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I keep seeing people talking about how its sad that Finn is hanging out with Bronwyn and Tv, that he's trying to replace Jake, and with all due respect I very much disagree.

Its not sad that he's with them, they're his family!!!! Tv is his nephew, Bronwyn is his grand niece!!!! Its not sad that he's walking around with them!!!!!! Sure it may be him trying to cope by finding new adventure buddies but thats not a bad thing! Its not unhealthy that he has a new friend circle!

Dont you remember how in the main show, he barely talked to Jermaine, his own brother? Back then he rarely interacted with his family members who weren't Jake, and now he's going to beat up monsters with Bronwyn and inviting Tv to quests. This is a good thing. He most likely learned that he should value his family and live life with them before they're gone, because he will regret it when they die. Thats much better than him obsessing over seeing Jake again in the afterlife and not caring for the family he still has around him.

Why did I only just find out about Tumblr's Adventure time OC Nico the catboy. He's incredible. It is a CRIME i was not aware of him.

theyre both losers this is gonna be great

also this screenshot means everything to me

could they end up any worse

Do you ever think about how when BMO plays pretend, they favor nomadic/loner roles like a cowboy, a hard-boiled detective, a traveling salesperson, etc., which is pretty in line with their directive from Mo. But when they really are on their own (eg in BMO Lost) they immediately, desperately establish a family from their surroundings.

And how one of those universal struggles of people, especially in the context of growing up (including but not limited to childhood) is dependence vs. independence. Wanting a hand to hold and wanting to be able to drop it at will. And how some people need to hold that hand less often than others, and how some people really don’t want to even when they really need to.

Finn and Jake get frustrated with each other and try to solve a dungeon separately, only to be met at every turn with a challenge that they can’t face without the other. Marceline travels for a thousand years and settles down here and there and picks back up because the people around her aren’t constant so she doesn’t want to be either. PB and IK each create an entire kingdom because they’re lonely, and neither of them feel whole because, just like the quarters of Ooo in Elements, living in those kingdoms is too much like living inside their own heads.

Every episode of Distant Lands is about characters who both resent and long for the versions of themselves they used to be— the versions who needed other people, the versions who could still insist they didn’t — and have to reconcile with the fact that they never really stopped being those people, but also that they can never really be those people again.

Every major character in the series is building connections and love and safety using whatever tools they have, and distancing themselves with equal effort. So they’re all kind of just alternating between playing cowboy and playing house, figuring out how to balance both and where they fit in between.