I love bubbeline because it’s a relationship that looks like it existed before the show started, when the world was younger, and as Marcy grew more disassociated from the world, maybe even while she was hunting vampires or even after when the world was empty of both vampires and humans, and she had no simon and no purpose - and her relationship with bubblegum was a really playful fun one from her perspective, as you can see in varmints, where she used to bust bubs out of meetings to play. And since bubs memory of that is different, you can see that while bubs started out fresh from the mother gum as a beauty loving, interested in the world innocent, as soon as the fancy kingdom got big enough and her responsibilities weighed on her more, she became less available to Marcy.

Then we have that gap where Marcy dated that dick and travelled the world before returning to kick Finn and jake out of the treehouse. You can tell from the initial meetings of bubs and Marcy after that, things are tense, weird, unresolved. I would even guess they were pretty toxic toward one another toward the end. Bubs does like to be in people’s business and Marcy hates being bossed around.

And by that point in the story, Marcy is starting to re-learn attachment and empathy through her friendship with Finn and Jake, while Bubs is getting increasingly detached from the world, her power is growing and her experiments are getting less and less pure and more corrupted, like her goodness is becoming blurred.

And then over the last couple of seasons and especially in stakes, you can see that Marcy and Bubs, free of the massive burdens on them, and ready to set aside their history and let themselves be close again... it’s just beautiful.

And this is my favourite bubblegum bubbeline moment, but my favourite Marcy bubbeline moment is in Stakes, when she tells bubblegum that when she eventually dies as a mortal, it will be bubs who puts her in the ground.