kudo

Kudo, any pronouns, park enthusiast. National, amusement, zoological—you name it, I'm in. Formerly cancer (had it). Voted world's most likely to yell STAY TUNED FOR DANGER in any situation.

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Heyo! Name's Kudo. Any pronouns are fine here. I'm an amusement park, national park, and horse enthusiast. I'm also serving life in warrior cats prison.

Warriors blog: @kudossi

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that's not his name!!

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Here are the things I love most about Psych:

There is a general lack of sexism and misogyny amongst the characters. The women are portrayed as competent as the men and as accomplished as the men. They show platonic male/female friendships and relationships without trying to force something romantic between characters.

There is a general lack of homophobia. Shawn doesn't get offended when people think he and Gus are together. Shawn and Gus are portrayed perfectly in the sense that there is no toxic masculinity. They are open with their love and friendship and don't "no homo" it.

They don't push the marriage or baby rhetoric. Shawn and Juliet having an open conversation about deciding not to want children and just have dogs, and not feeling pressure to be married until the 1st movie is so refreshing, and even then, they didn't make it a big deal. The women in Psych are written for more than being love interests.

They don't downplay Shawn's trauma around his childhood, especially as it contrasts with Gus's more stable home life. Shawn and Henry's relationship feels (to me) like the epitome of "I can understand how and why you did what you did, but that doesn't mean I have to forgive you for it." Likewise, they don't minimize the trauma Juliet had over Ying. They never tell her to "get over it" or try and tell her it wasn't that bad.

They show that what makes a villain isn't black and white. The villains are complicated, like Yang and Desperaux. They're not all bad, but they're also not all good.

All of the storylines with animals are just *chefs kiss.*

The writing is so good. It's comedic but has feelings. It is a safe space. All of the characters grow throughout the course of the show. They don't just stay stagnant.

Anyway. I love it.

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Welp, can’t escape it, time to buckle up and hunker down cause we’re really in it now

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I KNOW! YOU KNOW!

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It's called Clue (1985) not because it came out in 1985, but because if you subtract 19 from 85, you get 66, which is the number of years it will take for the film to be appreciated by mainstream culture, SO, mark your calendars for 2051!!!

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I think Scooby Doo as a franchise has under explored the potential of the late 60s and early 70s as a setting

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I'm sorry but my conceptualization of Fred is directly tied to his dodging of the draft, and his gay autistic swag

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Fred just wants to solve mysteries and maybe hook up with Shaggy a few times, he is a nice boy, and that's important because if the show takes place in the year it was made then he was almost certainly dodging the draft, which adds a level of depth to him as we know he's nice and that niceness gives him a motivation beyond mystery, he doesn't want to go to Vietnam and kill but he can't say he's gay because Stonewall hasn't happened yet

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He's scared, he makes mistakes, he had to leave his family, and feels lucky that his only friends agreed to join him in his van as he went to Canada, like Scooby Doo as a show really only works if you consider this, why are they always in a new place? Because they are on the run. I think a lot of Fred fans like him because he's a kind hearted silly guy, but once you realize the implications of the draft, he becomes a much more fascinating character, one we will never actually see explored because WB would never make scooby political sadly

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To me, Fred is the most important character in Scooby Doo, not the dog or Shaggy, because while they instigate the plots of the episodes and see the ghosts and ghouls, Fred is the one who tries to catch and reveal the monsters, he has a strong moral compass, he knows what these people are doing is wrong and so he risks being found by the police to help the communities he goes through by catching these monsters

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And I think that this detail is where a lot of people misstep with scooby doo adaptations, they try to make it modern and they try to make it straight, which doesn't work because of the death of the hippies and the counterculture makes the cross country travel feel weird, and you get really awkward relationships between the characters when you make it straight because Shaggy shouldn't be dating Dalpne, neither should Fred, those are 2 gay men, and Velma and Shaggy definitely shouldn't date, look at how fucking awful they were in Mystery Inc, I think one of the best things in recent scooby had been the move to make Velma more openly a lesbian since it gives her depth and doesn't take away from her character in the way that the heterosexuality does for literally every character.

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Also, when making a scooby cast, don't be afraid to give them different races, I know people were angry with the Velma show but that's their problem, the race changes were not the issue with that show, it was the poor writing. One of my favorite Fred designs had him Korean, I love seeing a black Daphne, Velma is canonically Jewish in one show, you can do whatever you want with them, except make them straight

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Also, I don't think Shaggy was drafted, I think he is just a #good friend who like Velma and Daphne didn't want Fred to be alone, now do I think those 3 were giving up the world to be with Fred, no, I think they each had their own reasons to leave, Daphne has always wanted to see the East Coast, Velma wants to learn about the political systems at play in New York, Shaggy bought a ticket to Woodstock, but the main reason is the fact they like so many in the 60s were bores and wanted to find a new way to live, alongside wanting to help their friend

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Actually, yeah, I like that, Shaggy should be disabled.

Now for the big thing, where does Daphne fall? I think she has been overlooked and that is unfortunate but a simple issue with her characterization in the Mystery gang, Velma finds the clues, Shaggy and Scooby see the monster and Fred makes the trap, but what is Daphne's role, the typical suggestions are either the dare devil stunt woman who can do anything or the rich girl funding the whole thing, someone said her family even owns the mystery machine. I like the idea of Daphne bankrolling Mystery Inc but I think her most interesting characterization has been that of a journalist, someone trying to document the monsters, and I think that could fit quite well into this scenario, as she could be the one telling this story, a sort of Tim Wolfe documenting Ken Kesey and his merry band of pranksters cross country trip in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test but with monsters and Mysteries instead of the excess of the counter culture. She goes along on the trip and looks for clues and stuff but because she has the goal of documentation, she is often ending up on her own trying to find clues and taking too many risks, she would be the one who gets the gang into trouble, not as a damsel in distress but as someone who pushes the boundaries of what they should do. When they arrive in Canada, Daphne sends off her writings on the mysteries to a publisher she met in New York with all the names changed and that ends the show

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Since we are here, I'm gonna put my head canons for all of the scooby gang in here too

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It's been pointed out a few times that canonically Fred is 17 and therefore doesn't have to worry about the draft, but I think it is fine to age him and the gang up to 19 if only to make him eligible for the draft and explain why they aren't in school

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Please reblog this version, it has a lot more of my thoughts on this compared to the version that has been getting shared

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PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, REBLOG THIS VERSION, STOP REBLOGGING THE VERSION WHERE SOMEONE SAYS SHAGGY IS VEGETARIAN AND ALL OF THE GANG ARE RICH KIDS, IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER TO THIS ANALYSIS AND THEY ARE CHARACTERS WHO FUNDAMENTALLY WORK BEST AS MIDDLE OR WORKING CLASS!!! THE DECISION TO MAKE ALL OF THE RICH WAS WRONG, AT MOST WE CAN HAVE A RICH DAPHNE BUT IT DOESN'T WORK IF ALL OF THEM ARE RICH!!!!

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Siren's Curse at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio

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GateKeeper just after a thunderstorm at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.

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Valravn at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio

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Millennium Force and Rougarou (feat. a tiny bit of Iron Dragon) at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio

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Iron Dragon and part of Top Thrill 2's spike at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.

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Iron Dragon, Top Thrill 2, and Rougarou at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio (feat. a tiny bit of Millennium Force and I think Siren's Curse in the background)

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Top Thrill 2 and Millennium Force from Frontier Trail at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio featuring the trail horses kept on the peninsula.

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Steel Vengeance, Millennium Force, and Maverick — Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio