PROLOGUE

on july 1st, i began watchin venture bros. or july 2nd. still trying to pinpoint that

i got a little far into the pilot episode before the ac in my mom's shitass camper broke and we retreated to her friend's house, of whom her property we were staying on. that would only be the beginning of that shitty summer experience of visiting my mom.

however; one good thing came of that. my mom was leeching off of her boyfriend's hbo max, and since they had an adult swim section (and i was quite fond of AS already, see: my history with staying up late and watching AS come on, my ongoing interest in robot unicorn attack, getting hyperfixated on X:RA in early 2023) i decided to watch some stuff i hadn't seen before. first, i binged the boondocks. good show, and i'd already seen the first 3 episodes since im a pirate who sails the seven seas of soulseek. i just took advantage of the easy tv since i didn't have a micro HDMI to normal HDMI cord, and i only had my asus laptop which only has those fuckass modern ports. when i finished that show, i was genuinely dissapointed. i kind of wanted some closure as with all cancelled series, but i think it worked better for that show since some grand finale wouldn't be in its nature. since i was on the hunt for shows again... i turned my attention to venture bros.

REX AND THE CURSE OF GETTING INTO THINGS THAT FRIENDS LIKE

i was already a tad familiar with it, i have a faint memory of scamp on the big sanyo CRT my family used to have before my parents divorced and my mom met my step dad. he got rid of her, sadly. (and yes, young me had quite the imagination. the sanyo CRT was named tiva, our hisense tv was big tv, and there may be some i'm forgetting. tiva was big tv's mom, and we kept big tv. i think he's somewhere in storage. i used to play with my dvds like they were dolls, after all.) specifically, a Sanyo DS24425 Crt. i found one on ebay (and only one) however she's way out of my price range. i'm only 15 and don't have a job.

...off topic rambles. i'm rexposting

one day i was looking at physical media of the show on ebay, and found a blu-ray of season 7. the cover brought back a memory of mine. i used to stay up with my brother just to watch adult swim. i remember seeing a bumper for S7 EP 4 The High Coast Of Loathing. iirc s7 came out in 2018, so i would have been 9. one detail i remember is brock driving into the college campus with dean as he's going to be moving into his dorm, and the conversation that follows. after that it cuts to the end part of a bumper where they show the air date of the episode with the boys making snow angels. very epic. angry at 9 year old me as i should have been watching vbros instead of reading warrior cats. i mean, i was trying to find a song that would end up being from one of my special interests at the time... so he has no excuse

i also remember waking up in our trailer (after i moved back with my dad in 2019, so possibly 2020) and walking out to see what i think were the episodes "the family that slays together, stays together" i remember the monarch being quite heavily featured in it. i really don't remember too well, but i remember watching the end credits and seeing it dated 2008. oddly enough, i remember hank and dean on their hoverbikes? but i also remember 21 and 24 (alive) faintly. i may have been mixing episodes together since it may have played a few episodes before the two season finale episodes. maybe he was watching early episodes on shuffle? not sure. i had a "maybe he was watching a widescreen remaster of the pilot" hypothesis but my memory of the 2008 part rules that out. it's confusing and i'll figure it out later. anyways, that's how i put a face to a name i've only ever heard. (and ironically did not put two and two together that the image of fred from scooby doo humping a hand dryer was actually hank, even though i'd seen that image a million times by then at the ripe old age of 11)

anyways, moving on to my time spent being cool. i've been in the r/lapfoxtrax server since july 18th 2022, so i am absolutely deserving of the long gone homeboy role that i used to have. met a lot of cool people there! one of the people i know from there is a vbros fan, and is quite fond of 21 and 24 (understandable, when i was first watching through i adored the monarch's henchmen. but i also adored the boys lmao) so that's also why i watched it because "someone i know likes it, since we both like this thing i'll probably like this thing they like. plus my dad used to watch it all the time according to mom"

oh yeah, true story my mom banned me from watching it when she wasn't working because "your dad used to watch it alll theee timeeee" Ok well fuck you now i won't shut up about dean. backfire

so that rule was swiftly disobeyed and mom didn't stop me. she ended up to seem actually get invested in it, too. we were talking about stuff that was happenning in the show a lot. she even remembered pete's name

Moral of the story: visiting mom for summer sucks but at least you like venture bros now

So

FINISHING THE SHOW AND EXPERIENCING WITHDRAWAL

i finished the show july 26th, 2024, the same month i started. i came all this way, and was astonished at how different the characters were from their original counterparts. that's still something that gives me mental whiplash to this day, actually. i was genuinely mega dissapointed, and to describe how i felt, i used the term "venture bros withdrawal".

i believe two or three days after i finished it and had already begun watching ATHF (yet another show that i have childhood memories of,) my mom took me to planned parenthood as she had a health appointment. i sat in the waiting room and studied the radio/cassette/cd combo they had quietly playing music in there. when my mom came out and we were about to go out the doors, she said something along the lines of "let's get on with our venture!" and i quickly snapped back with my eyes wide and staring at her. "you've been watching too much of that show, haven't you?" Yes mother.

i actually asked if i could rewatch the show on the tv, however she refused for reasons stated above, so i resorted back to piracy. which is fine by me because i can access it at any time without some dipshit cocklicker capitalists revoking access to shit i pay for. i mean i didn't really pay for them but at least i bought radiant is the blood of the baboon heart on blu-ray. oh and getting my hands on a blu-ray player is a pain in the ass, even more so a compatable drive to rip shit. i have a player that we got at goodwill for 6 dollars, but i need to get the remote off of ebay when i have more money.

THE BAD HABITS OF A FICTO

so as a fictoqueer individual, i am obligated to be attracted to at least 1 character from any media i get hyperfixated on. this time, i thought at first it would be two instead. yeah thats right i initially thought i also had a crush on hank too. anything far from attraction to his appearance, pretty sure i was confusing thinking he was silly and being fixated on him because of said sillyness. i still think he's adorable in the platonic way. but the fed implanted chips in my brain were trying to hide my TRUE feelings... for maybe a few days i was just so quiet. i needed time to think. this all came to a head on august first, where i had a dream that included only dean.

basically we had to babysit this younger, yet smart and witty girl. maybe she could have been around 7? anyways we were hanging out for a good part of the dream before exploring this public building, and we went to the part no one went to. it was kind of backrooms-y with this chick dressed in kinda goth clothing guarding it (NOT triana.) because this location had appeared in various other dreams before, and i had been there, i lead them through the door. they stayed for a bit before they left, but i HAD to stay since i had been there before and the like 4 guys that lived in that super weird forever room immune to all outside happenings had a weird "you are only allowed a few times before you're stuck here forever oooh" rule to i guess keep annoying hoes from bothering them. i was fucked. i begged for them to let me go, i remember the longing feeling i had in my gut and heart sitting on one of their little sofa table chairs. they asked me, "ok, give us ONE good reason why you should go." my stupid ass, with all my confidence and heartache, stated painfully, "because i have a crush on dean..."

So anyways they were like "wow man we were joking." so turns out since we were all oomfie patoots they liked me and let me go so i could live happily ever after with my beloved Deanie Poo. we drank magical potion and sang a song from one of their magical immune to outside time shows famous among their magical people and a floated out with sparkles circling me like a disney movie. i then was free and epicly made out with my girlfriend dean

... i'll write more once i figure out what i'm gonna put here. i have an idea of what to do but i do everything in the neocities editor so i need to save it

SO... WHAT NOW?

well, i wanna put a gallery of selfship content and work i've created out of love for him on this page (so music, art, or video content.) i'm kind of using this page to figure out what to do when i make pages for my other F/Os, and most importantly, for caliber.