#time and punishment

[vertigoartgore]

1994's Bill Morrison poster for the segment "Time and Punishment" of the episode "Treehouse of Horror V" (6x06) of The Simpsons.

Monty B (Comic Art Fans) : "This was done for the poster artwork of the Time and Punishment segment of the Treehouse of Horror episode V. "Treehouse of Horror V" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' sixth season and the fifth episode in the Treehouse of Horror series. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 30, 1994, and features three short stories titled The Shinning, Time and Punishment, and Nightmare Cafeteria."

#the simpsons #treehouse of horror #bill Morrison #1994 #Homer Simpson #time travel #with a toaster #time and punishment #poster #season 6 #retro #vintage #50s B movies style #90s #90's #1990s #mid 90s #horror #d'oh #donuts #dinosaurs #a strange universe #butterfly effect #very good episode #Springfield #90s television #90s tv shows #animation #cartoon #simpsons family

[excitementshewrote]

#the simpsons #gif #homer simpson #treehouse of horror #time and Punishment

[giddlygoat]

i need to talk about time and punishment. 

gosalyn didn’t travel to some alternate universe born from totally different circumstances or simply entertain some nightmarish hypothetical. she got a direct glimpse of the aftermath of her absence within her own timeline. that’s her dad they hush and cry and scream in terror about. that’s her launchpad alone in that empty tower. that’s her world that crumbles and cowers under the iron grasp of the person she’s supposed to trust her life in. 

she saw firsthand how quickly he descended into madness. she heard about how launchpad had tried desperately to repair drake’s shattered life and keep their heads above the water but it just wasn’t enough. the rock of drake’s existence wasn’t enough. the most stubborn and justice-driven man she knew got knocked down and never got up. he sunk and sunk deeper into the muck of his heartbreak and mania and everything she’d ever known and loved paid dearly for it. 

he looked her in the eyes when he pointed the gun at her. do you think she ever looked for those eyes in drake after she returned? he was really going to do it. it doesn’t matter that he didn’t in the end, because he had decided, for even just a second, that he was going to do it. 

do you ever feel like the pin in a grenade? 

#gosalyn mallard #drake mallard #launchpad mcquack #darkwing duck #IT HURTS MY HEART AND SOUL #IT MAKES ME WANT TO TEAR MY HAIR OUT #HOW DO YOU THINK SHE WOULD EVER BE ABLE TO RELAX AFTER THAT #do you ever feel like EVERYTHING relies on you being what someone else needs you to be #yeah. i’m not okay #time and punishment #dwd #LP #gos #drake

[angstphilosophy]

if there’s one thing I love about the writers of Darkwing Duck 1991 and Ducktales 2017, it’s that they keep one point consistent: anyone that was ever Darkwing Duck for a long time, whether they’re just acting or an actual hero, are in danger of losing themselves and they need loved ones (Gosalyn and Launchpad in this case) in order to keep going and ground them

i’ll touch on the others briefly but let’s talk about jim starling specifically. he has almost kind of a possessive, entitled, and selfish attachment to being darkwing, and it’s clear his ego is huge. i didn’t think of it much at first, but you can clearly see that jim starling wears his costume as his civilian clothes. he’s got the turquoise turtleneck and the signature buttons on his coat. it kinda implies that being darkwing duck IS his life, which really bodes poorly for an actor like him if he can only take one 1 role for a TV show (a show that got canceled bc of poor ratings + jim himself according to francisco angones)

it doesn’t seem like he had any other roles, so he has no life outside of darkwing duck. when a darkwing doesn’t have a life outside of just doing w/e it is, they get... ‘obsessing’ (as gosalyn puts it in the ‘91 show’s Time and Punishment)

and having no life outside of darkwing means he doesn’t really have any great personal relationships. he hates superfan #1 drake from the second he found out the younger actor took his role, and he doesn’t even call superfan #2 launchpad by name; LP to him is just his sidekick

in the end, this darkwing duck became a villain. more specifically, he became negaduck

and isn’t that just familiar? it’s similar to what happened to darkwarrior duck. in some twisted future, he thought gosalyn ran away from him and so, he became depressed for awhile until he rescued a kid that looked like gosalyn. ever since then, he resolved to be tougher on crime, and to that end, he fired launchpad from being his sidekick (sweet launchpad, the man stayed at Darkwing Tower for all those years out of a sense of loyalty) and went on a tyrannical campaign. when gosalyn came back to him, darkwarrior was more concerned with making gosalyn his sidekick than actually properly raising her and making sure she has a great childhood. this contrasts heavily with how drake mallard in the 1991 show mostly tries to stop gosalyn from being involved as much as he could for her own good (to keep her safe. heck, before she accidentally hitched a ride to the future with megavolt and quackerjack, drake explicitly forbade her from coming along with him and launchpad to confront said two supervillains). i think darkwarrior doesn’t remember what a normal life is like and frankly, doesn’t care. he threw away the identity of drake mallard and with it, the need to care for gosalyn properly as his own daughter, as well as his own relationship with launchpad

in a similar case with 1991 negaduck (the second version, the one we’re all more familiar with, he came from the negaverse), we really had no indiciation that negaduck really tried to pursue a father-daughter relationship with her. heck, it was up to nega-launchpad to get her toys and flowers, and even then, there doesn’t seem to be an emotional attachment between her and nega-launchpad either. it’s not really the same becos yk, i’m inclined to believe that og negaduck was evil since the beginning. but it does point to how parenting gosalyn properly is an indication of drake’s morality

all i’m saying is that anyone that’s ever been darkwing (or alt versions of darkwing whether they go by that name or not) need gosalyn and launchpad to keep them grounded, as well as maintaing a relationship with them. even with og drake mallard in 1991, it was implied many times that he would eventually give into his ego and gloryhounding ways and lose himself to crimefighting if it weren’t gosalyn and eventually launchpad barging into his life. he was going to drive himself mad from loneliness and isolation and the need for glory and attention from a thankless city that wasn’t going to supply him with any. and with it, he was also going to put himself in even more danger without a care about his own well-being because, well, he had no one to go back to at the end of the day after crimefighting. he was well and truly alone, and he was probably going to die painfully while crimefighting alone without gosalyn and launchpad. 

so yeah jim starling was lonely, he didn’t really care about anyone except his image and his ego, and he turned into a villain after a particularly bad day

edit: 2017 drake, on the other hand, at least symbolically dresses in a way in his civilian forme that doesn’t really imply he’s too far into the darkwing shtick. sure he wears a light violet shirt, but it’s not the shade of violet that darkwing is known for, and he also dons a smartwatch and sometimes a baseball cap and sunglasses hanging from his shirt. even 1991 drake looks very different from darkwing in his attempt to keep his two identities separate: a salmon shirt under a green argyle sweater vest.

#darkwing duck #drake mallard #ducktales #launchpad mcquack #drakepad #probably #gosalyn mallard #gosalyn waddlemeyer #jim starling #darkwarrior duck #negaduck #time and punishment #launchpad saved drake in '17 by believing in him and seeing what drake couldn't about himself #and drake found a purpose to life that's more than just crimefighting when he met gosalyn and resolved to help her find her grandfather #but if launchpad wasn't there to talk sense to him gosalyn would have been hurt or worse when she went back to bulbas lab alone #so in other words THESE 3 NEED EACH OTHER #also pointing out that drake went into another depressive slump in the comics becos he had a divorce arc with launchpad and kicked him out #long post #text #also didn't escape my notice that drake couldn't 1v4 the fearsome four but when launchpad was with him #suddenly they won a 2v4

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

So I have been thinking about "Time and Punishment" and Darkwarrior Duck for a while, and while I also have my own thoughts on it, I'm still curious:

#darkwing duck 1991 #time and punishment #darkwing duck #drake mallard #darkwarrior duck #the fearsome four #the League of Barely-Remembered Supervillains #villains #poll #tumblr polls

[softsoftmoonwitch]

#The Simpsons #s6 #Treehouse of Horror V #1994 #Time and Punishment #Marge Simpson #Lisa Simpson

[damazcuz]

"I could fix him" well DON'T, I'm trying to breed a new generation of trembling pursedog freakboys and I need his cringefail loser genes.

#im turning reblogs off for the first and only time ever cuz people are posting hasbin hotel guys on it. 🧍‍♂️ have some decorum. #now EVERYONE is being punished by this post being unrebloggable.... #sad! #well actions have consequences! 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥

[knowlesian]

“why do i believe this” and “who benefits from me believing it” are the first steps to decolonization and we should all be doing this more

#seriously how many weird rules do we all uphold #SO MANY #and they are all so jesus flavored and weird a lot of the time #like: okay where does the idea that someone is an unredeemable sinner come from #or that people cannot change #where does the carceral state spring from #why do we believe punishing sinners makes them good people #why do we think we have to set the table a certain way #why do we think violence belongs to power and dutiful service to those without power

[zillychu]

me? redrawing my old shit?? its more likely than u think

#danny phantom #he deserves to get hurt by more non-ecto related weapons I think (lovingly) #and dole out punishment on non-ecto related bad guys #who chose the one singular wrong high schooler in the entire world to shoot #maybe reveals his identity in order to save his classmates who have done nothing but bully him for years. yknow #I just think it would be neat :) #a silly goofy fun time :) #zilly art

[solmesia]

sex is nice and all but have you considered just laying there... holding your vampire lover... and talking about the first time you broke your oath...........

#you can imagine the dialogue im not good with words #my art #astarion x tav #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanart #but for anyone interested the first time i broke my oath was opening the prison cell in the Grove AFTER the tieflings left #there was a dead fucking goblin in there #im oath of vengeance i fucking know im supposed to punish sinners but larian this is stupid #what is the worst that can happen is that goblin's fucking ghost gonna go commit crime #paladins are so fucking fickle kdmhfgh

[ciearcab]

trimax panel redraws ft. the most obnoxious colours i could think of

[ID: Colorful digitally illustrated Trigun fanart. The first piece shows Vash and Wolfwood fighting back-to-back as they twist in opposite directions to aim their guns. Wolfwood is colored in a gradient of cool colors while Vash is done in warm colors, and the background is deep yellow. The second piece shows Vash smiling and seeming pleased as he stands in the lush area from "Little Arcade" formed by the Geoplant. End ID]

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #i refuse to ever draw the punisher uncovered ever again i had to redo it like six times #and the proportions are STILL wack. no more machine guns from me #mostly just wanted to draw vash happy so the bottom one isn’t very accurate to the og but it’s ok #// eyestrain

[allastoredeer]

Ya'll want to know the funniest shit?

I'm researching the era when Alastor was alive right now to get a better idea of both his character, the life he lived before Hell, and to hash out a backstory for him.

And so, apparently, Alastor lived through the Prohibition (which was basically the United States government illegalizing the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol because they thought it was the cause of a lot of domestic violence and child abandonment).

Alastor canonically died in 1933.

Do you know how long the Prohibition lasted?

From 1920-1933.

ALASTOR LITERALLY DIED THE SAME YEAR ALCOHOL BECAME LEGAL AGAIN. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW BITTER HE MUST'VE BEEN?

The Prohibition officially ended on December 5, 1933, and now my headcanon is that Alastor died December 6, 1933. Literally the day after he could legally drink all the booze he wanted.

I am learning a LOT about New Orleans and the era Alastor lived through (including the gay community in the city at the time) which has been a lot of fun, and I just wanted to share that tidbit because it is so fucking funny to me.

#guys i just #its so funny #can you imagine Alastor gets the news #everything is awesome #the next day he's planning to go out drinking and have a good time #but first he needs to get rid of this body #it shouldn't take too long #just a few hours #and THEN this motherfucking hunter decides to ignore hunting laws and mistakes him for a deer #when he wakes up he's in Hell #I can just imagine the realization setting in #he's SO bitter and angry about it #he was about to get shit-faced and have a fun time at a party #and now he's suffering eternal punishment #he couldn't even get a proper drink first #it was just a fun tidit #ALSO #the gay community in New Orleans at the time is so fascinating #they literally entire communities and neighborhoods #and a lot of it was from mixed race people #and we know Alastor is mixed race #AH I have so so many thoughts #hazbin hotel #alastor #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #the radio demon #hazbin hotel fanart #alastor hazbin hotel #alastor the radio demon

[tinkkles]

I really do love the fresh take on the dead wife aspect in scavengers reign like. She didn't die in some terrible accident or at the hands of an evil third party, she died because of you. Because of your ambition and carelessness and because you didn't prioritize her enough to even look for her as the ship was going down. You will carry this guilt for the rest of your life. She will haunt you forever. Pray that her ghost is enough to change you for the better.

#i just think the parallel of azi still running to mia's pod even though theres no way she can get her out in time #just some girl she barely knows & had a one night stand with and she still thinks of her first #vs kamen just going to argue w/ sam & fully buckling himself in to the escape pod before he even thinks about his fucking WIFE #kamen is such a good character (derogatory) like hes not cruel hes just so self centered and he doesnt realize it until its too late #AND THEN HIS PUNISHMENT IS TO. LOSE ALL SENSE OF HIMSELF. TO BECOME A PSYCHIC SLAVE TO THE MEMORY OF HIS WIFE. GOD #this show is so fuckin brutal man. oough. #scavengers reign

[zephyrchama]

We know that Lucifer is canonically the only character that's said the F word in Obey Me!. Nobody else has outright sworn. (I know the others say stuff that gets censored and it's primarily for legal/content reasons but hear me out.)

We also know Lucifer has cast curses during events so that nobody remembers what he (and his brothers in multiple instances) looks like shirtless/naked or as a dame.

Is it possible that at some point Lucifer cursed MC to be a pure cinnamon roll, unable to hear the other characters' constant swearing? Cursed to only converse like life is a PG13 movie while everyone is actually incredibly vulgar.

#maybe it's a punishment for bad grades/behavior. maybe it's just for fun. #can you imagine Diavolo and Mephisto just casually swearing like sailors all the time. and MC has no idea. #MC and Luke sharing the same curse #barbatos doesn't actually say “oh my.” it's more like “young master what the f-” #obey me #obey me! #obey me scenarios #obey me headcanon #obey me x mc #omswd #obey me lucifer #obey me headcanons #obey me mc

[isawjamfirst]

🐺🐺🐺

#‘98 ww is a full time menace #tristamp ww is very bratty-youngest-child coded change my mind #trimax ww has a first-daughter syndrome #did i stutter #no i dont take constructive criticism #did u see my attempt at drawing the stupid background #this did not come out the way i wanted it to #i just want all versions of wolfwood together #meme redraw #TRIGUN #trigun stampede #tristamp #trigun maximum #trimax #trigun 1998 #nicholas the punisher #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun fanart #wolfwood

[dashes-and-letters]

#the simpsons #homer #gif #Don't touch anything? I'll touch whatever I feel like! #time travel #Treehouse of Horror V #time and punishment