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donkeykongcountryyaoi · 2 years

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#video #.txt #Nostalgia critic posting #body horror #analog horror #Ik its jomk but jic for bl

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ingoodjesst · 3 months

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have you put the pieces together yet, detective

#goro akechi #akechi goro #persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5 akechi #p5 spoilers #persona 5 fanart #jesst some art #i may have worked on this for... just under two weeks? i had like. so many fckgin thoughts i might make a process/concept breakdown post #it's honestly just for my own peace (haha piece) of mind because i overthought about. SosoooOoOo many motifs and symbols and i just wanna #idk PUT EM ALL somewhere........ maybe it'll become its own jessay of mine. god. who can say.#also DUDE tumblr rly does crunch up quality wow ouch #unironically a core thematic inspiration for this piece is a quote from the folding ideas' video 'the nostalgia critic and the wall'#'it doesn't all make sense or resolve or coalesce because we don't all make sense'#'everyone is the illusion of order constructed brick by brick out of chaos'#i've watched that video essay through at least. a dozen times at this point. everything about it. yeah. it's good.#this piece initially went many different directions and i have realized ah yes to fully explore just THESE themes that i'm interested in as #they relate to goro akechi i will need to draw. at least two more pieces. sdlfhsdlkfjsd

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let-us-cultivate-our-garden · 6 months

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So I don’t know if you know of Doug Walker, but recently released his Disneycember review of The Owl House.

While he praised a majority of the show, he criticized the main villain, Belos, of how he was written.

Many of the comments tried to defend the writing of the villain.

Doug Walker..

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Yes, I am very familiar with Doug Walker; I loved his stuff along with Channel Awesome years ago and then the allegations came out and fortunately, the other contributors on that channel moved onto bigger and better things. Meanwhile, Doug just stayed the same, so I don't watch his stuff anymore.

Any way, I think it's funny people are scrambling to defend Belos' writing because, despite my own personal opinions on Doug as a critic, I actually agree with him.

For a show that is ostensibly about subverting tropes and not judging a book by its cover, by showing how people can choose to change or not, etc. Belos is a throwback to an earlier era where the Big Bad had basic motivations and characterizations. And for a show like toh, that actually ends up hurting the narrative.

I have categorized the comments I found defending the writing and here are my responses to them:

Belos does have a deeper layer, you just have to look for it.

While a show can certainly foreshadow and provide little hints about a major character, eventually all of that setup will have to pay off somehow. There has to be a reveal both to reward the viewers that have been paying attention and to inform more casual viewers who may not have. Fans analyzing every little frame to extrapolate a major character's backstory only for that backstory to really not matter in the end despite it being set up for a season is just bad writing. full stop. [A viewer should also not have to look on social media for crucial information on a major character.]

It's also not clever that the show left so much room for interpretation on Belos; it just means that they didn't make a commitment to what was being set up and reduced his character to glib one-liners whenever we learn something interesting about him (Masha's "little bro was jealous of big bro" line and Papa Titan's whole spiel).

2. Belos would have been written better if the show had more time.

The Toh crew knew about the cancellation during production of Eda's Requiem and wrote all of 2B with it in mind. So they knew they were working on a time crunch but still introduced elements like the Collector when they should have spent the time wrapping up their story. The cancellation is not an excuse for sloppy writing.

3. Belos as a villain works more on a meta level.

So the argument here is that Belos is the antithesis to the BI; it's accepting and diverse while he is hateful and only accepts things that conform to his worldview. The characters in the story change and grow, while Belos does not. The problem here is that a villain can't only work on a meta level, it has to work on a narrative one as well.

If the BI is place that accepts weirdos then how did someone like Belos come to power? Oh, he lied his way to the top and created problems that never existed? That just makes your populace look dumb and easily manipulated. The BI being so accepting also undermines the threat credibility of the Emperor's Coven because why should we worry about them if they have no real influence over how the BI residents think or behave aside from when the plot needs them to?

Also, I strongly disagree with anyone who says that toh has a "people are complicated and choose to do good and bad" theme when all of the good characters can blame their bad actions on being manipulated or on circumstances outside of their control OR the narrative ignores/downplays anything bad they did (cough cough Amity and Lilith). Meanwhile, the villains are just shallow with basic motives and this is supposed to be a deep message about how Some People Are Just Bad.

If you're going to contrast why your good characters are capable of growth then you need to show why your villain does not. What is stopping them? How do they react if given a legitimate reason to change (that isn't a cheap jab at Steven Universe)? What is their justification for their actions?

Whatever the answer is, the narrative has to support it and not undermine it with a stupid joke.

4. Belos is so refreshing when every villain character is redeemed.

Watch more shows. If you think that every cartoon villain post-Steven Universe is being redeemed then you're incorrect. Redemption of a show or movie's Big Bad is still in the minority while the redemption of the main villain's lackey is a dime-a-dozen.

Ultimately, I think the problem with toh is that so many of its fans take its thematic statements at face value without ever really stopping to think about the execution of those themes and if they really work or not.

Belos just happens to embody this little trick that toh does: it claims to have bold and timely statements and important themes, but the structure and execution of the plot, character development, and world-building undermines any attempt at a consistent or coherent message.

#asks #long post #the owl house #toh critical #toh criticism #emperor belos #philip wittebane #doug walker #nostalgia critic #disneycember

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salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds · 1 month

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#dank memes #funny post #meme #dank #funny #funny pics #silly #funny pictures #dankest memes #humor #tweet #twitter #nostalgia critic #batman

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violetlunette · 7 months

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Twst SPoilers!

“Honest” Fellow: Golly, Gee! I’ve learned my lesson about forgoing schooling! And I’m so inspired by you that I’ll become a teacher! To education! NCR Students shrugging off rigor mortis puppetation: To education! Yuu: To jail! *Slaps cuffs on Fellow* You kidnapper and human trafficker! By god, you’re getting the chair!

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acquaxxoid · 6 months

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So I’m not sure how popular widojest was during campaign 2 since I never watched it live (hell I’ve only just started ep100), but it’s been so fun getting to watch callowmoore unfold live every week - and I love how more and more people are starting to see what we’ve been seeing since the very beginning 😤 love this for us

#idk what this post is I’ve just got Thoughts #maybe it’s just nostalgia for when I was just starting c2 and widojest stole my heart #critical role #callowmoore #fearne x ashton

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to2llynottoby · 3 months

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it is with a heavy heart that, due to circumstances beyond my control, an evil version of me in a black shirt will be making posts from now on. hopefully i can escape from his nefarious lightning.gif cage, possibly by posting about something i've vowed never to post about. wish me luck

#to2lly not text post #nostalgia critic #linkara #etc.

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bunabi · 19 days

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ignore me I'm just salty Meg & Dia went from bangers like Roses to more current-gen pop like Love The Ones That Leave You 🧎🏾‍♀️

#the irony of criticizing nostalgia while being nostalgic isnt lost on me but well its too late to press backspace at this point aaaand post #art evolves....changes....transforms....this is what it means to be alive...its not a huge deal in the end

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front-facing-pokemon · 11 months

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#angle under the cut where you can see their eyes because it is NOT very flattering from the front #sharpedo #this is the fucker that zooms after you like a missile in the swsh DLC‚ right? i think it also does that in sv. it's scary honestly #it's so fast. and it makes that big ol' zoomin' effect like the third nozzle in super mario sunshine. i don't remember what it's called but #it's the gray one. super mario sunshine is my favorite mario game which i feel like is not a very popular opinion #but it tracks because i had a gamecube as a kid. so games on that tend to be some of my favorites because nostalgia i guess #luigi's mansion‚ super mario sunshine‚ pokémon colosseum…#i could go on and on about these games. honestly. luigi's mansion is one of my favorites of all time. i still think it's great even as an #adult. it's much better than the other luigi's mansions in my opinion‚ though i guess my opinion Might be clouded by nostalgia #although i would like to think i can look back on it with a critical eye. i still replay it basically once a year cuz it's super short #i think it's super atmospheric and the later two luigi's mansion games don't really capture that same aesthetic #of… what basically amounts to like. a horror aesthetic. which is weird to say because it's a kids' game but #y'know i'm also not putting my whole brain into these tags right now bc i'm distracted but i hope i am making sense #fellow luigi's mansion fans know what i'm talking about. this is not about sharpedo so here is sharpedo #i believe this'll be posting on the last day of my outing when i'll be flying back home. so. finger's crossed #nope i just queued it and it's the day before i'm flying home. either way‚ good luck‚ future me

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francisforever2014 · 11 months

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people who like pink have such a victim complex literally what r you talking about

#no opinion on the original post btw like whatever #but come onnnnnn #fighting every valid critisism of something you like by claiming it’s misogynist is so .#just say you wanna see a silly movie idc but don’t act like you’re oppressed for liking pink PLS 😭#also barbie has rotted peoples brains to an extent like people are also in the notes talking about how barbie is a ‘celebration of girlhood’#and therefore shouldn’t be criticized #like do you hear urself. cis white feminists are the worstttt #you can be critical of things and still like them!!! maybe it’s a celebration of your childhood and your nostalgia . but these sweeping #statements about girlhood and femininity or whatever are such rocky territory #it’s white girlhood you’re talking about and white femininity you’re talking about . despite how the barbie brand has evolved in recent #years that’s still what it’s about at it’s core #and none of this means that you can’t like it or be excited . but people are so immune to simple criticisms that they cling to anything to #invalidate criticisms of their new thing. it’s just not necessary #jus the honest like the og post and say you don’t give a shit like ok.

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furbearingbrick · 1 year

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Addistripes!Swatch on their artwork

#swatch deltarune #addistripes!swatch #swatch #blorbo posting #deltarune #deltarune chapter 2 #furbearingbrick #nostalgia critic #addistripes au #brick's aus

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emiemi345 · 11 months

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#we live in a society #ALSO YES I KNOW ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA CRITIC REFERENCE #original post #cartoons #the patrick star show #the patrick star show s1e26a #spongebob #spongebob squarepants #bubble bass #spongebob bubble bass #bubble bass reviews

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str8aura-no-not-that-one · 8 months

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ive heard people dunk on nostalgia critic's review of the wall for years and somehow none of you ever mentioned that the parody of 'The Trial' is done entirely with sattelite city characters

#my posts #sattelite city #nostalgia critic

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beskad · 1 year

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Anyone saying to viewers or fans confused or dissatisfied by Bo-Katan's character in S3 "to understand Bo in The Mandalorian you need to go watch Rebels!" is, I think, missing the bigger issue.

Maybe Rebels addresses her arc really well and builds on TCW characterization? That's great! But the writers of Mando are not addressing it. They even appear to be currently, actively ignoring and/or retconning large portions of TCW and Rebels.

For "cinematic universes" (*gag*) like this, it's important to either adequately recap relevant existing canon, or clearly restart from square one. That way, even a casual viewer can understand the characters and and their motivations relative to the show they're watching now.

It is not a reasonable expectation to have every viewer need to have seen 4 seasons of an animated show to adequately understand a character who's been dropped into the 2nd season of a completely separate live action one.

Some decent groundwork was laid in season 2. We can't, nor should we, have all information about a character revealed to us immediately, that would just be a sloppy infodump.

Bo-Katan is the leader of a faction of Mandalorians who want to retake Mandalore. Cool. She's got a grudge against Gideon who, as we found out via Din in season 1, is responsible for the Great Purge of Mandalore, a complete bombing that made an already inhospitable landscape completely unlivable. So on and so forth.

However, at the end of season 3—a season where Bo-Katan is heavily featured—we still have received no clear explanation or recap of her backstory outside of her surrender to Gideon. There have been many opportunities for different characters to know and address that she had a leadership role in a literal terrorist group, Death Watch. It's very relevant, but it's never addressed. Even if we're going with it being previously resolved, it's a very significant and relevant part of her backstory and Bo-Katan doesn't even have private moments of reflection that might explain that to us, the audience.

She preaches about the failures of a divided Mandalore, despite having explicitly and repeatedly contributed to that division in very recent history. There's no self-awareness. from her or the writers.

If Favloni & co. want to retcon previous material—it's annoying, but they're technically allowed to do that.

However, they are not clearly committing to previous canon, nor are they doing the work to clearly establish new canon.

Regardless of the why for any of this, the fence-sitting makes for a mediocre product that tries to do both. The end result is a messy and inconsistent characterization and half-baked backstory that feels incomplete and leaves me asking the show I'm currently watching, "wait, did I miss something?"

Some additional gripes/support for my opinion that the creative team isn't committing to a clear plan for her characterization:

Bo specifically states that the planet and city didn't always look like this. But—

Completely omits that she's a key reason why it was wrecked twice over. Seized once by Maul, which I don't fault them for not acknowledging in live action because casual viewers would be confused (though technically the Solo movie did it so like, pick a lane), then later bombed into oblivion by the Empire.

She mentions her father, and that he's dead. Completely omits that she had a sister who's also dead, and who technically also died defending Mandalore (Satine's cultural genocide against her own people, which also oddly resulted in a population of seemingly all-white pacifists, is a rant for another post). There is room for a compelling and clear in-universe explanation for this! Like maybe she's in denial or tortured about it, and that's why it's not brought up. But we the audience still need to know that. However, it looks like they've just written Satine out. Maybe it would too clearly place Bo-Katan as a Bad Guy which is inconvenient for them because they don't want to take the time to address it, despite this season spending a lot of screentime with her.

They're even ignoring her characterization previously established within this same show with her showing explicit disgust for Din's faction in season 2, then somehow being fine with joining them in season 3.

#liberally tagging this because this is my OPINION and my personal gripes here and i'm not trying to ruin anyone's enjoyment #i'm frustrated obviously but liking or disliking something is not a moral judgement and i'm not trying to fight anybody #long post #mando critical #the mandalorian spoilers #anti filoni #the mandalorian critical #i'm not loving filoni's whole 'everything and everyone is related to everything and everyone' approach #it makes for messy timelines and cheap nostalgia callbacks instead of focusing on fresh material and stories #mando s1 was particularly striking because everyone in it was brand new and Din is like 'what's a jedi?'#it had some nice classic star wars refs/jokes like with the scout troopers but it didn't RELY on them #the N-1 is a cool ship but like BRO between that and Cobb driving the literal engine from Anakin's literal podracer i am rolling my eyes #because filoni fails to actually connect things where it matters- like addressing existing characters' backstories shown in other sources #rray.txt #metas

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nostalgiacriticshitpost · 1 year

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#nostalgia critic #/ncs/memes #critic's tag #nerd's tag #avgnc #another old funny i never posted i'm so sorry for keeping the good shit almost to myself

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okayxairen · 8 days

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happy pride month everybody

#post #pride month #gay #yaoi #toxic yaoi #avgn #nostalgia critic

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