Penny

This fanfic shit is easy

OP

Propaganda : Will she allow herself to enjoy delicious food or will she punish herself with endless workouts?

come back.

espeon!

Some matching gif Red and Purple icons!!

bonus context: this is based off real-life events of me playing this song during inpatient art group (they were not impressed 😭)

The Dangerous Act of Zim Squishing by BlueXCanary

I don't like Test Tube in Season 4 so far. I think there are a few high points, but so far she has largely been relegated to the role of Fan's sidekick— always the first to enable him, the person who "knows [him] so well" the person he trusts more than anyone "to face a challenge head-on", the mother to his child, his literal assistant moderator, and so on. Her relationship with Fan has taken precedence over any other motivations she has had in the past, and their relationship is deeply unhealthy in a way that, rather than being compelling to me, is stale and difficult to watch because the writing seems unwilling to fully commit to it? I don't think the season is trying to portray their relationship as perfect, but so far it feels like the writers want to have their cake and eat it too, by addressing some of the flaws in their relationship in rather ambiguous ways that allow most of the audience to come out of episodes thinking their relationship right now is still ultimately a wholesome one. It gives off the impression that the audience is meant to root for their relationship, that it must continue and we have to accept that it is the way it is because it is "special", and the way that always seems to manifest is with Fan's feelings taking up more space in the story as it tries way too hard to get the audience to sympathise with him, and with Test Tube always being there to support him, but little of her own feelings being explored beyond that. I think their reliance on each other in season 2 is nice and I love them clicking immediately because of their surface-level similarities (and how they end up going on to show us that they are actually very different people), and I have come to appreciate certain negative aspects of their relationship colouring Test Tube's behaviour in season 3, but their relationship in season 4 feels painfully normative and contains so many negative aspects of "traditional" heterosexual relationship dynamics as they are often portrayed in media, even without them being a romantic couple. I also don't know how I can expect Test Tube to be handled well this season when Inanimate Insanity doesn't have much of a history with intentionally considering the way society in real life treats women and the ways the story should mirror or challenge that. I hate to be flippant here, but if I wanted to watch a brilliant woman pour herself into a relationship that wasn't even serving her while everyone gushed about how cute she and her counterpart are together I would just go outside,