Here have a vine compilation that I made and enjoy I’m not late to the party or anything

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Gomez gives out better relationship advice than like 90% of dudes.

Gomez Addams is a suave motherfucker who loves his wife more than his own life.

Everyone should want a Gomez. He’s p cool.

Gomez and Morticia Addams actually have a very loving and extremely healthy relationship, both in the old TV show and in the more recent movies. They were also one of the first television couples to be shown to have an active (albeit offscreen) sex life. Their frank attitude towards sexuality was shocking in its’ time, but their relationship and their family dynamic is actually more functional and more…dare I say it…sane than most families portrayed on TV.

The comedy in the show came from the family’s “odd” lifestyle, rather than from infighting and petty bickering, or worse, as was common on other shows of the time, thinly veiled references to spousal abuse. They didn’t make fun of each other or act like their children were creatures from another world. Were they strange and outside of social norms? Yes. Were they united in creating a loving home and being good, supportive parents? Absolutely.

These two support and adore their children, care for an aging mother and an estranged brother, put family before everything, and they love each other, wholly, fiercely, without reserve. They are every bit as much in love after at least a decade of marriage as they were the day they met.

Relationship goals. LIFE goals.

Just remembered in the second movie when their third child became “normal” for a period and although they were shocked and didn’t know how to handle it, they didn’t mistreat the child or love it any less. They accepted the difference, even though it was hard for them. 

Reblogged for truth.

Posts about Gomez and Morticia Addams are almost always uplifting and I’m happy to have them on my dash, but I think my favorite bit about this conversation is what Gomez is actually saying to Fester.

It’s nobody’s surprise that many of the aesthetic and thematic elements of The Addams Family in its various incarnations are influenced by Gothic tradition (not goth, that mostly came later. And not Goth, that was much much much too early), and I think Gomez’s words are a dead bullseye in terms of Gothic mentality.

The sublime is a recurring theme throughout Gothic literature. Although the word (like “awesome”) has lost a lot of it’s original luster over the intervening decades, sublime doesn’t really mean elevated and lofty (or even heavenly) as it’s often used today, but rather something possessing the power and grandeur to induce awe and veneration in the mind of the beholder. Although less than divine, something sublime possessed a wildness and power that transcended human ability to control…or even to comprehend.

Sublime is standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon leaning as far as you dare over the railing and still not being able to see the canyon floor below. Sublime is warrior-queen Galadriel being tempted by the One Ring. Sublime is waking up in the middle of the night in the heart of a wild thunderstorm.

Gomez isn’t advising Fester to treat a woman he fancies like a princess, or even elevate her to pedestal of angelic nature (who’s idea was it to equate femininity with purity anyway? What a laughable and historically damaging idea. Shame on whatever dead (probably) white dudes promoted that!)

Gomez is advising Fester that if he truly loves a woman he must do everything he can to remind her of how she’s an untameable force of nature who’s grandeur brings him to his knees in awe and terror. Just like Morticia, for Gomez.

I’ll sign off with one of my most favorite quotes of all time, because it feels suddenly very relevant:

@catrightsactivist

he’s free

I watched this so many times just for the expression when he realises the ground is not as close as first thought.

no offense but I literally can’t process that others genuinely care for me

Bruh

Y they just flame him lmfao

I ain’t gon lie tho I ain’t never seen white ppl cook someone like this

who knew white ppl had it in them

AGT

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Not all owl hoots are majestic…

What the fUCK my life is a lie is this what they sound like

You don’t say?? 

*skitter skitter skitter skitter skitter*

RUH RUH RUH RUH

*skitter skitter skitter skitter skitter*

I’m the skitters

Pokemon GO

Player in the city: ive got 5 hours logged, im level 15 with a 1009cp flareon!

Player in the suburbs: ive played this game nonstop since the minute it released and im level 5 with a 150 cp pidgeotto becauce i only get birds and rats

player in the country: frick yall

But now that you’re standing here I just realized… there’s a bit of green in the blue of your eyes.

the weirdest things honestly happen in my school like back in the spring, this guy in my grade randomly started selling these seafood restaurant jackets for $3 and everyone started buying and wearing them to school. the administrators even had to ban him from selling it on school grounds at one point

EVEN MY PROMPOSAL WAS RELATED TO IT

that guy basically created a meme within your school that’s amazing 😂

i cant believe this generation’s ghostbusters is god’s apology to the world for the entire film industry ….. i cant believe we have a black female ghostbuster ….. i cant believe we have strong female characters that were not cast bc they’re ~conventionally attractive~ but just bc they’re funny as hell …. i can’t believe the Young Hot One™ is a lesbian character and that the cast is out there telling men not to make inappropriate comments about her actress bc she’s a lesbian as well …. i can’t believe this awesome movie doubles as the single most hated thing by straight men in 2016 do you have any idea how much of a bonus that is for me???? loving things straight men cry about was the reason i was put on this earth this entire movie is too good for me i dont deserve it

#who you gonna call #GHOSTBUSTERS! #this was was literally everything i wanted it to be and more #run don’t walk #femmeslash of Erin and Holtzman by the BUCKETFUL fandom don’t fail me now

What’s the matter? Was that Stormtrooper not the color you were hoping he’d be? Were the new Ghostbusters a little more female than you were expecting? Deadpools sexuality a little too questionable for ya?    That’s okay! Because

so your opinion  d o e s n ’ t   f u c k i n g   m a t t e r !

The Great Gatsby (2013)