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sometipsygnostalgic · 28 days

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i'm losing my mind how are there STILL ACTIVE CATRA HATE BLOGS it's been FOUR YEARS how are you still this mad about a female abuse victim!!!!!! how do you STILL not get it!!!!!!!!!!

I have been in enough fandoms to understand that some of the people who stick around the longest are those who act the most scarred after watching the media. It's like stockholme syndrome. Or it's like hating the thing is what gives them drive in the world.

I have also been on the other side of this. I remained a Homestuck blog for a whole four years after the ending made me depressed about Terezi Pyrope, even lasting an additional year and a half after the dogshit epilogues released, through to the demise of Hiveswap and Homestuck^2, before I realised enough was enough and let Adventure Time give me sanctuary again.

But Homestuck had its Gamzee fans who hated the comic and fandom, Adventure Time had its Lemongrab fans who hated the show and fandom, and it seems She-ra has its fair share of antis.

The She-ra antis consist of the following groups, from my observation:

Former fans who got obsessed with some other show and have to bash She-ra because it ain't cool anymore. Usually Owl House fans but can be from anywhere. Their hate is universally connected to propping something else up, and is never done in isolation.

Hordak fans who hate Catra and maybe every other character and crew member and the show. There are a lot of the reverse, Catra fans who hate Hordak, which is part of why this group is so persistent, as a "counter" to this Hordak hate. However, the Catra fans who are Hordak antis MOSTLY do not hate the show (they are just... out of touch with it and generally have bad takes). I've seen one or two extreme cases of Catra apologists accusing Adora, Scorpia, and even Entrapta of abuse, but they were completely alone in their feelings. The Hordak fans who hate Catra tend to also hate Glimmer, Mermista, Adora, Bow, and say that the show is ableist or whatever, but they do not actually harbor much love for Entrapta. Her victimisation is an excuse for their behaviour and they have no understanding of her chaotic character. Do not interact.

Glimmadora fans (the ones who purely seem to exist to make 'Spop Is Abusive' posts). Why the fuck Glimmadora fans hate the show so much, I do not understand. But these are probably the most In-Your-Face of these three groups. While the Hordak fans mentioned above have a lot of similarity to Homestuck Gamzee fans or Adventure Time Lemongrab fans in the weird way they'll hate on the show for doing their blorbo wrong, Glimmadora fans don't have that evidence because they don't really care about Glimmer or Adora. They have absolutely nothing to say about the show, other than that it is Bad. My theory on these Glimmadora fans is that they really liked the Glimmer and Adora ship on a superficial level, and then the show decided to have its Deeper Themes and give Catra and Adora a messy, complicated relationship. There was a lot happening after season 3 where people went "CATRADORA IS REALLY ABUSIVE AND CATRA IS HORRIBLE AND YOU SHOULDNT SHIP HER WITH ANYONE". This period was SO fucking harmful to the fandom that it never recovered, so much work was lost and deleted from AO3. People would say "Glimmadora is a much better ship anyway". But then when season 4 rolled around and, uhh, Glimmer was acting like a little shit all season (for good reason but she really fucked things up with Adora), and Glimmadora crumbled into ash? Well the Glimmadora truthists felt like the show was working against them and that Season 5 was a grand conspiracy to make the Abusive ship Catradora canon!!! The funniest part of this is I sympathise a lot with these feelings. I used to be a Glimmadora truther myself when I watched the show in fall 2021. I was like, "wow, look how nice this ship is. And they go with catradora in the end?? Fucking HOW???". But then seasons 4 and 5 happened and.... yeah, I was disappointed with how Glimmer and Adora's friendship ended up, but I was ENAMORED by the messiness of Catra's character and how raw her and Adora felt about each other even in spite of all the bullshit. I never made excuses about the show being abuse apologising. I analysed it purely in how believable the relationships were and what the intentions of the characters are.

Of these groups, the ones responsible for the most actual SPOP Anti blogs are undoubtedly the Glimmadoras. The only time I've seen something similar, so many antis appearing, was because of Steven Universe ship wars. You have NO IDEA how petty people feel about Lapidot, Amedot, all the dots, all the amethysts. A crew member was chased off the internet over it, or left the internet over the show's own decisions, depending on whether you believe the """screenshots""" that were taken of Zuke's ""private blog""".

#she ra #spop #catradora

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arealphrooblem · 1 year

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Mutually Assured Destruction Part 8

Part one here

Part seven here

They spent Friday on the couch, addicted to, of all things, an interior design competition show. Civilian felt fine enough for work but Jonathan refused to take them back. And when Civilian nearly fell over from dizziness in the shower, they begrudgingly admitted that he had a point.

At first Jonathan only glanced over occasionally from the doorway of the kitchen as he prepared tea and soup, or from his armchair as he read one of his books. But then his gaze lingered more and more until the third episode ended, when one of the contestants was declared winner of that round.

“What the fuck?” he said, sitting straighter. “That design was dogshit and everyone knew it.”

Civilian snorted. “They’ve been kissing this contestant’s ass all season so far. I don’t know why.”

“If he wins, I may have to break this television.”

“That’s not going to change the outcome.”

“No but it might make me feel better.”

When the asshole contestant lost, Jonathan fist pumped the air. Civilian couldn’t help but laugh behind the throw pillow.

“You are way more invested in this than I am,” they said.

“The world may be grossly unfair, but I like to pretend meritocracy exists on trashy reality shows.”

“Have you ever seen another competition show? That’s the last place for meritocracy.”

“Shut up and let me enjoy this young woman’s victory.”

Civilian grinned. “Or what?”

He glanced at them side-eyed, as if weighing his next words. “Or I’ll poison your soup with a laxative.”

Only a small flutter of nerves responded to his threat. It wasn’t necessarily the threat itself that caused it, but the matter-of-fact tone that delivered it. Joking or not, Jonathan’s threats never sounded empty. Even so, Civilian was going to trust him on his word. If he betrayed them and killed them anyway at the end of all this, at least Civilian didn’t live the rest of their days in a constant state of fear and panic.

“I’ve been on a mostly liquid diet the last three days, I don’t think you’d need a laxative to get the result you wanted,” they pointed out.

Jonathan pulled a face. “Disgusting. Point taken.”

“And speaking of soup . . .” Civilian let their eyes dart meaningfully to the kitchen.

“You’re hungry again?” Jonathan sighed and stood up from the couch. “Well, it’s a good sign I suppose.”

Civilian wondered, as Jonathan cooked for them on command, if he was lonely too. He had said he’d given up everything for his freedom. Perhaps he regretted such a high cost.

Or perhaps this was a long con, making Civilian feel warm and friendly to him so they wouldn’t snitch. You could never tell with Jonathan what, if anything, was sincere.

This time Jonathan included a thick grilled cheese with Civilian’s soup. They hid a smile — perhaps the laxative comment really did get to him.

“Will you let me go home tomorrow?” they asked as they stirred their soup.

“You ask that as if you’re my prisoner.”

“You mean, after forcing me to come here, making sure I have no idea where I am, and the ability to stop me from leaving, I’m not a prisoner.?”

“I — okay. Fair point. But you were the idiot who showed up to work with a 102 degree fever. Your judgment couldn’t be trusted. I don’t regret it.”

“You’re not answering my question,” Civilian said.

Jonathan rolled his eyes. “Yes, you can go home tomorrow. I could drop you off at the parking garage after dinner, even. I’m sure you’re dying for your bed again.”

Civilian’s eyes lit up. “Really? Tonight?”

“So excited,” he drawled. “You make it sound like I’ve kept you chained up in the basement this whole time.”

“Maybe if you had a basement you would have,” Civilian retorted.

“Don’t tempt me. You’d make a very nice prisoner — docile, sweet. That pulse of yours jackrabbiting in your chest while I spoon feed you soup.”

A strangle shiver danced along Civilian’s spine. Jonathan wouldn’t need chains to keep Civilian where he wanted them. Jonathan could steal every avenue of rebellion away from them, too. They should hate the thought of it. And they did.

But part of them didn’t. A part that Civilian didn’t want to analyze right now. Or ever.

After one last nourishing bowl of soup — during which Civilian did not imagine Jonathan spoon feeding it to them — Jonathan packed Civilian back into his car. He did not force Civilian to close their eyes on the way, but asked instead.

“The less you know about me, the safer you will be,” he pointed out.

Civilian complied, keeping their eyes shut tight the entire drive back. They didn’t even dare peek during the stoplights. Jonathan delivered them safe and sound to their car in the parking garage. Ever the gentleman, he got out first and opened the door for Civilian.

They hesitated. The entire “vacation” spent with him had Civilian chewing on the same question, caught in an endless debate on whether or not they should ask it.

“Well?” Jonathan asked, gesturing widely to the parking garage. “Don’t tell me you want the basement now that I’ve driven you all the way back here.”

Civilian swallowed their nerves. Screw it. Now or never.

“Your grand plan . . . .Is it going to hurt a lot of people?”

Jonathan gave them a cautious look. “Does it matter? It’s going to happen regardless.”

“I know. I just — don’t know what to expect out of you. Ever.” They swallowed and looked away. Maybe it was stupid to ask. What kind of answer could they even expect out of a person like Jonathan?

“My grand plan,” he replied slowly, thoughtfully, “is going to ensure my freedom in a way that can’t be threatened. And if it works the way it’s supposed to, then no. I’m not going to hurt anyone.”

Relief flooded them, a sudden weight lifted they hadn’t known they were carrying. Freedom. That’s what he wanted — not power or death, just freedom. Civilian couldn’t begrudge him that, no matter how screwed up their circumstances were.

Fingers tipped their chin back up to his gaze, which had turned steely.

“But no one had better get in my way.”

“I won’t,” said Civilian. “You — you deserve your freedom. I don’t want to jeopardize it. I know you probably don’t believe me but —“

He shushed them with one finger pressed against their lips. The hard glint of his eyes had softened. “It’s not safe for me to believe you. But I appreciate it all the same. Now go home, Civilian.”

Something strange fluttered and twisted in their gut at the feel of his finger on their lips. Civilian nodded, mute, before unbuckling the seatbelt and getting out of the car.

“Civilian! So good to see you back and at it again!”

Gloria popped her head between the divider wall of their desks, scaring the shit out of them.

“Yep,” said Civilian awkwardly. “It’s . . .good to be back?”

“Well I wouldn’t go that far. I noticed Jonathan wasn’t here the rest of last week. If that was my boyfriend I wouldn’t be eager to leave his tender loving care.”

Gloria winked and Civilian’s neck flushed in horrified embarrassment.

“It wasn’t — um, I —“ Civilian stuttered, but Gloria didn’t really wait on a response.

“Let me tell you, that boy was worried sick about you all last week. I’m glad he took those days off, he was useless. Always looking over the dividers for you, fidgeting at the computer, making ten cups of coffee. . . .”

Boy, when Jonathan put on a show he pulled out all the stops, Civilian thought with a snort. Though Gloria was such a romantic, it didn’t take much to fool her regardless.

“Yeah, he was pretty, uh, worried back home,” Civilian said, casting desperately about for a way to end this conversation.

“Back home you say? I didn’t think you guys took that step so soon. Good for you! Go get ‘em tiger!”

Dear God in heaven. Where was Jonathan’s power when you actually needed it?

“What? No — that’s not what —“

An then — as if Jonathan could read their mind as well as their boy — Civilian’s hand lifted up on it’s own accord. They watched with morbid fascination as their body pulled out the post it note pad and a pen and started scribbling.

“How do you write so well without looking?” Gloria asked, mystified.

True panic started to set in.

“I’m so sorry, Gloria, but I have a lot of work to catch up on,” they said frantically. “If you’ll excuse me —“

Her eyes widened. “Of course, of course! Don’t let me keep you. Talk to you soon, Civilian.”

The relief at watching her leave almost made Civilian forget what Jonathan had written to them until their hand picked up the post it note pad and waved it in front of their face.

Do you like Shakespeare? Want to see a play this weekend?

Civilian squinted at the handwriting, back in control again. Jonathan had never asked Civilian to go anywhere — he told them. Before Civilian could formulate how to reply — both personally and physically — their hand scribbled out another message.

Meet me in the b.r. ?

The question mark was added a second after the fact. Civilian waited for their body to stand up and walk like a puppet, but Jonathan seemed content to let them go on their own. Curious and a little apprehensive, Civilian stood up and headed to the break-room.

Jonathan was already putting fresh grounds in the coffee filter when they entered. He smirked at them.

“Next time, should I propel Gloria away from you with a sudden bathroom emergency.”

Civilian pulled a face. “You can control people’s bowels?”

His smirk twitched in response.

“That’s highly unethical,” they muttered.

“That’s not a no.”

Civilian pursed their lips against the yes they wanted to say and Jonathan’s smirk grew into a full smile.

“So, your answer,” he said, flipping the coffee pot on and leaning against the counter.

The thought of having a choice felt so foreign. Civilian wasn’t sure what he wanted from them. “Does the answer matter?”

“Shakespeare isn’t everyone’s cup of tea,” said Jonathan. “It’s Much Ado About Nothing, by the way.”

“Do you like that play?”

He gave her a curious look. “Yes, but that’s not what I’m asking.”

Civilian bit their lip. “Are you asking?”

He looked at them, brow furrowed, for a moment before realization dawned on him.

“Yes, Civilian. I’m asking.”

“Then — then I would love to go.”

“Excellent.” That boyish grin brightened his face.

Civilian had to remind themselves, against the flutters in their chest, that his inner self was never as innocent as his outer self looked

Part 9 here

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#hero xo villain #villain x civilian #enemies to lovers #mutually assured destruction #my writing

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msmargaretmurry · 11 months

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hi! for the game, 'blue sun' and any combination of matthew, leon, connor

"blue sun" as a title has very edmonton in winter vibes, doesn't it? or maybe that's just me, but having experienced edmonton in winter i feel qualified to make that call. (also, i do not recommend experiencing edmonton in the winter.) anyway i feel like this is a fic about how connor mcdavid needs a hug.

okay so, i'm not against connor/leon — i totally see the dynamic duo appeal — but i have always had some trouble coming up with a narrative for them that i would find compelling enough to write, so i kind of challenged myself here to come up with a story that feels like something i would want to write for them. as usual, it got long! really long! sorry! i wanted to talk myself all the way through it and there was just a lot happening!

let's set this in the 2019–20 season, because a) peak season for shoehorning some matthew content in there and b) what a grim time to be connor mcdavid. his fifth season in the league and other than that one brief shining season in 2016–17, it doesn't matter how well he plays, the team has been dogshit. the oilers are a joke. they have made the playoffs one (1) time in the past 13 years even with four entire first-overall draft picks at their disposal. they have traded away almost the entire core they thought they would rebuild around in the early 2010s. their poor management has basically run multiple promising prospects out of the organization. and you are the mcjesus who is supposed to be saving them. it's year five; you've collected some trophies; you've gotten used to the prairie winters. it's not that much colder than toronto or erie, really, and you spend most of your time inside anyway. sometimes, the frigid fresh air is refreshing after hours in the artificial cold of the rink, even though it burns your throat and chaps your skin.

besides, this season is going to be different. it already is different. it's still early days, but the team it winning more than it's losing, and connor has decided: this season is different.

i feel like around this time is also when we really saw the transition from young connor to adult connor. he was such a shy, awkward, anxious kid (they named him captain at least a season too early for real) and i think this fic would explore that as well — him becoming more self-assured, or at least better at faking it; becoming more confident in his leadership skills; learning to trust his relationships with his teammates more instead of feeling like he has to do it alone — but at the same time, taking on even more of that pressure to succeed, feeling the patience of the organization and the city and the hockey world at large already starting to wear thin.

so what of the leon of it all? obviously they're good friends now, but i've always felt that the friendship was a little bit manufactured in the beginning — the oilers did not expect leon to be as good as he is, they did not expect to have a two-headed monster, but how serendipitous that they found one. only natural to stick them together as much as possible for marketing purposes. connor, though, is a soft, stubborn heart wrapped in a perfectly bland public persona; he's something of an island, and leon's closest friends on the team in the earlier years are guys he can be way more fucking normal with. so this is also a story about them coming together in private instead of just in public.

connor doesn't want to be an island. he just feels like he has to be. he has, after all, been told constantly and consistently that there is no one else quite like him. he was happier in erie, where he was half of a whole, but that relationship started crumbling as soon as he left for alberta to pursue his destiny. it was an excruciating falling apart over long distance, and the loss left a hole inside him that would still ache if it wasn't so obscured with scar tissue. anyway, he's pretty sure it was his own fault, and it's not really the being in love part he misses — being in love was as much nauseous anxiety as it was joy and comfort — it's the having a teammate so completely on his side that he could let his guard down and just be connor instead of Connor McDavid.

he likes leon. he wishes they were better friends. not that they're not friends, because they are, but connor knows he's everyone's first choice on the ice only. but, again: this season is different. they're winning again. he knows people find him much easier to like when they're winning, so maybe that can be different this season, too. it already feels different, like he and leon are clicking better as people this year, although connor can't tell if that's due to the extra effort he's making or just because they've been stuck together for years now so there's an inherent comfort level there. but it's nice. connor likes it a lot. he's afraid of liking it too much, but the more space leon allows for him, the more of leon's space he takes up. he can't seem to help himself.

(sorry to leon for sticking him in yet another scenario with an anxiety-ridden weirdo who can't seem to see that the people close to him really do just like him. from his side here, i feel like he wasn't really sure what to think of connor or how to get close to him for a while, and is equally quietly pleased about this coming-together. he knows to the rest of the world he'll always be in connor's shadow, but he also knows that every great hockey team in recent memory has had a duo at its emotional core. he thinks they could be that.)

anyway so we've got this slow burn thing happening where connor and leon are getting closer, becoming each other's confidantes, starting to really feel like they are building this thing together, and also at the same time the battle of alberta is at a fever pitch and they keep losing to the fucking flames.

off the ice connor likes matthew tkachuk just fine. they've trained together in the off-season, and he's actually an incredibly nice guy. as an opponent on the ice, though — woof, he really is annoying. leon finds him particularly irksome, and while it gets tedious listening to him go through the same laundry list of complaints every time the guy comes up, connor likes being the person leon complains to. besides, connor thinks leon is secretly having fun — he always comes out of those scrums grinning — although when connor says this, leon rolls his eyes and scoffs.

then comes the all-star game, the "i'd get off the ice" of it all, the silly little media storm around all that. connor can't tell if leon actually meant it in the moment or if he was trying to be funny, but he's selfishly a teeny bit glad it means less attention on him. they're in the same division with matthew but matthew has his own people at the game, so they don't interact much beyond exchanging pleasantries. connor chats with him a bit during the skills comp while leon huffs in the periphery, but later connor catches a glimpse of them across the ice talking for a moment without a chaperone. tkachuk is grinning, and leon is rolling his eyes, so it all seems very normal.

but then they run into him AGAIN out in the city that night, matthew with his friends, them with theirs, everyone varying levels of inebriated. matthew greets connor with a one-armed hug that catches connor off-guard, but with leon, he tugs on the front of his shirt and leans in to say, "remember, i'm gonna sauce you the sickest pass you've ever seen tomorrow, you better be ready."

leon laughs and tells him to fuck off, but as the tkachuk crew melts back into the club, leon watches him go, grinning to himself, and connor says with a sinking stomach, "you like him."

"what? i do not," leon lies.

"yeah, you do," connor says.

"eh, fuck off," leon says, but he scans the crowd again, and connor is so, so jealous. he's so jealous, and he hates that. he tries to be a good sport, but his night is pretty much ruined, and he dips out early, feeling every bit the stick-in-the-mud he got teased for being when he was younger.

the all-star game the next day goes fine. they win, which is nice. matthew does indeed set leon up for a nice goal, which leon pretends he's not grinning about for several minutes. he's not acting bothered at all about what connor said last night, and connor isn't going to bring it up again. he would rather not think about it, except for of course how he thinks about it constantly for the next few days, all the way through their first game back, which is against the flames, and is a huge tkachuk-centric shitshow that they lose in the shootout. connor is in a shitty mood about it, and leon is also in a shitty mood about it, but he tries to say something conciliatory when he drops into his stall next to connor anyway, and connor hisses back something mean and uncharitable about leon's crush, because he wants to throw a temper tantrum so bad, but he's not allowed to, because he's the captain and the savior and, as always, he is in this alone.

leon is not a person who takes kindly to people being a dick to him, so he kinda cold shoulders connor for a couple of days. then they play the fucking flames again, and it is once again a shitshow, but they finally get the win. leon gets four points and snipes at connor when no one else can hear, "you think he'll suck my dick now?"

connor, who is good at nursing his anger but bad at confrontation, totally deflates.

"sorry," he mumbles, and goes about his business. the team was great tonight, and he needs to put on a mood that reflects that. he does an okay job of it, he thinks — the mood in the room helps, and the fact that leon doesn't feel quite so icy next to him helps, but he's still got this awful hollow feeling in the pit of his stomach that he's never going to get what he wants. but he knows that's not true, because he's spent his whole life deciding what he wants and taking it. so maybe he'll decide what he wants and take it.

he and leon walk out to their cars together, and when they get there, he opens the door to his backseat and nods for leon to get in. leon gives him a puzzled look; connor says, "well someone should suck your dick."

so they do that. it doesn't leave connor feeling exactly how he wants to feel, but it's satisfying in its own way.

he goes home and spends the whole night wondering if he just made everything worse or if things are going to be unbearably awkward now, but leon shows up the next morning with coffee and breakfast sandwiches like, we should talk, so they do talk, about a lot of things — about how this season feels different, feels good; about the winning tradition they want to build here, where they've already put in so much work; about what they need to be to each other to make that happen. connor apologizes for kind of jumping leon in the parking lot, and leon laughs and says don't apologize, it was fun. they talk around the question of being together or commitment to each other, couching everything in terms of being in edmonton, commitment to the team, but leon squeezes connor's hand when he says these things, and connor is filled with nauseous anxiety and dangerous hope.

and i feel like that would be like 50k worth of fic. it would end there and everyone would be very mad at me, and then 2–3 business years later i would drop a sequel titled "pink moon" where they actually get together during the 2022–23 season. i'm so sorry about me.

#feeling like a traitor posting this while rat boy is getting speared in the nuts but what can you do #the mortifying ordeal of being connor mcdavid #ask #writing meme #hockey for ts

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heartwisemage · 1 year

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honestly it just baffles me atp how so much of the GA hasn’t caught on like???

the same ga who just lovesss to chatter about how mike is such an awful written character and how mlv is such an awful written relationship they love talking about that but they never try to look into it more???

why do you think they haven’t been showing mike’s perspective? why do you think they keep showing us mike and el’s romantic relationship doesn’t work?

and after the latest panel it has been stated (and even before that panel i think.) that they care for these characters, and their storyline. they assured the whole audience that these characters are in good hands and that them getting their happiest and best ending & plot line is as important as the vecna/supernatural plot.

so why would you think they don’t give a shit about mike? just bc we dont see his perspective does NOT mean he’s a horribly written character jfc

and why do you think mlvn’s story line this season was absolute dogshit??? i can’t believe you can point that out and continue to say “oh well. threyre just bad writers. mike & el are still ending up together though. even despite there being another love interest inlove with mike and theyve been building their story since the first season.”

just please PLEASE connect the dots omfg..

anyway rest assure that all of these characters stories are in good hands so we can just sit back relax and wait for season 5

#byler #stranger things

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ace-of-garlic-breads · 1 year

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a rant about S3 ep8

I am so glad that people are fixing the BULLSHIT that was Animaniacs Season 3 episode 8. Spoilers, obviously.

so I am not the biggest Reboot person ( I have a whole post about that in the works) but what makes me borderline hate it is the treatment of Wakko. I will be only talking about episode 8 here though

it also happens to be my LEAST favorite moment in the reboot. so WHAT THE FUCK were the writers thinking?!

the last time Wakko "died" was in the OG series during a meatball eating contest. when Death arrived to collect them Yakko and Dot wanted to go too, and they literally challenged DEATH to a game of checkers to be able to stay with Wakko. so THEY WERE WILLING TO DIE FOR THEIR BROTHER.

and now theres this pile of dogshit that is trying to be a scene (I don't blame the voice actors or animators, (I only blame the writers)) Wakko is in a state where the outside world is basically gone, Yakko tries to get their attention and then says this(I hate that I have to write this): I guess it’s finally happened. They’ve slashed the budget so much that they can only afford to animate the two-Well, I’ll say it. The two best siblings".....then Dot says: "Tragic"(sarcastically at that). yea Dot, it is Tragic, tragic how the writers didn't bother to research the characters they were writing. AND IT GETS WORSE. Yakko says:“I’ve always thought this would work better as a two-hander, anyway.”....NO IT WOULDN'T. when Wakko comes out of the state their in, Dot says "oh, Wakko's alive. horray" SHE SAYS IT LIKE ITS A BAD THING HER BROTHERS ALIVE.

and then later in the segment. they literally have Wakko being the sweetest thing ever saying: "nobody hurts my sister, not even gold sister"....THAT is how the Warners are supposed to treat eachother. they are siblings, they love eachother, yes they fight but COME ON they don't literally wish their sibling to be DEAD.

welp. that's my honest thoughts on Episode 8.

#animaniacs #animaniacs season 3 #animaniacs rant #animaniacs season 3 episode 8 #animaniacs1993 #wakko warner #yakkowarner #dotwarner #animaniacs 2020

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tsuki-sennin · 2 years

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Taro Tuesday, bitches! Revice might be ending, but that there Momoi Taro's gonna be haunting my dreams until the day I die!

Spoilers, I guess...

-Ah yes, Jirou.

-Look! It's Kijino! He's a Superman!

-He buildin'

-Here to blow my tears away as always, huh Donbrothers?

-Fired out of a cannon.

-Ohhhh, she can tell.

-Look Tsuyoshi, you have to be honest with her. Miho might know somebody who's looking for your skillset...

-Awwwww, an anniversary :)

-Man...

-Hero Profit.

-Guess not. I mean, he is doing charity work, and after the Dragonfires incident, I can't imagine Kaito's too willing to shell out.

-Twink pain.

-Ohhhhh, here he comes!

-Talented employees is code for kidnapping victim.

-Oh shit, he clownin'

-OH GOD

-"IT'S DANCING TIME BITCHES"

-OH MY GOD SHINICHI'S SINGING THE THEME SONG

-HARUKA JHKLHGLG

-Oh yeah, Tsuyoshi's in pain

-:(

-Some mother problem!

-...I mean, Tsuyoshi's probably called Miho mommy a few time.

-Well, at least Haruka's not getting ostracized so much anymore. That's nice.

-Deliveries!

-Ahhhhh, the good ol' fashioned Inoue misunderstanding.

-Haru-Corn.

-You've never had a job a day in your life, huh

-"Go read haiku, bitchboy!"

-Peddling his poetry in the middle of the road.

-Ayyyy, they remembered the money allergy gag. Epic.

-Oh my god, they're bleeding him dry. The fuck, man?

-This is immensely horrifying, and it's in such a clean and lovely looking office.

-Holy shit Tarou, you look like you're about to die.

-Oh god, Haruka too!

-Mmm... really wanna go for a bowl right now myself...

-"OH MY GOD MY FRIENDS ARE DYING BECAUSE OF ME"

-Enter the Dragon.

-Tryna be sneaky with Romi Park belting her lungs out, huh Jirou?

-Won't lie, it's super cute. Kinda like a fun little throwback to Riki and Cutanner last season.

-OH GOD TRAFFIC SAFETY

-Jirou-san :)

-:D

-OH SHIT

-Tiger Man appears.

-TSUBASA'S HERE!

-Shef.

-"Geez, you guys look like dogshit. Man, and I thought this place shutting down stressed me out..."

-Oop.

-Ofukuro.

-Our bond has formed to perfection!

-Dog shef!

-Let's do it!

-Saucy Taro!

-Good job!

-:D

-Donbrothers labor~!

-Awwwww :)

-This is such a nice episode.

-Matsuri matsuri da~!

-Don Don Donbura going~!

-Damn, Tsubasa's sheffin' so hard!

-Ganbare, Jirou-san!

-The whole Ideon gang is here~!

-I see Tiger's halfway ready to go wild.

-:)

-So, we have Tarou and Sonoi the swordsmen, Sonoza and Jirou the spear masters... wonder if we'll see an archer to round them out with Sononi?

-Man, that long shot was so cool...

-"Where're you goin', cupcake?"

-Hell yeah, a double finish!

-Let's see... getting Goggle Red vibes off this dude's ribbon...

-Dai-ki? That's almost a normal-ass name!

-Okay Tiger sure, but with the way you're goin' the only way you'll ever beat one of those guys is if they drop dead laughing from your Cookie Monster voice.

-"Down boy."

-"...okay..."

-OH SHIT INSERT SONG

-Hell yeah!

-God, this footwork...

-So cool.

-WE FIXED IT

-Everybody's back!

-There's a certain kinship to be had when you've hit your emotional limit and let your desires run free.

-No I have not forgotten Tsuyoshi, you literally thought you helped killed a man.

-Thanks Haruka, very cool.

-Oh. I guess we're ending the series next episode.

-Oh my God, they censored Revice.

-Damn you, Reviiiiiice!

-...I wonder how many cameos we'll see?

-Anyways, join me on Sunday and Monday, where we laugh! And where we cry!

#avataro sentai donbrothers #don! don! it's a full force peachy festival!#donbrothers #super sentai #donbrothers spoilers #tsuki talks #taro tuesday #momo monday #it's about midnight rn lol

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pin4tacademia · 2 months

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life update!!!

Soooo it's the second week of uni. So far, so good. I definitely feel like the general workload of this semester has eased up SO MUCH. I'm actually so surprised bc so many engineering guys have scared me saying it only gets worse, that I will hate 2nd year, that electrical is the hardest, and tbh, my workload is already eased up so much compared to last semester. I not only have ZERO prelecs (last sem I had 2 classes with weekly prelecs), but I also have like around half the amount of lectures than last semester. On top of that, only three of my four classes have weekly quizzes (last semester 4 of my 5 classes had weekly quizzes AND THERE WAS ONE WEEKLY QUIZ THAT TOOK A WHOLE DAY TO DO I HATED IT).

Anyways, so I'm off to a good start.

I will say digital logic, circuit analysis, and physics has been pretty good. Not too difficult yet. However, algorithms has been a lot already. I am forseeing that I will probably spend a lot more time on algorithms than anything else. I have also been warned about the circuit analysis class, so I suspect it will get much harder later in the semester. Physics has been my favourite class so far, which is good bc I will have to do 2 more physics classes for my degree.

My research internship ends this week. I already have my final presentation mostly done, just need to tweak some aspects of it, but other than that I am fully ready to present. In the next two days I am planning to finalise my report (which I already have mostly done anyways), so I will probably have to spend most of my time on that until friday. Ngl I spent last week procrastinating A LOT, so I will have to make up for that mistake this week. I have also applied to two societies: a rocketry one and a motorsports one. These two I have been planning to apply to for ages, as they're basically work experience that I can put on my resume and they supply a HUGE amount of work hours (I need like 700 or smth to graduate), so hopefully I get in. I am a bit scared in applying though, because I've heard it is quite intensive and I am already working a part-time job already. We'll see. I'm sure I can leave anytime if it ever gets too much.

Because of my procrastination, theres already a lot to do:

watch + write notes for physics lectures

go over physics tutorial sheets

prepare for the physics labs

complete the physics weekly quiz

complete the algorithms weekly quiz

go over digital logic content and labs

go over circuit analysis tutorial (and prepare for lab)

complete motorsports activities

go over algorithms content

finish research report

anyways, in terms of more personal updates:

Finished netflix's ATLA!!! Tbh it wasn't incredible in a way I was hoping for, but it also wasn't dogshit, and I think everyone can agree it was better than the movie. I'd give it a solid 7/10. If they made a second season, I would definitely watch it.

I've also been going out a LOT more. I spent last weekend doing escape rooms and mini-golf and fun little activities. It feels really good to actually go out again, and I definitely want to do it more, especially before the sem gets hectic.

And finally, there's really a lot to look forward to. The first two episodes of Shogun has come out, and I am really looking forward to watching them. I've read approximately the first 100 pages of the book, so I am curious to how they'll adapt it. Also, FF7 Rebirth is coming out tomorrow!!! How exciting!! I probably won't be able to play it, but I might be able to watch someone else gameplay. I have played FF7 Crisis Core and a little bit of FF7 the remake and the original, so I should probably try and finish FF7 itself before the sequel hehe.

anyways that is all, peace out <3

#life update

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everythingisok3000 · 1 year

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I’m bad at talking

I was telling my dad about this the other day and he was surprised I felt this way and wanted to know why. Hey guess what I didn’t know how to convey my feelings into verbal words. I did get that across though. I have an example of why this is though now:

So I work at a Kroger in the Deli department, well, I “work in the meat and seafood department”, but they put me in Deli because both departments are in need of more workers because is suuuuucks there. Deli is super easy to clean, all you’ve got to do is wash the bits of the slicers and shoot water at the floor and then the other normal bullshit with cleaning stuff. Because they don’t schedule me adequately, I end up finishing hours before my time to clock out, so I go to met and seafood because I like those guys. I especially like Kyle because Kyle calls us “The Dream Team”, and me the “MVP”, because closing the meat and seafood department is a hellish punishment. If done by yourself, it takes jesus-christ 2-hours to complete. You need to wash the trays all the seafood is sitting in, and MELT THE STUPID ICE BELOW IT, wash the floors, surfaces, relocate the eponymous meat and seafood, and other bullshit. This time though, Noah is there, and Noah is a the meat and seafood manager, I think. I’m not sure whose a manager and who are just older people that know things. Noah is pretty young but I don’t know which he is. Sometimes Noah does this slightly annoying thing, and it’s only slight because it makes sense by the time we’re done, where he has us do stupid cleaning bullshit. I think this is largely because this hooligan David keeps screwing us. He works most morning shifts and he is dogshit at his job, from what I’ve been told. The mention of his name brings most meat and seafood employee’s hands into the air, wringing. David has caused us to fail health inspections. We do all we can to make up for David’s dogshit jobbery. When I get to meat and seafood Noah is really happy that I’m there. He wants me to clean the stuff under the thing that holds the meat, which I’ve never seen before. I’m thinking I’m going to be doing all of this, but that wasn’t the case. I mostly helped pull out some (one) of the two per section panels and wash them down the best I could. There were twelve all in all. And dear god it was disgusting in there. I’m pretty tolerant of smell and other generally gross things. Well, selectively. I have a very easy gag reflex because I didn’t like swallowing a drop of toothpaste so I’d gag up anything that dripped down my throat even a little. Anyway, it smells awful. I didn’t even realize how awful until later. The panels didn’t smell that bad, though, and I forgot to say this, I don’t have a great sense of smell. I go back around after a few panels to help get some more, and I see there’s a few pieces in the muck below. I’ll now illustrate the sight I beheld. Under the panels, there’s a bunch of piping of some kind that I imagine help flow the cold air through the underside. This is covered in ice and blue mold. It looks like barnacles or something, it’s on the panels too. Below that, there is a generally brownish substance covering the whole bottom of it. This is where I pull the stuff out of. You have to imagine how stuff gets down there. When we take the meat trays out, we’ll occasionally shoot some cleaning stuff, water, and disinfectant down there to wash out the meat juices that constantly fall out of stuff like the godforsaken chicken wings or the chicken breasts. Sometimes bits of the stuff falls out. There’s a lot of seasoned stuff, but it’s like, all meat. I got a stupid whiff of this stuff and it was the kind of smell that’s hilarious to experience. Like, “Wow, I can’t believe something that terrible exists in this world. The sensation was surprising.” We’re all laughing about it. I finish out cleaning the other panels, and somehow the other guys, Kyle and Noah, spray down the piping and scrape some stuff around. I didn’t see until later, but they’d also tried using bleach to clean some of it off, giving it this extra odor like a spice. So, I go over to Noah, because I’ve sort of realized what it smells like. See, the whole time, it was a really familiar smell. Like, wow, I’ve smelled this kind of awful before, it’s like a primordial state of true bad smell or something, what the heck is it. And I realize it’s this: the stuff on top of my mom’s above ground pool. At the end of spring, beginning of summer, we have an awful group of hours where we pull the covers off the pool and try to open it up. We have to remove the stupid heavy sandbags keeping them in place and the secondary cover and put the ladder on and wash the deck of the thing, real laborious stuff. And the dirt and mud accumulated on top smells like something dead, like mud if it died, like defecation, if it died. Just overall awful. This smelled like the stuff under the meat tray panels, and with the bleach, it smelled like the chlorine pool chemicals we used to clean the pool. So I go to Noah, and I’m like, “This smells like-- asajfoeiajeoiamc ifsaiemfea, wai jfeijaf? goijaiojefiof?”

“What?”

“Like, uh, like my mom’s p-pool, in the spring, after the spring, like the stuff on top?”

Somehow Noah understood me and talked about his own experience with an above ground pool, in that his family spent many weeks of their summer building it, cleaning it, maintaining it, and breaking it down, same with a deck. But the whole time I’m like, wow I can’t believe I didn’t know how to say normal things out load. Earlier in the day too, I found it difficult to hear and understand and then communicate with coworkers and customers. I fall back on generally understood conveyances like shrugging or furrowing your brow and saying stuff like, “Well, sometimes that’s how it is.” Or “I guess.”

I think the problem is that I live in my brain too much. When I talk to my therapist, I usually talk for like an hour, usually less, and halfway through that my throat gets parched as hell. I don’t know how to talk to anything that doesn’t know what I’m probably going to say. Now that I think of it, my therapist seemed to think I didn’t have problems talking, although that’s probably because he sees me talk more than the majority of non-related people I see throughout a week. I think that’s pretty ironic because he’s a victim of it more than anyone else. Sometimes when I’m talking to him, I forget that I’m talking or saying anything, disassociate mid-sentence and sort of finish the thought and forget what it meant in relation to the things around it. That’s probably why I like writing the way I do. It’s helpful to just spit all your thoughts out as they come and develop pathways to clicking things against your fingers that make sense. Plus you can change it later. I’m not doing it with this one though. I bet it’s a banger.

#rant #idk how to tag this #how do tags work #Oh you hit enter after them #I wouldve liked this site ten years ago if I were cool and confident and not 9 years old

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phantomrose96 · 3 years

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i'm just gonna say, i absolutely love you adventuring into ML, and i cannot wait to see what you think about all the screaming in fandom about luka thanks to the wishmaker ep (i could read your ML thoughts on eps for hours, and honestly, on anything, bc i find your commentary very amusing and insightful at the same time - with love, a secret admirer of your fics and thoughts and blog)

dsjhbdshjjsd thanks!!!!!!

I'm really just over here absorbing completely random tidbits of information second- and third-hand via no-context shitposts. My understanding of everything is wildly unclear and it's kind of fun.

What I've gathered is roughly? Marinette maybe dated Luka briefly, but she was a shitty gf on account of being a superhero and in love with Adrien (get your shit together Marinette). Luka lost his eyelashes in the great kwami war. At some point Marinette turned all her friends into superheros (the fucking nepotism) except for Adrien who she offered a super-kwami to and he was like "actually I'm busy doing something over there where I'm not being Chat Noir" and Marinette was like "I wanna sniff your hair and wear your socks" and that was that.

Anyway Luka is the snake? and he and Marinette break up maybe. And now Luka knows her identity because Marinette is dogshit at keeping her identity secret (except from Adrien, I guess, because he doesnt get to know ANYTHING.) Anyway Luka knowing is like, narratively significant somehow.

I think Adrien is having a mental breakdown in the background for this whole season? Chat Noir walks on screen going "Am I worthless? Am I unneeded? Would it be better if I was never born?" and Ladybug goes "Haha we love our jokester. I'm gonna go ask Adrien again if I can wear his socks. He might say yes this time." and maybe Adrien perks up a little bit because he thinks Ladybug wants his socks but in the end it's just Marinette asking again.

#ask #ml #ml spoilers #tagging as spoilers IN CASE theres something accurate here #mainly about luka

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harrowharkwife · 2 years

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"it's just lazy and bad writing!"

oh my god he kissed someone who wasn't his girlfriend! bro sound the fucking alarms this season is off the rails!

y'all. if i had to watch showrunners lie to/gaslight/embarrass their entire cast using secret reshoots and script changes, a last minute fake ending, and a two year long NDA in order to push through an eleventh hour "season finale crazy plot twist they'll never see coming omg!1!!11!1" where they made their canonically depressed and suicidal main character (who we first meet while he is in inpatient treatment) litcherally kill himself following a season-long mental health crisis spiral, oh-so-conveniently saving them from the arduous ordeal of having to actually go through with writing the gay relationship they had been forecasting all season long (and getting tons of free press from the gay actor who played the main character's love interest about how excited he was to be a part of this important representation! ha. understandably, he was hurt and furious and crushed and humiliated when he realized he had been literally tricked into fucking marketing a bury your gays situation), and then try to walk all their dogshit choices back on Twitter by claiming it "wasn't suicide but rather a brave and selfless act of heroism in the heat of battle" even though they literally called it suicide in the episode, all while literally just flat-out lying and saying they ~had approval from the author of the original source material~ (an author who created that character in the first place as a form of catharsis for his own deeply personal real life mental health journey!) when in reality they never even attempted to consult or warn him (as evidenced by the author guest appearing on multiple fan run podcasts to publicly audibly cry about how fucking insulting and triggering and what a slap in the face this whole thing was and how it had completely ruined the story he wrote and loved so much) needless to mention the fact that the rest of the cast was so furious and betrayed that they were publicly liking tweets THEIR SHOWRUNNER BOSSES WERE *TAGGED IN* saying things like "this was dogshit unacceptable treatment and you should quit and i am so fucking sorry that you were tricked in this way" and literally running a fucking Trevor Project LGBTQ+ suicide prevention fund donation campaign set up in the name of this main character (and personally donating THOUSANDS of dollars to it)

(this show then limped on for one more pathetic season featuring stellar writing choices such as, uhh, werewolf STD? margo choosing irrelevant-ass fish josh over her best fucking friend in the world? oh, and my personal favorite, the series ending with all the straight couples paired off happily and starting exciting new adventures like getting married and having babies, starting a new society on another planet, etc meanwhile the last time we see the One surviving gay character, he's a) A WIDOW, b) beyond depressed, c) drinking again, d) a teacher for some reason even though he fucking hated school, e) hanging out at college dorms and parties as a professor? because i guess they were going for some "he peaked in grad school and it was all downhill from there" type shit, oh yeah and f) LITERALLY WITHOUT A SINGLE FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER because his best friend and every single person in his support system were on another fucking planet with no way for him to contact them ever again!

but like, it's fine, and it's not homophobic, because cardboard cutout background character man #4 with six total minutes of screentime who happens to be a weird ugly 1840s sex ghost who lives inside a magic bracelet- he's there! and he's willing to fuck eliot so it's all okay. #lovewins!)

anyway. if i lived through that then like. full offense but you can deal with a minor cheating plotline you don't love and a boring white bitch having a few more scenes than she should for *part* of *half* of*one* season. lmao

#i am genuinely not trying to start shit this is just me venting about how terrible the magicians was #but like. whenever i see people upset about the writing on this show i just have to laugh. like okay #some of us have survived sera gamble and we're built different what can i say #suicide mention //#personal #do i still kind of love the magicians and regularly rewatch a select handful of episodes? yes but that's beside the point

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Irish-American musician speaking. I just want to say a couple of things (a) i appreciate that other people are at least willing to criticise Jeff (even though i don’t agree that he was copying “ethnic” styles of music because that’s just bullshit and he was just going for a specific feeling, because that’s how music works) and (b) i really appreciate that this blog takes James' character seriously and not whatever the fecking hell the writers think they've done.

i did want to say that i'm really upset about it as a person with an autistic specturm disorder. i doubt the writers (bless their hearts) realised it, but the semblance they gave James is one of the hallmark signs of ASDs, especially in adults and young people. given the way they've always written him until the end of season seven, i really related to him and his struggles for a variety of reasons. i could get just as angry about the way they've portrayed military service (my dad is a similar ranking to the character and has been through some shit) especially given that a lot of people in my family have or are serving, but i get the sense that everyone sees how problematic that demonstration is. the former is a lot more subtle, and it honestly upsets me more.

and then there's all the bullshit surrounding Penny (they should have just left her dead or given Winter the powers to begin with for fuck's sake). firstly, i'm just going to come out and say that i've hated the way they've used vocal music to bash us over the heads with messages the last few volumes. Cinder's TWO (whyyyyyyy) songs in just that one episode this volume were basically narrating what was on screen which took away from the moments and the second one during her fight with her mentor was just plain bad. i thought those two were the worst we were going to get but apparently i was wrong and we get whatever the hell "Friend" is. (although i will say i bet the only reason they threw in that second song for Cinder was because Casey just had to get publicity for her shitty band). but look. i'm lgbtqia myself and it really (especially considering Penny and Ruby's intereactions) felt like queerbaiting/bury your gays but i'll set that aside. making Penny human (a) took away the only unique/interesting thing left about her character and (b) her death was essentially a glorifying suicide "for the greater good" which really slaps in the face of people who have honestly suffered from depression and suicide.

this isn't the first time that they've shyed away from trying to explore serious subjects, but it is particuarly gross because of the song. an earlier example of them doing this is with regard to "the path to isolation" when Casey felt the need to say Weiss has never cut and that she wouldn't do that. while that was (to say the very least) a bit uncomfortable for her to just drop that, it sounded like she just wanted to avoid talking about the subject because it's too dark. i have a lot of problems with Casey and her actions over the years, but i think it's important to note that SHE WROTE PENNY'S SONG. she is the one responsible for this, and she keeps talking about how great it is and how "humbling" the experience was. bitch no. you can't just take only praise and get mad about critisicism to the point where you basically recieve none anymore.

besides, Casey is pretty hard to understand because she STILL doesn't enucniate much when she sings so if she and her dad are going to keep being basically worshipped hand and foot by people while recieving no criticism even where it is due, then they shouldn't be in this or music. part of being a musician is that you SHOULD be critiqued by your peers and even by just casual listeners but that doesn't happen and they (but especially her) don't improve. by no means do i think Casey and Jeff are the worst of CRWBY, but they are part of the problems with tone in the storytelling and they should be critiscised for it more.

oh god this is a long ask & it’s like a month late, please forgive me.

yeah, my issue with the whole jeff issue was never that he was “copying” ethnic music, though there is a discussion to be had when that music comes from closed off cultures like my own & others & how that should be respected, but that this vague claim by someone who’s lied to push their headcanons before was using it to claim ruby & summer were romani coded when there has been anti gypsyism sentiment in crwby before via arryn’s sexualization of us. i simply don’t trust these white americans to write any gypsy ethnic groups’ stories with any sense of respectability & it was on a baseless headcanon anyways so. that frustration was easy enough to let die down.

i also have a lot of issues with how ironwood was treated, especially as a disabled person & some of the fndm’s insistence to treat this fictional military as a 1 to 1 representation of the flawed militaries in our world is just utterly frustrating. especially when they use that to justify theirs & crwby’s ableism towards one of the few disabled characters we had on screen. i don’t have a place to speak on any autistic representation or harm from ironwood or his semblance because i’m not autistic but i am sorry that you were harmed & upset by this portrayal of a semblance that isn’t even canon, because it features nowhere in the text explicitly. hell, ironwood’s va had to be told what his semblance was from a fan. all this harm & hurt & it’s for something that isn’t even featured in the story. ridiculous.

i’m really trying not to waffle on in this ask because it is so long already but yes yes yes. i agree with you completely, the way that songs are crafted for this world & featured into it most of the time doesn’t fit with what we’re shown on screen. weiss’s songs feature a patriarchy & go over the same arc like five times, as well as those lines alluding to self harm. jeff & casey can cry that they didn’t mean it that way but there are certain themes brought to mind with certain wordings & you have to be mindful of this when you write them; we had this same issue with people believing mercury was sexually abused by marcus because “i’m the one” featured the word defiled, which is most used in a sexual context. when we come to learn that it meant his soul was ruined by his father stealing his semblance, that still didn’t erase the sexual allegory & jeff should have been mindful of those types of themes when he’s writing these songs. often times it feels like the songs & the show are giving us two different stories & both give off different meanings & themes.

not being able to take criticism seems like a common theme in crwby, self admittedly from miles himself who said he “wants” to take criticism but doesn’t like it when “it’s done in a mean way.” that criticism has to be fair & nice, which is a solid sentiment, no one’s going to listen if you’re being an asshole but here’s the rub. nothing is ever nice or fair enough for them. they always find a way to turn even the most innocent of criticisms or questions into a personal attack & it’s pathetic. jeff & casey aren’t exempt from this. like you said, part of being a musician is criticism from your peers & much like you don’t need to be a chef to tell if there’s dogshit on your plate, you don’t need to be a writer or a rock star to tell when a story isn’t making sense or a song isn’t good.

& for fucks sake, i’m with you on them needing to enunciate better. i’m hoh, please jeff & casey, it’s hard enough for me to try & listen to songs that i want to enjoy without having to wonder what word you’re mumbling for this third rhyme in bad luck charm. fuck that song’s rhymes.

#rwby #rwde #owl.txt #answered #q #long post /#im so sorry it took me this long lmao #Anonymous

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cyborg-squid · 3 years

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really frustrated with destiny 2 right now

(copy pasted from discord rant)

with Destiny 2, it just feels SO user-unfriendly, at least with the spot it's in right now, esacerbated even further with me having been an old player instead of a New Light. It feels like so much of my old stuff, both gear and progress, has been made obsolete and that the best way to get ahead is to buy the Season Pass... Which I caved and did, it's honestly not that expensive and I got the $1 Game Pass deal a week or so ago, so it was just like $11 for a month of time to see if I wanna get back into D2, not a bad deal and far from my worst vidya expenditures. But the season pass has confused me even more, both with content and story*. The way everything has been monetized with the game now feels so dogshit. Like yeah, the "base" game is free but I bought it on release day and have long since beat it. The Forsaken expac is $25 (though I already own it), the Shadowkeep expac is $25, and the Beyond Light expac is $40, if I want to get any of them to own outside of Game Pass... which I'd probably need to buy anyway, cause you need Xbox Live in order to play the game! Oh, and the upcoming expansion is $40/$80/$100 depending on what flavor/bundle you want to get. FF14's expacs can be expensive but at least you just need to buy the most recent one in order to get all the previous ones. On top of the fucking expac prices and the season pass and the subscription prices, it also still has it's fucking microtransaction store. Great.

There's this whole timeline section in the menus, but I can't actually go and watch (assuming they had cutscenes) any non-expac stories, which is so fucking dumb because it seems like some pretty major stuff has happened that I've missed?! I did the mission that unlocks the most new season pass content, and there were so many characters who weren't around before referencing events I didn't know about, and there's like no way for me to go back and see/watch them.

Literally feels like if I had missed a couple seasons of a TV show and jumped back in on the penultimate season, excepts none of the season I missed are available to watch?!

I want to re-like Destiny 2 so badly, but it just feels so user unfriendly, and is even more time demanding than it was before, which is why I had stopped. Oh, and money demanding too, of course.

I love the lore books and shit, but none of them are conveying to me 'recent events'.

Saint-14 is back?! The Crow is part of the Vanguard now?! (I saw him revived at the end of Forsaken, but that was the last I saw of him) Mara is back too?! (I mean. we saw it coming and it was prophesied or some shit. But she wasn't here last time I played and they haven't shown me why). Lakshmi-2 staged a coup with Vex help?! There are Eliksni in the City now?! TITAN AND IO ARE JUST FUCKING GONE?! THE BLACK FLEET IS ALREADY HERE?!

All of these events I would be fine with if I actually got to see/participate/play in them, instead of just being told that they happened, or left to guess.

#destiny spoilers #d2 spoilers #destiny 2 spoilers

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dont wanna make this ask long bc i am tired and dont have the energy to be a well spoken (?) person rn but it probably will be long anyways, so sorry!! but like. as somebody who has hyperfixated on both idubbbz and schlatt (along with a plethora of other problematic content creators, i really know how to fuckn pick em!!) they absolutely foster a dogshit community, at least outside of platforms like tumblr, where like. you cant really avoid fandom culture like you can on twitter or ig, if that makes sense. on here, if you wanna post about your favorite youtuber, whether you tag it or not, other fans will likely see and if you say some bad shit, you will likely get called on it, whereas on ig basically only your followers will see it even if you use a hashtag and on twitter its like if you arent in a subtwt/fandom then you basically dont interact with any subtwt at all unless its an accident, ya know?

so like. i think what im trying to say here is that while ive met a lot of fans of both these creators, especially schlatt, who are great people as far as i can tell, i am also specifically on the fandom side of things and as soon as i step out of that space i realize that a lot of people who watch them are not actually minorities like me and my mutuals who can catch on to satire or who watch their more behind the scenes stuff where you can see them act like a decent person or even call out people for the things they usually joke about which just. fucking sucks. it sucks that, as much as i do believe schlatt is actually a good person (and sort of idubbbz, although i dont really watch him much anymore for a plethora of reasons, mostly related to the fact that i cant stand his jokes anymore even if he is playing a character as he's said before), he also keeps doing terrible fucking things and im really glad his actual friends have been calling him on it recently, especially after that jackbox video (which is a whole other thing on its own bc it literally seemed like nobody wanted to be there basically the entire video?? like as somebody who watched all the jackbox videos before that one, it was really fucking off in that call and the jokes were next level fucking upsetting), but sometimes it's just kinda like. exhausting. bc his community is already fucking bad now, you cant undo accidentally fostering a community of fucking racist homophobes who dont get that you're playing a character, unless you kinda drop off and build a whole new community from that, which would be stupid to do at this point in his career. not really sure where i was going with this tbh, but i thought i would chime in on this discussion as a viewer of mainly schlatt, but also a past idubbbz viewer who is basically a seasoned fucking vet at dealing with shitty fanbases because of him and many other dumb youtube white boys

(also, note on that anisa thing: ian's main fanbase was definitely pissed just bc she does sex work and a lot of them are too fucking young or just too fucking dense i guess to clock the fact that he's putting on an act bc, like i said before, they either dont watch his behind the scenes content, or they do and they kinda just miss those moments between still trying to entertain where he gets genuine. that being said, a lot of people outside of his fanbase were also pissy bc anisa is a less than spectacular lady if you really do your research on her, kind of a bad person but it's not something a lot of people know about, especially since one of the few videos made on it was by fucking creepshow art)

sorry for the rant again, i feel like i do this every other week now and i apologize, you just seem to have the best discourse and i enjoy partaking <3 hope you have a good rest of your day/night/whatever time you're reading this!

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Thank you for the input (don't mind the rant !) and I hope you have a good rest of your day too <3 For post length, I'll answer under the cut :)

Yeah, I get what you mean (I think ahdsufsd). Fandom as a concept is pretty... I don't even know how to describe it, but it's the kind of thing that I feel like white male Redditors would think of as pussy shit, y'know? Like the Ricegum gang isn't a fucking "fandom" they're a... well, a fandom, but they're not gonna admit to that. So when you step outside of a community like Tumblr (the queerest place on the internet TM) you come into contact with the faces of the fandom you're dealing with and oftentimes they're a lot less like you than you might've thought from the similar interest. It's like going to a Weezer concert and realizing you're surrounded by incels (this is a JOKE).

Satire's a rough topic because some people don't think it should exist at all. Like any words that can be directly interpreted as bigoted or problematic should not be uttered. I disagree with that, I think it's one of the most interesting forms of both social commentary and comedy, but I do see the problem. There are people who watched Filthy Frank (to take an example from that other anon) and didn't know or care what the point of his actions were (I don't know what they were tbh - I never watched him, but it sounds like he's a pretty decent dude) and instead read his jokes as-is. There are thousands upon thousands of people who aren't gonna get satire and that's a problem because if they're already bigoted they're gonna see people like Schlatt and iDubbz and whoever else as truly validating.

(Largely unrelated but yo, is iDubbz still going? Are the views alright? Is the adsense popping? Has he just kept going with Content Cops? I haven't heard about him since the girlfriend thing dropped.)

"you cant undo accidentally fostering a community of fucking racist homophobes who dont get that you're playing a character, unless you kinda drop off and build a whole new community from that"

I think this is what's pertinent when it comes to discussing Schlatt. After the Jackbox video (for me at least, he might've been there before) he put himself at a crossroads. If he'd apologized, said "sorry, I took it too far, that was a mistake" - yeah, plenty of people wouldn't have forgiven him and plenty of bigoted fans of his would've said that the apology was just to placate the snowflakes on Twitter, but to the sort of in-between people it would've shown that he's able to recognize and reconcile his mistakes. He could've transitioned into content that's A) actually good (when I say that the video was bad I don't just mean in terms of racism, I mean it straight up was not entertaining) and B) less "edgy" for the sake of. I wouldn't expect him to go uwu squeaky clean, but he's already reeled in the bad people, so if he really wanted to foster a good, progressive audience, he has to do something significant to show that.

But he didn't.

Maybe for the sake of his career, maybe because he likes those bigoted fans, maybe because he just doesn't get it - I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know. I spoke earlier about doing what is right over what is easy and in the case of Schlatt it just feels like he really did take the easy way out. Whoever he is in his personal life doesn't change how he's perceived online and the kinds of people that are idolizing him for it.

(And yeah I saw the video on Anisa when I Googled her to check if they were still dating, but then I saw who it was made by and I was like oh well whatever avhfdfkj)

#this is kind of rambly but oh well #angel answers #🦷 anon #discourse #negative #cc critical #idk how to tag this stuff just telae jsfkbg #long post

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blundergato · 4 years

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jessica jones season 3 is pretty weird and not good.

the pacing is complete and utter garbage. a whole lot of nothing happens A LOT.

the characters that arent jessica all suck ass. none of them are interesting

the show is OBSESSED with due process and the cops. we get it, superheroes have to abide by the law literally all the time blah blah blah. these netflix shows go to great lengths to tell us how superheroes are basically pointless, FOLLOW THE LAW EVEN IF ITS BROKEN, ITLL EVENTUALLY WORK...MAYBE?

the subplot of jessica defending a serial killer from getting killed himself is so absurd that i just couldnt believe my eyes. i find this sort of thing incredibly annoying in ANY superhero story. who gives a shit if a serial killer gets killed by a hero?

does that make the hero as bad as the killer? NO, NO IT DOESNT.

these shows try to push the idea that all kills are equal, no matter what the circumstances...except if you kill a cop, then you are the most irredeemable piece of shit ever. kill a serial killer? that basically makes you evil and you can NEVER EVER turn back.

its a load of dogshit.

ive said it before, but i dont think heroes should run around killing everyone they deem evil. thats ridiculous. but these shows go SO far in the other direction where heroes have to defend the most heinous pieces of human filth or else they are bad people for not helping. the villains can go around killing every innocent person ever, but they have to have “due process” or whatever.

every marvel netflix show has this problem and its annoying in all of them.

jessica jones season 3 is especially bad with it or maybe im just overly fed up at this point.

the fights scenes are awful and the way they show jessica’s powers are trash.

daredevil got lucky because he’s basically just a dude who fights good AND has the privilege of wearing a mask 90% of the time. they can throw someone in there who fights well. none of these other doofuses have that privilege.

anyways this show is poopoo and im on the last episode, cant wait.

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queenincrimson · 5 years

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So apparently Tumblr has a cap on the number of characters used in a response so I thought I’d just make it into a post. I have a lot to say, and I’m hoping it will be cathartic for me.

Everything that happened in season two seems to have been forgotten. Chinatown? Never happened. It was barely even addressed, even though our heroine sunk into her darkest depths and was going to kill the one person who caused all her misery. Lack of a bullet, and an interruption from Flynn, made this impossible. However, Flynn could have easily finished what Lucy started, but he didn’t. He chose to stay behind to comfort her, knowing that she needed him more than anything or anyone in that moment.

(sorry using stuff I already made because too lazy and unmotivated to make new ones, but I digress...)

So....let’s get to the finale, which is the same day as this? Or the next day? Time travel, right? Whatever...

So. Future Lyatt comes barging into the bunker, and hands Wyatt the journal??Am I watching this right? Lucy and Wyatt have to figure this out? Alrighty then...let’s not give it to the dude who is already familiar with it, I guess...

So flash forward...Lucy and Wyatt see the entry about Flynn and Lucy, blah blah blah..and for once in his life, Wyatt does not act jealous?? Want to talk about out of character...

Ok, so...fast forward to the oh so essential, extremely important Flynn and Lucy conversation that was talked about for so long by everyone...which totally fell flat. It was another plot device to further Lyatt. Let’s get one thing straight. Flynn, more than anyone, knows that the journal is unreliable, and can change at any given time. Are you really going to sit there and tell me that he would concede that Lucy’s heart always belonged to someone else? She even said “You don’t know what my type is” or whatever. And he would still just admit defeat? Flynn was always adamant about Lucy making her own choices. I cannot believe in this instance, he would make the choice for her.

ANYWAY. So as out of character as it is, Flynn does make the choice for her, and goes on this nonsensical suicidal mission. Even though he could have easily come back, but...I honestly have no idea? To see his family again even though he didn’t warn them about what would happen? I guess?

So he writes this letter to Lucy. Which again is total dogshit. Someone please explain to me how he is more expendable than anyone on the team? I’d like to hear it. (I’ll get to this later). I think we can all agree, no matter the side you sit on, that Flynn is not a fan of Wyatt. At all. And after witnessing everything Wyatt put Lucy through during season two, there is still no way Flynn would be a fan of Wyatt. But in this stupid, contrived letter, he convinces Lucy that Wyatt was only trying to do the right thing, blah blah blah? SERIOUSLY. After only the day before they were fighting like bitches because of her? I mean...how out of character could you possibly get to force your ship?

Honestly. I only sat through this thing once, so sorry if my commentary is out of order. I heard that Rufus is essential to defeating RH, right? Which is why Flynn decided to go back, kill Jessica and sacrifice himself? (Again, even though there was really no reason for him to die, as far as I’m concerned). I may have drifted in and out after Flynn’s stupid death, so can anyone explain HOW Rufus was essential to RH’s defeat? Because I didn’t see it. Not saying I wanted Rufus to stay dead, but if Flynn is going to die for him, at least say WHY Flynn is more expendable? The one who has all the RH intel, who has been fighting since the beginning against them? They have an auto pilot time machine now, so what exactly did Rufus contribute? (asking this honestly because I was so disgusted, I seriously tuned out).

Now we get to Sao Paolo. Which after the abomination I just sat through, I thought may have redeemed it just a little. But nope. The whole time team tags along for reasons that are unexplained. Lucy manages to manipulate Flynn in a matter of seconds to do her bidding with nothing in return. He still dies so...…?

In my opinion, there is not one redeemable moment in this movie. Everything from the very beginning, no matter how nonsensical it was, was to further Lyatt. They retconned Jessica’s whole personality from what we saw in Chinatown. Flynn became a totally different person overnight. What a coincidence that those two died (for idiotic reasons). How anyone can approve, I will never comprehend, because our beloved, strong willed, independent heroine became a doormat. A cold hearted one at that because she seemed to not give an ounce of pity to Flynn or Amy, who she was willing to let go so casually.

#timeless #timelessmovie #sorry this got out of hand #but I'm still so bitter #not as a garcy fan #or Flynn fan #but as a freaking timeless fan #how anyone could have greenlit this turd is beyond me

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