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PNF NEW SEASON?? WAS ANYONE GONNA TELL ME?

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*If you ever feel like we are not enough...Just forget about us and make some real friends, okay?

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finally started the show last week everyone can shut up about me watching it now

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what better way to finish off a series about high school band than the biggest climax of the show being about not getting the solo

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Oh, And... since It's Been Done. i thought maybe i'd share my thesis project, the defense of which got me my degree back in september - a series of oil paintings, each on a 200x200 cm linen canvas (approximately one ghetsis tall). created them over the span of about a year, between 2020 and 2021 (t'was the art sociology dissertation and the digital art appendix that took me a lotta time and delayed the whole process in the end!) and they are in a way a documentation of my mental state at various stages of what ended up being an important time in my trauma recovery.

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Arkady Rylov (Russian, 1870–1939)

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'Morning Sea at Shiribeshi'. Hasui Kawase.

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The you I once knew.

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crawls out of the grave carrying. These.

made some transparents for an excessively fun game myself and my beloved umbrabumble were playing (basically a more communicative telephone game with icon edits)

all of these are free to use, and though you dont necessarily have to credit me i think you should probably mention purcell made them. somewhere.

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the list of deleted wikipedia articles is good

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Here's the full set of the Federation's bios on both Rick and Morty from the Rick and Morty Character Guide (2020)

EDIT: fml, the first page of Morty's didn't upload the first time, fixed it

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the sonnng

quick thingy 2 learn more abt movie clips

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GOD

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I really hope Rick and Morty as a series will finally move on from portraying Rick's love for Morty / his family as this special, redemptive trait that Morty just needs to open his eyes to. Or portraying it as something Rick just needs to be emotionally honest about, finally admit in a grand gesture, and then everything will be healthy and resolved.

Two things can be equally true: Rick can sincerely care about Morty, deeply enough to be tender with him, showing gestures of affection, being protective of him, being truly proud of him... and can also constantly let Morty down, put him in mortal danger, make Morty feel responsible for his emotional health, treat him awfully and in manipulative controlling ways, and not be there for him when it matters most. His love is real, but is also a fickle thing that Morty cannot always rely on. That uneven dolling out of affection is exactly what entrenches the abuse and damages Morty further. Even now that Rick is slowly improving as a person, his simultaneous love and unreliability persists in milder ways, and the long pattern of abuse leaves deep scars on his grandson.

In my opinion, it makes perfect sense for Morty to see Rick's care for him as this unreliable, dangerous, and potentially non-existent thing, but also to paradoxically crave it nonetheless. Every time he lets his guard down and starts to trust Rick too much, he's been kicked in the nuts for it to varying extents-- even recently. I don't think he actually believes Rick cares nothing for him, but he's been trapped in this cycle of good and bad for so long that his self-worth is eroded and wholly defined by his grandpa's conditional affection, and he's scared of and dependent on it simultaneously. Even if Rick became truly healthy and openly caring from now on, that won't change how he's screwed up Morty with his behavior.

The series isn't going to make any meaningful progress if the writers keeps cycling around the superficial "does Rick care? does Morty know how deeply Rick cares?" question that they've asked since Season 1, instead of progressing to more meaningful, realistic questions about what Rick's love even means after all the past seasons of codependent abuse, and how much it should be worth to Morty in the end. (Ideally, much, much less than it's worth now.)

Yes, Rick cares. Yes, he loves him family deeply. But as with many forms of abuse, that's part of the problem.

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worst thing your enemy can do is treat your grandson better than you ever could've

also some extra evil morty and prime

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whats a guy gotta do to get some jessica around here

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