rambling...
i know animators don't get paid enough to care.
sometimes i find myself wishing my hero looked like demon slayer or like damn have you guys seen how PRETTY chainsaw man is??
but i know, we're getting a good product anyways, with scenes sprinkled in that i'm sure that the animators are proud of. Not to mention the voice acting and soundtracks that separates the anime from the manga.
it's a shame the anime industry has to churn out these animes so quickly. Trying to ride a wave of popularity before it dissipates. I think my hero is past that. 2016 came and went. 2018 came and went. It could afford to slow down.
It would lose some viewers, but those who stay would care a lot about the project.
I'm sure whoever's in charge of producing the anime thinks differently though. What matters is making money, and that's a shame.
I'm nitpicky about things, and maybe that's too why I'm bringing this up.
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part of the reason its pointless to argue with terfs is that they refuse to own up to any member of their group's fucked up behavior.
when it comes to terfs harassing cis women in women's bathrooms, they insist that NEVER HAPPENS. when it comes to transmascs being correctively sexually assaulted by terfs, they insist that's just made up nonsense. there's never any show of concern or even "if that's true we need to hold these people accountable in our communities," it's just "LOL omg what are you talking about!!! no terf has ever done that haha gendies are so crazy" like. maybe people would be more willing to not treat you like a hate group if y'all weren't so set on refusing to accept that people in your group Do Extremely Harmful Things. like even if you still agree with radical feminism, the fact that they won't even admit there are extremely harmful people within that is telling!
and then they act surprised when there's a huge racism (and from what i've seen, intersexism) problem and a ton of TERFs who are abusive in their interpersonal relationships. that happens in like, every hate movement- the baeddels also had a problem with protecting abusers and cult-like harmful behavior towards their own members. hate groups aren't just harmful to their targets but draw in cruel, abusive people because those are the kind of people who want total control over other's lives.
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Augh. Spent literally 2 hours going to yarn stores trying to find US 9 straight metal knitting needles, only to find that all stores carry only bamboo 9s, which is useless for me as my gauge with bamboo or wood needles is very different than metal, and I'm trying to move a project off of some broken and terrible circs. So not only did I turn a "7 or 8 on the pain scale" day into a solid 9.5 for no reason while also wasting 2 hours of a very rare day off, I also have to reknit what I've got so far on US 10's, which is a far less favorable gauge and also very annoying, as I already did this once (having initially started with US 8's).
Edit: guess who actually only has 1 US 10 and 3 US 10.5s, which is way too big to use. :/
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i am so glad theres someone else who also thinks lmk executes its ideas and themes much better than toh. rip belos you will never be lady bone demon
TOH wasn't that strong in the themeing department in general (though I'm not well-versed in that show). I remember finishing the finale and being like....damn. What was the overall message of this show? ("Weirdos stick together" maybe?) Does toh have any consistent motifs or symbolism? If memory serves, not really?
Like, you rewatch episode 1x01 of LMK and MK goes "Well...I am invincible. *sigh* Anytime I try to do anything, I just gunk everything up!", and you're like. Woah. The Sun Wukong parallels are that strong from episode 1x01? Invincibility/Immortality and hurting the people you care about? No matter what you do, it leading to pain? Holy shit.
Contrast that with TOH where it's like, in episode 1x02 Luz learns she's not "the chosen one" and that the boiling isles are very different from the magical realms she imagined...which is kinda undone by the reveal that the Titan chose to show Luz the Glyphs. And while Titan Luz is very fun, it's not thematically sound—which is just kinda that whole show, you know? If you're not thinking about it that deep, then it's like "holy shit cool concept!" (which is totally valid of people), but if you do it's pretty empty. (Hi Hunter getting flapjack-based teleportation powers. What was the point of this.)
Which, I think this becomes super apparent with the Luz and Belos foil. Luz and Belos had a lot of interesting parallels (both of them being humans in the isles, each coming there wanting to fulfill a certain "role", for Luz being the "Great Witch Azura" and for Belos/Philip being a "Witch Hunter General", the whole "protecting the things you love" deal). And then, where does this all go?
It leads to Luz being told "no. You're the good guy and Belos is the bad guy! You could never be the same! Belos is motivated by his own 'need to be the hero'" (which was definitely what Luz was motivated by over the course of the show, even if it was more innocent, but whatever), and riding off of tdp s4's "In the name of love, you will do things so dangerous and vile—you will never be able to forgive yourself" and the lmk s3's "to pain" scene, it fell really flat for me—like it's not bad, it's just really mid.
(Post where I go on a rant about Luz's s3 arc being kinda lame)
And then, you have the LBD & MK foil. You have MK's s4 arc. The "to pain" scene is such a unique "you and I are not so different" moment—but it's also relevant to the whole show. And LBD is right, doing what you think is right does lead to pain. Like, even looking at MK's journey over the seasons, every action has had it's consequences.
Saving Pigsy and Tang in 1x04? Spider Queen snagged MK's hair and that let her dominate the city later. Stopping DBK in 1x10? That freed LBD. Stopping SQ in ROTSQ? That gave LBD access to the trigram furnace. MK trying to gain more power in s2? Well, "Now do you understand? From the start you never had what it took to defeat me. All your power could do was make me stronger." SWK leaving in s2? "You're the one always running off, trying to get more power or more sources of immortality." Trying to get the Samadhi fire in s3? Opps, now Mei has this uncontrollable flame within her. Monkey King running off to fight LBD alone so MK doesn't have to? He get's possessed. Freeing SWK from possession? Now LBD has the power to fulfill destiny. Attempting to free your friends from the scroll? Now Peng and Azure are also free. Trying to get SWK back? His scroll piece has been split in half. Stopping Azure from destroying all of reality? Now the Jade Emperor's power is without a host, flower fruit mountain is destroyed, and you can't help but feel they played into the puppet master's hands.
It's thematically consistent and banging. Like....anytime they try to do anything, they just gunk everything up. Like....sometimes you hurt the people who care about you the most. Like....whether you want to help people or not, everything you do can just make things worse.
AND MAYBE. Just maybe, you can also leave the world a little better than you found it. The pain that's been caused doesn't undo the good that's been done. And I guess I think that's more interesting that just like..."no! you're intent was good and theirs was bad!", you know?
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TW: ANONYMOUS COMPLAINT
Hello anon(s). I understand the smut isn't directed to your personal gender identity and you wish to see more of these types of content directed towards it. I can't blame you for it. However, gender identity varies a lot from individual to individual.
There are people that are afab, choose to go by they/them pronouns or other pronouns but feel comfortable using stuff like dresses or skirts, for whatever reason there might be.
On the contrary, people who aren't comfortable wearing those clothes, may see the warnings and understand it's not for them. I'm not forcing anyone to read my stuff. I rarely specify what the reader is wearing but when I do, I make sure to let readers know at the beginning.
This isn't meant to be taken as a "you're wrong and I'm right" post, I'm just explaining my reasoning to label the warnings as such.
And lastly, sending spiteful anon messages isn't the best way to educate people. You're asking for respect but you aren't respectful yourself.
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Johnny literally notices the corpse arm in his arm and near instantly deduces that 1) there must be a whole rest of a body’s worth of corpse parts that are 2) scattered along the path of the race and therefore 3) everyone who has attacked them so far was actually trying to get their hands on the arm despite no one saying anything about it and 4) the entire race is actually just a sham and conspiracy on every level meant to facilitate the discovery of these corpse parts. There is nothing to lead him to believe this other than him finding a creepy magical mummified arm inside his arm and their history of being attacked by other contestants (as the frontrunners in a race with a 50 million dollar prize.) But obviously despite pulling a lot of extreme assumptions out of his ass he is 100% correct because this is just the method that Araki used to deliver this information.
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