#marshfellows

[donna-rinascimentale]

hiya! hope you doing well.

would you elaborate on the interpretation you were talking about in your Labyrinth post tags? what you said was really interesting and I never thought about it that way! 👀

also, hope you had fun watching! ✨✨✨

certainly.

i’d always been subscribed to the interpretation that the labyrinth is a metaphor for navigating coming of age, that the end of sarah’s hero’s journey is a means of balancing adult maturity with never losing a child’s sense of wonder and imagination. the fandom has thought up tons of explanations for where jareth falls in this scenario. is he a tangible antagonist, actively trying to get sarah to slip back into her old childish ways? a metaphor for adulthood, all that sarah is and isn’t ready for?

i think he’s all sarah’s creation. so does jim henson.

“He represents a lot of things that are a part of Sarah's world, what she's trying to figure out and what she's going through. … [Jareth] has no reality except what Sarah gives him, which she can constantly change.”

sarah seems to be very genre-savvy. she reads lines from a play titled the labyrinth, and she recognizes the puzzle of the two guards and implies she’s practiced it before in case she’d happen to encounter it. here, the labyrinth is a product of sarah’s fantasy, by which she navigates her adolescence and her parents’ divorce and her perceived lack of autonomy in a manner typical of a seasoned fantasy reader.

sarah is well aware that every fantasy hero needs a villain. the likeness she gives hers is that of her mother’s costar—as the former mrs. williams is a stage actress, shown in the photo on sarah’s vanity of her posing with a fellow actor who looks just like this jareth. sarah made jareth, made him as beautiful and dangerous as she believed he should be.

sarah made jareth.

to jareth, god is a sixteen-year-old girl.

imagine god, calling you by name, crowning you a king and giving you beauty and power. you were quite literally born for this. all you know is this role, building yourself and your kingdom just the way god wishes it.

then, god turns herself away from you.

you may feel betrayed. hollow, like you’ve been stripped of everything that makes you you. “you made me this way,” you might say.

Everything! Everything that you wanted, I have done. You ask the child to be taken, I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time, I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you.

“i was playing the role you put me in. what was i made for, if not you?

i can’t live within you.”

Just fear me, love me, do as I say

“let me play the role of villain, the role you made me to fill.”

and I would be your slave.

“your will be done.”

god is a sixteen-year-old girl who hasn’t yet figured out the way she wants to be worshipped. it’s a heavy burden, trying to satisfy someone who doesn’t know what she wants.

but there is hope for jareth.

fandom rarely debates on how to interpret the barn owl at the beginning of the film. we’re pretty much in consensus that it’s a manifestation of jareth, but that’s never given much thought.

when sarah asserts her power and escapes the labyrinth, jareth has once again taken the form of the owl. in the final scene, when sarah celebrates with her friends from the labyrinth, reconciling her love of fantasy with her maturity and self-growth, jareth flies away, smaller and smaller until he’s gone. here we turn to the age-old metaphor of flight as freedom.

in moving away from escapism and becoming an active participant in her own life, sarah has freed jareth from the role of villain. none of the friends in her room are human. be reminded again that jareth bears the likeness of a man present (at least tangentially) in sarah’s real life, who would likely feel disheartened knowing he’s blamed for something beyond his control.

because sarah has no more need for a jareth, there is no more jareth. and that’s arguably best for both of them.

(p.s.: i go to the theater tomorrow! i have a sarah-esque outfit put together and everything. thanks for wishing me well & know tomorrow can’t come soon enough for me… this film has been among my favorites for many many many years and each watch makes me find more to love. best cult i’ve ever joined)

[dani-luminae]

TFW your little sister somehow smuggled an entire, still-on-fire Marshfellow out of Karamelle

Iridian ShadowWard (in purple) belongs to me, Cassandra NightHaven (in red) belongs to @thetimelordbatgirl.

Drawn with ink, marker, and colored pencil on Bristol paper, altered in Photoshop.

Text under cut.

(panel 1)

Iri: “I can’t believe this.”

Cass: “Yeah, I don’t think it was gonna work, either!”

(panel 2)

Iri: “We’re not keeping it.”

Cass: “I wasn’t going to. I was gonna set it loose in Bat’s apartment and see how that goes!”

[wanderingnork]

Wiztober Day 6: What a Lovely Day

Briskly, Ryan plucks a gumdrop from the tree. They pass it down to Greta. Moles don’t climb ladders, as a rule. “That’s the last,” they say.

“Good,” Greta says cheerfully. “Now come down.”

The Gumdrop Forest is more beautiful as an orchard, not a theme park. The sun shines. A marshfellow hops about.

The hair on the back of Ryan’s neck stands up anyway.

“All’s well, isn’t it?” Ryan asks again.

Greta pats their arm again. “Yes. Karamelle is sweeter than ever.”

With a nod, Ryan takes a sticky bite of lime gumdrop. They smile, sugar in their teeth. “Good.”

(Read the collection on AO3 here.)

[bipolar-boygirl]

Uh, hi, I was tagged by @bride-of-the-monster and I don't actually know 10 people on here, but I'll still participate! 😅

I also am more of a movie person so, we'll see if I hit 10 gifs either lol

Rules: without naming them, post 10 gifs of your favorite TV shows, then tag 10 people.

Yeah, that's all I got lol

I'm flattered that bride-of-the-monster thinks I know 10 people on this blog but the fact is I have one (1) mutual

@marshfellow 😅

[dzmoot]

Some inhabitants of both Easterealm and Hallow End aren't too fond of when Easterween rolls around each year. Take Franken Marshfellow for example. When Easter and Halloween combine, he sprouts colorful rabbits from his mallow brain!

[mothilda]

if i was a marshmallow would u be my marshfellow? 🥺👉👈

[wlwizard101]

karamelle is so fucking good but like. the music is so intense for just like. a fucking disney inspired world. like "GOLLY gee DAKEN wizard! please KILL these MARSHfellows!" (music continues to intensify)

[domenicadee]

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[selfshippinglover]

Here's a picture! It's called a "Marshfellow"!~

He's a cute squishy marshmallow friend!! 💗💗💗

OMG OMG BABBBBYYYYYYYY!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA OMGOOSH HE'S BABY

[spearhafoc]

Kaijune 2020.23.

Marshfellow - a Sōgoju based on the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters.

[prompoms]

I'm coming in like a Shreking ball. let's party like it 2001 beebs. once I get my Smash Mouth swag on, it's all ogre for y'all. swamp dance karaoke at ten, be there or be square. bonfire to follow shortly after, momma Dragon bringin the heat tonight, for reals. toasted marshfellows and spooky stories whoop whoop. shrek insists marshfellows are better, he says they're basically fluffy white salt marsh caterpillars on sticks. uh.... new cuisine experience i guess? idk

Anon I am so glad quarantine hasn’t defeated your spirit <3 I love you and I hope you’re well and erm... Shrek is treating you well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[cami-chats]

My marshfellow is a funky little dancer, no I will not elaborate. 

[scromit]

marshfellows

[tosimfinityandbeyond]

it was a good night.. got a sugar daddy, pet a dragon, got a husband and a son. all in a night’s work for my little marshfellow

[lokarz]

If anyone wants to find me anywhere else besides here:

Twitter: smoresboi

Instagram: smoresboi

Deviantart: billy-babe

YouTube: marshfellow

Furaffinty: marshfellow (contains nsfw but i don't think that's too much of an issue)

Discord: smores#7498

[slimygators]

Since tumblr hates nsfw but loves Nazis and terfs my nsfw will be posted on my furraffinty

Account name is marshfellow