Rick hate blogs for the win tbh. But I was just curious— do you still rp with rick blogs? And do ppl who know rick is toxic and don’t approve of his actions but still like him as a character get on your nerves? I’m just curious! Have a good day!!
hiya hiya! you have a lovely day too! i’m saying it before i address the other stuff just so i don’t forget to wish it to you! <3
yeah of course i still rp with rick blogs (on my roleplay blog)! my friend val writes several ricks and c-136 talks with a few of them ‘online’ sporadically and thinks they’re Neat. rick interactions nourish me and i am very open to them although people who rp him are few and far between to my knowledge.
people who know rick is toxic and disapprove of his actions but still enjoy him as a character are fine with me! i’m one of them, to an extent?
ALTHOUGH. uhhhh. i suppose it depends on how exactly you ‘enjoy’ him as to whether it’d “get on my nerves.” but even if it did, i wouldn’t ever comment on it or be mean about it?? sjdfkjsdfkl idk! i’d just... let you do your thing and continue doing mine! different strokes different folks!
i think i’m a bad person to look to for much sympathy if you relate to or connect with rick, because ... god. he’s such a bad person. he’s an awful, shitty, destructive, abusive person, and i loathe him for it! and i’m right i think!
yes, he’s capable of being good, and caring, and has been several times over the course of the show. i acknowledge it often and the collar scene with morty, him shooting mr. jellybean really resonated with me, for example.
but for the most part, his love is so conditional, and feels so impossibly out of reach for the people that adore him (his own daughter, summer, morty to an extent) because he deliberately makes it feel that way. keeps them at arm’s length with beth, for example, or verbally puts them down and degrades them instead of being emotionally vulnerable and conducting himself in a way that would imply he gave a shit if they died in the case of morty.
he has zero issue with grievously traumatizing his grandson and abandoning families he’s gotten to know for years, up and leaving when the going gets tough instead of sticking around to help them or keep trying because it’s easier for him not to bother and just move on.
tbh, just about any post that expresses fondness for rick or ‘uwu-ifys’ him with no criticism at all makes me grimace. i’m so repelled by how he withholds love, treats everyone around him poorly, and is such an inherently dickheaded character that i can’t bring myself to interact much with people who are apologetic for him at all, because he hasn’t redeemed himself enough for me to want to see that very often? if at all.
i just think some people hold too much forgiveness for rick in their hearts. like, you can demand redemption arcs for him all you want, but ... i think the sheer volume of unforgivable things he’s done makes it so that sort of thing will just never sit well with me regardless.
rick hasn’t done anything as of right now that makes him worth forgiving, and apologizing for, and justifying, and babying. quite the opposite, in fact. so i find it strange that people can pluck all this adoration for a character who’s so objectively bad out of, like, nowhere --- or homing in on the bare minimum of kindness he performs each season and building him up in their head to be largely those traits. he gets a mopey scene every season where he’s self pitying, and people twist it to be something that makes him redeemable instead.
people will see things like rick flinching away from beth raising her fist and trip over themselves to escalate the valid theory of ‘oh my god! he’s a physical abuse survivor!’ to the far more vexing ‘HE’S BABY! HE’S DONE NOTHING WRONG EVER IN HIS LIFE! HOW DARE BETH DO THAT TO HIM!’
like, what the fuck? how dare beth raise a hand to him and not even act upon it? lmao?
first of all, he’d deserve to have been actually smacked the fuck out in that moment. “how dare beth do that to him?” how dare RICK treat her poorly for her entire childhood, neglect her, do the bare minimum when it came to raising her, waltz back into her life, traumatize her son, destroy her marriage, have the gall to insult her parenting capability, manipulate her emotionally, clone her instead of asking her to stay and be a part of her life like she so desperately needed to hear: the list goes on! second of all, HE HIT MORTY IN THE FACE, ON PURPOSE, SOLELY TO BE CRUEL, AND GAVE HIM A BLACK EYE. it’s called getting his just desserts, as far as i’m concerned.
i kind of went off a bit there, sorry, but --- i’m just trying to exemplify / explain what sort of behavior tends to rub me the wrong way when it comes to people who enjoy rick’s character.
i myself think he’s very interesting, and complex, and it’s enjoyable to consume his arcs and watch his character development unfold. he can be fun, and it’s definitely intriguing to see his intelligence at work. he’s even capable of being sweet and wholesome, having fun with his grandkids. but for me, his negative traits are so glaring, so volatile, that the positives aren’t something i can bring myself to be invested in unless he starts trying to better himself as a person. like, he’s just a drunken bag of dicks.
idk this went a little off the rails and i’m sorry! again, this is just how i feel about things.
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