#GlomTales!

[writebackatya]

This moment was so great!

I wish we had more scenes of Della fighting alongside her triplets

#della duck #huey duck #dewey duck #glomtales! #della duck appreciation post #the Duke of destruction

[sometimes-they-come-back-237]

*EDIT: I wanted to reaffirm that I DO NOT dislike Della. She’s one of my favorite characters and I love her as a character. This is just something that occurred to me when I was rewatching the show, specifically when I got to “What Ever Happened to Della Duck” and “GlomTales.*

I can understand why people have criticized Della for the way she grounded Louie. Forcing him to stay in his room. Literally. She had Gyro program that robot, DT87, to make sure he was stuck in there.

I can’t fully justify her actions. But I can somewhat understand her mindset.

So, here’s my argument.

As a child, she was not disciplined enough or at all. Never scolded for a lot of her actions. From what we saw in “First Adventure”, she (and Donald) set a firecracker under her father’s chair which caused him to be hospitalized. It’s been established that she was already very reckless and impulsive.

That only got worse as she grew up adventuring with Scrooge who was just as bad.

Then the Spear of Selene incident happened.

Della being stuck in an isolating environment with nobody but herself is most likely the first time in her life that she actually reflected on her actions and realized how much harm she did, not just to herself but to her family, as well.

That scenario is why she thought the correct way to ground Louie was to literally keep him stuck in his room with no connection to anyone else and the inability to go anywhere else in the mansion.

#ducktales #ducktales 2017 #disney #disney xd #the first adventure #the first adventure DuckTales 2017 #scrooge mcduck #della duck #DuckTales 2017 character analysis #Della Duck analysis #louie duck #Della and Louie duck #glomtales #the spear of Selene

[best-ducktales-episode]

ROUND #1

#louie duck #huey duck #dewey duck #webby vanderquack #launchpad mcquack #della duck #scrooge mcduck #bentina beakley #gyro gearloose #flintheart glomgold #magica de spell #ma beagle #beagle boys #mark beaks #don karnage #zan owlson #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #dt17 #duckverse #round 1 #timephoon #glomtales

[puffyducks]

#hit Glomtales on my rewatch #listen this isn't meant to be Gyro slander I just think it's really funny that he's in the family photo but Donald isn't ok 😭 #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #glomtales

[redleaderblockhead]

I need to take some time off, focus on my brand

Learn to love myself for who I am

Find my destiny written in sand

And let it all go to my head

Lyrics from: Lyrics Lie by Dance Gavin Dance

#ducktales #ducktales 2017 #louie duck #ducktales louie #dance gavin dance #storkules in duckburg #glomtales #the richest duck in the world #louie incorporated #its a dream business movement #did you just do an internet search for the term business? #thats a trade secret #lyric quotes

[digital-roots]

Glomgold: AHAHAHAHA! Now that we have our Webby, we can FINALLY confront McDuck and his family to destroy them!

Ma Beagle: Hey wait, aren't we missing some others?

Glomgold: UGHHH WHO ARE WE MISSING NOW?!

Magica: Aren't we missing someone to be Scrooge's nephew and niece-you know, the unlucky one and his pilot sister?

Glomgold: Ohhhh yeah, forgot about those two.

Ma Beagle: But where are we gonna find a multi-talented but reckless woman with a prosthetic, and a comparatively more grounded but still unhinged guy connected to that woman who wants a more normal and mundane life?

Glomgold: Hmmm....

---

[In F. O. W. L. headquarters]

Bradford: As you can see here, we are able to spy on the McDuck family even more closely than before-

Glomgold: *kicking the door open* HOW WOULD *YOU* LIKE A CHANCE TO DEFEAT SCROOGE MCDUCK?!?

Bradford: What the-HOW DID YOU GET HERE?!

Black Heron: I do like the sound of defeating my enemies.

#flintheart glomgold #f.o.w.l. #bradford buzzard #Ducktales black heron #Ducktales #Glomtales #Dt17 #Dont ask how glomgold knows about fowl or how he got in #a-maize-ing post

[c0konk]

Della: Louie, I am at a loss for words.

[freeze frame]

Louie, voiceover: Despite being at a loss for words, Della proceeded to yell at me for forty-eight minutes.

#ducktales #ducktales incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #llewellyn duck #louie duck #ducktales louie #louie ducktales #ducktales della #della duck #have y’all ever seen the ‘get up on the refrigerator’ meme someone drew of these two #it’s like glomtales summarized

[airyairyaucontraire]

strong new contender for best exchange of dialogue in DuckTales

(Magica De Spell and Flintheart Glomgold are arguing about who gets to destroy Scrooge)

Magica: Fine, we'll split him! But I get the top half.

Glomgold: Nooo! That's the part that screams!

#ducktales #glomtales

[sir-rambleslot]

guys I don’t think you understand how much I’m also obsessed with DuckTales I just finished it like. A month ago and mthe voices in my head are telling me to rewatch the entire thing HELP!!

#ducktales #SCROOGE STINKS SCROOGE STINKS SCROOGE STONKS SCROOGE STINKS GLOMTALES WAAGSW #ducktales (2017) #ramblings

[rypnami]

Life is like an evil scheme

Here in

#meme #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #glomgold #glomtales #glomgold is my religion #huey duck #louie duck #dewey duck #scrooge mcduck #donald duck #della duck

[finn-is-in-the-binn]

wildly unpopular ducktales 2017 opinion

BUT I think that Louies punishment in Timephoon/Glomtales was unfair SOLELY BECAUSE they go on the one adventure he ALWAYS WANTED TO GO ON!!!

He definitely deserved punishment Im not debating that but going to the place he wanted to go to when he was grounded seems unnecessarily mean :(

(I love Louie hes my fav)

#this might be because louie is my fav character #definitely not biased here #ducktales 2017 #louie duck #della duck #timephoon #glomtales #please share your opinions on this

[hueberryshortcake]

[glomtales]

louie: hi mom, i know i messed up and hurt people but this is what makes me happy. im going to try to do better in the future

della: im sorry that we were having so much trouble understanding each other. I'm happy to support you as long as you are careful to be considerate of the people around you

louie: thanks mom, ill do my best

della: so what's on your schedule this week

louie: tomorrow i was thinking i would Steal Uncle Scrooge's Entire Fortune And Reason For Being

#dt17 #della duck #louie duck

[korkorali]

I think the worst bit for me about all Those Sorts (you know the type) of fics is that they always take Della extremely out of character in order to make her the 'antagonist.'

And that sucks because it's just not necessary! It's the worst because you can have Della & Louie angst where Della's the 'antagonist,' and it's in-character.

You just have to have Louie be wrong in the end (kind of).

The reason why Della and Louie clash in Timephoon and Glomtales! isn't because Della 'disapproves of scheming in entirety' or something, it's because she's done the same goddamn thing as him.

(And side note- Timephoon is honestly an amazing piece of storytelling, because it allows us to see Della's thought process for taking the Spear of Selene by showing us Louie doing pretty much the same thing.)

She's been through it all before, and she knows how it ends.

And that fucking terrifies her! The idea that one of her kids is making the same mistakes as her, could go through the same thing as she did, and she's the only one who can see it, is terrifying.

The way to start out a story like this is simple; have an adventure go wrong. Not in a deadly way, not in a way that's caused by Louie (at least, not that anyone but him notices), not in a way that costs anyone their life- but in a way that causes them to lose the treasure. The adventure is a failure, and they have to come back empty handed, like New Gods on the Block.

Maybe some people get hurt, maybe it's vaguely Louie's fault (and even then- it'd be better if it wasn't even his fault, it's just his brain connecting patterns where there aren't any), but the most important part is that they don't get the treasure, and it's like- one of those ones that can only be found once every hundred years or something.

Louie feels responsible (I mean all of the kids do, but as it'd be a Louie story he'd be the one focused on) and upset that they want to all that trouble and don't have anything to show for it, so he tries to figure out some way to go on the adventure again.

Turns out, after a bit of research, there is a way to get to the treasure again! Louie brings it to Scrooge's attention excitedly- but Scrooge turns it down. Says it's too dangerous, that they're not doing it, end of story.

...Not end of story- everyone's still obviously miserable. So Louie decides that 'okay, if it's 'too dangerous,' then I'll just go in secret. It'll be fine, Scrooge is just overreacting.'

So he starts trying to put a plan into place to get the treasure in secret- but Della, somehow, seems to know what he's doing (hint: it's because she knows what she'd do if she was in Louie's shoes). And is consistently getting in his way.

And there you go- a perfect setup to have Della consistently and purposefully stepping on Louie's toes, getting in his way, trying to stop him from doing things, and it's even in-character! It'd probably start out with the two acting like everything's perfectly hunky-dory, even though both of them know that the other knows that they know that the other knows why they did this one thing.

As plans get deeper, it'd escalate to Della trying to actively call Louie out, but he always manages to just barely weasel his way out of it, and eventually commence his plan.

It obviously goes wrong. But Della's there to help. And finally she'd actually explain why the fuck she's been something of a thorn in his side for the past few weeks, why it seems like she knows what he's thinking: because she does.

Because she's been through the same thing.

Because she fucked up, and left her stranded on the moon for ten years, and she does not want that for her kid. (And of course everything could've been solved if she'd just sat down and talked to Louie about that at the onset, but it's Della- she only likes to bring up the moon when it's funny. She would've thought 'nah it's fine, I can handle this, I don't need to bare my soul, I shouldn't burden anyone with that' without realizing that oh yeah, no, that's the exact same thought process she doesn't want Louie to think)

And of course they'd argue, because it'd be a high-stress situation and neither of them would have the composure to pretend that everything's alright and they haven't been sniping at each other for the past week or so, and eventually it'd finally come up; eventually, they'd finally bring up that they thought the exact same thing when Louie did this, when Louie took the Timetub, when Della took the Spear.

'...And if anything goes wrong, at least I'm the only one who'll get hurt.' (Because you cannot tell me that that was not the last thought running through both of their heads when they took the timetub/Spear of Selene, you cannot convince me that they didn't think they were doing right by their families in that moment, that they hadn't done their due diligence and minimized risk down to one person.)

And Louie wouldn't understand, because he did the right thing. He minimized risk, he made sure nobody else would get hurt. But that's wrong- because if he got hurt, then Della (Donald, Scrooge, their family, her kids) would get hurt too. That they could fly into a vacuum all they wanted, but at the end of the day, they still didn't exist in one.

Eventually, they'd get out of there and abandon the mission again. Maybe they'd succeed, but probably not. But that's not important- what'd be important is that they were both safe and alive and okay.

There- a Della & Louie thing, extremely angsty, well Della as the 'antagonist,' and it's all in-character. Easy.

#ducktales #dt17 #della duck #louie duck #the 'adventure that can only be done every hundred years with one extremely dangerous exception' can obviously be interchanged with a lot #all that's really necessary is that louie has a plan that he thinks is good for everyone #(and in order to make it good for everyone he does his best to make sure that he's the only one who'd get affected by it should it go wrong #and Della gets underfoot and messes with everything consistently and frustratingly without explaining anything for the longest time #(because she's terrible about actually opening up about the fact that yeah no she's fucked up) #(and she doesn't want to force that onto her kids or acknowledge it at all- at least if it's not a joke) #because she knows exactly what he's doing because it's what she'd do #and she knows what happened the last time she pulled that sort of stunt

[redleaderblockhead]

So take me for granted

I know I never really meant that much to you

All our memories will be erased

The only way out is forward

As far away as I can get

Where to now?

What happened to my fucking purpose?

I am just a stone sinking, broken and numb

Where to now?

The way you made me, made me worthless

Truth is, in the end, we all end up alone

Can you feel me calling your name from the balcony seats you left empty?

Can you feel me tearing apart everything we used to be?

Lyrics from: Nothing Shameful by Dance Gavin Dance feat. Andrew Wells

#ducktales #ducktales 2017 #louie duck #della duck #dance gavin dance #lyric quotes #angst #the most dangerous game night #timephoon #glomtales #louie angst is my bread and butter okay? #I swear Della is one of my favourite characters

[justaboot]

HUGE advocate for a time jump between Timephoon and Glomtales. Like, two or three weeks. Give that kid a proper grounding for risking people's lives. Really rake up that tension at the breakfast table. Everyone's gotta tiptoe around the deeply uncomfortable and untrodden situation. Both parties are trying to see who's on who's side. Give Louie time to build that frustration and resentment and self-doubt. Give Della time to chicken out and have to redouble her resolve clumsily which just makes it worse.

FAMILY. DRAMA.

#I'm writing something #Ducktales #Della Duck #Louie Duck #Dt17 #I used to get MEGA grounded (fairly) when I was a kid

[definitionoffernweh]

Honestly had no idea the fandom was so divided on the Timephoon! & GlomTales! episodes, but I guess I should have seen that coming since there is so many angsty Louie fics based around what happens.

Anyway, I see both sides and agree that him getting in trouble in Timephoon! was justified (even if I don't think projecting your own issues onto your children is a good idea 👀). My fucking problem is how he's treated in GlomTales! Specifically the recorded videos essentially saying that he has to earn his place in the family he was born into (that the traits that both Della and Scrooge have that Louie inherited make him a bad person and he needs to completely change himself to be liked) and the audacity of what is essentially a step-parent threatening his place in a family she was forced (through a mistake on her part!) away from for a whole ass decade.

Della might be his bio mom, but that doesn't mean the relationship is automatically there. There's a difference between a Sperm Donor and a Dad (for instance). Donald should have been there for both episodes, or at the very least another adult should have stepped in (I don't wanna hear "it would have undermined her authority" when she doesn't have any authority in the first place/yet and obviously doesn't know what she's doing!).

One of my biggest gripes with the show is that they never completed Louie (especially his and Della's) Arc, or at least didn't make their Arc more pronounced like with the other children (he is, at least on surface level, the least like Della). Another is The Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck!

#dt17 #louie duck #della duck #fern-is-REDACTED