Adventure time gay

Archer Magazine

Hugely popular and critically beloved, Adventure Time is the perfect emblem of the struggle for sexual diversity in children’s television. Known for its ability to distil complex ideas and narratives into clear fifteen minute episodes, the Cartoon Network series has spent six seasons and nearly two hundred episodes cultivating success and a brand presently unrivalled in the youth programming landscape.

For those unfamiliar with the show, Adventure Time follows the exploits of Finn the Human and his step brother and finest friend Jake the Puppy. Finn is renowned for his heroism and functions as a protector of the tremendously camp Candy Kingdom alongside Jake, who has the ability to stretch and reshape his body into any number of forms. Where their quests formed the basis of the series, it has long become a sprawling, intricately drawn story universe populated with dozens of weird, fascinating characters.

The best-known, if occasionally contentious, example of the series’ queerness is the connection between Princess Bubblegum, the ruler of the Candy Kingdom, and Marceline the Vampire Queen. Though portrayed as rivals of sorts, their history has been gradually

Adventure Time‘s Producer Was Concerned Homosexual Representation Might Illustrate ‘Too Much Attention’

Though Adventure Time’s series finale brought Finn and Jake’s televised adventures to an end this week, the event also confirmed one of the most interesting and longstanding theories about the show that astonished and delighted many fans.

After multiple seasons of hints, clues, and varying amounts of queer subtext, Adventure Time’s finale confirmed that Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the vampire possess romantic feelings for one another and are destined to be together. During a climactic battle against GOLB, a powerful and malevolent being from another dimension hellbent on destroying Ooo, Marceline watches as Bubblegum is apparently crushed, prompting the vampire to fly into a fit of rage before she realizes the princess is actually satisfactory thanks to her armor.

The two adopt and Marceline admits that she feared she’d lost Bubblegum forever. After assuring Marceline that it’d take more than that to ruin her, the pair share a tender kiss. And it made “Bubbeline” fans very happy.

While the moment was sure to vindicate Adventure Time fans who’ve been shipping the

Fionna and Cake is getting the queer representation Adventure Time deserved

It took 10 seasons and 283 episodes for Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen to kiss on Adventure Time. Of course, it was obvious they were together — or at least had feelings for each other — extended before that, evidenced by their sharing clothes and general moon eyes in each other’s presence. Since the series ended in 2018, we’ve seen the pair simply exist as queer people in the 2020 Adventure Time: Distant Lands “Obsidian” special, both as individuals and as a couple, and they’re still a couple in the new Fionna and Cake spinoff series on Max. They are always written as each other’s romantic destinies.

In fact, some version of them is in love across multiple parallel universes in Fionna and Cake, which is particularly evident in episode 7, “The Star.” The episode takes place in two worlds: Fionna and Cake’s magic-less universe, created by a fan and realized by Prismo just for himself, and a vampire-ridden Land of Ooo in which Marceline’s father is the vampire king and Bonnie is an eyepatch-wearing combatant with a militarized tank. The episode title refers to Marcy; Bonnie calls her the

The ultimate Adventure Time Bubbline watchlist, for all the gay romance

Adventure Time even lit the fuse on what’s snowballed into a genuine explosion of kids cartoons with queer intimacy plots or subplots — though like everything else in the show, it was produced of the slow accumulation of “yes, and”-style world-building, and prefer many shows after it, was hampered by network rules on queer content.

Fans that eagerly awaited tension of the next “Wait... do they have history?” moment between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen were eventually rewarded with their relationship becoming an indelible part of Adventure Time canon. But fans of more recent queer YA animation who are interested in tracking the path worn by fandoms come before may find Adventure Time as a whole difficult to get sucked into.

I grasp, because when I mentioned that I’d put together a Bubbline watch/skip list of just the Marceline and Bubblegum episodes of Adventure Time for some friends, no less than two co-workers immediately asked me if they could see it too. They love animated TV, but Finn and Jake — especially in the show’s early seasons — couldn’t quite maintain their interest.

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Joni Wright

Hilariously sardonic American literature student at UEA. Nymphomaniac, reviewer of sex toys, and shots lady at a homosexual bar. Also smells of bubblegum. @mermilf_