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your post abt perry flying the plane is super relatable to me because i had an mri last month and I was like. yes yes the blorbo is handling this for me

i did get my driver's license last fall by thinking about how perry can drive a car so so can i

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originally when i followed you i didn't ship d&p and i just followed for your art in general (which is wonderful BTW! i really admire how on-model it is while also feeling much softer due to your sketchy lines & warm colors) but i think it's safe to say at this point that you've converted me. the way you represent doof & perry's relationship is really compelling and fun and feels very in-character. it's super charming and while i dig your human perry i really like how you explore their canon relationship too, keeping in mind perry's unique in-universe social position. being real, i think it speaks to a latent desire i have to be a selectively sapient animal with a human partner.

for a second i misunderstood "being real" as you saying  "being real, unlike the characters of pnf, who are fake" which was funny. anyway. i appreciate getting to hear your personal reaction, that this hits on something meaningful re:sapience, having to be a person. it's tragic that perry is a little vulnerable guy forced to be something huge and dangerous/endangered and loadbearing and that's the heart of his relatability and lovability, why im drawn to him anyway. and getting to be lavished with allconsuming love in response, by a very tall boy/girlfriend. it means a lot to me too. thank you!

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sorry, im flying in planes today and having bad panic attacks about it and scared out of my mind as i board my second flight. and my only comfort is pretending that perry the platypus is flying the plane

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19th century mammology works will generally list humans and platypuses at opposite ends of the spectrum of "development" in mammals, because they were fixated on ranking animals in an order of least evolved to most evolved, the ultimate species (human). so youll read a comparative anatomy book and the chapter will always start with plats and end with humans. it's funny is all

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cd 100 identical men beat one platypus in a fight? no. but could they take him out to a nice dinner with their robot son? maaaaybe

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If Perry DID have a voice besides the chibiverse one, what do you imagine it’d be? or would you rather really not think about that

I've never been able to rustle up voice headcanons, like specific actors or whatever. he shd sound hot, sorta midrange, not too low but lower than heinz obviously. american accent because he's not from australia but if you simply must because you cannot resist then ok a subtle aussie accent, fine.

but in truth he should never ever have a canon voice. its an insult to the character they've written for over 10 years, who's been crafted to be so expressive and have all these physical ways of communicating. have a unique comedy partnership w heinz through the fact of his muteness, how it requires heinz to step up and interpret perry, explain himself, appreciate perry who could be so easily ignored.

oops i just ended up complaining more

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if i can point to one moment in mmls2 that demonstrates how it gets doof's character all wrong it's the end of that one episode where he's like "group hug, murphys!" and initiates a big hug with them. because he isn't huggy, it's a whole thing. even in the show he doesn't really initiate hugs with vanessa, she's the one who hugs him most of the time. he's cagey, that's his whole thing, his recluse cartoon scientist personality, he usually keeps to himself and avoids people and that includes physical contact. this changes if he's really close to people, like nessa and perry, but mmls2 absolutely did not earn such a tidal change in his characterization. lol

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ngl i really hate Doof as Prof Time because it just doesnt make any sense that he invented time travel, its already been invented with that time travel machine at the museum and then PnF rebuilding said machine, having Doof be the father of time travel is such nonsense

oh my god I got sooo mad at the depiction of time travel in mml. it wouldn’t have been as bad if they hadn’t set it in the same universe as pnf but when you’ve already established how time travel works in that show it doesn’t make sense to completely change it for another. like why is it in pnf when there’s a new timeline characters just pop out of existence but in mml we have the whole island of lost dakotas? which isn’t a bad concept in itself but it just totally contradicts their previous rules

overall mml would have been so much better if it wasn’t tied so much to pnf. that’s why (at least IMO) season 1 is so much better than season 2, because it’s all about original characters and original stories and isn’t relying so much on another show. because when you rely on another show you have to take into account the history of that show and the way that pnf worked just didn’t quite mesh with mml the way that they wanted it to. they were too different to be reconciled in a way that wasn’t frustrating. I’m glad hamster & gretel chose to for the most part stay disconnected from pnf, I think that’s one of its strengths

but yeah I really just hate professor time for reasons even unrelated to all the time travel stuff. first of all I don’t know why it HAD to be him?? it couldn’t have been literally any other character? no, we had to bring him in from another show just to completely mess up his personal timeline and force some weird “destiny” on him that he doesn’t even want and that doesn’t even fit him. and he just kind of abandons everything he had in pnf for this “destiny,” like why isn’t perry with him? you’re telling me he spends the entire season whinging and moping about perry not wanting to spend time with him and then in the future he’s all alone? ok. where’s vanessa? she only shows up in that one scene to give him perry’s card. norm is just decapitated and his building has exploded (which happened a billion times in pnf but somehow this time it’s irreparable?) and he doesn’t give a shit. ok. remember that scene at the end of LDOS where they’re all hanging out as a happy family? I guess that dissolves pretty quickly. like his whole involvement in the show is so so weird and out of character and unnecessary. and the 1 time (i think) when he does show up as prof time in the pnf effect it’s such a dumb deus ex machina ending and that just annoyed me from a writing standpoint. and again all of this could’ve been improved if it were a different character but no

it sucks because it really sours my view of mml and I’d probably rewatch it more if the 2nd season weren’t so frustrating but it just makes me want to rewatch pnf instead. at least when that show’s frustrating it resets by the next episode but the way mml is structured with long story arcs you have to deal with writing choices you don’t like forever

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anyway im still never watching any of these with sound on but theres a dark irony in chibiverse starting as silent comedy shorts and now being a torment nexus where they make my favorite character whos been developed as mute over a decade plus suddenly talk in a voice that he wouldnt even have

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in "last day of summer" the ending song lyrics "it's just about the time..." kinda hearken back to s1 "it's about time" which while super duper farcical is also a really pivotal early episode. i mean, for d+p in particular lol. but the lyrics bring it back full circle in a nice way

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Happy platypus

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the older plushes have cute embroidered smiles (and in one case purple eyes!) theyre just happy to be alive. the ne

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these dolls rule hard

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i just wanted to say that i love how in character your d+p art is. i feel like a lot of the time when someone's drawing a singular ship for so long they tend to veer further and further into ooc territory over time but you continue to be right on point (i dont think thats an actual idiom. #whatever)

thanks, i’m so happy it feels true to you! to be fair i’m normally drawn to ships that are very fortified in canon and with d+p they just…. won’t stop throwing us bones. they could’ve made this a onesided ship but they made perry super gay instead, so anything u draw out from the node of them being a couple is plausible within canon. so i’m def softening them to a degree, but it’s like, versions of them i can see potentially happening down the line.

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potentially a big day for me, a guy very invested in heinz making cute little custom sweaters for perry