also the ideas of "the way comics have been written and the fact of child sidekicks being placed on equal ground with their adult heroes and being there for emotional support of the adult character often leans into textbook parentification and it can be interesting to view the way that can affect the characters and their relationships and their mental health based on real world cultural norms and how that would affect real children" and "the reality is that in the nature of a medium such as comics, child hero characters being capable of being on equal ground and listened to and taken seriously by the adults around them & being able to meaningfully be considered by and helpful to the adults around them is part of the nature of a power fantasy story for children and a lot of the emotional support provided by child characters/parentification that you see in comics is a result of this desire of children to be able to be seen and taken seriously by those around them in children's stories and you do have to suspend disbelief and believe that in comics children are probably capable of some emotional complexity, maturity, and understanding beyond what they would be capable of at those ages in real life in order to even be able to do the job of heroics to begin with" can and do coexist.
(note: this is NOT me saying that they should be treated as or seen as adults as a result of this and is NOT me saying they're 100% on equal grounds. because they're children & absolutely should be acknowledged as children. however it's more like. yes, tim provide a lot of emotional support to the adults around him. it can be interesting to play with how that affected him (and i think it did) but also genre conceits do mean that you gotta swallow that it's not *quite* as harmful as it would be in real life because otherwise none of these people would be fit to do any sort of vigilantism.)
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Always, always you.
Cap despises the fact that even when theyre finally happy, shimmering again like they did in their youth... their mistakes and limitations continue to haunt them.
These are days where they dont even want to see their tentacles.
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saw some speculation on FranklyDear in relation to the audios and i want to toss my two cents in
so all the thing's i've been seeing have been people talking about how they're a couple, but they're not acting like it, so that must be Playfellow's influence making them put distance between each other
but i immediately interpreted it as - they're not there yet. there might be feelings, but they aren't Together. cause in the 14 bug audios, i feel like it's pretty clear that these are snapshots of the neighborhood outside of the show. cameras aren't rolling, there are no influences, it's the neighbors just Existing on their own dime
'cause the conversations are more natural! the characters seem more nuanced! there aren't any sound effects! so if FranklyDear is already established, wouldn't we have "seen" that in their shared audio 8-14? wouldn't Eddie have just called Frank Frank, without the immediate (and somewhat flustered) correction to Mr. Frankly? and wouldn't Frank call him Eddie instead of Mr. Dear? plus, idk about y'all, but that scene was a lil romantically charged. a little flirty - especially from Frank's side. the kind of tension you get from budding emotions, not fully-realized ones
they just seem to be in a before state. the beginning stages. and anyway, i remember Clown saying that revealing FranklyDear as an endgame couple was sort of an Accident? i think we were meant to watch it evolve and figure it out along with the characters, the way we will with any other relationships (that we Definitely are not aware of / confident about yet).
we're still only in the prologue of the story, so it'd make so much sense if Frank and Eddie are not yet Involved. we're on this journey With them
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Rin week day 7- free day
For the last day I decided to draw KakaRin!! (but with Gb kakashi)
Not much to say but this event was a lot of fun and I think my art has improved a lot from last year!!
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