anyway if you can PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go see strange world when it comes out. i have seen zero ads for this movie. zero. and everything about my algorithms and the content i’ve consumed should state otherwise. we cannot let them blame low turnout on the first openly gay (not to mention biracial!!!) main character
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Bonnie was not assigned a gender at birth but her concept of gender is so heavily based on her perception of human society and the narratives she creates around its ruins like. She is a woman by her own definition, informed by her interpretations of old human stuff, because who else could have defined “woman” for her???? Being a woman, to her, means being powerful and creative and taking care of your loved ones. Not to mention, there’s no way that little tadpole nub just grew into a human shape!!!!! She made herself look like her perception of a human woman/girl On Purpose!!!!! Gender is a puzzle and a series of observations, just like everything else about people and relationships and society. So like. Yeah when she first encountered the expectation that women/girls should have boyfriends, she trashed those magazines for her rat to shit on like any ambitious tween lesbian piece of gum would!!! But then someone she created herself reinforced that expectation, and then so did so many other people, and maybe she thought she had no choice or maybe she felt guilty or maybe she was just tired.
But again. We are all just fucking playing with little dolls in the game of life or whatever. Some more than others (……………… yeah Bonnie lol) BUT LISTEN gender is obviously a construct that we understand first and foremost through observation BUT our (or at least 20th century/PW’s generation’s) human perception of gender and the characters’ observations and interpretations do it are so goddamn important to every single character in this show. They are all performing a role and a big part of that role is gender. Once again BMO is the most flexible about this performance because BMO is the most childlike (emotionally/mentally youngest in this case bc obvs many children develop awareness and self consciousness around gender roles very very young) and therefore the least bothered by society’s expectations!!! Just like in real life!!!!
To start out, all Bonnie knows of femininity and womanhood is that mothers are women, and princesses are girls, and mothers and princesses are powerful and caring. And then she finds out that girls and women are supposed to have boyfriends, and that seems really wrong to her, but she has to be a girl/woman because she is a mother and a princess to the extent that she understands those roles!! Meaning not 100% in line with the human definition (mothers don’t raise their children the mammal way, princesses are inherently the highest rulers of their kingdoms) but rather based on her perception of it. Which like GET THIS!!!!! Our perceptions of human definitions of gender and societal roles ARE the definitions of those things!!!!!!!!! I wanna scream abt it it’s so fuckign interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway tangent but in conclusion Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum is the most transgender character ever to NOT actually have any gender assigned at birth to be transing (unless the MG whispered it to her ig) and that’s just how cool she is!!
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i’m becoming a chousou girl, i fear . . .
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i feel like how people perceive amelia is strongly based on if they got siblings or not and their relationship with them, everybody reaching the the same conclusions but the reasoning is very different 😭
i believe (and this ain’t a dig at anyone) that the people who don’t have siblings are more patient with her n it’s just sumn ive seen
[more in tags bc i got a bad habit of goin off in there💀]
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sorry for being that guy but absolving a character of any and all flaws or accountability and ignoring the parts of canon that are proof that this character is (thankfully) complex and human aka capable of making mistakes and doing good and being smart in some ways and dumb in others and so on and so forth is just like. sorry but i always imagined that to be the most boring way to enjoy a character and yet.........................
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im such a lovey boy but im also very Pent Up
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Allowing your oc's to be just sort of fucked idiot dickheads is great
This is my schmoopy, i made him up in my head, he huffs paint fumes and has never gotten over his ex and yes he's making it EVERYONE'S problem! I'm putting him up on a plinth with a gold plaque and telling everyone he is the best schmoopy around and im kissing his forehead and bestowing him with ribbons so everyone knows how wonderful he is. He will steal your wallet also.
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talkin’ 2 my mooties makes me think everythin’ is goin 2 be okay . . it’s so healing
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Mom . that thang is on the roof again
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this upcoming night vale arc is gonna be crazy. we have adolescent kevin, esteban showing promise of eldritch power, and hints at cecil dad lore. i'm so ready for joseph and jeffrey to knock my socks off with themes of intergenerational relationships and the simultaneous despair and beauty of leaving childhood behind
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Here is a take. You need the context of the character outside of the relationship in order to fully appreciate the relationship, in an analytical/understanding sense. (What I mean is you can obviously enjoy it regardless) Most bubbline shippers are more drawn to Marceline’s context outside of the relationship than to Bonnie’s, which often leads to minimizing Bonnie by characterizing her as uncaring or a purely selfish partner, minimizing Marcy by characterizing her as purely a (Bonnie’s) victim who did nothing wrong, of oversimplifying the whole relationship by only acknowledging the bad parts (just the angst) OR the good parts (just the fluff). It’s really frustrating actually bc to me they’re both characters who shed a light on the complexity of the show as a whole, and when most people realize that they tend to latch onto the second layer beneath the surface so to speak— the big “reveal” that Bonnie isn’t just tea parties and smiley faces, and that Marcy isn’t just scary pranks and evil laughter.
The thing is, THIS IS NOT THE LIMIT OF THEIR COMPLEXITY. They definitely are not just those things, but they are not just “evil scientist dictator” and “depressed lost soul” either! They’re so many things, just like every other major character (and many minor ones) in the show. I see many of you getting into Bonnie’s complexities without sympathy because you think it’s cool or sexy that she’s evil or whatever, but there’s so much more to her than that. And while I’ve seen much more sympathetic introspection on Marcy’s character, it still tends to place her as the Victim with a capital V within the context of their relationship. Understandable considering we mostly see it from her side, and considering we mostly see the parts of it where it’s strained. But come on!! I know fandom is very capable of filling in blanks, but I rarely see that for Bonnie when it isn’t in service of a different character. I get that she is very withholding, but honestly so are all of them. That’s exactly what Obsidian is about, but I don’t think anyone waited for it to come out to acknowledge that Marceline was more than the series could directly show of her. So many people in fandom are willing to dig SO DEEP for interpretation, but with Bonnie, it’s like she surprised or angered or amused you so much by being 2-dimensional than you never acknowledge the dimensions beyond that. And if that’s because you don’t see them, then how are you seeing every other character’s so clearly?
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idk who ozzy thought i was i would never do that to grace!!
i was sweating buckets and almost flirted with him
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OOOuuuu!!! that new lebron movie is on my gatekeeeeeeep OUUU!! imma watch GOOD tonight!!
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i think one of tha cutest things is when my gf n iare talking n she keeps falling asleep while we're talkign,,,,,,,,,,,, like girl u are so sleepy just Go To Sleep ill tuck u in n everything,,,,,,,,,,,so eepy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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i think the point of goin out w/ friends is for two people ta start slapping their hands together and a third person joining until eventually all 7 of you in full cosplay in the middle of a hallway at the mall giggling in a weird arm stack
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new buddy daddies episode….. 47 dead 3541 injured…..
they only dedicated one episode to kazuki’s trauma and had him make a breakthrough at the end, which means that the show is really focusing on healing and how kazuki and rei are being changed positively by having miri in their lives and i cannot tell you how happy i am for that. i was a little worried they were gonna get super angsty but it seems like it’s gonna be a largely unserious slice of life about how other people are what matter most and. OUGHHHHHH. sometimes the action that is the hardest takes the most love….. realizing that the world is still beautiful despite its pain and that our deceased loved ones want us to be happy is such a lovely thing to address……. which again circles back to the show’s overarching theme of optimism/love for others being something that’s actually very challenging to maintain but always worth it and like. i just agree with that so strongly i FUCKING LOVE THIS SHOWEOWWWW
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