Randomedgy - My Guilty Pleasures

My life in a nutshell

I am 27 and binge watching “Sofia the First” on Disney+. I feel weird because I developed a crush on Cedric the Sensational. I am too old for this, but on the other hand he cannot reject or hurt me like real males could. I think I like him because I think he is handsome and actually friendly. I like his voice in the German cast. It’s actually the same person who dubbed Leonardo DiCaprio. Cedric went through similar things as I did and I can relate to his feelings and deeds.

When his hair is down

He looks so carefree and happy

He looks like what everything he never should

Bahahahaha

What Gilbert ends up becoming in canon:

What he ends up becoming in the fandoms eyes:

I know, each day feels just more... saddening and lonely.

Ted is a 12 years old boy that have to plant the damn seed.

They both are hated, both are the annoying teenager mirror characters.

The difference is that Shinji is intentionally build to be dislikable, they are hated by different reasons, for example, one is hated for not having the courage to interact with people and "get the girls" while the another is determined to get his crush, one is hated for not having the courage to fight for the world when he is called upon to the point that he scapes by a selfish fear, while the other has the audacity to stand up powerful people to do what was asked of him even if it(initially)was for a selfish task. But they are still the reflections of the loser, Ted is accidentally that.

The thing in which both have in common is that they are tied to the desires of others, they are dependent on other characters to do something, everything they did is to the others so they could gain some validation (except that Ted learned to care about the trees in the end), because Shinji was abandoned since a child he is desperate for attention and help, combine that with his teen fase and he gets insupportable, Ted wanted validation from his crush and later he fulfilled the Onceler desire to talk with someone about the trees and vanish the loneliness, at the end he fulfills the wish to replant the trees, wished from the own Lorax, The Onceler and Audrey, in the end, Ted was just a tool to put into practice the wishes of the other protagonists, but still in a selfish way. These boys are just huskies from what they could have been.

Ted deserved to be hated because he wasn't intentionally meant to be like that, he started his task because of a selfish desire: to have someone he doesn't have, even in the Thneedvile demo he had a selfish objective which is to have something that nobody has, Tumblr hates him, I understand it, despite that sometimes i think you guys kinda exaggerates it(specially because he is a kid), but know what? I like him in a ironic way, he may be a degenerate but he is at least a honest character, he may be hateable but at the end of the day, we're just like him, a simp that does everything for the others for the sake of validation and to gain something in our selfish objectives.

Now, because the movie is so badly written, the characters suffer with flanderization and horrible execution, The Onceler and Ted are the most affected by that, i agree that his love task was a bad idea and that's why I don't ship Audrey and Ted, I prefer them as friends( to be honest I don't ship anyone in this movie, i've always been an anti-shipper with this adaptation), i think that Audrey works as a female avatar and she should have her own character arc(already did a post about her), but Ted is not a totally disposable character, he deserves his own character arc too, if Ted were the male avatar view and Audrey the female view(let's say I have a principle called gender balance), his arc would obviously being about he learning to care about the trees, he would start with the desire to have something he doesn't have but he suffers with the many consequences and even get hurt until he learns to care genuinely about the nature.

can't get over after everything they saw, simon's response is just "we'll find a crown to curse me in the right way." like here we have a universe that proves there is no happy ending for ice king & that the only way for him to find anything close as ice king is to make someone else miserable and yet its just. well there has to be a better crown. meanwhile marshall & gary are having their own little meet cute in fionna's apartment like turns out you CAN be happy in a world without magic and all you need to do is go grocery shopping with your friends!!

This type of iteration about their developing romantic relationship reminds me about how i was hooked into shipping Fruk from Hetalia,the ship between England (Arthur Kirkland) and France(Francis Bonnefoy), because of formed family necessity trope.

when ur crush doesnt understand his own fucking metaphors

Oh dude, i just got really frustrated with the movie's direction choices

I may not hate the movie we got but it surely could've be much better, especially when it cames to the characters writing. I know that many people doesn't like how offensive the final movie became, but honestly it's just really frustrating

I heard about Night Vale while watching Hedgehog's nonsense video from months ago, so not really a fan or had listened to it before but the existence is known

"who even is cecil" get real