#appreciative posts

Just shotgunned Bee&Puppycat: Lazy in Space on Netflix and I just want to say this is the MOST tumblr SHOW that has ever BEEN Made or will likely ever BE Made unu

More Thoughts(Spoilers, obvsl):

This is such a weird, unique and wonderful show and frankly it’s amazing to think that it ever even got this level of making.

This is a show about how dreams can be Disappointing and Bad.

This is a show about the drawbacks to dreams: about how they can Infest and complicate life; about how Horrifying and Off-putting they can be. It’s about how Sometimes your dream might be to AVOID doing a thing, and that might not be entirely bad, and about how DOING something about your dreams might not be entirely good. It’s about maybe not even really having dreams to begin with, or having Impossible dreams(like always being young and beautiful). It’s about learning to live with ALL of that. It’s about, Sometimes, giving up on them, and why that happens and what it means, and how much BIGGER that question is than “good” and “bad”; “self-affirming” and “self-destructive”.

This is a show about Waiting, and Procrastinating, and Existing; the good, the bad, the stress-inducing, the rewarding and affirming.

It is a show about “Love” in all its complexity: Where it is as much antagonism and annoyance, and Disappointment, and Burden and Hurt(intentional and otherwise; Selfish and otherwise), as it is affection and warmth and physicality and Sex and companionship and Being There and Caring: where Presence and Absence collapse into the Same Damn Feeling.

It is a show about GENUINELY appreciating people for who they are, not what they can do or who you think they are or can be, and about NEVER trading People for Dreams(the upsides and the downs of that)

It is a show about how much birthday’s Suck, and also are Awesome.

It’s a show where the fake employed fake-doctor college dropout sibling of a main character that’s not even in 70% of the episodes gets a homeless bi[1] failed wrestler pregnant, and at no point are these characters treated unsympathetically.

It’s a show where every protagonist is marginally employed and barely hanging by a thread and where Antagonist is a Job-description.

It’s a show where the main character is both appreciated and loved for being the primary parental[2] figure and emotional/physical/financial support for everyone in the cast, and also widely seen(justifiably!) as an annoyance, life-roadblock, and nexus of Havoc in their lives, and yet never at anypoint feels Unloved by any of them.

The most successful(non-Pretty Patrick uvu) person in the show is also the most annoying and Instantly hateable.

It is a show where the morality and notions of capitalist society are Alien, Dangerous, Exploitative, Incomprehensible, Invasive, and fundamentally Corrupting; where money is a constant need and spent as soon as it’s attained.

It is a show where the most responsible person is a child forced to be a landlord, and how horrible every part of that sentence is.

This is a show THOROUGHLY and PROUDLY about “burnouts” and “losers”, which loves them in their every aspect without ever denying the veil of dread hanging over their lives.

Everything is INFESTED with Twee. Nothing is ever explained. Everyone is both sad and happy; both motivated and aimless. Everyone. is LIVING. So Much. And so much THEMSELVES, all of the time.

I  A D O R E  It OwO

(notes under the cut)

Hilda vs. The Mountain King is a Gr8 Movie and, Dear Readers, I CRIED oh I CRIIIIIIIIED it is so So SO Bueautiful uwu uwu uwu

Also I think Hilda is KIIIIIINDA Loki

 To Wit(and ***SPOILERS***):

Hilda is the Source Of and Solution To All of Life’s problems OwO

My Argument:

Hilda initiates and drives the action of the story:

her ever-escalating tension with her mother over the course of season 2 leads to her wishing she could be a troll which leads Trylla, the troll-witch, to swap her with her own child, Baba.

she finds and frees Trundle the Mountain King from his prison, and retrieves the Eye of Amma for him.

But she also RESOLVES all these problems

she uses her time as a troll to gain an appreciation for their motivations and way of life

learns from the transformation how to understand and speak troll

communes with the Eye of Amma herself & from that realizes what is really going on

and then literally bashes Ahlberg over the head with that knowledge to get him to Listen and finally avert catastrophe.

But there’s a Secret THIRD Element hidden in this formula that I think is JUST as important. She isn’t just dynamic in the sense that she Start things and Finish things; Hilda’s also dynamic in the sense that she isn’t bound by the rigid classifications everyone else in the story is. She transcend boundaries, that transgression allows her to conceive of New Ways, and those New Ways are pivotal to her solutions.

This is a VERY common Loki-dynamic. Sometimes these boundaries are social as when he disguises Thor as a woman to recover Mjollnir; sometimes geographic/cosmological as with his constant realm-hoping; sometimes they are political as with his botherhood to Odin; Very often they are PHYSICAL as when he turns into a mare to seduce Svathilfari and make his Jotun-owner lose his bet with the Aesir.

We see Hilda cross all these boundaries in this story. She becomes a troll; she lives in troll country; she learns of their ways, their politics, their conditions, their history, their variety and their motivations; she frees the old King from his prison; she upsets the Stasis building conflict between humans and trolls; and ultimately it is the knowledge she gains from ALL OF THIS which allows her to offer Both a new way out of that conflict. It isn’t JUST that transgressors like Hilda and Loki are Interesting and tend to make the world so too; it’s that transgressions let us see new things, comprehend new people, and set in motion Change, which is the only start to ever, possibly, making things a little better.