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"why don't you like yolanda" fucking look at her

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Ya girl finished her first year of university!!! She's back home!!! She'll probably be more active on here again!!!

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ok fascinating to go on reddit and see a bunch of people going "what did it mean that sarah lynn reprised gina's song?" like. my brother in christ they spelled it out

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If Diane not autistic then why literally just anything she ever did

If Diane not autistic then why did she try to take her bullies down by being trivial

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If Diane not autistic then why did she go so far in her adoption research

If Diane not autistic then why did she try to take her bullies down by being trivial

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If Diane not autistic then why did she try to take her bullies down by being trivial

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I don’t understand why people who cannot accept any moral grayness or complexity decide to join fandoms for the most emotionally complex stories and then try to shame everyone there who actually is able to understand the material.

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You write posts like how mitski writes tweets to me /pos

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It’s honestly wild how little Bojack Horseman yaoi is out there considering the main character ruined his life over a doomed enemies to friends to lovers to friends to enemies situationship and also tenderly made out with his rival once for like 10 seconds straight for absolutely no reason

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One of my favourite things about Princess Carolyn is that her story doesn't end with her doing less work, or taking a backseat in anything, because the show acknowledges that 1) it's not an option for her and 2) it's not something she wants. It's something that becomes abundantly clear in her relationship with Ralph: although they were a healthy and loving relationship, they ultimately didn't work because Ralph didn't acknowledge that she got fulfillment out of what she did, along with taking said drive and organisation for granted. As a result of this, the show ends not with her having an easier lifestyle, but with her having a better one: she's doing work that she genuinely loves doing, she has a family who not only respect this but are just as passionate as she is, and she's happy. She has everything she ever wanted, and she loves it.

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He is able to do this for some reason. It comes up in EVERY EPISODE. He sounds SO reluctant to do it every time but always with the same level of reluctance that he displays doing the BoJack dance*. It never actually helps anything. Nobody ever acknowledges it and it is never mentioned before or since. Absolutely hysterical bit 10/10.

*no reluctance whatsoever

Actually I think we need to collectively acknowledge that one running bit in season 6a where BoJack ties a bunch of sheets together in every episode. That was so fucking funny why did he do that

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Actually I think we need to collectively acknowledge that one running bit in season 6a where BoJack ties a bunch of sheets together in every episode. That was so fucking funny why did he do that

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Thinking about how if bojacks friends allowed him to rest in the hospital after breaking his bones from the fall certain events wouldn't have happened it'd kinda fucked to have a guy with broken bones continue working instead of rest as pills do not fix broken bones

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One of the BEST things about this godforsaken show is how it completely deconstructs the naive, sunshine friend trope both times it happens.

First, we see it with Mr Peanutbutter. From the very first episode, BoJack is shown to despise this man. He thinks his entire existence is irritating, he sees him as an overbearing presence, and the only thing PB has actually done to warrant this in any capacity is by being Diane's boyfriend, and even that's a dynamic that manifests itself later on.* Mr Peanutbutter spends season 1 and much of season 2 ignoring this behaviour at best and being completely naive towards it at worst, always treating BoJack with the excited behaviour that you would expect to see from a dog who loves you. And, if you actually think about this, it's completely unrealistic! Because why would he just not care? Even if he did love him unconditionally (which he does, but that deserves to be spoken about separately), SURELY it would get to him? And then Let's Find Out happens, and we see truly and properly for the first time that it Does. It does get to him. He is truly hurt by BoJack's constant berating. Of course he notices. Why wouldn't he take this new opportunity to humiliate him. Doesn't he deserve it? After all these years???

Then, we see it with Todd. BoJack's relationship with Todd at the start of the show is a much more complicated situation, because the show hints at the relationship being toxic straight from episode 4, but essentially, BoJack's view of being a dad is extremely fucking warped based on 1) his parents (unhealthy) and 2) horsin around (unhealthy but in the other direction). In the case of the latter, he also believes that as long as he just uproots everything and rides his boat to the middle of the sea, he can savour their relationship. The grand gesture means more than the day to day. But it doesn't. And unlike with Mr Peanutbutter, Todd is shown as this really getting to him very early on. In Downer Ending, Todd explicitly says to him that, after 5 years of literally LIVING with him, he's officially given up on BoJack being a good person. Lest we forget, this man's first line in the ENTIRE SHOW is "morning, sunshine!" Now, I understand why this might be difficult to recognise, because even though he's much less tolerant at this point in the story, he's still living with him. He still takes it. But then we see more and more Todd pov episodes. BoJack doesn't come to Todd's improv show. BoJack sleeps with Todd's kind of girlfriend. And THAT'S when Todd finally properly flips out. That's when Todd says "fuck". And you can say it was unexpected all you like but it wasn't. It was inevitable.

Both "Let's Find Out" and "It's You" show turning points in both of these relationships, and both of these are for the better. BoJack's relationship with Mr Peanutbutter becomes much more open after this episode, although they still have their bumps in the road. And BoJack and Todd's relationship has taken so many bumps up to this point that they basically have to start an entirely new relationship from scratch, eventually cumulating in Nice While It Lasted, as they have their first genuinely friendly conversation they have in the entire show.

And the thing about both of these relationships is that they stop being sitcom tropes and start being real.

Let me explain. In situations such as this one, it's extremely easy to relate to BoJack. BoJack is introduced to us as a very usual, grouchy, mean sitcom protagonist. That's what we Know coming into it. That's what He knows as we watch him. That's the only thing he knows. He genuinely believes this is charming behaviour. Hell, that's why grumpy x sunshine ships exist in the first place! And this is why it's useful to put ourselves in the shoes of the other parties. So I'm going to leave you all with a few questions to ponder in your own time. How would you feel if your closest friend kept berating you simply for existing? How would you feel if your kind of father kept betraying you and failing to make it up in the small actions he does every day? And finally, when was the last time you shipped a grumpy x sunshine ship and related to the sunshine?

*The Halloween party is obviously its own kettle of fish but I'm 100% sure not one person on the writing team knew it existed yet and therefore it does Not count.

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BoJack Horseman and Princess Carolyn (BoJack Horseman, 2014-2020)

love like you - rebecca sugar / high demand - may payne / somethin' stupid - frank and nancy sinatra / oh, when I was in love with you - a. e. housman / see america right - the mountain goats

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Guys somebody please ask me about Captain Peanutbutter and how Weird Al and Paul F Tompkins are friends in real life and how they met because I really need to tell someone

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Rewatching Old Acquantance in honour of the anniversary of the episode's terrible, horrible events so be prepared for a large slew of posts about it today