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i do think its very funny how one piece is simultaneously more and less sexist than like 80% of shounen

hanging out with my narrative parallel !

OH MY GOD on the toxic episode in season 3, when toxic morty is dying toxic rick says "GRANDPA'S HERE"

does he consider this subconsciously desire to be morty's granpa a toxic trait? does he secretly wants to be a source of comfort for morty? does he?!?!?!?!?

y’know, now that I’m thinking about it… Morty rlly never has called Rick “Grandpa Rick” before, has he? The closest we have is season 6 ep 1 which is admittedly very nearly the same thing lol, and then we have cop morty actually calling cop rick it. but idk, I just feel like Morty calling Rick by the actual title rather than just confirming he has it would hit specifically me very differently. like, god, ow. just thinking about morty being like “grandpa rick! grandpa rick!” makes me angst tbh. would rick himself have a reaction to it, considering how he kinda had one when morty told him straight up rick was his grandpa to him? does rick…. even kinda wish morty would call him that, or even just call him it more? does rick subconsciously refer to himself as “grandpa” in the third person to try and insert the idea in mortys head??? his drunken sappy and emotional thoughts had to have gone this way at least once like cmonnnn

ok here i am again with another meta analysis for rick and morty season 6 because of course my obsession phase isn’t over yet

apparently this season is a lot focused on the family smith. it was a big hypothesis when he only had the titles for the season to base our opinions on, but also when it started to air it was pretty clear ALL the smiths are the main focus on this season. the dynamics they have as a family, the nuances, the ups and downs, how they (dis)function - it appears to be explored very heavily this season. lately (a little bit in season 5 too) all five of them seem to be treated as a family, and not just a bunch of people that happen to live together.

which is nice, i really appreciate it, especially because they seem to mix that with sci-fi stuff and humor and honestly i couldn’t ask for anything else (i can’t be the only one laughing the shit off myself this season all the jokes are landing to me please)

my point is, i wonder if the reason why they decide to explore this theme so much is due to quarentine.

right now the smith family are stuck with each other. with the portal gun broken, rick and morty can only go so far in their own dimension, and since they can’t afford to screw things up, they really seems to be doing things tamer and less dangerous than before. in other words, they have nowhere to run and rick needs to deal with his family more often now.

this sounds A LOT like quarentine to me. you going a little bonkers, but also needing to deal with your peer’s crazyness as well. it’s the time you need to confront how disfunctional your family really is but how you love them so deeply you have no other option but to endure them. (i’m talking about non-abusive homes here, please). personally, i think i got a lot closer to my parents and brother after this hell, and it seems fitting the writers went through that as well.

considering season six was written during a more flexible but still real part of the lockdown, i find it a good hypothesis they decide to write the show analog to what was happening in the real world. the smith family can go to school, work, go out to ice cream, but at the end of the day there’s not a lot they can do but to be under the same house for long period of time -  they can’t travel, they can’t pretend their problems don’t exist, they can’t go out often. they need to confront each other.

with this new premiere for episode 4, night family, it got really clear to me how they are willing to just dive deep into the family dynamics, making it more smith-centric. it has been a common theme that rick is acting more like a grandpa rather than a crazy asshole scientist lately, how beth is actually willing to be a good mother now, how jerry is finally being assertive about his place in his home, how morty and summer seems to have a more love-hate bond than just a i-cant-stand-you bond. they are still all fuck ups in their respective areas, they are still horrible people, but they are their OWN horrible people

also the fact that the smith family CHOOSE each other rather than just accept they need to live together adds a new layer to things. no one is from that reality, in the first episode they had the choice to be in their origin dimension if they wanted to and they’ve had tons of opportunities to just walk away before. after a long, long jurney with the same people since half the season 1 (and this jerry from season 2), we can say that the smith family aren’t connected because rick is a control freak, but because they do love each other and this is their burden to carry. in the end, family is a burden you can’t throw away, but it’s your burden and i love that.

and the fact that they actively made the choice to keep each other close is so much nicer than whatever the abusive dynamic they had in later seasons. it’s a found family, they became a found family even if disfunctional as hell. i love that

I gotta say. One Piece is one of the few animes that doesn't provoke "canon is not real unless I like it" syndrome on me. I really love the story as a whole, I really don't need fanon all that much

There is, however, one detail I pretend I do not see: The timeline. Like, the actual timeline. How much time had passed.

No, I'm not talking about timeskip.

*Grabs Eiichiro Oda by his neck* What do you MEAN it passed ONE MONTH between the Reverse Mountain and Water 7?

No no, this can't do. You're telling me the straw-hats had been sailing for two months top?? Nah, nah, nah. You don't understand them like I do. IN MY OPINION:

East Blue lasted two months, maybe a bit less, maybe a bit more.

Then after Chopper they sailed for like 4 more month's to get to Water 7/Ennies Lobby.

Immediately after that came Thriller Bark. Skeleton acquired. Then they went on off screen adventures for like a month. (I refuse to believe Brook found friends just to lose them a few days later on Saboady)

The separation marked 7, maybe 8 months together. That's a good amount I think. I know they see each other 24/7 and that's more than enough time to create strong bonds but they spend 2 years away from each other. That's a lot of 24/7's apart. I want them to have time together.

Because it has been 20 years of One Piece and I still think we have few nakamaship moments. And that is saying something seeing the whole One Piece is one big nakamaship centric slice of life fanfiction.

i need somebody to remember me

luffy is asexual fuck it

Did any of us actually expect to be Rick and Morty fans? lol. I feel like everyone's story starts with "Well, I avoided that show for ages because the fans were terrifying and some of the world's douchiest people like it, but it's so popular that I decided I'd give it a try, and..."

I'm not calling you "good boys" gang, this adventure was shit

i think its funny how kyle spend like 25 seasons trying to make cartman a decent person and fighting him every step of the way but all it took for stan was a few tears and cartman was immediately saving that pangolin

this intrigues me, not only because cartman has been acting nicer in the past few seasons, but its proven in the post covid how he actually CARES FOR HIS BROS????! and besides the sacrifice rabbi cartman did, the pangolin thing was one of the only actual kind things eric has ever done. he gained nothing from it, in fact, HE LOST what he wanted. eric cartman gave up on his antisocial life so stan could live a normal life again. thats... unheard of?

also in cupid ye he just inserts himself in the situation solely because he hates seeing stan sad. Cartman has a soft spot for stan (and arguably kenny), but he is a piece of shit to both butters and kyle, probably because he knows the two of them can keep up. i think its nice how his fucked up mind works