I Like This, Its Canon In My Pea Brain Now :]

I like this, it’s canon in my pea brain now :]

not to be the person who says this but like

au where noco has been dating the whole time. like, literally since before tdi. they’ve been together this whole time. they just agreed not to put it on display during total drama because they didn’t wanna deal with everything that would come with it. cody went a little hard into the whole “fawning over gwen” shtick but its bcs she’s likable!! and when she found out about noco she promised to keep them a secret so after initially being annoyed and kinda jealous, noah warms up to her.

sierra is a whole other struggle to deal with but like shes a fangirl who has a hard time realizing when enough is enough, not evil. she respects them when she finds out and also swears not to tell, even though she tends to ramble so it’s probably not the best for her to know, but she’ll figure it out. she’ll control it. 

And no I wasn’t here during the dark age of Total Drama shipping, don’t you dare group me in with the army of noco fans from like 2012

Anyways any ship that isn’t problematic in anyway is valid on this page 👍 I’ll shut up now

*rocking back and forth* im so normal abt superjail

Good evening/morning encanto fandom

I give you angst with Bruno and Pepa

:p

say it with me kids!!

defending bruno =/= hating pepa and defending pepa =/= hating bruno 👍

and also that they’re both flawed individuals and seriously needed to better communicate with each other and apologize to one another and that despite their fights the two seem to love each other and care for one another and no one was better nor worse than the other when it came to the wedding situation

Big brain time

I rise from the grave to drop what I think is a genuinely flaming hot take: Cody relapsing into his lust for Gwen wasn’t a regression of his character development in Island, but rather a natural progression of his character based on the events we see occur between seasons.

What a lot of people, most prominently the Total Drama writers themselves, seem to forget is that Cody wasn’t simply sitting idle between seasons. He was in a band, canonically. In Celebrity Manhunt Reunion Special, the Drama Brothers are consistently talked about as this major phenomena, fans swarm around them to steal clothes off their bodies, and they talk about how the group has sold out entire stadiums for their concerts. While it’s scantly if ever referenced in the actual competition, it is referenced in World Tour via the aftermaths.

The point I’m getting at with all of this is that we know Cody is famous. He’s no longer just some obscure early boot from Season 1 who didn’t show up in the sequel, he’s a proper musical superstar. And that would have a profound impact on him psychologically, especially if you add that to the existing analyses I have published on this blog regarding his childhood issues of neglect and entitlement.

So now you have Cody suddenly thrust into the spotlight of fame and fortune. Someone who has never received healthy attention, now is inundated with more of it than he could possibly know what to do with. A guy who has tried and failed to land girls since he could conceive of dates, now has them falling at his feet every time he shows his face on stage. Cody loves the attention his fans give him, and craves it more than any other member of his band. And so he’s the one most actively interacting with the fans, hyping up the crowd so they give him more adoration and affection. He’s the one who will pull random girls from the crowd onto the stage to dance with the band, he’ll take pictures with them backstage, everything he can to give everyone in that faceless mass of followers the illusion that he cares about every single one of them. Because he wants them to care about him, because nobody else ever has.

This is going to massively inflate his ego, he’s going to think he’s actually cool now. He’s no longer a dweebish nobody, he’s a Drama Brother, he’s an accomplished musician, he’s somebody that women want. The kind of guy Gwen would want.

But we know that isn’t the case. He’s not cool, he never stopped being uncool, he never stopped being Cody. But he doesn’t see it that way, he now thinks that getting with Gwen is a sure thing, and pursuing her in WT he just can’t see why she isn’t falling at his feet like one of his fangirls. Suddenly, in this context, his creepy persistence makes perfect sense. Gwen liked Trent because he was a cool music guy. Now Cody is a cool music guy, so he’s bound to like him if he just tries hard enough. And eventually he learns that no matter how successful he is, he can’t change who he is, and Cody just isn’t her type. Wouldn’t that be something?

None of this is in the show. This isn’t why he simps after Gwen in World Tour, it’s because the writers thought (incorrectly) that it would be a funny gag to have him constantly thirsting over her. But that doesn’t mean it can’t make sense when approached from the right angle.