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i love those "americans only know burger" posts cus its true we literally have a word for when something is insignificant or something without value and yeah. its "nothingburger". because whats more worthless than nothing burger....
not only is it real this word is from the 50s
washington 🤝 carolina
cumming quickly or not at all, fucked up on ssri's, could both get off without their genitals being touched if someone gave them the patience and effort, both end up being tops bc they think the sex they need to get off is too much to ask for even if they would prefer other things; lina wants to be a subtop, wash wants to switch more often
i accidentally made a whole au just to make a bad sex joke from 2001
i accidentally made a whole au just to make a bad sex joke from 2001
Okay, let’s talk about Beth.
I think the fandom tends to forget how fucking young she is.
Beth got pregnant with Summer when she was seventeen. Canonically, Summer is seventeen. That means Beth can’t be more than 35 in the pilot. At the risk of sounding like an old fart: dude, she’s just a baby.
Let’s see what we can infer from this information.
Did you guys know that the prerequisites for veterinary school and medical school are pretty much identical? Basically, it’s four years of undergraduate biology and chemistry, with maybe some math and physics thrown in for fun.
With this in mind, ti’s likely that Beth still planned to go to medical school after she had Summer. We know that Summer is Beth’s favorite child (Morty’s Mindblowers). On top of that, there’s evidence to support that Beth had a pretty big hand in raising baby Summer, while Jerry may have had more of an influence on Morty. Remember this little exchange in Raising Gazorpazorp?
Morty: What do I do if it cries?
Beth: Then you put it down and let it cry itself out.
Jerry: Yeah, right, we tried that technique on Summer, and she’s gonna end up stripping, isn’t she? Yes, she is. She’s gonna strip for attention because she was denied it.
Beth: Stop filling it with your own insecurity! You’re gonna turn it into Morty – uh, mm – more – more of you!
This suggests that Beth kept baby Summer at hime during the day while Jerry worked. It’s easy to imagine Beth taking night classes as the local university, studying like mad to keep a competitive GPA, and justifying her indifference to Summer as “good parenting.”
Beth has Morty when she’s about twenty. This falls a little into headcnon territory, but I think that Beth was a year ahead if her peers academically and probably started college at seventeen. Based on this headcanon, I’m going to say she’s a junior in when Morty is born.
I think the show makes it pretty obvious that Morty is a mistake. If you really want to get dark, I kind of like the idea of Jerry sabotaging Beth’s birth control in order to get her pregnant because he’s resentful fo her desire for a career in medicine. He sees it as abandonment or some shit, and he also can’t handle the ego-blow of his wife being a doctor. But that’s just a personal theory. Regardless, I think it’s clear that Beth Smith didn’t want to be saddled with another kid.
She probably didn’t want to be saddled with the first.
Making it through medical school with a toddler is a fucking challenge. Making it through medical school with a toddler and a baby, with a husband who is nebulously supportive at best; well, Beth is a smart woman. She knows an impossibility when she sees one.
Beth is twenty years old, and her dreams have been shattered by her husband and children. I’m sure Jerry makes her feel pretty guilty about how much their family would sacrifice if she continued to pursue her goal of being a surgeon.
Four years, Beth, and the five more years of residency! And you’re talking about fellowship after that! The kids would be teenagers! And how are we going to pay the bills??
Beth settles on vet school for several reasons. First of all - and you better believe she tells Jerry this - what the hell is she going to do with a bachelor’s degree in biology? Teach high school? Even Jerry knows that’s off the table.
But Beth’s already got the prerequisites for acceptance into vet school. Unlike medicine, there’s no residency required to practice as a vet, just four years of graduate study. Some of that is clinical rotations, a much better schedule for balancing family life and academics. Beth tells herself that being a vet is the same as being a doctor; after all, humans are just primates. Besides, there are less than one tenth as many vet schools as there are med schools in the United Staes - it’s just as competitive, more competitive, vein, to become a vet than it is to become a doctor. Sure, she’ll take a pay cut, but she’ll rack up considerably less debt in the process.
Beth convinces herself that it will all balance out in the end.
She’s a competitive student with a stellar GPA. At barely 22 years old, Beth is accepted into one of the top veterinary promos in the nations, no problem. Jerry pretends to be proud. They don’t even have to move far from Muskegon, but Jerry takes a lower paying position that allows him to take care of the kids while Beth attends class.
Summer is five years old and startlingly independent. Already, she despises her father. Jerry tells himself that he’s always wanted a son anyway. Morty is young and impressionable, and Beth is never around.
“It’s just you and me, buddy!”
Beth finishes school in four years. She’s 26, Summer is nine, and Morty is five. She takes a job in a clinic, and for a while, things are okay.
But when she turns 29, something inside Beth snaps. Her twenties are gone. Here she is, mindlessly writing antibiotic orders and spaying cats. Summer is a preteen, Morty is whatever he is. Jerry got a promotion at work, despite his useless civics degree? And Beth?
Beth is bored.
She briefly entertains the idea of returning to medical school, but dismisses it instantly. Her classmates would be so much younger. They’d find out about her background as a vet and they’d laugh at her. Jerry would whine incessantly. It feels too much like starting over.
So, again, Beth settles for the next best thing.
“I’ve applied for a residency program,” she tells Jerry one evening over a glass of wine.
Three years, she promises. Three years, and then I’m done for good. Equine Surgery, she gushes to Jerry. It’s prestigious, the highest paying specialty in veterinary medicine!
“We’ll have to move!” Jerry protests. Beth justifies it by saying that the salary for horse surgeons is highest in the northeast.
It’s surgery, she tells herself. It’s what you’ve always wanted to do. Horses are big mammals, just like humans are big mammals.
They move to Washington. Jerry takes yet another pay cut. Beth is 30. Summer is 13. Morty is nine.
Washington State’s equine surgery residency is tough. Beth is challenged. She wakes int he wee hours of the morning and falls into bed, exhausted, in the wee hours of the night.
And for the first time in years, Beth feels alive.
Rick shows up on the doorstep on Morty’s thirteenth birthday. It’s a day of dual-celebration. Morty is finally a teenager, and Beth is finally finished with school.
Beth already feels like she’s in mourning. She’s 33, and she’s at the peak of her career (you’ll never be smarter than you are in this moment, her favorite mentor had reminded her the day before boards). She starts a job and the horse hospital next week. She’s signed a contract, already received her hefty sign-on bonus.
Then Dad shows up, and all of Beth’s accomplishments fall hollow from her lips.
She thought he was dead, for christssake.
She introduces Rick to her family: Jerry, her loser husband (cringe, cringe, cringe); Summer, basic teenage bitch (does poorly in school because the would rather be popular than smart); Morty, the fuckup with some learning disability that Beth had never bothered to pay attention to (the real reason that I never lived up to the potential you saw in me, Dad).
It’s enough to drive any woman to drink.
I don’t think I’m too far off the mark here. Beth is so tetchy and self-conscious about her job because she’s relatively new at it - remember the “we’re losing him!” scene in the pilot? She’s incredibly resentful fo Jerry, for all of the reasons. Summer is her favorite child because Beth spent more time with Summer when she was a baby, and she is independent and self motivated - traits that Beth values. She regards Morty with vague disdain, to the point that she hardly remembers his existence, because she was absent for the majority of his childhood. Beth view Morty as “Jerry’s child,” and Summer as hers.
(Quick headcanon that Beth thinks of Morty as looking like Jerry, which just adds to her aversion, when actually, he looks a lot like young Rick. Beth has no way of knowing this, though, because there are no photos of kid Rick Sanchez).
I don’t mean for this post to sound sympathetic toward Jerry, because I’m really not. He’s a hot mess, too. I just wanted to flesh out Beth a little bit, and maybe justify Rick’s choice to clone her. Beth is young; she still has a whole life to live, and she never got the chance to be the woman she wanted to be, or the mom that her kids deserved.
Rick chose to give her the opportunity to succeed at both.
Summer Smith is such a crazy character because you can leave her stranded in an alien society for like a week and by the time you come back she has already made herself way to the top and she is ruler of the whole planet.
She doesn't have all these gadget enchantments in her body and carrying all sorts of weapons with him like Rick does, she just does all this stuff on her own, she is that unstoppable
Annual reminder pls dni with my blog, rickorty/incest/pedo shippers
HNGGG young Rick. I have far too many questions and theories about their dynamic. Like some quotes that make me question
“You let someone in, they touch your shit, they kill your family” - C-137
“I do miss when it was just us” - Prime
“Once ‘we’ give you this technology” from Prime is also weird since it was only he and C-137 that created portal travel.
Not to mention when we saw his memories in S5 E10, it started after Prime said “Rick’s don’t pass on this” showing absolutely nothing before.
I NEED MORE LORE ON RICK PRIME. WHY DID THEY KILL HIM OFF I NEED ANSWERS
I really liked Beth, and when her Space version appeared my brain just blew up
Since it’s canon now that Rick traumadumps during pillow talk, I like to think that the reason Memory Rick knows about Beth and Diane is that Rick and Birdperson hooked up one time and Rick cried afterwards about his family
Since it’s canon now that Rick traumadumps during pillow talk, I like to think that the reason Memory Rick knows about Beth and Diane is that Rick and Birdperson hooked up one time and Rick cried afterwards about his family
He may not be her original Rick...
But he's her Rick in every way that matters.
hc that memorick and memoriane have an endless world but theres a wall on one side. it has a small version of beth that Rick couldn't separate without damaging either of them, so he left a note: when rick and diane are ready, they can flip the switch and get beth into their lives.
they hesitate and take their time making the whole ant farm a home with everything they could want; walls with tunnels and secret rooms and targets and mechanical rides so beth would never get bored.
one day they hold hands and look at each other before flipping the switch and meeting Beth again for the first time.
Shes every beth they met and more, and she has constant age switches between 9,18,23,32 and back to 9, and learns to love and hate and grow up, and if they don't do it right the first time memorick and memoriane get to keep trying, they get to keep their daughter and keep trying for her and stay together forever and being the happy loving family they all wanted and if they dont get it this time- the sun still rises and they get to try again and again and one day, some day, in deep space, they get it right
chewing on the bars of my cage LET ME OUT
i never left the building
not enough ppl talking abt summer’s adorable bathing suit like i want it irl
