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ducky-duckuwu · 11 months

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Reblog this if you think it’s okay to support multiple different ships for the same character in a fandom.

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friends

#omg me

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Lol y'all remember that time scrooge called darkwing ' purple guy ' ?

Well I kinda have this random idea

I always come back ❌

Let's get dangerous ✅

#i love it

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A DuckTales comic I did that reenacts the scene from Community where LeVar Burton (played by Jim Starling) meets Troy Barnes (played by Launchpad) in person and Troy just has a meltdown over the whole thing with the "You can't disappoint a picture!"

#its true #you can't dissapoint a picture #ducktales 2017 #rb

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If you don't judge people for saying "sorry adhd brain" in public, then don't judge people for saying "sorry schizophrenia brain" in public

If you correct people when they misuse the term "ocd" then you need to correct people when they misuse the terms "psychotic", "delusional", "hallucinating" and "schizophrenic"

If you don't stare, laugh at or fear a stranger in public flapping their hands, then you need to do the same for a stranger in public talking to someone who isn't actually there.

If you give a trigger warning to sensitive topics then you need to give a trigger warning to unreality and false information as a prank.

If you want to normalize medication like antidepressants you also need to normalize medications like antipsychotics.

If you don't like people without your disorder joking about it online and report it as harassment, then you need to do the same for the tons of nonschizophrenics making "schizoposting" memes to make fun of us.

Just please include schizo-spec and psychotic acceptance into your mental illness/neurodiversity acceptance. We are part of your community whether you like it or not. We are constantly stigmatized, misrepresented and made fun of. We do what we can to help you, please return the favor.

Mental illness/neurodiversity acceptance is an ongoing action. We will get nowhere in the long run if we split the community into the "in" group and the "out" group. We could all accomplish so much if we worked together. But you need to include the "weird" people that don't fit into your aesthetic and don't fit the social norms.

Us psychotics and schizo-specs have been struggling for years and have been the only people fighting for ourselves while the people we plead to barely see us as human. If you are nonpsychotic and nonschizo-spec, you can help us more than you realize. Please include us and stick up for us the same way we have been including and sticking up for you.

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Your daily dose of cat memes

#me

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can’t believe i’m stuck with myself for the rest of my life

#yeah

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ducky-duckuwu · 1 year

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#omg #me

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ducky-duckuwu · 1 year

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(This *long* post is from my defunct blog from last year, and I wanted to repost it in time for the two-year anniversary of the series finale, but I ended up deactivating my blog. This one did shockingly amazing, considering how my character analysis posts usually do poorly)

When Webby describes the true meaning of family to May and June in 'The Last Adventure'-

"Heron made me, but she's not my family. Family are those who fight for you, stick by you, blindly invade a sinister villain's secret stronghold for you. Family would do anything to keep you safe and sacrifice everything to love you, no matter who and what you are!"

-it honestly makes me think of Gyro and Boyd in 'Astro B.O.Y.D.'. Hear me out (key words from Webby's speech are in bold):

Just like Heron and Bradford created May and June, Akita helped make Boyd (it's not entirely known how much Akita and Gyro each contributed, but it was confirmed in 'Astro B.OY.D.' that Boyd's "real boy programming" was entirely from Gyro) and was responsible for reprogramming him to be a killer robot, but he was never Boyd's family either...

...Despite Akita mocking Gyro here: "My gratitude for returning 2-BO to its true father." Notice how Akita called Boyd 'it', which is very telling that he always thought of Boyd as nothing but a mindless machine- his machine- to do his evil will.

"Family are those who fight for you, stick by you":

Gyro was the one who warmly welcomed Boyd into the world and validated his identify as a real boy, along with a hug. That was Boyd's very first memory, which always stayed with him and defined him throughout the years- even if only on a 'subconscious' level (despite being his most deeply buried memory after getting reprogramed countless times since Tokyolk)- which is why Boyd always introduced himself as a "definitely real boy" to everyone and offered hugs/asked to be hugged, as seen in his other memories in 'Astro B.O.Y.D.', and also why Boyd immediately remembered Gyro when he saw him again for the first time in twenty years.

Gyro not only "stuck by him" ever since he was first activated, but he continued to do so by advocating for his rights as a real boy ("fight for you") instead of a machine to serve humans... before Akita activated the evil programming he secretly overwrote Gyro's 'real boy' programming with. And not only did Gyro try to defend Boyd being more than just a machine, but he did so knowing he was risking Akita's wrath (it's my hc that Akita was both verbally and physically abusive), maybe even getting fired.

When Gyro finally learned the truth about the past that haunted him for twenty years, he immediately and furiously confronted Akita about it. Not only over Akita destroying his reputation and the rest of his life, but even more for what he did to poor, innocent Boyd who was just as much a victim as him (maybe even more a victim, because Boyd was a child and was always alone and ending up in the possession of one 'owner' after another, hardly ever knowing the real love and validation Gyro once gave him). Gyro went feral, like a parent confronting an injustice done to their child. He fought for Boyd much more aggressively than he did all those years ago when he was a meek intern (screaming at him, getting into a physical fight with him).

"Family would do anything to keep you safe and sacrifice everything to love you, no matter who and what you are":

Not only did Gyro risk his life to "keep [Fenton] safe" from a rampaging Boyd headed straight for him, but at the same time he also risked his life to free his non-flesh-and-blood boy ("... to love you, no matter who and what you are") from Akita's corruption and slavery. He was willing to "sacrifice" his very life, which was even more meaningful than when he was willing to potentially sacrifice his position as Akita's intern and his wellbeing those years ago. And so, Gyro gave Boyd the six words that he so desperately needed to hear from Gyro's own mouth: "You are a definitely real boy!" And just like that first time Gyro confirmed Boyd was real when he was first 'born', it was followed by a deep, loving embrace... only this hug had even more sentiment, and was twice as significant as the last one

I feel like it was a real missed opportunity in that scene in 'The Last 'Adventure' (see the beginning of this post) for Gyro to chime in and vehemently agree with Webby's speech to May and June about the true meaning of family, to declare that he's learned for himself what family is about ever since Boyd returned to his life. Maybe it wouldn't have worked because of time limits, but at the very least, they could've done a close-up of Gyro wearing a very thoughtful or emotional expression as she told her clones that! That would have said so much, and it would have given more indication of just how much he loved Boyd (because as sweet as the "Look after your brother" scene and the scene in the end where he lovingly held Boyd while reattaching his head truly were, they just didn't feel like enough; heck, not once during the whole time Gyro was captured- especially once he learned that Bradford was planning to erase everyone from existence- did he express the least amount of concern for Boyd or fear that they'd never see other again, as I talked about in another post). It would have been amazing character development that was mostly ignored for the rest of the last season after 'Astro B.O.Y.D.', and more proof of how much Gyro softened, healed from his past, and learned to be happier and to love again.

(If you enjoyed this post, and if you read and enjoyed the other one I linked to about Gyro and Boyd in 'The Last Adventure' above, you may also enjoy my two-part analysis here on how Gyro overcame Akita's abuse)

#ducktales 2017 #boyd gearloose #i be like #screams and cries #rb

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Gyro's conflicting feelings about Boyd in 'Astro B.O.Y.D.'

Welp, like I said in another post, I planned to repost my posts from my defunct blog analyzing my favorite DuckTales episode 'Astro B.O.Y.D.' in honor of its 3rd anniversary this Tuesday. (I've already posted a two-part analysis on how Akita's treatment affected Gyro and how he rose above it, as well as Fenton's hero-worship of Gyro and why that probably made Gyro uncomfortable). It's such a deep episode with so much going on (writing, animation, emotion, heart, voice-acting, action, symbolism) that's easy to overlook, but I love to share what I see makes it so special in these posts.

**Long post ahead** (Quotes from the episode are in bold).

Throughout most of 'Astro B.O.Y.D.', Gyro never directly interacted with Boyd. He refused to speak to him, and he barely even looked at him. In one scene (it's from the 0:23-0:24 mark in the video), instead of telling him to have a seat so that he could examine his programming and memories, he just stiffly motioned with his head for him to sit down. It's subtle moment, but brilliantly subtle, because it spoke volumes on how Gyro wanted to acknowledge Boyd as little as possible.

This is because he made the 'mistake' of getting attached to him once before, and all these years he thought Boyd malfunctioned, destroyed the city, and cost him his reputation. In fact, before they left for Tokyolk, Gyro warned Huey against his new friend: "I understand 2-BO only too well. Don't... get close to it." He didn't dare talk about his experience, but he was trying to warn Huey the only way he could. Gyro had cared about Boyd like a son, had argued to Akita that he was more than just a robot designed to serve humans. When Boyd went rogue, a big part of Gyro felt betrayed. He 'realized' how naïve and idealistic he'd been, and that not only was it merely a machine after all, but a killer machine at its core. He transferred half the blame he had for himself, for what he thought was his failure, onto Boyd- most likely as a way of coping- and only saw Boyd as a failed experiment from then on. He always saw both of them as failures.

Gyro was not only terrified what Boyd was capable of, but I think he was also afraid of even slightly seeing him as the real boy he once did, let alone feeling any sort of endearment for him again. So, he emotionally distanced himself to protect him from pain and heartbreak all over again, as well as to keep himself from having second thoughts about his real motive of shutting Boyd down for good for everybody's safety (in other words, he was determined to take responsibility for his first and greatest failure in order to finally gain closure).

Gyro almost did suffer a moment of weakness when he came across an old framed photo of him and Boyd in Akita's old lab, in which it was clear they were very close (also, the crack in the middle of frame between Gyro and Boyd is subtly powerful symbolism of their damaged relationship):

The way he murmured “So idealistic”, it was obvious he was wistfully looking back on what was a better time (except for the way Akita treated him, of course). Back when Gyro was younger, bright-eyed, and full of hope (so very much like his intern). Before the whole ‘illusion’ shattered (not only the illusion of Boyd being a real boy and his son instead of a deadly weapon, but that the world was anything but a cold, cruel, and pain-ridden place), forcing him to become the hardened, cynical scientist he was for the last twenty years. Back when he knew what it was like to truly care about someone and be cared about. He missed 2-BO, the 2-BO he thought he knew. He missed the man he used to be, whose death he never thought he’d actually mourn. Maybe he even missed the bliss of such ignorance. And he definitely wished things had been different.

But then, of course he hardens his heart again and snaps himself out of it, tossing the picture away from him:

Later, Boyd pleads with his creator: “Dr. Gearloose, please! I’m a definitely real boy! Why can’t you see that?”

Now, look at Gyro’s expression below as Boyd addresses him. It’s not quite as hardened as it’s been throughout the majority of this episode, but definitely softened with guilt or regret (it’s subtle, but it’s definitely there if you look carefully). He’s actually directly facing Boyd this time, not avoiding his gaze:

After actually letting Boyd speak to him and hearing him out, Gyro realized he couldn't keep his past from Huey and Fenton anymore. It’s the only way they’d finally understand. At first glance, one might think his reaction was from the difficulty of revealing his most painful, shameful secret, and you certainly wouldn’t be wrong! But given the context of my above point, I think there’s even more to it than that. Gyro’s softer side about Boyd- especially after the little guy caught him off-guard by directly facing him with those hurt, confused eyes of a child (making it harder for Gyro to deny that his emotions are real, at least for the moment) and appealed to him so earnestly and innocently- likely broke Gyro’s heart more than he wanted to admit, filling him with regret for his intention to permanently shut him down. Not only that, but he decided he at least owed Boyd the truth before going through with it. He succeeded in not allowing himself to be so sentimental to actually change his mind (and maybe he was even tempted to there), but just enough to allow this last moment of kindness. Think about it- he easily could have ignored Boyd, and explained the ‘truth’ to Huey and Fenton after shutting him down, but he wanted Boyd to understand too!

After sighing, Gyro says- actually handing Boyd his tablet with the footage of what he thought was his core memory, so he could see for himself (which, again, he didn’t have to do)- “Because deep down… you're this."

Gyro explained that before Boyd suddenly turned evil and went on a destructive rampage city during a test of his systems, he was created to be Tokyolk's protector (like Gizmoduck became for Duckburg). Finally, Inspector Tezuka managed to take him down:

Boyd is horrified as he finished watching the footage:

Gyro's voice wracked with years of suppressed pain (and it's among some of the best voice-acting Jim Rash has delivered in the entire show, and there were lots of amazing examples of his in this episode), he told everybody, “2-BO was the first machine I worked on that turned evil, and I have spent my whole life trying to live that down! 2-BO, Boyd- whatever- is evil. Down to its core.”

Once again, Boyd looks right up at Gyro with those eyes full of emotion- now including fear- as he starts to back away from his creator. “But… you said you’d fix me. So I’d never malfunction again!”

And once again, Gyro bravely faced that poor, innocent face as he bluntly replied while advancing on Boyd, “Yes. By shutting you down for good.” And it is so frigging obvious from his tone (it may sound cold on the surface, but you have to really listen carefully) that he’s trying to fight the heartache and guilt he’s feeling. In fact, his tone clearly says ‘This hurts me more than it hurts you.’

Here's almost the whole scene where Gyro interacts with Boyd (almost- I can't find footage on YT for their exchange from the above two screenshots). Not only is the emotion in Jim Rash's voice-acting INCREDIBLE like I said, but the animation in the range of Gyro's body language and expressions is SO SMOOTH. In fact, I highly encourage you to closely look at the footage frame-by-frame- it's such a visual treat!

#ducktales 2017 #boyd gearloose #astro b.o.y.d.#yeah #great analysis #more people should see it #rb

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