#s6e4

[remyfire]

[queenmelancholy]

Thomas: I know Lady Mary didn’t like being made a fool of.

Mary: I don’t think Barrow will much like being called a stupid fool.

[rickandmortyscreenshots]

[iasips8]

TWOO WARS

[claymorexpunisher]

Man I miss JR and Regal on NXT commentary.

[themanwhowouldbefruit]

rufus bobby ass ring you know they fucked

[invisiblyvisiblejay]

HOUSE KIDNAPPED HIS NEIGHBOR?????? HE DRUGGED AND KIDNAPPED HIS FUCKING NEIGHBOR????? IN ORDER TO HEAL HIM????? HOUSE WHAT THE FUCK

[pilabutsp]

Biblically Accurate SP Kids

Butters' eye scar from S8E1 (drawing from March 2023)

Kyle's humancentipad scar from S15E1 (drawing from March 2023)

Stan's pussy scars from S6E4 (drawing from April 2023)

[crowfromfoggyforest]

Okay watching season six is torture for my Rumbelle heart. (For context, i'm on s6e4 rn, so i can only talk about their relationship until that point.) Most importantly, i've always kept defending them, but now... i'm starting to think: How can they possibly end up together after this? Are the writers actually destroying Rumbelle like people have said all along? Is S6 just a retcon of their previous development?

But you know me, i'm always trying to find an in-universe explanation. And i think i found one that at least partly explains what's happening:

The baby is the worst thing that could have happened to Rumple and Belle.

Hear me out. I know the baby sounds like good news for them at first - a chance to start over as a family. But in reality, it just brings out the worst in both of them. Well, not objectively the worst, but traits that stop them from being together.

Aside from fear, Rumple's biggest motive has always been to protect his loved ones. That can lead him to doing the wrong thing because he would do anything to protect them. And with that baby on the way, his protectiveness is only going up. When he lived with his first son, he ruined their lives, so now he wants to be a better father for his second child. Although he loves Belle, Bae / his children have almost been the most important to him, probably because his own parents left him. So in summary, more than ever, he's doing everything to protect Belle and their baby - even if that means harming others or acting against Belle's wishes.

Belle, on the other hand, has been trying to put herself and her own feelings and needs first. Before that, she has tried to love Rumple despite everything, but now she's come to realise that - because of his trauma, and because he won't ever become a good person -, he has often ended up causing her harm, and she's still hurt by that. So even before the baby, she had decided to get away from him at least for some time, for her own sake. And now there's the baby. And like Rumple, like any mother, she would do anything to protect it. So she has to ask herself if having Rumple in their life is really the safest thing for them. Now, if nothing else had happened, she would have maybe come to the conclusion that she needed Rumple so he could protect them. But then there's Gideon disguised as Morpheus, visiting her in a dream and convincing her that because he would do anything to protect them, he will only cause them harm again. He speaks directly to her fears and wounds. So her still being hurt by everything Rumple has done and her wanting to protect her child are enhanced by what her unborn child tells her, leading he to a drastic conclusion that she maybe wouldn't have come to otherwise: She needs to keep herself and their baby away from Rumple.

So these two things - Rumple wanting to protect their child and Belle wanting to stay away from Rumple - clash in s6e4 and make each other worse. Especially because Rumple's protectiveness actually almost kills Belle and the baby, confirming her fears. With their strongest motives - both seperately being understandable - being so contradictory rn, they can't be together if there isn't a major change.

So my answer to the questions i mentioned above is: What's happening isn't bad character writing or a retcon, it actually makes sense. I'm still wondering how the writers will fix their relationship tho.

[johnnys-green-pen]

anon asked

#7 for the screencap meme because i'm a visual person and i need stimulation

Honestly, the biggest challenge here was not just picking all the juiciest browns, or simply all the ones where the Squad was looking particularly red, lol.

Think I made it work, though - even got a subtle rainbow gradient going!

[remyfire]

Oh my god.......boys please

[thethreemustyfears]

[rickandmortyscreenshots]

[genericnamego]

Rewatching Venture Bros and just noticed this ASSHOLE in the background.

[claymorexpunisher]

Bray…

[sun-kissed-star]

bobby really offered to call hen’s professor and explain what happened with the final exam like a dad calling in sick for his kid i’m DONE