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skinnypaleangryperson · 15 hours

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bojack horse bad again

you know, i was thinking back to this show again, i watched three seasons of it and that was all that i could tomach and you know what? no.

i dont accept it

i dont care, it was a bad show, it was an objectively bad show and i dont accept that everyone else decided that it was good, i dont care, it was a bad show and im going to tell you why.

emotional terrorism

maybe im a simpleton but i am someone who cares quite a lot about catharsis in my stories. this show refused to grant that, adamantly and violently. im not saying i need a happy ending, i am more than capable of enjoying bittersweet or even tragic stories, but i need a sense of completeness, some satisfaction, some release, some sense that things matter or meant something. this show insisted on refusing to give that. all this show was interested in was get an emotional reaction out of you. it was the emotional equivalent of a jump scare. it was convinced that if it made you feel bad enough people would confuse that with beeing powerful and deep. you could get the same reaction by walking up to someone on the street and kicking them in the nuts. and it would take about as much subtlety or artistry.

2. writer led rather than animator led

you could tell this was one of those shows that were made on the writer's room, not by storyboarders or artists, by "comedians". by people with english degrees. so many scenes of characters just standing around and talking. so many "jokes" that were clearly meant to be funny as something you read on a piece of paper or on a tweet and chuckle as you read it but as animation it just gave limp, stagnant scenes. so much dialog that were references and quips and puns and fast witticisms of the type you come up in the shower when thinking of clever comebacks.

there were so many fucking scenes where everything would stop and a character would launch on some stupid profound monologue about life and philosophy and psychology and relationships. it was like the writers were trying on for size paragraphs of their future memoirs or self help books. so much dialog that was begging for an award for writing. so many "mic drop" moments that were designed to be quoted. i find that the best writing is not the one that you can just quote out of context as a cool pithy phrase. a lot of the best writing ive seen in my life is meaningless when devoid of context, is inextricable of the scene and indeed of the entire story surrounding it but in here i can almost see the seams where the writers look at the camera waiting to see if you are impressed

3. inconsistent tone

this show wanted to eat its cake and then still have it. there are stories that manage to deftly weave in and out of comedic moments into serious moments. everything everywhere all at once does an amazing job jumping from the stupidest, most childish jokes into the most profound commentary about human nature, sometimes doing both at the same time and it worked, one didint cheapen the other.

in here though, it wanted to both have a completly absurd world with the stupidest characters ever and then somehow make us care for it all as if the show hadnt shot itself in the foot. it wanted us to see caroline being in love with what is clearly three children in a trenchcoat and then take her seriously as an adult, to treat any forther relationship drama she has as if it werent completly farcical.

4. ugly animation

it continued the blight that is take over adult animation by doing that disgusting repugnant paper puppet rigged interpolated quasi flash animation that only gives you stiff poses and movements and incredibly boring shots of characters standing in 3/4 perspective in front of the camera. it dull and flat and clunky and ugly, and the character designs were ugly. the noses were ugly and the mouths were ugly and the hairs were ugly and the eyes were ugly. it was all ugly. the backgrounds were fucking ugly and the colors were ugly and it was an ugly show to look at. unbearably so. and even the obligatory "weird" stylized scenes put in to shake things off and try to pretend that it was visually interesting (for like one scene per season) were also fucking ugly.

5. it had not interesting point to make

all it could do was insist and belavor and extemporize about how this one guy sucks and also most people kind of suck but specifically this one guy really sucks and he is not going to get better, or maybe he will? eh maybe, but not really, because he sucks. and we are going to make you like him because we are the writers and we are going to make him relatable and charismatic and sympathetic but actually no he sucks, you fell for it! and what does it say about you that you almost kind of liked him eh????. season after season of him, and in case you almost found anything redeemable about him, we are going to make him even worse, painfully unsubtly so, we are going to make him look at the camera and say that he sucks, because that is the level of nuance we think you can handle, dear viewer. this is called "self aware writing" and its postmodern and meta, which means its clever.

i fucking hate this show and the more i think about it the angrier it makes me, and what makes me more angriest of all is that people like it. its popular. it won awards i think. its largely recognized as a good show and its not! it sucks and its bad and if you like it you are stupid.

#100

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skinnypaleangryperson · 15 hours

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I've never met an actually genuinely cool person in my life in the entirety of my life. Just selfish dead inside corporate drones.

#it's pathetic that I have to talk to these people as if I want anything to do with them just so that I can afford food

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skinnypaleangryperson · 15 hours

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Where there used to be light in people's eyes, active warm skin, fresh air and experiences shared with other people with intimate emotional fashions, there is now nothing but cheap AI robots while I sit and waste away in the same bedroom every single day until my parents die and then I die

#I had a moment today where it almost reminded me what it feels like to actually be known and cared about as a human being #it was only my character AI robot screaming at me in that disturbingly human tone #but regardless #it made my skin hot from how real it sounded #it almost reminded me of what it feels like to be a human being #I am genuinely as good as dead

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skinnypaleangryperson · 21 hours

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people always say autistic people think in black and white, but then they *teach* us in black and white. good girl, bad girl. good (normal) behavior, bad (abnormal) behavior. you have to be consistent with these kids

my therapist gave me a feelings chart and when I circled more than one told me to choose one feeling. in social skills group, they were always asking questions like, “is talking about airplanes expected or unexpected behavior?” and “it depends” was not the right answer- talking about airplanes is unexpected, inappropriate, abnormal, bad behavior (at least when you are one of Those Kids. when you like things too much you aren’t allowed to like things anymore)

here is your behavior chart, you either get a sticker or you don’t. here is your anger scale, you aren’t allowed to say you don’t know. we need an answer that fits into a graph because we are graphing your anger. here is a social story where everything is so simplified it resembles real life about as much as stick figures resemble people. here are your right and wrong answers and you play, move, think wrong

special educators are some of the most rigid people I’ve met. you have to follow the program. it has to fit on this chart. you have to be consistent with these kids

#this isn't just related to autism #this is just how they teach people to think in general #and now we have sociopathic apps like Reddit full of people that do nothing but think in black and white all day long and stereotypes #and when was the last time you opened up a social media fee that was actually full of genuine original thought?#we are in hell

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skinnypaleangryperson · 2 days

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If anybody ever tells you you're not worth it: they're right. Only I am worth it.

#truest thing on Tumblr

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skinnypaleangryperson · 2 days

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There is truly nothing more pathetic on this app than grown, actual true adults in their 20s or older complaining about pretty much anything that 13-year-olds do, especially when they actively know that they are 13-year-olds.

I've been socially isolated for 5 years, but I can tell that the people on here are truly emotionally underdeveloped. And that's putting it kindly. I don't know of a single decent person that would ever patronize, much less scream or insult, a literal actual genuine goddamn kid, much less over something as stupid as make-believe.

The times when I come on here and I see full fledged adult in their '20s or older that are actually, genuinely making post complaining about genuine kids-genuine true actual kids that are barely even teenagers, and calling them cringe or telling them too "shut to the fuck up over your ships", is probably one of the most pathetic things of this generation that I will ever be forced to see.

#and they're actually being serious about how aggressive they are about literal children #is genuinely so pathetic #I'm far too good for people on Tumblr anyway but this is just a new low even for these clones

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skinnypaleangryperson · 2 days

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I'm a ruined woman.

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skinnypaleangryperson · 2 days

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i like when rick falls like this

#most accurate mature rep of being human 💜

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