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Bit of a long one, so I’ll save you the time if you ‘Ain’t readin all that’

I don't think one could truly understand how much The Tick means to me. Once I discovered it, he's been so deeply engraved into my brain that I never forgot him. I watched the 2017 when it first came out and kept thinking about it for a couple of years until Covid hit, then I forgot about it. Then I buried myself in that show when I rediscovered it.

The cartoon filled a lot of gaps in my life I didn't know I had. The 2001 version has gotten me through a lot of uncomfy moments. The Tick made me laugh so much.

I, like everyone else on the internet, am not who I am beyond the screen. I am not as confident to say what I do on here, to act the way I do, because I don't know who else in my life would agree or talk to me like I'm a person.

That brings me to Arthur. Arthur is and will be connected with me in a way no other character has been. It is not a "Oh, fictional crush. He's so hot. No. I see myself in Arthur. He's weird, he's obsessive, he's not very confident within himself. In every version. The comics, 1994, 2001, 2017, each version has characteristics that stay and make me relate to him. The difference? lam not a hero. I do not have a Tick. There may never be a Tick for me...and that's okay.

I personally do not believe that I will ever find a partnership like the Tick and Arthur have. l've just never clicked with someone LIKE THAT.

Even if you look at it from an entirely platonic light, I never really had a friend that I felt comfortable enough with to share my story. I only sit and listen to theirs. I do have a best friend, she is wonderful and amazing and I love her so so so so so so much...but Im afraid. Afraid that if I tell her all of my thoughts, ask all of my questions, she won't want to be my friend. It also does feel like she recluses, so I try to make the effort, to invite her to things, to make sure that she knows I care.

Arthur has all of that. I don't. That's okay.

Either way, The Tick is my way to cope, to turn off my brain, and the fact that I have lived this long and was born in the right time to witness the Tick? That's truly amazing. There is no other like him...

So thank you for protecting us, for protecting me, Wild Blue Yonder. And thank you to Ben Edlund for creating him and bringing him to life.

#the tick #The tick 2001 #the tick 1994 #The tick comics #the tick 2017 #arthur the tick #Arthur Everest #the beauty that is the tick #I hope that he can bring joy to everyone ever #And I hope that people find comfort in him and his friends #Be The Tick

sunshine-zenith

Soooo, you know the Tick 2001 and 2017 are on Netflix now, right? What do you think this might mean in regards to getting a third season?

Wait what oh holy shit yoooooooo no way

Okay listen. Listen. The Tick 2017 getting canned genuinely hurt. If you go into the depths of my blog you’d see how much I loved that silly show. I basically coped through a lot of personal tragedy and trauma by diving into every version of The Tick back in the day, and when the 2017 version was cancelled it crushed me in a way that basically no other piece of media has before or since

Part of me desperately wants this to mean we’re finally getting a version of The Tick with a complete ending, whether it’s a third season, a movie, a Netflix reboot, or whatever. The fact that Netflix, which has become known as one of many streaming platforms that will delete their own shit (rip spop and kipo), is basically rescuing the current live action The Tick adaptations has to mean something, especially since they’re doing so years after one was cancelled and decades after the other was cancelled

Another part of me has very much been burned, and I cannot get my hopes up. Until Ben Edlund himself waltzes into my living room and throws a spoon at my face, I can’t bring myself to speculate that my dreams are finally coming true here

If nothing else, I hope this means this show finally gets its flowers from a wider audience (I guess this explains why I’ve been getting random notes on my ancient The Tick doodles)

terrorofthethames

It’s fair that you don’t want to get your hopes up. I mean, it was canceled and oftentimes shows like that just don’t get to come back.

I hold onto that hope though, because I do believe in The Tick, that he can reach that wide audience and get the ending he deserves

#The tick #If I ever find out that they made dvds #I’ll let you know

Alright, so the Tickthur project is set up. I’m doing it to Stupid Song because that’s the edit I saw that gave me an idea RIGHT THEN.

I want to know what you can imagine with these three lyrics, because I kind of don’t know how to work them in. Maybe it’s yours own ocs, I just need help with THESE specific lyrics:

And my clothes are caught aflame

I’m a heart made of wax and I’m melting in the sun

I’m a thread on your shirt that is coming undone

#The tick #tickthur #Olivia Rodrigo #stupid song

Helluvaverse Day: Rod and Tub

#helluvaverse #helluva boss #Background characters

Okay, I need more song ideas for the Dorothy and Ozma project. Until I get more, I will be working on a Tick project.

When I get more? I will work on both at once

#the tick #The Wizard of oz #dorzma

Helluvaverse Day: Lilith Morningstar

Can you imagine your mom leaving you on delivered for seven years and then suddenly calling?

#helluvaverse #hazbin hotel #Lilith #lilith morningstar

Helluvaverse Day: Alma

#helluvaverse #helluva boss #background character

Helluvaverse Day: Vassago

#helluvaverse #helluva boss #vassago #Goetia

drstrangegloveslefthand

I need him to get obliterated

terrorofthethames

#dorothy and the wizard of oz #wizard of oz #tin man #Tin woodman #Wizard of oz

Malcolm in the Middle is so peak that they casted both bug husbands

I mean, David Burke’s suit is literally a reference to Patrick Warburton’s Tick!

#the tick #malcolm in the middle #The tick 2001 #David burke #arthur the tick #Arthur x the tick #Arthur everest #tick the tick #tickthur #Patrick Warburton

If I had a nickel for every time I watched a kids movie where an anthropomorphic young adult who didn’t follow what his dad wanted for him and was very musically gifted had good chemistry with a talented feline, I’d have two nickels

Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

#Sing #sing 2 #Rock dog #rock dog 3 #Bodi #angus scattergood #Johnny #ryan #bodi rock dog #angus rock dog #Johnny sing #Ryan sing #Bodi x angus scattergood #Johnny x ryan

Helluvaverse Day: Killwifeguy

#helluvaverse #Hazbin hotel #killwifeguy

Helluvaverse Day: Moxxie Knowlastname

I’m so happy he’s into musicals. SO AM I!

#helluvaverse #helluva boss #Moxxie #Moxxie knowlastname

When I was little, I had two large teddy bears. One was named Ted for a good while and then I got a girl bear with a tutu and bows on her for Christmas. This second bear (don’t recall the name. It was probably Kodak or something) was larger. My brain immediately said ‘Big Bear isn’t a girl and Ted isn’t a Ted’. That exact same week, they basically swapped genders.

I had trans teddies without even realizing it…

#Trans #transgender #Teddy bears

YEAAAAAH!

The pin arrive pretty quickly. I’m shocked and happy

#Welcome home #Frank frankly

sporks5000

With the thoughts ai'd be thinkin' Why I'd have to take up drinkin' If I only had a brain!

terrorofthethames

Oh, I could tell you why

There’s bottles on the floor

I could drink and drink up some more

And then I’d sit

And drink some more

sporks5000

I could drink three whisky sours in about a half an hour to drown out their refrain But if those thoughts kept on goin' then the booze'd keep on flowin' 'till I quieted my brain!

terrorofthethames

*Long interlude of drinking* Gosh, it would be awful pleasin

To reason out the reasons

Of what went down the drain

And perhaps I’ll go sober

But then the drinkin’s over

If only I had a brain

#The Wizard of oz #scarecrow #wizard of oz