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kinopio-writes · 2 months

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Hey love your works they are absolutely fantastic ❤️

This is an odd request but would you mind doing a Adam x Fem! Reader that is in the situation like Morty and Mr. Jellybean was? It is 100% a-okay if you don’t do this especially if it’s uncomfortable but I just wanted to know Adams reaction. Ignore if you are uncomfortable and/or just don’t want to do this ask!

Love your works!! 🥰🥰

A/N: Aww, thank you for the kind words :] I only have two works in total, lol. And, uh, I haven’t watched Rick and Morty, but I did search for some scenes on YouTube. Based on what I saw, do you mean to say how Adam would react if the reader was sexually harassed? Tell me if I’m wrong because holy hell did watching the scenes make me uncomfortable. And someone commented that it’s a really accurate depiction of what happens. Disturbing.

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Warnings: Sexual harassment implied, Violence (because of Adam)

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How Adam would react if Fem!Reader was sexually harassed…

In the middle of writing this, I just remembered that they live in Heaven. So I don’t know how or why a molester would end up in Heaven. Even if there was one, they likely got booted off immediately, so just imagine a sinner somehow managed to sneak into Heaven.

• Adam’s reaction would completely change depending on who you are to him (if you two just met for a date or are casual bang buddies)

• so I’ll just give you the best one for comfort (at least the best Adam could give) and make you two be in a close relationship (not GF and BF though. But you two go on not-so-platonic dates sometimes)

• I also think it’s good to mention that I try to keep Adam’s character as accurate as possible

• it might make him seem insensitive, so I suggest going to the last section if you’re here for comfort (the last section has a blue ‘•••’)

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Adam recommended a place that had been recently open for a while. He actually burst through your front door to go there the day it was open.

Unfortunately for him, you were busy and will be for the next few weeks as well. Something about work that he didn’t bother to listen to because it was, well, about boring shit.

But now, you managed to get the whole week off, so Adam has you all for himself. And his first action of business was to get you to chillax. What better way to do that than to hang out with him?

He was so fucking hyped. He couldn’t wait to see the look on your face when you try out the food there!

You two were going to have so much fun!

•••

“We need to go,” was what you suddenly decided after you came back from the bathroom, voice emotionless and firm.

Adam stared at you as if you grew horns and a tail. “Why? The fuck happened?”

Your face faltered at his question. “We need to go. Please.”

“Uh, it hasn’t even been an hour. Now get over here and fucking eat.” You only did so after a moment he munched on his burger, but not in the way he expected. You hid near his seat, gripping on the legs as you made yourself as small as possible. “The fuck are you doing?” He paused before grinning suggestively. “Learn some decency, (Name), jeez. If you wanted to…suck…”

Adam trailed off as he watched someone come out of the women’s bathroom, badly beaten and bruised. He…it didn’t have a halo on its head, and its attempt to cover up its slender and angled horns was fucking stupid.

His playful expression dropped and it shifted to anger when he saw it looking around, around for you.

You suddenly felt a strong gust of wind as the plates and glasses clattered on the table you were hiding behind. You peeked from your spot to witness Adam ruthlessly and relentlessly punch the sinner’s face, a hand slowly going over your mouth at the display of violence. You didn’t know he could be so brutal. He was saying things that didn’t reach your ears, but you knew they weren’t pleasant.

You only felt yourself move after you saw Adam lift his arms in the air, hands accompanied by holy light. “Wait! Adam, Adam, stop!”

“What!” He turned around to face you momentarily as he shrugged your hand off of his shoulder. “Let me at ʼim—!”

“Adam, you’re causing a scene,” you whispered, glancing around at the growing audience.

Adam was offended. “I’m helping!” He flapped his wings to stand up, his anger now directed at you. “You’re just going to let a Sinner do you like that? Huh!”

“I just want to go home.”

He stared at your face for a moment. “Whatever.” He scowled at the Sinner one last time before he began making his way outside. You quietly followed after him. “This place is lame, anyway.”

The whole walk, you kept your head down as Adam gave the finger and a nasty look to anyone who ignorantly tried to approach you to cheer you up.

•••

You didn’t know when you got home; you didn’t even know Adam stayed with you until he spoke up.

“Uh…do you need, like, shit, I dunno…something?” You heard the ruffling of his wings and the shuffling of his clothing. “I could order delivery. There’s this place I’ve been…” You further curled yourself into a ball on your bed. You didn’t remember when you got there. “Actually, maybe you should pick where this time, huh? How’s that sound?”

When you didn’t respond, Adam lowered his arms, his smile fading into a frown.

He debated whether or not to leave you here before you scooted to the farthest side of the bed, turning yourself over to face him but avoiding eye contact as you patted the spot you were just in.

Adam took one glance behind him before he slipped into bed beside you, hands on his tummy as he stared at your ceiling.

The silence was uncomfortable for Adam. He desperately wanted to fill it with some chatter. Without it, it felt as though there was no one with him in the room.

As if you read his mind, your hands hugged his arm, and it numbed his unease, if only for a moment. He extended the time by placing a hand on yours, caressing them with his thumb.

“I don’t want to see this,” you suddenly spoke after a minute.

“Huh?” He looked down at you, still not making eye contact with him.

“Take your mask off.”

He scoffed and turned down your request, “You’re not even looking at me.”

“Take it off,” you repeated more firmly.

“Why?”

“Then I’ll take it off.” You reached out to grab his horns, pulling them upwards. When it didn’t comply, you kneeled on the bed and pulled harder. “How do you take it off?”

“Why do you wanna see me so badly? Just go to sleep already.”

“Not until you take that off.”

“I’ll stay with you until you wake up,” he attempted to bargain.

“Adam.” You gave up on removing his mask yourself. “Take it off.”

He hesitated before sighing heavily, easily tugging it off of his head and tossing it on the nightstand.

With his real face revealed, you were able to look at him. His golden eyes brought you solace, and his human-like features gave you relief.

“There. Better?” he asked bitterly as he averted his eyes from yours. “Now go to sleep.” After that, Adam tried to face his back toward you, but you leaned over and held his face and shoulder, pulling him back. “What is it now—”

“You said you’ll stay with me until I wake up.”

“I will,” he said as if you were doubting him, but he knew you weren’t.

Satisfied with his promise, you stared into the soft glow of his eyes as yours started to grow heavy.

In the last moments of your consciousness, you felt yourself get pulled closer to something soft, and you heard the sound of ruffling as warmth enveloped you.

#hazbin hotel x reader #adam x reader #hazbin hotel adam #kinopiowrites

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mickedy · 1 month

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(1. A cartoon you remember that nobody else does.)

I would say "Popee the Performer" but it has a large enough circle of dedicated fans. I really enjoy Ryuji Masuda's other works though I feel like not enough PTP fans have checked out "Mr. Stain on Junk Alley" it's REALLY GOOD. It's got that surrealist feel of PTP, but it's less horror-esque and more bittersweet and heartfelt

There's so many other things I could say for this one, I spent such a huge amount of my childhood watching Blockbuster VHS tapes of the god damn weirdest cartoons ever. Do you know how many times I watched the film "Kimba the White Lion"? I was obsessed with that one.

Trying to think of one of these forgotten cartoons that I'd actually vouch for. Hmm. "The Little Mermaid" (1975) is really heartfelt and tragic and in some ways I prefer it to the Disney one.

(3. A cartoon you don’t like but everybody else seems to.)

*looks back and forth really quickly.* I watched Over the Garden Wall a couple years back and I thought it was kind of boring and disjointed. I feel like a lot of the plot threads didn't connect in a very satisfying way. I guess I can appreciate it artistically but I wouldn't say I particularly enjoyed myself while watching it. I've failed you cartoon siblings everywhere

I also don't really like Hazbin Hotel and I thought that it was kind of unanimously agreed to be not very good But it trends pretty often on here... I had to unfollow the aromantic tag because all I was seeing was that one character and it made me realize that I was sort of in the minority for not liking it 💁‍♀️ I didn't really like the pilot when it came out and knowing what we know now about Vivziepop I just don't see a reason to give the show a second chance

(4. A cartoon you wish would be forgotten.)

STOP WRITING NEW SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS EPISODES we don't need anymore spongebob okay. it's okay. Take my hand. no more spongebob it's alright it was a great show for 3 maybe 4 seasons. it should have ended with the first movie please stop wringing this poor sponge for all he's worth

(10. An animated character you hate the most, and why?)

I hate Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty and if I talked about everything I hate about him and his asshole family and his stupid show I'd be here all day. I have particularly heated feelings about this entire cartoon, and I feel like Rick popularized the "nihilistic tragic asshole" archetype I hate so much

Message to all shows everywhere. Your tragic asshole will never be Bojack Horseman stop trying to be Bojack Horseman

(21. Something you would like to see more than anything in a cartoon.)

More cartoons that play with the format. More concepts like "Learning With Pibby". Video games seem to have nailed meta storytelling and I'd like to see it explored more in television (specifically cartoons because there's so much more you can do)

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missr3n3 · 4 months

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Ctda is so fun I love it.. is there any details/ hcs you have about the characters you wanna share?

sorry for taking so long to respond, but you've activated my trap card and i needed to be at my computer so i could write this essay of a response lol

im gonna do one for each character:

jonah: though he used be be more into psychedelics as a teenager, ever since the events of vol. 2 and cdta he's entirely stopped using them. there's just to much fuel for a potential bad trip. he's also stopped drinking (though he was never did it that often in the first place) and doesn't smoke weed as often bc sarah and evelin don't want him stinking up their apartment.

adam: his black hoodie (not the BPS one) has become a comfort item for him. because he didn't have it on while he was in the Nightmare Sand Pit and was at his most vulnerable, he associates not wearing it with being in danger. since he's wearing it basically all the time though, it's gotten really worse for wear and has quite a few holes in it, which jonah helpfully fixed with various patches (you'll see them when i drop the 2011 cdta designs lol)

thatcher: since he's now a certified Old Ass Man (in his early 50s), he's fully stopped trying to look profession or trendy and has gone back to his old grunge fashion sense from the 90s. luckily, most people think this is cool af, and in particular it entertains some of the kids that ride his bus route bc they think he's an old Kurt Cobain lol

evelin: i kind of alluded to this in clear the stone chapter 3, but she and jonah didn't get along at first because she's very straight edge and he's very not. since their re-introduction in clear the stone and the events of cdta, she's a bit more understanding of his drug use (though still not entirely comfortable with it). nowadays she considers jonah to be just as close a friend to her as sarah <3

sarah: mandela getting blown tf up has actually significantly helped her with regards to moving on from her brother's death. though she can't quite put her finger on why, she as a general sense that his soul is at peace now. as a result, she intends to rebrand BPS from a paranormal investigation group to more of a horror webseries thing. she even renames the youtube channel to the bythorne paranormal show!

alt!gabriel: as far as the cdta timeline goes, he created the alternates for the sole purpose of furthering his takeover plan. alternates in this story are straight-up demons as a result, and this might come into play in an interesting way in the sequel... 👀

six: so i've mentioned before that he's an entirely separate alien in the cdta timeline that started working with alt!gabriel as a means to an end since they have similar goals (also dropped in dms that this happened in the 1920s). the reason for this is that his species feeds on pain, and alternates are really good at causing a lot of mental and sometimes physical pain. though with the alternates gone and type 6s doing a shit job at killing humans, his kind are now looking into other avenues for a food supply :)

sam: if he were voiced, i imagine he'd sound like steven as he sounds in steven universe future. pretty nerdy but with a little bit of rasp to it and a hint of theater kid lol. also! he's 6'4 and is the tallest human in cdta!

delilah: before her reversion (official temporal phenomena term for the changes type 6s went through), her alternate instincts would mainly come out in her being an obnoxious know-it-all. the type to "well AKSHUALLY 🤓" everyone around her over the slightest inaccuracies. also never admitting when she was wrong and assuming the people calling her out were just too stupid to understand her genius. basically what i'm saying is she would've love rick and morty before the reversion lol

and as a special bonus:

joel: he actually started mystifying oracle to try and prove that the paranormal didn't exist, but when he realized how many views he was getting from believers, he pivoted to over-the-top shows of the effects of the ouija board. of course it also helps that he has an actual demon in his house lol.

chloe: she met joel in college! they're both studying film, and thus shared a lot of the same classes together. joel ended up dropping out once youtube started making money for him, but they'll still meet up from time to time, especially if there's a new horror movie they want to see!

#ask the skeleton #cut down the altar au #told you it was gonna b an essay lol #also couldn't say much about the demon in joel's house due to spoilers. but there's gonna b some fun stuff happening there too :)

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dirty-bear-rick-sanchez · 2 years

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A Level of Comfort

OK so I’m very very nervous to post this but everyone has been really supportive and encouraging so here we go: my first RnM fanfic. Please be gentle as I’m very nervous 😅

Also thank you to everyone who was really nice and encouraging to me! I also would like to shout out particularly to @hazelnut-u-out because I really like your writing (and I also sent you a prompt kind of similar to this but ended up writing it myself 😅) and @whovianbuffalo for being extra lovely!

Summary: Rick has a nightmare after the events of Solaricks and has to check on his family to reassure himself that they’re OK. Mainly angst with a bit of hurt/comfort at the end. Rick is very traumatised and a bit of an asshole but he’s trying. Morty is a good kid who knows Rick too well. Warnings for blood/gore, death, self-injurious stimming.

Rick sits in the car he and Diane share, waiting in the entrance to the garage. Something feels oddly familiar in a way he can’t quite identify.

He sees the door begin to open and his heart drops as he realises what’s about to happen. Every fibre of his being screams at him to get out of the car, call a warning, do something. He wants to, wants it more badly than he’s ever wanted anything, but something keeps his body stuck in place.

Almost in slow motion, he sees his wife and daughter walk in, holding hands, smiling in blissful ignorance of what is to come. Above them, the fabric of spacetime tears open, a white-blue gaping dimensional wound.

Rick tries desperately not to see what happens, but can’t escape. He sits there, helpless, motionless, as his wife and daughter cry out in shock and pain, flesh melting from their faces, blood pouring across the floor. Somewhere in his mind, he knows he’s never seen this, that it is yet another torture device created by his own brain, but the gore and suffering forces its way to the front of his mind. He hears blood-curdling screams, ripped from a memory of Beth breaking her arm. He feels the pain and fear he felt that day mixing dangerously with the devastation of their deaths.

Somehow, Rick is now standing in the garage. Diane begins crawling towards him, dragging herself with a bloody and mangled arm. She grasps his wrist, staining his skin with blood and portal fluid that oozes from her open wounds. It stings like acid where it touches him.

“Rick,” she gasps, in the voice he’d always found so sweet. “How could you do this to your daughter?”

Rick’s gaze falls downwards to the lifeless and ravaged body of his little girl cradled in her other arm.

“Why didn’t you stop him when you had the chance?”

Rick knows exactly what she means, tries not to think about it as she grips his wrist even tighter, her grasp burning into his arm.

“I-I’m going to stop him. I’m going to go back.” he croaks out, finally able to speak. Diane doesn’t respond. He knows exactly what he’ll find if he looks, the image etched into his memory. It doesn’t make it any less painful when he looks down at the bodies of his girls, exactly the same as they were the day they died, exactly the way they’ve looked every time he’s seen them since.

Distantly, Rick hears a voice coming from the rift in front of him. He knows this is his final chance to make things right, to do things over again. He flies through the rift, suddenly in his ship, emerging in a giant metallic sphere full of screens and bots. The voice carries on, and Rick sees a tube begin to rise from the floor. This time he won’t hesitate, he won’t fail, he decides.

As soon as the tube clears the floor, Rick realises Rick Prime isn’t alone.

A fully clothed Rick Prime stands in the tube, an arm holding a small figure almost in a chokehold, pointing a gun to his head.

“Rick!” Rick Prime’s prisoner cries out, his voice breaking from fear and adolescence.

“Morty!” Rick cries, scrambling, trying to fight past the killbots and lasers, but the tube is already moving backwards.

“Riiiiiiiiiick!” Morty cries, as the tube drops down a chute and both he and Rick Prime vanish from view.

Without hesitation, Rick jumps down the chute in pursuit. All of a sudden, a blood-stained concrete garage floor appears beneath him and he tries to flinch away from the impact.

Rick wakes with a jolt.

He’s breathing heavily, clutching his blankets tightly, his rickety camp bed rattling with how hard he’s shaking. He struggles to catch his breath and it’s not until he notices the hot tears streaking down his face he realises he’s crying.

“Fuck.” he whispers. “Fuck!”

He’s vaguely aware he’s rocking back and forth in a ball, one hand clapped over his mouth and scratching at his cheek hard enough to draw blood, the other balled into a fist, slamming itself into his head over and over.

Eventually, he slows down, his head and hand aching, his face stinging as tears hit fresh cuts. The pain makes him feel better, reminds him that he’s real, alive, awake, makes him more present in the moment. He flips the lights on, glancing around the room to confirm to himself that he really is home, that this version of his family is safe. Even though he knows it logically, he has to see for himself. He pauses long enough to collect himself so that he’s not actively crying any more, wipes the tears from his face, and leaves the room.

He doesn’t have to enter Beth’s room, hearing a mumbled conversation between her and Jerry from the other side of the door. He can’t make out the words, but the voices are easily identifiable.

He doesn’t have to enter Summer’s room either, as her door is slightly ajar, allowing him to see her through the crack. All the same, he watches for a few seconds to be sure of the steady rise and fall of her breathing before moving on.

Morty’s door is shut, and Rick can’t hear anything, not even the gentle snores he’s used to hearing on long trips in the ship. As slowly as he can bear, Rick opens the door. The hallway light spills into the room, and he sees Morty, lying motionless on the bed. He can’t tell if Morty’s breathing, and, almost without realising what he’s doing, he enters the room and stands at the teenager’s bedside. Even up close, he can’t convince himself, and he feels a hot panic start to rise inside him.

“R-rick?” Morty croaks, his voice groggy. Rick almost collapses with relief as Morty sits up, rubbing an eye. “Rick, come on, a-a-after today can’t you just let me sleep for one night? Surely whatever you need can just wait until tomorrow?” Morty finally looks up at Rick and his eyes widen in shock. “Whoa, wh-what happened to your face?”

Rick starts to turn away, but he feels Morty’s hand grasp his wrist, exactly like Diane’s in his nightmare. It’s enough to stop him in his tracks and make his breath catch in his throat. Barely, just barely, he manages to keep the sob in.

“Did you do this to yourself?” Rick silently curses Morty’s moments of surprising intelligence. They’ve spent enough time together that Morty can read him far too well for his liking.

“I-I used to do the same thing, you know, when I got stressed. I would bang my head on the wall, because the pain was easier than the bad feelings.” A part of Rick resents the fact that a 14 year old is trying to lecture him about self-injurious stimming as if he doesn’t have literal decades of experience, but he’s so empty and exhausted from the intense adrenaline rush and subsequent relief that this thought quickly evaporates.

“W-whatever, Morty. Go back to sleep.” he hears himself say, his voice weak and shaky. He turns to leave.

“Wait!”

Rick turns back to Morty, who’s holding the edge of his blanket nervously.

“What?” he groans, forcing a note of irritation into his voice.

“I, um, I, uh, b-before you woke me up I was um, I was… having a nightmare.” Morty glances around the room in a way that shows he’s clearly thinking on his feet, and Rick knows Morty has seen right through him. “Will you, will you stay with me?” He gives Rick a look so pleading, Rick can’t bear to say no, even though he knows it’s for his own benefit, not Morty’s. He’s a good kid, a good grandson, better than Rick deserves.

Even though they both know what’s really going on, Rick puts on an act.

“Fine. If it’ll get you to stop whining.” he huffs. “But don’t you think you’re getting a bit old for this now?”

Morty visibly relaxes. “Nah.” he replies with a relieved smile.

Rick moves to his bedside and motions with his hand for Morty to move over. “Just this once, you hear me?” he grumbles, clambering in next to Morty. It’s a tight squeeze, both of them in a single bed, but Rick is skinny, and Morty is still yet to hit the growth spurt stage of puberty, so they manage. Secretly, Rick is comforted by the tangibility of Morty’s presence next to him, the sound of Morty’s breathing. He knows he’ll never be able to make things right with his original Beth and Diane, even if he somehow manages to find and kill Prime, but maybe he can make things right with Morty. Rick silently resolves to be a better grandpa.

“Rick?”

“What now, Morty?”

“I, um, I’m really glad you came back for me, a-and my moms, and Summer. And Dad. I’m really glad you’re my grandpa.”

Finally, the tears spill over, dripping down his cheek and nose onto the pillowcase. Mercifully, he manages to cry silently.

“Sh-shut up, Morty.” he hisses through a wobbly voice.

“Love you too, Grandpa Rick.”

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misslisamiray · 9 days

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Time for another excerpt from Down With the Rickness (and okay, I admit it: the title's growing on me.) After the previous two, Morty deserves a little break, so you're getting some Rick and Jerry interaction this time around!

Also, I tried linking the other two excerpts, but I'm tired & maybe Tumblr hates me a little, so uhh, it's not working and we're gonna try again when it isn't almost 2:00 A.M. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this week's!

Rick was falling asleep, when Jerry walked into the living room, holding a tape up in the air and triumphantly yelling, "I found it! Now I just need to watch the episode 2, maybe 3 times to make sure I don't miss anything. Once I've done that, I'll be ready to cure Rick. And then we'll see whose plan is stupid, Morty!"

"Obviously yours is, Jerry." Rick groaned before starting to cough again.

"What? You're in here?! Shouldn't you be in bed, or back in the garage, or maybe some kind of quarantine bubble?" Jerry asked, jumping back a little and nearly dropping his supplies. Besides the tape, he was also carrying a notebook, pen and pencil. Getting no answer from Rick, he quickly reassured himself, " Easy, Jerry. There's nothing to worry about. You've got everything you need to solve our little crisis right here."

Smiling smugly, he continued, "So does this weird sickness you have work slower in humans? The way you made it sound, it transforms from one awful thing to another pretty quickly. But it's been hours now, and you still seem stuck on these cold symptoms."

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Rick asked groggily, opening one eye slightly. After a few seconds, he remembered his cover story. "Oh, right. That. Yeah. Good *COUGH!* job, Jerry. You hit the nail on the head. How long Mimicking Disease makes you think you have any one illness varies, but it does typically progress slower in humans. In fact, it can be so slow, I m-might just be stuck like this the whole time I'm sick." Jerry side-eyed him, and just missed putting two and two together.

"Well, that would be a lucky break, wouldn't it? You contract some alien virus that can make you feel like you have any disease in the universe, and all it does is imitate a bad cold? Sounds like you'll be getting off easy if that's what happens, Rick."

"Of course you'd think that. Personally, I'd rather deal with Venutian varicella or Floopfloopian ass fever or Morgluxian measles any day over five more minutes of this bullshit. *Cough! Cough!* Anyway, talking to you is more exhausting than usual right now, and I'd like to stop. So whatta you want, Jerry?"

Jerry took a few hesitant steps closer to the couch, asking, "Are those real diseases, or are you just making shit up? Are these things I have to worry about you bringing into my home?!"

"Calm down, Jerry. Everyone in the house, you included, is vaccinated against the one that exists and has a vaccine. One of the others has no preventive measures, and one I just made up to mess with you. No, I'm not telling you which is which. My throat feels like I swallowed glass, and this conversation needs to end. So for the last time, what do you *ACHOO!* want?"

#fanfiction #rick and morty fanfiction #rick and morty fanfic #sickfic #rick sanchez #jerry smith #even in the middle of getting his ass kicked by the common cold rick still has to troll jerry a little #it would be concerning if he didn't #this story and coming up with tags for it are fun #actual chapters instead of just these previews are coming soon i promise!#rick and morty #my writing #my fanfic

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thesoftboiledegg · 2 years

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I wasn't a huge fan of "Rick: A Mort Well Lived." It wasn't terrible, but it's kind of just...there?

For one thing, I'm not a fan of episodes of any show where the characters aren't really "them" (i.e., they're in different bodies or it's an alternate universe, like that Futurama episode where they're all animals.) I know it was still Rick and Morty, but you're not seeing them on screen. I realize that's just personal preference, though.

The concept was intriguing, but it didn't really go anywhere. Just rehashed the same thing over and over until it abruptly ended. Honestly, it reminded me of the snake episode from season four, which everyone loved and I hated, lmao. When they ended, I was like "...that's it?"

Justin Roiland did an amazing job with Rick's voice, though. Damn. He didn't have a ton of lines, but his dialogue was a standout. Justin put so much emotion into his voice. He also did a good job making all the parts of Morty sound unique--like yeah, they have the same voice, but they're distinct enough that it doesn't sound like one guy rambling for twenty minutes.

We've also had two episodes in a row that reference "Mortynight Run" from season two, which is actually one of my favorite episodes. The show's done a decent job of referencing past episodes without leaning on nostalgia ("Haha remember Blipz and Chitz? Remember the Jerryboree??") They're fun references that don't come across as fanservice-y.

But yeah...I dunno. It started out promising, but five minutes in, I was like "I don't know if I can sit through a whole episode of this," lol. The only scene I really liked was when Marta (was that her name?) argued with the president. That was a great portrayal of the two sides of Morty--the side that loves Rick and the side that hates him--duking it out and calling him on his bullshit.

And while I totally agree that Rick needs to stop being an asshole and tell Morty that he loves him, I thought this episode was kind of...heavy-handed? The characters flat-out say "I'm proud of you" or "You should say you love me" or whatever. The show's usually more subtle than that.

Rick keeping the machine alive so Marta (or Martina or whatever it was) can live out her life was nice but also heavy-handed and borderline OOC. I don't think he would've jumped in there and killed her or something just to be an asshole at this point in the series, but I don't see why he'd care that much, either.

Although I guess you could argue that he cared because she's part of Morty. Still, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think the show might be getting a little saccharine. I thought "Solaricks" was a way better portrayal of Rick's transformation--he's gentler with Morty but still pulls back, like when he stops the hug. This episode was a liiiittle corny.

I don't even know what to say about Summer's B-plot, to be honest. I had trouble following it. I loved Peter Dinklage's voice, though. He has a perfect "bad guy" voice.

Anyway, I don't think this episode was horrible, but it's probably not going to end up on a lot of top-ten lists, lol. This episode could have gone a lot deeper since Rick's literally hanging out with representatives of Morty's subconscious. Rick and Morty have a LOT of shit to hash out, and Rick saying he's proud of him isn't going to cut it.

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #rick and morty s6 #review #rick: a mort well lived

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frostyreturns · 9 months

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Frosty Ruins "Hailey's On It (2023)"

The evidence for the idea that much of todays entertainment is being written by ai is starting to pile up. There's so many of these shitty generic soulless cartoons now. The older I get the more I realize the old advice not to judge based on appearance was total bullshit. I can look at this show within 5 seconds and know it's going to be bad because it looks cancerously poorly drawn. It looks cheap and generic, you know when you are scrolling through a streaming service and you scroll past all these shitty looking cartoons that all look exactly the same and look so unbelievably unappealing that you wonder if there's even a single person on the planet who saw it and decided to click on it…it's one of those. It's like someone went to one of those ai art things and said give me a terrible looking cheap netflix childrens cartoon with ethnically ambiguously brown characters and it shat out ten thousand examples and they turned every single one into a show.

Then they gave the writing ai the prompt, write me a generic sanitized for all audiences childrens cartoon but fill it with progressive politics and sexualization. Then they write a brief one dimensional description of each character input the premise of the show and bam writing is done. I'm making a joke about how bad it is but it's so bad in the exact way I'm describing that what I'm saying is also completely plausible. I feel like i've reviewed this show before at least 3 times it's just so generic and shitty in all the same ways as every other cartoon being made in the last couple years.

The jokes are so flat they almost don't even exist. The main character will be riding a bike and run into a bunch of stuff and go "oh you were telling me to avoid that stuff." Beyond that there are no jokes there's just out of place sarcasm. It's like they copied the form of humour but left out the joke...like there's a setup and a punchline but they don't go together or it will be punchline with no setup or context. Like Michael scott shouting that's what she said but without anyone saying anything that could be heard as being sexual.

The premise of the show is stupid it's that this girl makes a list of stuff she wants to do and by doing her list she saves the world, which she knows because a time traveller from the future where Serena Williams is president came back to tell her. Because we all know if brown girls just did what they wanted without anyone stopping them they would be able to do whatever they want and would save the world from climate change. At least when Rick from Rick and Morty can do almost anything it makes a little sense because he's spent his entire life inventing and learning how weird sci fi shit works Hailey is just a young girl who's magically a scientist action hero, mary sue to the max.

It's like if you took all the humour out of My Name is Earl added in all of the progressive horseshit, then took all the humour and sci fi philosophy out of rick and morty took out any comedic looking animation and combined them…then wrote out all the whites, straights and men. I didn't see a single white character and i think there was only the one guy.

This is a kids show with children there's no need for there to be any sexualization at all, there's stuff about two girls kissing and her first to do list item is to kiss her friend. Two kids kissing is not a huge deal but it's a little weird in the context, they have all these other characters pressuring her to do it including a little robot who explains the mechanics of kissing like they're introducing it to kids for the first time…it's just gross and it's weird that it was written into the show it seems so unnecesary. Like make out with your friend or the world is going to end…seems like the kind of weird excuse some manipulative predator would make up to convince a kid to go along with something sexual. At one point they go through one of those tunnel of love rides while a song urges them to "kiss their friends, just do it don't be shy" and of course all the heart symbols along the ride are the pedo small heart within a larger heart symbol.

Awful, absolutely no redeeming qualities, don't let your kids watch it. Other than my ai argument I can't see how something like this keeps getting made.

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softmick · 5 months

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characteristically late tag game wednesday (i was actually on time this week, but last week nothing went right for me so...)

name: meagan

zodiac sign: leo

personality type in enneagram, myers-briggs, or both: 6, the loyalist & infp

before we hit the road, what snack are you gonna bring for our trip? gum, some kind of fruity candy, and popcorn or cheez-its for crunch

navigator gets to pick the music so what song are you turning on? usually i just put on my yearly playlist, but there are some moods that have specific artists. if it's warm out and we have the windows down at night on the interstate? frank ocean. if i'm driving home alone from where i grew up it's probably iron and wine or death cab.

what is a universe from a fantasy tv show you would like to visit? really like the witcher, seeing creatures would be cool. also magic. and dwarves. also i'd really prefer the video game version but...

and what about a fantasy movie? rivendell from lotr. catch me lounging and healing

okay, what about a scifi tv show? i don't want missions and hijinks but one where i could travel easily. like dr who or star trek or have a portal gun a la rick and morty.

and a scifi movie universe? avatar cause pretty colors and creatures and flying. i guess? i don't really know. i kept trying to think of sci-fi movies and my brain got stuck on gattaca but i do not want to go there.

any other tv show or movie you’d like to swing by before we move on? chris's version of heaven in what dreams may come

okay hold on to your butts we’re switching gears to fanfic universes. tell me which fanfic universe we’re visiting first? i just want to watch nightmare hour once.

cool, do you have one more you’d like to stop at before we head home? you can bite me 'cause vampires.

alright, on our way out of fanfic land you get to snag some tropes to bring home and apply to your own life, think fast!

soulmates or enemies to lovers WAIT both. enemies who find out they're soulmates // coffee shop or flower shop // fake relationship or slow burn // amnesia or time loop // body swap or miscommunication // love triangle or arranged marriage // sharing a bed or drunken confession

wow okay, hope those tropes work out for you!! our adventure has finally come to an end, where in the world am i dropping you off? well don't take me home. australia is next on the list. wanna see the great barrier reef!

thank you for tagging me, Sky @skylerwinchester, Kat @mybrainismelted, and Ling @lingy910y and also thanks for your patience and continuing to send me stuff when i am MIA.

#hi #tag games

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smoothqueen · 2 years

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Harley Quinn S3 finale

I take back what I said about my faith being shaken in the showrunners it is fully healed and better than ever! I can’t tell you how relieved i am! This is why DC comics needs to stop putting Harlivy in the on n off category. Still, what does this mean for the crew? They got their own things going, maybe some small jobs from time to time idk, yeah that really needs to be discussed next season. Just kind of feels like they went their separate ways without a proper send off. Kind of sucks Frank lost his powers but he ain’t lost his humor which I love most about him.

“He’s also guilty of being a thief and a bitch!” -Frank the Plant

I’m proud of Bruce, Barbara, I think Gordon still has a bit of ways to go. Bane needs to shine next season. I’m especially proud of Harley although I expect some old habits to die hard. If Clayface wins an Oscar I am done. Ok I admit I’m proud of Joker too. I still think Ivy needs to open up a bit more. Who do u think will be the big bad next season?

Amanda Waller

Lex Luthor

Return of Darkseid

Enchantress

Brainiac

Ra’s Al Ghul

Talia Al Ghul

Jason Todd

Floronic Man

Oh god I’m just realizing season 3 has just ended and I got nothing else on my watch list except Rick and Morty.

Demon Slayer Swordsmith arc, AOT finale season part 3, Ice Adolescence if and when yeah I fell deep and now Harley Quinn S4 are on my waiting list! Curse my lack of patience!

#harley quinn the animated series #S3 finale #harlivy #harley quinn #poison ivy #batfam #hbo max

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TV Show Ask: 2, 4, 9, 10, 35, 38, 39, 46, 47, and 48?

Thanks for the asks! 🥰

2. Already answered.

4. are there any shows you wish could just be cancelled already?

I'm gonna be cantankerous and say House of the Dragon. I'm just not a fan of GoT. Granted, I will probably eat my words if/when I ever get around to reading the books, but until then I find the discussion about it quite irritating, especially because of how inescapable it feels lmao

9. Already answered.

10. what’s one show you thought you’d love but turned out to really hate?

I think probably Chainsaw Man? I do like some aspects of it, and I really wanted to like it more, but it just feels almost boring how teenage angsty it is, it conforms too much to the genre to be interesting. I stopped watching after episode 8.

35. who are your top 5 TV characters right now?

1. Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle, George Karim (Lockwood & Co.) - I'm obsessed with Lockwood & Co. to the point where I'm procrastinating finishing the last book. I can't pick a favourite of the main trio, they're all so great in their own ways. I just love how truly found family they are, the actors are all spectacular, they just fill my heart with joy.

2. Scanlan Shorthalt (The Legend of Vox Machina) - It's so hard to pick a favourite in TLoVM and this is definitely subject to change, but Scanlan is my favourite at the moment. I love me a comic relief character who is much more than just comic relief and I was so impressed with his arc in the second season.

3. August of Arnäs (Young Royals) - deeply problematic/unpopular opinion, I know, but I will die on this hill. Young Royals is an incredible show with genuinely clever writing and complex characters, it's nowhere near as tropey as it appears from the outside, and while I love Wille & Simon I think the character writing really shines when it comes to August. It helps that he has Leo levels of self-hatred that manifest as egotism. They're surprisingly similar characters, actually.

4. Kendall Roy (Succession) - I think Kendall is the character I'm most interested in seeing genuinely change, either for the better (fucking over Logan) or for the worse (becoming Logan). Maybe he'll end up doing both. Either way, I'm rooting for him.

5. Geordi La Forge (Star Trek: TNG) - I've been actually watching TNG after years of catching episodes every now and then, and have come to realise that my favourite of the TNG crew is Geordi. I always thought it'd be Picard or Data, but I think Geordi is a great all-rounder, he's funny, he's kind, he's clever, he's approachable. I love him!

38. do you prefer hour long episodes, or 30 minute?

Hour long episodes are the best. Proper ones, too, without ads.

38. do you prefer 22 episode seasons, or 13?

I prefer 13 episode seasons I think. It generally makes for a better quality show. That said, there is also definitely space in my life for longer seasons when I want something less taxing.

46. do you prefer to watch TV alone or with friends?

Alone. I don't watch TV with friends that often, but even when I do more often than not I'd still rather watch it alone. I like forming my own opinions on things, I always care too much about what the person I'm watching it with is thinking.

47. are there any shows you love but your friends aren’t interested in?

Mostly the kid's/teen shows like JatP, Lockwood, Young Royals, Heartbreak High.

48. are there any shows your friends love but you aren’t interested in?

Rick & Morty & Dragonball Z are the big ones, they make references to those shows and I just don't get them. Aforementioned Game of Thrones & spin-offs, some of the anime they watch I'm not interested in either.

#tv show asks

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niannianyabao · 1 year

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The Beginner’s Guide to Rick & Morty

A borderline sociopathic old man drags his grandson from dimension to dimension, supposedly as an assistant but more often just for the company, and simultaneously exposes the kid to an endless parade of mind-scarring horrors. Or more simply, “wow, the whole mad-scientist-and-kid-protégé gimmick is pretty screwed up, isn’t it?” That’s more or less the premise of Rick & Morty (which originally grew out of a pretty X-Rated flash animation parodying Doc Brown and Marty McFly), an Adult Swim title that already has a cult following to rival The Venture Bros. and the critical praise to match. While it’s definitely not a show for everyone (I could give a list of content warnings the length of my arm), it is undeniably well made with a deceptively affectionate touch in regards to its characters.

The show, co-created by Community’s Dan Harmon and animator Justin Roiland (whom you may also know as Lemongrab and Blendin Blandin), aired its first season (ten episodes and the pilot) back in 2013.What’s more, I’m going to be recapping the second season right here. I have admittedly not seen other seasons than s1 yet. But don’t worry if you missed out on the original airing. You can currently see the whole first season on Adult Swim (which is region-free) and Hulu. And if you’re on the fence still? Don’t worry, I’ve got your back. Also, there will be first season spoilers. That’s kind of the point.

A Rough Sketch

The plot goes like this: mad scientist Rick Sanchez is constantly snatching his grandson Morty out of his day to day life to play assistant on adventures that range from cross-galaxy and universe travel via Rick’s portal gun to an experimental amusement park built inside a homeless man. Rather than being enchanting and wondrous, each episode leaves Morty just a little more scarred – and the struggle of whether to refuse to accompany Rick at the risk of losing one of his only meaningful relationships is a constant strain on Morty.

Most of the season one episodes are episodic in nature with world-building aspects sprinkled throughout – in other words, you get a self-contained adventure along with a character or concept that may inform/appear in future episodes. Watching them in order isn’t critically important, but does help create a clearer picture of where things might be going. Here are the basic summaries of the first season:

Pilot: Rick takes Morty to collect a certain seed for an experiment, only to get stopped trying to take said seeds through interdimensional customs.

Lawnmower Dog: Rick uses an inception-device to try and convince Morty’s math teacher to give him an A (so that Rick can keep taking the kid out of school); Morty’s dog Snuffles becomes super smart after Rick builds it a helmet to keep it from peeing in the house

Anatomy Park: Rick shrinks Morty down to check on his amusement park pet project (housed in a homeless man); Jerry’s parents come over with their new lover for an awkward Christmas dinner.

Night Shaym-Aliens: Aliens trap Rick (and Jerry, collaterally) in a super-realistic simulation in an attempt to trick Rick into giving away the formula for a certain scientific compound.

Meeseeks and Destroy: Morty insists he get the chance to plan an adventure for a change; Rick gives the family a box that creates a creature designed solely to solve a simple problem and then cease existing. Trigger warning for sexual assault.

Rick Potion #9: Morty begs Rick to make him a love potion to use on his crush Jessica, which winds up getting spread to the whole school. Things get worse.

Raising Gazorpazorp: Summer goes with Rick to a planet where females have become the ruling, segregated gender; Morty buys an alien sex robot and ends up having to raise his fast-growing half alien son (or, the kind of teeth-gritting gender roles episode saved by the B plot).

Rixty Minutes: Rick installs interdimensional cable; Beth and Jerry obsess over peeking into the lives of their alternate universe selves.

Something Ricked This Way Comes: Summer gets a job working for the devil at an ironic-cursed-items shop, and Rick immediately decides to screw with the guy by setting up a curse-lifting rival store; Jerry gets flown to Pluto as an advocate for its status as a planet

Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind: The Big Lore Episode. Rick is put on trial by the Council of Ricks for a spree of Rick-icides across the multiverse.

Ricksy Business: Rick and Summer throw a weekend rager while Morty debates giving up on Rick for good; Jerry and Beth take a vacation to a Titanic reenactment cruise. Trigger warning for sexual assault.

Aside from the individual adventures, here are a some basic concepts that carry through the first season (and probably into the second):

The Rick and Morty who serve as the show’s main characters are from the universe labeled C-137. The love potion fiasco turned their whole dimension into Cronenberg monsters, so the C-137 versions moved over to a normal dimension where THAT Rick and Morty died not long after fixing the mutation outbreak. The graves of their doubles are pretty obvious in the backyard.

C-137 Summer, Beth, and Jerry are still alive in the post-apocalyptic Cronenberg world. We may or may not revisit them someday.

The Council of Ricks is a community of Ricks from various timelines who banded together to protect themselves from various powerful threats. They meet on the Citadel of Ricks – and yes, it looks like the one from Mass Effect on purpose. C-137 Rick wants nothing to do with them.

Almost every Rick has a Morty as part of their effort to escape detection. Ricks have very distinct brainwaves, which are masked by having a Morty nearby.

There are an infinite number of universes – a universal double is determined by one’s genetic makeup at the moment of conception, and the infinite variation of events that can happen to you after that.

There is a cult of Mortys who believe that “the One True Morty” will someday save them from being tormented by Ricks. They even have a very official looking Jack Chick-esque pamphlet.

The genocide of Ricks was perpetuated by a rogue Morty who had rewired and remotely controlled “his” Rick as a smokescreen. His motives and whereabouts are currently unknown.

The Characters

Part of what sets R&M apart, particularly from other concept-heavy sci-fi shows, is in how much weight and importance is placed in the cast. Even when Rick takes Morty hopping across dimensions or the devil opens a Twilight Zone-esque shop down the street, the important thing will always be how it affects the characters and their relationships. With that in mind, here’s a quick rundown of the major players:

Rick Sanchez

A brilliant scientist with a passing-at-best relationship to empathy, Rick has been all over the multiverse and buried himself more than once. Many things about Rick are unclear, including his age (60s? Maybe?), how much he gives a damn about his grandson (word from the creators terms him “someone who cares trying to pretend like he doesn’t”), and what his goals are beyond the nebulous concept of “doing science” and avoiding the Council of Ricks. Well, “stay wasted enough to not think about that looming existential crisis” is probably in there too.

The series starts nearly one year after Rick reappears in his daughter’s life (after walking out on her mother some decades before), and while he’s nicer to Beth than just about anyone else in the universe, at least part of his reason for coming back involved getting to hang out with Morty. It’s not as sappy as you’re thinking (or if it is, Rick would never admit it) – Rick has a lot of enemies out in the universe, y’see, and Morty’s….”Morty” brainwaves almost perfectly cancel out Rick’s genius ones, thus keeping the scientist off of some very powerful radars.

By the end of season one Rick seems to have warmed up to his family in spite of himself: Summer is almost as involved in Rick’s adventures as Morty despite not having the latter’s pragmatic advantages, and Rick’s even shown something of a protective streak – although granted, mainly in the vein of “you hurt someone under my jurisdiction, so you should hurt more than them.” At least it’s a start.

Oh, and if you’re wondering about the last name…good luck. So far the show runners have dodged pretty much every inquiry about Rick’s ethnicity, and headcanons are the best we’ve got right now (I’m pulling for latinx Rick, for the record).

Morty Smith

Rick’s grandson, age 14. Morty is a nervous, eager to please kid who usually gets steamrolled into helping Rick out, and who’s spent barely a dozen hours actually attending school since his grandpa came into his life. Morty’s interests are pretty tied to puberty (and particularly his classmate Jessica), which has gotten him into trouble more than once – it’s also the reason he has an already-adult half-alien son (who wrote a very scathing book about Morty’s parenting skills).

Having seen more than any 14 year old should ever have to, and buried his own corpse, Morty’s character arc through the first season is one long downslide into trauma – something Rick would be in no shape to talk him through even if he was inclined to. Though pushed almost to the point of giving up on Rick entirely, Morty ultimately found himself unable to abandon his grandpa after finding out that Rick’s catchphrase, “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” is in fact an alien phrase meaning “I am in great pain, please help me.”

While he seems to have embraced the pointlessness of dwelling on lost opportunities and remains haunted by what he’s seen, Morty thusfar remains protective of his family and noticeably affected by the horror and death going on around him. Whether that will stay true remains to be seen.

Summer Smith

Morty’s older sister, age 17. Originally written as “the disinterested teenager on her phone,” Summer came into her own near the end of the first season. Far more willing to call Rick out for his callous behavior than her brother, she’s also proven an increasingly competent hand at adapting to and talking her way out of dangerous situations.

By using Rick’s alternate-reality goggles, Summer discovered that she only exists in a few universes – mostly the ones that involved her parents giving up on their dreams and settling into their accidental life together. While Morty was able to comfort her, this knowledge might end up setting her closer to Rick’s bleak outlook than Morty will ever be.

Beth Smith (née Sanchez)

Rick’s daughter, a veterinary surgeon specializing in large animals (or, a horse heart surgeon). Beth got pregnant with Summer in high school and ended up being talked out of getting an abortion by her then-boyfriend Jerry. Bitter and resigned over what might’ve been (particularly the fact that people don’t see her as the “real” surgeon she might’ve been if she’d gone to school longer and gone on to work with human patients), Beth usually has a glass of wine on hand and one foot out the door in regards to her mediocre marriage.

Rather than resenting Rick for abandoning her, Beth instead came to idolize him and exceptionalism generally, and resented her mother for driving Rick away. She’s overjoyed to have her dad back in her life, and desperate enough to keep him there that she turns a blind eye to the danger Rick puts her children in – better that than letting them be normal.

Jerry Smith

Beth’s husband, with a job in advertising and a perpetual losing streak. While something of a petty jerk, Jerry is also painfully aware that he married a woman way, way smarter than him with whom he maintains a tenuous at best relationship. Though he resents Rick for the hell he puts the family through, Jerry doesn’t push the matter out of fear of losing his wife.

During the Council of Ricks fiasco, Jerry bonded with “Doofus Rick” (aka Rick J19ζ7), the dumbest Rick on the Citadel (which still makes him smart enough to make instant brownies from chemical compounds). When Rick’s name was cleared, Jerry was more than willing to try offing “their” Rick for a chance at getting Doofus Rick (really his only friend) to stick around (for the record, the plan was a complete nonstarter).

Interesting Factoids

Some things that are neither here nor there (being announced mostly in interviews, conventions, or bonus material) that I happen to find endlessly fascinating.

All the Ricks and Mortys you hear throughout the series are voiced by Justin Roiland, as well as some of the side characters (this one is pretty common knowledge, but that doesn’t make it less impressive)

When asked about Evil/Eyepatch Morty at Comic-Con, Harmon and Roiland diverted to talking about “loose threads” that they’re saving for seasons down the line – so I wouldn’t expect to see him much (if at all) in the second season

Doofus Rick doesn’t actually eat shit, and the brownies really are brownies (in other news, the audio commentaries on the Bluray release are very much worth your time).

The baby Morty shown in C-137 Rick’s recorded memories may or may not be “our” Morty

Morty has a learning disability (not one that’s been defined well in canon, but gets brought up often enough in commentaries/interviews to feel worth mentioning)

Rick is pansexual (why no, I don’t think it was a joke)

The comics published by Oni Press concern a different universe’s Rick and Morty (C-132, to be exact) and are well worth your time

Almost all of the commercial segments in “Rixty Minutes” are improvised (there’s quite a lot of improv from Roiland generally on the show)

Every scene in the opening credits will, in theory, happen at some point on the show

Gravity Falls and Rick & Morty have connected universes – this is because Roiland is good friends with Alex Hirsch. Additionally, the two of them occasionally draw art of Rick and Stan hanging out together and it is the cutest

Got all that? Ready to plunge in and give it a shot? Then I’ll see you on the other side.

#tiantalk

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liztoady · 1 year

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this is english coursework but I want to see if the internet people like it

Genre: Videogame Reviews

Audience: People familiar with videogames and gaming culture

Function: To entertain

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A retrospective on Super Paper Mario

(Nintendo Wii, 2007) 4/5 Stars

Super Paper Mario, in many ways, is THE prime example on how to NOT make an RPG.

And yet, it’s also one of the greatest stories ever told in a videogame, ever. Let me explain.

To truly understand Super Paper Mario and how this utter travesty of a gameplay experience came to have such a profound impact on those who suffered through it, we need to look beyond the sales, beyond the anti-fans and Dimentio-stans. We need to go right back to the very beginning. Today, I’ll tell you a story of a long-forgotten game…

Once upon a time, Nintendo, after the success of the first, decided to create a brand-spanking-new Mario RPG. And so, Paper Mario was born. It was a pretty quiet entry to the massive Mario conglomerate, being released late into the Nintendo 64’s lifespan. Nevertheless, early reviewers praised its unique style, characteristic charm and easy-to-understand mechanics. These core elements would soon become the basis for a much bigger, much grander sequel – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door! It was a smash hit with fans from every angle, and still sells for ridiculous prices today because of its – well, – sheer greatness. The wit, the mechanics, the story, the graphics! Suffice to say, Paper Mario games had gained a strong foothold with fans. They craved more. Who could blame them?

So, Nintendo did the logical thing (obviously). On the 9th April 2007, they bestowed upon us the eagerly anticipated sequel, the culmination of every hit in the series so far! (Drumroll, please)

Super Paper Mario!

…I’m going to be frank with you, dear reader. Super Paper Mario is, undoubtedly, a flawed game. The controls are limited to the Wii remote’s 4 directions (yes, no c-stick support in a partly 3D game – the horror!), the geometric aesthetic can get old after a while and the pacing makes it, so you’d rather crawl into hell than go back to speak to Jasperoid again to get an unnecessarily long password that takes ages to input because the controls are do damn slow and clunky!

If you know, you know.

In short, it’s a hot mess. Even without considering the clear omission of the turn-based battles from previous titles, its clear that this game does not – and will not – ever compare to its predecessors when it comes to gameplay.

And yet? It doesn’t actually matter. This game shouldn’t even be a Mario game, probably. I bet if it was just some regular, one-off, weirdo game with some other rando on the title, nobody would criticize its flaws as much as they do. But because it’s got ‘Paper Mario’ on the title, it’s suddenly subject to a heck ton more grief (it’s a member of the Mario family, capish?).

How come I like it so much, then? So far, I’ve only been complaining about it! Well hold on to your Wii remotes, dear readers. To truly (truly) understand Super Paper Mario, I’ll tell you a story of the lost book of prophecies. It is a tale of love…

(Yes, that is how the game starts, stick with me, guys!)

The people who have played this game to completion will tell you: it’s a wild ride. Mario has never been so anime (and I personally adore it). If you don’t want to be spoiled for the ending of this over 15-year-old game, then here’s a short summary:

‘Mario, Peach, Bowser and Luigi travel through multiple dimensions ‘Rick and Morty’-style with a butterfly (and friends) to stop an evil, depressed vampire man and his cronies from destroying every reality with a world-ending black hole born out of ‘forbidden love’.

…TL;DR: Peach and Bowser get married; hijinks ensue.’

So… if that wasn’t enough to convince you, I don’t know what will. Stop reading, play it, then come back for the epic conclusion to my review.

…

…What did you think? Did you cry? Yeah. We all cried. It’s just that kind of game.

Its darker moments are, surprisingly, some of the most engaging aspects of the story: The actual deaths of characters, the deletion of entire worlds – they’re some of what people most fondly remember about this 100% very cheerful little game. I always found it very character-driven, and it somehow manages to touch on more serious topics with a gentle maturity that you wouldn’t really expect from a 3+ kid’s game.

A character’s story I personally feel is overlooked is the token dim-witted himbo O’Chunks. He’s one of Count Bleck’s main cronies and the first actual boss of the game. He’s written to be a funny, crude character who shouts hilarious catchphrases like ‘GRAH-GOOGLY’ and farts himself away when he’s beaten. At first glance, he’s the epitome of ‘kids-game humour’, and for the most part, he is.

Then Chapter 5-2 happens.

Just a reminder: this is a MARIO game.

This made me stop and stare when I first played. The moment was short-lived, of course – gotta keep that age rating down! – but I was still astonished that this game even attempted to address such mature themes, and with the token dimwit comic-relief! But it doesn’t end here, folks! May I gently remind you, dear reader, that this outlandish codge-up of a game is also…

…a love story?

As hopeless as the game can feel sometimes, what with the total obliteration of Sammer’s Kingdom, or the devilish Mimi’s enslavement of Mario and Co. to pay off their crushing debt (that one hits a little too close to home), Super Paper Mario is bursting at the seams with positivity and encouragement. Whether it be Tippi’s overwhelming gratitude for Mario and friends after her rescue releasing one of the seven Pure Heart maguffins, or the beautiful climax of the game – Tippi and Count Bleck’s own wedding – Super Paper Mario is a game about friendships, a whole heap of other comedic and heart-warming moments I didn’t have room to mention, and – most importantly – love.

Super Paper Mario, in many ways, is THE prime example on how to NOT make an RPG.

But it’s also one of the comfiest, darkest, over-the-top and most daring stories I’ve ever played. I’d whole-heartedly implore anyone looking for a charming story, and maybe even a bit of a cry, to give this tale a try…

…just don’t play it if you’re looking for good gameplay, K?

#spm #english #english coursework #i apologise i couldnt fit in francis :(#mario #super paper mario #gaming #videogames #there was also on on world of goo so i'll have to find that as well #be on the lookout! >:D

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Apples, Blossom, Favorites, Flowers, Hobby, New, Pride, Striking

Hii💜

hi, love!💜 thank you for asking!💐

apples: favorite fruit?

cherries and plums! especially cherries, i can't get enough of them!

blossom: what's your favorite flower?

camellia, cherry blossoms and sunflowers!

favorites: what's your favorite show, movie and book?

i talked about my favorite books in depth here.

i also mentioned my all-time favorite movies are titanic and the prince of egypt. both epic and both make me feel so much. i also really love good will hunting and whisper of the heart.

as for my favorite shows....i actually don't really have one that's really standing out to me, but something that i definitely highly enjoy in every aspect is rick and morty. i love how absolutely anything is possible in that show and how they're using actual scientific theories and having fun with them.

i also adore over the garden wall. it's a charming, whimsical little show that i'll always remember. the animation style is just how i prefer it and the story is beautiful.

and i can't skip a chance to recommend love, death+robots! this show is an anthology of all kinds of stories, using all kinds of different animation styles throughout. it's experimental, a kind of thing i'll always appreciate and love!

flowers: what's the nicest thing someone has surprised you with?

okay. so, well....a little story here.

back in high school, there was a period when i got seriously ill, i had to actually stop going to school for months, almost a year.

so one afternoon, a bunch of my friends from high school came to my house and surprised me with a huge teddy bear! like, this bear is literally bigger than me, he is seriously huge! and they brought him all over from the other side of town and with a big pink ribbon over him! i was so touched and they spent the whole afternoon with me and we ended up going to the park and walking for hours, talking and laughing, it was such a touching surprise and i'll never forget it.

the teddy bear is still chilling with me in my room, he's like another member of the family! 😆

hobby: what hobbies do you have or want to get into?

well, my biggest hobby is definitely reading. i wouldn't even call it a hobby, it's like a second nature to me honestly😆 i'm always reading something, or looking for a new book, or listening to other people talk about what they've read. it's truly something that makes me the most happy in life.

my second love would definitely be writing. it goes along with reading obviously and i have been doing it since i was 13 and it just became more and more serious to me as time went on. it maybe sounds silly, but the more i know about the craft, the harder it is to write, because i set standards for me really high and they're hard to achieve. writing is always fun when you just want to practice of course, but it's actually really challenging and i'm reminded of it these days, since i'm trying to write a novel for a literary contest that's currently going on.

i also used to draw when i was in middle school and i was actually decent at it, but i stopped ever since, because it's usually taking me a lot of time. but i do remember it really helped calming me down when i was upset.

and lastly, i'm not even sure if this would count as a hobby, but i do really love researching about universe and space in my own amateur way lmao. i love reading science books about it and watching documentaries, especially about the inflation and string theory, which leads to the talk about multiverse theory, that's of course extremely likely to never be confirmed, but it's sooo fun to me.

i highly recommend this video, all three parts actually, if anyone's interested. it's honestly fun for anyone, even if you're not fascinated with space. the person behind those videos is ridiculously talented and you'll see it immediately. it's like you're watching a movie.

new: what would you do if you won the lottery?

i would open up a bookstore and fill it with all kinds of books, especially less popular and obscure ones that not many people have read or heard about. i'd also welcome some of the stray cats into a bookstore and look for people who want to adopt them. that's one of my dream jobs for sure lmao

i would invest a lot in cancer research.

and i'd probably build my home observatory, as i've already mentioned in my previous answer, it's something i'm passionate about. honestly, if i wasn't studying dramaturgy, i'd definitely go into astronomy.

pride: what is something you're proud of?

my whole experience with theater.

i'm proud of every role i had in any play, back when i was going into acting school. it's something i'll always treasure, even though i'm not into acting anymore, i'm still in theater world, but from a different perspective haha

i'm also extremely proud i had an opportunity to write my own play and direct it, even though those were my own amateur beginnings, it was an awesome experience and i learned a bunch.

and also....i'm proud for defeating my illness. i won't talk a lot about it, but of everything i mentioned that's the thing i'm most proud of.

striking: what's your favorite color?

i think i mentioned this before sometime, but i definitely prefer a combination of certain colors rather than one color specifically.

red and black are gorgeous together and sunlight golden in ocean blue is something i keep in my mind as a pretty combination.

but yeah, if it's just one color, then it's definitely pink. a classic.

okay, so this ended up being an essay huh

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lem-cup-rev · 2 years

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4.7 | Mer-Mysteries

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)

🌸🌸🌸🌸

This one was basically a lot of fun and an interesting mixed bag!

There are quite a few different tones it jumps between. I feel like this is the first episode since the first arc that really felt almost literally like kids playing a game. Sometimes I really liked it, and sometimes it got too absurd to believe for the characters as we know them. And it also got pretty serious with Adora and Glimmer’s fights and the griiiimdaaark twist!

The crew had a lot of fun with the altered pulpy mystery tone. 💜 And I really liked a lot of the mystery novel comedy, but it definitely jarred sometimes with the stakes as we know them. Mermista using a silly book obsession to solve a real case feels like a fun childish element that still fits with them taking their war seriously, but I think her being so detached from the plot that she keeps wrongly calling it a murder undermines the stakes. Bow’s thing was way too nonsensical for me, but I liked everyone telling him to stop with increasing exasperation.

It was extremely funny to keep seeing Flutterina just hanging out there unquestioned with all the real, much longer established characters, it was like the Rick & Morty episode with the aliens that give you false memories

I really liked the flashbacks! At first I was like ‘oh jesus, She-Ra can not ask me to keep track of intricate details,’ but then I realized each one basically tells a clear story about how Double Trouble bamboozled them, which is soooo satisfying. It was pretty unnecessary to get DT’s version of the flashbacks at the end – no, yeah, I got it, thanks – but I loved seeing Fluttershy smash the hologram table looking like a psycho :D

I really liked Adora and Glimmer’s fighting! They were so, so expressive throughout the entire episode in big and little ways. A lot of kinda harsh, mature emotional acting. It was kinda hard to believe they could have become this bitter with each other without some bigger event shaking their dedication to their friendship. But I loved when they came together and talked some stuff out, it felt so natural and engaging! Some really sweet, interesting writing.

I honestly felt disappointed at the reveal that they already made up and were acting for part of the time! I felt like their fight had been sold more strongly and interestingly to me than their ability to make up. I do like what a smart idea it was to draw DT out by pretending to be preoccupied and irresponsible. Totally playing them at their own game.

I basically just wanted Double Trouble to win the whole time. It was just so much fun watching them tear apart all these sweet, self-satisfied people. I LOVED the scene where Glimmer and Adora are arguing and Flutterina is just there looking a little concerned and you know this is just candy to them and they’re utterly in power.

Also their lizard face is so cute! Big eyed baby! Uuuugh, that shot of them just being freaky and licking their eye~

I only half cared about the loss of Salineas! Mermista’s reaction was pretty raw, but we’ve only been there one time and we just saw the gate and the throne room! It’s just a name! I didn’t have any investment in Salineas still existing as a bastion for the Rebellion 😆 It felt like kind of an out of nowhere shock attempt, especially after this silly episode. Also Hordak looked so freaking tall and cool there

I loved the part where they all got summoned to the central meeting table because a crime had been discovered. Sussy

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Send ‘💋’ in my inbox gets a kiss from my muse || Accepting !

@petalsxfallen sent: 💋 for Rick

Rick was wasted. The fact wasn't news in itself, since he tended to be at least tipsy basically all the time when he was awake. And also while he was asleep too. What was remarkable about this particular occasion was the kind of drunk mood he was in.

For the most, whenever the scientist drank himself stupid, he either for angsty and keto drinking till he passed out, or barged into Morty's room and dragged the teen on some weird, dangerous adventure, or he built some deadly device that his grandson would have to disarm in a second moment.

Any other options were rare at best and unique at worst. Especially cheerful moods. Yet, it was the case of that particular night.

For once, Rick had gotten wasted for fun, and not as a way to run from his problems and grief. He and Morty had stopped by a diner on their way back to Earth and had been lucky enough to stumble in during happy hour. Needless to say, the genius had instantly decided that they would remain till the end of the whole thing and order as many drinks as they could chug down.

It had been a miracle they had made it back home in one piece, considering their state. The only casualties have been Jerry's freshly planted flowers, but that was hardly news.

Once they had been inside, Morty had made a beeline for his room, while Rick had remained in the garage, still not buzzed enough for his tastes and craving a private after party.

And that was how Petal found him, singing one of the songs by his old band, words slurred and off key. The scientist didn't notice her right away, too caught up in his own stumbling dancing to remember his surroundings, but eventually he turned towards the door and saw her standing right there.

Rick didn't really waste time to take in her expression or to assess her mood. She could be laughing at him or judging him. He couldn't have cared less. He was having a blast and no one was allowed to ruin it for him.

"Oh, s-shit, Petal! Y-You gotta...D-Damn, Morty and I found this place, i-it's fuckin' awesome, gotta take you, sometimes," he exclaimed, talking perhaps a little too quickly for his words to be fully understandable.

That, however, was something else he didn't give a damn about. Not when he had just gotten what, in his opinion, was a brilliant idea.

"C-C'mon, join me!"

That was the only warning the Gem would get before she was dragged forward by the wrist, straight into Rick's arms. The genius grinned like a cat who had got the cream and pulled her into a messy kiss. His movements were sloppy, his mouth tasted of too many liquors mixed together, but he was hungry and relentless, as if he had been trying to devour her.

He broke away only when he started to run out of breath, leaving both their mouths smeared with drool.

"H-Hell yeah, baby! L-Let's fuckin' dance!"

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