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Could you do Quisling Marcy by @magicman111 on tumblr? Just draw her except she's more evil.

“I gave you this, I can take it all away,”

Fanart of the Quisling Marcy Amphibia AU by @magicman111

Cool Amphibia AU, made me sad, but still really cool!!!! Do yourself a favor and check it out here @magicman111!!!

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[borkthemork]

I've got a strong feeling that this “tonally off” and “uncomfortably tense” episode compared to season 3’s weird energy is going to be 'Froggy Little Christmas'.

After all, this is the seemingly heartfelt Christmas special marking the end to SA3 and going off the synopsis, where Andrias makes his big move. What better place to bring an abrupt end to the aforementioned weird energy and set the serious tone for the rest of the season?

In fact, this kind of episode is a perfect spot for the Wus and Waybrights to make their debut if it is GPJ g to be in SA3. This could be where the seeming lack of consequences ends, where Anne can't just keep mumbling stuff about a “farm in Alaska'' or “tennis camp”. Where the reality of Sasha and Marcy still being missing can no longer be danced around, because Anne will be confronted by people who will NOT be brushed off. All packaged in what many viewers wild go in thinking will be the warm and fuzzy Xmas special (well, except those who read the synopsis lol

What do you think?

I think you hit it on the mark for me, there's not much I can say but that you got my thoughts to a T.

What we are slowly seeing is Anne getting used to her status quo, slowly shedding her trust issues, while also building up repressed emotions over her friends. It's going to come to a head eventually somewhere in these next three episodes.

I know that putting Adam’s words is risky. After all, it has been shown that the context of why he said that in the first place could be just of a joke toward the events that occurred during that time (being the DC insurrection), but the way he talked of the “season’s weird energy” seemed standalone. It wasn’t a reaction to the joke he and Cassie made, but the absolute fact that yeah, this season is really something in the weird energy department right now. So it still sticks with me as a clue that the writers know that something is up. And I’m not in their lil’ writing circle, so I am just ogling and being patient for what’s to come regardless on what these writers have got in store.

In my opinion, I think the Cookie episode is the calm before the storm — the one that will ready the audience for the kind of tone they're going to have for the midseason finale — but I'm really hyped over what the crew's got in the wires right now and how they shall sucker punch me like with many episodes before.

[borkthemork]

Hi Bork, while we’re on the hot subject of Marcy’s family, I love this theory that the Wus are in a much more financially strained position than the other girls’ families, which would serve as a plausible explanation for both the move and partially why Marcy is a high-achieving student.

What do you make, though, of all the theories that portray Marcy’s parents as overly strict or even downright abusive? It confuses me, because I don’t see That much to support it, and I just wonder why people seem so dedicated to this idea.

Just wondering what your thoughts were.

Ps, keep up the great work!

So on the topic of overly strict and downright abusive, I think the reason why these traits had come up pertaining to the Wu family itself fandom-wise is because of the nature of Marcy's flashback itself. That and the logic behind certain animation or story beats.

After all, it's pretty concerning to know that something broke during the talk between her and her parents itself. We don't know what happened but that and the lack of what seemed to be hesitance or longing to go back could be put into question too (after all, due to the nature of Marcy's limited narrative into her mind, we don't know what she felt between Scavenger Hunt and A Day at the Aquarium when she seemed pretty determined to get the girls back home).

With those details in mind, it makes sense for the fandom to jump onto the idea of abusive since those seemed to be telltale signs that connected to such a concept, and until we see the family dynamic itself it's still a legitimate possibility.

And if you want some more speculation, the fandom latching onto the abusive Wu dynamic seems to all come down to how fandom trends work in general — being that if it's the most acknowledged and discussed, then it becomes manifested through art, fics, and basically go far as a very common fanon interpretation.

After all, we had short-haired Sasha back in June-July, which lead to a big boom in the fandom acknowledging it and even adding it to their interpretations of Sasharcy interactions.

Back in 2019, when Season One was just Season One, there had been speculation about Anne's eyes flashing blue being a sign that there is an unworldly power to her and there had been a surge of fics regarding that, that and the perception that Sasha and Marcy harbored what looked to be the same level of malice/toxicity until we realized that they were vastly different from each other in how they dictate themselves.

The Wus being abusive seemed to be the most obvious answer, had a lot of angsty probabilities, and the fandom went from there.

Of course, I am a sucker for nuance/complexity so having a family that had reasons to act a certain way that lead Marcy to act the way she does is the theory that I latched onto the most out of any.

We don't know if they were 'abusive' or 'full-on abusive', but the way they parented their kids did hurt them.