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slymewizard · 8 months

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IF ANY OF YALL HAVENT WATCHED ADVENTURE TIME OR STOPPED PARTWAY THROUGH AND WANNA BINGE IT BEFORE FIONNA AND CAKE ENDS NEXT WEEK HERES A LIST OF EPISODES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THE PLOT! (And a few that are just good to watch in general) (Adventure Time lore is dense and filled with references to previous episodes so theres a lot to cover even cutting out unimportant ones. Start as soon as possible so you guys can finish in time for thursday)

Season 1: The Enchiridion, Ricardio, My Two Favorite People, Evicted, What is Life, Ocean of Fear, Freak City, Henchman, Finn Meets His Hero

(9 episodes)

Season 2: It Came From the Nightosphere, The Real You, Death In Bloom, Susan Strong, Go With Me, The Limit, Mortal Folly, Mortal Recoil

(8 episodes)

Season 3: Memory of a Memory, Too Young, Wizard Battle, Fionna and Cake, What Was Missing, The Creeps, Beautopia, Holly Jolly Secrets (parts 1 and 2), Dad’s Dungeon, Incendium

(11 episodes)

Season 4: Hot to the Touch, Return to the Nightosphere, Daddys Little Monster, In Your Footsteps, Sons of Mars, Burning Low, Lady and Peebles, You Made Me, I Remember You, The Lich

(10 episodes)

Season 5: Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, Jake the Dad, All Your Fault, Bad Little Boy, Simon and Marcy, Puhoy, Be More, Sky Witch, Frost and Fire, Too Old, Earth and Water, The Vault, Play Date, The Pit, Apple Wedding, Blade of Grass, Rattleballs, Betty, Lemonhope (Parts 1 and 2), Billys Bucket List

(22 episodes)

Season 6: Wake Up, Escape From the Citadel, The Tower, Breezy, Something Big, Joshua and Margaret Investigations, Is That You, The Cooler, Evergreen, Astral Plane, Gold Stars, The Visitor, The Mountain, Dark Purple, Jermaine, You Forgot Your Floaties, Orgalorg, On The Lam, Hot Diggity Doom, The Comet

(20 episodes)

Season 7: Bonnie and Neddy, Varmints, Mama Said, Stakes (Parts 1-8), The More You Moe the Moe You Know, Kings Ransom, Crossover, The Hall of Egress, Flute Spell

(16 episodes)

Season 8: Broke His Crown, I Am A Sword, Bun Bun, Normal Man, Elemental, The Music Hole, Preboot, Reboot, Two Swords, Do No Harm, Jelly Beans Have Power, Islands (Parts 1-8 except maybe 2)

(18 episodes)

Season 9: Orb, Elements (Parts 1-8), Abstract, Ketchup, Fionna and Cake and Fionna, Whispers, Three Buckets

(14 episodes)

Season 10: The Wild Hunt, Bonnibel Bubblegum, Seventeen, The First Investigation, Jake the Starchild, Temple of Mars, Gumbaldia, Come Along With Me

(8 episodes)

(136 episodes total, 143 episodes skipped, approximately 25 hours and 40 minutes total)

None of Distant Lands is SUPER necessary but I recommend watching all of them.

REBLOG THIS SO MORE PEOPLE SEE IT THE MORE PEOPLE WHO WATCH THIS THE MORE LIKELY WE ARE TO SEE ADVENTURE TIME GET MORE ATTENTION FROM HBOMAX!!!

ANYWAY ENOUGH READING GO GO GO!!!

#fionna and cake #adventure time #adventure time distant lands

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anthurak · 7 months

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Funny thing I’ve recently realized: With just two minor changes in events, you could negate basically ALL of the major arcs/conflicts in Adventure Time post-Islands.

First, Finn doesn’t accidentally stab the Finn Sword with the Grass Sword during his fight with Bandit Princess in I Am a Sword.

Second, Patience St. Pim doesn’t walk in on Ice King and Betty while they’re hanging that we see in the flashbacks of Bespoken For.

The first point is pretty easily to explain. No Finn stabbing the Finn Sword means no grass demon corrupting and merging with the Finn Sword to create Fern. So everything with Fern just goes ‘poof’.

The second point on the other hand is a bit more complicated: To start, Patience not meeting Betty means she doesn’t get the idea to use her as a magic super-battery for her Element Awakening spell. Which in turn almost certainly means NO Elemental Apocalypse. Of course, the Elements Mini-series probably still happens in some form. Patience seems quite adept at making problems for everyone else. But it most likely ends up being not nearly as bad as what we see in the show.

So no Elemental Apocalypse likely means our heroes don’t have to hit the LSP-powered elemental-reset button. And that means Punchbowl, Crunchie and Manfred AREN’T reverted to their original forms. Meaning NO Uncle Gumbald and no Gumbaldia arc.

And then we have BETTY to consider. Because looking back at Bespoken For it seems that Betty was just about ready to actually try LETTING GO of her obsession with ‘fixing’ Simon. To finally ‘take him as he is’ as Tiny Manticore suggested. Instead however, Betty ends up getting frozen by Patience and used as an Elemental super-battery, which leads to her getting access to the Enchiridion thanks to Finn, which in turn gives her the idea to try and rewrite history. The failure of which sends her to Mars and puts her in contact with Normal/King Man, which in turn led to her getting the idea to summon GOLB.

Meaning that no Betty getting frozen by Patience means no GOLB, no GOLBetty, and no Ice King being reverted back to Simon. Also, no Gunter becoming Ice Thing either. Instead, we could very well see a Betty who tries to accept Simon as he is now, much like what we see with Marceline.

To really break this down, looking at episodes following a version of I Am a Sword where Finn avoids stabbing the Finn Sword and retrieves it from Bandit Princess, leading up to the Islands arc; most everything plays out basically the same, save for events directly dealing with the fallout of the original I Am a Sword, ie; the episodes The Music Hole and Two Swords which simply have no reason to exist. Though speaking of Two Swords, I do think the events of its preceding and succeeding episodes Reboot and Do No Harm NOT related to Fern play out mostly the same. As in, Finn’s grass-prosthetic still lashes out at a berserking Susan to protect him, though without the Grass Demon seizing remote control over the prosthetic, perhaps Finn is able to avoid hurting Susan quite as bad. Regardless, I imagine Finn’s grass arm does go somewhat out of his control and Susan still gets hurt, which means Finn’s time in Do No Harm can play out unchanged.

As for the Islands arc itself, I can’t imagine Finn having the Finn Sword and Grass arm changes things too much. Save maybe Finn having to convince his mom to not immediately remove his weird magic arm when they reunite. Though considering that part of the big resolution of the arc was Finn convincing Minerva and the rest of the humans that the weird magic/mutant shit of the outside world WASN’T something to be afraid of, I imagine this doesn’t change anything in the long run. It might lead to an interesting situation where Minerva tries to forcefully remove the Grass arm, leading it to lash out at her, which in turn leads to Finn making his mom see that his arm is not inherently aggressive but simply trying to protect him, again trying into the original resolution of the arc.

Now trying to envision a full version of the Elements arc where Patience doesn’t use Betty as her magic super-battery is WAY more than I’m prepared to do for this post. Like at that point I’m just writing a full blown fanfic. So for the sake of argument, I’m just going to be assuming three main points: No Elemental Apocalypse, no Betty trying to hijack the Enchiridion to try and change the past, and no need for the LSP-powered elemental reset-button. Heck, maybe whatever shit Patience stirs up in this version gets resolved before Finn, Jake and BMO even get back to Ooo.

Now one wildcard in all this regards Jake getting reverted to his ‘true’ half-alien form in the aftermath of the Elements arc. On the one hand, this may not happen at all in this version of events, especially if they play out before Finn, Jake and BMO return from the Islands. On the other hand if Finn and Jake are around to participate in this version of Elements, even if there isn’t a full-blown Elemental Apocalypse perhaps Jake still winds up afflicted with some form of elemental contamination. And when said contamination is reverted, this brings out his alien nature just like what happened in the series proper.

So in the latter scenario, the events of Abstract play out unchanged. In the former, they don’t play out at all.

Going into the final four episodes of season 8, the events of Ketchup, Fionna and Cake and Fionna and Whispers play out basically unchanged, save for some of Marceline’s recapping in Ketchup. Whispers is notable here because despite Fern featuring heavily in that episode, it’s worth remembering that he wasn’t able to actually DO much of anything against the Lich Hand. Finn was the one to chase the hand to its lair, while Sweet Pea was the one to battle and defeat it. Fern basically being useless was the point, as it led him further into turning on Finn. So Fern’s absence doesn’t really change the events of that episode.

Now however, things start getting really interesting. As with the setup we’ve made so far of ‘Finn not stabbing the Finn Sword’, ‘No Mass-Elemental Reset by LSP’ and ‘Betty not obsessively chasing a way to fix Simon’, we potentially have only TWO of the remaining fourteen episodes able to play out unchanged. With just two or three others potentially having at least minor changes, a further three or four having MAJOR changes, and a potential SIX episode simply not happening at all.

Because with these three simple changes, we have No Fern, No Uncle Gumbald (and friends) and No Betty trying to summon GOLB. Plus potentially one other thing…

Without Fern or Uncle Gumbald being a thing, Three Buckets and Wild Hunt straight up DON’T happen. No Gumbald also means the second half of Always BMO Closing just can’t happen.

Son of Rap Bear plays out unchanged, and ironically Bonnibel Bubblegum can potentially play out mostly unchanged, with Bonnie still having a reason to explain her backstory to Finn and Jake (I personally like to think Marcy already knew :D). The only change being that Bonnie doesn’t get some dramatic realization that her Uncle has returned at the end.

Speaking of which, no Fern and no Gumbald means the major conflict of Seventeen just doesn’t happen and Finn’s seventeenth birthday party goes off without a hitch. Or at least, without a Green-Knight-and-Gumbald-and-co. hitch. You never know what other shenanigans might happen XD

Ring of Fire is the other episode that can play out completely unchanged by our alterations. Meanwhile, no Gumbald means no Chicle/Crunchy to cause trouble at Marcy’s concert at the end of Marcy and Hunson.

Now The First Investigation can play out MOSTLY unchanged, but this is also where that ‘one other thing’ I alluded to earlier comes into play. Because if Jake doesn’t get afflicted with elemental contamination and in turn draws out his alien physiology, that could potentially lead to Warran Ampersand NOT seeking him out and taking Jake to space at the end of TFI.

Now Jake potentially not being off-planet means Blenanas can potentially play out unchanged (Jake is simply off doing something else leading to Finn hanging out with Ice King), with major changes (Jake goes with Finn and Ice King), or just no happen at all (Finn and Jake are just doing something else).

Of course Jake not being taken off-planet by his evil alien dad means Jake the Starchild and Temple of Mars simply DON’T happen at all. If he is, then the former episode likely plays out unchanged while the latter still undergoes major changes, simply because in this version of events, Betty isn’t on Mars with King Man.

Now we come to the last two episodes of the series, which in this version of events simply CAN’T HAPPEN. No Uncle Gumbald means no Gumbaldia.

And with no Fern, no Gumbald and no Betty obsessed with ‘fixing’ Simon, literally ALL of the conflicts of Come Along With Me simply do not exist. No war with Gumbaldia, no big conflict between Finn and Finn-that-got-possessed-by-a-grass-demon, and no Betty summoning GOLB, no GOLBetty and no Simon being fully separated from the crown.

Now of course, all this isn’t to say everything would be all fine/dandy/boring for our characters and there won’t be anything of interest or conflict in this time. Just that it would be something completely different than what we see in the series proper. In particular, this series of events has Betty not only actually hanging out with Simon/IK, but even gradually integrating herself into the main cast of characters, which certainly would create all kinds of interesting situations (Betty having an actual conversation with Marceline anyone?).

Rather, I thought this would be a fun little thought experiment on how just a couple changes could have massive effects on late-series Adventure Time.

#adventure time #adventure time ramblings #adventure time au #rambling about the butterfly effect in adventure time #finn mertens #finn the human #fern the human #jake the dog #betty grof #patience st pim #uncle gumbald #how to make almost all of adventure time season 9 not happen with two simple changes

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put3rb0y · 8 months

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Adventure Time episodes necessary for understanding Fionna and Cake

I've had some people ask me if they need to watch Adventure Time to watch Fionna and Cake, so I decided to make a list of episodes I find vital to watching before watching Fionna and Cake! I would recommend just watching the whole series, but I also get not everyone wants to.

Please keep in mind that these are not all of the lore-important Adventure Time episodes, only the ones relevant to the new Fionna and Cake spinoff up to episode 6 (the latest episode out at the time of me making this.) I will update it with suggestions or if I need to add more episodes as new Fionna and Cake ones come out.

This list may have vague Adventure Time spoilers. Read at own risk.

Without further ado, list below the cut!

Part 1: Essential Episodes

You should watch these to fully understand Fionna and Cake. Without them, you will be lost at some point.

S3E9 “Fionna and Cake” - First instance of the concept of Fionna and Cake

S3E20 “Holly Jolly Secrets Part 2” - Simon backstory information

S4E25 “I Remember You” - Simon and Marceline backstory information

S4E26 “The Lich” - Set-up for next episode (multi-part arc)

S5E1 “Finn the Human” - Prismo introductory episode, context on multiverse

S5E2 “Jake the Dog” - Context on multiverse

S5E11 “Bad Little Boy” - Fionna and Cake-based episode

S5E14 “Simon & Marcy” - Simon and Marceline backstory information

S5E48 “Betty” - Betty and Simon backstory information

S6E1 “Wake Up” - Important Prismo context

S6E9 “The Prince Who Wanted Everything” - Fionna and Cake-based episode

S6E19 “Is That You?” - Important Prismo context

S6E24 “Evergreen” - Important Ice King context

S6E38 “You Forgot Your Floaties” - Important Betty episode

S7E7 “Everything Stays” - Simon and Marceline backstory information

S7E21 “King’s Ransom” - Important Ice King and Betty episode

S7E23 “Crossover” - Important Prismo/multiverse context

S8E1 “Broke His Crown” - Important Ice King/Simon episode

S8E8 “Elemental” - Important lore information, set-up for later miniseries

S8E9 “Five Short Tables” - Fionna and Cake-based episode

S8E12 “Preboot” - Important context on humans in the Adventure Time universe (watch follow-ups if invested)

S8E19 “Jelly Beans Have Power” - Important lore information, sets up next miniseries

Islands Miniseries (S8E20-27) - Vital information on humans in the Adventure Time Universe

Elements Miniseries (S9E1-9) - Important worldbuilding and Ice King/Betty context

S9E12 “Fionna and Cake and Fionna” - Fionna and Cake-based episode

S10E4 “Bonnibel Bubblegum” - Needed to understand finale

S10E11 “Temple of Mars” - Important Betty episode

S10E12 “Gumbaldia” - Needed to understand finale

S10 Finale “Come Along With Me” - Entirely necessary plot and lorewise

Distant Lands (spinoff series) “Obsidian” - Important Simon, Marceline, and Bubblegum information

Part 2: Recommended Episodes

I would recommend these as they will provide extra context for Fionna and Cake, but you shouldn’t get lost without them.

S1E12 “Evicted!” - Marceline’s introductory episode, as she is very important in Simon’s story.

S1E2 "Trouble in Lumpy Space" - Introduces LPS who is decently important in Fionna and Cake

S1E3 “Prisoners of Love” - The Ice King’s introductory episode, and a pretty good example of how he acts prior to character development.

S1E20 “Freak City” - Introduces Magic Man, who becomes important in Betty’s story

S2E1 “It Came From the Nightosphere” - Important context on Marceline/Marshall’s relationship with one of their parents (becomes relevant)

S2E18 “Susan Strong” - Susan is later a part of essential episodes

S3E10 “What Was Missing” - Important for Bubblegum and Marceline’s relationship/development

S3E19 “Holly Jolly Secrets Part 1” - Helps with understanding Part 2, also provides a pretty good example of what the Ice King is like pre-character development, but not exactly necessary

S4E5 “Return to the Nightosphere” - Helpful Marceline context

S4E6 “Daddy’s Little Monster” - Helpful Marceline context

S4E24 “Reign of Gunters” - Introduces Wizard City, may make later episodes easier to understand

S5E4 “Up a Tree” - Character from this plays a decently major role in an episode of Fionna and Cake, but background context isn’t all too necessary

S5E6 “Jake the Dad” - At least one of Jake’s kids is in Fionna and Cake, so it may be helpful to see them

S5E26 “Wizards Only, Fools” - Additional Wizard City information

S6E2 “Escape from the Citadel” - Follows S6E1 directly and helps provide context on Finn as seen in Fionna and Cake

S6E30 “The Diary” - Context on TV, who appears to have a decently important role in Fionna and Cake

Stakes Miniseries (S7E6-13) - Important Marceline lore

S8E2 “Don’t Look” - May give some context on Ice King/Simon

S8E4 “Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension” - Context on TV, who appears to have a decently important role in Fionna and Cake

S8E7 “Normal Man” - May help with context on Betty

Distant Lands (spinoff series) "Wizard City" - More context on what happens to a character present in Fionna and Cake

Note: Without watching the full series (and Distant Lands spinoff), there are still some references or minor characters you’ll miss or not know anything about when they are mentioned/shown. However, following this guide, I believe you should still be able to understand and enjoy Fionna and Cake!

#adventure time #fionna and cake #dont be scared to send suggestions via the comments or my ask box btw

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j4gm · 6 months

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Okay. I'm gonna keep this real simple What is Peppermint Butler's age? And can you share your thoughts on it, if you don't have a definitive answer for this I've been obsessing over him lately, and his fandom wiki doesn't have a source for its claim on him being 300. And I've been debating its logistics for a while now Ty for answering, if you do! and no pressure, of course

He was presumably created shortly before his first chronological appearance in The Vault. We don't know exactly when that was. Some crew members have mentioned in passing that it was about 500 years ago. So Peps is a few hundred years old and we can't really get more accurate than that.

If you count from when he was babified in Gumbaldia, he's somewhere in the 6-11 demographic by the time of Wizard City, and he's probably in his 60s by the time of Together Again depending how old Finn was when he died.

#adventure time

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the-possum-writes · 2 years

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More Fern x Reader? Really adorable stuff! Maybe even Fern as the Green Knight? Im sorry if its a lot to ask 👉👈

General Green Knight Headcannons

Character: Fern

Tags: Fluff, Gn!reader

[Masterlist]

Ngl he's an insufferable jerk (affectionate) when he gets his Green Knight armor/look. The bonus height and strength does numbers to his ego.

The first time you saw him at Finn's bday party he started flirting at you, probably saying shit like. "Hey there cutie, what's someone like you doing at a place like this?" you were still mourning Fern at this point so you'd respectfully reply with. "Fluff off spike face." the knight's laughter echoes inside his helmet. "Still got that spunk I see."

During the contests the knight would flex and direct kissy noises at you, automatically rolling your eyes at the display.

The rivalry and threats of war between Gumbald and Pb doesn't stop you from chasing after him, trying to get answers about his whereabouts. "You didn't tell me-!" you shout. "Partners tell eachother when they come back from the dead!" you'd punch him numerous times in the chest but it doesn't do anything to him, on the contrary it only hurts your hands due to the spikes. He's silent when he grabs your wrists, carefully cradling your hands in his before lowering the visor on his helmet and mumbles a sincere. "Sorry."

It's kind of hard to keep the relationship/or friendship rolling like it once did, because you know he's the same Fern you've grown to love but he's also like a new person to you.

Helps you with cooking by slicing meat and veggies in record time. Though you'd constantly have to scold him to use the cutting board instead of throwing it in the air and slicing it with his sword.

When you want to visit him you have to go through many security check ups to access Gumbaldia, Fern takes advantage of this by doing extensive body checks like an airport. "If you wanted to grope me you could've asked." you grumble during the whole process, perking up his attention. "Can i~?" he asks. "Nope."

He lowers the spikes on his armor so you can ride his shoulders.

The rough edges on his armor makes it uncomfortable to cuddle, you refuse to cuddle unless you wrap him in bubble wrap.

Speaking of which. If you two are living together/or you invite him to your place Fern purposely stores away groceries and cups in the high shelves, so whenever you can't reach something he expectedly pokes his head from the corner with a smug tone like. "Oh what's that? you want me to reach it for you shorty~?"

The only reason you tolerate it is because sometimes he forgets his current height and smacks his forehead against door frames in your house. It's hilarious.

Yeah the grass axe is cool and all but nothing beats using his vine arm as a jump rope. When asked about it he'd give you a weird look like "Using my arm as a jump rope? What are you a fourth grader?" before you eventually convince him.

You're aware of how strong and resistant he is, and Fern knows it too. That's why, during boring days, you find unconventional activities to take advantage of Fern's durability for your own entertainment (also to knock him down his high horse occasionally), easily convincing him if you say "I double dog dare you". Or butter him up like. "Wow you're so much stronger than Finn now, I bet you can do this thing he can't do~"

It's only noticeable when he goes to gumbald for a check up or repairments."Dear gum, were you struck by a giant hammer or something? How did you dent the helmet this badly?" Uncle Gumbald asks as he attempts to fix the problem, upset that one of his creations is damaged. Fern would look away with a stubborn pout. "...I was trying to break a boulder with a headbutt." he mutters.

As much as Fern likes his new armor he likes you even more, agreeing to the bubble wrap during cuddle sessions, the absurd dares just to hear you laugh even if it costs him a scolding from Gumbald.

#adventure time x reader #fern the human x reader #fern the human #green knight

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