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I am so normal!!..

I accidentally deleted this art, so I post it again :")

What is this? What the fuck is this? XD

So like, Rick doesn't respect time travel and it more or less seems to be the same for all Ricks across the board. So as time goes on they would all find out stuff about their abandoned/alternate families organically, and imagine our Rick (still on his revenge kick) hearing for the first time that a lot of the Beth's are getting pregnant at 17. Then later that they're having baby girls named Summer and marrying the kid that knocked her up.

With memory Rick he says 'Are you one of those Rick's that moves in with abandoned adult Beth?'

Imagine across the central finite curve the Rick's that hear about what's going on, and maybe try to enter Beth's life then, try to help her with the pregnancy and the baby. We see in the show and the comics that there are more or less two kinds of Rick's, the ones that abandon their families and the ones that lost their families, and I have to imagine that some of the later told themselves hey, I can protect my family now, I want to go help Beth.

Granted I don't think things would end well for them, but hey, infinity means everything happens once.

And then as time goes on and the Rick's start hearing about another grandchild, Morty. We know that our Rick visited Morty as a baby, (likely without Beth and Jerry knowing), and imagine the longing to be a part of their life's. But he can't, because anytime a Rick starts to be happy with his family the family dies.

But then news about a Morty's brainwaves blocking out a Ricks breaks, and suddenly even the deadbeats are getting 'involved' with their family again. Rick and Morty, the duo found through infinity. And suddenly it's not so dangerous to be with your family, lots of Rick's are now hanging around, only to use Morty of course. Sure you still have like the Government after you, but they're nothing to worry about really. Having Rick's that don't think your Rick enough off your back though?

Idk this is a long rambling thought that was kinda hard to type out cause I didn't want to make it too long 😅😅😅😅😅😅

Thought about it because of the pic below and I was like hmmmmmm

If you wanna talk more about stuff like this though or RnM hit me up !!! The brain rot is real 🥲

I'm just gonna...ahem...leave this here for the Beth haters...

ok here i am again with another meta analysis for rick and morty season 6 because of course my obsession phase isn’t over yet

apparently this season is a lot focused on the family smith. it was a big hypothesis when he only had the titles for the season to base our opinions on, but also when it started to air it was pretty clear ALL the smiths are the main focus on this season. the dynamics they have as a family, the nuances, the ups and downs, how they (dis)function - it appears to be explored very heavily this season. lately (a little bit in season 5 too) all five of them seem to be treated as a family, and not just a bunch of people that happen to live together.

which is nice, i really appreciate it, especially because they seem to mix that with sci-fi stuff and humor and honestly i couldn’t ask for anything else (i can’t be the only one laughing the shit off myself this season all the jokes are landing to me please)

my point is, i wonder if the reason why they decide to explore this theme so much is due to quarentine.

right now the smith family are stuck with each other. with the portal gun broken, rick and morty can only go so far in their own dimension, and since they can’t afford to screw things up, they really seems to be doing things tamer and less dangerous than before. in other words, they have nowhere to run and rick needs to deal with his family more often now.

this sounds A LOT like quarentine to me. you going a little bonkers, but also needing to deal with your peer’s crazyness as well. it’s the time you need to confront how disfunctional your family really is but how you love them so deeply you have no other option but to endure them. (i’m talking about non-abusive homes here, please). personally, i think i got a lot closer to my parents and brother after this hell, and it seems fitting the writers went through that as well.

considering season six was written during a more flexible but still real part of the lockdown, i find it a good hypothesis they decide to write the show analog to what was happening in the real world. the smith family can go to school, work, go out to ice cream, but at the end of the day there’s not a lot they can do but to be under the same house for long period of time -  they can’t travel, they can’t pretend their problems don’t exist, they can’t go out often. they need to confront each other.

with this new premiere for episode 4, night family, it got really clear to me how they are willing to just dive deep into the family dynamics, making it more smith-centric. it has been a common theme that rick is acting more like a grandpa rather than a crazy asshole scientist lately, how beth is actually willing to be a good mother now, how jerry is finally being assertive about his place in his home, how morty and summer seems to have a more love-hate bond than just a i-cant-stand-you bond. they are still all fuck ups in their respective areas, they are still horrible people, but they are their OWN horrible people

also the fact that the smith family CHOOSE each other rather than just accept they need to live together adds a new layer to things. no one is from that reality, in the first episode they had the choice to be in their origin dimension if they wanted to and they’ve had tons of opportunities to just walk away before. after a long, long jurney with the same people since half the season 1 (and this jerry from season 2), we can say that the smith family aren’t connected because rick is a control freak, but because they do love each other and this is their burden to carry. in the end, family is a burden you can’t throw away, but it’s your burden and i love that.

and the fact that they actively made the choice to keep each other close is so much nicer than whatever the abusive dynamic they had in later seasons. it’s a found family, they became a found family even if disfunctional as hell. i love that

I just think she's neat

2 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMASSSS YEWAAHH (technically 1 since I didn't get home until midnight but, uh, ignore that) also shoutout to en-ben cuz i was def inspired by them while drawing this