The Beginning Of The Gang Misses The Boat Is One Of My Favourites: Mac Is Vibing To Hollaback Girl, Frank

i just think it’s so brilliant that the show about emotionally stunted codependent losers is also the longest running live action american sitcom.

i don’t think i’ll ever be able to articulate this fully but. they could have very easily made something short and cynical. something strictly satirical. something like veep, or arrested development, which, don’t get me wrong, are both shows i love, but they are shows where the audience just laughs at the main characters’ misery. and yeah, most of it is that. most of it is traumatized kids who aren’t kids anymore drinking themselves to death in a dive bar. but it’s also mac coming out to his dad after so many years of shame and dennis finally getting something for valentine’s day and dee telling a joke that actually lands and charlie alone in the rain until he isn’t and all of them walking off of that mountain together with their arms wrapped around each other. sometimes it’s that. but you only notice those brief, saccharine moments when you’ve been watching something long enough — living with something long enough — to do so, and suddenly you’re crying on the couch because dennis bought mac a dog even though dennis hates dogs. i would take something breathing, something with empathy over something bitingly satirical and efficient and short any day of the week.

there is probably nothing in that crate outside, but hey, let’s look in it anyway. there’s a stain on this wall and it looks like a miracle.

Deleted the prev version because there were some big hookup issues bugging me. But here is the Thrill of First Love macdennis cut

the idea of Ruth as a trans allegory has me crying in the club

(SPOILERS FOR NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE GO WATCH IT ITS AMAZING)

the idea of discovering something more to yourself that you want to show the world, but feel stuck in what people say you need to be rather than what you really are hits really close to home

Max Jagerman saying “you’re a nerd cause I said so. i willed it into existence.” represents how the more acceptable, “normal” people project what someone is supposed to be onto them without considering what they truly are, to keep them in a box, a box that Ruth is trying to break out of

when Max is presumed dead, it represents those expectations being lifted off of those who were affected, allowing people like Richie to be confident in who they are and make friends

even though Ruth doesn’t know exactly what she is yet, she finds her passion for being in the spotlight at the beginning of “Just For Once”, singing about how she now knows she wants to be in the spotlight

lines that talk about her character growing old, talking about how she’s disappointed with where her life is, maybe reflects how she’s feels about growing up herself, being scared of a future where she has to live as someone she isn’t or with someone she doesn’t want to be with

her repetition of “just for once,” in the song reflects many of the thoughts that other trans people have, often imagining ultimatums like “if only I had a button that turned me into a (preferred gender)” or “if I could just wear this outfit just for one event,” or “if I could just be a (preferred gender) for one day”

“just for once I’d feel the spark that I once knew” reflects feelings of many trans people who realized they weren’t cis around high school, where Ruth is, and searched to find that feeling again, but felt trapped by expectations by parents or others

“should I flip the burgers now? should I double check it’s well done on the outside, not within?” her indecisiveness reflects one of her main character traits, that she is riddled with anxiety, a common struggle that trans people experience, her anxiety makes scenarios that even though people are starting to accept her after Max’s death, that she’d still be ridiculed, or that it isn’t right for her to be who she is

her musicality shows her in bursts of confidence, like at the end with her lengthening the last note and letting it trail off, setting it free, only to go completely silent, highlighting the duality of her confidence in her new self, and fear of change (the last note always kills me it makes me tear up everytime)

what makes it even more gut-wrenching is that she isn’t able to feel the freedom of living her dream

the trailing off repetition of “i used to dance” after talking about giving away her tap shoes, representing her surrender to anxiety and fear, giving up on her dreams of being a performer, before being killed by Max

“Life is fine, if only it were mine.”

sometimes i need to remind myself that i'm writing fanfiction for free and i'm allowed to have a shitty sentence or two

TGWDLM IS COMING BACK HOLY SHITTTTT!!!

TGWDLM was the first Starkid show I ever watched, I've been a fan ever since asfghfeubjdk the show still has a very special place in my heart because of this <33 AND NOW THEY'RE COMING BACK TO ME AAAA ALL MY FAVOURITES TED, PAUL, BILL THEY'RE ALL COMING BACK ASFDGHJFGHHJF

The timing is so perfect I'm literally in the middle of a Hatchetfield hyperfixation rn holy molyyyy never off yourselves kids!! Supes excited

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your sunny severance fic is my favorite thing in the entire world i love it SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! EXCELLENT JOB BRO!!!!!

Aaaaaa thank you so much!!!!!! I'm so glad people have been enjoying it I was so nervous when I first published it asgdjgjhkk,,,, it's my first ever fanfic and because it's such a self-indulgent cross-over between two of my favourite shows I thought it wouldn't get that much attention :DD

But the support has been overwhelming and I'm so thankful for every comment and kudos I get!! <33 so lovely to know that my silly little story can bring so much joy to someone!!!

Aaaa thank you for this anon this made me smile so hard <333

Btw I might upload chapter 10 today teehee ;)

happy macdennis rpg day to all who celebrate

Hints that Glenn wrote something in a script:

Obnoxious punctuation and terrible grammar

i don’t think i posted this but he’s yearning :(

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