adventure time’s various examples of coping mechanisms:
- kidnapping princesses
- kissing princesses. lots of them
- facing your fear of the ocean by knocking yourself out cold and falling into the sea
- repressing your memories into a mental vault
- playing music or singing. a rebecca sugar holdover
- resonating your emotions and affection onto an item you associate with the person, creating powerful tools that can kill the personification of Death and reverse time itself
- or using similar emotions to teleport yourself to mars
- literally just accepting your death and… pursuing it in the most reckless way possible
- not doing that because your kid brother keeps trying to go with you
- eating
- completing your friend’s bucket list
- becoming the author of a sleazy book
- throwing tables at people when you lose card games
- an awful lot of diaries
- sometimes the songs are diaries
- killing vampires
- living in the wild as a blind cryptid who talks to birds
- living in the wild as a blind cryptid because every time you open your eyes you get teleported back to the past inside an inescapable prison
- listeing to other people play music
- looking after your parents’ house and belongings
- overworking
- this show doesnt fuck around with the overworking
- creating your family
- losing your family, so creating an entire kingdom
- losing the entire kingdom, so becoming a redneck and building a new kingdom out of inanimate pumpkins
- kidnapping your mother’s citizens cos you have none of your own
- torturing them when they make a lot of music
- poking your clone
- eating your clone?
- blowing up your dad with music because he ate his clone and youre haunted by the guilt of running away so youre a prisoner still in deinem kompf
- building a tower into space to rip off your dad’s arm
- punching “dad” and realising you dont really want to do that, which is fortunate for your disguised friend
- candy alcoholism
- opening a toy store
- turning yourself into a computerized android system
- trying to turn your son into computer code too
- freezing the people around you and keeping them in your lair
- haircuts
- retconning reality
- accepting that whenever you kill someone youre always going to keep projecting the clone of yourself that you killed onto them, so pretending to kill your friends so you trick your mind into seeing them as the clone and are able to save them
- literally just talking to your friends and having a healthy conversation
