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kindahoping4forever · 5 months

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my ultimate wish for this next era is they finally let Ryan go like they did Andy. I'm so sick of not getting the content we deserve. All the gatekeeping of tour diaries and now the crumbs of concert footage in that "documentary" yesterday. he was working for months on that? that's why we didn't get tour diaries? all that footage just goes in his vault now? Please.

Hello! I'm sorry to hear you felt disappointed by yesterday's special. However, I feel compelled to comment on a few objective points in your ask.

- "Live & Backstage in Amsterdam" was directed by James Tonkin, the same director (and production team, Hangman) they worked with on "The Feeling of Falling Upwards" (and the unreleased "Live in Brixton" special). Ryan was credited as director of the documentary footage and as a contributing editor (1 of 3) but the live footage and overall final program was not his work.

- Regardless of the particular creatives involved here (or in any given project for that matter), the fact remains that any directors, producers, photographers, etc are all hired hands operating with full input and specific direction from the band. The band chose to make this a hybrid concert film/documentary. The band chose to condense the setlist the way they did. The band chose this format over the traditional tour diaries. What happens to the unused footage will be determined by the band. Ryan is a friend but he is first and foremost an employee and the band owns that footage. (Likewise, the MYT diaries are not sitting on Andy Deluca's hard drive because he's "gatekeeping" or too lazy to edit it. If the band wanted them released, they'd be released.) All this to say, of course you don't have to agree with the decisions but it's important to clarify who your complaint is with.

- This concept of the band or their collaborators "gatekeeping" and fans not getting what we "deserve" is, to be blunt, entitled and immature. Being a fan does not make an artist indebted to you. They make music, if you feel so inclined, you listen. That's it. That's the extent of the contract. Anything beyond that is optional for both parties. Any content an artist chooses to release is not out of obligation or generosity, it's part business strategy, part artistic vision. Artists do not owe you anything. This band does not owe you anything.

#apologies for the long answer but clearly i had a lot to say (still do tbh)#i didn't link it bc it hit a lot of the same points but i answered an ask with similar sentiments last year about the CM promo era aesthetic #bottom line is at the end of the day these dudes are not our friends shit posting they are professional artists #artists trying to fulfill not just a creative vision but also business obligations #the people they work with are tools in the toolbox hired to help accomplish those goals #they don't get raw footage and do whatever they want with it - the band will always get final say #the hate their collaborators get is always so bizarre to me-whether it be their signature style or the manner in which they deliver content #the band hired these people for a reason 🤷🏻‍♀️#also just bc I have the time: Andy was not 'let go'#thru their work with 5sos andy & sarah have become quite prolific mv directors both individually and as a team #as well as continuing to be in demand live music photographers - andy literally shot depeche mode last week #ryan has also had a number of high profile ad campaigns he's shot this year #what I'm saying is they don't need 5sos lol #the band likes their work and is lucky to have access to collaborators that make them feel understood #i just... can't reconcile this 'we deserve' bit #this was the third concert special in as many years... we only had to pay for one... bc it was a global livestream #it's ok to be disappointed if it wasn't what you expected and i don't mean to invalidate that #but this concept of 'deserving' is a different thing especially in the context of this fandom where entitlement is an ongoing issue #so that's where this long ass answer is coming from lol #anyways that's my rant for the year - just in under the wire!#ask #anon

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kaiserouo · 5 days

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Prismatic

also some other versions because why not

#i mean #literally prism-atic #i like those prism + light art installations #i tried #btw this actually wasn't related to prismatic subclass but. hmm.#i haven't drawn titan for a long time but i didn't expect i'd give him this level of lineart tbh #that shotgun is quite a lot of trouble for me. guns are like the second hardest thing to draw #(the first one. of course. is human / exo faces)#destiny 2 #destiny titan #destiny 2 art #my art

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sidsinning · 2 years

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You know, while it's great that Adrien FINALLY recognizes Marinette actually exists, what led to it... yikes. I mean, she LITERALLY only fell for Chat because he's the only option she has?

Also, the lukanette and marigami is going strong as always.

At this point... I'd prefer if her love interest was a BED, poor girl deserves a break.

I mean people have been saying the LS isn't reversed, it's complete. I think her feelings for Adrien are "cooling down" bc they're so heavily associated with losing the miraculous, so she just feels anxious and avoidant whenever they're brought up now. It's like Luka says, she's not really falling out of love with him, she's just really confused and mentally unwell bc of everything going on around her with the miraculous (since he knows her identity, he KNOWS this is why).

Also she's second guessing her love for him bc she doesn't know if she was not really in love with him after realizing how little she really talked to him (or so she assumes). But in the end she still sees him as she described in her practice confession to CN which is most definitely the real Adrien- someone sweet, sincere, and generous. She knows more about him than she thinks.

Marinette is ALSO in love with CN not bc he's her only choice now- she wants NO CHOICES if she can help it. It's why she's crying at the end of Determination, she wasn't looking for a rebound to ignore her feelings for Adrien, far from it. She's despairing over the fact that she has to deal with maybe another catastrophe that will be bc of her love for someone again, feelings she can't help. Not understanding why she was swooning for him and feeling sorrow when he says they're only partners after she expressed her tender affection for ONLY him, I think they are both signs she is in love with him because he's CN.

But tbh it's Mari so despite all this she will still somehow twist things to avoid thinking about Adrien lmao. She's gonna be juggling. Unlike Adrichat who has gotten his closure with LB so he can finally focus on Marinette, Marinette has not confessed to either Adrien or CN, nor has she been fully rejected by either of them.

So yeah. Messy messy.

Also agree loving their vibes

HONESTLY THOUGH SHE NEEDS SLEEP AND PEACE MORE THAN A BOYFRIEND RN TBH LOL

#ml #mlb #miraculous ladybug #determination #ml s5 spoilers #ml spoilers #adrienette #adrinette #adrien x marinette #marinette dupain cheng #ladybug #ask #sorry if you didn't expect this long ramble I just wanted to talk about the ep more tbh lol

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popponn · 5 months

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707 ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡) thank you so much everyone i love you all. i hope the things i post in the future will be able to amuse you ;;;

#the sudden jump in the number surprise me tbh but ;;;; thank you??#i genuinely didn't expect i will be here??? and i have many moots here now???? yeah my introvert grandma ass def didnt expect this #thank you everyone for everything. i still read the comments & tags repeatedly. edit and delete posts a lot and still kinda confused #but yeah i will try to be better and more pleasant again. thank you so much for letting me have 707 uwu <3 my love...#babblings #okay back to work. all in all <3 i hope i can give some long fics or smth proper soon

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name-that-isnt · 1 year

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I made an interesting little connection while looking at the symbol on minish vaati's outfit. Not sure if anyone has pointed this out already but-

-the symbol on his outfit is strikingly similar to the wiccan horned god symbol. I decided to look into it more to see if I could connect any dots.

I'll start by discussing connections I made to vaati from the first informational image.

As a symbol of power, it makes sense that the horned god would appear on minish vaati's outfit. Like most zelda villains, he craved power, so the horned god served as a subtle representation of that. He later on transforms into a monster with more than a striking resemblance to the horned god, symbolic of him finally aquiring the power he so desired.

One of the first sightings of the horned god symbol being in an image called "the sorcerer" lines up pretty well with vaati, as he is in his sorcerer form for most of mc. One could say that his sorcerer form was the first sighting of the horned god for the people around him.

Horned god osiris' association with rebirth can be related to vaati's "rebirth", as he comes back twice after mc. He also just so happens to have a form called "vaati reborn" that is depicted wearing a horn-shaped crest.

Osiris and cernunnos being gods of the underworld can be connected to vaati's rule over the monsters he released from bound chest, and his prominence among other villains as he is the first villain to take the stage after demise.

Vaati physically taking on the form of the horned god does indeed serve as a direct opposition to the triple moon goddess, the goddess in this case being hylia in the form of zelda. Just as he was able to cause destruction with the power of the mage's cap, zelda was able to fix what he had broken with the same tool. It may also be worth noting that on fs zelda's dress, there is a symbol that shares a very vague resemblance to the triple moon goddess symbol.

Okay, moving on to the second informational image!

Sherry Salman's idea of the male psyche's "horned god" often being a way to compensate for "inadequate fathering" can be interpreted as an indication of the state of vaati and ezlo's relationship.

In the first encounter with the "horned god", it is described as "dangerous" but "possessed of kindness and intelligence". This can be paralleled by how vaati is shown in the mc bonus manga, "vaati during training", when he first decides to study under ezlo. He has his own shallow motives for wanting to become a sage, which may have contributed to his dangerous behavior later on in life. When he first meets ezlo he upholds a kind and respectful demeanor. Vaati is described as "serious" and "ambitious", presumably about learning to become a sage, therefore showing that he is committed to the possession of intelligence.

If the "horned god" is repressed, it shall appear later in life as "hades". For vaati, this "hades" would be his cultivated interest in the darkness residing in human hearts. It's never fully elaborated on, but the repression that caused his interest in such a subject may have been unintentionally induced by ezlo. In both the mc game and manga, ezlo is shown to be quite overbearing and harsh, a tough love type of guy. Vaati may have felt like his hard work as an apprentice was not being acknowledged, and this caused a buildup of repressed resentment towards ezlo (cite "No longer will I tire away as your apprentice! Now, all shall call ME master!") Noting vaati's pompous behavior despite him describing his minish self as "a meek, miniscule nothing", the way ezlo treated him may have caused him to develop some sort of inferiority-superiority complex that greatly contributed to his antagonistic behavior later on. Ezlo most likely didn't mean to make vaati feel this way, but because the two didn't communicate their emotions efficiently, vaati's loathing of ezlo and himself only worsened over time.

The idea of the "horned god" splitting off entirely would be reflected in vaati's hatred for himself and ezlo, his need for power and self fulfilment, and his interest in the sickness of human nature reaching a breaking point. This breaking point is breached when he gets his hands on the mage's cap. Vaati is finally capable of embracing his "hades", getting revenge, and gaining power to compensate for his lack of genuine self love that he covers up with his arrogant attitude.

The violence, substance abuse, and sexual perversion that follow the split off can be clearly seen in vaati's actions. Violence was demonstrated in the havoc he wreaked upon hyrule. The substance abuse is more of a metaphor. He became addicted to the power that the mage's cap granted him and abused it to the point that he was able to achieve god status, even if only for a short time. The sexual perversion is shown in his infamous kidnapping of beautiful maidens. The ego that comes from the integration of the "horned god" was definitely destructive to both vaati himself and the people around him.

I think the idea to make vaati's monstrous forms shaped like the horned god symbol and to incorporate said symbol in his minish outfit was a good choice. It was an interesting way to tell his story through just visuals. It very well may not have been intentional and whoever was in charge of his character designs just thought it looked cool, but I'd like to think they knew what they were doing with this. I suppose the big takeaway from all of this is that:

1. Character design and attention to detail is important for storytelling

And

2. Communication in ur relationships is key

To think that vaati and ezlo could've had a happier ending had they effectively talked with one another is sad to say the least, but honestly I find vaati's arrogant facade very endearing (as I'm sure most other vaati enjoyers do.) I'm not really sure how to end a post like this so uh do with this information what u will 😇

#vaati #loz #long post #this didn't present any new information tbh #we kinda assumed all of this already #i just enjoy the fact that his story is incorporated into his appearance in such a clever way #and i just had to share it with u guys #as expected others have already noticed the horned god thing (shoutout to u guys)#but i suppose i just wanted to take it in a story/character analyzing direction cuz i love learning more about my husband #🧿#🛡️

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hallowed-nebulae · 11 months

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For the ask game: I wish you would write a fic where the KHUX cast were Digimon tamers/chosen children (since I know you ALSO like both franchises, haha).

Oho, this is a fun idea

First thing that comes to mind is Ventus with a meicoomon. Powerful but small? Has a "good" evolution line and a "bad" one? Absolutely fitting. Khux ventus would have a meicoomon → meicrackmon → rasielmon partner I think; wayfinder ventus has a meicoomon → wingdramon → dynasmon partner, while Vanitas has meicoomon → meicrackmon vicious mode → raguelmon as a partner. Ventus-vanitas can have ordinemon as a bit of "wow this is a messed up situation huh", as a treat.

Skuld feels like she'd have a Lunamon (probably Lunamon → lekismon → crescemon → dianamon, traditional evolution line).

Ephemer with Coronamon (and the traditional Coronamon → firamon → flaremon → apollomon line) fits well as well I think. For a bonus, he and skuld's friendship could mean that while player fights them, player's partner digimon could have to fight against a very powerful GraceNovamon, ahaha

I'm not sure what partner I'd give Brain or Player, but I think Lauriam could do well with a Palmon. Lillymon or Rosemon would be the strongest form his partner would get to, I think; I can also imagine said partner going down the Palmon → vegimon → blossomon → lotusmon post-khux, when by marluxia's side

Tbh I feel like one could put digimon alongside khux pretty easily; keyboard wielders having digimon partners as well, and it being tied to that legacy of being a keyblade wielder or something. Digimon partners helping their tamers, not too dissimilar to a chirithy if you think about it -- friends that're for the most part Always There.

Anyways the tldr is I don't think it'd change canon too much but it would be a fun lil fic to write at some point. Digital creatures who are your friends <3

#rambles #kingdom hearts #digimon #i probably thought about these partner evolution lines a bit too long but oh well #i didn't watch tri. but i did see the clip of ophanimon and raguelmon joggressing into ordinemon and it was some wonderful body horror #so i think that's fitting for ventus-vanitas abd that whole situation #giving wayfinder ventus ulforcev–dramon would've been too easy tbh. yeah v fast but a bit expected and i wanted to have more fun #i feel like i could give brain vitium as a partner tbh – vitium isn't technically a digimon but re:digitize decode is dear to my heart so #ooh i almost wanna give brain a cyberdramon but that'd be ny cyberdramon bias creeping in ahaha

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lightasthesun · 30 days

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cut my bestie's hair the other day (success!) and unexpectedly spent two hours sitting on the floor while doing so because her hair is so long I couldn't reach it otherwise, and my body has been letting me know how utterly stupid of an idea that was since then :)

#you're always wiser afterwards lol #i didn't expect it would take that long tbh qnd i didn't feel the time passing either #i was razor focused #however! she's happy which is a relief because her hair is her holy grail and so I'm happy too #ann rambles #im so low on spoons #everything hurts lol

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chaoskiro · 1 month

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Top 5 fruit

Nectarines. They are the most decadent gift this earth has given us. (They have to be hard with yellow insides though, it is a delicate balance which is harder to maintain now that I live alone and my mom doesn't devour them when they've become too ripe for me)

Oranges. This is a new discovery. While I've been prone to steel a slice (or a boat as we call them in danish) from my dad's after-dinner-orange from time to time, I did not really enjoy this amazing fruit properly until I took one on a whim at circus training. They taste amazing and the gathering of people around the trash can as we slowly uncover the fruit, carefully removing the bitter strands, hands getting sticky with juice and talking about who knows what, holds a special place in my heart.

Lemons. While I may have never eaten a lemon whole (don't get ideas Sif (or do, I guess. It's your mouth)), they just bring goodness to all they touch and so many of my favorite things wouldn't be complete without them.

Plums. (I had to look the spelling of that one up) Though plums are always a precarious business, like nectarines they can't get too soft, but even then each plum can be a revelation or the greatest disappointment you have ever fielded. The revelations are worth it though.

Pineapple. (I feel like they're fruits?) While it's easy to get too much of these I will always take a cube when my grandma offers it, despite the weirdness in your mouth for the next hour.

#I am not a great fruit enjoyer so this one was a little hard for me #though nectarines are some of the greatest gifts this earth has given us #I considered also putting peaches on there #but to me it is kinda like putting nectarines on there twice #like there IS a difference which make nectarines slightly better but still #felt like cheating #didn't expect this to get so lyrical and long #I was very tempted to put tomatoes on there because they are also god tier and I have been known to just eat a big tomato like an apple #and the whole TECHNICALLY A FRUIT thing #but then I realised I would have to check if every single thing I wanted to put on here was technically a fruit and nah we're going on vibe #This was more fun than expected tbh #kirokiro #askkiro #spørgejørgen

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nonokoko13 · 7 months

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<<DNI if you shame people for having "cringe" interests>> *proceeds to shame or disrespect someone for having interest in fictional stuff they don't like instead of using the block button even though that person has done anything to anyone*

#vent??? I guess??? idk #some people is mind-blowing to me. not in the good sense #idc much about fandom discourse or whatever but the level of blindness or hypocrisy some reach is??#like you see them telling everyone they are supportive and reality ≠ fiction but then make gymnastic levels of stretching to explain why--#--what they like is good 👍 and everything they dislike or they're neutral of shouldn't exist and who enjoy it should kill themselves #and it doesn't even need to be something gross like this time I have seen it is because others like Kuromi more than My Melody dude wtf? 😭#guys is it homophobic to be cishet? Because apparently according to some who support everyone of the collective being cishet is enough to--#get blocked. If it was reversed they would get called out for their weird behaviour but ig I'm the weird one #like. One thing is blocking or putting boundaries because that's what social media is for. Curating your space is normal and it should--#always be #but another thing is opinating [insert sexuality/gender] is 'on thin ice' for just...being on the internet???#Idk what I was expecting from Twitter tbh. Although I see people like that in every social media #so sad and tiring #just say you don't want others to have different takes in whatever fandom you are and go. You don't need to give explanations or aact-#--like you are always objective and therefore correct #Anyway in this house we stan Kuromi and cishet people as long as they don't discriminate anyone for their gender identity or sexuality 👍#If you have read this far I'm sorry. Seems long. Have a nice day 🫶#and if you are wondering no that person didn't do anything to me they were talking about Kuromi/straights in general #but I felt the need to share #tw vent #edit: Seems like they did reach somebody over their interest in fandom stuff. Not surprises there #God forbid people to make their internet experience about their hobbies and interests #instead of curating THEIR OWN BLOG and thinking of what others want them to like instead #just a warning for those who like my shit. Unfortunately for you I like fictional characters being evil or morally grey as much as #fictional characters being good people #sorry guys block me if you want Imma keep using critical thinking 🤷‍♂️#OH AND WHAT UPSETS ME THE MOST: When somebody breaks their own dni to go to somebody to tell them they suck or whatever #like????? Why would you do that if you despise x trope or thing sm???? So you want everyone to respect your boundaries except yourself????#you just waste your own time and those you interact with by trying to create a raging conversation for all parts #fandom discourse

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scoobydoozies · 1 year

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the racism was uncomforable in the headless horror my other problem with it was how the guy just took his wife putting him in the hositpal as no big dea.... it just felt so unbelievable..

relationships in this show are very..strange to me... we got velma abusing shaggy/ velma the smart one being jealous of scooby/ fred showing zero interest in daphne until the plot demands it/ daphne/velma alone come off too pushy that it gets uncomfortable/ and thats just season 1

season 2 i wont spoil much cause im not sure how far ya are. im only about 5-6 eps in but i ididnt want to see a jealous fred act like a crazed ex but they decided woo its comedy to kidnap your ex girlfriend/ and again we have a women being weird to shaggy but an old women so its 100 times worse and just played off as a joke.. this show is just mean to shaggy

so how this show was recommended after velma is beyond me.. at best the background animation is good and we got the voice of kronk/ and frank welker is having fun i think tis amazing he can still do him so well at 70 / but they can only do so much to make it bearable with all the romance drama/ plot twists it reminds me of a cw show but animated

yeah like that's what i mean when i say this show really just isn't written well. there are some really cool concepts, but rarely are they executed to their fullest potential. characters make choices not based on their own personality and goals, but for the convenience of the plot and creation of conflict, which often leads to some really unfortunate side effects when you actually think about what's happening. as an example i wanna break down the fred and daphne thing, but this kind of writing is present throughout the whole first season (which is all i've seen so far, though i've heard a decent amount of things about season 2, but i'll try to stick to what i've personally watched for the most part)

like, at first fred shows no interest in daphne beyond friendship, but is a pretty good friend to her, while daphne is head over heels for fred to the point that she has basically no personality outside of that. yet, there isn't anything about fred that she actually likes. in the first episode she says that he's like one of those geniuses that's isn't appreciated in their time, but it's clear from later episodes that her and the rest of the gang think that he's stupid. beyond that, everything he says is annoying or boring to her unless it's him showing her romantic affection, and even then, only in certain ways.

later in season 1, fred suddenly switches from having no romantic interest in daphne to being in love with her, for no discernible reason. we know he didn't just secretly have a crush on her before, because we know that when he shows interest in someone he becomes incredibly jealous and possessive, and in episode 3 (before he liked her) he was totally supportive of her going on the date with rung. she ends gets so upset about him not reciprocating her feelings in the way she wants (as if she's owed that or something) and for having the audacity to like things that aren't her, that she writes a diss track about him and rejects him when he actually DOES reciprocate her feelings.

then there's that whole thing where he asks her on a date to the trap museum, and she gets really mad about it… for some reason? it's apparently because he makes everything about traps instead of her? she then gets all googly-eyed over a teacher, fred gets jealous, and then daphne says that she has the teacher's phone number and that they're planning on going on a date… at the trap museum. which either means: 1. she doesn't actually mind learning about traps and she's just annoyed that he's continuing to have an interest in the thing he's interested in for no reason, or 2. she's lying about having a date with the teacher, and is just saying that to hurt him. also, side note, the show never addresses or even implies that there's anything wrong with the teacher/student relationship aspect of all this. like, at all. the issue being presented here is that daphne's making fred jealous, because they liiiike each other~. at the end of the episode he calls her his girlfriend, and suddenly she's totally not mad at him anymore and is like "oh i would LOVE to go to the trap museum with you"… even though he was LITERALLY asking her out on a date at the beginning of the episode! which means he thinks of her as his girlfriend! nothing changed! she just changed her mind because it was time for that conflict to be over.

then fred and daphne are together and it's pretty much fine for a while, but then fred starts acting really controlling about her, almost verging on stalker territory. he starts making a list of all her habits and whereabouts, keeping track of her schedule and trying to control her and their relationship. she becomes (rightfully) uncomfortable with this, and says to velma it's giving her trust issues. she doesn't really talk about it to him directly, instead she asks a spirit board about the issue in front of him and he notices. later they actually DO talk about it, he apologizes for his behavior and it's chalked up to him being overprotective because of his issues over his absent mom. the one that scooby said was hot. that part's not relevant but i think it bears mentioning. anyway i actually felt like the way this conflict between them was handled fairly decently for this show. fred has an obsessive personality so this being a character flaw makes sense, daphne not talking to him about it right away and being a little immature about addressing it makes sense fits because she's a teenager, and they did talk about it and work it out. the problem doesn't come from this specific episode but the fact that fred… doesn't actually stop being controlling about daphne in later episodes (like i know about the kidnapping thing and doll with her real hair and the getting mad at/bullying marcie for not being daphne… ugh. don't even get me started on the way the gang treats marcie.)

then fred ends up proposing to daphne out of nowhere (they're still in high school btw), saying he wants her to solve mysteries with her forever, and she's over the moon about it. she gets really into it and starts planning right away, wanting to one-up her sisters and all that. when she tries to talk to fred about wedding stuff though, he's totally disinterested, and she continues to be disinterested in anything about him that doesn't revolve around her. great basis for a future marriage /s. they end up telling their parents who don't approve, velma and shaggy get mad at them for not telling them about the engagement, yada yada, whatever. at the end of season finale when the truth comes out about fred's past, he calls the engagement off completely because he wants to find his real parents, alone. the guy who is supposedly all about the team and wanted them to all move in together after high school and to solve mysteries together with daphne forever… wants to solve the mystery of locating his parents on his own. why??? well obviously because the writers want to separate them all for the dramatic ending, of course! and they didn't bother to set up any real justification for that beforehand that would actually make sense.

what's worse though is if you think about that ending from a totally in-universe perspective, it makes fred look REALLY bad. like, he proposed to daphne to keep her bound to him forever, but the second it felt more convenient to not have her around, he throws her in the garbage? AND continues to be obsessive and controlling about her later?

i think fred being controlling can be a good character flaw to have, in fact be cool scooby-doo did that really well in my opinion, but when you apply that character flaw to a romantic relationship, i think you have to be REALLY careful about how you portray that, and the show doesn't exactly have the best track record when it comes to condemning toxic behavior like that. plus, the level of control can only go up to a certain point severity and persist for a certain amount of time before it stops being an innocent mistake.

and this is just. how the show is written. in general. characters do nonsensical things for the convenience of the writers, which often paints them as being petty, fickle, and shallow. they often do mean or selfish things purely for the purpose of creating conflict and nothing else, which makes them come off as being bad people. im not opposed to shows where the characters are deeply flawed or even the villains, but it really doesn't feel like it's on purpose with the main 5. their bad behavior is often justified or left uncriticized or unpunished

when velma's hitting shaggy (and doing so hard enough to hurt him) for talking the way he talks, fred and daphne completely ignore it. the only one who cares about it is shaggy, who's later villainized for breaking up with the girl who abused him, demeaned him, and tried control him, after she gave him an ultimatum to get rid of his best friend! a member of their team! do fred or daphne ever tell her, "hey, scooby's our pal, and asking shaggy to get rid of him is really selfish of you"? nope! she continues to go on and on about how "he left her for a dog" for the whole rest of the season, and plenty of other characters throughout the show sympathize with her or mock shaggy for his (correct) choice. nobody ever stands up for him or defends him at all.

there's not even any discernible reason why any of them are interested in each other romantically. hell, there's no discernible reason why any of them are friends at all! well, besides velma and daphne bonding over their shared entitlement to the boys they're into, and similar shallow romance drama and other stereotypical ~girl things~. i wouldn't even say they all share a love for mystery solving-- shaggy and daphne don't seem like they could care less about that, and even fred and velma don't feel like they like it as much as every other iteration of those characters i've come across. fred mostly just cares about setting traps and nine times out of ten velma would rather angst over shaggy or get a pedicure with daphne than focus on the mystery. they solve mysteries together because that's what's dictated by the show they're in. that's it. they're not even very good at it! in the first half of season 1 mr. e is holding their hands, guiding them through some of the most obvious and clear-cut mysteries i've seen from this franchise. the writers try to make them look smarter by deliberately not showing key clues to the audience (who can probably figure it out anyway by ruling out the obvious red herrings and paying attention to the basic structure, even if they're given 0 clues or motives that actually incriminate the character), and this just makes the reveals feel cheap, and further highlights how ridiculous some of the explanations are.

and i could just keep going, really, but i won't because this is already getting really long.

like i said, there's some cool concepts and ideas here, and every once in a while there will be an episode or scene or line that's pretty good. the backgrounds are nice, same with the designs of a lot of the monsters. i liked the episode with the orc biker gang, i thought the frighthound was really creepy, i like there being an overarching plot and getting to see the gang's school and home lives, i like there being an old mystery incorporated, i like fred being autistic (even if the representation there is flawed), i love fred jones sr (i guess since they make all the characters selfish assholes, it turns out that when that's what they're supposed to do, they do a pretty good job), etc. if this show had different writers, ones that think things through, can write women, that don't perpetuate toxic relationship dynamics or sexualize teenagers, that know how to craft mysteries with proper pacing and intrigue, that have a grasp on humor beyond cynical mean-spiritedness (which sometimes bleeds into outright bigotry), it probably WOULD be the best scooby-doo show.

and yeah, it's really ironic that this was the show everyone was recommending as an alternative to hbo's velma, because it seems like they share a lot of the same problems, velma's just a lot less subtle about it.

#I'M SORRY THIS S SO LONG SJLAKDFJLSKADJFK #i kind of started and then just... kept going...#i didn't realize how much i wrote until i copy-pasted it all into tumblr... oh lord #i dont know if you were expecting a 2000+ word informal essay as a response but that's what you got! ssdkjfjskdjf #anyway. i also love frank welker! he's a great voice actor. one of my faves ever and i think hes a big reason i like fred so much #he just keeps getting better tbh #sdmi critical #sdmi negative #a scoobydoozies original #oh it sure is lmao. scoobydoozies windbag moments #long post

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clairenatural · 2 years

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also I feel like we as a community understate the sheer. idk. power behind dean ever forgiving cas for breaking sam's wall. yes cas atones and yes even sam forgives him but dean???? dean who will famously hunt down and kill anyone who hurts sam on principle??? forgives him nearly immediately after seeing him again. he also forgives him for many other things but nearly killing sam. I don't think he'd forgive anyone else for that

#dean also. like. i think people characterize him as unforgiving but he's really not #he holds his family to a (admittedly sometimes impossibly) high standards #(as he holds himself as well)#and gets very upset and angry when people he trusts/expects to do better commit a perceived Wrong or betray him or let him down #and sometimes it takes a bit for him to get over #but once someone is Family he always always forgives #when have we ever seen dean NOT forgive someone he loves. never #even his parents get forgiveness #its like what cas says to jack. he'll be mad for sometimes a long time and then one day he'll let it go and everything will be forgiven #and some of the things he forgives are like. okay yeah the other person (usually cas) didn't actually do anything wrong here #but some of it is like!!! lying! big betrayals! hurting him or someone he cares about! nearly ending the world!#dean winchester has a huge heart and huge capacity for forgiveness and that's really what it all comes down to #might make these tags their own post tbh #they maybe invalidate my whole point above lmao but like my point stands #hurting sam is a Capital Offense

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lupizora · 10 months

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☁️ Cloudy (for the WIP ask game) 😊

Thank you, dear!! ♥

☁️ Cloudy - What inspired you to start writing your WIP? (or in general)

To be fair, this is a bit of a complicated question. I seem to consider most of my WIPs as active and current, simply because I will rotate them in my mind like a rotisserie chicken over months (or years) one or more at the same time.

But there is a common consensus in the case of personal projects (instead of fics that I have written for events or gifts). Inspiration will come from the most random source and is always accompanied by a "what if...?" question. Then it snowballs from there like the fastest avalanche on this planet.

There is no fandom or ship I have written about so far that didn't start this way. It's so obvious that even I can see the signs, clear as day, nowadays lol 😂

So, to give you an example, this is how I got really into DCMK and Kaishin in particular. Firstly, I opened the fandom wiki (since I had only watched MK 1412 at the time, thus some of the DetCo characters I was coming across in fics were new to me). I read there that although characters are shared between the Magic Kaito and Detective Conan series, they are essentially two different universes with separate rules (which in conclusion has characters literally NOT EXISTING in one of them). Not to mention the fact that it's uncertain whether KID knows Conan is Shinichi in the actual manga canon of the series (unlike what the movies will have you believe). In turn, this finally leads me to this question:

"What if, when Shinichi returns from being Conan, notices there is a disparency between his memories of KID's involvement in his life and everyone else's memories of him. He tries to find the truth, but slowly comes to realize that the difference is so big that it can only be accounted for as a parallel universe existing alongside his, and has to ask himself the question Which version of this guy is my thief?"

Suffice it to say, this was the very first WIP I started writing for this fandom, and it unfortunately still remains unfinished. I want it to be a one-shot, but it's probably gonna be a long one-shot (given the subject matter). I also kinda overthought about whether I wanna have this fic as my first published one in this fandom (since it's a bit odd and niche and it turned out deeply personal somehow).

I guess that's a question for future me 🫣

Wip Weather Ask Game

#writing ask game #ask games #wolfsreplies #gfcasserole #I didn't expect me to give such a long answer tbh #suppose it's because I had this fic on my mind for the past couple of days #I mean I'm currently writing an entirely different (sorta) kaishin fic but it's filled with the same uncanny valley whimsy a little #so my mind was like 'Let's double back to fix some stuff from the beginning that we were unsatisfied with from this OTHER fic' lol

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