Close Enough

The mommy issues in TMA are off the wall. Here's an abusive cold mother, there's an abusive cold mother. Is she a mom? Then you can bet your ass she's going to have the deft tones of a Adora Crellin french kissing the Evil Queen from Snow White. Mother figure? Don't think you're safe either — she won't tell you about the brain tumor you have and when it kills you she won't even cry about it and you'll feel stupid for thinking she ever would. There's a big evil monster spider and we call her "The Mother" too. Even the grandmother's are like at best fed up with you and tired of having to provide for others, and at worst segmenting you And what makes it so much weirder is that Jonathan Sims our writer seems to have a super chill fun relationship with his cool english teacher Mom — such to the point she agreed to act in his podcast, PLAYING A COLD AND CALCULATING MOTHER FUCKER.

mabel helping martin out with his workplace romance

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Welcome to the “whoops! I accidentally started got manipulated into starting the apocalypse!” Club. Members being Jonathan Sims and Mable Pines. They’re both ✨traumatised✨

Bonus comic

FINALLY!!!!!!!! TMAGP LENT ANIMATION HAS BEEN FREED FROM PROCRASTINATION HELL!!!!!!!!

This took way too long bc the malevolent brainrot got in the way so,,,,,, yeah I hope y’all enjoy!!! started this I mid-march so that’s why this has more first half of s1 vibes :))

also the YouTube link!!

perplexes me a bit when people say jmart is a boring healthy ship. they like each other and they're trying their best but this is the "I'm not going to kill a man just because you're jealous" "why not?" / "yes or no, can that fire hurt us?" "define 'hurt'" / "thank you for not hitting me this time" / [grins while using the other as bait without his prior knowledge] / "I knew you couldn't help yourself, you never could" relationship. they're affectionate and they care but fundamentally this dynamic is a game of "for your own good" betrayal chicken. they love each other enough that they could never bear even thinking about separating and this is both tremendously romantic and really, really bad.

Some animation on YouTube reminded me that Jmart exists and now I need to cry because god I love those two and god they went through way too much during that podcast. I gotta relisten to it

my problem with getting a grip on elias's characterization is that I always forget the fact that he's sillay. like sure he's evil and sadistic and manipulative and britain's next top victim blamer but also he says things like "yes, if you die, I'm afraid you probably won't be able to claim your expenses." he gets punched in the stomach while being arrested and doubles over in pain and wheezes "ah. I see :)"

Oliver being canonically good-looking is so funny to me. Like he's so beautiful that statement givers remember it and must comment on it while giving a statement about the most messed up eldritch stuff they've ever seen