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rawiswhore · 3 years

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Rowdy Roddy Piper x Fem Reader- "Flash Forward"

This has to arguably be my corniest, cringeworthy fanfiction I've written so far.

But...this is a fantasy I've had, and I hope I'm not disrespecting Rowdy Roddy Piper with this fanfic by typing and posting it on his birthday...

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A lot of professional wrestlers during the 1980's weren't really pretty boys and sex symbols in the looks department.

However, there is one pro wrestler from the 80's that's an exception, and he is one of the most iconic wrestlers of the 1980's (and of all time in general): Rowdy Roddy Piper.

He got even cuter and dare I say it, sexier during the end of the 80's and early 90's when his hair grew longer, especially when he didn't have those bangs over his forehead.

In the 80's and early 90's, the World Wrestling Federation as it was known then didn't have hardly any profanity, almost no sexual content besides the Ravishing Rick Rude, barely any bleeding, didn't have wrestlers breaking tables set on fire or falling off of the tops of cages and landing in thumb tacks, and didn't have wrestlers playing porn stars, pimps, sex addicts, or even rappers that say politically incorrect insults.

The WWF was like a live action Saturday morning cartoon aimed at kids during the 1980's, but...it was still over AF back then.

What it means to be "over" in the wrestling world is something wrestling audiences really enjoy; and the WWF was really popular during the 1980's despite not having Attitude and Ruthless Aggression era-esque content.

Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage, Andre the Giant, Rowdy Roddy Piper and the Ultimate Warrior were massive draws in the 1980's and early 90's without swearing, throwing middle fingers, drinking beer, or anything else "adult like", Hulk even tried sending positive messages to kids with drinking milk and saying prayers, and these were wrestlers that were household names, popular enough to cross over into pop culture, appeared on talk shows, and people got out of their seats and cheered loudly for them.

The WWF in the 80's was proof that you could still be over and popular without having R-rated content.

However, during one moment in the late 1980's WWF, there was a particular moment that wasn't quite so family friendly and kid friendly, and even a bit Attitude and Ruthless Aggression era like.

During the late 1980's, Rowdy Roddy Piper no longer had his iconic Piper's Pit interview segment, but instead would sometimes appear on Prime Time Wrestling in the WWF, where wrestling commentators would speak behind a table and it looked like a news program.

That'll do just fine for your little plan.

Rowdy Piper had grown his hair longer by the end of the 1980's, and he looked so much more handsome with long hair.

During a segment on Prime Time Wrestling in 1989, Rowdy Roddy Piper had hosted it and didn't have any little bangs clinging to his forehead.

He looked so handsome like this and you told him you didn't want him to have bangs during this segment.

You had your hair teased and hairsprayed, this was the 1980's, and wore a midriff bearing halter top and short little denim shorts that reached the tops of your thighs.

There's a reason why you wore this.

This moment of Prime Time Wrestling was filmed for television, and you set next to Rowdy Roddy Piper while he was rambling about something.

You were just staring at him, grinning and thirsting over him and how hot he looks, biting your bottom lip and looking like you wanted to fuck him.

You didn't wear red lipstick in this segment because you're afraid if you bite your lip, you'll get red lipstick on your teeth, although you're worried you'll get lipstick on your teeth in general.

The other person Rowdy Roddy Piper was talking to noticed you looking at Hot Rod, mentioning how you're staring at Roddy like you want him.

Eventually, you leaned into the little microphone in front of you and put one of your hands on Roddy's shoulder, telling him he's really cute.

Pretty soon, the camera focused solely on Rowdy Roddy Piper sitting down behind a table as well as you, not the other person the Hot Rod was talking to, the camera filling the entire television screen with the room Roddy and you were sitting in.

You had then lifted your feet off of the floor and placed them on the chair you were sitting on, standing on the chair and then placing one of your feet on the table in front of you, then the other foot on the table.

Roddy's eyes grew wide seeing you now standing on the table, and your back was turned in front of the camera while your torso and head were in front of Rowdy Roddy Piper.

You began to slowly sway your hips back and forth horizontally, swaying your hips to some sexy mood music that fit the pace of your dancing, you were trying to sexually arouse the Hot Rod.

Rowdy Roddy Piper had an ear-to-ear smile spreading across his face while you danced for him, his eyes looked at you, thank goodness he was standing behind a table to hide his boner.

Even though this wasn't filmed, your fingers were grabbing onto the bottom of your top and started lifting it up your torso more and more, and Rowdy's eyes were staring at your hands, he knew what was up next.

'Tis a shame that the camera isn't filming your torso, however...

As your top elevated up your torso more and more, pretty soon, the bottom of your top was over your breasts, showing your barenaked tits in front of Rowdy Roddy Piper, flashing him.

You didn't have a bra underneath your top or even nipple pasties, but you were showing the Hot Rod what Jerry Lawler would eventually nickname "puppies".

Roddy's eyes grew wide and wild seeing your tits, he had a huge ear to ear smile plastered and spread across his face.

You flashing Rowdy Roddy Piper predated when Drew Barrymore flashed David Letterman in 1995.

(Author's note: yes, this fanfic is inspired by when Drew flashed David, since David has his iconic late night talk show and Rowdy Roddy Piper had his Piper's Pit interview segment...)

Unlike Drew, it wasn't a quick little blip where she quickly lifted the bottom of her top, flashed her tits and then covered her boobs, you showed Roddy your breasts for quite some time.

Not just that, but you wiggled your breasts a little bit back and forth, as well as slightly bounced and jiggled your breasts.

You then got off of the table and straddled onto Rowdy Roddy's lap, where you can feel his erection under his kilt.

You removed your hands off of the bottom of your shirt and put them on the sides of his face, where you pulled him into your face and locked his lips in between yours.

His eyes were slightly bugging out and looking at the camera while you kissed him, whereas your eyes were closed.

Surprisingly, he isn't trying to push you off of him, no, he likes this.

You want to do more than just kiss him and flash him your boobs, and your hands moved from his face to his shirt collar, where you tried to rip and tear apart his iconic Hot Rod shirt a la Hulk Hogan.

Would he be angry if you did that to his signature, iconic shirt?

Rowdy Roddy Piper used to disrespect and troll people all the time, sometimes saying things that were downright problematic and shocking.

You feel a little horrible deep down inside for tearing apart such a wonderful shirt, but goddamn it, you want him, and your hands tore the middle of his shirt, more of his skin was showing under his shirt.

The camera eventually cut away from this, just in case things get too naughty.

Despite the WWF's Golden era of the 80's and early 90's being a family friendly era, this moment wasn't so particularly kid friendly and quite risqué.

Though, compared to Katie Vick, Jacqueline in thong swimsuits that left little to the imagination, Sable showing her breasts covered in handprints, and the Kat flashing her puppies to the audience, this moment is tame.

The WWF's Attitude era was an era that was popular around the same time Jerry Springer's infamous talk show, Jenny Jones and Ricki Lake's talk shows, Howard Stern, "South Park", Tom Green, Marilyn Manson, Lil' Kim and Eminem at his most shocking were all at the heights of their popularity, these things being notorious for being trashy shock value pop culture.

And guess what? The WWF during its Attitude era was very shocking and dare I say it, trashy.

However, during the late 80's and early 90's, Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison were popular and controversial comedians infamous for their vulgar, obscene comedy (that was considered shocking even back then), 2 Live Crew were a popular and heavily controversial rap group notorious for their sexually explicit, pornographic lyrics that got them banned in their native Florida, Madonna was at her most hypersexualized during the early 1990's, Morton Downey Jr. and Geraldo Rivera had infamous talk shows that were predecessors to "The Jerry Springer Show", and so many hair metal bands sexually objectified women.

Maybe in the late 80's and early 90's the WWF could've had an Attitude era-esque era back then.

Actually, if you think about it, Rowdy Roddy Piper was a bit of a predecessor to the WWF's Attitude era; with his trash talking, insulting others and even saying and doing some things that are politically incorrect and problematic nowadays.

#rowdy roddy piper #1989 #80s #birthday #happy birthday #wwf

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animeartnerds-blog · 4 years

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Introduction Time!

Hello world of Tumblr. Thank you for wondering onto our humble blog. We are just here for a simple reason; that being to post our art, writings, scribbles, thoughts and ideas. These things will center about the current world of pop culture, anime, books, television and movies.

So as we get started let us introduce ourselves!

I'll start us off. I just want to begin with putting the basics:

I go by: Slowbito on most social media's, my official name is Ed or Eddward.

Here's a list of the things I've watched, *for favorites

Animes- Naruto*, Bleach*, Full Metal Alchemist*, Hellsing*, Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop*, Samuria Jack, Pokemon*, My Hero Acedamia*, Fairy Tale, Hunter x Hunter*, Avatar the Last Airbender*, Dragon Ball Z, Death Note, Fooley Cooley*, Inuyasha*, Sailor Moon, Black Lagoon, Black Blood Brothers, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell*, Tokyo Ghoul, Sword Art Online, xxxHolic, Wolf’s Rain*

Currently watching: Fairy Tale (restarted from beginning, trying to keep interest) and HxH (that I have almost completed and really putting off because I know it isn't complete T-T) and about to start Demon Slayer and The Rising of the Shield Hero

T.V- Shameless*, Lucifer*, Rick and Morty*, House M.D*, Disenchantment*, The Office*, The Handmaids Tale, The Walking Dead, Bojack Horseman, Big Mouth, Adventure Time*, Stranger Things*, Modern Family, American Horror Story*, The Good Place, Regular Show, The Simpsons, Family Guy*, American Dad, South Park, Bob's Burgers*, The Venture Bros, Drake and Josh*, iCarly, Victorious (though some of these are animated, I put them in this catagory because I don't think they are meant for young children)

Currently watching: Shameless, Bojack Horseman, American Horror Story, The Handmaids Tale, The Good Place

Cartoons: Spongebob*, Lilo and Stitch*,Gravity Falls, Steven Universe*, The Amazing World of Gumball, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Tom and Jerry, Courage the Cowardly Dog*, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Rugrats*, Dexter's Lab, Teen Titians*, Power Puff Girls, Cow and Chicken, Scooby Doo*, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends*, Chowder, Looney Toons*, Kim Possible*, Lizzie McGuire*, The Proud Family*, Wizards of Waverly Place, Even Steven*, Jake Long, Recess, Brandy and Mister Whiskers, Jessie, Phineas and Ferb

Currently watching: Spongebob, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, wanting to watch We Bare Bears, Over the Garden Walls

Movies: Spirited Away*, Howl's Moving Castle (Anything Studio Ghibli) Lion King, Robin Hood, The Nightmare Before Christmas*, The Corps Bride* (Anything Tim Burton and Disney), Shrek* (Anything Dreamworks), Harry Potter*, Avengers series and indiviual movies*, Forrest Gump, E.T, The Hobbit* (animated and live action), Shawshank Redemption, Slingblade*, Back to the Future*, Jurassic Park*, The Wizard of Oz, Rocky series, Terminator series, 50 First Dates, Marley and Me, Grown Ups, 300, American Pie, Matrix*, Hellboy series*, Toy Story's (Anything Pixar), Avatar, Men In Black, Joker*, Dark Night/Batman series, Fast and Furious

So basically I've seen a good mix of things. I love animated things, anything that is funny, stupid, or has a good story. I grew up on Disney, Cartoon Network (Adult Swim), and Nickelodeon. I didn't have cable so a lot of what I watched was on the weekends at my nana's or when we would record tapes and brought them home. We owned so many movies, and honestly I'll never grow up so anything meant for kids, I probably have seen or currently watch. If it's even somewhat popular or trendy then I try it out and see if I like it. Even with some of these I watched I didn't like them all (I know, shame on me).

I'll give you the basics of me, as best I can. I am opinionated, but not really into politics. I never really grew out of my childhood, I am easily entertained, meme's are a simple joy of mine, and I love to watch old vines. I was introduced to YouTube by Oni, and she started me off with the best: NigaHiga, = 3 (Ray William Johnson), Anna Akana, and eventually Markiplier, and so on I grew my own likes; VizziePop, Collegehumor, Buzzfeed, Pewdiepie, Boyinaband, Prince E, TheOdd1sout, Jaiden Animation (Oni's find), FailArmy, so on and so forth. I like astrology, and my sign is Tauras. I loves food, cooking and baking is a side hobby, and I'm into all the nerdy stuff like reading, drawing, role play, and gaming.

Alright, now I will leave some links to some profiles of mine below and will leave it all to my partner!

Link for DA: Here Link for Amino profile: Here Link for Youtube: Don’t have one yet... Link for personal Tumblr: Here

~Latest Art Example~

*currently my digital tablet is out so this is what I have to work with*

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Sup, Tumblr. This is my intro post.

I’ll be simplifying myself to the fundamentals:

Firstly, I go by: OniBlueArt on most social media, my name bestowed to me at birth is Oni.

Here's a list of the things I've watched, *for favorites

Animes- Naruto Shippuden*, Blood+, Dragon Ball Z, Assassination Classroom, The Ancient Magus' Bride, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Appleseed, Fruit basket, FairyTail , Attack On Titan, Baccano!, Baki The Grappler, Kamisama Kiss, Black blood brothers, Black Butler, Black lagoon*, Claymore, Devil May Cry, GunGrave, Psycho-Pass, Devil Is a Part-Timer, Wolf’s Rain*, Witchblade, Trinity Blood, Vampire Knight, XXX Holic, Tokyo Ghoul, Berserker, My hero Academia*, Soul Eater, Servamp, Hellsing*, The Sheild Hero*, Vampire Slayer, Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken, Fire Force,* Hunter x Hunter*.

T.V- Lucifer*, House M.D*, The Handmaids Tale, The Walking Dead, Stranger Things*, Modern Family, The Good Place*, Veronica Mars*, Reba*, Grey’s Anatomy, Raising Hope, The resident, New Amsterdam, Fresh off the Boat, Ghost Whisperer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Doctor, That 70’s Show*, Izombie, Once Upon A Time, Black Mirror, New Girl, The Ranch, Dexter, The 100, 13 Reasons why, SHerlock holmes*, YOU, ZOO.

Cartoons: Rick and Morty* Family Guy*, American Dad, South Park, The Boondocks (P.S I just hate most cartoons/Kid Shows from Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. Fight me)

Movies: Spirited Away*, Howl's Moving Castle (Anything Studio Ghibli, Disney, or Tim Burton , Shrek* (Anything Dreamworks), Harry Potter*, Avengers series and individual movies*, Shawshank Redemption, Jurrasic Park*, Terminator series, 50 First Dates, Ace Ventura (anything Adam Sandler or Jim carry) Marley and Me, Grown-Ups, American Pie, Matrix*, Hellboy series*, Toy Story's (Anything Pixar), Avatar, Men In Black, Joker*, Dark Night/Batman series, Fast and Furious

So I share a lot of things with my partner and some things I don’t. Everything in the lists above I generally like.

Now time to get to the basics of what makes me, me.

Here is that list of things: Oxygen 65% Carbon 18% Hydrogen 9.5% Nitrogen 3.2% Calcium 1.5% Phosphorus 1.2% Potassium 0.4 Sulfur 0.2 Sodium 0.2 Chlorine 0.2 Magnesium 0.1 Other >1%

So i hope that helped you get a better understanding of me.

Last but not least my social media handles! I hope you check my teammates as well!

Link for DA: Here

Link for: Amino Survivors Community

Link for: Amino Art Hotel Community

~Latest Art Example~

#animeartnerds #anime #art #intro #dog #furry #sketch #digital #movies #tv #shows #cartoons #sarcasm #ignore my partner #Ed #OniBlueArt #Slowbito

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southparksjw · 6 years

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The Problem With South Park Ships

The issue with shipping South Park characters is that you are shipping literal children together. Even though they may not act or sound like children, they are still canonically in the 4th grade. Therefore wanting these kids to be in relationships is gross and pedophilic.

Fantasizing kids (even fictional) in relationships is disgusting, especially with the majority of the pornographic fan fiction and fanart that is distributed among this website or other fan accounts. Even when aging up, you are still just making up for the fact that you want 9 year olds to kiss each other and fuck. Seriously, if I see another NFSW fanart that doesn’t specify that they aren’t adults 18+, I’m reporting you guys to the authorities.

While the concept of shipping these kids is already gross, what’s even more vile is Kyman. Kyman is sadly one of the more popular ships in this community and features usually Eric Cartman as the dominant controlling one and Kyle Broflovski as the sub. This is one of the most abusive relationships that I’ve seen portrayed even in a show that I hate, but for people in this community to want them seen as a couple is even worse. There isn’t a moment portrayed in the cartoon where Cartman isn’t talking about how much he hates Kyle or isn’t bullying him for being Jewish. For people to fantasize about them being a couple (usually without Cartman shaping up his act and still treating Kyle like shit) is outright disgusting.

Another topic to discuss is Creek (ship between Tweek Tweak and Craig Tucker). This is obviously the most popular ship in the South Park community since its confirmation in Season 20. Even though this may be the lesser evil of some ships, it still has its flaws. The romanticization of mental illness being used through these kids is toxic. While not confirmed by the show itself, the fans usually diagnose Tweek with anxiety and ADHD and Craig with depression. While portraying these mental illnesses is fine as long as you are doing it accurately and in a non-glorifying way, this is usually not the case. Glorifying and romanticizing behaviors played through by fan fiction and fanart is a common theme, especially on Tumblr. This is not ok, especially when the “solution” to the problems experienced by the characters is usually just confiding with your boyfriend and all your troubles will go away. This is not ok, especially when the majority of people who see this work are teens.

Overall, it’s a very good idea to not ship these kids, and if somehow all this can’t change your mind about why it’s destructive: focus on making sure the content you put out isnt glorifying mental illnesses or abuse. I’ll make another post in the future about how relationships are portrayed in the show and how they too are toxic in a future post.

- Mod Kenny

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hallelujuh · 6 years

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shay’s favorite tv shows from 2017

this has been in my drafts for.... nine months.... fuck.

Written in December 2017, updates are from September 2018.

Considering how many new, innovative shows are around these days, I didn’t get too adventurous this year, but I’m satisfied with the ones I did watch. I discovered new shows, I was impressed by the shows I’ve been following for years, and I learned to appreciate the work that goes into television more. Here’s my top ten TV shows..

10. Thirteen Reasons Why - In all honestly, this is only here because I haven’t been able to watch Peaky Blinders yet, and it’s probably too late. (UPDATE: Watched it in Jan and it was amazing.) This show received a lot of backlash, and for good reason, although it had its moments. The characters were well-written, the relationships were given depth that is often lacking in other high school-set narratives, and the tone was great. I’ve always loved watching things that make me profoundly sad, and this show did just that. (UPDATE: Season 2 was fucking garbage lmao.)

Standout episode: Tape 1, Side B. It’s a cripplingly depressing show, but this episode stood out as a moment of light in Hannah’s dark reality. Her friendship with Jessica and Alex was nice in the beginning - their banter, them having a spot in the coffee shop. I remember assuming Alex was gay (I believe his actor is, so I wasn’t too off) and thinking that’d be good for Hannah, to have a guy friend who wasn’t interested in her and wouldn’t add relationship drama to her life. Boy, was I wrong. Still, having seen the show at the beginning of the year, this episode is the only one I remember as enjoying, so it gets this spot.

9. A Series of Unfortunate Events - I read the books in elementary school, and they’re one of my favorite series of all time. I’m also a huge fan of the film, though I know most aren’t. So I was very excited for this series, and it didn’t completely disappoint. While I found myself longing for the actors from the 2004 motion picture, and some of the directing decisions weren’t choice, it was cool to see The Miserable Mill finally come to life, and I loved the Baudelaires just as much here as anyone else. I’ll be tuning in to next season, since I’ve very, very excited to see how they handle the next three books. I can’t wait to meet the Quagmire triplets, and Esme, and Jacques! It’ll be awesome. I hope they portray it well, but there’s no film to compare it to from here on out, so maybe it’ll be different.

Standout episode: The Reptile Room: Part One/Two. Like I said, I wasn’t a huge fan of how most of the characters were portrayed in this adaption, but I did love Uncle Monty. He was just as wonderful as he was in the film and books. Watching his interactions with the kids was really nice, and as always, made me wish they could’ve remained with him. Stephano wasn’t as menacing here as he is in the film (that knife scene is the point in the film where you go, “woah, this dude’s for real. he’s scary”), which was a bummer because I still thought Olaf was a laughably bad and incompetent villain by the finale, but I did like Poe’s hysteria, and I really loved the movie theatre scene.

8. Riverdale - Oops I never wrote this dfdsbfjdbfjds.

7. South Park - While we all can agree the last season was a mess, and this one was only a slight improvement, it did have it’s moments. I’ve been a fan for five years now, so at this point, they’ll never disappoint me, tbfh.

Standout episode: Doubling Down. While Put it Down was wonderful, both satirically and because of Craig and Tweek’s adorable relationship, the eighth episode of the season was my personal favorite (UPDATE: Not sure why ‘cause I didn’t specify then and I’m not sure now.)

6. Dear White People - I didn’t do this one either damn.

Standout Episode: Chapter V. While the show is a comedic take on racial relations, this episode is an emotional, serious change. The Barry Jenkins-directed episode shows us that the subject is no laughing matter, and it very clearly deserves this spot.

5. Rick and Morty - Yet another show I discovered this year, during the summer. I’d been meaning to watch it for ages, and I finally got around to it. While the fanbase is pretty much poison, the show is pretty damn good. Maybe not what it’s hyped up to be, but great none-the-less. I’m a big fan of adult cartoons, and RaM isn’t entirely satirical like South Park, and it’s not self-aware like BoJack, but it holds up. It’s probably so popular because of how unique it is.

Standout episode: The Ricklantis Mixup. While my personal favorite of Season 3 was The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, because I adore Jerry, I think we can all agree that the was the best episode of the season, if not the series. Like, really. Holy shit.

4. Gotham - I began watching this show last year, and caught up to season three around halfway through it. It began to drag a bit, admittedly, like it couldn’t carry it’s own weight - but now the show’s on season four, and it gets a little wild sometimes, but it’s holding quite a bit better, I’d say. I was pretty fucking impressed, especially with the Nygmobblepot stuff.

Standout episode: A Dark Knight: Queen Takes Knight. Although Mad City: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies from Season 3 is a close runner-up, for all the loose ends it ties up, and so cleanly, too - the winter finale gets this spot. It had me on the edge of my metaphorical seat (since I was actually curled up in bed) the entire time. While Sophia’s character and her motivations had remained muddy since her introduction, her badassery finally came to the forefront, and it was awesome. The way she tore down Penguin from his throne? Incredible. We know he’ll return, as he has so many times, but really, that was so incredible. Considering he’s my favorite character, I should feel worse. However, Sophia executed her plan so well, I was too awed to hate her. Also, Jerome’s back! I’m extremely excited to see Jerome’s role in the upcoming episodes. (Update: Oh, honey, you got a big storm coming...)

3. BoJack Horseman - I binged the hell out of this show just before season four came out, because it was so creative and thought-provoking and hilariously depressing. The fourth season was notably wonderful in a lot of ways, particularly because of Todd’s sexuality arc (the first out asexual character in a TV show!) and how well it was handled, but also because of the mature themes they took on. Princess Carolyn’s miscarriages, Diane and Mr. PB’s failing marriage, BoJack’s struggle to forgive his mother, Beatrice’s own troubled upbringing, Hollyhock’s eating disorder. I watched the whole season in three days when it was first released, four months ago, and I’m currently considering re-watching it after rereading the summaries of each episode to refresh my memory. I’d forgotten how phenomenal it was. It’s on another level - it really is.

Standout episode: Time’s Arrow. Though there wasn’t a single weak episode this season, this one definitely stood out. Following the tradition of uniquely depressing eleventh episodes, Time’s Arrow focuses on BoJack’s mother and how her turbulent childhood affected her. Gorgeously executed, it makes us pity the woman who made our favorite alcoholic horse the way he is, and it concludes with BoJack making peace with his mother, who he had spent so long resenting. It’s just a gorgeous episode. I think I’m going to rewatch it right now, haha.

2. Mr. Robot - I’ve wanted to watch this show since it came out, but I finally began and finished the first two seasons just weeks before Season 3 came out. Since I’m discussing my favorites of 2017, I won’t be talking about those first two seasons here. I’ll be focusing on Season 3, which has been, in my opinion, incredible. What began as a modern, nerdy take on Fight Club has become so much more; a masterfully dark and suspenseful fictionalized look at the looming political state of our world. We’ve gotten new characters (Irving, who’s a gem), we’ve learned more about older but mysterious characters (poor repressed Dom), we’ve had to say goodbye to old characters (I’m still mad about ******), and best of all, this season has been Tyrell heavy, and we even got to see Elliot make peace with Mr. Robot.

Standout episode: S3/EP8, eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko - The previous episode had already established a gorgeously melancholy setting through the use of Mac Quayle's gorgeous production 2.0_6-madame3xecutioner.oga, which, as a huge fan of film scores, I instantly fell in love with. The song is featured during a scene I watched several times - the scene when Angela repeatedly rewinds the explosion, unable to cope with the reality of it. It left me feeling similar to the way I had after watching American Beauty for the first time - like the world was a different shade. I thought this would be the only moment the show could invoke that response from me, but then the next episode came out. Unlike Ep. 7, Ep. 8 didn’t have a single moment. The whole episode brimmed with pain and sadness. The show’s already sad, but the lonely, isolated feeling is often overwhelmed by the suspense, drama, and excitement. This episode let the characters hurt without interruption, and it was wonderfully emotional.

1. The Get Down - I was so thrilled when I discovered this show in April, literally a few days after Part 2 had aired. I downloaded all the episodes for a road trip, and literally could not put it down the entire tme. It blended all my favorite things - the art of rap, the origin and evolution of hip hop, how battle rapping/deejaying came to be. The music was stellar, the cinematography was breathtaking, the acting was (for the most part) wonderful, and the cast was fantastic. I’ve seen some criticizing it, because of its occasionally choppy narrative and the fact that Baz Luhrmann added his usual whimsical take on something that was historically fairly dark, but I thought it was flawless. It was definitely groundbreaking in its amount of representation, and it was fun and colorful and emotional and, overall, just absolutely wonderful. Like many others, I was pretty devastated when they cancelled it. I understand why, but I wish it could get the Sense 8 treatment and receive a movie. There’s too many loose ends - it’s a real bummer. Still, I’m grateful we were blessed with this gem of a show at all.

Standout episode: S1/EP11, Only from Exile Can We Come Home - The final episode gets this spot for a single scene; the one where it alternates between Mylene singing “I’m my #1″ in the hotel room with Jackie and all the drag queens, and the scene where an unreleased Miguel song is playing while Dizzy & Thor paint on each other, and then Shao calls Dizzy his “alien brother.” That scene was easily one of my favorites I’ve ever seen in any show, in my entire life. If that episode was a film, that scene alone would guarantee it a spot on my favorite films list. It was that good.

#mine #txt #2017

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groundramon · 6 years

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I don’t like south park because, at the risk of sounding heterophobic, I’m not interested in the cishet white male’s opinions of our society.

I guess put a (tm) by that white cishet male because, specifically, I think of the one episode of south park I did watch. Was doing a little experiment where i checked out four of the most popular adult cartoons at the time (/still are, as of writing this) and those four cartoons were Rick and Morty, Family Guy, South Park, and Bojack Horseman. All of these cartoons I went in knowing what to expect - the only one I expected to like was Bojack, and I didn’t expect to like the first episode. The two that offended me the most were Rick&Morty and South Park. Rick and Morty probably offended me because I was probably lowkey hoping I’d change my mind about it, even if I didn’t realize it, and also it’s harder to deal with being right about knowing you’d hate a popular show when everyone around you says its great. But whatever, it was more of a personal thing. South Park I went into fully expecting to hate, hoping I could understand where some of this fake-intellectualism came from but ultimately still expecting to be offended and annoyed.

How did it piss me off more than I expected? How did it piss me off more than Family Guy? By the way, I googled the ep I watched of South Park - it’s smack dab in the middle of fan-rated lists of South Park. It’s not like I happened to randomly select one of the worst episodes, or went to the beginning of the series. I picked a modern-ish episode at random, and it seemed based on my research that it was a fair sample of the show. Family Guy’s episode I watched I didn’t look up, but the particular ep didn’t have any ableism jokes at Joe’s expense (besides the old age concept of people in wheelchairs being like “fuck stairs” but that’s just understandable, idk if thats ableism or not but its not rlly my decision so ill shut up now) so I was bored but also like. Whatever. I think they killed a guy? I don’t know. It wasn’t as offensive as it could be but knowing Family Guy’s worst episodes, I’m thankful I managed to pick an ep at random. (Also I’m not here to defend Family Guy, so if it just so happens that the ep i watched was one of the best modern Family Guy episodes, well, I can’t complain with the conclusions you draw from that either.)

But South Park blew every expectation I had out of the water as far as horridness goes. The animation isn’t any better in action, the voices are EXTREMELY grating (people praise the VA in this and critique the VA in chipmunks?? It’s the same thing dude), and guess what - it’s just as racist as I expected!

I had a conversation about someone who likes South Park/was trying to defend the episode on dA back when I first watched it - and it was a good conversation, don’t get me wrong! They helped me make sense of what the episode was at least TRYING to do, which DID make sense.

But the “message” of the episode was, basically, that pursuing dreams is pretty worthless because shitty people always end up in power through unfair circumstances.

And there’s about 15 things wrong with that, but here’s a few I can come up with on the top of my head. - You have the emotional maturity and mental foresight of me when I was 14. I’ve been actively trying to combat that mindset ever since I was able to recognize my depression because I know it’s bad for me (as an ambitions-driven person). I don’t need people telling me that the work industry - particularly, the work industry that I want to get into - is unfair as fuck. - Can you imagine the galls of the writers who fucking thought this was a good idea? Have you no goddamn self-insight? Like...you realize YOU ARE THIS, YOU ARE THIS PROBLEM, right??? You could become part of the solution!! You’re an influential show!!! But nah let’s be racist instead - Did I mention the entire show is about being racist - Did I mention that the show has to have goddamn pedophilia to make this point. Not tasteful pedophilia or anything! But definitely pedophilia! And everyone is just like :] thats just how it is - Okay so specifically, this show singles out a single “fake” hollywood type (and definitely, definitely isn’t intentional that she’s hispanic) and just mocks her for the entire episode. I don’t give a fuck shit about jennifer lopez and she’s probably problematic but not for any reasons that the people behind South Park care about, that’s for damn sure. - ALSO HEY yknow how South Park creators hate liberals?? Because we fucking criticize them?? And they call us hateful and cruel because we critique them and insult them by name?? LMAO....GUESS WHAT BITCH! YOU DO THAT FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD TO SEE ON YOUR DAMN SHITTY SHOW! ILL MOCK YOU AS MUCH AS I DAMN WANT (and I DONT have to do it by implying your significant other is a pedophile, lmao)

God I need to get off my computer but ill add more on mobile if i get pissed off enough but this is just what i can think of off the top of my head

TLDR: South Park isn’t smart, it doesn’t have a right to call itself “challenging society”

#stormy speaks

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garibaldidaydream · 6 years

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Can We Talk About Big Mouth for a Minute?

So honestly... I really loved this show. everything about it. Even the character design. Yes, it’s ugly... But I really see it as a metaphor for puberty as a whole. It’s ugly. It sucks. I would know, I’ve been going through puberty for years now and I have many more to go. Puberty is one of the ugliest experiences that I and many others have gone through.

And note, I will make a lot of comparisons to Family Guy in this. This isn’t me trying to shit talk Family Guy, I really do enjoy Family Guy, but I do recognize it is not the best show production wise. I like Family Guy and I like Big Mouth too. Another note, this does contain spoilers of the show.

There are many other amazing things about this show as well. For example, the continuity is absolutely phenomenal. Almost every single episode references an episode before it, and it’s attention to detail is absolutely amazing. As well as that, they even keep continuity from the episode itself (and example of this is how Maurice drew a sex creature when he punched a hole in the wall and it stayed there throughout the rest of the episode). It really goes to show; Even some of the most popular adult cartoons don’t take the time to keep up the continuity (Family Guy has one of the bigger problems with continuity, I know it’s had way more episodes but some of them are just very careless, and could have been easily fixed).

As well as that, they put their budget to good use. I don’t know how much money the creators had to make each episode of Big Mouth, but it must have been a lot, since these characters actually have body movement! For comparison, Family Guy often has scenes where characters talk and just... stand there. They’re only talking, no moving back to react or moving around their arms. And a single episode of Family Guy costs around 1 million dollars. The energy in the show is constant, and there isn’t a point where I’m ever bored while watching.

And now onto the characters. Each character is their own, unique character, and while some of them do play to a stereotype (The biggest and most prominent of this being Matthew), they still are their own characters. To compare two stereotypical characters, let’s take Jasper from Family Guy and Matthew. Jasper was made with the intention of having a gay character close to the main cast so they could give their opinion on gay marriage. That’s basically it. I love Jasper but he could be entirely written out and the only thing that would be affected is one episode being written and maybe some scenes. Matthew was written to be gay, yes, but he was also written as his own character; even though we don’t get to learn much about him, we are introduced to him as a snarky bastard who loves drama and insulting people before he’s introduced officially as gay. And even further, these are characters we can really sympathize with, especially those we can relate with. Maybe it’s because these characters are kids, but their struggle through puberty, sexuality, and whatnot is realistic, and I could feel for the characters (especially in episodes like Everybody Bleeds, I could relate to the struggle of Jessi as she faces embarrassment of getting her period in a public place and bleeding through). The show really managed to pull off sad moments as well, which is very rare in adult cartoons (I’ve really only ever seen it pulled off in South Park), and I honestly teared up at these scenes (like the end of I Survived Jessi’s Bat Mitzvah, showing the aftermath of Andrew and Missy’s breakup, and how sad they both were). I was able to really feel these characters, and just how real it felt (even with their metaphor for puberty, aka Connie, Maurice and Rick).

Also, the amount of diversity in the show is amazing?? Of course they have a gay character, but they also have a Jewish character, a physically disabled character, a (hinted) Autistic character, and just so much more and honestly, I live for it.

Overall, if you haven’t checked the show out, do yourself a favor and check it out. It’s one of the best animated TV shows I have ever seen, and it deserves so much more praise than it gets. I really hope this show gets picked up for a season 2, because I honestly need more.

#big mouth #big mouth netflix #its really good #10/10 would recommend

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LGBT representation in Voltron

UPDATED: I realized I wasn’t coming off as neutrally as I’d like and there were hints of shipping peeking through. I also didn’t feel I had expanded properly on certain aspects. I’d like this particular post to be as neutral as possible so that it’s accessible to people from all ships and headcanons.

I’ve seen a lot of discussion lately about LGBT representation in Voltron. From shipping wars to insistent demands that headcanons be fulfilled, it’s all getting a little bonkers. I wanted to step back, encourage everyone to take a breather, and discuss the potential of any LGBT on the show, including and excluding popular expectations. So here we go, a post on LGBT representation in Voltron and in cartoons, and why it's not as simple as we'd like it to be. It’s a little long but don’t worry, there are pictures! AND A COMIC!

DISCLAIMER: I do not work on Voltron, nor do I work for Dreamworks or any of its properties. I'm just an animator who's worked on dozens of cartoons for a number of studios and the following is based on my experience in this industry. This post is NOT meant to indict any of the parties involved in the creation of Voltron or other cartoons. Making cartoons is a complicated, collaborative process and no one is a villain.

Here we go:

Before we can talk about LGBT rep & Voltron, we should probably talk about LGBT representation in cartoons in general. In case it isn't clear, I'm speaking specifically about Western cartoons that primarily air in Canada/US. Anime is a whole other category and one that Voltron does not fall under. I'm also removing cartoons that were made explicitly for adults.

LGBT in cartoons is a really recent development. If we include adult cartoons it can date back as far as 20 years (South Park showcasing some SUPER GREAT gay stereotypes :|) but if we're including cartoons geared towards kids (age 5-17)... we're talking this being a thing in the last FOUR years. And the number of times it's been done is so minimal, it can be summed up in these few images:

(left to right, top to bottom) 6Teen, 2010 CANADA ONLY - An incidental female character revealed she liked women. I don’t think this show ever aired in the States but it ran on Teletoon for years. The show also had an episode with an incidental gay character in 2008. Gravity Falls, 2013 - The sheriff and deputy are repeatedly hinted at being in a relationship. I believe in the series finale their relationship is more clearly identified. It was later confirmed by the show’s creator.

Legend of Korra, 2014 - The two female leads, after having previously dated the same male character, are strongly implied to now be dating each other as they hold hands and walk into the Spirit World together. This was as explicit as they were allowed to get with their relationship. The comics continue their relationship romantically and also highlight other characters from both series who are (or were) LGBT). Steven Universe, 2013 - The show doesn’t shy away from its LGBT romances, in particular Ruby and Sapphire and Pearl and Rose. Star vs The Forces of Evil, 2017 - in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it panning shot, two background male characters are seen kissing. Clarence, 2013 - The main character has two moms. In one episode, a handsome male background character is shown greeting another man for a date by kissing him on the cheek. Initially they were supposed to peck on the lips until other countries’ censors demanded the change. Loud House, 2016 - The main character’s best friend, Clyde, has two dads.

I’m also going to toss out an Honourable Mention to Adventure Time for Princess Bubblegum & Marceline, whose past romantic relationship was sort of hinted at in the show but only confirmed outside of it.

If we take that list and cut it down to just (broadcast TV) primary or recurring characters, we're left with this: Korra, Steven Universe, Clarence

I should also mention that while I repeatedly use the term LGBT, what I’m really referring to is more LGB. I would love to see a trans character in a broadcast cartoon. I’ve heard Amazon’s Danger & Eggs has a trans character, which is AMAZING and a solid start. However progressively speaking, broadcast cartoons tend to lag a little behind live action TV and movies aimed at older teens and adults, and those genres are still struggling to feature trans characters.

So why is this?

Firstly, and more importantly, a lot of these shows air in countries that aren't nearly as open about LGBT as USA/Canada are. To say "screw those guys! They should keep up with the times!!" is to cut out a major consumer base and most companies are unwilling or unable to take that financial hit. This doesn't make them evil. Animation, just like filmmaking, may be an artform but it is first and foremost a BUSINESS. Major companies like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network won’t lose money, but the production studios they hire to do their shows will suffer the brunt of it and could lose the business of these powerful corporations. It’s happened time and time again that a show initially animated in the US or Canada has been taken away from that studio in favor of a cheaper, overseas option. In some cases they’ve closed.

Second, even in 2018 there is still a lot of pushback from homophobic or “family-oriented” groups with decent clout and numbers. Also, there is a strange pervasive idea that LGBT is something that is Not For Children, likely because too many foolish people still associate heteronormativity with love and everything outside of that with sex.

Additionally, you may have noticed that on the list of the three shows showcasing LGBT relationships in a primary or recurring character way... ALL of them feature women. The social discussion about why that is honestly merits an entire other post (or 5) so to put it plainly, broadly speaking, people tend to be more comfortable with female queerness over male queerness. We have yet to see a m/m relationship that has any iota of history or character development behind it, or a recurring queer male character.

With this in mind, Voltron, which features a primarily male cast, and thus has more chances of featuring a male LGBT character, has its work cut out for it.

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Fresh off the heels of Korra, a series that in the 11th hour featured the two female leads ending up with each other, it's no surprise that showrunners Lauren Montgomery and Joaquin Dos Santos( along with other cast and crew) have fielded a barrage of questions about their intention to depict LGBT on the show. At NYCC when asked about it, this was JDS & LM's response: "It's very important to us... we’re fighting to create as open and as broad a spectrum of characters as we can."

Which is a pretty interesting way of putting it, and a pretty understandably CAREFUL way of putting it. Again, I want to reiterate, I don’t work for any studio involved in the production of Voltron so this is largely conjecture.

So here's how the hierarchy works, as far as I can tell.

I'm not sure who approached who to get a new Voltron made, but primary creative decisions would fall to JDS and LM, who are in charge of things like major plot points, characters, and arcs. When they've figured this stuff out, they pitch it in a multitude of sessions with Dreamworks People... and that's when the battle begins. Pitching a show is always a tug-of-war. Let's be clear: No creator has ever gone in with a show and walked away with every single aspect that they wanted. Compromises and concessions are made because while the Creatives are focused on their story and character, their client is concerning themselves with budget, timelines, audience targets and $$marketing$$. Before they even got to the matter of LGBT, JDS/LM had lost and won battles over some plot and character decisions. You can actually feel it sometimes when you watch the show; key emotional moments that never happen, or character stuff that gets shaved in favor of action or the reuse animation of the lions forming Voltron.

This show is still aimed at a young, male, market Dreamworks wants to believe is going to buy their incredibly limited line of related toys, and that is a market that is difficult for executives to see as being interested in romance, let alone a queer one.

The point is, as much as JDS/LM seem to want LGBT in their show, it is a negotiation that I'm sure has been on the table since Day 1 and probably one that is ongoing. Here's a vague idea of what MAY have gone down:

Dreamworks: We will consider the idea of two of them in a relationship, but the third has got to go. JDS/LM: .....we appreciate you considering the relationship aspect. Dreamworks: In addition, we feel that to balance the scales so to speak, at least one character needs to be overtly heterosexual. You know, hit on a lot of female characters, maybe even fall for one of them.

(sorry would have finished the comic but I sprained my wrist and I’m not supposed to draw rn but I cheated a little, also can you tell I love Saga)

This is very probably not what happened, but it is an example of what could have. I know there is a lot of support for a certain character in Voltron being bi, not least of all because of something LM drew.

I think the placement of the characters holding the signs were less about associating the character with the header and more about making sure neither of the two warring ships were represented; it would have incited a new level on the shipping wars and the message and intent behind this art would have been lost.

There is a weird association with relationships and how they define a show if they aren’t hetero. Have only one relationship on a show about space battles and if it’s LGBT, people will start associating Voltron with being “the gay space battle show”. I don’t want to get into Discourse about This Thing because debate gets lost quickly in favor of toxic insults, but I think it’s important to touch on Bi!Lance. To be entirely neutral about it, it is possible that Lance was originally intended to be bi. But if there was the potential for other characters to be LGBT, the showrunners might have been asked to “strike a balance” so to speak, so that Voltron wouldn’t just be “the gay space battle” show since its hetero relationships would outnumber the queer ones. I don’t think Lance’s character has changed at all since his inception; the show needs a funnyman for levity and ridiculousness, and he is absolutely the charmer of the Paladins. He may have been intended to hit on just about any attractive being in his orbit (there are shades of what one might call a “man-crush” in regards to his Shiro hero-worship). While it would have been awesome to have a bi male character in a cartoon, changing his attraction dial from “all” to “female” doesn’t really affect his storyline, especially since it’s hard to contest that the show has been angling in potential for endgame Allurance in seasons 3&4. I realize that sounds dismissive of the bi experience, that’s really not what I’m trying to get at. I’m saying that in the grand scheme of things, it may have been easier to sacrifice an LGBT Lance in order to win another LGBT representation battle. Like I said, making cartoons that maintain the creative, storyline, and character goals you walk in with is a tug-of-war, and you’re going to lose something along the way.

But it’s not all about Lance, and again, that’s all theoretical. It’s also possible that Pidge was at one point NB or even trans. There are hints of Coran having a close friendship with Alfor. The original blue paladin is hinted at flirting with a fellow male character in a “did he just--” moment that most people missed. Lotor surrounds himself with female generals but never seems particularly attracted to them. Keith’s undying devotion to Shiro could be interpreted as romantic. There are a dozen main characters whose orientations are nebulous at best and thus have potential to be queer.

So what does this mean for the future of LGBT on Voltron?

The short version is: I'm actually, really, really hopeful. For a number of reasons.

1) JDS/LM as they've said, are fighting really hard for this to be a thing. Jeremy Shada has said "You'll be really happy" when asked about LGBT on the show. People may feel he’s referring to his character Lance, but I think he’s just hoping that people will be happy with any character who could be explicitly stated to be LGBT.

2) Netflix isn't a TV broadcaster, which means they can operate under somewhat different rules. Sort of. They certainly don't shy away from LGBT content but they may be regulated under rules of "what is appropriate for children in certain age groups" which frustratingly, for kids 12 and under, does not often include LGBT content. Netflix notoriously doesn't release their viewership data so this is just speculation; but I wonder if the biggest audience taking in this show is actually people, primarily women, aged 14+. Taking this into account won't influence the plot, but the bumped up age could show an increased likelihood of LGBT rep as it pushes the show outside of the "content too sensitive for young children" zone.

3) It would be really nice to see explicit, unambiguous affection between two same-sex characters. However there can still be canonical queer romance without it, shades enough of “just friendship” that they can get past the censors and bigots while those who are more aware of what’s going on can recognize the relationship for what it is. Remember, some people still refuse to believe that Victor and Yuuri kissed in Yuuri on Ice, all thanks to the clever placement of an arm. Furthermore, LGBT doesn’t have to be portrayed through relationships but just the character itself. A character could make a passing comment that alludes to their sexuality. It’s not quite as satisfying as having it out in the open, but DW’s hands may be tied by the stipulations of the contract outlined by Netflix.

4) Despite what certain world events would have you believe, people are becoming more progressive and supportive of LGBT rights and content. We've seen it happen in movies and live-action television. More and more cartoons are going to be including LGBT content, in broader and more overt ways. There will be other cartoons who feature main characters who identify as LGBT, recurring characters in LGBT relationships who are allowed to be affectionate and cutesy with their partners, who are represented no differently or reverently than hetero cartoon romances. Voltron will likely end within the next two years, and within those next two years more and more cartoons will be taking "risks" and more and more broadcasters will feel emboldened to allow them to do so. If Dreamworks keeps its content steadfastly heterosexual while fellow producers embrace LGBT, it's going to reflect badly on them.

People are desperate for representation in this show and it’s not hard to see why. It is not only one of the few serial cartoons out there, but one that deals with surprisingly adult themes considering it’s aimed at elementary schoolers. I think it’s really neat that people have so many headcanons about the LGBT rep in this show, and I think it’s great that it’s an element that has sparked a lot of passion in people. However, everything is still conjecture, the series is but half over, and putting all your LGBT demands onto one character or one relationship is unhealthy. It’s also pretty insidious to attack or harass crew, cast, or fellow fans whose views on how the LGBT should happen don’t align with your own. The show’s arcs and plot points have been written, the characters decided, but the internal fight over LGBT rep could still be going on. The creators aren’t going to cave to pressure from people who really want their ship or their character to be the sacred cow. Ship what you want to ship but recognize that while LGBT on the show may not happen the way you’d like it to, it’s still important to support its existence no matter what form it comes in.

In the next part I’m going to cover one relationship in particular as neutrally as possible and whether or not it has potential to become canonically romantic.

#anim vld #meta #voltron #vld #voltron meta #voltron legendary defender #klance #sheith #sorta #lgbt

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joyofcrime-elinorhigh · 5 years

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Rick and Morty REVIEW: (With MiketheHuman113)

... ... Ahem... To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theo-

Hello everybody, my name is JoyofCrimeArt and welcome to my first review of Deviant-cember year two! In case you aren't aware what Deviant-cember is, it's we're I post one regular upload every Monday and one cartoon review every Friday for the entire month of December. Why am I doing this? Well, consider it a Christmas present from me to you, as a way to thank all of you for helping me get this far. I've done a lot in my three and a half years on this site, and want to keep doing better and better things as the years go on. But I never would of gotten this far without all of your support. You have no idea how much I appreciate all you guys do for me, but hopefully this can give you all somekinda idea. Anyway what can be said about Rick and Morty that hasn't been said already? Ever since the series premieres on adult swim back in 2013 it has blown up in popularity and has become a GIGANTIC hit in not just the animation community, but also in main stream nerd culture as well. T-shirts, figurines, stupid twenty four hour Youtube livestreams that Youtube just won't stop recommending me no matter how many times I click the "uninterested" button, the show is everywhere. Even the big M themselves have taken notice. Clearly there's something about this show that really resonates with people. But what is it? What is it that makes people love Rick and Morty so much? I don't know. Cause I don't like this show. At all. Okay, maybe "at all" might be a bit strong, as there are a lot of elements of the show that I very much like. But as a whole, I really don't get why so many people love this show so much! I tried to like it, I really tried, but no matter what I could never give the series more than just an "okay" at best. And this isn't just hype backlash either, I've been watching the series since episode one, before the show had the recognition that it has now. I just don't like this show! But why don't I like this, you may ask? Is there something there that everyone else see's that I just don't see? Man, if only I had someone semi-notable to help me answer these questions, perhaps in some kind of "collaboration" style situation- WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB!

*Gasp!* MiketheHuman, from MiketheHuman Deviantart reviews? (PLUG!) mikethehuman113.deviantart.com… Here?! In my review? What a simply preposterous concept, if I do say so myself! I’M MR. MIKESEEKS! LOOK AT MEEEEE! *pause* Yeah, I’m not gonna do that voice for the whole review. But it’s still great to be here, man! Right. So let's dive right in, and talk about the adult swim smash hit, Rick and Morty. Also light spoiler warning for the series ahead. Though we'll try to leave a spoiler warning before we talk about any important plot points...let's say beyond the season two finale. Just in case you havn't seen the show yet and want to check it out for yourself. Let’s do it! So grab your plumbus and a bowl of Eyeholes because it’s time to get schwifty in here! I apologize for nothing. Rick and Morty, created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, follows the adventures of Rick Sanchez, an amoral, narcissist, alcoholic mad scientist who, after twenty years of being mysteriously absent from his families life, shows back up into there lives out of nowhere. The series follows Rick, along with his neurotic yet somewhat snarky grandson Morty, as they go on a wide array of sci-fi adventures. Along for the ride is Rick's vapid yet spunky granddaughter Summer, his emotionally repressed daughter Beth, and his idiotic loser of a son in law Jerry. Galaxy and Multiverse spanning shenanigans ensue. Now normally this would be the part where I would go into more details about the characters, but I want to save that for a bit later. As for now I want to talk about the elements of Rick and Morty that I personally think work the best. One thing about Rick and Morty that I have to praise is the way that the show handles it's voice acting. If there's one thing that people think of when they think of Rick and Morty, it's the shows trademarked use of adlibs and retroscripting. Characters stutter and fumble there words when they talk, (A staple of co creator Justin Roiland's work.) and while it may sound like it would get annoying very quickly, it actually gives the show and by extension the comedy a very naturalistic feel, as well as gives a uniqueness to the shows dialogue. The characters talk like how real people, and it's refreshing to hear when compared to the way characters talk in tv shows. Also because of this process the show lends it's self to some really good improved lines. I have to praise co creator Justin Roiland, who does an excellent job voicing both Rick and Morty. He manages to make the two characters sound completely different from each other and the fact that he voices both characters also makes it all the easier for chemistry to build between them, in the same way some cartoons have all the actors record in the same booth to give there characters a dynamic between the characters. It really is impressive how a single man can create two insanely iconic characters with two distinct voices that are still both very much his own. He’s certainly not the first to do it, or even the first to do it in the realm of adult cartoons (Trey Parker and Matt Stone from South Park and Seth MacFarlane from Family Guy), but still, if you were to close your eyes and listen to either Rick or Morty speak, you’d immediately recognize them. And the improvisational style of comedy and dialogue shines through in a vast majority of the show’s episodes, especially both episodes revolving around Interdimensional Cable, in which the writers and voice actors just have a blast throwing whatever they can at the wall and seeing what sticks. Trust me, it’s a lot funnier than it sounds. The rest of the case also deliver good performances as well. Particularly Chris Parnell as Jerry, who plays the character in a very similar way to the way he plays Cyril from Archer. (However, not so similar the point where it feels like the exact same character.) My only criticism with the shows voice acting is that, while Justin Roiland is able to give two characters completely different voices, he's can't really do a third. This results in a lot of the shows side characters sounding very similar, as Justin Roiland plays a lot of them. Sometimes it works in cases where he goes really out there with the voice and comes off very funny, but it's hard to deny that characters like Mr. Meeseeks, Noob Noob, and Mr. Poopybutthole pretty much all have the exact same voice, and it can be a bit jarring. And to be fair, this is an issue Justin Roiland’s had in several other shows he’s done voice work for. Lemongrab from Adventure Time and Blendin Blandin from Gravity Falls both pretty much share the same voice as Mr. Meeseeks and the other previously mentioned characters, for example. It’s a type of voice that I can totally understand if you would get easily annoyed by, and if you see the first episode and you’re already sick of the voices, then this show likely isn’t for you. But if, like us, you find an earnestness and charm to both Rick and Morty’s voices and verbal tics, then it’s just one extra detail to appreciate about the uniqueness of this show overall. The comedy of the show is also pretty strong. While many lines do feel like there improvised (and improved well) a lot of the jokes in Rick and Morty feel very layered in terms of the way that they are written. And considering the sometimes over year long break between seasons it would be hard for me to believe that multiple drafts and rewrites and weren't used when writing these jokes. The shows humor feels very well thought out. This combination of both deeply written layered jokes and off the cuff drunken improve works well in tandem to make the humor really work the majority of the time. I admit that I'm not the biggest fan of dark humor, and that does hold me back from loving the shows comedy, but I completely acknowledge that that's a personal preference, and doesn't take away from the shows writing on an technical level. I feel the show does best when it delves into absurd surreal humor, which it often does. The comedy of Rick and Morty is extremely quoteable in the same way that say The Simpsons and Futurama are. Not to mention the way the shows surrealist style of humor melds so well with modern meme culture. Weather or not that's a good thing or a bad thing I'll leave up to you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUpsKsBqqwE

Well, especially given the universally negative reaction to the fanbase lately, I’ll just assume most of you find it a bad thing, so moving on. However, if I had to pick the element of Rick and Morty that I think works the best, it would be the series creative way that the series satirized and subverts the tropes of science fiction genre. Without going into to many specifics, it's clear that the writers behind this series know there sci fi lore and the series is constantly doing new and creative things with it's sci fi premise. This is where the show really shines, with episodes like "Total Rickall." "Auto-Erotic Assimilation" and "A Rickle in Time" while not necessary being the best episodes of the series per say, are the episodes where we see the series at it's most creative, at least in my opinion. Not to bring up the Futurama comparison again, but the series does sort of remind me of Futurama in the way that it satirizes the science fiction genre. Though Rick and Morty's take on the genre is a lot darker, and this does help a lot in differentiating the series and stop it from feeling like a rip off. Even in the show’s weaker episodes, which tend to vary from person to person, you’re almost always guaranteed to encounter something you’ve never seen before. This all comes down to, as previously mentioned, the creativity of the ingenious writers. Even if an episode’s concept has been seen before, the writers will throw enough twists at it to make it feel fresh and new. “Anatomy Park” isn’t a great episode because it’s a parody of Jurassic Park, it’s great because of all the areas explored and the creatures encountered, and the overall unique conflict. “Look Who’s Purging Now” isn’t just great because it parodies The Purge, it’s great because it takes that concept and kicks it up to eleven in the best and most creative way possible. This extends into the episodes that aren’t just straight-up satires, but if I were to list them all, we’d be here all day. This series has this massive scale to it, in terms of the scope of it's story. The world and adventures of Rick and Morty exist on an entirely cosmic scale. The series goes well out of it's way to make you feel the unimaginable scope of the multiverse. It's not something that you see much in many other series. It's one of the shows greatest strengths, but it also may be one of the series biggest weakness too too. But I'll go more into that later. Unfortunately one of the series flaws is that while the writers are able to give the science fiction elements this massive scale, they aren't really able to do this with the more mundane elements. Weather it be Morty's crush on Jessica, Summer's boy troubles, or Beth and Jerry's struggling marriage (which to be fair I don't think I hate as most Rick and Morty fans seem to, and I personally think did improve a lot in season three...) these elements just never seem to be as interesting as the sci fi adventures, which is probably why the series tends to focus less and less on these elements as the series progresses. And to be fair, while it can be a bit frustrating that these plot points are rarely touched upon, there is always a chance that they will be touched upon in future seasons. Even if they aren’t, the focus of the show is still primarily the bizarre, downright insane adventures that Rick and Morty themselves go on. The more mundane elements can kind of be considered a cherry on top of the ice cream sundae that the writers sometimes forget to add. I also want to briefly talk about the show's animation. I've heard a lot of people call it bad. And yes, while it isn't the greatest looking series (I mean it's adult swim after all) I think the the animation does what it's suppose to do. While the art style may not be as crisp and clean as say Steven Universe, I don't think the show would of worked if it was. The world of Rick and Morty is alien, dark, bizarre, and ugly. And the animation reflects this. Sort of like the story the mundane Earth elements is where the animation feels the weakest. But when the series goes into the weird alien worlds and the artist get to just fun with it, that's where the art really shines. It uses creativity to make up for any of it's other shortcomings, and most of the time it works out pretty dang well.

And unlike other “edgy” adult shows like, say, Mr. Pickles, Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, King Star King, and the like, Rick and Morty’s style of somewhat ugly animation isn’t ugly for the sake of ugliness. As Anthony said, it helps that the worlds visited are usually quite varied, unique, and at times even beautiful. No two areas look the same, and it's just another thing to look forward to with each new episode you choose to watch. This applies to both the worlds visited and the creatures encountered, even if most of them end up looking like penises and testicles, whether by accident or on purpose. You make the call! I also want to give the series credit for being, to my knowledge, the first adult comedy cartoon to have a fairly thick continuity. Where actions in one episode has a direct effect on other episodes. (And yes, I'm sure there was some adult comedy series before Rick and Morty to have a continuity, but I'm talking specifically about series with a fair bit of continuity, not just occasional status quo changes or references.) However this show does suffer a bit from what I call Adventure Time syndrome in terms of it's plot points. What I mean with this is that the series will introduce interesting concepts for new plot lines, and just reset to the status quo. Like (Spoiler Warning) the family being intergalactic outlaws after "The Wedding Squanchers." Aliens colonizing the Earth, also in "The Wedding Squanchers." Or the entire Season three divorce plot line. All things that would have been interesting to expand upon, but are just undone to return the series back to the status quo. (Spoiler's Over Now) However, luckily not all the changes are like that, and there are some series changing elements still present in the show, which works to keep the series fresh. It can be quite risky for a show like this to have a non-floating timeline, as it poses the risk of alienating the audience, but Rick and Morty pulls this off quite well. True, there are some episodes that you pretty much can’t skip if you choose to watch this show, like the aforementioned “Wedding Squanchers”, “Total Rickall”, “The Rickshank Rickdemption” and most notably “Rick Potion #9”, but for the most part, the show doesn’t punish you if you’ve missed any of these episodes. The plots themselves are mostly self-contained and if there’s a plot point from a previous episode that makes a return, it’s generally not the main focus of the episode, but more something for the dedicated watcher to pay attention to. But with all of that said, I think it's time that we go back and talk about all the stuff that I said we'd get back to. Let's start with the characters, particularly Rick. Because, while this show may be called "Rick and Morty" the show is really about Rick. Not only is Rick the most popular character in the series BY FAR, but he is also in the A plot of every single episode of the series as of the first three seasons, while there are several episodes where Morty is given the B plot. Your opinion on Rick will make or break this show for you. I will say that Rick is by far the most interesting character in the series. I also think that he is the funniest character, with most of the series's best lines coming from him... ...But honestly, I frickin' hate Rick. And frankly I think about ninety percent of the reasons why I don't like this show come down to how the show treats Rick. WHAAAAAAAAAT?! How could this be?! Rick is an amazing character! This revelation comes off as totally shocking to me and not as though we had planned it weeks in advance! Please go on, I need to hear what you have to say!

Rick's just a really unlikeable character to me, and he becomes more and more unlikeable each and every season. Really, I don't quite get why so many people like him. He's honestly not anything I haven't seen before. He's the same token jerk who you see in every other adult cartoon. You see, ninety percent of all adult American animation tends to fall into two main camps. They'll either have a cast full of jerks, (Like most Seth MacFarlane series for example) or they will have what I refer to as the "token jerk." Y'know, the jerky character who usually becomes the fan favorite because they say what's on there mind and usually have the best lines. Often times the character is an alcoholic, a womanizer, a cynic. And don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with this type of character at all! I don't want you to get that impression. It's a character trope, and there is nothing wrong with character tropes if you use them right or do something different with them, and in all fairness Rick does have a bit more depth than most other characters that fall into this camp. The problem though comes from to way that the show treats Rick. And to explain my problem with Rick, allow me to present this graph I made to help illustrate my point! God, you're a loser. Hey, who the heck said that?! Oh, sorry, that's my TRADE. The fu*ks a TRADE?! Oh, just my Totally Real Assistant that Definitely Exist. Don't worry about her. (She doesn't do much.) I have a name you know. It's- Oooh, side characters interrupting the review. Okay. Nice lore, Linkara. You wanna be the victim of my next satire? I'll...I'll be good s-sir. Yeah, this'll make no sense to any of your watchers you know. Anyway don't you have a graph to show off or something? Ah, right. You're both idiots.

So as you can see by this graph, there tends to be a scale that most "Token Jerk" adult cartoon characters fall under. There's an axis of how likeable vs how evil the token jerk will be. The farther left you go, the more likeable or sympathetic the character is. There the characters who are jerks, but aren't too jerky to the point that we stop rooting for them to succeed. And the farther right you go, the more unlikeable the character is. These are the character who we want to watch fail. We want to watch them be jerks, but then get there just desserts at the end of the episodes. It gives us a sense of schadenfreude. And characters don't just have to be on one side or the other, they can kinda dance around the line depending on the situation, but overall they tend to have some general point that they fall under. And both types of characters can work. One side is not better than the other. It all depends on how well the character is written and how the series presents the character. Okay. So if that's the case where does Rick fall on this axis? Well see, that's my biggest problem with Rick. The show wants to play it both ways! If we're going by moral standards Rick would be WAY on the right side of the graph. He murdered countless people, destroyed several civilization, supplies assassin's with weapons, literally owns slaves, and he also steals cable. Overall, he's a very bad bloke. And again, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. The problem comes from the fact that the show also wants us to sympathize him. And I don't. His actions are horrible, and the fact that this show has continuity makes it even worse, because it makes it a lot harder to look past his actions. Cause basically what were watching over the course of the three seasons that are out so far, is the story of an abuser slowly conditioning his family to take his abuse, and it get's really bad in season three. Again (Spoiler Warning) But if you pay attention it's fairly easy to see how twisted Rick is. He abandons his daughter for twenty years, causing her to grow an almost stockholm syndrome-esq dependency complex, doing anything Rick wants in order to prevent him from leaving. He then purposely let's himself get captured in the season two finale as part of his plan to get rid of Jerry, and not only reawakens his daughters fear of abandonment issues, but passing this fear onto Summer as well. Resulting in her gaining a hero complex regarding Rick. Rick pressures Beth into divorcing Jerry, and due to her newly revived fear of parental abandonment she excepts even after admitting she love's Jerry seconds before. Then Rick either replaces Beth with a clone that he could destroy at any time, or a version of Beth that thinks she's a clone and THINKS that he destroy at any time. All as a ploy to take over the family by manipulating his families abandonment issues that he himself caused. Cause if they don't do what he says doesn't he can just leave again. Who knows, maybe that's why he left twenty years ago in the first place. I mean the creators have said we're never getting any kind of backstory on Rick. All so he can forever force his family to be his assistance, weather they want to or not. (Spoiler's Over Now)

So yeah, between all of that I just don't find myself liking this character. Just because he has one or two sympathetic moments doesn't make up for everything else. What doesn't help is the fact that, despite all of his horrible actions, he always comes up on top. In all thirty one episodes out so far there are only two episodes where Rick really loses. "Auto Erotic Assimilation" and "The Rickchurian Mortydate." You could also make an argument for "Meeseeks and Destroy" but he chose to lose in that one. Other than that, he always wins. He's always right. He always get's his way. It get's to the point where he really comes off as a real Mary Sue character, where he always has something that can fix the situation at hand. Even if it's not set up or even explained, we're just suppose to buy it because it's Rick's and he's the smartest person in the multiverse. Well, the Mary Sue argument is one that I’ll gladly defend against. While yes, Rick does end up winning in a majority of the show’s episodes, it’s not always something he does effortlessly. He has to use his wit and scientific skills to figure his way out of the terrible situations he finds himself in. There’s even some instances in which he has to rely on others to bail him out of an episode’s conflict. He was the only male on Gazorpazorp in the episode “Raising Gazorpazorp” and had to be bailed out by Summer, he lost a ton of IQ points in “The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy” and only didn’t die because of pure luck, “Get Schwifty” shows that he doesn’t work well under pressure, hell, even in “A Rickle in Time” not only is he one of the main contributors of the episode’s conflict due to his own uncertainties, but the episode ends with Beth and Jerry laughing at how ridiculous he looks. I’d hardly call that a win. Plus, I think he has more sympathetic moments than you give him credit for. We find out at the end of “Ricksy Business” just how sad and lonely he is with the revealed meaning of his catchphrase, there’s a really subtle scene in “Something Ricked This Way Comes” that displays just how lonely he is without the rest of the family, he actually apologizes to Jerry for interfering with him and Beth’s Marriage in “The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy”, and both “Big Trouble in Little Sanchez” and “Pickle Rick” explore how self-loathsome and flawed of a person Rick is, especially with the speech delivered to him by Dr. Wong in the latter episode. The latter two examples may not be sympathetic moments, per say, but they do at the very least prove that he’s not a Mary Sue, or Marty Stu, if you will. And (Spoiler Warning) while I will admit that it’s a pretty despicable action to try and force two people into a divorce, I think the audience can make an exception for Beth and Jerry. Prior to season three, everyone wanted them to divorce. Just ask any fan of this show and they’ll say they wanted them to divorce, I guarantee it. True, but it's how it was handled that bothers me. If Beth and Jerry decided to separate on there own, I wouldn't of minded it. It's the fact that it was Rick, the man with all of the emotional power over Beth, that pulled the strings to make it happen. (Spoiler's Over Now) The show makes many parallels between Rick and God, and I admit that the idea of a person who has all the power of a god, but all the flaws and vices of a human is interesting. But it doesn't really work in the way that the series presents it. We know Rick's going to win in the end, and there's no tension as a result. Also because of this there are a lot of easy ways that problems can be fixed, but aren't because of the plot. Like in "The Rickchurian Mortydate." (Spoiler Warning, Again) Why doesn't Rick just leave and find a universe with a more submissive family? It's not because he loves them, because he's reality hoped before. Also, why doesn't he just use the mind blower from "Morty's Mind Blowers" to just erase Beth's memory of possibly being a clone once it started becoming a problem for him? That's just one of many examples of plots that could be solved WAY easier then they are. (Spoiler's Over Now) The shows nihilistic philosophy also helps make it hard to care about anything that happens. When there are an infinite number of realities, and the show goes with the idea that anyone can easily be replaced by one of the infinite possible versions of themselves because nothing matters, then why should I be invested? Who cares if someone dies, they can just go find another version of them, or clone them, or whatever. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters, which I guess is the point of the show. But to me what it really comes down to is that Rick and Morty is the story of an immoral, emotionally abusive all powerful God, who always wins and exist in a universe where nothing matters. And we're suppose to be emotionally invested? How am I suppose to relate to a God? I'm sorry, but it just doesn't work for me. At all. Again, I would disagree that Rick always wins, but I think you just hit the nail on the head on why people relate to Rick and, by extension, this show. It is purely nihilistic, but, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, so is this latest generation of millennials! I know, I know, there’s a lot of stereotypes surrounding this group, but I’m not kidding when I say that nihilism in this day and age is more prevalent than ever. All you need to do is go to any news channel to figure that out for yourself. But that’s why people can relate to Rick. He’s the ultimate in nihilism. He has all the power in the universe and yet he’s absolutely miserable. He can create anything he wants at any time he can, but he’s lonely; he can’t relate to people, he’s harsh to the people that love him the most. A lot of people around our age have found themselves in very similar states of depression that Rick is going through. Obviously a majority of the people I’m referring to aren’t super geniuses like Rick, but that nihilistic aspect of his character just makes it that much more relatable that even a character as godlike as Rick can be as bitter, unhappy, and lonely as a lot of people find themselves these days. Maybe that’s why a lot of people can identify with him and look past the terrible things he’s done that have either been seen or alluded to. That is an interesting perspective. I guess I can see how some people could relate to this. And if Rick and Morty has helped people like with these problems realize that there not alone, than I can't fault it for that. I guess part of it comes from the fact that, I'm not a nihilist. I try to be an optimistic person and see the best in things, so maybe that's why I have trouble relating to Rick. As for why he doesn’t just switch universes, he did say in “Rick Potion #9” and “Morty’s Mind Blowers” that it’s something he can only do a limited amount of times, so there’s at least a bit of an explanation for that. Yeah but they never explain why he can only do it a couple of times. If there are an infinite number of universes then there should be a infinite number of universes at any given moment that he could switch to. It's not like traveling between universes is at all difficult for him. It honestly just feels like a line thrown in to try to give the show more stakes, even when there aren't any. Honestly this may be something that we might have to just agree to disagree on... The rest of the cast range from meh to okay personally. Though they all commit the same kind of terrible acts that Rick do, though to a much lesser extent. This, again, makes them hard to like. Also several characters like Summer and Beth seem like there written pretty inconsistently between episodes. If I had to pick a favorite out of the main cast I'd probably say Jerry. He's flawed, he's by far the most likeable, and I'm actually rooting for him to win. Sure he's not perfect, and has his fair share of jerky moments too, but when it comes to character motivations all he wants is a normal life. It's hard not to root for that. I also do kinda like Morty's character act of learning how to manipulate Rick and becoming more and more disillusioned with with him. Someone that doesn’t loathe Jerry with a fiery passion of a thousand suns? I thought people like that didn’t exist! It’s nice to know SOMEONE doesn’t despise this harmless character. Yeah, he’s not perfect and he can be manipulative at times, but WAY too many people treat him like he’s the most unlikable character ever conceived. To that I say, really guys? Is he really that bad? I will give you Summer and Beth, though. Summer can be cool but wildly inconsistent, and Beth is just….the worst. Never funny, always bitchy, and always unlikable in every episode she’s in, with the exception of the final two episodes of season 3. Hell, when she was threatened into making a choice of saving one of her two kids, she INSTANTLY chose Summer. Right in front of Morty! Why does a majority of the fanbase hate Jerry when Beth exists in this show, exactly? I know. I personally don't get it. Personally I think a lot of my points I pointed out above are why so many (Not all, keep in mind.) of the people in the Rick and Morty fan base are so toxic. Because while yes, the show does try to show that you shouldn't be like Rick, they never really show any negative repercussions for acting as such. The show gives off this vibe that, as long as your smart, nothing else matters. Which is a real philosophy that I think is becoming more prominent by the day, as I think that there are people who hold intelligent at a higher value then just being a good person. And I think this attitude is what attracts these types of people. Because it's easy for someone to decide that there smart. (SOME PEOPLE KEEP IN MIND. I'M NOT SAYING ALL RICK AND MORTY FANS ARE LIKE THIS. IN ACTUALITY IT'S PROBABLY ONLY LIKE ONE OR TWO PERCENT. I'M JUST SAYING.)

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You're really using that clip? Yes. There. Now that we've referenced every Rick and Mortmeme I think it's time we start to wrap up this review. I believe you forgot about "Show me what you got." Mr. CrimeArt. Damn. Well anyway, Mike, since you are my guest I'll let you go first. Any final thoughts? And do you recommend the series to anyone reading this who's yet to watch Rick and Morty? (Who somehow got this far into the review.) I can totally see where someone like you would be coming from in your dislike of Rick. I may love him, but I will fully admit that there are a lot of things to hate about him, and his writing isn’t always the most consistent. But that’s certainly not enough for me to dislike him. To me, he’s the prime example of doing a “jerk with a heart of gold” trope perfectly. Sure, he’s done hideously heinous things in nearly every episode of the show, but something about his not-give-a-fu*k attitude, his charm, and his sheer badassery are enough for me to look past his, at times, pure dickishness. He’s funny, he’s sympathetic, and despite displaying all these godlike abilities and powers, the show does a fantastic job at showing that he’s very much a flawed individual, unlike say, Roger from American Dad! Rick may be the most flawed person on the show, in fact, but that’s all up for debate and this review is long enough as is. In short, Rick is amazing and I love nearly every second of the show when he’s onscreen. Though I can understand where others would disagree. As for the show itself, I absolutely recommend it to anyone that hasn’t seen it yet. Though I would advise starting with the first four episodes and seeing if you like what you’re presented with. This is not a show for everyone and if the first four episodes don’t convince you, the rest of the show likely won’t. But if you find yourself enjoying those first four, I can almost guarantee that you’ll fall for this show head over heels. It’s unlike any show that’s come before it, with its unique plots, fantastic characters (even if we happen to disagree in that regard), beyond clever writing, and bizarre yet somehow beautiful visuals that just get more and more impressive with each season. Easily one of my favorite adult shows, if not my favorite, as well as one of my favorite cartoons of this decade, which is certainly saying a lot. Yeah. As for me, as odd as this may sound after my long tangent, I also do recommend that you check out the series for yourself. Wait, Really? Yes. Because, while I do personally have a lot of problems with the show, I've been around the internet long enough to know that I am in the minority. Almost everyone else I've run in to love this show, and I do kinda get why. The comedy is really clever and funny. The worlds they create is interesting. And I admire that the show has the guts to deal with things like philosophy and existentialism. Also the season three finale seems like it'll be making some changes to the status quo that I think would help improve the show for the better, though honestly I have my doubts that it'll stick, but only time will tell. I get why people like the show. There are elements of the show, and even whole episodes that I do enjoy. I also can see how people can like Rick, and just find him more charming and how endearing than I do. I can also see how he can be seen as a power fantasy character. I mean who wouldn't want to be a all powerful godlike jerk who can do whatever they want while still having a heart of gold? There's nothing wrong with power fantasy characters, if there was then Superman wouldn't be a national icon after all. Honestly, I think it's just a personal thing. Something about this show just doesn't click with me, and while I'll probably never one hundred percent understand how so many people can love the show, that doesn't mean that my opinion is anymore valid than there's. So check out the show and watch it for yourself. You'll probably like it. Or maybe you'll be like me, and just not get what all the hype was about... Thanks for coming to help me on this colab, Mike. Any Parting Words? It was great to collab with you, Anthony. I wish the best for your page and to those of you that want to see more of my stupid shit, I do reviews of TV shows and movies and I also do satires of some of the biggest assholes ever to taint the website of DeviantArt! Links to some of my favorites of each down below. SHAMELESS PLUG!!1!!111!11! So that's our thoughts on Rick and Morty. What do you all think of the series. Leave your thoughts in the comments down bellow. I would love to start a conversation, even if your opinion is completely different from my own. Also tell me what you think of the collaboration format. It's something I want to try experimenting with, so I would love your input. And if I were to collab with another deviantart review, which one do you think I should do? Leave all of that in the comments down bellow. Please fav, follow, and comment if you liked the review and don't forget to check out MiketheHuman's page for more reviews from him. And come back next week as Deviant-cember....get a lot more Super. ... Is it Dragon Ball Super? Frickin' TRADE...(Sigh!) Have a great day. (I do not own any of the images or videos in this review. All credit goes to there original owners.)

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Political Satire Effect on Culture

Date: April 5 2017

Journal Entry: 1

The Effects of Political Satire on Society

We live in a mass transit society, and information is available at our fingertips. We live where our culture is saturated in humor and most entertianers are unafraid to poke fun at established norms, religion, politics, and controversial topics. Most of this is done through a vechicle known as political satire. One may ask: what is political satire? The dictionary definition of political satire is a form of entertainment gained from politics that is designed to ridicule or poke fun of politics and political figures. The history of political satire runs deep, as it has been used in subverse regimes whereas poking fun of authority in government is forbidden. Satire dates way back to the ancient Greeks in Athens, with plays are aimed at ridiculing Athenian authority. In reality, political satire has existed since the ideas of government and order have been conceived, and the main mechanism behind the laughter was exaggerating the social problems so much and making them so ridiculous that it would shame the government and society into changing its ways.

Date: April 5 2017

Journal Entry: 2

The History of Political Satire

As it was said; political satire has existed since government and order have existed. The oldest example today is Astriphanes, a playwright who would often poke fun at political figures in his plays. He even poked fun at religion in Greece, with garnered anger amongst the priests and the government at that time. Due to the fact that political dissent was mostly forbidden in many ancient societies, people made political satire as a form to get around the authority figures and under the noses of the people in power. This ultimately leads to many political satirists in the early days gain fame and noteratity by making fun of the current issues and political figures. Mostly, the people in power turned a blind eye to this, but once in a while, a political figure took notice of this, and promptly put a stop to it.

Date: April 8 2017

Journal Entry: 3

Modern Political Satire

In these days and age political satire has worked its way into everything. From late night shows, to adult oriented animated cartoons, political satire is everywhere. Shows like “The Simpsons,” “South Park,” “Family Guy,” and more all have varying degrees of political satire and all have their share of offensive material and media backlash. These shows have made it to where everything is funny, no matter what person or celebrity or political orientation they are. For an example, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker all voice the characters themselves, and impersonate celebrities. In fact, one celebrity wanted to guest star on South Park, and Parker and Stone gave him the voice of one of the protagonists’ dog. In fact South Park comes with a tongue-in-check disclaimer that “all events are fiction, and that “celebrities are impersonated-poorly. This show contains course language and due to it’s content, should not be viewed by everyone.” These shows have had a groundbreaking effect on pop culture today. Not to mention the fact that millennials get most of their information about current events just by watching late night shows, political satire has evolved into a force capable of changing society.

Date: April 8 2017

Journal Entry: 4

It’s the Late Night Show!

Since the invention of the television, the world has been able to primarily view content in their own homes. During the 1950s late night shows became popular and people like Johnny Carlson and Joan Rivers have become household names. This has ultimately lead to other late night shows, which are chop full of political satire. Shows like Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Stephan Colbert, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Daily Show, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee are all popular forms of political satire. We can all probably remember John Stewert’s biting wit in the 2012 election, or Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin during the 2008 Presidential election, these are all methods of political satire. Samantha Bee’s show Full Frontal gained high popularity when it permired on the network TBS a little over a year ago. Samantha Bee is an alumni of the Daily Show, and her biting political humor has mostly been aimed at Republicans. Though no party or politician is considered off-limits, late night shows seem to lampoon more of the Republicans than they do Democrats. One example of this was when Samantha Bee once said that “when you give Trump a copy of the constitution, make sure it has big words and lots of pictures in it.” Since the 2016 Presidential election resulted in Donald Trump getting into the Oval Office, the late nigh comedians were buzzing with material, since Donald Trump has a whole lot of soundbites on him. They’ve turned political satire into a business, and a very lucrative on to be exact. In fact, Saturday Night Live is among the top five shows with the highest ratings according to Nielson Inc.

Date: April 8 2017

Journal Entry: 5

That’s NOT Kosher! (Yes We’re discussing religion) Pt. 1

Political satire has had a reputation for changing the ways that we view our culture. Things such as religion or touchy subjects are no match for political satire. For ages, political satire has had a reputation for wildly blowing controversial issues out of proportion. Some political satire has found its way to make fun of many things that are sacred in America, particularly religion. For an example, in America’s longest running animation cartoon “The Simpsons,” most of the religious authority in the town of Springfield is portrayed as overzealous or apathetic towards the town as a whole. “The Simspon’s character Ned Flanders has been ridiculed and made fun of and is a source of long running gags during the show’s three-decade history. Flanders is often put down by the Simpson’s family patriarch Homer, and in one episode, succeeded in getting teaching on evolution banned from the district’s public school. At first, the town goes along with Flander’s line, but later the ban on evolution was overturned by the supreme court. Other than that, other shows have been able to mock religion too. In the show “South Park,” religion is a primary thing that the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone lampoon. According to Matt Stone, “no topic in South Park is off-limits. Religion is not out of the act.” The portrayal of religious figures in South Park is wildly innane, and most of the religious figures, even religious deities are viewed as hypocritical or stuck-up. In fact, in the episode “Super Best Friends,” Park and Stone were going to show an image of Mohamed the prophet, but due to the threats by prominent Muslim organizations, Parker and Stone settled on censoring the image of Mohamed. This lead to a public outcry and the start of the holiday Draw Mohmand that happens every May 20th. Not only that, South Park also managed to offend Buhhdists by showing an image of the Buhdda snorting cocaine, which led to the government of Sri Lanka banning the show from its broadcasts entirely.

Date: April 8 2017

Journal Entry: 6

That’s Not Kosher! Pt. 2

As we all know, when somebody gets poked fun of, a group of people with always take offense. That is the common understanding that all Politcal satirists and comedians understand. Sometimes, political satire can offend people and it doesn’t have to do with religion. For an example, in one of the episodes of “The Simpsons,” Homer befriends a fellow coworker. When he finds out later that his coworker is gay, Homer immediately cuts off all ties with him, and shuns him. This episode of “The Simpsons” drew harsh criticism for stereotyping gay men, but also received praise from LGBT organizations by “bringing to light the homophobia and prejudice that people of the LGBT community endure in the workplace.” Other times, shows have drawn harsher critism. For an example, in South Park, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parkey impersonate celebrates. Well, some of their impersonations have gotten the show in legal trouble, with not only religion, but with celebrities as well. A prime example of this is the episode “Trapped In the Closet.” Stone and Parker wanted to make fun of the Church of Scientology, and actor Tom Cruise (who is a member of the Church of Scientology). They wanted to poke fun of Cruise by saying that he was gay, but since that could get them into legal trouble, they just made Tom Cruise lock himself in the closet. The basis of the episode goes that one of the protagonists of the show, Stan Marsh goes to the church of Scientology, thinking that he is depressed. After the workers of the church in the town of South Park run tests on him, they reach the conclusion that Stan Marsh is the reincarnation of the creator of the church of Scientology. Naturally, the President of the Church comes to Stan Marsh’s house, along with the media, the prominent workers of the church, and even a few celeberites in tow. Tom Cruise manages to sneak into Stan Marsh’s room and asks him how he likes his acting. When Stan Marsh states that Cruise was not a good actor, Cruise gets distraught and locks himself in Stan’s closet. This drew anger from Tom Cruise and the Church of Scietology, who threated to sue the creators of South Park. Eventually, Matt Stone and Trey Parker got revenge on Cruise in a later episode, which showed the actor packing fudge in a fudge factory.

Date: April 8 2017

Journal Entry: 7

That’s Not Kosher! Pt. 3

South park isn’t the only show that satire has been criticized. Other shows have drawn critics in the way that they crossed the line too. The show Family Guy has received numerous amounts of backlash over the years from parents, Pro-Censorship groups, religious groups, anyone you could think of. An example of this is the Parents Television Council (PTC), a conservative affiliated group that has published many negative reviews of the show. The PTC has filed several complaints to the FFC against Family Guy in it’s sixteen year long run. Most of the complaints were about indecency in the show, and Seth McFarlane even got sued one time. One example of the criticism of the show came when the creators premiered the episode “Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.” In the episode, Peter Griffin’s friend Quagmire injures himself prompting his sister to come down and take care of him. But his sister is involved in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend. The episode drew criticism for the way it portrayed abusive relationships. The PTC and other organizations called the episode “obscene,” as well as various women’s groups decried the episode for “desensitizing viewers to the pains of domestic violence.” This episode is one of the many examples where political satire, especially cultural, has offended great amounts of people. Never the less, Family Guy generates millions of dollars in syndication for a multitude of networks. Family Guy has also caught flack for an episode they showed a cutaway gag of Peter Griffin committing mass murder at a marathon. Since the episode happened just months of the infamous Boston Marathon bombing, the show caught flack from censorship advocates, and even the families of the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing tried to sue the creator of Family Guy. Family Guy is seen as an in-between version of South park and The Simpsons, not entirely viewed as witty as The Simpsons nor as offensive as South Park. Yet Family Guy has succeeded in angering parents, and right wing organizations it’s whole entire run.

Family Guy screams of Silence Episode

Date: April 8 2017

Journal Entry: 8

Political Satire: Culture

One cannot deny the effects of political satire on today’s culture. If you look around, you see constant references, jokes, and even gags in shows all because of it. The Simpsons, well known for witty plots and a sly critique on social aspects of life, has become a pop culture icon as well as Family Guy, Saturday Night Live, and even the Daily Show. You look on HBO and you see Real Time with Bill Maher and my personal favorite, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. There is no doubt about it that political satire has impacted our culture in lots of ways. For an example, in South Park, they ridicule political correctness so it seems ridiculous, and in the episode “Safe Space,” they satiricalize college and contemporary social justice. Indeed the traces of political satire run deep in our culture. Late night comedy is one of the highest viewed types of shows in our country. Most of these shows appeal to the younger generation, but they are fun for all people. Political satire has the unique ability to engage people who would not normally engage in political matters. According to the Harvard Crimson, students who watched political satire were more likely to have a view on gun control, climate change, or even controversial topics such as abortion than people who don’t (Both groups are taken out of politically disenfranchised groups). Have you ever heard references such as: “I can see Russia from here!” or do you remember when Hillary Clinton appeared on SNL with her impersonator? These are all memorable moments of satire that gave us all something to laugh at.

Date: April 2017

Journal Entry: 9

The 2016 Election: The Most Batsh*t Insane Election EVER

Many of us fondly remember 2016, and some just long to forget. Despite all the campaign ads, a loud obnoxious new-comer to politics, we just can’t get enough. This was also hunting season for the late night pundits. For an example, you remember how Donald Trump would send out tweets and get into fights on Twitter? Or you remember when he got into a war with Senator Elizabeth Warren? Well, the comedians and political satirists were taking note, as they portrayed Trump as a social media whore and an incompetent baffoon. Not only that, the alleged hacks by Russia have comedians like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver think that there is a certain “bromance” blooming with President Trump and Valdimir Putin. (In fact, Stephen Colbert had Cartoon Donald Trump guest star with Cartoon Vladimir Putin (Long story short, Trump and Putin ended up making out). There is seemly no end to the laughter. In fact, John Oliver once said that the politics of Donald Trump is that he is wrong.” Not only that, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah poked fun at President Trump’s infamous Immigration speech. Hillary Clinton got some of the comedic treatment as well, when SNL impersonated Hillary Clinton as a power-hungry politician, which many political analysists said it could hurt her campaign since her and the impersonation were closely tied.

Date: April 9 2017

Journal Entry: 10

Hilarious Politcs: Pundits and Jokes

Political Satirists have always had good material, as politics is an ongoing thing. If one is old enough, they can probably remember all the jokes about former U.S President George Walker Bush, or they remember the golden years of David Letterman on the late night show. But political satire has offered a window where people can freely discuss current events, while laughing at the same time. One example of a type of comedic form is the show “Real Time with Bill Maher.” The show’s host, Bill Maher often lampoons conservative policies and religion, yet he also has guests on his show to hash out real issues. An example of this is when Bill Maher had current Israeli Prime Minister (but back then he was a former Prime Minister) Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu on his show in 2004. The two bantered easily, (They have been friends for a long time), but Maher asked him questions particularly on radical Islam and the dangerous neighborhood that is the Middle East. Since then, Bill Maher and Benjamin Netanyahu have cultivated a friendship that has lasted for decades (One thing that I respect about Bill Maher is that he is one of the only Liberals who see that radical Islam is a threat). In other ways, Maher can be borderline obnoxious, as he lampoons the right, Christianity, and Republicans on his show (He’s not President Trump’s biggest fan). For years, political satirists have had pundits and important state figures on the show. An example of this was Stephan Colbert, as he used to host the comedy show “The Colbert Report.” He had former Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki Moon on his show. Yet in modern days, political satire and late night comedy has taken on a more realistic yet some comedians still maintain their biting humor. New shows such as Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and Last Week Tonight have all taken subtler approaches, yet the hosts still have bombastic humor and wit, especially when concerning controversial issues and our current President. A prime example of this is when Samantha Bee hosted conservative talk radio star Glenn Beck, where the two hashed out that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was unqualified, and both quote en quote “buried the hatchet between them” This was concealed by them both eating a cake with models of them on it (Samantha Bee and Glenn Beck do not like Trump). Not only that, political satirists have had numerous pundits on their shows. The main idead behind it is to give their show a dose of credibility.

Date: April 10 2017

Journal Entry: 11

Not In MY Safe Space!

Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been sweeping reforms inside government. Not to mention, riots due to the fact that Trump won the Presidency. Nowdays, in our extremely politically-correct culture, being offensive is now forbidden.

Yet there is an exception for political satirists.

The goal of political satire, as it has been stated before, is to be as offensive as possible, while making people laugh about it at the same time. South is infamous for it’s foul content, offensive material, and not only that, pushing the limits on what is allowed on television. Not only that, political satire has left room to poke fun at the contemporary culture. An example of this is South Park’s episode “Safe Space.” The basis of it is to ridicule the ridiculous idea of safe spaces, which are popping up all over college campuses due to the demands of entitled college students. There is an allegorical character introduced to the show by this episode, who goes by the name “reality.” Reality tries to destroy the safe spaces of the characters, fails in doing so. This brings to light the fallacies of political correctness, and the challenges modern conceptions of freedom of speech.

Date: April 10 2017

Journal Entry: 12

It’s the Freaking FCC!

Political satire has not only enlightened views, but it has also managed to attract the critism of pro-censorship advocates. Much of the adult animated cartoons have become lightning rods for critism, mostly from the religious right. Much of this is due to the negative depiction of religion in many of these cartoons and late night shows. Due to the fact that most of the material in these shows are aimed towards adults, most of the pro-censorship organizations have pushed for the networks to either cancel the shows or broadcast them at times where children would not be watching television. Despite all the advocacy for shows like Family Guy, South Park, and other shows to be canceled, they bring in high revenue for the broadcasting companies. Overall, the FCC is responsible for enforcing obscenity rules for public broadcasting. Yet one cannot deny the effect of these shows’ wit that has brought many issues to the table. For an example, The Simpsons brought issues concerning the environment to the pubic eye and brought up the issue of gender roles and sexism in their episode “Lisa Vs. Malibu Stacey.” Not only that, South Park, despite it’s foul language and obscenity, has brought to light the sensitive side of children and put many morals, such as the right to die (In the episode “Best Friends Forever), stem cell research, abortion, and other hot button issues to the public in a humorous and sometimes empathetic way.

#anthropological journal #sociology #political satire #the late night show #the colbert report #steven colbert #john stewart #saturday night live #funny #family guy #south park #the simpsons #american dad

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ijustlikeplantsdude · 5 years

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Life

I guess I do need to express my feelings more often, it makes me feel like shit that I can’t actually show anything that’s real, it all feels like a cleverly crafted charade. I’m very clearly from an educated perspective trying to live out my dreams, without any actual way of attaining them do to the cards being so stacked against me. Let’s see, to start us off let’s go over my “origin” (I know stupid fucking thing to call it, but I digress), my father was an alcoholic drug addict that pan handled for money (probably why I have very little sympathy for those people, well not all of them are pan handlers, but you can tell the ones that truly are, that one comes from the gut), from what I remember my mother and father met in either a diner or a rehab center (I know very close relations to one another), I believe this was before my mom really wanted to become a nurse, because I specifically remember going to the day care or sitters a lot because of college, and I also remember her being a waitress when I was little, I remember telling a Spider-Man at my birthday that he wasn’t the real Spider-Man for my 6th birthday I believe. I remember looking at yu-gi-oh cards that other kids had because I didn’t have my own, but I remember also from that night going’s to my aunt Ruth’s and watching one piece, it was on jet-ex I believe, an old kinda more teenager program that Cartoon Network used to host before adult swim really got popular. I remember telling my aunt pan that I felt like time was skipping, and for some reason I think she got worried, I don’t know why she got so worried but honestly that woman had enough to deal with. But I do wanna day another aunt story since I’m on the subject. So to begin I want to say I was the dumbest dumbass kid that ever walked the earth, like I was gullible as shit, so for a Christmas when I was younger my mom and I where up in Maine for Christmas (I think we used to do this a lot but I’m not sure) and I go up to my moms twin and give ask her if this present is for me cause it says Sean, and she says no, so I get confused beyond measure, like my brain was going “there’s another Sean?????” And so I go to my mom, whose in the room over, and ask her and she says it’s for me, now let me tell you what, that got me even more confused, so yeah that’s the three birth aunts, not gonna talk about the non-birth ones cause, well that’s a story for later amigo phone.

There is one more thing I think I need to go over about my father though, like I’ll probably Wright more but this needs to be done, I never met him, well really met him, and that leads to what I need to think about more. That night on the pier. Now this is like full on movie style traumatic, but normally in those movies or tropes, the main characters dad dies before the kid can really know him, but is this amazing guy. Well I can tell you right now my dad wasn’t amazing but the one memory there is that matters is the pier. Now enough filibustering around it for suspense, considering it’s the most vivid fucking memory I have. My dad, my mom, and I where walking along this one pier in either Maine or Boston, I remember looking up at my dad asking him if he’d ever take me on a roller coaster, and he looked me in the eyes and said “when you’re older we’ll come back and ride it” and from what I remembered he seemed happy about it. Now this is probably really specific and there’s no way I was stringing words together this well, considering I was between probably 2-4, but I do remember it and that’s something, I also remember him coming back when I was probably about 8 and I can look back on it now and see he didn’t care about me. He looked to get rid of me the first chance he really got, sending me to bed so he can watch south park, I don’t remember if I really cried then but I feel like I did, and here’s something else, I don’t know the last time that I’ve actually expressed my true emotions... I know that sounds sociopathic, but that’s just the thing, I think I might have been inedvertibly turned sociopathic, like I don’t know if that’s a trait that can be just developed or if you’re born with it but it’d make a lot of sense considering everything. Now this doesn’t mean I don’t love my girlfriend, and care for Kylie, along with jack, Kenzie, and god probably even Bayley. But there’s a lot of good examples on there too about me being sociopathic. But that’s not even all, there’s also the fact that I don’t think I really form any more bonds like I used to, everything, and every way that I used to use to create bonds and friendships with others just isn’t available anymore. I used to be actually able to trust in others and feel something at all times, but now everything is just hollow, I feel like I’m this huge empty shell that can’t do anything, yet I also try to look at it from different spectrums to at least try and feel something again for real. Like plants, what the actual fuck was I thinking, i had no experience, no nothing, while I didn’t feel hopeless yet considering my aunt wasn’t abusing me by this point, why did I do it. Like I just say I like plants and generic ass excuses. But I know the times I’ve told people in public was really when I thought no one would be listening, I like the idea of spreading life, or even just making life, I like feeling like I’m in control, but not over people, I don’t really really like people all that much which is probably why I’m so introverted and hard for me to actually interact with other people, but plants are different, I feel connected to them in a way that I really don’t know how to explain, but really that’s not all, I also really want to leave this planet, like some kids dream of being astronaughts or whatever, but I never thought like that, he’ll I didn’t think I would live to be 18, but hey, I’ll be 19 in August so there’s that, but the thing about space, is that it’s just there, so untamable, and so utterly terrifying, that I truly love it, I would love to be just sent away so that I’d never be with another human again, just allow me to have plants and that’s it, make it so I’ll drift through space till I die of old age, or whatever is out there swallows me whole, either way I’d be happy. But on a more realistic note, being a Astro biologist is something that sounds amazing. Now that I’ve said that I do want to talk about one other things, while I don’t really like talking to people, and generally I’m bad at it, there’s a lot of times when I can be very charismatic, so in

this sea of self hate I would like to put my one true thought in there, that somewhere in my brain, I want to feel, alive. Like I can imitate every single fucking human emotion to the T, without feeling a fucking thing inside, but I want to say that there really is something inside me that feels something, like while I feel like an empty shell, when there are no real emotions needed, that’s when I feel normal. Just driving, talking about food, just talking in general with someone I know, I can feel just plain normal. And now I’m happy, yeah happy, that I’m going to college. Or maybe happy isn’t the right word really, content is more accurate, which is still an emotion but there still the fact that content is (considering how you view the spectrum of emotion) the closest to nothing on a happy scale you can get. But there’s the argument that it is the best thing on the scale, considering that “happy” to put it in broad terms (or maybe specific? I don’t know how that phrase goes honestly) is more like an adrenaline high, or runners high, you just feel euphoria and then it declines, generally speaking at least. While on the other hand being content is just that, content, there’s not as crazy ups and downs, it’s just there. But here’s the thing that makes that statement wrong... feeling worse than nothing. I’m not sure if many people really have ever felt worse than nothing, but that’s the lowest low you can get, and that’s kinda why I have to wright this, it’s all just something I have to do to feel like I’m not completely gone, like I’m about to just drop off into nothing and become just a shell of a human, and the only things that happen to shells in a long path that ends early, and that scares me. I don’t want to end off like that, but there’s also the fact of what if I do get married, I love maria, but I don’t know if I could have kids. I was never really taught how to raise kids, but I know I couldn’t abandon them, yet I don’t want my lineage to continue, if I truly have a brother than if he wants to have kids good for him, if not, oh well. I don’t want any more people like my father to be around.

Here’s something else though, I don’t know if I ever truly mourned my mom. Maybe there’s some part of me that won’t accept that. Considering I constantly am waiting to see her once again. It’s a terrifying thought to have my mother come back but it also makes me happy, like I’m an “oh, honey, I’m so sorry I picked you up late, I hope you didn’t worry to badly” kind of way. And it really really fucking hurts. So many people get to go home to their mom and/or dad, they get to see them, and when they get older they have a plethora of memories to remember them by. But I didn’t get that, what I got was lost. My dad never being around hurt, a lot. But my mom just doesn’t add up. She was a nurse, she understood the dangers of what might happen if she didn’t go to the doctor, I feel like I remember asking a lot if she was okay, but really why did I have to ask, shouldn’t she have known and tried to get help, did she mean to die, and for what, if it was to give me a chance than fuck that, I’d rather have her, but there’s also the chance she just wanted to get away, she lost her dream, and I feel like I killed it in a way, there’s no way I was wanted originally, and I know my mom cared about me considering she gave up drugs, drinking, and alcohol (all quite cold turkey just FYI once she found out she was having me), but maybe she really knew there couldn’t be another one like my dad, maybe she’s always done what’s best for me but I still don’t know. I would just do anything to have her back, even for a second to tell her I love her, she was amazing, and I want her to just sing to me one last time, she had a beautiful singing voice. No wonder she got to tour with easy street and date that one dude in the band. But that’s the end of that, it’s currently 4:34 and I don’t know if I’m sleeping tonight but we will see. Goodnight Nightvale, Goodnight ...

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rawiswhore · 3 years

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Val Venis x Fem Reader- “Thirst Trap Queen”

It seems like every WWF era seems to have a male sex symbol who plays a cocky ladies man and seems to have a fanbase that consists mostly of women.

In the 80's and early 90's Golden Era, it was the Ravishing Rick Rude, in the New Generation era, it was Shawn Michaels, and in the Attitude era, it was Val Venis.

On a "Monday Night Raw" episode near the end of the 90's, when he was at the height of his wrestling popularity, hadn't cut his hair and joined that Right to Censor episode, Val Venis had left the shower, the camera filming him from above the genitals.

Val really previously did take a shower, his hair was damp, he turned the faucet off and water was dripping down his body.

When Val stepped out of the shower, steam was leaving the shower with him, clouding and fogging up the room.

However, he wasn't having sex with anyone in the shower, surprisingly.

Off camera, women and men were getting out of their seats and cheering when they saw Val walk out of the shower.

It's about to get even steamier a few minutes after this.

Goddamn it, you really hope the fog coming out of the shower doesn't blur the camera's lens.

Suddenly, you walked up to Val, which got even louder cheers than him when you were shown on camera.

The character you play in the WWF is a seductive, oversexed, nymphomaniac slut who basically is like the female Val Venis, or vice versa.

Some people would rather ship you with Val rather than with Triple H or Shawn Michaels.

Val's eyes noticed you when you strolled up to him, you stopped walking once you were standing right next to him.

He grinned when he looked at you.

"Hello" he welcomed, grinning and peering at you.

"Val" you said, smiling back at him and putting one of your hands on his chest "I always see you looking like you just hopped out of the shower when you enter the arena"

He nodded his head.

"And?" he asked.

"Well, before you have a match" you said "Maybe I could help dry you off"

The men in the audience cheered loudly when they heard that.

Even Val grinned hearing you say that, but he's pretending to be unbeknownst to what will happen later.

"But I'm not gonna dry you off with a towel" you admitted, naughtily grinning at him.

The men in the audience were a little shocked.

"What's she gonna dry him off with?" Jerry asked off screen, his voice shrill and high.

You then sunk yourself down below where the camera was filming Val, he was looking down at you sink down.

This was implying you were gonna give Val a blowjob, which made both genders in the audience cheer and shout their heads off, shouting "yyyyyyyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Val was grinning at you looking like you were about to give him oral sex.

Even though the camera wasn't filming it yet, Val leaned his head back, closed his eyes and groaned, sounding and looking like he does in his titantron when he was sitting in a car getting oral sex from some chicks.

"Oh my!" Jerry Lawler shrieked "Is she doing what I think she's doing?!"

The audience watching this thought you were giving him a blowjob, but no, you weren't.

You leaned your face below his abdomen and placed the tip of your tongue on the skin a few inches above his genitals, only for you to lick all the way up the middle of his torso.

The tip of your tongue became the majority of your tongue as you licked the water up his skin.

Your body was raising up when you licked up his body, the camera filming you.

This took the audience even more by shock, which made both genders cheer for you, some men even letting out some of those silly wolf whistles at you.

"I wasn't expecting her to do that!" Jerry lied.

Though, what else are you gonna dry him off with?

"Val" you said to him once your head was close to his chest. "I was feeling a little thirsty tonight, and you can quench my thirst"

The women in the audience cheered hearing you say that, though they also wanna ring your neck for stealing their man.

They wanna ring your neck in general, you got to have Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Christian, Test, and eventually Jeff Hardy and they know it courtesy of "Monday Night Raw".

Lucky bitch.

He grinned hearing you confess that.

"Well, y'know what they say about the Big Valbowski" he stated, grinning and smiling while he said this "I can make your mouth wet and moist, amongst other body parts"

Classic Val Venis sexual innuendo.

The women in the audience agreed with that, shrieking their lungs out off camera, whereas the men in the audience off camera cheered and roared with applause.

You blushed and smiled from ear to ear hearing that innuendo, trying to contain yourself, only for you to sink back down to his stomach, slightly crouching yourself on the ground.

When you were crouching in front of Val's genitals, your body was trying to conceal his nudity from the camera, much to the dismay of his female fanbase.

The audience, however, did get to see a view of his leg, and he really was naked in this moment.

Your tongue pressed on the left side of his abdomen, licking up the water all the way up to his chest.

Your tongue was tickling his skin, making his nipples as well as a little something below his navel tingle.

He, meanwhile, looked down at you licking up his body, having his shit eating grin plastered on his face while you licked him.

When your head was close enough to his chest, one of your hands moved up to the end of his hair strand, where you pulled the end of his hair to your mouth.

"Oh no" Jim Ross exclaimed off camera when you pulled the end of Val's hair to your mouth "She's not gonna!"

But before he could finish that sentence, the ends of Val's hair was in between your lips, where you gently sucked the water off of the ends of his hair.

This was the epitome of a confused boner.

The people in the audience had mixed reactions.

Some were cheering this on, roaring "yyyyyyyyyyyyyeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!", others were grossed out, shouting "ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!" and "aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww!!", but they weren't saying "aaaaaaaaaaw" as if something's adorable.

You had a naughty little smirk on your face when you sucked the end of his hair.

Val was smiling at you sucking his hair, though he's also a little bit grossed out.

He wasn't expecting you to do this.

"Val" you said, your fingers pulling the ends of his hair out of your mouth, "Do you have a match to do right now?"

You suddenly didn't sound so sexy or seductive anymore.

"Yes I do!" he confessed.

"So I should stop licking you?" you asked, pouting.

"I'm afraid so" he admitted, frowning. "Though, after this match, the two of us can cuddle up in the shower again, how about that?"

He grinned from ear to ear saying that, putting his hands on your hips and swaying his hips from side to side.

The audience cheered off screen again hearing that.

His grin was spreading to you, which made you sheepishly smile as well.

"That's what I was thinking" you admitted. "Could clean the sweat off of you"

He patted your shoulder, smiling at you.

He then walked away, grabbing a towel when he walked off camera.

There's still plenty of water you haven't licked off of him.

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There's a British Youtuber named Paul Joseph Watson, maybe you've heard of him?

He believes depression isn't a real mental illness, but love is a mental illness, and Islam is not a religion of peace.

One of Paul's most notorious rants is a rant about pop culture and why is it so vulgar, and that it's more vulgar than ever before (he posted this in 2017).

I wonder how he felt about the WWF's Attitude era of the late 90's and early 2000's: arguably the most violent, oversexualized, trashy, and downright shocking era the WWF/E has ever had (the reason I put "arguably" is because there was the WWE's Ruthless Aggression era, which was the Attitude era 2.0).

The WWF during the Attitude era was the most popular show on television in the late 90's, and this era was notorious for being "crash TV".

The WWF in the Attitude era had even higher ratings than it did in the 80's, and the Attitude era was popular enough to cross over into pop culture: be parodied in Mad and Cracked magazine, be on the covers of TV-Guide magazine, and people wearing Austin 3:16 shirts and doing D Generation X's "suck it" catchphrase and gesture.

Yet, it was a very shocking and dare I even say it, trashy era, an era where wrestlers played pimps, porn stars, sex addicts, horny old ladies, incestuous and even pedophilic "Leave it to Beaver" parodies and fratboys who wore blackface, sprayed racist cartoons and messages on black people's locker rooms, women ripped the clothes off of each other until they were down to bras and thongs, did bikini contests dressed in thong bikinis and wrestled in kiddie pools filled with pudding while dressed in thong bikinis, one woman from this era was even forced to strip and bark like a dog.

Hell, the Attitude era was popular around the same time trashy shock value pop culture was equally popular, like "The Jerry Springer Show" (which influenced the Attitude era), Ricki Lake and Jenny Jones were popular talk shows, Howard Stern, Tom Green, "Jackass", Marilyn Manson, "South Park" was the most popular adult cartoon on television, and Eminem was at the height of his popularity with his shock value lyrics (including rapping about explaining to his prepubescent daughter how he's gonna murder his wife and dump the body).

And...considering he's British...at the WWF's Capital Carnage in 1998, which was a PPV in his native England, Sable notoriously yanked Jacqueline's shirt off and exposed her breasts to the audience.

If my pro wrestling valet original character did exist in the Attitude era, she'd be a prime example of pop culture being vulgar during the late 90's.

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