understandable.

Maybe I’m the weirdo for taking an irreverent animated comedy so seriously. But if we want to analyze the overarching plot of the series, this subtext is an observable element that deserves to be acknowledged. And by god am I going to acknowledge it.

[>> Next part]

[jolly-lo]

Best post series I've ever read. Really dives into Rick and Morty relationship and dissects it without mercy. Good shit.

Also I just figured something about myself I probably never ever would otherwise. I'm kinda into R/M, those fics with happy endings and loving relationships, because I desperately need this twisted relationship they have to make sense, to mean something, to be more than abuse and codependency, to be fixed in a way they never should be fixed but I myself crave this love and affection so much that I don't care. I just want to dive deep in this fantasy land illusion and be happy that someone made it out, someone made it work.

Projection is one helluva drug my guys. Fuck it. Fuck this. I fucking hate it man.

[jolly-lo]

A conversation that never happened.

After Rick ran back to the Hole, Morty didn't follow him (obviously). For him it was this usual Rick, shitting on his advices and doing as he pleases. But when Rick came back, maybe Morty asked him, just to rub it in, because he knows for sure what a mindfuck the Hole is, how was it down there.

***

"So, how was it?"

"M-hm?"

"The Hole. How was it?"

"What? I didn't go in. I don't do tourist traps."

"Oh yeah? So why did you go back?"

"Ugh... To put a picture."

"What picture?"

"Your picture, moron."

"I-I-I don't get it man! Can you please explain shit to me properly once in a while?!"

"I always do, you're the one who don't bother to actually think once in a while!"

*intense angry staring*

"Fine. You forgot to put your picture on the wall. The Hole wall? If you conquer it, you put a picture on it? Did it also mash potatoed your brains?"

"Oh... Right... Wait, you didn't get my... Oh! Oh, damn! Am I still in the Hole?! Fuck!"

"Morty, what the hell? Calm down! Do you want a mind blower?"

"No!"

"Alright, alright, then just calm the fuck down, Jesus! You freaking people out, man!"

"I don't care. I don't. Fuck it. Fuck this. And fuck you too."

"Hey!"

"I don't care. Let's go home. I wanna sleep."

"Jeez, fine. This time I'll write it off as a-hole effect."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever."

"You sure you don't want a mind blower?"

"Sure. Thanks, though."

"I got you, dawg."

[jolly-lo]

[kayforpay]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[kayforpay]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[unclebeanbag]

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

[wombat-annihilator-deactivated2]

[charlesoberonn]

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

[fallen-gravity]

Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed

[naryrising]

This is the book you want: The Timetables of History - going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.)  Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.

[jolly-lo]

Pecil, paper, too much swearing aaand done.

[jolly-lo]

I have this strange warm feeling when I see comments and posts from people all over the world talking about their love for Queen

I mean, I know there are millions of Queen fans, but... I never really understood it before. I was watching videos on youtube and randomly reading comments, when I saw a few comments from pople talking aboit their experience of going to see BohRap in the cinemas in their own countries. And realization just fell on me like a fucking hammer, I swear. It was a really shoking feeling.

And it really puts a smile on my face. Music unites us all and it's one of the most beautiful things I had ever realized in my life.

Where are you from, reader?

[jolly-lo]

*tap*

Queen.

[anotherviewaesthetics]

Это было сложно, но я сделала это!

[jolly-lo]

So sweet and accurate! 🖤

[jolly-lo]

City and Sea

I feel like Dan is a city guy, I can see him walking the streets, spending his time in downtown

And Phil is more like a sea boy, he is the one who spends all time just watching the waves, walking on the beach and collecting seashells

[jolly-lo]

I've read a lot of fics where Stiles is some kind of wizard, or werewolf, or nogitsune. But I never saw a fic where Stiles is a kitsune, I mean not a total AU with AU world, but TW universe with kitsune!Stiles. You know what I mean? I don't get why people are not obsessed with this idea, Stiles is obviously a fox, he is like a young teen fox with long legs, funny face with pointed nose, always moving and searching around for something to eat or to play with. As a kitsune, he is trickster, joker, mischief-maker ;) Stiles lies easily, he is sly and has sharp mind. But he is kind and never means something bad to happen, he just wants to have fun. He is such a kitsune!

[jolly-lo]

hahaha

god

sorrynotsorry

[jolly-lo]

Teen Wolf Dark!AU

Music: Skrillex & Rick Ross – Purple Lamborghini

Hunter, shoots people. Dark kitsune, and she burns people. Werecoyote eats people. Beta with anger issues. Banshi surrounded by death. And Stiles - well, he's just crazy.

That's Scott's pack. 

And no one can take it from him.

[jolly-lo]

just another fast sketch

my precious hyperactive bean