I'm Finn Mertons, man

⤷ ゛this is a place for all of my hyperfixations 𝄞⸝⸝

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Off topic, but Eileen and Rigby are one of my favorite cartoon relationships.

They're so cute and they work so well together. On my first watch of Mordecai and Rigby, i fully did not expect to see this side of Rigby, but it's extremely refreshing and very heartwarming.

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off topic rant about mobile ads...

when and why did it become okay and normalized for mobile advertising to just be blatant lies?

at what point would false advertising have serious consequences? why isn't there any consequences?

this is actually bananas. i thought the whole point of making ads were to find people who enjoyed your product. if you're lying and marketing something you are not going to deliver on, how is there any benefit to you if people are coming for one thing only to get something they most likely will not like???

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extremely off topic. this isn't about any show or anything, this is just a rant.

i think we're all familiar with the age old excuse, "but i don't have the right tools." coming from people who want to be artists. It's a pretty common complaint that i see all the time, especially under other artists tiktoks or social media posts.

but it's not a reason for being unable to draw. it's an admission of laziness. i'm not being mean here, i'm simply saying that if you don't at least try with the materials you already have, you don't want to do art. if you can't draw with an old mechanical pencil you've had since high school, when the quiet kid in the back of the class had already been doing that since the start of the year. you simply don't want to draw.

if you really do like something and want to do something, you will find a way to do it with what little you have now.

but it's not just laziness or lack of any real ambition or desire that keeps people from drawing or creating art, it's shame. it's fear of failure, of not being good enough.

we as a society have a nasty habit of praising the perfectionists and putting down anyone who can't meet an impossible standard. but what is perfectionism if it's not shame? i used to call myself a perfectionist. it was something kid me used, to brag to my friends. but it's not something to brag about. i was a perfectionist—i still am a perfectionist, because i don't like to fail. because i feel silly for liking art when i draw something subpar. i feel stupid for liking things that i'm not good at, because i was groomed by the american public education system to be ashamed when i can't do something.

if my last anecdote seemed a little far fetched, try to remember your childhood. i went to a lackluster public school that couldn't teach me in a way that i needed and i was punished for it. i didn't know how to divide up until i was 20 years old, because every school i went to would sooner shame me for not being able to do math, than actually try a different way of teaching it.

how many of you had to write you names on the board for misbehaving or not doing homework? How many of you had to go to detention for it? Who got letters sent home to your parents? who didn't get to go on field trips because of it? how many of you were a little too young to be responsible for library books and when you eventually lost them you were never able to read a book in the library?

all of these things are methods of public humiliation and shaming. and i don't want to see anyone saying 'it's not that deep' because what if they made you, at your place of work, walk up in front of all your coworkers and write your name on the board for not getting something done fast enough, or not doing it right?

when you were a kid, how many teachers asked you if you were alright, or why you were acting out or not doing your homework? how many teachers believed you? how many teachers offered help? how many times did it take for them to stop asking and just punish you?

you see, all of us were brought up to fear failure, to be ashamed of not knowing something.

artists. let me ask you to think of the drawing or painting you absolutely hate, or are embarrassed of. would you post that online? i think most of you wouldn't. i wouldn't. when you watch videos of people's progress—the ones like pwediepie's drawing progress for a hundred days or so. or just social media posts of people's progress. do you think they're showing you everything? i mean absolutely everything? even the drawings they despise?

it's because we're all just a tiny bit shameful, or afraid of shame, or afraid of failure, or of not being good enough. Why do you think ai art is so popular? because those people are just ashamed. they're too ashamed to pick up a pencil or a brush. or they're too ashamed of what their art already looks like.

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unrelated post abt rick and morty, instead of adventure time...

I think space Beth is the original Beth.

Beth had dreams and aspirations, things she felt like she had to give up when she got pregnant with Summer and married Jerry. A big part of her character is that she's essentially trapped in a life she wasn't prepared for and probably doesn't want. She's miserable and in denial about her misery.

She's the classic trope of a smart woman with a hell of a lot of potential getting locked down and trapped with a useless husband and two kids.

That's exactly what we see in Space Beth. Her potential. She's smart and cynical and enjoys her freedom—the opposite of "Earth Beth."

Rick offered to build a clone of his daughter that would take her place in every conceivable way—she would love her family, and enjoy her life with them.

What we see of Earth Beth is a direct contradiction to her character. I don't think she would've gotten back with Jerry so quickly, or gone back to normal so fast, and i definitely don think she'd be happy.

I think if Earth Beth was the original Beth, she'd regret not taking Rick's offer—or she'd at least wonder "what if" for the rest of her life.

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adventure time is sososososooooo important to me, you don't even understand :(

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woah! sweet pea and fern!!!

both of them were held captive by a demon—

while fern was literally held captive by the grass demon, sweet pea's imprisonment was mental torture by nightmares and whispers from the lich.

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fern kept all the memories from his past life as finn and was never able to live up to them again.

as a result, he became depressed and that hopelessness and uselessness led him down a very grim path.

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sweet pea forgot all the memories of his past life—he got to start over and remake himself.

this allowed sweet pea to become fern's opposite and be a great protector of ooo, or the second coming of billy.

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in all, both of them are my babies and are very well written characters and should be loved with your whole heart

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i saw a post on reddit saying phlannel boxingday is pb and i really couldn't agree more. every time i watched the episode (s5 e24 lemonhope pt1 and pt2) i never feel right about phlannel, but i could never place it.

first of all, when pb takes lemonhope back to castle lemongrab, lemonhope just runs off and pb sits there. if i'm remembering this right, we know pb doesn't start getting chill until sometime later, when her and finn sneak away from the slumber party at the castle, so at this point in time pb letting lemonhope run off goes completely against her character.

we see pb as sort of a "big brother" character and she even says to flame princess that spying on people is "just who she is", given this statement, we kind of have to assume that she's put somekind of tracker on lemonhope- starchy had one in his tooth, as did all of the candy citizens.

personally, i like to think, that somewhere along the way pb realized lemonhope "learned more with his hands" like phlannel said. maybe she knew that she was inadvertently imprisoning lemonhope by "trapping" him with his destiny.

when lemonhope left castle lemongrab, he never left captivity. he was free, but at what cost? going back to that hell hole and saving his people.

i want to think that pb realized this, that she was making lemonhope feel trapped and in order for him to do what he needs to do, she needs to make it feel like a decision he made of his own free will.

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AND!

at the end of lemonhope pt2, when pb is singing her song, she admits knowing that lemonhope longed for freedom more than anything else;

"lost lemonhope, longed for freedom above, compassion or friendship, wisdom or love."

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i saw a post on reddit saying phlannel boxingday is pb and i really couldn't agree more. every time i watched the episode (s5 e24 lemonhope pt1 and pt2) i never feel right about phlannel, but i could never place it.

first of all, when pb takes lemonhope back to castle lemongrab, lemonhope just runs off and pb sits there. if i'm remembering this right, we know pb doesn't start getting chill until sometime later, when her and finn sneak away from the slumber party at the castle, so at this point in time pb letting lemonhope run off goes completely against her character.

we see pb as sort of a "big brother" character and she even says to flame princess that spying on people is "just who she is", given this statement, we kind of have to assume that she's put somekind of tracker on lemonhope- starchy had one in his tooth, as did all of the candy citizens.

personally, i like to think, that somewhere along the way pb realized lemonhope "learned more with his hands" like phlannel said. maybe she knew that she was inadvertently imprisoning lemonhope by "trapping" him with his destiny.

when lemonhope left castle lemongrab, he never left captivity. he was free, but at what cost? going back to that hell hole and saving his people.

i want to think that pb realized this, that she was making lemonhope feel trapped and in order for him to do what he needs to do, she needs to make it feel like a decision he made of his own free will.

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Ice King and Marceline being parallels to a child taking care of her demented father, my beloveds :(