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divorcedfiddleford · 3 days

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You made a post saying “it has been zero days since our last alex hirsch hates ford so much bullshit” and i know it was mostly hyperbole, but you have some really good takes that I would love to be elaborated on in terms of how ford is written

it really wasn't hyperbolic. over the years he's just really shown a lot of hatred towards this one character.

content warning: discussion of abuse

i want to start with this clip from the commentary which i think of as a microcosm for how the writers and especially alex think about ford.

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rob renzetti: i mean he [mcgucket] should've basically knocked ford out, and... and destroyed the... you know, tied him up, and, destroyed... and... alex hirsch, speaking over him: yeah he should've beat ford with a wrench and taken this thing apart piece by piece! he's the one who understood how to built [sic] it, but...

... so that seems like a pretty violent course of action. shall we unpack that?

ford is a character who's pretty explicitly written as a victim of abuse, and who now has c-ptsd as a direct result of the abuse he experienced. alex hirsch believes that ford deserved everything bad that happened to him, that it's ford's own fault, and that he also deserved worse things to happen to him. this is why, given every narrative chance, alex hirsch has piled more suffering onto ford's plate. the biggest example of this i can think of is in the journal, when he wrote that fiddleford was actively erasing ford's memory (despite this being a massive timeline contradiction which i still refuse to accept). because god forbid ford even have one remotely healthy relationship with somebody. that would be too good for him. ford was manipulated and lied to by bill, but alex repeatedly compares him to icarus, a teenager whose demise was the result of his own ignorance. this comparison is still so fucking offensive to me. the sun did not lie to icarus, did not guarantee icarus all of the happiness and success and sense of belonging which he had been denied all his life, did not actively shut out the voices of those around him who would try to help him.

alex in general has a very strange relationship with abuse. he seems to get really upset when people read his characters as victims of abuse. the strongest instance of this is actually not with ford, it's with pacifica - especially in the nwmm episode commentary. the episode says "pacifica's parents have conditioned her to respond to a bell" and alex says people got "the wrong idea" about it. like. dude. what the fuck. you wrote abuse. even if you didn't mean to, that's what you wrote. you can't say people got "the wrong idea" just because you didn't think about the subtext of what you were writing. anyway, back to ford: i believe this extends to him as well. alex wanted to write a character who's a foil to stan and who was a selfish unlikable victim of his own arrogance. however that's not what he wrote. he somehow seemingly accidentally wrote a really compelling and relatable awesome autistic guy who had to fight for every good thing he he ever had in his life only for it to be taken from him every single time. but alex can't let go of seeing ford as just "the opposite of stan". when he talks about "how someone as smart as ford could fall for bill's tricks", he refuses to realize he wrote a situation in which a man was being psychologically manipulated and tortured.

it goes back further, too. people repeatedly theorized that filbrick was... not a very good father, to say the least. on top of the very explicit and canon fact that he threw one of his children out on the street (seriously, there is no defense for this), people pointed out that stan would flinch at filbrick, that ford seemed upset by things filbrick said but dared not talk back, that filbrick was mad at stan not for hurting his brother, but for "costing the family potential millions". but alex can't have people seeing ford as sympathetic. ford can't have it bad like stan did. ford had to have everything and he lost it all because he sucks so much. so he wrote the graphic novel story where ford is filbrick's favorite child and filbrick also is not even a bad parent you guys he's just stoic. ignore the whole thing in dreamscaperers where stan perpetuates the abuse that filbrick did to him. ignore the fact that ford was shouting at stan and then completely shut up as soon as filbrick entered the room and did not say another word for the rest of the night. ignore all that because i just made up this story where he cries at a present from stan. filbrick loved his boys for sure you guys!!!

i'm not even touching on how alex repeatedly villainizes traits commonly associated with mental illness and neurodivergence. ford's hypervigilance becomes arrogance. his passion for knowledge means he's a know-it-all. his difficulty socializing and making friends means he's a misanthrope. his lingering resentment for the way he was raised means he hates his brother and is the worst human being to ever have lived. i could go on, go even further into how the finale reaffirms this, but i feel weird talking about this too much.

#help you unclogged the dam and it all came rushing out #it's been years #didn't know i still had all this in me #apologies for the lack of sources. i reference a lot of old interviews and tweets from 2016-2017 #i know insider was one of them but a lot of it was questions he'd be asked at convention panels and off-handed comments from the dvds #seconds before the clip i included alex says ford's great flaw is pride #as though it was his pride that led to the world ending #and not a millenium-old plan by a monster using advanced manipulation tactics supplemented with literal mind control #tales of the wild zeep #1009

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queermania · 1 year

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#babygirl

#dean winchester #deanedit #spn #spnedit #1009 #s10 #dw #myedit #moc!dean

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pokemonpostsdaily · 21 days

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Reblog if your favorite pokemon is

#Pokemon #Pokedex #Walking Wake #1009

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mikumoduleoftheday · 1 year

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Today’s Miku Module of the Day is:

Hopeful Snow by futon !

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #piapro #hopeful snow #futon #album art #1009

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everybrook · 8 months

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everything about this colorspread is so cute….. Brook’s little horns on his hood. Jinbei’s big puffer jacket. Tama’s little boots. her using Luffy’s hat for the statue. them feeding the little teapot guy in the foreground. Chopper standing on his own bag to reach. also Robin’s SO pretty

#soul king brook #Brook #One Piece #1009 #colorspread #ft. robin #ft. chopper #ft. franky #ft. usopp #ft. nami #ft. luffy #ft. sanji #ft. zoro #ft. jinbei

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autumn-oceanopromises · 1 month

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(1009) childhood

I told myself that I was the king on top of the world but it was a crown of spikes. the world was just all lines and boxes, it was supposed to be a bed of plush-real gemstones. dream bubbles, like in the books. but they popped.

It seemed like I needed magic, you know to fish up the magic sword, to slay the monster just the monster was me.

I couldn't - couldn't get a grip and - trying to get a firmer grip just cut me more.

#spilled ink #childhood #poetry #1009 #writerscreed

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badpokemondraws · 8 months

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Look at this guy! It's Suicune, but as a t-rex. Love that for him!

#1009 #Walking Wake

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sesshy380 · 1 year

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Wordcount of the day: 1009

Finally wrapped up the chapter where the Atem and Bakura are beating the shit out of each other getting along!

Had to really force myself to focus on it. I love my pupper, which is why he had to go to the vet to get his yearly shots today. It's also why I had to leave my poor baby there most of the day because he had some bad teeth that needed to come out.

He seems to be doing much better though. First thing he wanted to do when he got home was eat, but he couldn't for another hour. I felt so bad keeping his food dish put up. He got spoiled with a piece of chopped up ham though when it was time (because he won't eat his regular food if it's wet, and he can't have hard food until the day after tomorrow).

#writing progress #1009 #another chapter finished #onto chapter 94!#pupper had to have dental work done today and i needed to redirect my focus elsewhere #he's getting older so it's always a risk when he has to go under for a procedure #but he's doing great so far #his face is less puffy and i'm sure he'll be in less pain while eating now

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jakesbestfriendtiffany · 1 year

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Bananas In Adventure Time

Many of you might remember the endless use of bananas in the episode “Return to the Nightosphere” and “Daddy’s Little Monster.” This is my favorite joke in the show because it is just a nice nod to the history of comedy.

In the beginning of the episode the boys wake up in a jail cell in the Nightosphere, surrounded by bananas. When approaching a guard Jake asks what’s up with all the bananas- the guard responds in disgust. Every time Jake asks about the banana the Nightosphere demons are grossed out by him.

Later in the episode it’s shown that the bananas are used as “weird punishment” on the demons. The punishments include endlessly barfing bananas and having bananas seemingly defecated out of their ears.

I think this is a nod towards the banana peel slip gag which (maybe) was meant to be a “polite” way to represent slipping on animal droppings. So, yeah... the bananas are poop.

I love the way that bananas are used in this show in general. There’s many gags and nods towards using bananas as funny little props. Finn even does the classic banana gag himself in “Blenanas”

Idk maybe there wasn’t any thought put into it- maybe it was just to be funny but it’s still interesting to think about.

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chisasarasa · 2 years

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221009

わたしの調子がわるい。急に気温が下がって、低気圧で、満月が近づいて。ずっと部屋にいたかったけれど、彼が映画館で映画をみることをしたいというので、でかけた。すべての音が大きく聞こえて、イライラの種がそこらじゅうに散らばっていた。マクドナルドもユニクロもうるさかったけど、映画は面白かった。マイ・ブロークン・マリコ。嵐みたいな80分だった。パンフレットも買った。みにいってよかった。帰りのバスはなぜか冷房がついていて、寒かった。バスは個体差があるんだって、彼が言っていた。クジラだったのかもしれない。

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朝、今日も雨が降っていた。ため込んだ洗濯物は今日もためた。昨日、夜な夜な彼が作ったかぼちゃのチーズケーキを朝食にした。おいしかった。やっぱりそうだよね、という風に調子が悪いから、布団の上でYoutubeを眺める。秋のモーニングルーティンとか、秋服購入紹介とか。昼過ぎに雨はやんだ。窓を開けると、圧倒的な湿度が押し寄せてきた。太陽が全力で、アスファルトの上の水分を蒸発させていた。晴れたけど、洗濯物は乾かなかっただろうな。

些細なことで言い争いをする。なんでわたしたち、違う人間なんだろう。なんで違う人間なのに、同じマンションの一室に住んでいるのだろう。

きれいな長袖のパジャマがなくて、Tシャツを着て、寝た。

#日記 #diary #ドローイング #drawing #1009 #1010

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queermania · 1 year

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the things we left behind is perhaps the most heartbreaking episode of the entire series. cas’ heart is in the right place but the mere fact of his existence hurts claire.

and then claire saying that she used to pray to him every night, followed by the revelation that he heard her prayers but he discarded them.

it’s just. it’s so complicated but it’s not complicated at all. cas isn’t a bad guy but he is THEE bad guy. and dean and sam are his accomplices. and they’re still the only men looking out for her in the entire episode. and that’s fucked up. it’s so fucked up. she deserves so much better than all of it and cas is trying so hard but he’s never going to be her father. he’s just the bitter reminder of what she’s lost 😭

#casclaire #1009 #s10 #mp

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nikolamga · 2 years

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#1009

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hislop3 · 30 days

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Skilled Nursing Operator Takes Legal Action Against Staffing Platform for Alleged Overbilling

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