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happyeverimposter · 1 year
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i really hate the whole “they’ve just been playing dnd the whole time” thing. i hate it. if you like it, fine, you’re entitled to, whatever floats your boat and all that. but what the fuck is the point??? why did i watch five seasons of a show just for it to end with “haha guys, actually, none of this ever happened!!”. and i know it’s been done before but it’s just so stupid. idk, maybe it works under certain conditions or something but if they tried to pull that for stranger things i would be so incredibly irritated.
like you’re telling me they went through all that for nothing? for nothing?? none of the character development even happened?? whaaaaaat was the poiiiiint??
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So have any unpopular opinions about the owl house? Mine is that Gus should gotten more recognition in the show and the fandom.
i agree honestly, gus was a character with so much potential and they completely squandered that. but at least he got a few episodes centred around him, unlike bow who had no role in the story apart from being the emotional support and the occasional comic relief.
my unpopular opinion is that.. the fandom blames the disney executives too much. don't get me wrong, they definitely screwed over the show and refused to let dana give us the entire story she had planned out. but a lot of the bad writing in s2b and s3 (and heck, even in s1) was the entirety the writers' fault.
unlike some other shows, the creators toh actually got the opportunity to wrap up the story. there were a lot of shows that were just cancelled with no warning, and the creators never got to write a conclusion. in that sense, the writers of toh got lucky and they should have used that to their advantage.
especially in s3, all three episodes together had a longer runtime than that of a movie. and i believe disney announced the decision to cancel when s1 was almost over, so they had all the time in the world to plan things out and make a coherent plotline instead of focusing on rushed ships and fanservice.
i was so excited for s3 and it was sorely disappointing. belos went from being a complex three-dimensional villain to just your standard Big Bad™ with no motivation outside of pOwEr. hunter was given trauma after trauma to deal with, and none of it was addressed properly afterwards. huntlow was rushed and unnatural, and screwed over both characters involved. luz's whole epiphany and the palisman was extremely lackluster, and her palisman didn't even play a huge role in the narrative afterwards. titan luz was just a deus ex machina and went against the original message of the story, which was that “there is no chosen one”.
overall, i feel like the creators did a bad job of handling the story and fans should stop blaming everything on the show's cancellation. it's an easy excuse because they don't want to hold the writers accountable for their bad writing decisions.
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anintroverteddarling · 4 months
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Might be too busy to upload the video I mentioned so Imma yeet some doodles I made at school ... ... ... I can't believe this is what I do when bored:
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These are very cursed Eddie doodles because why not?
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bonebabbles · 6 months
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God the new ultimate guide sucks
It's not JUST the awful art, either. The art's just worth mentioning because even if the book's info had been terrible or contained nothing new, really cute art can make it still worth having.
But, no, it's even full of recycled lines we've been hearing for years like "Bramblestar Can Match Squirrelflight's Fire Not Contain It," and that's when it DOES get everything right. These entries leave out major, important details (making them bad summaries) and are sometimes even straight-up incorrect.
SUMMARY THOUGHTS
Leafpool is said to have watched Brambleclaw kill Hawkfrost to save Firestar-- but for one, no, she was not there because Ashfur was still leading her and Squilf towards the scene. For two, no, Brambleclaw did not kill Hawkfrost just to save Firestar, it was self-defense. Hawkfrost had him pinned and was going to kill him.
They're REAL cute about Leafpool's death, too, neglecting to mention WHY the Sisters needed to be saved at all and just saying Leafpool's "generosity" lead to her death in that cave-in.
I'm not even going to get into everything on Bramble's entry jesus christ.
Sagewhisker's entry is ESPECIALLY fucken' dandy, framing Yellowfang's Secret like she was simply waiting patiently for Yellow to realize her 'destiny' and not actively shoving it on her at every opportunity.
Leopardstar's entry states that romantic interest in Tigerstar was part of her motivation. "Perhaps she'd hoped he would be her mate" please speak to a woman irl for once in your life.
Gray Wing's entry forgot that the reason he "blamed himself" for Bright Stream's death is because he was literally staring at his big strong brother too much and tripped on a root in front of him. It IS his fault she died.
Clear Sky/Skystar's entry is just obscene. "He regretted abandoning his son and after a fire, he encouraged him to live with him" instead of "saw his teenage child was useful now and bullied and belittled the kid and his uncle into letting Thunder come with him." "Retaining his fierceness towards his cats and outsiders which caused his son to leave" instead of "murdering, brutalizing, and abusing everyone around him caused Thunder to leave." I'll just say this tho; "Fierce" is an interesting way to spell "Cruel."
It's interesting that they don't point out that a major part of Jagged Peak's arc was proving he was "Just As Good" as every other cat in spite of his disability, thanks to his introduced-and-pregnant-in-the-same-book wife becoming his life coach, only earning Clear Sky's respect after being allowed to physically lead a patrol in Blazing Star. Instead they frame him finding his place through taking care of kits, which... was something he seemed to resent in the actual series, considering how the books suddenly treat Gray Wing's protective treatment of him as a terrible thing in Blazing Star because he "didn't give him a chance". But at the same time I actually strongly dislike Jagged Peak and his messy, frustrating character arc so I'm not really UPSET with it. Just... noting it. I suppose this is the official direction they're taking away from it?
Shadowstar's entry is barely even 3 paragraphs yikes.
SHORT STORY THOUGHTS
And if you're wondering if the 4 brand new stories they smooshed into the end in a desperate attempt to make the rush job worth buying are good? No. Of course not. They're all slop.
Story 1: Firestar and Graystripe
First one's a marginally cute story about Graystripe and Firestar which is setting up the framing device linking the mini-tales together. They both remember this situation where Firestar fell into a ditch wrong. The punchline is that Thunderstar remembers it perfectly and they're both like, "WOW! Too bad Thunderstar's memory sucks!"
It's not terrible, but it does feel a bit pointless. But, hey, if you want more Firestar and Graystripe in the series that tosses them fanservice at every turn, who am I to judge?
Story 2: Dovewing and Ivypool
The next one is the Dovewing/Ivypool reconciliation passage everyone's talking about. It's... fine, but immensely dissatisfying to me.
Dovewing is apparently having problems adjusting to her Clan, grapples a little bit with the fact she has no friends but is going to be finding meaning in helping tigerHeartstar "bring the new ShadowClan into existence." She ultimately decides that she needs to talk to her sister, and begs for reassurance that Ivypool believes in her, feeling that her support can help her get through this difficult time in her life.
I think its biggest problem is that Dovewing was not the right choice for the POV here.
Dove was never the one responsible for the rift in their relationship. Ivypool is. Ivypool is the one who was jealous, willing to sabotage anything that would put Dovewing closer to Tigerheart, and continues to be generally aggressive towards her. So when Dovewing is reaching out to Ivypool in hopes of them reconciling, it feels wrong because Ivypool is the one that should be reaching out to Dovewing. SHE is the one who has some things to apologize for, and to show how much she loves and misses her.
It's even kind of frustrating, because Dovewing can never catch a break. She has to have these problems to force her to reach out, Ivypool even ends up suggesting that she leave and come home and take her kids with her, but in the end even a LITTLE bit of assurance from her aggressive sister helps.
I feel super bad for Dovewing, man. She deserves better than this cheap writing. What was the point of such an unsatisfying, rushed reconciliation, shoved into a crummy field guide, when we KNOW from the newest book that they're just going to use tension between them as part of the drama anyway?
shouldn't have even been written, imo. Even ends off with, "They'll always have each other :)" which is so... cliche. It's TIRED. Are any of you really happy with just getting a retconned platitude in a good-for-nothing field guide, instead of seeing complicated, INTERESTING feelings in a main book?
Story 3: Alderheart and Twigbranch
A tale of Cherryfall getting sick during TBC and Alderheart sneaks back into the territory to treat her. Also Crowfeather has a scene where he yells at him. Charming.
Twigbranch comes up with a diversion while Alderheart does his work, which is cute. It's a fine story.
Story 4: Clear Sky
Trash. Three dogs spawn in the middle of a gathering so that Skystar can have an uwu big boy sendoff saving his grandkit. Then he goes to StarClan and throws a fit because they can't give him ANOTHER life, becoming so upset that he attacks the nearest woman. Naturally, Shadowstar brushes it off because it's not the first time Clear Sky has pummeled her in the midst of an adult tantrum and this book series thinks violence is fine if their favorite sadboy does it.
Then Gray Wing brings him to the magic mirror pool where you can see the living, to confirm that Star Flower is ok and that makes him feel better.
Then it launches into Firestar saying "ouuuugh yum I LOVE the taste of his butthole. Clear Sky is so misunderstood, He Just Loved Too Much."
to which Graystripe responds, "Yes, he was a good and amazing person and his farts smells SO good, and can you believe that some people think StarClan punished his Clan for his arrogance? As if he ever did anything wrong, ever?"
Firestar, indignant, refutes it with, "Ugh!! StarClan would NEVER be interesting, we don't punish living cats we just float around and make vague, frustrating prophecies that do nothing but pad the word count. Why cant ppl understand that, gosh."
who wrote this? Gray Wing??
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marymekpop · 2 months
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⟢ highlight of the hour: flex x cop [11/16] ⟣
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I dunno man I feel like most statements along the lines of ‘Batman isn’t REALLY x, he’s y’ don’t hold much water because usually, there’s a pretty good chance a number of writers over the years have written him as x, you just didn’t like it or think it doesn’t count for some reason.
For example ‘Batman isn’t REALLY a good parent, he’s actually a bad parent’, when Batman has been written as a good parent by a number of writers, and has, in addition, been written as realizing that he’s screwed up with his children and resolved to fix it by even more. At the same time, stating ‘Batman isn’t REALLY a bad parent, he’s actually a good parent’ is also incorrect, because Batman has been written as a bad parent by a number of writers, either intentionally or not; in addition, the pattern presented by the tug-of-war between writers who believe he should be a good parent and writers who don’t has, over the years, created an unintentional pattern that strongly resembles that of an abusive relationship. So, stating he is a good parent is inaccurate and dismisses a bunch of his canon writing, but stating he is a bad parent also dismisses a bunch of his canon writing and the intentions of the authors that wrote him.
The secret here is realizing that Batman has had so many writers over the years that it’s practically impossible to find a universal truth about him beyond the basic premise and maybe very, very basic characterization keystones. Writers with different beliefs about both the character and the world at large have written him in accordance to their worldview, and sometimes that worldview will align with yours, and sometimes it won’t.
Like, at this point, Batman is more an idea than he is a character. He is the bare-knuckled fight against injustice, but what ‘injustice’ is depends heavily on your worldview, as does what ‘bare-knuckled’ and ‘fight’ mean. Batman has been interpreted in dozens of different ways over the years, and singling out a few of those as the True Batman is largely arbitrary and dependent on your personal taste and belief in what the character should be. The only ‘objective’ measurement you could apply here are the old Golden Age comics, and I think most fans can agree that measuring modern Batman comics by how faithful they are to the Golden Age comics is, more often than not, a little ridiculous.
For the record, I do think that arguing about what Batman should be matters; if right-wing assholes use the character as a mouthpiece for their worldview we can and should critique that, but not because it’s ‘OOC’, but because the worldview espoused by those right-wing assholes is harmful and shitty. Batman should be a good parent, not because it’s ‘OOC’ for him to be a bad parent, but because having your paragon of justice be a child abuser is pretty shitty. Etc.
I don’t really have anywhere specific to go with this, I just think it’s a little strange when people try to view Batman as a character with a clear-cut characterization, rather than a concept that many people have approached in different ways over the years. Can that concept be mishandled? Sure. But it’s usually mishandled for reasons a bit more substantial than ‘a previous writer wrote it differently’.
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i am. OBSESSED. with ur jonathan harker. particularly his hair. it's so lovely. also i binged the league of extraordinary gentlefolk yesterday and the scene with the knife!!!! with dr. kemp! lives rent-free in my head.
anyway. do u have a favorite jonathan moment? from dracula or lxgf, either one
aw thank you! jonathan's hair has undergone extensive evolution over the time i've been drawing him but i've always enjoyed drawing the curly bang
my favorite jonathan moment in lxgf is probably [redacted] in episode 2 or maybe [redacted] in episode 8
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feluka · 2 years
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while i do agree that akane is the ultimate weirdgirl to end all weirdgirls, we need to confront that seven gives her a run for her money. you spend a little bit with him and then he's like 'junpei did you hear that god ruined detergent' and then later he's like 'junpei i'm going to tell you a story but i need to be BRIEF as FUCK because WE HAVE NO TIME. btw i'm a lone wolf. if u even care. i wipe sweat from my forehead. anyway i chuckled at my own jab at myself'
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ellierenae · 5 months
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Finally started drafting the new WIP! "Generation III"
It's about the last surviving woman on a generational ship who has completely lost her mind from isolation. It's a thriller "erotica" (is it still erotica if it's gross?) about the relationships between her and inanimate objects on the ship.
She's 30 years old and completely feral because the closest thing she's ever known to another human being is the pile of corpses in space suits. She can't read, can't speak, and doesn't know to bathe or brush her teeth or untangle her hair.
All she knows is that there's something wrong with her, because she isn't anything like the black and white, sharp-edged, self-sanitizing ship.
In four months she's going to land on a planet she can't repopulate or terraform, and she's going to die there.
Until then, her body will slowly fall apart, and she'll...
(checks notes)
Make out with the oxygen tubes?
Cool. Cool cool cool.
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artistsoftheunknown · 5 months
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dposit
felt like a goner; no sooner than later, moody blue somber, i met your elation. hoped in a manner so stately & spoken with gravely grave tone. channeled a war hawk long dead from misery. dropped act to lessen distance between desire & history.
never been to the ardennes but i'd gamble my savings to say there too they sigh when getting lost in peculiarities of creation. make out for new ground; soon to be wasteland, until reclaimed by nature, which couldn't care less about our stance on the butchery of children being children for the sake of a scheme named "nation".
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i-dont-r3member · 8 months
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I’ve realized part of why I hat Gotham war so much. It’s LITERALLY A FANFIC UNDER THE BAD DAD BRUCE TAG. LIKE I STG I CANT EVEN BELIEVE THAT THEY FUMBLED HIS CHARACTER SO BAD I WAS LITERALLY JUST SITTING HERE LIKE “ugh if I wanted this shit I’d just go to ao3” and DING! Obviously everyone and their mother knows he’s out of character but there’s a specific flavor of out of character bad dad Bruce that I see a LOT in fics (and other fan works but mostly fics) and Gotham war Bruce is totally it wtf idk how to describe it but its there
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thewhizzyhead · 2 years
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heyo this is your resident rambler bringing you updates from sapphic filipino twitter: darlentina has been featured on the "for sapphics" twitter account twice and both posts are racking up a lot of views and likes. it's been a week filled with a rollercoaster of darlentina content and we're already breaching the international sapphic stage that is the "for sapphics" twitter account. even more clips and shitpost edits outside of that are amassing hundreds of thousands of views. everyone, this is our pinoy queerbaiting era ala supercorp except that through the power of sheer gay spite, we are very rapidly pushing the production crew to a corner in the hopes that international queer pressure will make them drop the dude cop love interest in favor of what could be one of the most revolutionary twists in philippine mainstream media: making darna and valentina, canonical archenemies, the main romantic pairing and partners in crime in fighting against very thinly-veiled allegories to philippine political corruption
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I watched (¾ of) breakfast at tiffanys for the first time this week and it's such a goofy film purely because Paul's so passive for most of it because Holly keeps involving him in stuff and he's just there like 🧍 damn guess I'm doing this now
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ickypuppi3 · 1 year
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i’m confused because is that not literally how she’s written in the show- her storylines do revolve her love life 99% of the time
like as shitty as that is, it is canon & surely you can’t blame fans for how crap the shows writing is and how characters are depicted?
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mozart-the-meerkitten · 4 months
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What was your reaction when you finished reading the Warden and the Wolf King?
Just asking,
Trilliane (P. S. God bless you and keep you!)
*Wingfeather spoilers for book 4 ahead, like seriously, if you don't want the end of the book series fully spoiled for you LOOK AWAY*
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Okay, so, first you need to know that I could sense the ending coming and I dreaded it. Guessing plot twists can be fun but sometimes it can also be awful.
I was so angry and distraught and, honestly, outraged, about Janner dying at first that I couldn't even enjoy what followed (the cloven turning back to humans, Arundelle and Artham's reunion <3 <3, Sara and her boat of orphans, Kalmar giving everyone new names etc).
And then Andrew Peterson had the audacity to end the book LIKE THAT in the epilogue and I about near lost my mind. I started running on fumes of adrenaline and hope and I immediately went in search of fanfics to FINISH THE BOOK since Andrew wouldn't ajlkghfjagdhsardjgf
At the time there was one (1) Ao3 fanfic about the WFS and it had nothing to do with the end of book 4 so I went over to ff.net which THANK THE MAKER had what I needed. I'll link the fanfic I found and immediately accepted as canon below. I can't remember if I actually went and printed it out or if I just planned to, but it is solidly the end of book 4 to me. xD
A Proper Wingfeather Saga Ending
So, yeah, TLDR; I went through the stages of grief, was given a sliver of hope in the epilogue, and immediately turned to fanfiction. xD
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whyismangososour · 7 months
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I really don’t understand this mindset that runs in film YouTubers’ heads that the biggest problem with Stranger Things is that the writers refuse to kill off main characters???? my dude it’s not their inability to kill off characters that’s the problem it’s their affinity for introducing way too many characters to the cast in the first place and then not knowing what the fuck to do with them afterwards
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