#rnm unity

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

ik this isn't new or anything but the fact that aside from morty, the whole smith/sanchez house is canonically queer is so freaking cool! seriously how did this show amass so many anti sjw reddit ass men as a fanbase when 80% of the main characters are queer? i think summer got a female love interest in 2019 and beth's whole sapphic horse girl thing happened last season, but jerry and rick have been canon since season 2.

like idk im just saying this show is awfully gay and has been for a while. i genuinely don't get it when i see people bitching about rick and morty going woke or whatever.

i don't have anything like intellectual to say about the representation or queer themes in the show, it just makes me happy. having a family sitcom where the family is a fruit basket with one token straight isn't exactly a common occurrence, and it just so happens that's what my family's like. shoutout to morty and my mother, we love our allies

season 7 spoilers

YESSSSSS summer gf arc?

anyways i doubt she's coming back i just think it'd be pretty sick and dope if she did

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

I think Air Force Wong’s handling of Unity’s gender is even more disappointing when you consider the Vindicators short about Million Ants. It was, what, 2 minutes long? If that? But yet it had a very clear and interesting exploration of gender for an entity composed of many beings. Even if they didn’t actually explore Unity’s gender in detail, it would’ve been nice for them to stick to the original it/its pronouns - or at least they/them.

[zeep-xanflorp]

"i trust you now." / "that's nice, but i don't trust you."

"you did not know of the child when you came to rescue me, and once aware, refrained from sharing until necessary to save yourself."

"fair enough."

[luckyshinyhunter]

🏳️‍🌈🧪You have to admit, whether you like Rick or not, the dude sure has a lot of rebounds on his belt!🧪🏳️‍🌈

[robotricksanchez]

her: you're fucking stupid if you think the "your crush will call you" fortune is about unity showing up again

my idiotic ass:

[fandomwe1rd0]

Rick was honestly super mature in Air Force Wong, when Unity said that they don't trust him, he had every chance to whine and complain, like how season 4 Rick would've done, or season 3 Rick would've done. But he didn't gulitrip them, or attempt to pressure them into trusting him, he accepted that it was fair and left, sure he was a little upset, but he didn't push it which is really mature. He's changing you guysss

[howfishismade]

rick/orty dni thanks

[dreamweaversfavsandthoughs]

Rick and Morty S7 Ep. 3: Air Force Wong

(We’ve come a long way since Pickle Rick)

Spoiler Alert. Can’t say I didn’t warn you.

My Favs

Unity!

Really wasn’t expecting to ever see them again so it was a pleasant surprise! Bringing back Unity could have crossed the line into being too fan service-y but I think they were incorporated into the ongoing story of the Rick/Rick Prime saga nicely.

“Don’t be a Space Mormon!”:

But immediately being apologetic about making fun of the SS agent’s religion.

“I volunteer to do acid to prove I’m not a cop!”:

Me too. Me too

President’s cellphone wallpaper:

Rick and the President posing with a recently caught Nessie cracked me up more than it should have.

“Call in a chopper. I’m being cockblocked!”

Rick almost died trying to defeat Rick Prime?!:

I need the details! I NEED THEM!

Summer and Rick’s interaction:

We haven’t gotten a lot of Summer this season so it’s nice to see her trying to reach out to her grandfather. Summer is probably the second smartest member of the Smith/Sanchez and made the connection pretty quickly that Unity was back and that Rick would be deep in his feels. I love seeing Summer’s empathetic side but it was also sad to see Rick shut her out in the guise of creating “boundaries.” He still has a long way to go.

The President becoming a hive mind in order to achieve an 100% approval rating:

Honestly, a politician enslaving the minds of his constituents in order to get unanimous approval is something that would happen in real life if they could. Absolutely realistic.

*traumatic flashback of the last 7-8 years*

David Miscavage voicemail:

Unless you are familiar with the history of Scientology, you’re probably not going to get that joke. That was written for nerds like me. (Real talk though, I believe Scientology is a dangerous cult. The actress, Leah Remini has done some great work exposing this cult for what it is and some of their abusive practices.)

My Not Favs

Has anyone seen Morty? He’s gone missing and we’re so worried about him:

I have it on good authority that he’s going to be more prominent in the season going forward. Hope my sources are correct…

Mr. Stabby:

The bit didn’t really do it for me.

The romantic arc between the President and Dr. Wong:

Fortunately it was ditched as quickly as it started.

My Thoughts:

A couple of things come to mind:

First, I want to discuss my biggest problem with Auto Erotic Assimilation as an episode. The episode ends with a pretty moving scene of Rick attempting suicide after Unity breaks up with him. Iconic scene no doubt, but a scene I felt had poor justification. The reasoning being is that the only thing we ever really learn during that episode is that Rick and Unity like to fuck…a lot. And abuse substance…a lot. Frankly, the relationship struck me as being awfully shallow. This most recent episode, however, added some much needed substance that was previously lacking. We find out that Rick has confided in them about Rick Prime and possibly Diane and Beth. They were around for the disastrous aftermath of his previous attempt to hunt Rick Prime and when they find out Rick is going to attempt to go after him again goes to extreme lengths to get Rick’s attention and dissuade him from going through with it.

Now, I don’t really want to see Unity and Rick get back together and I do see this episode as a sort of resolution to this relationship. Two people may not be able to make a romantic relationship work but sometimes that can pave the way to something better. Maybe a friendship can form from this that is much more meaningful than a romance, when they’re ready. They both still care about each other that’s for sure, but Rick still has some work.

Secondly, I’ve seen some conversation that Dr. Wong was in the wrong to side with Unity and tell Rick he was squarely in the wrong. Rewatching the episode, in the scene before Dr. Wong and Rick confront Unity the two of them discuss how they are going to convince Unity to take over the President’s hivemind in order to restore everyone. In this discussion they say,

Rick: “So you need to convince [Unity] I’m worth it.”

Dr. Wong: “You aren’t”.

Rick: “So lie”.

A possible interpretation is that Dr. Wong took his advice and said what she thought would be necessary to bring order back to earth which meant placing the blame on Rick. It’s a thought. I don’t know if if clears anything up but that’s kinda how I see it.

Overall, I enjoyed this episode. It wasn’t nearly the fun romp we had with the second episode, but I appreciate a fresh insight into Rick and Unity’s relationship and I like to see Rick gradually warming up to therapy to the point that he values his relationship with Dr. Wong. She’s one of the few people not intimidated by him or afraid to call him out on his BS. Sometimes, finding a therapist that really clicks with you can be a monumental task so Rick got pretty lucky finding the perfect therapist on the first try.

[18plusrick]

welcome rickfucker class of 2024

elephant in the room: this blog isn't exactly the most tumblr friendly so i gotta be careful about stuff but you know what we're doing here. this is exactly what it says on the tin, block if you're not interested.

so heyyy if you know any other blogs or twitter pages that post/repost spicy rick content without including r1ck0rty and the like, please let me know about em.

no underage or incest shit here. unless you count rickcest or jerrick as incest

right now im tagging for ships, different ricks, and trans rick but if there's anything you want me to tag just ask

ships and content warning under the cut

~content~

solo ricks, rickcest, prickcest, stanchez, jerrick, birdrick, rick x unity, rick x reader (x viewer? i mostly reblog pictures, not fanfic, but whatever). there's also the occasional oc, self insert, or random alien.

tentacles, omorashi, blood including both bleeding wounds and menstrual blood, drugs alcohol and cigarettes, needles, bdsm (maybe? idrk what counts but there's pain stuff and like binds and leather), probably spoilers

[saanchez]

IF HIM AND WONG DON’T DATE ISTG I’LL KMS.

Unity is cool, but not good enough for Rick. I hope that we don’t see her again, sorry bestie

[onemorefromthemultiverse]

Wip

Oh boy, never thought I would go this far with an A.U

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

i rewatched s7e3 and the weird sort of straight washing that happened with unity was worse than i realized in my first 1 and a half viewings. so im here to be a little bit more of a hater lol.

okay so like fuck this bitch in particular

now, i understand that unity has appeared in the comics which i haven't read so it's possible there's some lore there that idk about, but here's the deal as i understand it and why this specific alien acting like the face of unity bugs me so much. this alien is part of a species that, as of the episode in season 2, was very recently assimilated by unity. so like im not sure why there's so much focus placed on her specifically. having her act as a representative of sorts made sense in the first episode, she was a president on the newly assimilated planet that rick and the kids were visiting. but like, that's it, right? it doesn't make sense to me why she would be any more important than any of the other, what? trillions of life forms unity has under its belt? like the only reason for her to be here at all is to be recognizable to the audience, which like, fine. i think it's a little dumb, but whatever. the problem isn't having her as a symbol (personally i think it'd be cooler to not have an entity like unity tied down to being primarily represented through one body but i digress), the problem is that she's treated like more than that in this episode.

this is a part i didn't notice until my rewatch that really irked me.

these are concurrent shots from the scene when rick shows up and starts spraying unity. we see it in virginia telling rick to take it easy through the body of this human, then we see it continuing the conversation from its spaceship in the body of the alien. i am like super not a fan of the implications of that. this alien is not supposed to be unity any more than any one of my cells is me, but here it's depicted as though whenever unity does something in any of its bodies, it's coming from this lady. and like, that'd be super lame even if it wasn't an obvious womanification of a nongendered entity.

now im no english major so i don't have an elegant transition to put here, but yes, it is time to talk about pronouns. yeah yeah, ik, trans person gets hung up on pronouns, bite me okay, it's relevant. i went back and watched the first unity episode to be sure id remembered correctly, and yes, in that episode nobody uses gendered pronouns for unity. morty says "they" which seems more to be referring to a number of bodies, and other than that, people mostly say "unity" or "it". as for the new episode i noticed rick using nongendered pronouns twice

but after that he goes with she/her for the rest of the episode

and yeah, i think that is pretty disappointing. i didn't catch that "it" until my rewatch, but the use of "them" did make me really happy but then everybody started she/hering it. the combination of all that emphasis being put on a female body and people calling unity she so much makes for an episode that manages to be significantly less queer than the one that came out in 2015. it feels weirdly cowardly after that "we're all a little gay" bit in the last episode and doesn't inspire much confidence in me regarding rick's relationships with nonwomen. like stuff can be gay if it's for a joke, but there's more money on the line now than back in season 2, so rick's ex lover needed straightening up.

idk. i still like the episode because im easy and focusing on rick's mental health and relationships always makes me happy, but man, i am certainly not happy with how they handled unity. they really did it dirty, watered it down to being pretty much just another alien lady.

(also to be clear, i am not trying to shit on the writers here. obviously idk exactly what went on, but im pretty comfortable placing the blame squarely on execs)

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

The Rick and Morty Presents: Unity comic has a lot of issues (the way they use she/her pronouns and very gendered language to refer to Unity and also there’s just a general feel of misogyny) but there are some moments from it that I definitely appreciate:

Honestly I just think this panel is hot 😅

Rick being extremely horny and up for an ‘erotic challenge’ with a catboy, a sentient slice of pizza, and a trunkperson ‘for Unity’ (but really just for himself)

I love how feral he looks here and also what weddings is he wrestling at? My headcanon is going to be that Rick just gatecrashes weddings to start drama with people he’s never met in his when he’s bored

Again Rick being unashamedly horny but also something about his face and pose in the second panel just cracks me up

Rick wakes up in restraints and his immediate thought is ‘oh this is hot’

Obsessed with this

We love perceptive Morty. Surprisingly I think this is actually one of the things that really demonstrated this trait of Morty’s to me - he knows Rick so well and sees through his bullshit

[zeep-xanflorp]

air force wong and rick and unity's relationship summarised for my simple self

unity left rick bc it wanted to focus on its work instead of the lifestyle it has when it's with rick.

rick was so hurt by this that he attempted suicide.

after that failed, he ghosted unity and cut off all contact.

fast forward a few seasons, rick is searching for rick prime again. unity hears about this and tries reaching out to rick to offer support bc it still cares.

rick ignored all its attempts to contact him.

unity acts drastically, appearing on rick's home planet and country and assimilating a chunk of the population to get rick's attention.

rick finds out about this and sees it as a violation of his boundaries and reacts negatively, formulating something to repel unity and cutting off all the assimilated bodies it has on earth.

unity is hurt by this but still needs rick's help to release the bodies properly. rick declines until he finds out that it's necessary to get its help.

after the threat is averted, rick is open to seeing unity more but it feels betrayed and hurt by rick's actions against it and cuts rick off itself.

basically for once rick wasn't entirely in the wrong but dr wong was so quick to blame him when it was a miscommunication between two hurt beings and it UPSETS me.

[rickmurai]

s2 ep3 was really something

[sadiecoocoo]

Guess who’s gonna make a zombie au for Rick and Morty and possibly sneak Rick prime in there and absolutely have Unity in there cuz they don’t get enough fan content :D

(I got inspiration from @onemorefromthemultiverse, seriously ur RnM ocs are awesome! And it convinced me to make a fic abt a hive mind taking over and giving everyone trauma lol… but it’s not like ur ocs or anything I just got inspiration from them so dw abt that)