Mon Processus De Création

(returns from the dead with another poll)

Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day had the most mixed reaction of any season 16 episode (except maybe FVR--let me know if a poll about that would be something you'd be interested in!) so I got curious; do people like and dislike the episode for the same reasons? Does what you ship and how much you like Dennis affect your opinion, or are there other factors? I wanna know!

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The Fandom Takes a Mental Health Day

Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day is one of the most controversial episodes in a while. Do people like it and dislike it for the same reasons

The poll isn't too long--unless you decide to write a dissertation about the episode, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to fill out. But I mean, if you want to write a dissertation on how bad/good it is I'm all ears

We're all aware that Dean Pelton repeatedly harassed Jeff and stalked him right.

The thing that gets me the most is that nobody would brush this off if it was anyone other than Jeff. Imagine the Dean's behavior on ANYONE else than him. Stalking Shirley's house to move in next to her. Putting his hand on Annie's chest. Reading Abed's private emails.

Jeff constantly gets objectified and it's easy to brush it off because it's built up in his character.

He's the definition of the "you're just a pretty face with nothing underneath."

Because he's terrified of showing anything underneath, because even he has trouble accepting and understanding what he needs.

So he objectifies himself. Hot male lead that gets the girls and gets hit on by men and women. It's to be expected, it's the formula, and if the Dean sexually harasses him, it's probably not a big deal.

Jeff has been making excuses for the Dean for years. He is too forgiving, often at the expense of himself. On one hand because he's self destructive. On the other because he spent too long without friends and family to hold grudges or be mad at them. But he has to stop running away from his emotions and cope properly. He's allowed to be hurt.

So what if Mac was acting so strange with his Uncle Donald because he's terrified of ending up like him, alone, castrated from the family, and no legacy to pass down. Because now he met Johnny. And he's getting somewhere towards a stable relationship and stable sense of identity. He's pointing out Dennis' homophobic jokes and talking about passing stuff down to his kids. He will not end up like Uncle Donald.

When they're alone Victoria lets Joyce doodle with markers on her press on nails and it's okay if they don't match. When one falls Joyce puts it in a jar like a little art museum.

Jabed

YES. YES YES YES YES. YES. A MILLION TIMES YES.

Another day, another time where I see an adhd post on my timeline and find out that the actor of my comfort character liked the post too 💕

Via twitter

I'm currently rewatching the Rose Tyler era of Doctor Who and all my timepetals feelings are back

Fools fight over who's better between ninerose and tenrose when you can't have one without the other!!

Ninerose was the era of falling in love, it was banter and teasing, and it was mostly focused on the two of them, so it really made it so intimate and special. You see firsthand the impact both had on each other, with Nine's character development. How he doesn't do family but alters the universe to keep Rose's father alive. How he says he doesn't care about idiot Rickey Mickey but he'd invite him on the TARDIS so he can look after her.

You see how they hold each other close to their heart, how they lose themselves in each other's presence. Holding each other's gaze.

Tenrose is an already established love but now with a totally new face, so both of them pulled back a little for the sake of the other. You get such a shyer love, with a lot of physical touch but unfinished sentences. You get promises. Stolen glances.

The way Ten says "and it is gonna be...fantastic" on the first day of his regeneration because he wanted to reassure Rose that nothing much changed.

The way on that same day, she invites him over for a family Christmas dinner, fully accepting him.

The way he asks her on where to go next and gets lost in her expression, still processing the pure joy she has to be traveling with him, that she truly doesn't mind. That he didn't lose her.

And this dynamic works so well because we had ninerose before.

"Just tell her... tell her... oh she knows."

Did you guys notice how Jeff entered the shop already looking at Abed and immediately pulled a chair to sit next to him.

Did you guys notice how Abed wasn't surprised and started opening up.

Did you guys notice that both of them were shocked to see anybody else in the shop and how the others all had yogurt in their hands because that's what they came in for.

But Jeff came for Abed. Because he knows his comfort spaces and where he'd be to cool down. And the easiness they both fell into shows that they've done this multiple times.

My 2022 rewind of all my fandoms and favorite stuff I've seen this year ! I'm definitely not an editor but I love keeping track in such a fun way.

Video length: 3 minutes (includes some curse words)

Song: Le Freak, CHIC

Happy New Year!