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okay americans i gotta ask because as an European i grew up with lots of american shows and cartoons and in a lot of them there was an episode where they give the protags a doll or an egg or a bag of flour or whatever and told them pretend to be its parents or something

#its definitely an OLDER thing for sure #most schools that do this kinda thing now have actual baby dolls that cry and stuff

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The issue with AYA is literally everything. I cannot stress that enough, there are VERY few parts of the episode that are salvageable. I'll list them here:

1. The Fireside Girl designs are the only good ones in the ep

2. Irving working for OWCA - he DID come into the show by spying on the main gang 😂 so it makes perfect sense

3. Candace going to school to be a lawyer is top notch, only part of that episode I consider canon

Other than that, I cannot find one redeemable quality to that episode. Here's the most glaring problems for me:

1. What the FUCK is up with the boys and their toxic masculinity? This is Buford and Baljeet, who sang a BREAKUP SONG bc they missed each other. Phineas and Ferb, who worked every day to make sure their friends and family felt happy and loved. Kids who would go to the ends of the earth for each other AND HAVE - "we are guys, we do not talk about feelings" 🤢🤢🤢🤢 fuck that shit

2. Their character designs suck I'm sorry. Almost all of them. Doofs hair was literally just colored gray, they just made Phineas taller, and they made Buford SKINNY what the HELL? The designs were bland and bad, esp when you compare them to an episode like Quantum Boogaloo where Doofs body actually changes too. Bodies SHIFT over the course of 5-8 years, esp in adolescents - their designs should have reflected that (and making Buford skinny was nauseating. He wouldn't slim up like that naturally, he'd have the build of a football player or a wrestler just based on his body shape alone.)

3. I'm not big on Phinabella but when it's done right I think it's cute. This was not done right. No communication between them, and Isabella wouldn't drop a friendship (multiple friendships!!) for an unrequited crush - that's not who she is. In many episodes prior she had moments where she had to pick between her crush on Phineas and friendship and she ALWAYS chose friendship. And Phineas just LETTING her slip away? No way, he'd figure out what the hell was wrong. This is the boy who tried to make her an entire goddamn ice cream machine when she got her tonsils out, who spiraled into a panic when he couldn't find her during a zombie invasion, he wouldn't just drop her once she stopped swinging by.

4. Balinger. What the FUCK was that shit? Gingers crush was cute in the show!! And then they made their relationship toxic as hell???? Like they straight up lie and manipulate each other, which is NEVER how that group was. The Fireside Girls were autonomously friends with Phineas and Ferb and gang, they weren't just there bc of Isabella, and they have the same morals as the main gang. The toxicity in their writing low-key just felt like misogyny and it was gross

5. Crazy enough I think the Doof plot was the best part of the ep and anyone who knows me knows that I'm indifferent to Doof most of the time, but again, what the FUCK was up with his design????? Trash. Give him fucking wrinkles you cowards

6. The ending. Phineas Flynn would not stay in the Tri-State Area for college. This kid has traveled the WORLD - he'd be going to places that challenged him, that opened his eyes to new possibilities and adventures. Hell, he'd do online school WHILE traveling the world. He loves Danville - it's his home. But Tri-State State wouldn't challenge him. And frankly it wouldn't challenge Isabella - every single one of those kids could get into Ivy League schools and you're telling me they basically chose community colleges? (Not bashing community colleges but again. They don't match with the characters we've been shown this whole time). No. It's not romantic or cute, it's poor writing in regards to the characters personalities.

6. Ferbnessa 🤢🤢🤢🤢 they have a SIX YEAR age gap - which as grown adults would be fine, whatever, if they got together after they both graduated college. But in this episode Ferb is 18 (BARELY) dating a 24 YEAR OLD. That's disgusting. Depending on when they started dating she would have been 20 dating him at 14. That's fucking nasty, IDC how you spin it. Ferb's little kid crush on her? Chill, cute. Her reciprocating it?????? Disgusting. If it was reversed and it was a 24 year old man and an 18 year old girl everyone would have been up in arms about it. It was also entirely unnecessary in the plotline, we could have had zero ferbnessa and the episode literally wouldn't have changed.

Anyway those are the most grievous errors of the episode, it can burn in the dumpster alongside the second cliptastic countdown

Thinking about act your age again, can y’all just spill to me all your thoughts on the episode or link other posts and stuff about it

#pnf #phineas and ferb #hello to any new followers/mutuals this is what you can look forward to from my blog

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kinda sick of all those posts that are like "my ancestors were surviving starvation and the plague meanwhile i get nervous ordering food at restaurants". as if jauffrey the woodworker didn't fumble his conversation with the fine maiden running the fruit stand and then tripped on a pebble as he left in a hurry

#we've always been human doing human things #the only thing thats changed is the infrastructure and capitalism #and also we say thine a lot less

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So, thanks to President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation will be receiving electricity for the first time — ever.

Also, water treatment devices are being developed to help the tribe access clean running water. After decades without.

#im so pissed bc if this man wasn't committing LITERAL GENOCIDE RN we wouldnt be in the fucked up situation we're in this election cycle #like you fucking moron you had it in the bag if you'd have just kept doing stuff like this #but nooooooooo you had to supply the bombs to murder innocent children you FUCK HEAD

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

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you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

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vecna only going after hawkins indiana is so unserious. doofenshmirtz tri-state area type energy.

#PLS #pnf #stranger things

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people need to accept that some gay/lgbt people are terrible and some gay/lgbt people are boring and it doesnt make them Actually Straight or anything

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#me sending sneak peeks to local-dragon-haunt and flavia like 24/7: but what if i give them a little treat

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#i do understand now #however i think we've all adopted them as long or amusing pauses #boomers use them IN PLACE OF OTHER PUNCTUATION #which is unacceptable

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*laughs in sex-repulsed asexual

#its a million dollars bestie. ofc i can #i was in a long distance relationship with my gf for three years ill be fine #hell she'll do it with me and we'll get two mill

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If your regular everyday clothes* were put on a mannequin, and placed in a group of other mannequins that are dressed in regular street clothes of your region, could the people who know you spot the mannequin who is "you" from clothes alone?

*if you are of an unusual size or build, assume for the sake of this thought experiment that they've found clothing items that are otherwise identical to yours, but able to fit to a standard mannequin

#i mean. unless it's one of those days where i just wear jeans and a flannel #most likely yes #i own a lot of graphic tees and most of them are fairly unique

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#once every three #yall saying every single day or multiple times a day PLEASE know that thats super bad for your skin #esp if youre doing a full routine every day #your skin and hair need to BREATHE #your natural oils need a chance to escape #even if you arent doing a full routine if you always take hot showers you need to switch it up #hot water dries out your skin so badly

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In the end, if children bother you for sensory reasons and that's why you don't want them to be in the same public spaces as you, there are disabled adults who can and would cause the same sensory issues for you. Adults who are loud, who vocally stim, who have poor boundaries, poor hygiene, who cry in public, etc etc etc. And they're already socially ostracized for all of this.

So actually yeah, it's the bare minimum you can do for the group with the least human rights on the planet to figure out how to accept children as part of your public community without hating them for it, even if you are child-free yourself.

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part 2 of the 2023 version of this post: young adult books!

part 1: middle grade books | part 3: adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇️

aces wild by amanda dewitt

the chandler legacies by abdi nazemian

bruised by tanya boteju

juliet takes a breath by gabby rivera

picture us in the light by kelly loy gilbert

when we were magic by sarah gailey

iron widow by xiran jay zhao

the rise of kyoshi by f.c. yee

jane unlimited by kristin cashore

summer of salt by katrina leno

the wicker king by k. ancrum

the dead and the dark by courtney gould

wilder girls by rory power

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

her royal highness by rachel hawkins

tell me how you really feel by aminah mae safi

the weight of the stars by k. ancrum

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo

the grief keeper by alexandra villasante

crier's war by nina varela

how to excavate a heart by jake maia arlow

imogen, obviously by becky albertalli

in other lands by sarah rees brennan

carry on by rainbow rowell

cemetery boys by aiden thomas

felix ever after by kacen callendar

i wish you all the best by mason deaver

little thieves by margaret owen

technically you started it by lana wood johnson

the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee

the infinite noise by lauren shippen

bonds of brass by emily skrutskie

the darkness outside us by eliot schrefer

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli

what if it's us by becky albertalli and adam silvera

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz

like a love story by abdi nazemian

different for boys by patrick ness

history is all you left me by adam silvera

twelfth grade night by molly horton booth, stephanie kate strohm, and jamie green

across a field of starlight by blue delliquanti

heartstopper by alice oseman

check, please! by ngozi ukazu

bloom by kevin panetta and savanna ganucheau

laura dean keeps breaking up with me by mariko tamaki and rosemary valero-o'connell

the princess and the grilled cheese sandwich by deya muniz

if you'll have me by eunnie

on a sunbeam by tillie walden

the girl from the sea by molly knox ostertag

always human by ari north

rust in the root by justina ireland

dread nation by justina ireland

pet by awkwaeke emezi

the darkest part of the forest by holly black

elatsoe by darcie little badger

i was born for this by alice oseman

loveless by alice oseman

i hate everyone but you by gaby dunn and allison raskin

you know me well by nina lacour and david levithan

the black flamingo by dean atta

spinning by tillie walden

dreadnought by april daniels

a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee

all the bad apples by moira fowley-doyle

clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo

summer bird blue by akemi dawn bowman

the miseducation of cameron post by emily m. danforth

we are okay by nina lacour

radio silence by alice oseman

we used to be friends by amy spalding

a neon darkness by lauren shippen

i hope you get this message by farah naz rishi

are you listening? by tillie walden

alone in space by tillie walden

all out edited by saundra mitchell

out now edited by saundra mitchell

out there edited by saundra mitchell

#book recs #ive read a chunk of these and enjoyed them

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