In the end, et$y ended up being the better fit over the big¢artel storefront; for now all my shop things—enamel pins and jewelry stuff—will be back over here:
so if simon never put on the crown ooo would have literally been hunted to near extinction by vampires. if he tried to "fix" the crown he would have trapped pb in the crown's madness, if he tried to stop the bombs finn would have used the crown and unleashed the lich. bro.
i kinda wish people remembered more that betty literally wasn't Herself when she became Magic Betty: her plans became strange and desperate and she stopped thinking rationally and took fucked up drastic measures to achieve her narrow-focused goals... kind of like someone we know?
ughhh im so not ready for the terrible misreads of their relationship from people who have never been to grad school. a phd candidate/guest lecturer can and usually is literally a classmate. people give presentations about their research to other graduate classes ALL THE TIME
ok... hc that in betty's pov of this meeting: she knew OF him and thought he was cool in that 'academic peer' way, but when she saw firsthand how unsupportive their community was she wanted to make him to feel like someone actually understood him, the way his work made her feel.
really vivid dream last night they dropped a surprise special f&c episode that included simon's life from obsidian til now, and there was one shot that stuck SO CLEARLY in my mind of him making omelettes for the whole gang and he looked like this (i think marcy got him the shirt)
"awkward young love" this and "tragic doomed romance" that... MY favourite petrigrof phase is when they're already engaged and deeply committed to each other and betty teases him about it and he's so 🥺 for her he falls for it every single time and then they make out sloppy style
Betty Grof:
- Rips off her boots and walks straight through a river instead of trying to cross over it
- Runs screaming into a field of hidden snakes, apparently an “old trick” her mom taught her
- Tried to dig straight down to find the devil but struck a water main
you know, i do find it kind of interesting that betty literally said 'goodbye' to him in all versions of the bus scene/the car scene, at the time fully intending that it was goodbye, except for here...
theres something so ungodly tender about the whole extended petrigrof backstory scene, especially coming from the couple who are known to smorch it the FUCK up every single time they're on screen together in ooo, not even kiss but simply REVEL in the intimacy of touch. im SICK.
i know it's supposed to be sad but his swagless autism here is so fucking good
like you can tell he was trying to formulate that "you should be careful with what you put in letters" line into something smooth but he fucks it up so hard he shuts down like Go Girl Give Us Nothing
he was INSANE for saying to her, out loud, that she would "understand" him needing to put the crown on again. buddy you are so lucky she just zapped you to baby jail with your ass out and didnt bite ur head off gendo ikari style, it was real self restraint on her part
ok. look into my eyes im TELLING u. betty is definitely on the spectrum and suffering a life-long case of "everybody treats me like im a freak, even my friends, and all my interests are cringe and my emotions are too intense and im always apologizing for who i am and how i feel"
oh god take it in that he just got portaled to the golb dimension and he's STILL planning to put the crown on to save fionna and cake's universe.
and he's going to do it /in front of her/.
HEY JUST WONDERING WHY THE LINE ABOUT HIM SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF TO RESTORE BETTY WAS CUT WAS IT TO SPARE ME FROM EXPLODING BECAUSE 💥
- “I touched his hand once! :D”
- Basically just walked up to him and added herself to his quest party
- Calls Simon exclusively by his last name, even after his confession, what in the absolute nuclear autism fuck ♡
- Makes a really good egg, like absolutely fantastic
man how the time flies. nearly a decade ago i was watching the bettysode with my 9 y/o brother and now im mixing cocktails with him like "dude if im weird tomorrow its bc that adventure time character i was insane about in highschool got a spinoff and it ends at 3am" and hes like
actually now that i think about it betty grof should be the one who gets to say fuck. it's time we as a society support betty grof saying fuck. let betty grof say fuck.
im not saying they're a 1:1 parallel obviously. just that, like simon and magic man before her, the once kind and noble goals she held became distorted with the insertion of extremely powerful magic into the equation
she refers to him by his doctorate - which is literally the corniest thing i have ever seen oh my god nobody does that you KNOW she was down horrendous for him - not by professorial status, for the record
something about betty's ongoing butterfly motif + the 'butterfly effect' being an underlying principle of chaos theory... S1 exemplifying how two humans falling in love 1000 years ago and their choices helped shape the world into something beautiful... 🦋
but what if golbetty sending him to find the casper and nova book was her going "see?? if you choose the crown now you destroy me AND your love for me so just close the book!!" and then beth was like "hey think about their dynamic" and BOTH simon and golbetty were like "... oh."
i just... very much disagree with the viewing of Betty Grof only through the lens of Magic Betty's inability to accept IK and trying to Time Blast His Ass, like as if Ice King's kidnapping of princesses is similarly indicative of Simon Petrikov's character, i guess??
and like, autism queen that she is, her concept of doing that was by approaching him after the lecture and hyping him up like a fangirl and offering to help out immediately and not take partial credit for the discovery of the enchiridion
but then Uh Oh!,,. Feelings For Real
oh my god the "is this a trick" line i,,, hi this is the neurodivergent experience thinking people r pretending to be interested in u and take you seriously bc people have done this shit to mess with you before oh my god,,, oh christ my heart simon,,,
it just. it hurts me that they ACTUALLY understood the petrigrof assignment and then for some reason actively chose to like?? remove these crucial parts??? things that would have ADDED to the casper & nova thing in terms of simon's revelation????