My friend said this but this is a very important point that yall need to understand.

Shel Silverstein wrote and illustrated poetry for children,

drew cartoons for Playboy,

and made the most terrifying album cover of all time.

Don't put artists in a box.

I’m not sure you could make a box that could contain Shel Silverstein.

travelling back to the paleolithic era to explain to a neanderthal that in the future there will be food that is simultaneously disgusting and also the best tasting food you've ever eaten. the neanderthal nods and says "oh yeah we have that" and leads me to a clearing in the woods where a perfectly normal mcdonalds sits.

This is your warning.

Rose of Sharon Cassidy my beloved. I tell her to sell her sole business to the fallout equivalent to Amazon and then tell her how a guy shot me in the head and she's immediately ready to fucking throw hands and break this man's ribcage. I solved the mystery of boones wife and rescued raul from enslavement under a mentally unwell violent supermutant and none of them were were as ready to put lead in my would-be killer's head as the fucking doordash delivery cowgirl I just convinced to give up her life savings

Very interesting information regarding Andrea and Libby’s relationship in ¨A Period Piece¨ episode from a Discord AMA with Bill Motz!

Adding onto this: On Twitter a few days ago, Bill Motz had a conversation with some fans who were frustrated at the lack of a verbal apology from Andrea, who talked about just how powerful it can be to actually hear the words "I'm sorry" from someone who's hurt you. What's really cool is that he was very open to listening to what they had to say, adding that they'd really given him something to think about.

Huge respect to Bill as a creator for giving an in-depth explanation about a writing decision, while also acknowledging that some fans might still have issues with said decision and respecting their opinions.

¨Being Thai is part of you. And there is no right or wrong way to be you¨

I’ve been rapping my head around the negative reaction fans had the ending of Amphibia, and I think I understand why.

Mainly, it was an ending Matt had planned out in advance. The issue with those kinds of endings is that they often undermine what came before for the sake of staying on track. As such, the reason the fans hated how the trio left Amphibia permanently, and that the trio split up, was because it wasn’t t built up, like, at all.

The worlds being permanently separated was only necessary in the final episode because of the secret spell and the deity , which that had zero foreshadowing.

While at first I thought it was going to end with the trio loses contact with amphibia, during season 3 I thought it wouldn’t happen, simply because there was no foreshadowing to it(Anne even reassuring sprig that they could still see each other). And yet in all in, the characters out of nowhere act like this was a forgone conclusion.

I certainly didn’t think Marcy was going to move at the end, much less of the trio drifting apart. It would completely contradict their arcs of trying to rectify their friendship. And yet we’re aren’t even shown them drifting apart, just a 1 minute speech. Marcy moving might have been set up since true colors, it she was such an afterthought in season 3 that there wasn’t much time to ruminate on it.

Some people justify this with “they were toxic to each” and “that’s just how real life is”. Yes, the trio were toxic to each other…and the START, but not by the end. Using this reasoning actually contradicts the message of change the show was going for, and tosses aside the trios arc of trying to be better friends.

And even ignoring that the show threw out the realism card long ago, while many friendships do drift apart over the years, there’s just as many that don’t. And in fiction, such drastic changes can come of as unrealistic, even when it happens in real life. Not helped by how the separations only affected the trio, as everyone in Amphibia is still in a tight nit group.

With all this in mind, the message comes off as being way more cynical and nonsensical than intended. I don’t think many people like the idea that permanent, meaningful relationships can’t last, and the best you can do is try to make as many memories with your friends as possible before they inevitably as possible. But that’s the message Matt had in mind, because it was based on his own falling out with his friends.

Maybe if the show had built up these themes more, the backlash wouldn’t be as severe. But like Marcy’s parents, they sprung this change at the last second, and it was just too much for us to handle.

While I feel like Amphibia's message of accepting life's changes is definitely an important one, I feel like it's undermined because of how the changes within the show were forced upon the characters, and how it's shown to us as the audience.

Like why did the girls have to separate from Amphibia forever? Because a random god who came in during the last episode with almost zero foreshadowing said so.

Marcy accepting that she has to move? That would have worked much better if she'd actually been rescued with enough time to show her working through her emotions and give her natural character development, instead of just putting her through a ton of trauma and calling it a day.

Anne and Sasha drifting apart in high school? Would have been really nice to have seen that as part of a passing time montage, rather than just being bluntly stated by Sasha after the time skip. "Show don't tell" is a cardinal rule of storytelling for a reason.

Now to be perfectly fair Marcy's Journal does address these issues, particularly when it comes to Marcy and the trio's friendship as a whole. But it doesn't change the fact that, when viewed on its own, the show's overarching message falls flat due to the missteps in season three.

I know I've complained a lot about season three over the last year, but I'm not doing it to be a hater. I make these critiques because I do really like Amphibia, and as I said at the start, I think the central theme of accepting change is extremely important. Which is why it was so frustrating to see them make these objectively poor storytelling choices in season three that hurt the show as a whole and undermined the message they were trying to send.

"Motivation"

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In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, The Ghost And Molly McGee debuts a special 11-minute episode “100% Molly McGee”

Molly’s Thai cousin Emmy visits the family, Molly vents to that she grew up in a biracial household, so she doesn’t feel “Thai" enough,  compared to her cousin whose both parents are of Thai descent. Scratch tries to cheer her up with a motivational speech and fails. But, Molly being Molly — she cheers herself up and plans to cram all the Thai knowledge overnight.

ICYMI: Amphibia Creator MATT BRALY was one of the cultural consultants on The Ghost And Molly McGee’s Thai Heritage. “100% Molly McGee” is a personal story to series writter PERI SEGEL on her experience as being biracial