Ryan has A bounty on him and matt is trying very hard to convince Ryan to let him kill him and get rid of the bounty (read: get the money)
So immortal fake ah where that’s matt’s main solution to any situation. Just straight up any minor inconvenience translates into “well somebody’s gotta die I guess”
One of the crew: oh ive got a parking ticket
Matt, cocking his gun: I could take Care of that for you real quick
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s possible for characters vs. what the audience sees. (This might feel really obvious or redundant to talk about, but I just need to get the words out of my system)
In Steven Universe, when a character can’t do something, it’s a bit of a big deal. They struggle with it, they fixate on it, entire episodes may be dedicated to this thing they’re unable to do. When a character can do something, but doesn’t, it’s never focused on or called out. But when it does finally happen, it underscores a huge moment for that character.
As early as episode 10, it’s confirmed that Amethyst is able to bubble Gems. The action itself is not a big deal for her. Maybe she’s done it lots of times offscreen, where the audience hasn’t seen it. But since it’s our first time seeing her do this, it underscores her growth in this character arc, as she sends her tormentor and kindred spirit away.
On the other end of things, Garnet’s refusal to ask questions in the present ends up being a highlight for her backstory–she’s only shown asking questions in the far, far past, to highlight her very first moments of being in comparison to how firm and completely certain she is of herself now.
One can assume that Greg has always had some manner of social life outside of Steven and the Gems, but it has never once been mentioned who his friends are or what he does when he’s not working or hanging out with Steven. To wait until after he’s reconciled with Pearl to mention any sort of social action underscores how much he was letting the past get in the way of his friendships before this point. Considering this same episode is about Pearl doing the same for her social life highlights that further.
No one ever calls out these actions, or lackthereof, within the show. Things that aren’t happening lay in wait, to emphasize important moments in a character’s development.
All this is to say…
boy howdy they must be saving up Pearl shapeshifting for an absolute doozy.
millennials have actually been so fucked over by capitalism that we created our own sub-economy using paypal and crowdfunding to basically be this socialist inner community that gives money to each other for basic survival needs. just to feed families or selves we fucking crowdfund like 50cents from people who barely are surviving themselves but maybe have an extra dollar that month and we know what goes around comes around.
This diagram displays all the shows whose creators originally worked on one of the other cartoons in the diagram, originating from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
I was inspired to do this after seeing a comment about how J.G. Quintel, Pen Ward, and Alex Hirsch all worked together on Flapjack and then went on to make three of the most beloved shows of the 2010s: Regular Show, Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls respectively.
I’ve probably missed some other shows, so let me know! You could also take this back a lot further and add a bunch more cartoons, but things start to overlap and get complicated when you go back further than Flapjack.
The Owl House doesn’t have an official logo yet so I apologise for the crappy icon.
