On this day 51 years ago, the first Denzel Crocker day was held and ended in tragedy as the titular man ended up going mad after losing his Fairy Godparents. Happy March 15th, everyone.
Manager at work today asked what today was because she was marking stuff, and I deadpan answered "March 15th, Wednesday... The day Denzel Crocker lost his fairies. The Ides of March... The day Caesar got stabbed a bunch of times"... She laughed a little, like a polite acknowledgement laugh. I sometimes forget that outside of Tumblr this date is just another day on the calendar
Texting my boss: sorry I can't come into work today, it's the 2068th anniversary of Julius Caesar's death, day 15 give it up for day 15, and the anniversary of the day Denzel Crocker lost his happiness!
I read one of your answers to a post where you mentioned that Skoodge is the ugly duckling who is being done dirty (I couldn't agree more). But what about Dib? Where does he stand? Is he one too?
Dib is literally just a post-March 15th Denzel Crocker that’s still a child.
He’s the larval form of this.
(Or, you could say this is his final Pokémon evolution)
And don’t tell me the warning signs aren’t already cracking through
That may paint a very tragic trajectory for Dib if he or his environment doesn’t fundamentally change in some way, but that was exactly what Denzel’s story was. This “creep” was the result of a genuine intellectual who fell deeper and deeper into a fixation towards a great secret that simply vexed his every attempt to possess and reveal. He’s a series antagonist whose days are spent like a frustrated cat twitching and chattering at birds beyond glass, made all the worse and more obsessive because of the actions (past and present) of the protagonist. The relationship between young Crocker and his mother is damn mirrored in lock step with that gaping, validation-shaped hole Dib is trying so hard to fill by proving something to Professor Membrane.
It’s an observation so ready to be talked about I’m far from the first person to even say so. I literally plucked these insights alone up just from the comment sections of the various videos I had to skim through for the Crocker screenshots.
Freaking seriously. Hats off to these accounts for saving me the time writing it myself.