HI BO!!! you should :3 tell me about your simpsons selfinsert!!!!
HIHI AJJJJ!!! Thanks for the ask! I would love too omg I was actually working on an art piece of paw!! (And also a few fanfics). Prepare, you are in for a ride
SO BASICALLY, Bo was an anthropomorphic kitty cat who was born to a family of humans sometime in the 50s maybe. He grew up as a female cat, but when he was about 13 he realized he was happier using masculine terms to describe himself, but for a while only his family knew.
Their dream was to be a cartoonist for the Itchy and Scratchy show, but he knew he would be denied because of his identity, so he resorted to working at the Springfield Power Plant as a janitor.
That’s where he met Homer. He and Homer bonded over their shared hate for their jobs and Mr. Burns, and found that they had a few things in common personality wise.
Bo started coming over Homer’s house and he got along very well with the kids, and Marge too.
Over the months, Bo, Homer, and Marge grew closer. Sometimes Marge and Homer even let Bo third wheel their dates. Bo began to catch feelings for them, and he hated himself for it because he knew that relationships like that were greatly frowned upon at the time and they would never like him back. :[
Finally, one fateful night, about a year into their friendship, Bo decided to confess his feelings anyway so he could finally get them off his chest.
The three were sitting and looking at the stars at the park together when Bo confessed, and, much to his surprise, Homer and Marge gleefully reciprocated his feelings, and they got together. ^^
Seven and a half years later, Bo now lives with Homer and Marge, and they all love each other very much. Marge and Homer have Maggie, and they let Bo be the secret third parent for her.
Personality wise, I would say Bo is a cheerful fellow, who is also very spunky. He’s kinda like Homer in the fact that he loves to eat a lot, but he’s also kinda a softie, he cares so deeply about those around him, especially his partners and (step) children and he cries easily. He’s autistic, and he loves to do art and watch theatre! Sometimes he’ll do cat-like things, since he is a cat, like growl, purr, hiss, swat at things, and even walk on all fours if absolutely necessary.
Anyway that’s about it for now, Obviously, there’s WAYYY more depth to the whole thing than just that, but that is the baseline! I’m definitely going to write and draw about him a lot :D I also have some angst ideas for him, that I have not shared in this post but I will in fact write about in the future, as well as ideas for how he might play into certain episodes >:]
Once again, thanks for asking! See ya soon! :3
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the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.
capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.
now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.
and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.
and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.
and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".
it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"
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So much of Garak as a person starts to make sense once you know his childhood was a fucking gothic novel. His main playground was a graveyard and he'd play pretend by perfoming improv eulogies to an imagined audience. For a long time his main touchstone for most important figures from recent history is 'oh yeah I know about that guy my dad buried him. great flower arrangements for that one'. He finds out later his 'parents' are actually a brother and sister who had to get married to avoid the utter shame and social devastation of having a child born out of wedlock, and they live in the basement of his biological father's house. (the madwoman in the attic vs. the tiny elim in the basement.) His biological father calls himself his uncle and locks him in a closet whenever he fails to live up to his insane and unpredictable expectations and everyone just has to act like that's normal and expected, and his will hangs over everything at all times, unseen but always felt keener than anything else. The father who actually raised him grows the world's most beautiful (and as it turns out, most poisonous) orchids and keeps the mask of a god hidden in a box in his work shed. Everyone in the house is choking down secrets like it's the only air they know how to breathe anymore.
What I'm saying is that right from the get-go this guy never had the faintest shot at turning out normal, so I'm glad that by middle age he's found a way to get a bit silly with it as he continues to be deeply deeply not normal about anything ever <3
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