PHONY’S BLOG

I don't think one could truly understand how much The Tick means to me. Once I discovered it, he's been so deeply engraved into my brain that I never forgot him. I watched the 2017 when it first came out and kept thinking about it for a couple of years until Covid hit, then I forgot about it. Then I buried myself in that show when I rediscovered it.

The cartoon filled a lot of gaps in my life I didn't know I had. The 2001 version has gotten me through a lot of uncomfy moments. The Tick made me laugh so much.

I, like everyone else on the internet, am not who I am beyond the screen. I am not as confident to say what I do on here, to act the way I do, because I don't know who else in my life would agree or talk to me like I'm a person.

That brings me to Arthur. Arthur is and will be connected with me in a way no other character has been. It is not a "Oh, fictional crush. He's so hot. No. I see myself in Arthur. He's weird, he's obsessive, he's not very confident within himself. In every version. The comics, 1994, 2001, 2017, each version has characteristics that stay and make me relate to him. The difference? lam not a hero. I do not have a Tick. There may never be a Tick for me...and that's okay.

I personally do not believe that I will ever find a partnership like the Tick and Arthur have. l've just never clicked with someone LIKE THAT.

Even if you look at it from an entirely platonic light, I never really had a friend that I felt comfortable enough with to share my story. I only sit and listen to theirs. I do have a best friend, she is wonderful and amazing and I love her so so so so so so much...but Im afraid. Afraid that if I tell her all of my thoughts, ask all of my questions, she won't want to be my friend. It also does feel like she recluses, so I try to make the effort, to invite her to things, to make sure that she knows I care.

Arthur has all of that. I don't. That's okay.

Either way, The Tick is my way to cope, to turn off my brain, and the fact that I have lived this long and was born in the right time to witness the Tick? That's truly amazing. There is no other like him...