#Then again there's just a lot of Finns out there lol even just in Ooo

[sysig]

Okay so I’m deeply on nightbrain rn but I’m having a lot of Thoughts about Winter King (again)

[ticklishbeans4]

Ok well now I gotta give my Finn, Jake, and Prismo headcanons. It's law.

I've been getting sucked back into Adventure Time as of late, so this is law lol

Finn The Human

Ler-

He's became more of a ler as he got older and got more practice with tickling.

He's generally a playful ler and loves to play tickle games with his friends.

His favorite thing to do is wiggle his fingers just over his lees tickle spot and tease them with stuff like "I'm gonna get you!" or "I'm not even touching you!"

He'll challenge the lee to see how long they can last being tickled/keep their arms up/keep still.

He'll definitely laugh along with his lee, no doubt about it.

Lee-

He's a silly lee, very wiggly and tends to kick or punch, so he usually needs to be held down.

His worst spots are his knees, belly, ribs, and feet.

He has a high pitched squeaky tickle laugh, sometimes does his scream when a really bad spot gets targeted.

His biggests lers are Jake (obviously), Bubblegum, and Marceline. Though Bubblegum usually disguises it as "needing help with an experiment"

He was a huge lee as a kid, loved getting tickle senseless by his friends. As he got older he still enjoyed being tickled, but not as much as he used too.

It was especially rare that he let anyone tickle him after Jake died, but it happened occasionally, usually only with Marceline or Bubblegum.

Jake-

You just KNOW Jake is the biggest ler in all of Ooo.

His ability to stretch and shrink and bend his body in all types of ways makes him near unstoppable.

He targets Finn, Prismo, Lady, and his kids the most, but he's definitely not afraid to attack other people.

He usually goes for an all out attack, getting a lees worst spots and utterly wrecking them. But he can be gentler if he needs too.

Definitely will tease a lee for being so ticklish, and uses the old "Tickle tickle tickle" or "Coochie coochie coo!" And if he finds out a lee can't say tickle, he'll keep going till they say it.

He sometimes doesn't realize when someones had enough, but he's usually really good about it.

Has definitely ratted out Finns worst spots and has tickled him in front of people before to embarrass him.

Lee-

Not as big as lee as he is a ler, but still enjoys being tickled.

Not super ticklish, but his spots are his belly, behind his ears, his feet, and the lower part of his ribs.

His powers make him tougher than most when it comes to tickling, so it takes a lot to get him to tap out.

He is hella weak to raspberries though, those take him out, same with feathers or anything buzzy. Once Finn jokingly attacked him with an electric toothbrush and Jake banned them from the tree house.

Mans is almost not tease-able. He can't be flustered by most teases. But if a ler tells him a bunch of bad jokes while tickling him he'll get flustered.

The people that get him the most are Finn and Lady. His kids used to gang up on him, but not so much anymore. Sometimes Marceline pretends to be about to eat him, just to blow a raspberry on him.

Prismo-

Ler-

He's not much of a ler, but he does like messing with his friends now and again.

Jake is his favorite target, but he's also gotten Finn and even Simon once or twice.

It's hard to be playful like that with the other cosmic entities.

He technically can't touch anyone, but he can summon things, or even just snap his fingers and make someone feel like their being tickled.

He laughs along with a lee cause he thinks their reactions are funny, and often teases a lee about how silly their face is or how funny the noises they make are.

Lee-

He really really likes being tickled, but absolutely cannot for the life of his ask for it.

He's summoned Jake more than once just for a tickle fight, though he had to pretend it was for other stuff. Jake always sees through it though.

He actually had no idea he was ticklish till Jake decided to test it out when they were chillin once. Jake just scratched at the spot where Prismo's belly would be and both of them were shocked when Prismo laughed.

Turns out his worst spots are his belly, neck, hips, and thighs.

His usual lers are Finn and Jake, really they're the only ones who tickle him, as no one else has ever tried, and he's way to nervous to ask anyone else.

He does his best to keep still when being tickled, but sometimes can't handle it and disappears somewhere in the cube. He'll come back pretty quickly, but only if the ler promises to not make fun of him for running.

[sillybond]

I feel like, I need to express myself a bit because there's an emotional bomb right inside me and It's tiking very fast!

Might get a bit cringy lol

Adventure Time brought many thimgs to my life. It has made me think, laugh, love, cry and adore all about it, the characters, story, the world, the art, the creators, everything! But the singular best thing about it has been the lessons it has taught me. I'm the same age as Finn was is CAWM I ended the show alongside him and, (despite not having been through quite the traumatic mind boggeling adventures as he has) I have learn a lot by seeing him and the people around him.

There's a lot of experiences that the whole AT cast have gone trough. Each one might affects people differently. Maybe you relate with Finn and Marcy for their strugglers with their fathers. Maybe you see yourself in Bonny, with her over controling-work focused mindset. Perhaps it's in Huntress Wizard and her inability to open to other people. Whatever it is, we all have at least a bit of thoose problems in ourselves. Thoose are our battles to fight for.

But once thing that stands above all and gives meaning to fighting thoose problems is the simple fact that whever, whenever or whoever you are your life is worth living.

And THAT is the key. We've seen time and time again how characters break down, have fights, loose people or whatever but what keeps them going is that they know their lives are not only worth living, but fulfilling pieces in a gigantic puzzle formed by all, moved by all forms of life, that they exist to love, to love others and to love life above everything else.

That IS the lesson. Yes! your life my life is worht living! Just because you are alive.

I belive that nihilism is a natural force inside of us. To ask ourselves the big questions (i.e. what is my porpuse, why am I here etc) and then realize that nothing that we respond will matter, cause nothing matters!!! I know captain obvious right here. But it does'nt have to matter to be meaningfull. Love is an end in it of itself, LIfe is and end in it of itself. You aren't alive to do anything in particular. My personal belife is that Life shouldn't be seen as a tool to acomplish anything (because again, nothing that you get will matter), life is tool to get itself. I'm not telling you to do nothing or not help people or don't do what you are passionate about. It's the oposite. I'm telling you to do all that, beacuse it's not only your life but it has meaning just beacuse it exists. As long as you are alive you should persue yourself , search for your life and love every part of the journey, even if it's bad. The trip is infinite, but beautiful and full of wonder and terrible and distraughtful at the same time. But loving it is the key and it doesn't matter it's all worth it cause YOU ARE ALIVE!!!

I'm getting kind of worked out, but I think you get my point.

Every time I think about this I remember both Astral Plane and The Comet. Two of my favourite episodes. In 22 minutes it sumarises everything that I've just talked about.

Previous to those episodes I ditached myself from everything in my life, pretty much. And I just wanted to go to Ooo beacuse it felt like it had a meaning, and there's was cool magic and everything. I'm sure some of you might have had a similar feeling.

But after thoose it made me realise that, no, that wasn't the point. Adventure time wasn't created so you could get hunged up on it and just wish everything was magical, (just like Fionna!!) AT exist so you can realise something much greater the same thing Finn realized when he pondered his existance.

In both episodes Finn choose to live. He saw the world around him, he saw pain, regret, beauty and in the end he choose his life, everything that he had experienced. It would have been so easy for Finn to go with the Catalist Comet and disapear. He wasn't in a good place. Everything had seemeangly gone to crap. He lost his arm, father, girlfriend. But even then he choose the pain rather than being detached forever. He has seen life and death, he has been the reincarnation of both thoose things. He choose life because it was simply worth living.

In a cold, dark universe life shines a glimps of light, a speck that lasts for a blink of an eye, even if it doesn't last it's worth experiencing it and protecting it.

Fionna understud this. Fionna was like me, wishing for her life to be different. But in the end. She saw that that wasn't the point. Finn would have choosen his reaity even if it was non-magical, or better, or worse than what it was, that doesn't matter. What matters is that you love where you are. Finn does, Fionna finaly learned that two. It's a long journey, but it has to be started. And I thank Adventure Time, the crew, characters and everything for this oportunity. To see life in a new light. To make the active choice to live and love and trust and die happily, because if I could be in any alternative universes I wouldn't wish to be anywhere else but in this one.

Thank you adventure time, you taught me to live again.

[thatone-highlighter]

Hiiii bestie, I’m gonna infodump to you about come along with me and adventure time so hard right now (this is not a request, you WILL listen to me shhdhsjsjfhdh)

Sooo the intro !! I LOVE the intro, firstly it’s just really cool in general but it also has SO MANY Easter eggs and stuff that clues us in to what happened to many of the people of ooo, I just love it a lot. We see two adventurers in ooo, a familiar sight, we see a ton of familiar stuff but it’s all different in ways, (I’m gonna go into this more in a second, promise) seeing bmo surrounding by all their friends stuff is very sad in a way ? Bmo is one of the few immortal characters in the main cast and seeing them forgetting Finn’s name is just,,, sad,,, but bmo has gone through this plenty haven’t they ? We see this is the first distant lands episode ‘BMO’ although I won’t spoil it since I don’t think you’ve seen it yet.

Ofc we see Finn and Jake and everyone else,, I don’t have muchhh to say about the war stuff at least right now, 

“Nah, man, she's wrong. This is all wrong. Even if she wins now, this is never gonna end; I can feel it. It's like the whole world's going crazy, man, like we're living in, one, big...” obviously this relates to the whole war n stuff but I also feel like this connects to the whole them of this episode (and just at in general) with everything going on and on but still staying the same, Finn’s definitely gone through that type of stuff haven’t he ? Especially with the lich,,,

 “PB! He sees that you're serious! Maybe he'll back down now. Please listen to me! We've been friends for a long time” and PB getting reminded of Shoko from Finn this also 100% connects to that, they have been friends through even reincarnations, which is a long, long time (judging from the state of the candy kingdom and PBs bit more care free attitude I think the flashbacks in ‘the vault’ happen pretty early on) 

Jake is mostly just hanging out with jermaine in the nightmare realm lmao, although he did dig up Finn’s and ferns truama vault which is Important. 

Fern and Finn are dealing with their truama together in the nightmare realm, they have to work through their shared truama, and the grass demon that is connected to Fern, I loveeee analyzing fern so I’ll probably infodump to u ab him sometime if u would like lol. Finn hears PB voice again, this happens a lot in major parts of his life dosent it ? Breezy, hall of egress, and of course this episode. Fern and Finn kill the grass demon together.

PB and Gumbald are doing a fun (not fun for them tho LMAO) switch-aroo thingie, Gumbald experiences what it’s was like for PB almost get dum dum juiced and the stress that the candy kingdom puts on someone’s shoulders, while PB sees what it was like for Gumbald seeing his dream get built in front of him, ruled by PB, and fall apart without being able to do anything, it’s super intesting to me !! Especially on PBs side just seeing the stress weigh down on her from the candy kingdom (obviously this happens to gumbald in the dream but it’s switcharoo)

Now we see Finn and fern sitting on that island, although fern is now Finn again  “ I'm me again. It feels like it's been years.” This line just makes me very sad, ferns been living the last year (+?) as not himself,, (like I said I have THOUGHTS about fern I could go on sooo long ab him, but I wanna focus on CAWM rn) and now we see pb and gumbald, although when pb touches fern he starts disintegrating just like the grass demon said.

PB and gumbald apologize to eachother, but lolly trips gumbald and his dum dum juice dummifys him again, “  He never was the epiphany type. But I am willing to let bygones be bygones.” Like I said,,, things change but also stay the same,,, PB and gumabld sees what they each went through but Gumbald still stays the same, and turns into the punch bowl once again.

And now we get into the end of the world, as BMO puts it,

We get a flashback to Simon and Betty before the mushroom war and everything else, (I don’t have a ton to say about this scene but it’s very funny that Betty accidentally fucked simons eye up by throwing a jar of cherries at him)

Ice King of course does not remember Betty. But now we get the golb monsters, can I just say these monsters are sick as fuck I love them. “Obey my command! Flee for your lives! If you fight, the demon will just add you to its mass!” PB character development <3. 

Alll the main characters standing together to try and defeat golb,,, mmm it’s good it’s good, (also I find it cute that the gum ball guardians call PB mom lol) 

Ice king , king man , Finn and Jake go to try to stop Betty yippee ! Although Jake jumps off to eat (??) those birds (which leads to time adventure ofc <3<3<3) lumpygrab ! It’s cute, not a ship I think ab a ton but it’s cute. Betty seeing ice king as Simon, even if only for a moment is,,, mmmm, part of Betty’s whole thing is that, she can never except ice king as he is, maybe they could be happy if she could but, he isint Simon, he is just the ice king, and it leads her to madness trying to save her. This especially ties in with what she says right after “What... You're trying to stop me!? When I'm this close to harnessing the most powerful force in the universe and finally saving you!?” Oh and Maja fucking explodes.

Finn Betty and IK go into glob,,, Finn loses his robot arm, just as we saw at the start of the episode, it’s destined to lay there for 1000 years after the war huh ?

BUBBLINE YIPPEEEEE !! Seeing Marceline turn into the cloud form is sick as fuck btw, anyways this scene is just,, so good,, especially with just seeing how their relationship builds up again throughout the series. And how it was in the past in distant lands: obsidan.

Finn Betty and Simon reverte to their primal forms, Simon and Betty are back to normal human while Finn is the same, I also love how he does not get his arm back, since it’s been shown that not having an arm is just, his natural state, if he is in a life where he can’t have an arm, he will eventually lose it or just not have it, it’s his natural form.

Jake goes to fight those dudes for Finn,,, god this scene man.,, the treehouse is crushed by the golb monster and Jake just can’t handle it,,, seeing the place that he and Finn and bmo lived since they were young completely destroyed crushes him, BMO finds him of course “It's okay, Jake. You always try to protect me and Finn. But sometimes we are going to get hurt. How about today, you let me be the papa?” God man I’m just thinking about this,,, Jake has always been dadding for Finn  and bmo throughout the series, of course they had their parents but Finn was only 12 at the start of the series and we know their parents died before the start of the series, Jake has been taking care of those 2 for so long, in the treehouse that they lived in for so long,,,

And of course,,, time adventure,,, MAN

I think time adventure captures exactly what adventure time is about along with ‘come along with me’ and ‘everything stays’ 

Everything will happen again and again,,, the cycle of life and death goes on, everything stays but it still changes,,, just like 5e futures,,, 1000+ ooo is so different and yet, we have our 2 young adventurers still going off and exploring ooo,,, change is what adventure time is all about imo,,,, 

And everyone singing together to defeat glob,, it’s just so good,,,, having everyone working together to defeat glob and save Finn and Betty and Simon, many of these characters have had strained relationships in the past and yet they still all join together,, they’ve all changed throughout the series leading to this moment,,, god,,

“I always figured I'd go out saving somebody.” This line by Finn always gets me, because, of course he would think that, he is a hero, of course he would want to go out saving someone, doing what he does best, and also this line is just so sad since,,, Finn genuinely thinks he is gonna die here yknow ? He has stared death in the face many times but few times has he genuinely thought that he was gonna die,,,,

Betty makes the ultimate sacrifice, she can’t make up for what she did as magic Betty, she does feel guilty for what she has done,”I’m sorry for messing everything up” , so she wishes to banish glob, eventually fusing with it to keep Simon and the rest of everyone,

And then Fern,,, he finally got to be the hero,, just like he was when he was Finn,, and all he ever wanted was his identity and family and friends back to be honest, something that makes me sad is just,, how calm fern sounds when he is dying,,, I can’t explain but it’s just,,, yeah,, he asks Finn to promise to plant him there,, of course he wo.uld want to be planted there, it’s the place where he grew up with Jake, his best brother and friend, and even if he dosent get to be Finn again he would at least like to be connected to the place that meant so much to him.

Finn and Jake plant the fern seed at the remains of the treehouse, which, you know, it’s a lot like what happened with Shoko, it’s changes but still stays the same huh ? Finn and PB just being friends is soooo sweet I just love themm a lot.

And so Shermy and Beth go off to find that Fern Tree they heard in the story. While Finn and Jake far in the past from those two, sit next to the music hole, as she starts singing come along with me,, the iconic ending song as we see how everyone lives went on after everything, the cycle of life and death and change continues. Even after all of that characters still live their life, similar to before but not excatly the same.

And at the very end,, we see those two adventurers climb the fern tree, shermy pulls out the Finn sword and holds it up high, ending the final episode on the same iconic pose at the start of every single episode, 

and like I’ve said over this whole rant,, it changes but still stays the same, the cycle repeats again and again, never the same but still similar,  and I feel like that’s the whole point of adventure time, it’s about change, everything changes so much from the start to the end, we see these characters grow up and change, we see them die and reincarnate, not the same, but similar, ooo and everyone in it goes on and on,  and yes, someday golb and the lich will succeed at their goals, bringing death to everyone, but why not fight for it ? Yes it will happen eventually, someday some Finn and Jake reincarnations will not be able to kill the lich, but they still have all their friends and family and everyone, so why shouldn’t they try ? They could just give up since it’s inevitable but also, they have so much to fight for, everybody who cares about them, even if it’s just the two of them, Finn and Jake, they will always have eachother, and isint that enough to fight for ?

Adventure time just means so much to me in a way I can’t describe, its part of me, and I don’t think even amphibia (which I love so much) reaches the same connection adventure time has with me, it’s just so important to me, it’s such an inherent part of me that I can’t imagine who I would be without it to be honest, where would I have ended up without this show ? I don’t know, but I did find this show and I love it so much that words can’t describe it. Obviously you don’t have to respond to this rant, but it would mean a lot to mean to just, talk about what I talked about here with you, (but no worries about making it as long as this,), I just want to share my love of this show with you, and even you just watching it makes me so so happy. So yknow, thank you for being my friend and watching stuff I like, I appreciate you a lot.

Night, Duck.

the intro is so cool! when i watched it i meant to go back and look at it again and especially look at bmos little house to try and spot a couple little easter eggs because it looks So Full of them.the main things i noticed was i think bmo had the helmet that glob and his brothers or whatever had that stuck out and also the fact that they called themselves the King of Ooo. i hope bmo is okay living up there all by themselves its played for a joke but the fact that they Have forgotten Finn's name is so hhhhhh. (is it specified how log its been? because if its been like a Long Long time its both more and less sad i think) that one episode after elementals with Marceline and bmo gived me hope that for however long they end up living bmo wont be completely alone, their friendship with Marcy was so nice in that episode i hope it lasts.

i am so interested in the whole thing of adventire time being a show about things constantly changing and yet staying the same. it seems like Such a clever way to encorporate that shift from an episodic adventure of the week sort of show it was at the start to the more serialised show with big character moments and over arcing plotlines it became a bit later on. it also kinda juat makes me think about Everything Stays again which you know. yeah

man finn and fern having to deal with their shared trauma together is so ! the bit when theyre fighting and Fern is like "im tormented!" and finn goes "im also that sometimes!" just something about that little interaction gets me theyre both so sinsere and like. i cant find the sords for what im trying to say augh. you get what im trying to say hopefully

oooo the switchy scene!! that was so cool i was really intreuged by them swapping places and getting to experince what it all was like from the other side. it could have made it so easy for them both to come to a peaceful conclusion at the end now that they first hand know what the other went thru and can epathise with eachother in a way they couldnt before. unfortunately gumbald is gumbald and screwed that over but you know you can hope. Bonnie did tho, she saw that she was wrong and she was willing to admit it which is a Huge growth for her character from the start of the show.

the scene of finn and fern on that island is so nice. its so peaceful but also very like, cathatrtic i think is the word for it? the two of them finally getting a chance to just sit there and Be for a moment after all that theyve been thru. its nice

asdfghjk yeah that fake out is so good where even the banan guards think shes gonna get them to fight for their lives to save ooo but then shes juts like. get the fuck out of here right now you cant do anything to help but leave Please save yourselves. PB character growth so true <3

YES THE GUMBALL GUARDIANS CALLING PB MOM WAS SO GOOD it was so funny and also has Implicaions i feel but idk

i cant believe you would remind me of the lsp lemongrab kiss like this that was the Worst part of the entire episode why did that happen im so confused

betty and simon are so ! i have No Idea how to explain my thoughts on them but they unlock shrimp emotions. theyre such a loving tragedy, both driven to madness trying to save the ones they loved most,,,,,,,,,,

bubbline kiss my beloved. its such a sweet scene and Marcy just Losing Her Entire Shit and turining into the sheep cloud thing because she think Bonnie is dead,,,,,,,

asdfghgfds "finn not having an arm is his natural state" why is that so Right tho. au where he never lost his arm and gets reverted to his original state and loses his arm then. imagine

hhhhhhhhhhhhhh Jake older brother/dad-ing BMO and Finn,,,,,,, like sure he isnt always the Best at it but hes Trrying anf i feel like you cant expect him to be perfect at it hes not really much older than finn in the first place but hes Trying to take care of them as best he can and thats what counts

TIME ADVENTURE TIME ADVENTURE TIME ADVENTURE-

something about the power of music bringing everyone together to make one final stand to save the world and it Working is so important to me. i love music so much as an artform, as a method of self experssion, as a tool to bring people together, and Adventure Time does such a good job doing those ideas justice, its big proper songs are so meaningful and powerful and even the littler ones and the fact that so many characters will just Start Singing, just whenever for the sake of it for no other reason than they feel like it. its so good man

"i always figured id go out saving someone" and then Simon Immidiately jumping in to try to comfort him. they all think theyre gonna die, they all know theyre not gonna make it out this time. so in the face of all hopelessness Simon still tries to comfort this kid and like. i dunno Simon straight away jumping to try to comfort FInn even tho really he has No Idea who tf this kid is man

im glad Fern got to be planted outside the treehouse. he sounds so resigned while hes dying, he knows hes going and hes accepted it, a much nicer ending than he had the first time, and now he gets to be forever immorialised and in some kind of irony manages to outlive everyone else through his tree

i think i get what you mean. i think Adventure Time is to you a lot of what Steven Universe is to me. i started watching SU when i was about 8 and it was a Huge part of my life basically until i ended. i used to rewatch peridot episodes when i was sad, i would sings the songs to myself to pass the time, i would think about theories while walking. so many of my memories are full of steven universe, i legitimately feel like if an alternate version of me existed who had never seen an episode of SU, i would be unrecogniseable to myself. that show means so much to me and i watched it at such an influential age it has had ramifications and left marks on me i dont think i could ever begin to find them all. its… fundementally shaped me as a person, my opinions on things, my morals, so much of Who I Am. so if Adventure Time is to you even slightly what Steven Universe is to me, then i get it. stories have such a power to effect people, we rely on them to learn about the world and the stores we hear or have avalible to us effect us in so many different ways. its incredible really

thank you for being My friend, if it hadnt of been for you i probably wouldnt have sat down and watched adventure time like this, maybe ever, and i only really did it at the start because i wanted to engage in something that clearly means so much to one of my friends, and im so glad i did so thank you it was so much fun

[sexy-opium-ravioli]

Dating the Lich HC's:

*Hey babes! Ofc dating the Lich is going to entail a lot of angst, so this is a official trigger warning for themes of manipulation, mind control and superiority complex in the context of a romantic relationship. Also he never turns into Sweet P in this universe, he just fucken dies lol. Be warned! Also, as always, explicit NSFW under the cut*

Dynamics:

The Lich has brewed his presence for ten thousand years and he will forever more. He is of a million worlds, and will spread infinitely, like a virus inside a weak body.

This being is both larger than life and less than a singularity, and taking a physical form means nothing in the long run. His existence is not in a form, but in a purpose. A role he must fulfill not to keep the balance of the universe, but to maintain its sporadic nature and eventually be the heat death that puts an end to it.

In this universe, the one you were in, originally you were one that was of modest values. Live your life, do it moderately, and be happy with it.

That is until you ran into an eight foot tall decaying horn man with glowing eyes. He took hold of your mind immediately.

The Lich does not see you as a being, or as a purpose, but rather, he sees you as his. His to play with and ponder until the end of time, until the very end of himself.

He promised you a higher state of consciousness until you both eventually succumbed to his very nature. To be a part of his legion forever, then some, and then never again.

Your heart was his instantly.

Romance:

We all know that this romance will be nowhere near conventional or healthy. In the first few months of it, you don't have a choice until he can sense that you'll follow along willingly. In those first few months, he controls almost every move you make.

You are by his side. Not in battle nor in planning, but you are there to be his anyways. This is how you exist, now.

It could have turned out worse, you supposed. But seeing how he lured people into his green pit of power, seeing how he destroyed, seeing Finn and Jake's hurt faces when they happen upon you? There wasn't much to convince you that it didn't turn out the worst way possible.

Eventually, however, you grow numb to this. For awhile, after the handful of defeats doled out by your two heroes, you two traverse the stars. He mainly focuses on his mission, save for the small moments of food, rest and privacy you need.

You focus on him.

You're smart enough to not try and ask too many questions of him. Prodding destruction's physical embodiment when you don't know their temper isn't a wise move.

Still, though. It doesn't matter. He senses your curiosities, and sometimes he makes himself home in your mind and hears your questions whispered through his ears.

Sometimes he pretends like he didn't hear them. Other times, when he's in a better mood, he'll humor you.

'Where are we going next?' You thought, stars and void blurring past you as you both sail the heavens.

"To the Lambda Cancri system, that is what your kind called it long ago,"

It still shocked you sometimes, how he could so easily break your mind and eat the contents like a yolk. You wondered if he would ever acknowledge your newfound admiration for him.

"Thank you,"

"You are welcome"

Eventually, you two make it to the Lambda Cancri system.

There is no planet to land on. It would be another journey to the next system to hopefully replenish energy, but you wouldn't complain.

"Look. One star, another. A binary star system triggered by gravitational force and interlocked in a dance, forever, until one consumes the other. Look."

"I see," And you were telling the truth. You sense that this was a metaphor for a relationship bigger than those stars, bigger than the Lich and Finn themselves, bigger than Ooo.

He turned to look at you. Slowly, he touched you, and he knelt in the vacuum of space until his forehead touched yours.

"My side, until the end of time,"

NSFW:

There isn't much time the Lich has to satiate those pesky little needs of yours. And even if he did have time, he would not waste magic on creating the proper body parts to help you in those needs anyways.

Eventually though, even though he is knowing of most things, he grows curious of your specific reactions. The noises you could make, if you'd muffle them or if you'd scream.

You're not expecting for him to smuggle you inside an inn the next planet you two rest at.

He rents a room, he takes you up the stairs, and as soon as he shuts the door he makes your clothes vanish at the snap of his fingers.

There is no true heat behind his eyes, none of the wanting for himself. Just a veiled curiosity, something you often feel for him.

You get on the bed and present yourself to him. Again, you're wise enough to wait for his orders. To not test him.

He rewards this behavior with a stroke on the cheek, a comforting gesture that tingles from the raw, dry texture of skeletal fingers.

He slowly moves down. As the last scholar of GOLB, he has had habits that have not passed through him. He studies you.

He puts his tongue on you; not too warm and not too cold, but very articulated to your points of pleasure.

You're quickly overstimulated.

He does not stop during the night. It is all you could have ever asked for out of the Lich.

[moonlightsdreaming]

I didn’t like Adventure Time very much the first time I saw it.  It was an early episode, one with the Ice King and I have only the vaguest memories of what was going on, but I clearly remember how annoying I found the characters (especially Ice King) and how lol random the humor seemed and how uninteresting the art was. I don’t even remember what made me give it a second chance, but it was probably the endless parade of gifs across my dash on tumblr, the surprisingly good life advice from Jake (who isn’t inspired by the words, “Sucking at something is the first step to being kind of good at something.”?) or hilarious table flipping gifs from Princess Bubblegum, or maybe it was just seeing a lot of really amazing art people were drawing for it.  I am very much susceptible to a parade of beautiful art, after all. But I started watching it properly, probably in the second or third season, and somehow it worked for me.  The humor was internet meme-style and it fit the lore of the show (it’s modern day slang because the world basically ended in a nuclear attack and so it never really got a chance to move on culturally and the weird lingo is the people of Ooo’s slow drift from that! ohhhhhh, okay, that makes it make sense to me! I love cool theories for stuff like that!) drew me in. I really liked the characters, too.  Ice King still annoyed me, but Finn was actually really a pretty great protagonist, I loved his friendship with Jake, two guys who really liked each other, who really even loved each other.  Who liked going on adventures!  And there were lots of women around in the world and they were pretty fantastic characters, too.  Princess Bubblegum was kind and sweet, but she was also a straight up NERD and she could be furious and even kind of really mean and evil scientist at times!  Marceline seems like the typical ~2 goth 4 u~ character, but she’s actually really good-hearted and kind. And more and more the episodes would leave me literally startling out loud, “What the fuck did I just watch!?” because it had blown my mind.  The show really knew how to kick into high gear with the plot when shit started happening--I will always remember watching Finn at the Citadel, trying to hold onto his father, trying to drag him back, and losing his fucking arm for it.  I will always remember Finn climbing the tower, singing, “Baby’s building a tower into space / Space is where he's gonna find his dad / Daddy's got an arm / And Baby's gonna harm his arm by tearing it off his dad.”  Like, holy fuck, this show did not mess around.  Or the comet and Finn choosing whether or not to stay!  Finding the humans after so long!  Or how “Simon & Marcy” straight up made me cry after watching it. So many moments that were awe-inspiring for how hard they hit and how much affection this show clearly had for its lore.  And that’s what made this finale so emotionally touching for me, so very bittersweet. It isn’t just saying goodbye to an old friend (though, it is that, too), but it’s seeing Sweet P walking around in the future, it’s seeing the resolution of everything they’d built up with Betty (though, I’m hoping there are comics that resolve the rest of it, because I don’t want to leave it there!), of watching Marceline get to see Simon again, of seeing Susan and Frieda traveling around the world, of that moment of seeing the humans on the ship crossing the ocean, Minerva on the screen as Finn waved to her, and how emotional that made me. And then there’s the Bubbline kiss.  Like a lot of people, I’ve shipped those two for so very long, I was pretty sure it was at least intentional subtext, but I never thought we’d get here.  I never thought we’d get an on-screen kiss that wasn’t just a half-measure, it wasn’t just a wink and a nod, it was fully confirmed and it was in an emotionally resonant moment.  It was part of a story.  And that means so much to me, that it doesn’t matter if we have Korra/Asami and Ruby/Sapphire already, because we need more lesbian and bi women (and men, but women take a backseat to male characters so often that I don’t think that needs pushing for nearly as much) and we need them everywhere. I still think of kids growing up today who are watching these shows and seeing these women falling in love.  Who will feel seen because of this, who won’t feel like there’s something off about them because they have feelings that aren’t like what they’re seeing in the shows they watch, who won’t grow up feeling like, oh, I don’t really like girls/boys, I just ~appreciate~ that they’re nice-looking, but instead understand that, yes, these feelings are real and important and wonderful.  They’re part of epic moments, they’re part of sweet moments, they’re part of the story. It’s okay to be confused about how you feel as a kid, it’s okay not to have strong definitions for what it is you’re feeling.  And Adventure Time shows that it can be complicated and uncertain, but it’s also good. So, I cried for that, because Bubbline is important to my bi self who never had that growing up.  I cried for the kids who get to see that--whether they feel represented or are seeing something different from themselves, so that they understand those people exist and are wonderful, either way I love that kids are getting to see this.  I love that I get to see this, that this shitty world we’re currently in is slightly less shitty again. And I love it because it’s just one part of a show that I loved very much.  My love for Adventure Time isn’t just about one aspect of it, but that the whole entire show was really good.  It was batshit and clearly having a great time with itself, it was emotional in all the right places, it was trying to do good things with its characters and the lessons they learned, it was mind-blowing when it wanted to be.  And it was emotional. I cried over the romantic kisses, I cried over the family reunions, I cried over friendships, I cried because this show was always a joy whenever I got to sit down with it and I’m going to miss it very much. But what a hell of a thing it was while I had it. Thank you for everything you were, Adventure time.  I’m so glad I got to experience you.

[blindfoldxx]

AT FINALE THOUGHTS

OHHHHHHHHHHHMYGOODNESS.

OKAY. SO I JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE AT SERIES FINALE AND…. HOOOOOOOOOO BOY.  I just sat in silence and stared at my black computer screen after the episode ended for a long time… and my hands feel so numb.  I can’t believe Adventure Time is actually over. I’ve been watching this series since 2012 and continuously since 2015… so 6 years invested fam. 6 years and it’s over today.

I really loved this episode because of all the references that it had to all the past episodes.  It was really nice to see the AT continuity at work once more, and how everything was so nicely put together in the end.  

Another thing I loved about this episode was all the themes & metaphors, the themes circling around being the very last episode of the legacy that is Adventure Time.  The themes of: “going on a new adventure” but yet “the fun will never end”.  Even though it’s all over, we’ll still keep moving forward, keep living our lives, keep going on new adventures, but yet forever hold Adventure Time dear to our hearts and carry the memories of the past with us.  This also kind of reminds me of the Stakes theme, “different but yet the same”, “everything stays, but it still changes.”  

"You and I will always be back then.”

This song was just so bittersweet and tearjerking. Even if we haven’t seen each other for a long time, even if we haven’t talked, even if we’ve all gone our separate ways, we’ll always still hold the memories of the past, the precious memories of when we were together, dear to our hearts.  Even if 1000 years has passed, despite everything that will happen, is happening, has happened, when we look back upon our past memories, held up like a billion tiny picture frames, you and I will always be back then.  And because you and I will always be back then, that’s why, you and I will always be best friends.

“Time is an illusion that helps things makes sense. So we're always living in the present tense.”

We don’t know everything about the past or the people who lived before us, but that’s okay.  When 1000 years have passed, the past may be forgotten, our lives may be forgotten, people in the future won’t remember who we are, and sure that’s scary, but it’s okay.  Time is an illusion: life goes on forever behind and ahead of us - in both the past and the future.  Everything stays, but nothing stays the same.  Our own lives are undoubtedly short, but yet it’s important, not because of the fact that we need to be remembered and make a mark on the world, not because we need to write down every minuscule detail so that those in the future will know who we are.  Life is important because of the abruptly forgotten happiness and undeniable joy that we experience each and every day, in all of our waking hours. 

“Everything stays, but it still changes.”

Things will happen, happening, happened.  Adventure Time has happen, happening, happened.  Even if it’s over… no matter what, we will move forward and just keep living our lives.  We will move on to a new adventure, a new home, new struggles & new people… we will move on to a new journey.  So when it’s happening, enjoy the time we have.  But when it’s happened, we will never forget the times we shared in the past, the times we shared as best friends and lived so merrily.   Things will happen again and again.  They may be different, and they may happen to different people in different times, but they will be familiar.  Life will go on forever behind and ahead of us, and the people who lived both before and after us will be different, but yet familiar in the ways that matter.  Maybe one day everything will come to an end, but because we remember, because we experienced joy, because time goes on forever and we’ll find ourselves in the people of both the past and future…  that’s why the fun will never end.  So, just go out, live your lives, be brave, have fun, and enjoy the ride.

“Time will unbind our memory glue. And I’ll be as nobody-ish as all of you.  So don’t care about a thing now.”

Adventure Time tells us to always live in the present, have fun, and be happy.  Don’t care about the past, don’t care about the future. The past has happened, the future will happen.  All that matters is to have fun, right now.  Dance your heart out.  Embarrass yourself.  Wear those unused socks you’ve been afraid of getting dirty.  Use that untouched silverware you’ve been saving for a “special day”.  Don’t care about what other people think.  Ask someone out.  Go on 3AM spontaneous adventures.  Spend lots of time with your friends and family.  Cry.  Laugh.  Live. Love yourself.  Just enjoy your life.  Don’t wait for the future, don’t fall back on the past.  Enjoy it now.

“Maybe by next summer, we won’t have changed our tune.”

A new adventure is starting and we’ll keep living our lives, but you and I will always be back then, and we won’t ever forget Adventure Time.  I think this finale portrayed these themes in such a beautiful way through Shermy, Beth, and of BMO telling the story of 1000 years ago.

One thing I was really hoping for in the finale was for it to wrap up all loose plot ends & to have bubbline be canon lol.  And I think it achieved both! Although rushed for sure, this finale did manage to wrap up all the loose plot ends.  There are absolutely still a lot of things that I would’ve liked to see, more things I wanted wrapped up, more lead up, more character development, more plot & world building…. especially with the open ends that the finale left off. Of course there’s so more that I want to see.  I know there’s so, so, so much more story to tell, so many more adventures to go on, so many plot gaps to wrap up. But all in all, for once I can finally say, I’m satisfied with this ending.  And I’m glad the crew pulled off this ending, despite the limited time & lead up they had to do it.

I think Adventure Time has shaped my childhood as well as my adulthood.  To be honest, it’s the reason I want to keep pursuing art as a career today, why I’m striving so hard now to get into the animation/art industry so maybe I can create masterpieces such as this show.  It’s the reason I want to write deep, lavish, and loving stories for others to read or watch.  It’s the reason I want to become a hero… just like Finn.

Thank you for shaping me into who I am.  Thank you for teaching me how to be brave and how to be myself.  Thank you for everything, Adventure Time.

Even though Adventure Time is now over, you and I will always be back then.  Let’s go on a new adventure together, and the fun will never end.

Come Along With Me - 10/10

Adventure Time (2010-2018) - 10/10

Thoughts about the finale episode itself below read more. Obvs spoilers.

SO. THOUGHTS… jumbled order because my mind is a mess rn. Will maybe organize later

Shermy & Beth.  Descendants or future lives of Finn & Jake?  A new adventure. “Everything stays, but yet it still changes.”  “The people that come after us may be different, but they’ll be familiar in the ways that matter.”

BMO AS THE KING OF OOO

Having all that stuff in his house, including Grob Gob Glob Grod’s head, princess crowns, Finn & Jake’s signs….

It’s been 1000 years since Finn & Jake huh…

BMO forgetting Finn’s name was really funny at first, but then it felt really bittersweet.  It kind of reminds me of this quote from Angel Beats: “Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.”  Maybe BMO has forgotten Finn & Jake’s names and faces, it’s been 1000 years after all.  But their impact and their bonds on each other, are everlasting.

“Have fun on the other side of this door”

I feel like this is a direct comment to the viewers from AT itself… :’(

“What happened to Phil and Jake in the end? Or Princess Bubblegum?”

“Well, you know, they kept living their lives.”

… so bittersweet :’)

It’s so bittersweet to imagine a world without Finn & Jake, a world where they’re not there.  But they just kept living their lives, having fun…

I feel like the crew is trying to tell us to keep living our lives, even after the show’s over, even after the adventure’s over.  I love this ending.  Shoot, I’m tearing up again.

“Thank you for visiting the King of Ooo”

Honestly I feel like all these little things that BMO told Shermy & Beth were metaphors/parallels directed at us viewers.  The crew is telling us, “Thank you for watching Adventure Time.”

Really like the dream scene. I was very confused at first, but I ended up really liking it.  It was a chance for the crew to showcase and reference past episodes and characters.  And I also really like how the dream paralleled PB - Gumbald, Finn - Fern, Jake - Jermaine. 

I liked that in the dream sequence, Finn became a butterfly (his past life). Maybe Shermy is a future life of Finn?

BUBBLINE IS CANON

MY FAVORITE OTP SINCE 2015 IS FINALLY CANON WTF OHHHMYGOODNESS THE FEELSSSS

2015 ME IS REALLY POPPING THOSE BOTTLES RIGHT NOW

Yeah sure the reveal/lead up could’ve been better, but I’m honestly just so glad that it happened at all. I think I’ve been dreaming about this day for four years now

HOLY SHIT FERN 

HOLY SHIT BETTY

HOLY SHIT SIMON

WHY TF DID BETTY JUST DIE….???!?!???

I know she died saving Simon and destroyed GOLB but like WTF BETTY

“I always thought I’d go out saving someone.”

“No one gets to chose how it happens” -Simon

WTF WHYYYYYY SIMON. That’s hard…

“Please listen to me! We’ve been friends for a long time.” - Finn… Then PB immediately saw Shoko in Finn.  Shoko’s metal arm to Finn’s….  Once more all the feels.

“THEY’RE ALL DEAD!”

“Un-Make Me”

FERN IS FINALLY SAVED… his anguish is gone. FINN AND FERN FINALLY FACED THE VAULT. THEY FINALLY FACED THEIR FEARS AND GOTTEN RID OF THEIR FEARS.

Honestly I’ve kind of forgotten about the Vault until this episode. And I’m so so so glad that Vault was finally brought up again, and that BOTH Finn & Fern are finally facing their deepest fears.  I think that sends a really good message… to face your fears so you can heal.

WHY DID FERN HAVE TO DIE MY SWEET ANGSTY GRASS BOY HE JUST RECOVERED, DESTROYING HIS TRAUMA AND HE DIED… AND HE JUST WANTED TO SEE THE TREEHOUSE ONCE LAST TIME BEFORE HE DIED OH MY GOD I CAN’T

Finn planting the remains of Fern in the ruined Treehouse

AND THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE FINN SWORD…. TO MAKE A NEW TREEHOUSE.  a new journey… a new adventure. FERN WANTED TO SEE THE TREEHOUSE BEFORE HE DIED SO HE BECAME THE TREEHOUSE.  the feels are too heavy why is it raining

LUMPS & LEMON. W T F.

Honestly this surprised me more than the Bubbline kiss. Like WTF lol.

GOLB

OMG GOLB FINALLY MAKES HIS APPEARANCE???

Tbh I felt like the lead up to GOLB could’ve been A LOT better rather than just a quick flashback into Simon’s memory when he read about GOLB in a book.  But I guess the AT crew did what they could with the limited time they had.

GOLB BECAME BETTY THO???That scene of GOLB leveling up/becoming Betty WAS LIT AF… when everything turned black & white and chalky? OH MANNN I LOVE animations that do that.  Kinda reminds of Gurren Lagann or Evangelion lol.

SWEET PEA PROTECTING HIS PARENTS

I really thought that the Lich arc was going to take off again, somewhere, somehow, before the end of the series.  But I guess not, I guess the Lich will stay a Sweet Pea forever.

SWEET PEA IS BECOMING BILLY?!?!??

Marcy’s Mushroom War flashback

MARCY ONCE MORE RELEASED HER POWER FROM STAKES AND TURNED GOAT MODE TO PROTECT HER GIRLFRIENDDDD

Simon is finally, finally saved. Although they had to kill off Betty in the process… Not sure how I feel about this yet…

However, if Simon trying to save Betty now? The reverse is happening?  That ending scene when he went to visit Prismo… he must’ve been trying to ask Prismo for a wish to save Betty but Prismo didn’t know how, he just shrugged his shoulders.  I vaguely remember in the past that Betty has also went to Prismo to ask to save Simon.  So Simon & Betty kinda swapped positions now.  I just hope all the same thing aren’t happening all over again but with Simon instead of Betty……..

I LOVE BMO’S SONG. EVERYONE STARTED SINGING TOGETHER.  IN THE END, MUSIC HEALED AND SAVED THE WORLD.  YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS BE BACK THEN.

GUNTER BECAME EVERGREEN/ICE THING?????

Comment from Reddit: If Betty’s intuition was right, the crown reset back to it’s pre-golb state once it was no longer in the confines of Golb. So the crown went back to the default wish prehistoric gunter made; to be like Evergreen.

So like… is Orgalog still there? Orgalog = Evergreen?  Would have liked to have seen more details/light on this.

I mean he doesn’t look too evil checking out books at the library and marrying Turtle Princess lol.

I also would’ve like to see more insight about the Elements, since they were just recently introduced, and how the elements all come to play a part in everything.

Was also imagining a Jake death for the finale but I’m SO glad that didn’t happen. I guess Jake’s banana space prophecy dream was just a dream after all.

FINN IS ALMOST THE SAME HEIGHT AS PB.  FINN GOT SO MUCH OLDER & TALLER & MATURE.  WHY DOES THIS REMIND ME OF FMAB SO MUCHHHH. 

I LOVED THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE MUSIC HOLE. I REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVED THE FINALE’S USE OF PAST EPISODES/PLOT/CHARACTERS.

I LOST IT WHEN THE MUSIC HOLE STARTED SINGING THE ENDING SONG. THAT ENDING SEQUENCE D E S T R O Y E D ME. I CRIED SO MUCH.  Just watching all the characters go about their post-show lives… UGH these kind of ending sequences in any show ALWAYS GETS ME.  This ending just brought back so many FMAB ending sequence feels… :’)

GUNTER AND TURTLE PRINCESS…. WTF LOL

SWEET PEA GRADUATED

SIMON VISITING PRISMO TO ASK HOW TO SAVE BETTY :’(

PB & Lolly hanging out, being pals, singing to Neddy :’)

The fern tree/treehouse 1000 years later. Kind of reminds me of the 1000 years later scene from that one graybles episode.

Normal Man and Margles… I guess he never got to save her, but he’ll always remember her.  THE FEELS……..

GIRL SQUAD

BONNIE AND MARCY SNUGGLING IN BED TOGETHER.  MY GAY FEELS I CAN’T.  Also LOL Peppermint Butler’s “Dark Magic 101″  (wait is he still peppermint kid? lol)

Finn only one arm forever now?  Finn didn’t end up with anyone in the end, and I’m actually really happy about that.  It was SUCH a great choice to not force Finn into a romance, and I’m loving it.

Finn’s mom & other humans finally came to Ooo!!!!!!!

I liked how the entire ending’s theme is, “a new adventure”, “things will never end, everything goes around in a circle”.  This show will live on forever.  Especially with Shermy & Beth pulling out the Finn Sword Finn & Jake style.  “The fun will never end”.

“It seems unforgiving when a good thing ends. But you and I will always be back then.  Will happen, happening, happened. And will happen again and again. Cause you and I will always be back then. That’s why, you and I will always be best friends.”

“Everything stays, right where you left it.  Everything stays, but it still changes.  Ever so slightly, daily and nightly. In little ways, when everything stays.”

“Maybe by next summer, we won’t have changed our tune. We’ll still want to be with the butterflies and bees.  Making up new numbers, living so merrily….”

YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS BE BACK THEN

COME ALONG WITH ME

[doctr-p]

I’ve been delaying this post for a while, partially because I’m low key embarrassed to be so upset that a favorite show of mine is ending, but mainly because I am so upset and don’t want to believe the adventure is over.

Later today Adventure Time will be airing it’s final episode and well, I just can’t believe it. It has been a such a wild ride for the past 8 years (10 if you count the pilot). I’m not here to spout out all the reasons why “Adventure Time was the best show ever” or criticize those who don’t like it. Frankly, I don’t even think AT is objectively the best show ever; it certainly had it’s ups and downs during different seasons- I’m here to reminisce about how impactful the show was on me. I’m not sure why I want to do this...but I guess it makes me happy to do so or at least gives me a sort of closure...errr I feel like I’m sending the show off right? It’s the least I can do for all it has done for me. This is going to be a long one so I will spare everyone and place a keep reading below!

Adventure Time came out the end of my senior year of HS and I was extremely excited since I did see the pilot episode a year or two prior on YouTube. I guess the whole premise was amazing to me (especially since I was fond of having my own adventures with my dog at the time): a boy and his dog kick ass through a magical world- originally such a simple concept yet got increasingly convoluted and complex. I never would imagine how much this show would become embedded into my life.

Flash forward to my first year of college when S1 was still coming out. Me being a extremely shy person, I was having trouble interacting with all my new classmates- plus it didn’t help that this was the first time I was permanently away from home. I still remember during one of our orientation events another student and I were walking to a building and got lost. I quietly made a small reference to AT and he immediately started freaking out all excited that I enjoyed the show too. We quickly started discussing the episodes and the next thing I know I was actually coming out of my shell- I felt comfortable?? One thing led to another and suddenly we had a group of AT fans that would all meet up in someones dorm room each Monday night at 7:30pm sharp to watch the new episodes around someone’s tiny laptop.

A couple of months into my first semester my dog suddenly passed away. Now this was a dog I grew up with, he was my pal and honestly my main friend since I didn’t have many in HS. This was extremely difficult for me to handle- especially being so far away from home.. My coping mechanism? AT, lots and lots of AT with my new friends- they stuck with me for hours, even days, when I refused to leave my dorm room because I was so upset. Not only did this show get me through this arguable one of the darkest moments in my life, it also did something else at the time: my parents were trying to contact me everyday during this entire ordeal to check up on me- of course I told them about the show and how my friends and I would watch it. For the first time in years I was able to convince them to watch a cartoon..I wasn’t even trying to convince them, I believe they wanted to watch it maybe to relate? Have something to talk about with me other than my late dog? Or perhaps they saw the show was so comforting to me that it brought them comfort to watch it and connect with me since I was gone? Let’s just say I’ve never been able to convince them to watch any other cartoon since.

To keep it breif (lol) AT had a huge impact on my college life, I continued to bring the show to others’ attention. Marathoning it with new watchers and friends throughout my 4 years there. I had a collection of merch, I even dressed up as Finn and went reverse trick-or-treating with friends (aka we knocked on peoples doors and gave them candy). Quoting the show was basically 50% of my vocabulary (it sorta still is >w<) and I honestly believe it made me more confident in social situations. Heck my first DnD campaign was in The Land of Ooo! 

My next adventure was veterinary school where the show continued to help push me through those stressful and difficult days. At this point AT was plastered somewhere on my daily materials and because of this I often got asked about it. One time in particular I was asked about it after giving a research presentation to my lab that I was working in that summer. My research professor saw my Finn and Jake desktop background and asked what it was and commented “it looks very you, I’m curious.“ I don’t think I’ve ever smiled so hard in my life, especially after a presentation. I gave a brief synopsis and jokingly mentioned we should watch a couple of episodes at the next lab meeting.  WELL GUESS WHAT WE DID? During our last meeting I put on the episode From Bad to Worse because Science the rat saves the candy kingdom from a zombie disease- very relevant to our research :P and then afterwards I showed them my all time favorite episode (still fav) The Creeps. During this moment I thought- holy shit I can’t believe I’m watching Adventure Time with a bunch of highly educated, intellectual people in a research lab of a highly regarded institution- what is life???? It was certainly an experience I will never forget and probably never have again in this sort of setting. It probably is one of my fondest memories this show has brought me.

I continued to truck on through vet school; AT started to get that inconsistent airing schedule from CN which definitely made the show less prominent in my life especially with my increasingly busy schedule. That being said, it became so much a part of me- it was literally instant comfort when I saw anything related to the show. It was almost like, a home away from home. Throughout my clinical year (the last 1.5 years of vet school) I carried notebooks with Finn and Jake on them to take notes in. And even got an AT surgical cap. Some thought it was childish, but honestly I didn’t care. Some days were so hard and so shitty, I just needed something to look at to make me smile or feel even the slightest better. Funny enough, a lot of the clinicians would ask me about the show and some even knew what it was!

Finally we get to the present.. this poor show has dragged on, and I mean dragged on, due to the poor airing schedule on CN.  Honestly it has made me angry that CN treated this long-running series so poorly (and same for SU tbh). I believe this ending is being rushed as there are some lose ends that I don’t think will get tied up nicely. That being said, I’m happy the show will get AN ending and not some random meaningless last episode. 

Anyway I digress, it has been a long, crazy ride. Adventure Time has gotten me through some of the darkest and happiest moments of my life, including my extremely intense and difficult internship I’m going through right now. It has helped me forge friendships and start conversations, it has made me feel at home while being far away from home. “Homies help homies” is something I basically live by now and will probably continue to do so for the rest of my life. I know I can always rewatch the series, keep my merch around, and continue to share the show with others- however it is still very hard to let go knowing there will be no more TV adventures. I don’t want to compare it to when someone or something actually dies, but honestly? It sort of feels like that in a way, it feels like a part of my heart will die after it finishes and I guess that’s why it upsets me so. Maybe the fear of it losing relevance? Bringing it up to people and chatting about it casually won’t be a thing anymore? Or maybe it’s just the fear of knowing there will be nothing new and it will fade away. The only other show that has impacted me so much has been Yu Yu Hakusho since I grew up with it. I feel similarly about it, however I don’t talk about it as freely with random people. In addition, YYH was long finished after I got to watching the final episode. So while seeing the last episode makes me tear up each time, I don’t think it will feel quite like this will. Anyway, I unfortunately won’t even be able to watch the last episode as I have to go to work, but I when I am able to watch it I will surly be the hotest of hot messes. Thanks for all the adventures and support Adventure Time, you will be sorely missed.

[smolpackagepiledriver]

Royal Rumble Rundown

Spoiler Alert: I am SO happy with how things went, as a general fan and as someone who reads a little into why certain things are done xD. 

I didn’t watch the pre-show because.. I had just gotten home from work at 5:30 lol.  So I started with Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn (Kami.. nice mr popo sign in the crowd there XD) vs AJ Styles.  It was an excellent match and I do like how they got legitimately screwed lol. It adds really well to things and obviously makes it seem like there’s something to their ‘paranoia’. They can keep running with this and it’ll be great.  

Shelton Benjamin & Chad Gable vs the Usos:  Alright match, quick into the second pin there for sure. while I like both teams, i’m not super into the rivalry just on the basis of not watching the tv shows. 

Mens Rumble: I was surprised (and happy) that they put the mens on so early, but it was also nerve wracking because if they made people unhappy, then the Philly crowd would shit on the rest of the show. I love that Finn was out there FOREVER, I thought it was good a lot of the choices they made for when people came in and got eliminated. Almas lasted quite a while, and Adam Cole was kinda a cool surprise. What made me squeal was The Hurricane coming out, I lost it XD it was hilarious. Also Heath Slater getting beat up before people entering the match.  I did start to get nervous as they went on and Roman wasn’t out yet, I like Roman but I knew if he came out last or won then it spelled disaster for the rest of the show xD.  Rey was a cool surprise too ^^.  I.. was OKAY with Ziggler coming out 30th? again i’ve missed any recent tv stuff with him so last time i saw he was being a giant whiny dick. When it got down to Rey, Cena, Orton, Roman, Finn and Nakamura I started getting nervous. It was edge of my seat ‘please don’t fuck this up/I REALLY WANT FINN OR NAKAMURA TO WIN’ vibes. They played it SO well having it come down to Roman and Nakamura and just like ‘ooo you guys don’t want roman to wiiiin? how about if we put Nakamura in THIS precarious situation... “ etc etc. toying with the crowd ultimately.  When Nakamura won myself and my friend screamed a lot. I’m thrilled, I love Nakamura as is, and it was truly best for business. 

Jason Jordan & Seth Rollins vs Cesaro & Sheamus:  oh my god I could watch Jason Jordan be a useless tit all day.  Just that building sense of ‘holy shit seth is going to kill this guy at some point’... and that tag back in was just brutal. Poor Seth and his fire pants.  Big Lads:  Kane didn’t need to be in the match, he main purpose was that Lesnar could win and Braun could still look like a monster. I like Braun a lot, I like that he beat the fuck outta Lesnar quite a bit.  More enjoyable then a lot of matches involving Lesnar that i’ve seen XD

Womens Rumble: I was psyched this was the main event, and thrilled when Steph came out in an outfit that...well it didn’t look like she’d be getting in the ring in. It wasn’t perfect, but the made a legitimate attempt to make it a proper goddamn rumble. Ember Moon popping in was great (mirroring Almas appearing), obviously their working with a smaller roster.. I really enjoyed seeing some of the past women there. I lost my shit when Lita came out, and again when Trish did as I grew up absolutely thinking those two were the most amazing ass kickers. Kairi was nice to have appear as well. There was a lot of rolling out of the ring to kill time/catch their breath etc, but I think that comes with rumble experience as for timing for that kinda thing as opposed to staying in the ring etc. I was happy to see the Bella’s, but it came down to kinda the same as the mens..  oh god if Nikki wins people are gonna whine because ‘oh shes Cena’s fiancee, etc etc’.  I wasn’t even sure who I was rooting for at the start. I know I would have been happy with most of the people in there winning, I was really hoping for Asuka or Nia Jax.  I love that it literally took the group of them to chuck Nia out, makes her still look like a big strong lady.  Absolutely thrilled with Asuka getting it, she’s tough as nails and it goes with her whole being absolutely bloody unstoppable thing.  I was SO happy they chose to not have Ronda Rousey IN the rumble, having her come out after was perfectly fine. It was interesting and will lead to things soon but it didn’t just throw in someone and have them win something like this.   So yeah, over all I’m very happy. I’m sure people still have complaints, but for me it’s the best one since I started watching wrestling again.