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The thing that reeeeeeaally bothered me about Wooly in AtA2 was when in the train episode he says to Amanda “it’s fun PRETENDING you can go places, isn’t it?” (Or something to that effect). Essentially rubbing it in her face that it’s only pretend and she can’t actually leave.

That moment on, he is dead to me!

Interpreting Wooly as Amanda's handler created by Hameln to keep her under control really puts her reaction to him returning in the second game under a new light.

Wooly has always been there to keep Amanda on a short leash, actively berating her for saying and doing the "wrong" things, sabotaging her attempts at remembering Rebecca and always meddling when she's trying to reach out to someone like Kate or Riley (bfr I'm not the only one who thought it was sketchy when he basically replaced Kate with himself as the friend Amanda wanted to send a present to in the alternate neighborhood episode, right?)

Amanda has tried so many times to get rid of him, be it through telling him to go away or just straight-up killing him but he always comes back. He's Hameln's persistent little watchdog who she cannot get rid of. He'll always be there in the next tape being the constant buzzing in her ears to distract her from what she really wants to do.

Except in 2, it looks like Amanda finally succeeded. Wooly's not there for the first couple of tapes. Amanda speaks much more freely without him around, bonds with Riley more to the point she actually calls them by name at the end of the bedtime episode. But then Wooly returns. She hasn't managed to get rid of him after all. He'll always, always be there, tugging on her arm to keep her from getting out of line. Notice how before Wooly returns, the Hameln logo doesn't appear at the end of the AtA episodes. But once he's back, boom! There it is. Wooly, and with him Hameln, have once again weaseled their way into Amanda's world.

No wonder her first reaction is to attack him in a fit of rage.

I see people fighting about who to ship Commander Fox with and so I propose: ALL of them.

Fox is dating Riyo AND Quinlan AND Bail AND Breha. All at the same time. Just one big massive polycule.

Wooly is an enabler. He might not be the one directly hurting Amanda/Rebecca but he keeps sabotaging her and helping Hameln control her. He actively discourages her from going against rules, he tries to railroad her. He gets annoyed when she doesn't act like the compliant little puppet Hameln would want her to be.

I think nothing demonstrates how little Wooly actually cares about Amanda as opposed to the "role" she's supposed to play than the "When You Feel Bad" tape.

Amanda is down in the dumps, so Wooly, nervous because the show needs a protag to do stuff and he's the sidekick so he can't fill that role, keeps trying to get her to go on any sort of adventure even when Amanda makes it clear she just wants to be left alone.

When Wooly tells his little knight and princess story he doesn't really care that Amanda doesn't like it, even gets snippy and dismissive of her when she tells him this story is doing nothing to lift her spirits. At the end of the story Amanda still feels bad, but Wooly doesn't even acknowledge that.

When Riley tells the story Amanda wants to hear, Wooly again gets pissy and demands Riley tell his story, even though Amanda is visibly happier with Riley making stuff up. Notice how in Riley's re-write, we have a narrator telling the story instead of Wooly. I think that's Sam. Wooly realizes Riley is steering Amanda away from Hameln and towards her former memories as Rebecca by invoking Sam. And he doesn't like that.

So long story short, Wooly isn't Amanda's friend. He's her Hameln-assigned handler. He could care less about her feelings as long as she does as she's told.

i walk a fine line between “i’m asexual and i hate how much the world revolves around sex” and “sex is way too stigmatized and people should be able to be more open about it if they want to”

thire is concerned

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

you know what I needed today? Tookaverse shenanigans