I JUST FUCKING REALIZED IF RICK DECIDED TO STARTS USING THE ROBOT IN THE LAST EPISODE, THEN THAT MEANS

i can neither confirm or deny this

never thought I would see the day where han solo and fleabag were in the same movie together along with tom cruise

David Jenkins was not a Big Name Showrunner before OFMD. In fact, I had never heard of him before. I am not even sure what he did before OFMD, according to IMDB he wrote exactly one other show and it is one I have never even heard of before.

And he somehow got HBO to make his weird little show about gay pirates, and he got Taika Waititi to help with it, and while nobody was expecting anything of it - I mean come on guys, remember when OFMD dropped and everyone only gradually realised what it was - it became The Little Show That Could. With almost no advertising. No marketing. HBO did clearly did not expect this show to be anything, to make any real money or to go beyond one season.

But then it blew up.

Because David Jenkins was so insightful, he was so good, he brought so much fresh wind into a business where we usually can tell how the next three steps of how any show is going to go (and to be fair, a lot of us feared that Izzy's death in season 2 was coming, because all the signs fit), that we put him on a pedestal.

THE FUCKING PEDESTAL.

Yes he is brilliant. He has done stuff with OFMD that you never ever see somewhere else. He has understood that historical accuracy, as well as physics and geography, are merely backdrop for plot and characters. Completely irrelevant if you need them to be, but then suddenly important if you have a bit of story that won't work without. He understood that queer relationships deserve to be told, and when confronted with skeptic fans he learned about queerbaiting.

He took a lot of tropes and put them on their head. He structured his show like fanfic. He put thought into his stories instead of following the beaten track. He single-handedly raised the bar for every showrunner out there.

But it is still only his second show.

If he didn't shine so brightly during OFMD's first season, nobody would have expected so much of him.

And yes. He dropped the ball on Izzy.

I loved Izzy to pieces ever since season 1, I wanted to pin him to a board like a bug and study him and take him apart and put him in a blender and in situations, I loved to hate him and in season 2 I loved to love him. He is such a brilliant, complex character, so well written and so well played by Con O'Neill; the options for character analysis, relationship analysis, various interpretations of everything he has done, are simply limitless. 🤯 That is due to David Jenkins & Con O'Neill.

And David Jenkins, standing in the spotlight of all of our exaggerated expectations, decided it would have the greatest emotional impact if he killed him. He made him a symbol, for the end of The Golden Age of Piracy™, and he killed him.

He was right.

He was not original.

He fell for one of the very tropes he so successfully fought in season 1, and for the most part of season 2.

Procuring an emotional response by having a beloved character, who was just starting to embark on an exciting new journey, die tragically and emotionally, providing motivation for the remaining characters.

It was a cheap move.

It is not a Bury Your Gays. Everyone is queer on this show, you can't call something a Bury Your Gays if that would be true for every character death.

But Izzy was also old, and disabled, and he had survived a suicide attempt (that he was driven into, not chose for himself), and had just had an arc of growth and character development that could have gone on for such a long time after this. He had just learned to trust and be vulnerable and experience (gender)queer joy. God, there were so many places his character could have gone.

I loved Izzy as a character, I didn't relate much to him. But Your Mileage May Vary, and I am so, so sorry for everyone who did. You didn't deserve this.

But David Jenkins? Is still sooo much better than any generic bland showrunner that is going places in Hollywood. You want to boycott anything, boycott the big streaming services that don't have the guts to make their main characters queer, to think that "a bit of both" is inclusive or bold, and who drive out any creatives that object and try to sneak in inclusiveness. They are the enemy. They are systemic discrimination and injustice.

David Jenkins is just starting out. And he did so much better on his very first successful show than anyone who has been in the business for years. If anyone deserves a chance to prove that he can do better, it's him.

I'm sure he'll come to regret his decision. I'm sure he'll see where he went wrong, how he could have done better, and fix it in any show he might do after this. I, for one, would much rather see any show he is involved in than most of the crap that the AMPTP is putting out, now or in the future. He can only get better. And he did do a lot of things right. Never forget that. Because the majority of showrunners can't even do the minimum, and David Jenkins went above and beyond.

I think he deserves a little slack. If anyone in the streaming industry does, it's him.

It's the fucking pedestal that is the problem. It makes people who do good but are not perfect suddenly look worse than the most cowardice, opportunistic mediocre guy. But they are not and they deserve a leg up, or we are stuck with the worse option who gets support from all the wrong places. Don't fall for it.

my exact thoughts

this article lives in my head rent free

time adventure is the reason i have depression

I find it so poetic that adventure time quite literally ended with a song saying "no matter when or where you are, we'll always be here forever." and it makes me cry EVERY TIME

just finished the first two episodes of fionna and cake and can i just say the way they wrote finn in relation to simon is so. its so sad. finn spent so long in the series not being able to connect with anyone because he knew he was the only human. and even though simon is back to normal he doesnt know how to relate to finn or any of the other humans that have had to survive in the world like this. its just such bitter irony

and finn really did try n connect with him too. but before finn is human he’s also basically been raised to be a warrior all his life and doesnt know much else. u can also see hes also still kinda grieving the loss of jake?? bcs hes really desperate for companionship even with people who are disinterested in questing with him. its so fucking sad bro

morty would most likely make roblox and minecraft videos.

i'm having dumb little thoughts about rick and morty rn, but i can literally post whatever i want- so, oh well:

i don't mean to throw shade or anything, but i would definitely subscribe to morty's youtube channel and ignore rick's.

you just know that morty's would be entertaining to watch. he'd be trying to do what other people on youtube do- vlogging, comedy skits, pranks (on rick ofc), gaming (i just know he would be the cutest lil let's player ever). he'd be awkward, the pacing would be weird, and the jokes wouldn't land- but that'd be why it worked. i like to think he'd be nervous that rick would get angry if he caught him filming him, but he's ALWAYS with rick, so he'd just be like... shakily sneaking a few frames of rick here and there. hiding the camera in his lap to get shots of them in the ship.

"h-hi and welcome back to my channel! this is my- my day on zorpatheon 9!" *loud ass royalty free music plays over his little intro* (he has 4 subscribers)

rick's would be one of those channels that's like "watch me build this robot on 3x with no music or voiceover" or "fine... i'm going to teach you how to recalibrate a lavatic reactor core, but i WILL be insulting your intelligence for even looking up a tutorial in the first place." he'd probably have morty off to the side holding all of his shit or showing each tool to the camera like a beauty guru, but when morty tries to quip a joke, he'd get so annoyed.

jerry is the ultimate malewife

Why dont vampires just live in space? If they travel the infinite cosmos they won't have to worry about burning up and would technically be able to Carpe more diems.

ok so i just had a thought. im rewatching adventure time and got to the episode crossover. in the episode the litch's hand gets thrown into the multivers portal or whatever it is and there is now on in every universe.

now, there is going to be an at spin off about fionna and cake and simon traveling the multiverse. my thought is that the show is gonna follow the crew going around the multiverse destroying these things.