#mythic quest season 2

[sapphichymns]

“Pop, what do you think?” “I think it’s bullshit.” “Really? Why do you have goose bumps?”

#MythicQuestEdit #MQEdit #Mythic Quest #Poppy Li #Charlotte Nicdao #Ian Grimm #Rob McElhenney #Mythic Quest Season 2 #Grouchy Goat #My Edits #couldn't find this quote giffed #so decided to do it myself

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

It’s been months since I watched it but I still genuinely can’t stop thinking about the season 2 Mythic Quest episode “Backstory!” Anytime I look at my Asimov book especially, it just suddenly hits me and I’m literally unironically leaning against the wall like:

[ID: Reaction image of a man leaning against a window with his hand to his head, muttering “Poetic cinema.” End ID]

#mythic quest #mythic quest season 2 #backstory! #mq s2 #MQ 2x06 #mythic quest 2x06 #made a similar post before but it’s still just haunting me!

[roman-roy-apologist]

here’s my ranking for the mq characters in the different seasons and what i think the best seasons for the characters were

ian and poppy: 2 and 3

brad: season 2 ofc (season 1 was evil persona buildup, s2 was the internal (and somewhat external) break and then ran away and s3 was dumb and weird and ooc in an in-character way dude iykyk)

david: season 3 tbh (he slayed so fucking harddddd but i’m disappointed that he’s letting ian and poppy come back ngl like i get it plot wis but development wise it feels weird after he finally stood )

jo: season 3 again (she got to be so autistic it was unreal)

dana: 2 (bring back my aspirational nerd girl not this fucking wannabe girlboss ceo)

rachel: 1 honestly (HEAD OF MONETIZATION?????! kill me)

season 2 was the best overall, s3 was the worst, and season 1 was lovely and unforgettable

#brad bakshi #ian grimm #poppy li #david brittlesbee #dana bryant #jo mythic quest #rachel mythic quest #jo mq #rachel mq #mythic quest #mq #mythic quest season 3 #mythic quest season 2 #mythic quest season 1

[algumaideia]

When Brad lost the circle shark mouse thing with Jo in ep 5 of season 2 he accepted the lost with grace, without ever losing his posture.

When his brother threatened to take his company, Brad was completely emotional, he made what his brother wanted, he begged.

It is interisting to notice how differently he acts with his brother.

#it is the trauma #mq #brad bakshi #mythic quest #mythic quest season 2

[fandom-addict404]

Celebrity Crush. Put in the tags.

#Ted lasso #Ted lasso season one #Ted lasso season 2 #Ted lasso season 3 #TSITP #the summer i turned pretty #OBX #outer banks #Chris Briney #the summer I turned pretty season 2 #Drew Starkey #Rafe Cameron #mythic quest #mythic quest season 2 #mythic quest season 3 #Ian Grimm #poppi li #jamie tartt #dani rojas #keeley jones #madeline cline

[octopusoptimusprime]

mm. fuck. now Even More emotionally attached to brad bakshi. jesus christ that man deserves a hug what the Fuck

#so i just watched breaking brad. #and uh my love for this man #jesus fucking shit #brad bakshi #breaking brad #mythic quest #mythic quest ravens banquet #mythic quest season 2 #danny pudi

[2dieavirgin]

all i know is draw lesbian ponies eat chip and lie

#mythic quest #mlp #my art #i never even watched season 3 and i dont remember a thing that happened in the first 2 #but they live in my heart

[trophywifemac]

binged through mythic quest in 2 days and while I have some thoughts, it made me cry like 6 times and I need season 4 like yesterday

#I don't like how they wasted 2 seasons by practically keeping pop and ian apart #their dynamic and chemistry is the biggest sell of the show #like obviously I love all the characters and the cast and the writing is brilliant #but it just felt like a lot of running in circles #you don't need that much time to establish and solve the issue before arriving back to the same point you started at #there's just a lot of aimless development into areas with characters that are either getting abandoned halfway #or coming a full circle and becoming just as meaningless #but I guess this is how it is when you're still finding your footing with the characters and the show #I just hope that apple will provide a platform for that exploration for years to come #so all the creators and writers can settle into a more solid vision for the show #mythic quest #mq #ramblings

[meandmy100blanketsagainstheworld]

WHO do we all think the standalone episode this season is gonna be about. my bets (hopes) are on david or jo

#this is mainly cos based on the previous episodes they tend to give that character a more important role/arc over the whole season #ie. cw in season 2 having 2 of the 9 episodes be solely focused on him #and grimmpop in season 3 starting their own studio and stuff #i dont think s1 was especially focused on any character in particular which is why it makes sense to me that doc and bean were the focus #i think a lot of people are hoping the s4 ep will be focused on brad? #but that'd just be beating a dead bush imo cos we already got s2e4 #although it would be nice to get an episode focused on him (and also addressing his ED in any substantial way) #i also think rachel could be a great character to get backstory on #but yeah i want david or jo to get something cos i was actually pretty happy with how they were treated in s3 + i want to continue that #ANYWAY sorry for writing a whole ass essay in the tags lol #mythic quest #david brittlesbee #jo mythic quest #mythic quest season 4

[ghost-of-diogenes]

I just realized that now two shows I've watched have had a season 2 episode called "Breaking Brad," sorry Loki, but Mythic Quest's was better.

(I still liked the Loki episode)

#loki series #loki #loki season 2 #breaking brad #mythic quest #i mean loki doesn't have danny pudi #brad bakshi

[kaitcake1289]

MYTHICQUEST S3 REWRITE XD

#criticism and feedback are much appreciated btw! #i wrote this about 2 months ago and am #still on the fence ab all the cw stuff knowing what we know now so if you feel like this is in poor taste please lmk so i can edit it/take #it down #but aside fromthat i really like this!! and i think it's one of the best things i've ever written!!!! #mq fandom if ur still out there...... #fixation is fading fast but i still love em #mythic quest #kaitlinshottakes #ian grimm #poppy li #brad bakshi #jo mythic quest #dana mythic quest #rachel mythic quest #cw longbottom #carol hr #mythic quest season 3 #the handwritten aspect of this adds to the insanity i think

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

I’m trying to read one of Isaac Asimov’s short story collections but even though it’s been a while I just, I just can’t stop thinking of the Mythic Quest episode Backstory! instead and how truly perfectly cinematic and beautifully tragic it was, god, it was so good, I’m haunted by C.W. Longbottom anytime I think of Asimov forever now, what have they done.

#mythic quest #backstory! #mythic quest season 2 #it was directed so well too and the cinematography oh my the acting! #the plot when you realize oh my short film festival worthy #I think watching that episode helped me appreciate Asimov more and vice versa

[roman-roy-apologist]

brad has serious problems with feeling like he isn’t needed

like how he literally lost mq millions of dollars and half the staff when poppy told him that he she and the company didn’t need him

like how in quarantine he forced david to think he was so important by not donating to charity therefore being needed when he eventually did

like how he wanted jo to need him when she was being arrested and he took the fall for her

like how he left mythic quest and they didn’t need him

like how he came back and everything was ok

like how david was successful and now brad has to mess with him because what else is he needed for now

like how now he is desperately clinging on to carol needing him

like making rash decisions that won’t benefit mq (the nfts) that will eventually fail because he wants needs to be needed so bad he’s willing to make more and more short-term cash grab ideas that will sink mythic quest just like zack said

#this wasn’t supposed to be a long post i promise #brad bakshi #does this make sense? #basically tldr: brad wants to be needed so bad and my theory is that it’s all going to crash and burn and it will be his fault #cue breaking brad 2: electric boogaloo #jo mq #jo mythic quest #david brittlesbee #zack bakshi #zach bakshi #mq #mythic quest #mythic quest season 3 #mq s3 #mythic quest s3

[algumaideia]

I read this post made by @brad-bakshi-apologist about why they think David was going to jump in the last episode of season 2. Some stuff they said just triggered something in my brain and now I have an entire analysis of David and pain and coping mechanisms that I think complement Theo's post nicely.

I have a lot of thoughts and I'm not sure how to organize them in a way that I'll be constructing an idea like brick by brick, you know? But I'm gonna try.

Theo said David was MQ's "punching bag". He has a few wins, loses a lot, no one truly respects him, he has no friends and at least no family around. He is a loser and he is very lonely. Everyone knows that, David knows that.

David and Ian share a similar trait. They both have lots of insecurities about themselves and low self-steem and they try to brush it off, to act like they don't exist. Ian does that by being very extra and David tries to be comfortable on his own skin and whenever someone says something mean to him, David is like: this is not true and I know it.

And as Theo said we rarely see him sad or in pain at MQ and that is because David doesn't feel much like a failure or lonely there. And we only see David at MQ, the place he gets to act confidently.

Why doesn't he feel a failure there? Because he is the boss of MQ (despite no one knowing this or respecting him) and MQ is a huge sucess. He thinks he is able to control the crazy people when he is not, someone takes care of the crazy people or they solve the problems themselves, but David gets to pretend he was doing something. He managed to survive some crises, mostly other people solved the crisis but David is the boss so he can feel like he was important to the crisis solving.

Why doesn't he feel lonely? Because of his MQ family. And I know people are mean to him, and they don't respect him and he doesn't know how to interact with people. I'm gonna dive into those things later, but first I wanna talk about what he does outside work because it is important to understand this part of David's relationship with his work.

So what David does when he is not at MQ? He doesn't have any friends, for a long time he didn't have a girlfriend, we don't know if any of his parents are alive, if he talks to them, if they live close to him... as far as we know David is alone. So, when he is not at work, David doesn't hang out. He stays at his home most of the time.

For me it is clear that David watches rom-coms and thinks it is great and wonderful and magical to see people falling in love and being so happy, but then the movie ends and David's reality is so different from the movies and he is heartbroken.

He probably cries himself to sleep a lot.

David also watches sit-coms. The ones with found family. He must love the ones that take place in an office. Everyone on those sitcoms are crazy and have their fair share of problems and that is what allow them to become a found family. Everyone in MQ are crazy and have their fair share of problems and David can project those ideas onto them. He called MQ his family. They are the closest thing he has for friends.

It is not the same, David knows it. But he gets to pretend.

Then he is not lonely.

In the quarentine episode, Poppy was struggling a lot to be completely alone without no one. Ian went to visit her. Do you guys think anyone would do that for David? No one would do that.

He must have struggled with similar stuff. Again he has no friends, we don't know his relationship with his parents. But while for Poppy the whole distance working was just a way for her to feel more isolated, I think it worked the opposite for David, it was a way for him to feel less isolated. (I also think he deals with this stuff on a regular basis).

Anyway, what is in the way of David's MQ family fantasy and his reality is the fact that people are mean to him, no one truly cares for him or respects him (he also doesn't know how to interact with people, but more on that later).

The thing is for people starving, any food tastes good.

It seems that David has been lonely since childhood. In the ep where Ian and Poppy where going through the divorce they were treating David like his parents did. They weren't listening to him, giving him any real comfort, spending any real time with him. He was left to suffer alone.

In the quarentine episode David said that during the divorce his mother gave him money to do something outside the house. It seems he didn't have any friend's house to stay.

David has been lonely for a long time. He does not receive any comfort, he does not receive any affection.

He is always so eager to talk about his personal life at the office like he has no one to talk outside of there.

No one never really listens to him or cares about what he is talking, they often insult him. And David is hurt, but quickly he is smiling again. I guess a little of attention is better than nothing.

Besides with his divorce and his parents divorce he never truly saw people just showing genuine care and love and affection.

And there is the fact that David doesn't know how to interact with people. He misreads signals, we saw the dumpster fire that is him flirting. He knows he is a loser and tries to distance himself from it by being a cool guy, a nice guy, a lone wolf, a alpha boss or whatever the hell he considers that will make people respect him, like him.

He fails to do that, he is not good at it.

He doesn't realize how annoying and how nonsensical he can be. How extreme he can be. There is a Brazilian saying that I think describe his attitude to relationships really well: "go very thirsty to the pot" (ir com muita sede ao pote).

David is often portrayed as pathetic on how much he needs and begs for affection.

He is also a push over. I mean he gave his appartament to his ex-wife. It is easy to take advantage of his insecurites and low self-steem and loneliness.

And I mean the guy has no-one. When he needed to move he asked Brad to help him. I mean Brad, you know?

The first person he had a relationship outside MQ for a long time was the widow. And he rushed things and didn't understand her correctly.

What he does right after she dumped him? Take a photo with the testers and call MQ his family. David again has nothing outside MQ. And right after that the testers go away, Ian and Poppy go away, Brad goes away. The thing that didn't make him a failure is falling a part. The people that didn't make him lonely are going away.

Worse, everyone seems to be happy. He is the only sad loner.

No wonder David was going to jump. He had nothing. MQ was his coping mechanism for reality and it was all gone.

Until Jo appared and then he had something again.

The thing is that David is constantly suffering in the show and no one cares. He has no one. He is lonely. He doesn't know how to make friends or genuine connect with people. David has no Poppy or Ian to be at this side when he is at his worse, he only has his miserable life.

Do you guys people would reunite to meet him like they did with CW in first episode of season 3? I doubt it.

#david brittlesbee #mythic quest #mq #mythic quest season 2 #suicide #i think david might have depression

[brad-bakshi-loves-bugs]

look okay I KNOW I said I was going to upload chapter 6 of we are fleeting, we are feeling today but I accidentally blacked out and started writing a new fic that's david centric instead 💔 but since it'll be a one-shot it'll be a while before it's done, so here's the intro because im very proud of it and I need validation more than I need to breathe

#mythic quest #david brittlesbee #fanfiction #he's falling he's sinking #hfhs #yeah that's the fic title #in case you haven't noticed all of my fic titles are like the exact same format just different words #whoops! #this one is gonna be based on that rooftop scene at the end of season 2 #so it'll be darker and angsty but with a happy ending #however learning how to feel comfortable writing david has been the worst thing to happen to me because now I want to write him so much #I love him #anyway pls tell me if this is any good because im really proud of it but I also wrote it completely sleep deprived so #it was literally like 3am last night when I wrote it #whoops x2 #fic snippet

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

Anyway I may have to headcanon Rachel as autistic

#just watched ep1 of season 2 and the whole thing about how she likes to talk things out as detailed as possible? autism to me #i do that so #Rachel mythic quest #mythic quest #watching mythic quest for the first time