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ReBlog,pls!

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Dude. I got a notification from you and I go "Oh it's Cartman draws." My friend immediately responds with, "I don't want him to draw. That makes him one step closer to Hitler."

why did i EVER change my name this is godtier

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Its not just Tweek that's baby.. it's all of them. ALL. Even Cartman is baby.

THIS IS A HOT TAKE

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i hereby reclaim my blog as a kyman blog

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did you make kyle in chains.

god i wish

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Hi! I send you two Mpreg requests a while back, and I'm wondering if you got them or not?

i love that this is what i come back to. this is my legacy. this is what people remember from me.

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i am also going to use this post to say that psychopathy is also a mental disorder but it’s REALLY rare so i don’t think it’s a big deal to advocate for them as hard?

meanwhile 1 out of every 25 people has aspd

also hi i just want to QUICKLY bring up since i’m gonna be active again, i’m going to be bringing up my cartman interpretation and south park is relevant again:

being a sociopath or having aspd is NOT INHERENTLY BAD. it’s a personality disorder. the most controversy i have ever gotten on my blog was for saying he was a sociopath. (which now he’s out of show been called with sp-and-me which like… literally confirms my interpretation.) it was the most disagreed with thing i ever said about him!

cartman being a sociopath doesn’t make him irredeemable, unable to grow, unloveable, a lost cause, or suddenly some kind of inhuman monster. it also doesn’t inherently make him a bad person, but he doesn’t need sociopathy to do that for him. (postly reminder that i love cartman, i’m not a cartman anti, and he’s my favorite character)

there is literally so much stigma around an actual mental condition!!!!!!!!! stop it!!!!!

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also hi i just want to QUICKLY bring up since i’m gonna be active again, i’m going to be bringing up my cartman interpretation and south park is relevant again:

being a sociopath or having aspd is NOT INHERENTLY BAD. it’s a personality disorder. the most controversy i have ever gotten on my blog was for saying he was a sociopath. (which now he’s out of show been called with sp-and-me which like... literally confirms my interpretation.) it was the most disagreed with thing i ever said about him!

cartman being a sociopath doesn’t make him irredeemable, unable to grow, unloveable, a lost cause, or suddenly some kind of inhuman monster. it also doesn’t inherently make him a bad person, but he doesn’t need sociopathy to do that for him. (postly reminder that i love cartman, i’m not a cartman anti, and he’s my favorite character)

there is literally so much stigma around an actual mental condition!!!!!!!!! stop it!!!!!

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bruv im still jus. wow. theres so much to say but. do u kno how good it feels... to be jewish, to accidentally fixate on one eric cartman & love him more than any other fictional character for almost seven years now, and then to see him in a little yarmulke, standing at kyle's side while he recites from the torah? do you know how validating that is?

i gotta get personal for a second here. idk how, but in the last few yrs my relationship with my own jewishness has been deeply influenced and intertwined with south park, as ironic and ridiculous as that sounds. i grew up secular, completely nonpracticing; as a child, i was only ethnically jewish, and saw jews as strictly an ethnicity, and a popularly hated one to boot. and it scared me. ive talked about it before, but as a child hearing about the shoah and about antisemitism, i couldn't understand. i thought it was looks for a while, which confused me, because ive got blonde hair and blue eyes and all my family that got caught up in nazi europe did/do too. i remember thinking as a second grader that i would've been spared for that reason; why didn't a good chunk of my family? but i grew up in a mormon neighborhood, with plenty of other blonde kids, and they stayed away from me like i had a disease. this was before puberty, before my hair got a little frizzier and my nose got a little bigger, when i looked just like any of them. but already, at age 8, i was an outsider. i wasn't one of them and i never would be, and they wanted me to know that.

and then i started to get it. it clicked even more once i got to high school and got called a kike every other day - but prior to high school, you know what i found, and you know what really pushed me towards understanding what being a secular jew in america meant? south park. and as a dumb little sixth grader with no critical thinking skills, you know what shaped my opinions on my own people? south park.

and that's good and bad. good because i do sincerely think kyle broflovski is excellent fictional representation for jewish people, maybe one of the top few ever shown on television. he gets on my nerves at times, but he's good through and through, he's well written and multi-dimensional, he's not a walking stereotype but he still has prominent jewish features that jewish viewers can look at and see in themselves, his morals and viewpoints and beliefs are obviously deeply influenced by judaism, hes deeply proud of his heritage and culture... and that all means a lot to me. and by the amount of jewish sp fans that adore kyle, it means a lot to them too.

the bad thing is, yeah, i can't deny it, during older seasons, cartman's treatment of kyle probably taught a lot of young and dumb viewers how to view jews in real life. have i, as a kyman shipper and cartman stan, justified that within a fictional and narrative context? yes. but it doesn't change the real-world effect; south park, but specifically cartman, since he's the mouthpiece, likely did cause some easily-influenced people to pick up antisemitic beliefs. did this contribute to the rise of the alt-right? debatable, but to some extent, possibly. was that m&t's intention and should south park be canceled and denounced? fuck no, i'll always love it lol, and fuck censorship. but it is something that should be taken into account.

matt and trey clearly regret that, and understand that it's no longer acceptable or fitting or needed in today's sociopolitical climate - or, okay, maybe they don't even regret it; they just understand that when fiction becomes reality, the fictional jackass isn't necessary when there's one right there in real life, sitting in the oval office, yeah? old cartman doesn't deserve or need a voice, not when real, awful people actually have one right now. and m&t are actively trying to change cartman for the better and really, really backpedal on his bigotry, while still doing it in a way that makes sense from a story-telling perspective. it's not a complete uncharacteristic change of character; it's shifting with the times and writing it into the character's arc so that it's a logical and plausible development in cartman's story.

cartman's behavior in the last few seasons is consistent character development. m&t themselves are pushing it, and clearly it's sincere; cartman's not faking. unless they're building up a surprise twist over the last, what, three to four seasons, that he was faking the whole time! woah! if so it better be a damn good pay off, because that's a lot of time invested. though that seems more forward-thinking than sp tends to be. they're intentionally stuck in the short-term, aren't they? plot-wise. but their character development is pretty long-term, and right now, cartman is consistently decent, and if it comes across as faking, it's because cartman's over-dramatic in how he speaks, and trey does that intentionally.

that's a tonal thing, and it's hard to say in a fictional character, but as someone who struggles with empathy myself, empathy and sincerity don't go hand in hand. you can lack empathy while still caring enough to sincerely and wholeheartedly apologize for something and mean that apology. not feeling remorse doesn't mean you can't apologize genuinely; the two don't go hand in hand. you can be mentally ill in any capacity, even a psychopath, and still deeply care about things or people, just not in the way someone else might. so you can headcanon that cartman's still a psycho/sociopath, though right now that's actually kinda going against canon, but don't rain on other's parades if they're happy he's exhibiting healthy growth. besides, and i repeat: what could cartman exploit out of faking sincerity for several seasons? nothing, so why bother? he wouldn't, unless it's literal in-show subconscious growth.

does that mean he's magically developed empathy? no. is it becoming less probable he's a legitimate sociopath/psychopath (while still possibly having better-disguised antisocial tendencies)? yes. does he seem to have better coping or anger management skills? somehow, yes! he seems to be legitimately healthier. does this mean he's no longer accountable for his past misdeeds, and even his present, less-severe ones? of course not! and you can still hate him all you want, but modern cartman is not the same as older cartman, and shouldn't be treated as such. because is this growth? absolutely.

he's clearly healthier, even happier. he's less angry, he's still a little shit but he no longer relies on bigotry or cruelty or anger to get the negative attention he thrives off, rather he gravitates towards being simply annoying. you know why he called ice? pettiness, immaturity, a little bit of spite, and a need for silly revenge. he's being intentionally petty, but going about it in a sly but no longer psychopathic way. less hannibal lector and more, idk, regina george, lol. extremely different on the antagonist scale. and cartman's been both.

and maybe it's personal bias on what type of human is worse within fiction, someone unstable and bizarre with violent tendencies (which is how he's come to be viewed in pop culture & some of the fandom, as a result of eps like scott tenorman must die), versus someone inclined towards pettiness and more silent and, i dunno, social-status-and-pride-driven types of revenge (cartman in general when he's not being particularly awful, tbh)... but i think it'd be pretty universally agreed that the latter is at the very least more tolerable, manageable, and even likeable - and certainly more redeemable. let's put it this way; if cartman continued on the path he was on, he'd be one of those tiki holding fucks, wearing a confederate flag hat, and he'd treat kyle soooo much worse. instead, m&t have turned him into a hypocritical false-woke ignorant dumbass - but that's strongly less problematique than it's counterpart, and it works.

because cartman simply serves a different narrative purpose now. and that's not sloppy writing; it's well-timed evolution of a character that stepped into a pre-9/11, pre-trump, pre-social media world! so much has changed, and south park is reflecting that in its characters, most notably in a character who was stuck in the, what, 1960s with his beliefs? that was fine way back when, but matt&trey are smart dudes - they understand that sometimes things have to change. besides, they love cartman, too. he's their favorite. but they understand that when real people act like him, it's not so comedic or satirical or funny, & they don't want to look at cartman, at their creation who they've invested twenty-two years in, and see the all-too-real hate of modern radical white america.

i think we know enough about matt&trey's social stances these days, and the empathy they've seemed to develop after having kids, to understand that they're no longer in their "apathy is best, everyone is stupid" phase. current south park is left-leaning and admittedly preachy at times, but i wouldn't want it any other way. g-d knows it's better this way than if they'd embraced and decided to appeal to their right-libertarian following instead. cartman's evolved in a progressive and positive way, and it's fucking dope, especially to us cartman stans who so badly want him to be good. and he is good right! he's doing so good!

and i know im up my own ass rn but yall know how much i myself have campaigned for jewish kyman/cartman and how much i just deeply and truly adore it, and to see it actualized in a canon episode to some extent? that meant the world to me. i couldn't believe my eyes. i was tellin lai - that's the most genuine, pure, almost violent happiness ive felt in my soul in years. that was like a straight shot of serotonin to the heart. that simple little scene made me so fucken happy yall dont even know. & theres a lot to be said about the political commentary and plenty of other people are analyzing that, but im a simple jewish kyman & cartman stan and boy ive been fed good fjskfkdkdkfk!!!

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so i ADORED the new episode but i feel like the community is ignoring just....

cartman not only called ICE on kyles entire family, but he sat there smiling and grinning while watching it. while ike was screaming and crying, while they were being physically torn apart and forced into cars to be taken away, he was smiling and waving.

and this isn’t an anti post or a hate post bc i adore cartman. hes my favorite character. but if anyone for one second thinks he’s not a sadist u need to rewatch the show

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okay so i’ve come to a middle ground and that i will now be using the blog strictly for talking about cartman let’s go

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so south park is coming back maybe i should get back into this

new blog time or should i reinvent this one again

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if u had to choose a way for kenny to die which one would it be

AIDS.

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',:/

Bitch don’t ',:/ at me.

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CRAIG WEEK (OCTOBER 23RD - 29TH)

After so many wonderful weeks took/are taking place, there has to be one made for Craig! His birthday is based off of the airdate of the Pandemic episodes, which is the overall theme of this blog.

In case you can’t read cursive, here is the prompt list:

Birthday

Science

Stripe

Friend-/Ship

Sarcasm

Red Racer

Free Day!

MORE INFORMATION, INCLUDING RULES, COMING SOON!!!

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"my favourite girl in class is actually a dude" see now that sounds to me like it's kyle

Kyle isn’t my favorite anything, at all, ever, he’s like. My least favorite girl in class that’s actually a dude.

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You consider Craig and Kyle friends?

Dude, no way, Kyle doesn’t have any friends.