Y’all ever see characters that are like If I were a more intelligent person to understand how complex you really are, or more of a stable person to where your failings aren’t so personal and grating to me, maybe I’d like you more ?

For me that’s Beth Smith, she just reminds me too much of my family as a whole, especially in the later seasons with Space Beth and stuff, like the way she’s such a distant mother to Morty but so loving to herself? The way she literally prioritizes her relationship with herself over her kids and how that makes them feel??? I’m just,, not a stable enough person to forgive her, I don’t think

WHO ARE YOU

rick not going into the hole wasn’t even a malicious act, like he very plainly is like “oh, well I knew there wasn’t anything I could do anyways”, and like, he stayed to watch to make sure Morty got out okay, at least.

I just think the way he says it is in itself like, a great showcase of character development. Earlier Rick would’ve been, first off, just extremely pissed that Morty made the decision to jump in there anyways (not to mention he would never believe Morty capable of pulling himself out of the hole without rick’s help, anyways). A few seasons ago even I can see Morty having to pull himself out of the hole, walk back to the table while visibly traumatized, to be greeted with a “did you learn your lesson?”-esque remark.

But end of S7 Rick follows Morty, waits for him, and listens while Morty tells him what happened. He tries to joke with Morty about it (classic coping mechanism he’s trying to extend to Morty).

Rick has changed. Which I think is so poignant to this episode being a turning point for Morty. No matter how much Rick cares for Morty, them having a healthy relationship still hinges on the healing of that codependency

ONE LAST SWING FOR THE ROAD!!

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How have there been so many scenes in the comics of Rick caring abt Morty??? I’m in issue 4 or 5 and every other panel Rick looks concerned for Morty’s health or is kinda nice to him… it makes me so happy

yo yo yo here to encourage hyperfixations, thoughts on Rick calling Morty lil junebug?

Huh? Me? Oh yeah dude, I was totally normal about that. Thanks for asking.

the crack on the pavement in front of the smith’s house is everything i wish the character development in rick and morty was

@technodromes sent:

"Happy Thanksgivings-Day, Morty. Although I am still trying to understand the exact meaning of this day, I acknowledge that it is of importance here. So I thought I could bring you food that I prepared myself for this occasion. It is a gluten-free pumpkin pie."

The mentioned pie is inside a cake-box and it looks actually pretty good. Of course, Bishop refrains from mentioning that he tried all night to bake the perfect pumpkin pie and the end-result was actually his fifth attempt.

Morty's eyes go wide at the sight of the pie. Bishop's impromptu visit has been a surprise in itself, even if in a good way, but the fact that he has come bearing gifts is even more unexpected.

Or, perhaps, the teen should have seen that coming. After all, his friend is always making visible efforts to learn about human holidays and participate in their celebration. The results tend to vary, but the effort and good will behind the actions are always obviously.

"Oh g-geez, Bishop, you didn't have too!" He exclaims, but he doesn't hesitate to accept the baked good. It looks great and it smells great, so he can't way to have a slice. "T-This was...D-Did you really make this? B-By yourself? Because...wow. Y-You must be a great cook!"

The boy flashes the Utrom a bright grin as he hurries to set the pie down on the kitchen counter. He doesn't want to do something stupid as accidentally dropping it or have someone else do it.

"A-And, well, Thanksgiving is...uh, more of an excuse to eat a lot an-and stuff these days, s-so there's not much to understand," he explains then, rubbing the back of his neck. His family celebrates it out of habit for the most. "B-But how about this. S-Stay for the day, s-so you can see how it works! I-I'm sure that Mom and Dad won't mind. J-Just make sure to compliment his ham an-and you'll be fine."

Considering what a leech for praises his father is, Morty has no doubts that Jerry will love to have someone as courteous as the alien at his table.

"S-Still, uh, if I had to explain Thanksgiving...I-It's supposed to be a day when y-you remember all the things you're grateful for an-and share it with your family. L-Like...I'm really grateful to have you as a friend."

Ok so 2 seasons into Rick and morty, but like does it ever get better?

@valebatcattus / requested.

There's something strange with the aura surrounding her. Morty watches her for a few seconds, trying to puzzle out what it is. It's been a long time since he was prone to confuse the dead for the living, but there's something about her that just.... seems to dance around a kind of timelessness.

"...Forgive me for asking something strange, but are you a ghost?"

Real take: I like Star Wars. I like the prequels because they have more fleshed out world building than the originals. I like the originals because it has a compelling storyline and character building. I like the cartoons because they do things that live action cannot. I like the children’s show Young Jedi Adventures and I think it’s both cute, extremely full of world building, and it’s designed to bring back the cartoon storyline of learning a lesson every episode that young children can relate to. I like the Mandalorian because it took a species with exactly two known people from it, and added a third, but made them a baby, and they were cute, and it shows the morals of Mandalorian adoption and love for children. I love Ahsoka because it took a favorite cartoon series and not only brought it to life, but also it’s funny and very full of world building for both the New Republic Rebellion scene, as well as more Dathomirian nightsister lore. I love a lot of other Star Wars off-shoots because they gave good storylines, they try to bridge plotholes, and a lot of amazing characters and new places to play with. I adore, fucking love, would give my life for Star Wars Visions; the lore and new concepts alone have captivated me and I can and HAVE made posts about things Visions did that no other SW series has touched and I’m so obsessed with the force and it’s aspects as well as just species and such you have no idea I would sell any of you for SW Visions. In fact, I would sell any of you for Young Jedi Adventures too. The worldbuilding alone for those two series is enough to have me vibrating with excitement with every episode. Sometimes I rewatch episodes of them just for random juicy facts that I can use for fics.

But you know why I don’t tell people I like Star Wars in real life? People always lookin at something they hate, and the most incel take on it is that it’s got too many women now. But irl non-fandom people who just want to ‘enjoy the ambiance of the original trilogy’ and me do not get along because they actually hate Star Wars. They genuinely hate Star Wars.

I can give you 50 plot lines in various sections of canon and legends that boiled my blood (tho not that one time Anakin at 12 literally boiled a man’s blood inside his body, that was hilarious his eyes turned black like a demons I’m so obsessed with him), but I’m not gonna talk about those.

Aren’t you exhausted? Wouldn’t it be nicer to gush about how amazing a certain costume design was? How the implications of a certain species makes you so excited you could burst? Wouldn’t you like to talk about how that one character just doesn’t get enough love and it wasn’t because they were fridged it was just because they didn’t get enough love from the fans for being black or female or disabled or something?

I am going to tell you this now, and you’re gonna hate me for it but I’m right: if you didn’t like Mortis because you think the force Doesn’t Work Like That? You don’t like Star Wars.

I’m tired of interacting with comments on commercials because it’s full of idiots crying about more women, a black character, the fact that ‘oh that wouldn’t happen’ as if the High Republic era didn’t literally have some sort of fucked up midichlorian vampire roaming the outer rim killing anyone force sensitive. Obviously they def would have acolytes set before the prequels shove it up your ass.

Anyways. Stop talking about what you hate. Yes, I get it. We are tired of rote pumped stories, but that doesn’t change the fact that there will ALWAYS be someone who hates the story you love, and loves the story you hate. You cannot please everyone, and I for one have found just about all off-shoot SW series individualized and compelling in some way or another.

You know what I did when I starting hating about 90% of all new Marvel movies? I stopped watching them. If I want back in the fandom I have older ones I can watch or simply only interact with fics.

Because Marvel, as much as they Need To Calm Their Shit, isn’t about me, and it isn’t for me anymore.

But I think a lot of you hate so much Star Wars content that you truly need to stop interacting with the series. It’s not for you anymore. And just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not real SW. Not sorry, but this ain’t your scene anymore and you need to find a new one.

The Smiths have been nicer to each other in the past couple of seasons (Beth and Jerry getting along, Rick getting closer to Beth and Summer, Rick looking after Jerry, Beth and Space Beth dating, Space Beth joining the family, etc.), but it seems like Morty is getting left out.

This struck me when I watched Morty's monologue at the end of Final DeSmithation and noticed that Summer and the Beths don't really engage, they just look at him dully:

I mean, Beth and Jerry don't HATE Morty. They don't ignore him when he approaches them, and they're friendly and encouraging at times. But if he doesn't initiate, he's not getting much attention. The subtlety of emotional neglect.

What would an outsider see? A spotless home with a kid who attends school, wears clean clothes, eats three meals a day and has his own bedroom. Beth goes to work to provide for her family, while Jerry is a stay-at-home dad. The siblings are only two years apart. Morty's grandfather lives with him, giving him plenty of family time. What a great home environment, right?

Rick's fucked up countless times, and the series explores Morty's frustration toward him, but I wish the show would also highlight how Morty's parents raised him to be passive and invisible, bottling up his anger until somebody pushes him over the edge.

Morty does take initiative in plenty of episodes, but it usually involves reckless behavior, going off on people or trying to do the right thing and watching it go horribly wrong. I read a fan comic a while back where Rick visited a planet to find that Morty had already befriended the aliens without his knowledge. It would be so satisfying to watch Morty positively take charge and use his friendliness as a strength.

Anyway, Rick gives Morty attention, but that's just...the main premise of the show. Everyone else doesn't interact with him much outside of group family activities.

my beautiful wonderful morty oc who dies horribly for the plot <3

- angel gets her nickname from her dimension code … and bc shes oh so lovely ^_^ oh and bc she dies.

- hes super good at knowing what appeals to ricks and so tries to help the other citadel mortys (and notably emorty) to… act right. and hopefully keep their ricks. and not get hurt

- she gets lucky with her first rick being nicer than most… but his next rick is ur standard abusive rick. he ends up getting angel killed through carelessness or smth similar

- emortys closeness w angel is part of what endears him somewhat to morty prime later on. if anyone cares.

Lore headcanons for a few of the nonhuman creeps

BEN, Sally, and Pup when in physical form, and Liu (who is half-zombie in my canon) all have to regularly do full-body stretches. This is because they're all technically dead, and so their bodies will go into rigor mortis if they're still for too long. For the ghosts, they have to do it every single time they switch to physical form, and they and Liu have to do it whenever they've just been lying down or sitting and not moving for more than about an hour. Waking up in the mornings hits them hardest, and sometimes they might even need someone to help get them out of bed because their bodies are so firmly locked into place. Liu and the ghostly creeps in physical form have a hard time healing from injuries, and heal at an extremely slow rate compared to humans, and if any of them suffer an extreme injury they might be unable to recover from it. None of them technically need to eat or sleep, but they often do so anyway because it can pass the time and remind them of their time as humans. While Liu does need to breathe, though, the ghostly creeps do not need to, even in physical form. 

Jason and LJ in my canon were both originally made as giant toys in the Overworld. LJ (standing 7'5" at full height) and Jason (standing 6'5" at full height) were both from different toy lines of giant toy helpers, being phrased as giant because they are full-sized like people, and not as small as normal toys. They both have a power-indicative symbol on the backs of their necks, the symbol being a circle with a dot in the center. When they are sleeping, the symbol will slowly flash for a few seconds before shutting off. If they decide to power down fully, or if someone else powers them down, the symbol will quickly flash for a few seconds before shutting off. When they "bleed", rather than blood it's essentially something akin to oil that pumps through their bodies to make them look more lifelike. Their eyes can scan and visually identify individuals and check for injury of any kind, something originally to be used for children they were to look after. If either of them takes too much damage, a repair symbol will flash on their bodies indicative of the areas that need to be fixed. Both of them can open up their bodies to reach their mechanical insides.

LJ's line of toys was, of course, laughing toys in a box. Each toy variant had a different name, with Jack being a Laughing Jack, the only of his kind as he was a test run that was discontinued after he fell from the Overworld and became a demon in my canon following his incident. As seen in my most recent artwork for him (which you can find for reference by clicking here) as of writing this, he looks the most like a toy out of him and Jason. Where all of his main joints are (like shoulders, hips, elbows, abdomen, knees, fingers, neck, ankles) he has rotational balls or slots that allow him to move as a human would be able to. He is also able to extend his arms, being able to extend up to 10 feet in length outwards. He can also make himself compact, being able to shrink his body down to the size of a normal toy. His insides are purely mechanical, and his outside "skin" is made up of a special material that feels and acts like felt, but can heal back like flesh if he stitches it. He has synthetic hair that mimics the feeling of human hair and can grow. He has a mechanical "heart" that beats and functions like a normal person's would. LJ can reproduce a sound like a purr when he's happy, and he can also use it to calm people down, as was originally intended.

Jason is a different model of toy, one that was originally made in the most popular and efficient toy-making industry in the Overworld. He was meant to entertain children and be able to craft his own toys. His insides are also mechanical like Jack's, but they're made with a much higher quality material, giving him the ability to seem more like a person than a toy, much softer and nicer to squeeze and touch. His skin is more similar to porcelain than felt, and when it cracks Jason can repair himself. While Jason also has a mechanical "heart", it takes the background to his actual heart, which is a music box, hidden away in a compartment in his chest. He can choose to show or hide the box as he pleases. It can play music that can be heard inside of his body or out, originally used to entertain children or calm them down whenever they would cry in his original workshop. Jason was manufactured to not have a set personality and to instead adapt to every single child he met. This is why Jason excels at being manipulative as a demon but suffers insecurity and trauma over not knowing who he is truly meant to be, and what he's truly meant to act like. Jason's hair is unable to grow (although it still feels like natural hair) and has retained the same length for all of his existence. He may cut it if he chooses, but if he wishes to have it long again he must manually remove and replace his hair, which he would rather not do, so he's left it long and cares for it. 

EJ is, as I've said many times before, a feline demon in my canon. He is modeled after a jaguar mainly and has spots all along his skin. (You can click here for the main art that I use in reference to his appearance.) He has cat ears on his head and a tail on his back about where a human tailbone is. His tail is about three feet long, and incredibly soft, with a spotted pattern with fur that is brown like his hair. His feet are pawed and a bit angular, a combination of what would be human and cat-like feet. His hands are mostly human, but they like his feet have paw pads on them, and both his feet and hands have claws for nails. He has the same amount of teeth that humans do, but his canines are very long and sharp like that of a jaguar. I think his teeth can fit into his mouth, but the longer he goes without eating human meat, the longer they grow, and eventually, his top canines will extend out of his mouth and rest against his skin. He can growl and purr, with his growl terrifying even Slender if he's caught off guard, and while his purr isn't nearly as scary, it does sound very demonic and could be confused for a growl if you aren't familiar with it. He cannot taste human food with his taste buds unless it's extremely spicy. He lives off of human meat and blood and can eat human meat raw if he so chooses, which he often does. His eyes are not pure black, but instead filled with constellations (relating to the demon that he was fused with in a ritual in my canon). He is not completely blind, but he is only able to see based on heat signature, something that aids him in hunting down humans to kill and eat.

Honestly, I like how Rick doesn't drastically change, like he's still cranky, grumpy, gruff, drunk, and crabby, but he's still changing for the better, for example in season 7, we can see that he genuinely smiles a lot more, has better control over his anger, lays off of Jerry, and is a lot gentler and nicer to Morty, not even mentioning that he's going to therapy now. He's still not perfect, but he's turning into a happier and healthier version of himself and we're very proud of him!

@yournamedarling sent: ✪ For 137 Rick and (exclude inappropriate options) Morty Send me ✪ and my muse will tell you what they’d like to do to/with yours || Accepting !

✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  dance with your muse. "I-I bet I could make them embarrass themselves, pffft." ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧  sing for your muse. "Eh, m-maybe? If I was drunk enough an-and in the mood. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧  ask your muse out on a date drag your muse out on an adventure. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  take a bath with your muse. "S-Same as the dancing thing." -cue to a snicker- ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  hold your muse tight. ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧  lean onto your muse. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  kiss your muse. ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧  sleep with your muse. ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  marry your muse. ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧  watch your muse sleep. "A-As long as they woke up and freak because they find me there staring at their soul~"

✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  cuddle your muse. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  go to a party with your muse. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧  watch a movie with your muse "T-They seem like the kind of person I could butt heads with on movie." ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  play video games with your muse ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧  steal horses with your muse. "B-Because." ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  cook together with your muse. "I-If they can fucking do it." ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  support your muse’s hobbies. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧  get drunk with your muse. "T-This is my fuckin' favourite, pfffft."

✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  watch your muse cry. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  send your muse away. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧  make your muse trip. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  deny your muse’s existence. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  slap your muse. ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧  crush your muse’s dreams "O-Only as a joke." ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  set your muse’s home on fire. "A-Again, as a joke. An-And It wouldn't be real fire." ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  kill your muse.

✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  dance with your muse. "L-Like...silly dancing? O-Or as a game? C-Could be fun!" ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  sing for your muse. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  ask your muse out on a date. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  take a bath with your muse. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  hold your muse tight. ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧  lean onto your muse. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  kiss your muse. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  sleep with your muse. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  marry your muse. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  watch your muse sleep. "T-That would be creepy, s-so...no. I-I'm not Rick."

✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  cuddle your muse. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧  go to a party with your muse. "W-We could be awkward together...? Haha..." ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧  watch a movie with your muse "I-If we like the same stuff..." ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦  play video games with your muse "T-They like computers, s-so...uh, they must be a bit of a gamer. R-Right?" ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  steal horses with your muse. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  cook together with your muse. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦  support your muse’s hobbies. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  get drunk with your muse. "I-I'd say yes, b-but they already told me tha-that they don't give alcohol to minors..."

✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  watch your muse cry. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  send your muse away. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  make your muse trip. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  deny your muse’s existence. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  slap your muse. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  crush your muse’s dreams ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  set your muse’s home on fire. ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  kill your muse.