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Now consider: a man in a dress. Not in drag or all dressed up or anything. No accessories, no makeup or styling, just wearing the dress, some ratty boxers and muddy sneakers. No socks or stockings, hairy legs in the open air, just raw dogging those nasty shoes. Hair mildly damp. Visibly sleep-deprived. Bruises on shoulders, elbows and knees, left palm bleeding. Sitting on a curb on the street, shivering, looking wretched, and absolutely miserable.

I forgot where I was going with this.

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I emerge from the magical girl transformation and I look the exact same, a few moments pass before an amtrak train falls from the sky crushing me instantly

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I miss them

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Bunny is so fucking wild because we've genuinely seen them interact one-on-one in only ONE episode, and the rest we know about their canon dynamic is all background information, implications and cinematic themes. And yet we can put them together like puzzle pieces and it all tells the subtlest story of an extremely sweet and versatile dynamic.

Kenny is the only one Butters genuinely respects? Well, that must've come from SOMEWHERE. Butters had a secret crush on Princess Kenny? Dropped like a bomb the size of a crumb in the middle of the game. Kenny and Butters seen sitting next to each other in many school assemblies? Shows they like to choose each other's presence in day-to-day moments. Professor Chaos and Mysterion? The two most significant vigilante/villain personas in the show, and implied to be exclusive archenemies bc no one really cared about the C**n.

They grow up to be business partners? Close enough friends that Butters funded Kenny's projects and Kenny gave him exclusive access to his research? That can't have just been a casual dynamic founded on convenience. Butters taking Kenny's place when Kenny was gone? Don't even get me started on the fact that they're the two characters in South Park most often forgotten & left behind by those closest to them

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Whatever Matt Stone is doing with Kyle is the opposite of healing your inner child. Giving your inner child AIDS. Putting your inner child in a migrant detention camp. Sewing your inner child into a human centipede. Like whats going on with you man do you need to talk to someone

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Forgot to post this one

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Whatever, go my chicken 👐💨🐓

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I think this analysis is spot on, and another great example of this is the most recent special “The End of Obesity”. Kyle gets involved in the plot not because he particularly cares about Cartman, I don’t think he does, but because “they can’t just give medication to rich people.” That’s wrong, so he’s going to do everything in his power to try and fix it. Even helping Cartman. But the scene that really highlights the difference between them is when Randy gives Stan a gun and tells him to shoot at the Ozempic moms chasing them. Stan protests, saying “I’m not shooting anyone’s mom.” He’d feel too guilty about it. Meanwhile Kyle says, “I’ll fucking shoot them.” grabs the gun, and starts shooting with abandon. Because they’re standing in his way of doing what’s right, and he’s not going to let them do that. Even if it means he has to get his hands a little dirty. (And honestly? I love that for him.)

I'm like analyzing Kyle and Stan's characters for the current Chp chapter to figure out how they'll act in a specific scene and I realized some pretty interesting stuff, i thought I'd share;

Kyle actually DOESN'T have high empathy, it's actually pretty average (though I'd argue that it's even pretty low) but what he DOES have is a very strong moral compass & conscience. Meanwhile with Stan it's the other way around; his desicions & actions are based in super high empathy (often so high that it overwhelms him, like in episodes like "Kenny Dies") but his moral compass & conscience are much weaker than Kyle's.

Whenever Kyle helps someone, it's less because he cares about the person (even if he does) and more because he thinks it's the right thing to do. Empathy and his emotions aren't generally the primary driving force behind his decisions and judgements of someone's character, unlike say Stan. A prime example of this difference between the two is s16's episode "Going Native", when after Butters insulted all of the boys, Kyle still urges Kenny to go help and stop Butters from making a mistake. Stan, however, remains pissy because of the insults and just says "After all the things he said to us he can go ahead."

This makes Kyle's desire to help someone less dependent on how he feels about that person/his current emotional state, and more conditional to whether or not he believes that he can make a change. It's no question that he cares about Stan a lot, but as soon as he sees no hope for him in "You Are Getting Old" and "Raisins" he drops him and decides to stay out of his problems to protect his own peace. However, as soon as he sees even a sliver of hope for Cartman to change, like in "Cartoon Wars", Kyle naively jumps to help.

An exception to this tendency is Ike, for whom Kyle will literally do anything for so long as he is in trouble. Probably because he sees it as his indisputable responsibility to help Ike no matter what, seeing as he is Ike's older brother.

Stan, however, when he does something to help someone it's almost never because he thinks it's the right thing to do (at least not as the primary force), but more out of feeling-based reasons or because it could serve him.

The conditions for him to step up are usually one of these:

he feels intense empathy for the person because he can relate OR because they're helpless (like animals, who cannot speak up for themselves and are helpless against humans)

he cares about a person a lot (any of the batshit insane instances he went out of his way to help Kyle, like "Smug Alert", "Biggest Douche in The Universe", "Cartmanland", "Cherokee Hair Tampons", "Ginger Cow", "Super Best Friends" and even in "Bloody Mary" when he did whatever he could to help his dad)

he likes what the action could do for his self image (like in "Butterballs", when he speaks out against bullying under the guise of helping Butters, but Kyle sees straight through him and realizes he's only doing this to help his own image)

often in combination with one of the others, but also: he hates the opponent (cults, scammers, etc; lots of Stan-centric episodes focus on his disdain for spiritual frauds, often however because of how they harm people he cares about and not because of the principle of the thing)

In "Trapped In The Closet" Stan's moral code doesn't seem to have any problem with scamming thousands of people as he leads the church of Scientology, but he changes his mind only once he sees the genuine hope and love in the eyes of all his new followers.

Stan may have a moral code and principles, but they never guide his actions as strongly as how he feels about something at the moment ever will.

I'm gonna stop yapping now because this post is already super long but I do find it interesting to analyze how this ties into Kyle having a much shorter fuse than Stan, even though Stan is arguably more feelings-oriented. Maybe because Kyle allows himself less emotional processing of events on a day-to-day basis— always prioritizing the facts and logic— that when pushed he's always easiest to snap. And also, how another thing that differentiates the two is that— despite his high empathy— Stan tends to be more selfish, meanwhile Kyle usually looks to increase the benefit for as many people as possible, rather than his own. As long as he thinks they ethically & morally deserve it, of course.

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big shout out to kenny for making little noises

mmpfhp mmfph meep mmeempth WAHOO

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The hoes running to draw bird Kyle 2 seconds after the trailer came out

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"I don't like you. You are just plain evil, manipulative, cruel, and sadistic, and the only reason we tolerate you is that it's better if you are where we can keep an eye on you at all times. So don't take what I'm about to tell you lightly: Thanks. We couldn't have done it without your help."

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I’m so worried about him

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THESE ARE SO FUN TO MAKE HELP

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>go for walk in neighborhood >its the fire neighborhood >mfw

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Happy Season 27 Announcement for those who celebrate

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Poor Kyle (ᴗ_ ᴗ。 )