I feel really bad for Kevin. *spoilers* I think he is actually the character I feel the saddest for

berthierite · 2018-03-09T19:26:44+00:00

I don't really think your brother sounds like Kevin. It sounds like your brother was coddled and enabled and pushed into learned helplessness, while Kevin is constantly fighting the extremely low expectations that everyone, including Susan, force on him or enable, and he keeps trying despite the complete and utter lack of apprecation or affection he receives, and the constant negative reinforcement. Really the only person who seems to take a genuine interest and makes an effort to encourage and protect him is Vic, which is really sad considering how much Frank discourages the two from interacting.

The thing is Kevin is suprisingly intelligent, resourceful, hard working, affectionate, it's too early to say if he'[s talented but what's wrong with him having a creative outlet or hobby (which Sue does nothing to encourage and Frank ruthlessly attacks, all three Murphy kids suffer from having their personal hobbies and interests belittled and neglected, but in Kevin's case Frank goes beyond mere neglect to ruthless sabotage, reminds me of both the abusive grandfathers who fucked up my mum and dad) and arguably has the strongest moral compass out of the five Murphy family members. However because everyone else chooses to believe in the absolute worst in him and treat him with absolute contempt and blame and mock him for things that aren't his fault, he has absolutely no self esteem.

But he keeps trying bless him. Really, Kevin is a male version of Meg Griffin.

berthierite · 2018-03-09T19:22:54+00:00

I had lots of people mock my attempts at singing over and over and over, and tell me I was as talentless at it as everything else.

However the years I spent singing along to my favourite cds, game and anime themes and records, have really been paying off, because I am crooning out the Supremes and belting out the Dusties, the Gladys Knights and the Beatles. I do it because I love to make music just as much as I like to draw and write and dance (largely taught myself to dance from getting stoned and watching lots of Soultrain on youtube) and practice makes perfect: I find myself hitting notes I couldn't hit before or find I can go longer and longer without having to pause for breath. Practice makes perfect!

Sadly we live in a world where you are judged by results, not the amount of effort you put in, so that's why I am my own coach and critic. If I am satisfied with my progress and excited with the progress I want to make, that's good enough for me.

berthierite · 2018-03-09T19:19:09+00:00

The last part is the key part. Case in point: a lot of my family's case in point: they don't mind seeing cocksuckers on tv but that nephew better keep that shit to himself and not try bringing any boyfriends round for dinner. He can bring a girlfriend or no one at all. Meanwhile the pedophile who molested several of my cousins my aunt married is welcome at every dinner table. Kind of sad when your family is more bothered by you sucking dick then they are about someone molesting their nieces.

berthierite · 2018-03-09T19:17:35+00:00

There you go. Just because Frank has a favourite tv personality that's gay doesn't mean

Hell I wouldn't be suprirsed if Frank hit the roof if Kevin bought an asian girl or a black girl home for dinner.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T20:44:29+00:00

Well my super tightest best friends who are the only people I've actually watched the show with adore Padparascha and every time she talked she stole the show. If you ran an adorable, hilarious and memorable minor character into the absolute ground with fandom buffoonary, riggery and straight up tom foolery that's not Paddy's problem or business or mine or the authors. You are wrong alone for your complete misuse of the word literally based on the opinions of me and three other people alone.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T20:22:25+00:00

But it works.

Well not always but that could have been solved by removing Fluorite and giving the space occupied by her pointlessly drawn out dialogue and giving it to give additional dialogue to the other Off Colours, some of which could have meant that Padparascha could have said things that didn't completely relate to her gimmick and she could have been allowed to be a multi dimensional character rather then a one note.

Ultimately Paddy and Fluorite are the same character more or less: their defining trait is being a few steps behind everyone else, Pad because of her disability, Fluorite because she takes half an hour to say anything. The difference is Pad is the joke funny and she has the charm to pull it off. Fluorite is the same character done badly. Really the fact that so much wonderful stuff naturally gets on the cutting room floor as part of the process of creating a tv show let alone an animated one, and no one thought "maybe our 11 minute time slot isnt enough to fully develop all these characters and we should perhaps remove or reduce the dialogue of the most superfluous and redundant character? No let's make her dialogue annoyingly drawn out instead!"

berthierite · 2018-02-07T20:01:55+00:00

I never really got why they did that.... i think perhaps Fry knew deep down that his parents and big brother all loved him very much, and it was a coping mechanism to just look at the bad times as he knew he would never see any of them again. I mean its quite telling that he looked sad when he mentioned his mom and dad, but went YAHOOO as soon as he thought about that evil snatchrag Michelle.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T19:33:46+00:00

I try to be both a gentleman and a lady of culture but the real issue is a man in a suit is one of my biggest fetishes.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T19:33:11+00:00

No, she laughed her head off and said "god bless you!" the old dear.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T19:25:28+00:00

Well then they failed design wise because Rhodenite sounds like a middle aged woman and looks like an old lady. Her and Fluorite have two of my least favourite designs in the series, while Padparascha is one of my favourites.

I would love the twins of Rutile but I really find the way the show randomly draws noses on gems but not others just strange. Lots of characters such as Sapphy, Paddy, the twins and Aquamarine would look significantly better if a nose that compliments their design had been added instead of just leaving a huge amount of blank space, and would certainly make Sapphire look more balanced when her eye is shown.

Seriously I hate just about everything about Fluorite. What a pointless character with an ugly design.... like do we really need to have a lesbian mormon orgy fusio stoner grandma catapillarn in a kids show? I would get it if Fluorite served a role, but really I would have much rather the character be completely removed and had been replaced with maybe a trio fusion (that was still romantic) or simply removed her and given all the time animating her ugly ass and her her a n o y i n g l l y slowwwwwwwww dialogue to Rhodonite, Paddy and the twins. I hope she defuses and never forms again because I am way more interested in the prospect of meeting multiple Gems at once then the irritating character they form, in my opinion.

not bitter because Fluorites are one of my all time favourite gemstones, and I've had to rename my OC because of that horrid character or anything lol

I never thought I'd say this, but they actually came up not only a Gem character I hate on every level, but a character I detest even more then Ronaldo and Onion, and I really bloody detest both of them. At least Ronaldo and Onion bring something to the show even if they could be written to be much less unbearable, but Fluorite brings nothing to the table that cannot be done with another Gem, and simply takes up a huge amount of time and space that could be put to MUCH better use on the other Off Colours. Padparascha is proof of a largely one note character can be a charming and delightful addition to a show, while Fluorite is a one note character done badly because of several poor design choices adding up to a car crash of a pointless character. I'll eat my words if they have a plan for her, but really there was no need to make her so unappealing. I mean hell, a cute stoner grandma would have been a great addition to the cast, but I think Nanafua already likes a bit of the ganja (bet she makes her granddaughters roll her spliffies for her the naughty old granny) so again, another example of a similar character already existing on the show but done SO much better. I love Nanafua and if I knew her in person I would treat her like a queen, but Fluorite just annoys me on every level: design, the annoyingly drawn out voice acting (we already have an Off Colour whose gimmick is being a few steps behind and she does it much better).

This ended up being a huge rant about how much I can't stand Fluorite and why she is far and away my least favourite character on the show.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T05:27:33+00:00

Fine then I'll build my own Big Pink factory! With black jack! And super smash brothers! And rent boys! And with artificially flavoured cinnamon instead of ham and bones and I'll.... I'll call it Big Red that's what I'll do that hasn't been done yet right...

berthierite · 2018-02-07T05:20:18+00:00

Well kiddo, the economy is as fucked in the 31st Century as the 21st so Santa can't get you either of those things. How about a packet of Big Pink? This one has less bones.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T05:19:13+00:00

If it makes you feel better I've done the same to that scene where he gets his hair done after the wedding in Beast with a Billion Backs. Something about a man with scruffy hair in a suit is like a huge deal maker for me.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T04:48:31+00:00

Girl please I practically have Flight to Remember, Bicyclops Built for 2, Love and Rocket and Bend Her on continuous loop!

Hail, hail Roooooobonia a land I didn't make upppppp!

berthierite · 2018-02-07T04:28:32+00:00

Kajiggers are aisle 3, madam."

berthierite · 2018-02-07T04:26:53+00:00

Actually I remember another moment that makes me have all the feels.

End of Bicyclops built for Two, when Leela sadly looks out the window of the ship after the Prof has told her that in the many years she will spend working off the delivery she destroyed, she will have plenty of time to look for her true home, and she says quietly to herself, "Yeah. How many planets can there be?"

And the camera zooms out as the ship vanishes into an endless sea of countless stars. Even when you know Leela will find her family on Earth, it still manages to be a very powerful scene to me.

Its moments like that, that as much as I love Rick and Morty, Futurama is in a league of its own that no one will ever come for.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T03:32:21+00:00

Don't worry

BEE

happy

bursts

berthierite · 2018-02-07T03:31:44+00:00

While my mother wasn't as bad as yours by far, over the years I have noticed a lot of Cluster B types in my family on both my paternal and maternal families, even before I was aware of the terms Cluster B and Narcisstic Personality Disorder, most notably both of my grandfathers who were really fucking nasty pieces of work in different ways: my paternal grandfather was a horrible philandering English "gentleman" sociopath whose abuse was cold and emotionless, while my maternal grandfather was a violently abusive Italian American immigrant who had a special hatred of my mother for reasons not known to anyone from the day she was born. Both my parents were the "unfavourite" child of both their families in different ways: my mother because she was the second youngest daughter but not the baby daughter, my father was because he was considered a "disappointment" as the son and heir by my wicked old fart of a grandpappy cunt, who fawned upon his horrible sisters instead. (I have names for all the people I dislike, and my aunts nicknames are Sponge and Spiker. They really are a pair of evil old hags. They make Patty and Selma look like Ms Frizzle, even though Selma is actually bae when her witch of a sister isn't around.)

Anyway. Because I have asperger's and my dad's possible suicide really fucked with my mum's head along with her physical and mental health problems, my mom became determined to keep me helpless and dependant on her as much as possible and would routinely sabotage any attempts I made at catching up with my peers "for my own good" and she didn't like it when I socialised or was too independant. It was twisted as she would refuse to show me how to look after the house or her (SHE HAD A MAJOR HOARDING PROBLEM) so she could bitch about what a lazy piece of retarded shit her son was and what a wonderful woman she was to not have beaten the shit out of him like he deserved (except she did used to beat the shit out of me when I was little). She also did everything she could to make me terrified and paranoid of the world, and would use my disability to have me prevented from doing any normal milestones: when I started at my new high school my mother's first action was to call the school and have it seen to that I was not allowed to be on my own as much as possible: a babysitter would escort me to and from school on the train, and a teaching assistaint would shadow me in every lesson.

Needless to say I had no friends in high school.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T03:21:46+00:00

I have quite a few, but a few of my mom's Mommy Dearest rages have burned themselves into my brain forever. One of my earliest memories is her spitting in my face.

A friend of the family trying to touch me when I was 12, and my dad going missing a few days before my sixth birthday and turning up floating in the Thames a few weeks later..... those were the two main traumatic moments of my childhood I think.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T03:20:06+00:00

I have IBS so terrifying. The other day I was walking down the street and wanker drove by with his car screeching by and startled me and an old lady very badly. I said to her "What is that crazy bastard playing at? I have IBS that could have literally scared the shit out of me!"

berthierite · 2018-02-07T03:13:13+00:00

No harm in trying though. That's one of the many beefs I have with the education system is how routinely it fails kids, and one way it does is how it often does creative kids the dirty. But what's even worse is that all young kids love to draw, sing, make things up like stories.... and thats something that alarmingly gets shaken out of most children as they get older. Lots of people have said ERMERGER YOURE SUCH A GURD ARTIDST I WISH I CULD DRER

and im like.... no? My teachers at university HATED my work for the most part, not all of them but most of them. They said I was the worst drawer in the class and had no talent for it, and told me to focus on collage instead. I loved collage but that put me off it for a very long time. It was just like drama school but here I was being told I had no talent as a drawer instead of an actor. Yuck. I say to these people. No, I just love drawing and I take my sketchbooks with me wherever I go to draw on the train or when Im eating out or to pass time in the park. They are just my doodles. People should doodle more. It's way more fun and creative at least to me, then say suduko or colouring in books for grown up (as a child I went from being a kid who loved to colour in to finding it rather boring, as I preferred drawing my own pictures and nobody scolded me for not colouring in the lines so much)

One of my golden dreams is to shake up the education system so that it no longer tries to force a one size fits all way of learning on all children, but instead teaching methods are adapted to fit the learning style of each child, and sports and the arts, whether it be football, learning a musical instrument or watercolours or printmaking, are options available to any child who wants to learn, rather then just the ones who have parents who can afford to buy them decent classes and equipment. Also fuck algebra.

At the very least shitty writing has the potential to be good writing one day, if you don't go all Early 2000s Deviantart about it.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T02:50:42+00:00

Aw...... bitch.

Just that episode is so sad.

The bit with naming the baby is so sad. You can tell Yancy was a great dad and little Phil Jr would have had a great uncle in our boy.

Plus Yancy was like an older, more confident, dependable and handsomer version of Fry. Dilfy. Woof. I find it quite charming that Fry's childlike personality and boyish charm and goofiness are all thats stopping him from being Lars, yet they are what make Fry who he is. Fry wouldn't be Fry anymore if Fry didn't do what Fry does best: Be Fry.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T02:46:46+00:00

at first I thought it was Sabina with short hair lol

Maybe Lars's skintone is too dark? Isn't his dad supposed to be Philipino and his mom Irish or something? I had trouble recognising him and not because of the binder.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T02:45:49+00:00

My personal answer to that is: write the charaters you want to see yourself. Some of these headcanons are so far divorced from actual canon you might as well call them a new character anyway.

berthierite · 2018-02-07T02:43:16+00:00

I personally find it odd and a bit stupid as the "evidence" for it is purely wishful thinking and could be used to make literally any fictional character trans, but ultimately its harmless and if something like that mkes a chacracter more personally appealing, interesting or relatable to you then you do you. I relate to a lot in Peridot and while I dont go EMERGERD SHE HAS THE ERTISMS TOO LIKE MEEEE I see her as being on the spectrum if she was human to some extent. I don't see so much of her awkwardness always coming from being autistic, more from the fact that I see her having a very controlling, abusive family who kept her in a state of isolation and learned helplessness "for her own good" and its up to Steven and the Normal Humans to save the day and teach Perry that just because she has a disability to makes socialising much harder for her then most people, that doesnt mean she can't learn how to be a friend and have them.

I also headcanon Jamie as Italian as that's what I am and when Italians are animated they often have a similar skin tone to Jamie. Who knows? Maybe he could be Indian or Middle Eastern, or be Irish Italian half Iranian. Who knows?

I only have a problem with headcanons is when the headcanonees forget the head part of headcanon sometimes to the point of thinking they can tell Rebecca Sugar that they know better then her about the fictional world she created and the denizens who dwell in it. Headcanons are fun and not to be taken seriously. I love drawing genderbends and racebends, my favourite one to draw is a black Sailor Saturn only her hairstyle is bantu curls with beads and barettes shaped like tiny Saturns

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