#past Freela

[ladybender]

My biggest question about that episode is what the hell were those things at the end of the rubber duck story??? Were they reincarnated?? Did we finally get canon freela babies in the form of a weird egg with a face and a rubber duck?

I think they were reincarnated?? if they were their babies then they suffered from the disney babies-are-clones-of-the-parents disease lmao

[charlieconwayy]

Top 5 Freela moments?

this is truly like choosing a favorite child

i HAVE to go with the ending of TWOF, but rly did you expect anything less? just the most satisfying moment i have ever experienced in my tv viewing experience. the set up, the execution - fry literally walking into the frame and leela's face when he hands her the flower. aside from it being their first legit kiss (that i count anyway), it's SO important to their development. leela realizing that success/status/someone looking great on paper does not make someone the ideal partner, but what does is the feeling of relief you get when you see them and the way they make you feel special. i love how fry doesn't even remember nibbler saying he'll help him out w leela, so this was truly just a genuine moment of him being thoughtful. also fry's "yes!" when they fade to black is so sweet

okay i thought for a while about the number two slot and i think i have to pick "no matter what happens, you'll always be leela, the woman i love." fry was so frickin immature and lowkey sexist at the start of the series, which we see a ton of in i was a crustacean in love specifically or even in amazon women in the mood ("is she hot?" "she is all knowing" "in other words, no") and we've gradually seen him mature (my fav "zapp's not the only one becoming marriage material" "you're getting there" <3). leela's biggest fear w fry has always been his commitment issues and him getting bored of her. we've also seen her insecurities ab the way she looks throughout the show, so for him to confirm to her (when she's like entirely squid, mind you) that no matter how she looks, he will always love her is so special. it was the culmination of 7 seasons of development for both fry and their relationship, and i love leela's reaction (and her tentacles doing the princess diaries foot pop when they kiss lol).

i could just put moments from s4 on here and this entire list would be complete tbh....the best season, nothing is ever topping it. the sting is just a special moment and i can't even imagine watching it when it first aired. while we'd gotten little hints here and there that leela had feelings for fry, this episode just confirms the extent of those feelings. we know fry would rather die than be without leela, but this ep confirms that leela would rather die than be without fry. the whole ending segment is great, w leela trying to unalive herself so that she can "feel alright with him" and fry talking her out of it (first real "i love you" :') ) but GOD the feeling when they show the hospital room. the details that we see from all the things fry said to leela in her dream. amy's "they said you'd never wake up, fry never left your side for a second." leela holding her heart when she realizes that him talking to her is what inspired her to wake up!! the hug <3 it's so crazy to me that an animated show can show the intimacy and physicality between them so perfectly.

"dear fry, our time together was short but it was the best time of my life. - leela." for similar reasons to the one above, i love an ep that does a deep dive into leela's love for fry. this one, man. this one. leela marrying CUBERT just bc he resembles fry says it all. "i used to think there was someone for me." just her rage at fry and heartbreak that she will never see him again, while managing to create the successful future she had always wanted but ultimately realizing it's pointless without someone to share it with. that video card hits me so deeply when he says i love you the look on her face actually destroys me.....but what gets me most out of everything is the cavern on the green. leela has no idea where fry is. he could be in the past for all that she knows. but leela knows in her heart that if she leaves a message, somehow, somewhere, fry will see it and he will know how she feels. and he does. that to me is so beautiful, their love is fated no matter what universe or timeline that they're in.

this is a relatively new fav scene for me but "you're lonely and i'm lonely, but together, we're lonely together." freela had kind of just been bickering besties up until this episode, but this was the first time we'd really seen them connect on an intimate level since 102. fry is upset ab spending xmas alone for the first time, leela is upset ab spending her life alone. he's alone in the year 3000 and leela has spent a lifetime alone. we see fry so upset that he hurt leela, that he goes out of his way to buy her a gift and apologize (massive development in fry's emotional intelligence, esp if you compare this to 103 w bender) but leela ends up being okay. she holds his hand and tells him that they can be lonely together and it's such a gamechanging moment, you can just see the chemistry and the connection between the two of them.

[ionlycareaboutyou]

heyyy i feel a little silly making a post like this but

i've noticed there's a lot more activity in the freela tag since the futurama revival started up! i thought i'd send out an open invitation for a freela-focused futurama server that i've been in with my friends for the past few months! we're always on the lookout for more cool fans to join since the fanbase for this ship isn't as huge as others.

it's very chill, we just ask that you please be 18+ (and if you hate/dislike the fry/leela relationship, maybe stay away, but that's obvious, right?). if you're interested in joining please DM me or @ladybender!!

[zappsbrannigan]

More Frapp thoughts or "oh damn they should totally kiss!" well i will talk in depth about the comics because dude it has a lot of interesing content and even stories focussed in these two! Futurama comics 21 “ More than a Filling!“ Zapp is so eager about Fry joining him for save the earth also...nice innuendos

Also later in the story, sure the girl u kinda like wants to kiss you but you cannot stop to babble about the love of your life!!

37. Full Metal Racket Fry and Leela ends on a planet dominated by transformers-like robots and….guess who’s there, so appreciate these interactions

43. Welcome to my Nightmall

Mostly a Freela (good ship!!) comic but Fry getting into Zapp's er...I mean Zapp's private dreams!!

44”The Fry and the Furious!

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE FRAPP COMICS! Explore the enemy to lovers/opossites attract tension very well! this...this is just a small part of what the comic contains <3

72. Trading Spaces 

Gotta explore the fact Fry is the first in follow Zapp's plans in a future post but this is good:

76. Captain Brannigan: The Windbag Soldier

This comic is about Zapp's past (I highly recommend it!) but, yeah Zapp basically represents the hero that Fry enjoys, so…imagine how Fry might be impressed to meet a young Zapp

The comics are really good, but yeah these interactions are really fun to see....

Yeah...VERY...fun -wink wink- I hope this was informative or fun to see i guess

[sorry-apsalar]

Is This a Date?

Another request, yay! It was, “It's maybe a little convoluted, but I'd love to see you write something involving Leela and Fry breaking up and Bender using the chance to whoo him and show him there's other people worth dating. It takes Fry a lot to realize what's going on so Bender tries to pull all the stops for Fry, finally convincing him with some grand gesture.”

~

“Stop moping.”

Fry rolled over to look at Bender standing in the doorway of his bedroom. “What do you want?”

“I told you. I want you to stop moping. I’ve tried being nice about it, giving you your space and stuff but you’re still moping and it’s starting to get annoying.”

“I’m doing it alone in my room though. So if it really bothers you, just don’t come in here.” Especially since he hadn’t been invited.

Bender wasn’t budging though. In fact, instead of fucking off, he stepped further in. “It’s been almost a month now, it’s time to get over it.”

“How can I possibly get over it?” Leela had agreed to be his girlfriend only to turn around a few months later and say she didn’t feel ‘that way’ about him, that she’d been trying to for his sake but just couldn’t. Meaning she’d never actually been into him at all. How could Fry ever possibly recover from that? She insisted she loved him as a friend but… if she really did why had she led him on like that? It wasn’t fair.

“Just uh… ugh. Try dating someone else maybe? Like uh… Amy did when Kif broke up with her that one time. She got over that real fast, remember? You could try that too, I’ll help. Maybe it’ll even make Leela jealous, wouldn’t that be fun?”

“I can’t date anyone else though because I’ll never love anyone as much as I love Leela.”

“Now you’re just being dramatic.”

Maybe so but Fry didn’t care. He was in a rather dramatic mood. And Bender trying to pull him out of it was only making it worse so… “Just go away already. If me being sad is really that annoying to you then you shouldn’t…” He cut off with a yelp as Bender stepped closer to grab his wrist and yanked him partially off the bed.

“Come on, I know what’ll cheer you up.”

Fry was forced to scramble the rest of the way off the bed and to his feet or risk being dragged across the floor as Bender turned to leave while still tugging on Fry’s arm. He was tempted to hold his ground and refuse to leave but if Bender really wanted to physically force him out of his room, there wasn’t much Fry could do to stop him so he followed willingly for now. That didn’t mean he was going without compliant though.

“Look, I appreciate the thought but I don’t really…”

In the living area, Bender pushed Fry onto the couch, making him cut off again. “We’re watching TV like we used to.” He sat down right next to Fry. Grabbing the remote off the coffee table, he switched the TV on to of course All My Circuits. His favourite show. Fry’s too but he wasn’t in the mood for it or TV in general right now so…

When he tried to stand back up, Bender put a not subtle hand on his shoulder, holding him in place. Not hard but the threat for such was there.

“I’ll even share a beer with you.” Bender’s tone was causal as if he wasn’t forcing Fry to be here with him. He opened his chest compartment to pull out two beer bottles. One of which he handed to Fry after even opening it for him. “Better already, right?”

He didn’t willingly share his stuff often, refusing would likely only make him mad and well, the fact that he was serious enough about making Fry feel better to share was rather nice. So, with a sigh, Fry accepted his fate. “I guess so,” he said as he relaxed back into the couch, lifting his feet off the floor to rest on the coffee table as Bender did likewise. Maybe he was starting to feel a little better. It had been a while since they’d sat and watched TV together at home.

 -

A few days later Bender had to drag him out of his room to make him stop moping again. This time he brought Fry all the way out the apartment and to the bar they used to hang out at. Leela didn’t like it so Fry hadn’t been here in while. Heck actually…

“We haven’t hung out outside of home in a while, huh?” he said as they settled at their usual table, sitting across from each other. “Like… just the two of us and no one else.”

“Yep, because you’ve been too busy being preoccupied with Leela to spend time with anyone else even your best pal.” Bender gave him a mildly annoyed look which well, Fry couldn’t blame him for, huh?

“Oh uh… yeah, sorry.” Fry hadn’t been being a very good best friend, huh?

“Eh, it’s whatever. You two tried the whole dating thing, it didn’t work out and now that you’ve broke up, you can finally move on from her. It’ll be like old times, just you and me except maybe better because you’re not focused on wanting to date Leela anymore, right?”

“I don’t know, I still feel pretty focused on her and uh, wanting to date her. You think maybe she might change her mind eventually? Like maybe if I stop being clingy and stuff. Or uh… maybe if I try to be smarter or something?”

For some reason Bender seemed to deflate a little at Fry’s words. “No.” He sounded fine though and quickly recovered so it was probably nothing. “Face it buddy, you just don’t have what she’s looking for in a romantic partner.”

“Yeah… you’re probably right.” As sad as it was and as much as Fry didn’t want to admit it or believe it, he couldn’t deny that anymore. Even when he tried to his best to force it he just wasn’t what Leela wanted.

“I’m always right and you know it. Now no more talking about Leela, we’re here to have a good time and get shitfaced, got it?”

“I uh… you know what? Yeah!” Fry hit his fists on the table, making it rattle. “Let’s get drunk and have some dumb fun like we used to.” He could certainly use the distraction. And maybe Bender was right in general, maybe it was past time he at least try to start getting over Leela even if would be hard.

A few weeks of Bender trying and failing to get Fry to notice him romantically later

“Are you sure this a good idea?” Fry asked, leaning over the pilot’s chair as Bender started up the ship.

“It’s a great idea.” Bender brushed off his concern with a dismissive wave his one hand. “Now go sit down unless you want to fall over when we take off. … Nah actually on second thought, watching you fall over would be funny so feel free to stay standing.”

With a sigh, Fry went over to his usual chair and sat down to buckle up. “Yeah, but remember what happened last time we took the ship out for a joyride? We almost got fired. … We did get fired actually. We’re lucky the Professor decided to hire us back on. He might not be so generous this time.” While Fry didn’t like working, this job did let him see other planets and he was getting pretty decent at flying the ship which was pretty cool, so losing this job would be less than ideal. Especially since he’d then have to look for a new one that would undoubtedly be far worse.

“Nah, don’t worry about it. I made sure that won’t happen this time. And I stole enough dark matter to completely fill the tank twice. So we could run her all the way out, refuel and still return with enough to fuel top her off again and hide that we ever took her out. Meaning no one will ever know about this so stop trying to be a killjoy.”

Fry didn’t have time to respond before the pilot’s console beeped, signaling that the ship’s engines had finished warming up. With an excited chuckle, Bender took off, he was getting rather good at flying the ship too.

As they exited Earth’s atmosphere, Fry let go of his doubts. Taking the ship out when they weren’t supposed to was fun. And Bender, an expert at getting away with things he wasn’t supposed to do, was probably right; as long as they were careful, they wouldn’t ever be found out and thus no one else need ever know about this adventure of theirs.

“Where we going?” Because after how insistent Bender had been about dragging Fry out here after night fell for this, he had to have a cool destination in mind, right?

“Nowhere or anywhere we want, it doesn’t matter. It’s just you and me with the entire universe as our playground.” He made a grand gesture towards the cockpit window and the vast expanse of stars that could be seen through it. “So we can go wherever and do whatever the fuck we want.” Or that worked too.

“Uh… all right let’s go do something fun then.”

 -

They spend the next few hours taking turns flying the ship around to random planets to see what sights they might have and occasionally messing with the locals – in Bender’s case, stealing from them sometimes too. With no one around to tell them to stop messing around or to be responsible or more careful or anything else of the sort, it was reminiscent of the first time Fry had been set free in a theme park but on a much larger and therefore more fun scale. The fact that he was with Bender made it even better.

Eventually Bender brought them to one of Jupiter’s many moons, the largest one according to the some of the signage. On it some rich person was hosting a fancy dance party of some sort. It was Fry’s idea to sneak in for a bit mostly because rich people’s parties were always fun to sneak into and because they always had fancy food and drink that if nothing else was often interesting to see and taste. The fact that Bender had brought along fancy clothes they could wear to make sneaking in even easier was odd but not surprising, he carried strange but often useful things with him all the time. But what was surprising was his suggestion that they go for spin around the dance floor.

Fry had agreed to it because why not, it seemed like it could be fun. He’d figured that Bender had suggested it to use it as a way to move around the room more and pickpocket stuff off of more people. But while he was doing a little of that, it didn’t seem to be his main goal. Instead he seemed to be far more focused on actually dancing with Fry. Which, now that Fry thought about it, Bender had been noticeably more focused on him than usual during this whole outing. It was nice but… odd.

“Did you plan to come here to do this?” Fry asked once he was sure he was settled into their slow dance enough that he could continue to follow Bender’s lead while also conversing with him. How close they their bodies were made it a bit harder because… it was kind of distracting. Bender had been the one to teach him to dance like this – in another failed attempt to impress Leela a while back – so it was nothing new but still weird, not in a bad way though.

“Maybe.” Meaning ‘yes’ based off his teasing tone and the fact that if he hadn’t planned it, he’d have just said ‘no’ and possibly made fun of Fry for thinking such a thing.

“Why though?”

Bender groaned. “I swear you’re the densest guy I’ve ever met. It’s cute and funny most of the time but sometimes, like right now, it’s really frustrating.”

Fry stumbled and missed a step at being called ‘cute’. That wasn’t a word anyone had used to describe him in any way since he was a small child. And the context of it coupled with what they were currently doing made it seem almost… “Is this a date? Like… a date that’s supposed to be romantic?”

“Bingo! Thank you for finally realizing, it only took you just about a hundred not dates to figure what I’m trying to do.”

“Oh.” Fry looked away as his face grew uncomfortably warm. Had Bender really been trying to go on a date with him for a while now? Come to think of it ever since Bender had decided he was done with Fry moping about Leela he’d been taking him out of the house fairly often, going out of his way to make sure it was just the two of them too. And he’d mentioned multiple times that Fry can and should move on from her now and try dating other people. More like another person because hadn’t he more often than not phrased it as a singular? As if maybe he wanted Fry to consider him for that role.

“Yeah. I can guess you’re not interested though, huh?” His tone edged with bitterness, Bender slowed their dance to a stop and started to pull away. “If you were, you’d have…”

“No, no!” Jerking back into motion, Fry pulled him close again. “Don’t stop, I’m having fun.” Bender wasn’t resisting so Fry took the lead in their dance. He was much clumsier and uncoordinated but whatever. Even if he didn’t know what to think about that revelation, he did know he didn’t want to stop dancing yet and even more he didn’t want Bender giving up and pulling away from him.

“So… you are interested?”

“I uh… uh… I’ve never thought about you that way before but… uh… Yeah. Yeah, I’m interested.” And saying that, even with how impulsive it was, didn’t feel wrong or like a lie. “This had been a… great date so far. Even if I only just realized that that’s what it’s supposed to be.”

“Good because getting invitations to this place was a real pain in the ass.”

“You mean we didn’t even actually sneak in?”

“Nope. Getting caught and kicked out would’ve made getting you to finally realize what I was trying to do almost impossible. So yeah, this was planned from the beginning. Or did you really think I carry around a fancy suit in your size for no reason?”

“Well, you might’ve. You do carry a lot of weird stuff around inside you all the time.”

“I guess that’s true.” With that Bender took the lead back, making the whole dancing experience much smoother and easier.

Fry was more than happy to let himself sank into the rhythm of it, matching Bender’s pace. He could consider what the new dimensions of their relationship was later as well as how they were going to tell the others if at all, they could just let them figure it out on their own. For now he was going to enjoy the rest of the time they had alone together for this date until they had to return the ship back to the Planet Express hanger.

[redandfranticfeelings]

you have to wake up.

[bowdawn]

I know it's been a few weeks since I uploaded My Boy Potter. 

bUT

I'm working on it. 

And by working I mean waiting for me to sit down and write.

The next chapter is a big development on James and Lily's relationship and needs to be just right.

So hang on.

[dirt-grub]

27 on the pride ask game!

27) Some LGBT+ pairings you ship?

there's a lot! i usually don't go near straight ships as much just bc, yknow, gay. lets see uh, going by past hyperfixations, i dont take spongebob seriously enough to really care about ships either which way, dan vs i really like the idea of dan chris and elise being in a poly V around chris, pinescone is a soft spot for me having grown up with it, frender is a classic (altho freela is just as enjoyable to me which is rare for a m/f ship but of course i hc them as t4t), and thats mostly what i can think of off the top of my head? also honorable mentions to ships like narumitsu and rupphire who are more like, fandom in law ships than things im active in. also all the total drama random ass ships i come across, with the kind of show that is they ALL feel like crackships and i love most of them (though noco/nowen/gwourtney are high on the list again for personal nostalgia reasons)

[ladybender]

I'm curious... what are your thoughts on what makes Leela 'The Other'?

this is good question, and i havent had a chance to talk about freela in a hot minute so it love it

first off, what the writers, david x and matt groening have said about this topic is pretty sparse and not very linear. they had an idea for a longer plot line but for *reason unknown* they never made good to that. I think it might have also been a reference to star wars (like in "another skywalker" or something idk, i'm not big on star wars) but i have no idea what implication of that one could have been

bother and sister no - and yikes

and another one in the force/another without delta waves doesn't work either

so i think the most probable explanation is:

she could be the second most important person in the universe, next to Fry, and it could be simply for the fact that fry puts her above the choice of his own life in the past AND chooses her as the person he wants to save from the future

in a way that makes leela the most important person in the universe, if you think about it

OR another popular theory (that i love) is that it's their future babies that are going to be important in the fate of the universe

In that case CALAMARI SUPREMACY (if you know you know)

personally I just like the idea that their love was so strong there was an entire prophecy as old as the universe about how they were meant to be

that's all i have but if you want more there is a video essay on this whole topic, it's pretty good

[zappsbrannigan]

Ok gotta give my sincere review or just opinion because it was the only episode i cared about, personally i dont like futurama as a whole anymore but i only care about Zapp, i always thought he was the only character from the CC's run that didnt suffer a severe flanderization and...im pretty much like #1 fan or just really devoted to him so yeah..when ive heard about the episode title i had fear cus, i didnt want the writers being more harsh as it should.

Honestly Zapp is a really interesing character that needs to be explored besides "haha perverted", in the comics they show ya his past and is somewhat heartbreaking...anyway I'd love to make a post about how he is the result/victim from a corrupt goverment also he is really disattached from the reality...but ok, gotta focuss in this episode...

Ok gotta give my sincere review or just opinion because it was the only episode i cared about, personally i dont like futurama as a whole anymore but i only care about Zapp, i always thought he was the only character from the CC's run that didnt suffer a severe flanderization and...im pretty much like #1 fan or just really devoted to him so yeah..when ive heard about the episode title i had fear cus, i didnt want the writers being more harsh as it should.

Honestly Zapp is a really interesing character that needs to be explored besides "haha perverted", in the comics they show ya his past and is somewhat heartbreaking...anyway I'd love to make a post about how he is the result/victim from a corrupt goverment also he is really disattached from the reality...but ok, gotta focuss in this episode...

I'm glad the writers did stick with a simplier premise and the pacing was good! Ngl, past episodes have been kind of boring or they add jokes that arent funny or they dont use the characters properly, i liked how the durian thing it wasnt just a "lolsorandum!!" joke and was more or less useful??

Leela it wasnt...sorry for the word and adjetive she wasn't a betch, is nice the freela is stated as a formal relationship but the Momazon and the Covid's episode werent....exactly showing a healthy relationship...so this time Fry acting as a friend and ALSO a partner might act it was -indeed- cute (I did like the final scene with the photo), Bender...gotta be sincere I dont like the character so I'm glad he wasnt' stealing attention and when he appeared it was ok-ish...anyway, pretty much did something in the episode and i like that!! it felt natural...and oh wow, i liked the concept of these aliens so much...yeah i like when they focuss on space/alien stuff than maths for justify something (gets boring with the time, u know).

I'm glad they went for the route of Zapp tastin a bit of his own medicine, isnt exactly character development but it was fine to see, and....I'm sorry but the shower scene and Zapp with wet hair looked hmmm yeah appealing to me :$, i expected something really humillating so im more than pleased with this! Why the rest of the episodes can't be that fun?? :(

Gotta try to make some fanart and babble a bit there and there when i feel physically better (i got sick ;; )

[sorry-apsalar]

Man dude, after killing Fry in the past, Bender’s still crying about it a thousand years later. And his response when the version of Fry that’s still alive shows up, how are they not canon? Like, there’s such a good opportunity here for them with Leela going with the Lars guy; Bender realizing how much he cares for obvious reasons, especially since he’s had so long to think about it and Fry finally deciding to move on because Leela’s happy and taken now and realizing that Bender’s pretty great. But obviously it’s a squandered opportunity.

Honestly though, Frender not being canon is totally fine with me and honestly to be expected. Their friendship is really nice to see on its own. But why does Freela have to be canon? They have zero romantic chemistry and Fry bothering her all the time is just ugh. Can’t everyone just be good friends? Why can’t we just have one thing featuring a man and women being friends without there being romantic feelings involved?