super glad we all agree that vegeta is trans

ok see yes but also no. here on planet earth, a trans person is someone who identifies as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth, right? so like how in my headcanon bulla is amab but identifies as female and is thus a trans girl (as opposed to me, who was born as a problem and now identifies as a bigger, less binary problem).

but vegeta is from space - specifically planet vegeta - so his understand and perception of gender would probably be unrecognizable to us, assuming he’s aware of the concept at all.

how i see it is that saiyans view damn near everything in terms of combat, so what we call “transing your gender” they’d probably call “anatomical warfare” or something - you’re picking a fight with your own dna. and given the advanced tech space has, you’re probably winning.

on top of that, as i’ve mentioned before, there’s almost no way vegeta understands or cares about human terminology. personally, i don’t think he’d like being referred to with a human label, nor would he think it’s anyone else’s business what medical procedures he’s had.

if he’d been raised on earth like goku, then yeah, he’d probably be considered trans, but i think the closest thing saiyans had to strict earthling gender roles was the caste system, and he sure as hell isn’t going to identify out of being an elite saiyan warrior prince. ever.

tldr: from our perspective, yes, he’s One Of Us. from his, that’s a human thing and we should stop trying to drag him into it. usually i’d say to respect people’s opinions on whether or not they want to identify as trans, but since we’re real and he isn’t, i’m gonna say it’s up to us. you might say he is, someone else might say he isn’t, and i give a six-paragraph essay on extraterrestrial gender studies that would make every english teacher i’ve ever had say “this is what happens when you apply yourself”

vegeta seeing a rat: what the fuck is that

bulma: it’s a Bastard that eats garbage and its superpower is spreading plagues that kill hundreds of millions of people

vegeta: hmm. a formidable opponent...

sorry thought we were just sharing opinions not specifically pokemon hate ones my bad. have a nice day (this might sound dismissive or snarky but i mean it genuinely)

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hey idk if this is a weird question but i know that when i watched someone play through xenoblade i was like "man i wish the characters were less uncanny because this game seems fantastic" so does that make the remake with updated graphics the perfect game? (i love xenoblade im mostly referring to my first impressions)

So it’s a trade off, right. Yes, the characters do look better universally, that much is pretty clear. The much higher res textures and improved polycounts here and there really do make a difference for both the characters and the environments. Most specifically I feel Melia, Riki, and Fiora benefit from the updated graphics.

However, in many, many scenes the new animation style leads to weaker facial expressions so despite having the same scenes, the same shots and shot angles, and the same voice delivery lines (which are all fantastic) a little something is lost in translation. Nobody is ever allowed to look as angry or as hateful as they did in some scenes in the original, ESPECIALLY the girls but it really does take away from Shulk too. Additionally, and imo even worse, Sharla, Reyn, Shulk, and Dunban all have noticeably lighter skin tones than in the original game. Which is supremely disappointing.

If I could have a version of this game that’s the exact same but Dunban and co still got to be Brown and Shulk still got to have his more naturally tan complexion that’d be great. If I could have that AND the stronger facial rigs back that’d be perfect. If neither of these bother you too much I’d still say this version is preferable for newcomers to this game or the series as a whole just cause it does look much nicer but it’s worth considering.

hey what are u referencing when u say "That is it, I am getting myself a... that is environmentally friendly" bc i really wanna know the reference

it’s based on a scene from the movie Birdemic: Shock and Terror where the characters take a brief time out from being in the movie Birdemic: Shock and Terror to talk about how good another movie is that isn’t Birdemic: Shock and Terror

i say this as someone who loves pokemon and plans on buying the new games... please search "ladder freeze pokemon sword shield" the gif makes me laugh really hard. i think it's fine and honestly it freezing so despawning/boxing in doesn't happen makes sense, but it's really funny to me.

i saw it and honestly i think it’s funny too!! like i’m rly not surprised at all that there’s a bunch of issues with the game like that because 1. it’s been pushed for christmas so i saw this one coming and 2. it’s the initial release like idk if some ppl remember how buggy some of the other big switch games were on their original release but like botw still sometimes lags for me

i mean like i said before my fav game in this franchise is colosseum which is arguably one of the worst so i’m obviously not here for game-of-the-year quality. i just need ppl to stop acting like i’m funding the third world war here

hey i love ur icon... did u draw it or can i have a link.... i love it so much

THANNKSS!! yeah i did draw it you can see it here https://drunkin-kong-donic.tumblr.com/post/185307700795/classic-sonic-is-cute-and-he-knows

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shiny parasect c:

microorganism giorno is so important

hi kendra how’s it going i’m just wondering. did you just spam like and reblog every interaction we have had since 2018.

New broly movie is good

callout post for @doktorpeace: is going to make me watch the movie and the blood of me becoming a brolyfucker is gonna be on his hands

I’m putting it on record NOW so when I get put on trial for horny on main they gotta arrest him too

cannot stop thinking about whis having undetermined (not malicious) motives for wanting goku and vegeta to work together. if dbs 2 happens i would love them to have whis revisit this in the story. "thought it was about time to have you two train together" like. What Is He Planning

the only thing i can think of is that he wanted to get rid of beerus. having the last two saiyans kill the guy who ordered their extinction is pretty karmically satisfying, and it doesn’t hurt that they’re both op as hell (so it beerus tho).

it kind of looked like that was a potential twist later on, but i think the creators got too attached to beerus (which is just. why? why tho?). or it’s just bad writing.

not that dragon ball has ever been known for its in-depth examinations of the psyche (which isn’t a problem; the point is friendship and punching things), but super is a lot more cavalier about certain things (read: genocide) than any of its predecessors.

it’s possible that there was an idea to have goku become the new god of destruction, but (hopefully) that idea would’ve been shattered pretty quickly, since it’s not the first time goku has been offered godhood, and the last offer was a lot better. it’s also possible that they planned to have vegeta do that but then realized that that would kinda fuck over his whole character arc of becoming marginally less homicidal.

the issue i have with whis is that while he’s got a fun and genuinely likeable personality, his function in the story is a lot closer to a plot device than an actual character. this isn’t inherently a bad thing, but it doesn’t work quite as well in this case bc the beginning of super really did appear to be setting him up as a full-fledged active character - a dragon with an agenda, if you will, to beerus’s big bad of the first arc. that also wouldn’t be a problem, except that beeurs no longer appears to be acting as an antagonist.

i’ve gone into why i don’t like beerus (as an antagonist or as a character in general) on my personal blog a few times, but the issues with beerus also directly impact whis, and whis’ lack of any real importance outside of his job (i.e., his connection with beerus and the rest of the dragon ball pantheon) means that he’s pretty badly hurt by said issues.

dbs also has the issue of setting up some genuinely new and interesting ideas, but being afraid to deviate from the show’s status quo to properly execute them. this is becoming more and more common in anime, from what i’ve seen, and it ends up sacrificing character development, usually for comedic value. and not good comedic value either, just running gags that enough of the fans find amusing for the writers to just stick with that instead of having the characters grow and potentially lose the ability to keep the gag around.

think about fullmetal alchemist (the manga). one of the most famous running gags is ed’s height, but as the story progresses and gets more serious, those jokes begin to peter off and eventually stop more or less completely. this is in part bc ed himself has physically grown, but it’s also illustrative of how the story has progressed and the characters have progressed with it. it was a fun gag while it lasted, but it wasn’t permanent. it’s also important to note that ed’s lack of height was in part due to the weight of his prosthetic limbs, so the gag would have to be left behind eventually bc it wasn’t worth sacrificing so much of the story for. dbs and other newer shōnen don’t seem able to put the story before the jokes. and in light-hearted moments that can sometimes be okay, but when it’s consistent throughout the story (or worse, part of the story), it kind of ruins the feeling.

bouncing back to dbs, there are two examples of jokes illustrate this: mr. popo and goku. plenty of people know that the scene where popo warns vegeta not to break the hypertonic lion tamer (sorry) is a reference to tfs’s running gag of popo being absolutely terrifying. this works without knowledge of the abridged series bc it looks like an otherwise nice guy getting fed up with these assholes who keep breaking his shit, and it works with the reference bc pecking order. does it properly mesh with his kind, gentle, and extremely patient nature? no, not really. but it’s a little side joke that doesn’t really hurt anything.

compare that with goku. goku was never characterized as an intellectual genius, but the original incarnation of him in db and later in dbz wasn’t so much stupid as thoughtless, naive, and occasionally just uninformed (which makes perfect sense - he’s an amnesiac alien kid who spent the last few years alone with no one to teach him things). but he had a good heart and generally tried to do the right thing. if the world was in danger, making sure it was safe was his top priority. he was a smart and clever fighter who learned from his errors, and he frequently showed his own form of intelligence outside of battle by thinking ahead in ways that no one else had - such as realizing that the earth would still need protecting after he died for good, and choosing to stay dead after bulma pointed out that many of the recent threats to earth’s safety were there because of him. he doesn’t think the way most people do, but he certainly wasn’t a brainless idiot who didn’t care about anyone but himself. not perfect, but still.

in dbza, he becomes said brainless idiot bc it’s a parody series and that’s what’s funny (sort of like tenshinhan and chiaotzu randomly being jewish, or turles trying to steal christmas). but that characterization got popular, and super’s goku frequently leaned a lot more towards the abridged incarnation rather than the original goku. again, that would be fine if it was a one-off joke, but it often feels like the audience is getting bounced back and forth between canon!goku and abridged!goku all the time, which is.... frustrating. to say the least.

beerus and whis suffer from something similar, only instead of being related to comedy, it’s related to their roles in the story and how they affect the plot.

tldr: writing is hard, status quo is NOT the end all be all, and i apparently have a lot of unresolved feelings about this that i should probably bring up with my therapist bc wow

Kennedy is half dollar but im p sure sacagawea is 1 dollar

Yes. That is correct. 

one day both miles and phoenix show up with their nails done and the judge just says "trucy?" and when they both nod he just... continues with the trial. it's cute but someone is dead and another is being tried they don't have Time for this

it's cute but someone is dead and another is being tried

idk if it was u but im p sure i recall u getting mad when in palutena's guidance there was a line that was like "we didn't include chrom because he's too similar to ike" but i could be wrong

Yeah I was mad because they implied Chrom was similar to Ike. He’s not, they’re nothing alike whatsoever. They don’t fight similarly, they aren’t written similarly, and their builds aren’t similar either. Chrom is so lacking in unique traits that they made him a clone of Roy, a character he has LITERALLY NO RELATION TO and LITERALLY DOESN’T SHARE A SETTING WITH!!