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the-cat-and-the-birdie · 9 months

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I had coffee my thoughts are all over the place it's not gonna make sense and I'm probably gonna change my mind about some of the things I said later but here's my ramble.

I'm so mad right now. There's so many things that piss me off with Peter B. I keep thinking about all the mess he keeps pulling throughout the first and the second movie. The fact that he betrayed Miles not once but twice BUT THREE TIMES (typing Miles up in ITSV, not telling him about the Spider Society or that he was an anomaly, CALLING HQ ON HIM BECAUSE HE WANTED TO SAVE HIS FATHER. Technically that's 4 but moving on.)

He refuses to acknowledge Miles as a fellow spider(which is probably why he didn't feel bad about finding Miles was an anomaly now he has a reason to not take Miles seriously.) And he keeps trying to insert himself into a mentor role when he's yet to do a whole lot of mentoring. What also throws me here is how he had the audacity to say the trauma builds character while being a mentor to help guide Miles into becoming Spiderman so Miles' could avoid the mistakes that Peter made.

I WILL NEVER BE OVER THAT CHAIR SCENE IN ITSV. How is it you as a grown man. A grown white man no less took a black teenage boy who you viewed as so much of a liability that you had to tie him up. And I know multiple people have talked about everything that's wrong with this scene but there's still something so haunting about watching him just nonchalantly be tied up kicking and screaming about how he wants to be let go that bothers me so much. And I find it hard to believe that this was just a scene we're supposed to just move on from. Did they do this on purpose? Was this supposed to showcase something about Peter's character that I'm not picking up on? Because I find it so hard to believe that the writers who made sure to explicitly show how Gwen's Peter is Christian because he later turns into a lizard wouldn't understand the implications of this scene.

I also don't think he's a strategic as he thinks he is. What do you think was going to happen when you forcefully tied this boy to a chair? You thought he was going to sit still? Also would you think the boy who's trying to save his father was going to do? Actually listen to your words? Sit back and be like, oh you're right I should just let my father die. (This is me going off my reasoning that he didn't plan out that one scene in ATSV. I think that he thought that because he's Miles' "mentor" he could get through to him in a way others can't. Which pretentious much?) His actions do more harm than good and it just works out for him somehow. (For instance Miles saving them in ITSV because he came late.)

These are my thoughts do with this what you will. All the stars decided to align today ig because I haven't been able to come up with coherent thoughts like this in a minute.

(I really need to rewatch itsv. So if there's anything here that I'm wrong about regarding itsv it's been like 5 years since I've seen it.)

I GET THISS SOOO HARD (I waited until I had coffee to answer this lol)

BUT YESSSSS Because like I can understanding giving Peter the benefit of the doubt, it makes plausible sense for a movie to have a certain amount of wiggle room plot wise.

But with writers who clearly understood punk enough to accurately show it in Hobie's arc, repeatedly put in the work to respect Cockney and Puerto Rican culture, who wrote every one of Hobie's lines with PERCISION - would just overlook the glaring hole in their story that is Peter.

Because we as a viewer are continually told we SHOULD look up to him and we SHOULD trust him - but in doing so they accidentally make him the exact opposite. Like.. It doesn't make sense to me.

The Focus on Jess & The Absence of Peter:

aka GODDAMN I hate Peter B. Parker [yet another rant about 'bad' writing, plotholes, and Peter not showing up for Miles or Gwen.

For example,

Jess is Gwen's mentor, and we see her mentor style is extremely different from Peter's and that's suppose to be a contrasting dynamic between them and the relationship between Miles and Peter. Okay, makes sense.

But by NOT having Peter be Gwen's mentor, the writers are implying that he didn't step up as an emotional mentor when all this given - HE SHOULD. Because he's the only adult that she knows, and she a freshly homeless teen who needs to be around people she trusts, rather than working at a society with an auditorium of adults.

But by trying to show off how much we should judge Jess, the writers have inadvertently given us a Peter who just..didn't take responsibility. That's what they're implying - that Hobie and Jess were the ones who came to get aid. And we're suppose to look the other way. I... can't do that, sir.

"Look at how mean Jess is, why not blame her-" Jess is doing her job. Where's the adult she actually knows and trusts. Can we get some dialogue about what he did for her? Or did he just do nothing?

Did they just forget to include that, or did Peter just forget to help?

For me, that's two points in the bucket. Not housing Gwen, and not being her mentor. He could've done one, the other or both.

But because he didn't, we're left asking "What WAS he doing in the Society?"

Missions, I assume. Cause he wasn't mentoring her, so he must have been off putting in legit work for Miguel, I assume.

If we're looking at the characters as full-rounded - which I would hope they are considering the depth of Gwen, Miles and Hobie, it's not a large jump to ask 'How involved was Peter in Gwen's time at the Society? Why is he not her mentor, or why is she not living with him?"

Gwen..should be staying with him. If you're an adult who knows a teen and they become homeless, and it is within your means - yeah, I do think it's a moral obligation to open your home to them, at least temporarily. If you care about them. But that aside, let's extend the benefit of the doubt. Maybe Gwen didn't want to see him.

But then the ratting Miles out thing. This, I can't get around-

Some may say that it was simply for plot development and that Lyla spoke suddenly as a mistake on her part.

And I gotta call bullshit.

Firstly, because this is the same movie where we're shown Hobie stealing parts prior to learning what the parts are for. The same film that literally animated a fight accurately to Bushwick down to the very street. Let's cut it some slack here.

And moreso - I could understand the justification that it was a mistake on Lyla's part.

If Lyla was human. She's not.

She's an AI, and a very sophisticated one at that. Lyla runs on protocol, because that's AI's do. She's made to do things the way that is mathematically most effective, based on her analysis and her code.

It's easy to see Lyla as just an avatar, and a comedic one at that - but Lyla is literally one of - if not the - smartest 'person' in the multiverse. She's the only one who can track Spot in real time. If Jess and Miguel need aid on a mission or with Spot, they call Lyla. And she's handled every Society mission prior to the chase.

Her speaking out of turn suddenly and giving Peter away is an understandable plot mistake, if she was subjected to human mistakes.

So far, Lyla isn't. It doesn't make sense, based on what Lyla is.

I think Lyla would know better than to give Peter away suddenly by detecting Miles' presence and still speaking out loud.

A lot ask 'What motive does Peter have for ratting Miles out?', but we also should also ask "What motive does Lyla have for ratting herself out?'

It's her goal to find Miles no matter what. She doesn't care, she kinda can't - she's an AI. She just has to find him and send Miles' location to Miguel. Her objective.

So her locating Peter without his knowledge and then giving herself away to him doesn't make sense - especially if Lyla knew Miles was that close, from a human standpoint and definitely from the standpoint of the most sophisticated AI in existence.

So I was under the assumption that - like you mentioned now, that before when he gets Miles alone, he may genuinely be trying to convince him still, but by the time they get into that space, I think that's around the time that it becomes a 'Okay, let's just get Miles back to HQ and talk about this' situation.

He genuinely ratted Miles out. In my eyes.

Because at this point, Miguel hasn't assaulted Miles. That comes later. So realistically speaking, his goal was probably to calm Miles down, and get him back to HQ however he could, and talk to him there.

Peter could've helped WAYYYY earlier.

People give Peter credit like 'Oh but he came over to Miles' side at the end-'

NO. YOU DO NOT GET A COOKIE.

Peter could've helped SO much earlier, and if anything, he was THE ONLY ONE in a position of helping.

Gwen can't do anything, like they physically restrain her when she tries to. And there's no point after they come to HQ that Gwen has the chance to turn around and help Peter.

Gwen doesn't get that chance. Peter DOES.

Had Peter helped Miles HERE, IMMEDIATELY, Miles would've gotten away without being assaulted by Peter.

If Peter had turned around and changed course in this moment, Miles would have been better off.

Fuck Peter B. Fuckkkkk hiiiimmmmm. NAWWWWWW

If Peter had let him go here, or helped him escape - Miles wouldn't have been taking hits up on that train. That's crazzzy.

But he wasn't trying to help Miles escape. If he wanted to, he would've. He could've just said "Matter of fact Miles, I think setting the WHOLE Society on you is a bizarre move and you should probably get out of here until Miguel can calm down and I can talk to him."

But he was like 'Nah, hold my baby. Matter of fact lemme tell you story in this pivotal moment when you're actively in danger. Here, look at me. What do you mean - I'm not stalling? I didn't rat him out on purpose.

Like either you did. And even if you didn't you didn't help him when you were literally the only person in the universe who could. In fact, he got away slower because of you. Lovely.

Peter is a grown man. He's not an idiot.

He knows Miles is in active danger. Why would an adult turn the conversation in that direction - about his baby - KNOWING Miles has no time.

As soon as Miles got his hands on MayDay, Peter is trying to change the conversation. Suddenly he's joking and laughing.

Even though Miles is freaking out. Why is Peter joking? He knows this isn't a joking situation. But here he is wasting Miles time, either accidentally or intentionally.

Because that'd be some good ass stalling.

There was nothing stopping Peter from helping him leave. But Peter was still on The Society's side, so he didn't. If he was on Miles' side, he would've helped him. He should've, but he was still for Miguel, because at this point Miguel hadn't assaulted Peter yet.

Congrats, Peter. Big L. Humbling Reality Spider-man everyone.

Like combine all this. AND THEN THE SCENE IN ITSV.

LITERALLY AND PHYSICALLY PETER IS ALWAYS HOLDING MILES BACK.

You cannot expect me to believe that the writers of a movie I can write 10k+ words about, just so happened to leave these two glaring plot holes for ONE character.

That I'm just suppose to ignore that Peter restrained Miles, a black boy, in ITSV. That he betrayed Miles for months, wasn't very active in Gwen's time at the Society, and he actively hinders Miles escape - if not actively ratting him out.

It baffles my mind.

It doesn't make sense, that these writers can write Hobie, Jessica, Miguel, Officer Stacy, Rio, and Jeff as fully rounded, well-thought characters. But for some reason, when it comes SPECIFICALLY to Peter B. - they just forget how to write. They just stop thinking about him the second they don't look at him.

IN BOTH MOVIES?

I don't buy it.

To have every other character be thoroughly thought through but have one of, if not these most iconic character full of plot holes...

I think the likely answer is they wrote him that way on purpose and he's just a bad person.

I'm sorry, and I'm laughing while writing this but like.

Either Peter is the ONE singular character who has a series of emotional plotholes - or he's just a bad mentor. It's one or the other. And it's open to interpretation.

But I wanna cut the writers some slack and say, No - they thought it through. And No, Lyla did not just randomly speak out of turn, he contacted her first off-screen before she replied to him.

And by waiting till the very end to come around, waiting until the person who looks up to you is deeply wounded to finally turn around - that's the same arc Officer Stacy goes through.

And we're not supposed to clap for him. It's lovely, but he doesn't get an award. And neither does Peter, not at all.

Maybe if had helped Miles escape in that moment. Maybe if he was Gwen's mentor or he housed her.

But as far as we know he spent those months of Gwen in the Society doing fuck all. We've seen no sign of his contribution anywhere.

And in a story about mentorship, that says something.

Anyway. This is long. Again fiosfgihrgirturetuier I'm SORRY

Once again, Fuck Peter B. All my Hobies hate Peter B. (not a typo)

He's worse than Jess.

And he's not worse than Miguel but I like Miguel more and it's not because of the ass that's just a bonus Miguel is cool (but also very wrong. but like personality wise we're cool).

Ummm I feel like I got off track here. Oh well!!

Damn he be doing Miles dirty. SMH

Bye.

#Gwen Stacy #Peter Parker #Jessica Drew #Miles Morales #Miguel O'hara #miguel o hara #spiderman #atsv #marvel #spider man #across the spiderverse #across the spider verse #atsv analysis #peter B Parker #no proofread

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cardworksartblog · 2 years

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Hi. Slugclans lol.

The drunken ramblings (infodumping) of a broken man (cinni(me)) under the cut

Leaders;

Deputies;

Sky's Light (SaintClan)

Setting Flame (WanderClan)

Dew (SurvivorClan)

Sky Searcher (ScholarClan)

Roar (SlayerClan)

Descent (The Outlaws)

Watermoss

No Tail

Drowsy

Softest

Noot

Hydra & Howl

Doctors;

Curious

Ghost

Vulture Slayer

Mushroom

Eggtooth

Hanging Lichen

Hi so uhm. A few lil things lol

The clans live throughout the alcoves in the sides of an old iterator's can, high enough that the rain is only a threat in the more open areas. Some of them inhabit the abandoned city on top, but due to the multitude of vultures and the lack of easy prey, the clans opt to not go up there too often.

SaintClan is peaceful, and doesn't use spears. The rest of the clans dont take advantage of them for this because SaintClan helps all of their neighbours with illness and injury.

Incurring the wrath of SaintClan has summoned famine, plague and ferocious predators into the camps of the other clans before, so they've decided that as long as SaintClan remains the kind and peaceful neighbours they are currently, there's no good reason to attack them.

The Outlaws are basically a band of loners who live in the abandoned city atop the old iterator the clans live in. They showed up one day, and took up residence there, before beginning to show up to monthly meetings.

SlayerClan dislikes how they've let a band of rogues take up the old city and WanderClan thinks that letting the Outlaws live near them will put the clan's relationship with the scavenger tribes at risk, while SurvivorClan and ScholarClan believe that their new neighbours are a boon to the clan's trading industry as the unusual slugcats can make exotic items much faster than any natural source, leading to better trading materials and better weapons for hunting.

SaintClan has made peace with the Outlaws, simply informing them that if they are ever struck by illness or excessive injury they can ask them for help.

Setting Flame and Dew are actually Siblings, Dew was given over to SurvivorClan as payment for an attack from WanderClan causing a young pup to die after running too far from camp to get away from the attack and then getting snatched by a lizard. The two have strengthened the two clan's alliance in their leadership.

Vulture Slayer was originally in SlayerClan, and was a rather respected warrior. However, she ended up falling in love with an Outlaw and getting exiled for it. She was welcomed into SurvivorClan's ranks, and found a true passion of hers; Healing. She ended up becoming the clan's loyal healer, with her new mate eventually joining SurvivorClan with her as an Ambassador for the Outlaws.

Ghost is Albino, and was named after both their unique lack of patterning and red eyes, and how they are nearly silent whilst moving.

Hanging Lichen was born with one eye, and grows a variety of different plants out of pores on their back. They even have some wormgrass growing in them!

Mushroom and Eggtooth are the youngest slugcats to have roles as important as theirs. Eggtooth is still a pup, but is stunted and grows slower than normal pups their age.

Mushroom couldn't focus well enough to fight or hunt well, so they asked to see if they could become a doctor. They ended up being unsure of themselves at first, before meeting eggtooth and becoming rather good friends with them. Their friendship encouraged Mushroom to continue learning how to be a doctor.

I might like. Design the iterator these guys live in or whatever but like yea have these ramblings to hold u over for now ig

#rainworld #rain world #slugcat #slugcats #rainworld oc #slugcat oc #slugcat oc tag #warriorslugcats #rainworld au #wahoo !

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the-cannibal · 1 year

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After you told me what a matchup was I'm excited to do one lol

I'm 5'6½ pale skin with many scars littering my body freckles all over my face and shoulders, button nose(ig) green eyes with a blue ring thick brown eyebrows and pale chapped lips hair to the middle of my neck that is dark brown with light brown streaks I have a rounder head shape and I'm slightly pudgy black earrings and one large scar from my left ear to the right side of my collarbone

My hobbies are writing, drawing, and animating I also love sleeping :) but can't sleep and stay awake till 5 am 😭

My style is alt but sometimes cottage core

I love frogs the colors green black white and yellow and mushrooms, I love stuffed animals and had a cat named Alex he was a black cat, my favorite holiday is either Halloween or Christmas

I act crazy and hyper, I can never be quiet if someone says something about one of my favorite things I ramble about it to them for hours I can get really quiet and nervous I'm not very social and I'm pretty shy till I open up to the person

My sexuality is gay and I am a trans male

Just told my whole life on here fr/j

- 🐸🍄

Hello again froggy anon! Your style sounds so cool!

I decided to pair you up with…

Lester Sinclair!

This man took one look at you and swooned I swear

You two definitely have an animal interest together! Going around and finding frogs, lizards, stray cats, really anything and showing it to each other! (And also probably at some point trying to keep the animals you guys find- including a possum at one point-)

He can be pretty hyper and crazy too, but you definitely take the cake! He finds it absolutely adorable and likes to strike up conversations about your interests and hobbies to see you get excited and gush about them

Lester isn’t very social himself either. He can talk to people if needed! (I mean- man literally drives people into town for his brothers to kill them) So if you don’t wanna talk to someone that’s perfectly fine! He’s happy to be the social shield for you :)

NAP. CUDDLES. TOGETHER.

Definitely asks you to draw him about a million times every day-

Also tries to sneak peaks at what you’re writing

He absolutely loves your scar and often finds himself tracing it mindlessly as you two cuddle

100% would boop your nose, 10/10 very boopable

Y’all are the couple that goes all out for Halloween. So what if Ambrose is is just the two of you plus Bo and Vincent? Y’all are decorating the entire town and they can’t stop you. *cue the two of you blasting Halloween noises from Lester’s truck*

#slasher x reader #cannibals matchups #cannibals writing requests #matchup #slasher matchup #slasher matchups #house of wax #house of wax 2005 #lester sinclair #lester sinclair x reader

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afflatusmiseryy · 4 years

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smile!! :) | oc rambling under the cut lmao

anyone who looks at my character page will see that mitsu's surname is malaguld, which - for the unaware - is a xaela tribe known for taking in raen who've been cast out of their families and whatnot. this is pretty much what happened with mitsu.

her mother's side has dragons blood in it somewhere, and occasionally it'll manifest as a second set of horns and/or unusually sharp teeth. having one trait was seen as unfortunate, but tolerable. to have both was considered a curse and you had to go.

these traits could appear in anyone at any age, and no matter how young or old you were, the moment it became known you possessed both you were immediately cast out and wiped from family records. mitsu was born with sharp teeth. the horns started growing in on her tenth birthday.

she begged and pleaded with her father as he carried her blindfolded to the desert. she'd file the horns down, she cried. no one would know. she'd pull each tooth out if it meant she could stay. it all fell on deaf ears however, as he returned home without her.

mitsu was a frail and sickly girl by default, so she was convinced she was going to die. to cut a long story short, she was found by a member of the malaguld tribe and nursed back to health. she stayed with them and took their name out of respect. now she's a dragoon WoL!

bonus: growing up she got into the habit of hiding her mouth behind her hand or sleeves when she laughs or smiles because she believes people would find her ugly or scary bc of her teeth. she doesn't do it as often these days, but she still worries about what people think of her.

#ffxiv #ff14 #art #c: mine #c: mitsu #oc rambling from twitter under the cut #i'm retconning / reworking some stuff so mitsu finally has a background lmao #i know i'm not original w the lizard w draconic blood thing but i also don't care #now i need to figure out something for my suncat #time to replay stormblood ig

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sin-sidejob · 2 years

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Reagan x GN!reader headcanons: Reagan + touch

Warnings: none really, brief mention of touch aversion and canon-typical content. SFW!

Content: physical contact preferences focusing on Reagan and involving you! Domestic and sfw

• starting off, she’s not prone nor used to physical contact. I mean just the issue with hugs alone.

• But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t like it nor enjoy it! The more time she spends around you and with you, the more comfortable she becomes. Akin to her aversion to hugs, literally decking Brett, then later on being the first to hug him after the nostalgia max event.

• It’s a long process for her, because she’s subconsciously unlearning trauma and her aversion to contact from Bear-o + her father.

• Reagan will absolutely have her tendencies and aversion to touch, there will be moments where she doesn’t want to be touched whatsoever and that’s fine! In other moments she wants to be clinging to you like a koala. Very broad spectrum regarding her physical contact limits and what she wants or does not want at times.

• You’re not sure if you regret introducing her to affectionate physical contact in certain moments when she will grasp onto you like a lifeline while cuddling. She’s essentially cling wrap now, your end times are now ig

• Reagan is a cat. Wants affection when she wants it and will throw a fit when she doesn’t get it + when she doesn’t want affection she goes off and hermits up (usually in the lab or nearby you but not touching).

• She does love holding your hands and fiddling with them. I’d like to think she stims with how she’s neurodivergent and playing with your hands helps her focus or calm down.

• I can see her rambling to you while sitting on her couch in her home, just watching tv or listening to it in the background as she talks about her work and some intricate information your brain cannot actually process, but all the while she’s fiddling with your hands, her calloused finger tips brushing your knuckles or her thumb swiping absentminded swirls on the underside of your hand, and you can’t hear a word she says because you’re fully focused on her hands holding yours and the way she finds comfort in it, comfort in you, and seeks it out.

• Stfu I’m not crying

• Her hands are the most restless part about her, constantly working on something, but as you hang out more and date longer she doesn’t just gravitate towards your hands but other spots, like the curve of your waist or the ridges of your spine. She’ll dot her fingertips across the scars she finds or the bumps and dips of your body. She also will grab onto the fabric of your clothing. Like if the two of you are standing and talking she’ll hold onto your sleeve or cuff, maybe the edge of your pants or skirt around mid thigh. (She’s not above grab ass let’s be honest but not where her coworkers will see)

• She definitely likes to curl up on you, like a lizard on a warm rock, especially after long days. Reagan will plant her head in the crook of your neck, plopping her body atop yours and splay out before curling her limbs around your body, trapping you for a shared nap you gladly partake in.

• Sensory wise, Reagan runs a bit cold to the touch which is why she seeks out the warmth you provide. Mornings are difficult enough to get her out of bed, but with you? It’s 10x more difficult with how she doesn’t want to leave bed nor leave you with how warm and soft and pliant you are-

• You’re cursed as her heating pad + body pillow + stim toy and you could not possibly be happier.

#reagan ridley #Reagan headcanon #Reagan imagine #Reagan Ridley Headcanon #inside job #inside job headcanon #inside job imagine #IJ #sfw #depressed bisexual + burnout = RR #my thots #Reagan x reader #Reagan Ridley x reader #Reagan Ridley x gn!reader #Reagan x gn!reader #x gn!reader

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marimopeace · 3 years

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there's a limit on how much you can be an isekai intellectual...

a bunch of analyses have been popping up before me all day so i wanted to throw my hat into the ring. all love to ppl who are exercising their creative minds + ppl like geoff here who just talk about these things because of fan interest but i feel like there reaches a point where exploring the "types" of isekai is pointless? i've seen ppl list out the different types of villainess revenge isekai or fantasy mmorpg isekai but eh why fit them all into separate boxes like that?

i think it's easier to think of isekai as a "type" (genre) of itself with only two categories: 1) a focus on isekai (lit. another world) 2) tensei (lit. to be reborn). this allows for a variety of applications and thus tropes that ppl see so many trends of!

with isekai - in another world

you see everything from:

pure fantasy (inuyasha, digimon wait maybe not the best example but in my childhood mind i count digimon as pure fantasy, fushigi yugi)

mmorpg inspired fantasy/adventure (.hack//legend of twilight, sao ugh, log horizon, overlord (LOVE OVERLORD!)

otome game-esque worlds >>> this is where it gets complicated with "villainess routes" since i admit there are multiple villainess tropes but this is why it's nice to not think of this as a "sub-type/genre" bc it frees you from those complications! (the saint's magic power is omnipotent, the white cat's revenge as plotted from the dragon king's lap soso cute!, the savior's book cafe in another world, i'm a villainous daughter so i'm going to keep the last boss wait i can't remember if she's reborn in this one lmaooo see this is why rules make everything hard)

with tensei storylines - being reincarnated/reborn in another world as *insert character/role*

you see...

the same tropes!!

pure fantasy (a returner's magic should be special, reminiscence adonis, the lady and the beast, light and shadow, i can't think of a manga off the top of my head for this ah)

mmorpg inspired fantasy/adventure (so i'm a spider so what i stan kumoko so hard, her majesty's swarm, can't name another off the top of my head ah i hate lists shorter than two things...)

self-insert based games/novels (fiance's observation log of a self-proclaimed villainess, who made me a princess, death is the only ending for the villainess, the villainess wants to marry a commoner, honestly games vs novels are different applications but i'm not in the headspace to try to remember a bunch of both lol)

*insert line break to give random ppl a break from scrolling but tl; dr just enjoy things for what they are no need to micro analyze*

similar variations occur in both genres (if ppl want to be super technical i guess i'm arguing that isekai itself is a massive genre that has the "another world" subgenre and "reincarnation" subgenre tl; dr) so i think it's honestly a huge pain to try to separate all these trends into so many different types of stories. for me personally it's easier to not get overwhelmed by this gigantic umbrella of "isekai" that spans light novels, manhwa, manga, and mobile games by just stripping each story down into its trademark tropes (aka character archetypes, story structures) and slapping "oh this is a person going to a world that's not ours" and "this person gets reborn as blank in another world". none of this "omg this power fantasy is such a this kind of isekai moment" or "there are 14 different types of villainess revenge stories and this series fits into this" bc AH labels! limitations! circle-jerks via ppl trying to compartmentalize everything and sound smart for leaving a comment on story analysis instead of ooh-ahhing over a character's face! dividing things into light novel manga vs manga vs korean manhwa ft. female characters!

the last bit is mainly why i feel frustrated by ppl's insistence to group everything?

the video linked at the beginning of the post (honestly good video essay, i enjoyed it, i just kept thinking in my head the whole time "marimo these are tropes do not take the genre talk literally") has a baby comment thread talking about "korean isekai manhwas" as a genre featuring nothing but reincarnated villainess' and i can't.

like i cannot acknowledge that as a genre of any sort. the energy i felt reading through some of those insights takes me back to 2012 when all yt americans discovered k-pop and deemed all korean music k-pop from then on! (ppl still do this now, yes you are seen and don't talk to me pls i don't like you. k-pop is korean pop music and nothing less and nothing more. take a few seconds and try to parse apart aspects of korean culture instead of slamming everything into a monolithic label that has the letter k and a hyphen.) it feels so odd to see a bunch of young ppl on ig and tiktok acknowledge korean media that happens to be in the form of a webtoon as "oh stories all about young girls becoming villains in stories they made/played" bc it feels so reductive u.u

(positionality disclaimer that i'm praying isn't actually necessary: i am a 3rd-generation korean of japanese descent do not fite me i am exhausted irl of ppl asking for validation/verification bc massive shove off.)

breaking news! korean manhwa...is just as multifaceted as japanese manga...bc how can comics as an art-form not have multiple genres...huh such a shocker?!?! same likely applies to media in other parts of the world like chinese manhwa and french comics--not my place to explain either of those i just know those industries exist bc of wakfu and donghua shows by Tencent.

at the end of the day it's not like analyzing any kind of isekai is wrong--absolutely not!! i think it can be super fun to think about how isekai elements complicate a story (MCs trying to go back home, ppl from the og world, reincarnation plot-twists) or maybe even bash a series for including some kind of other world element when they could have just written a super fun fantasy.

insert marimo's brief ramble that hey you can get sick of truck-kun's hitting disillusioned guys who happen to be super duper smart or girls who happen to be master chefs/craftsmen but transporting a fully-grown being into a fantasy setting is the ultimate cheat code for making mundane modern technology seem cool and overpowered, and being reincarnated as a fully grown person in a world with a pre-made story/game set-up completely bypasses the need for an author to slowly flesh out world-building in a natural progression so isekai is actually a really smart writing tool it's just that there are some series where the author didn't use it well at all and it's cheesy or clearly isekai was misused as a vehicle for character/story development and it was pointless *DEEP BREATH OUT*

in this essay i will argue...lol i am such a culture studies major!! if i were an english major i would be talking all about writing but here i am having a side-tangent about world-building via someone being reborn wow i love this for me (don't get me started on when an author has someone reincarnate as a baby and the story is mostly them having warm fluffy moments with their family--typically father figures--and getting lots of powers i could and would and probably will rant about east asian toxicity)

but anyway am i crazy????? like yes for being passionate about the technical use of a word like genre (i am a scorpio rising let me be fussy pls) but i don't think it's a lot to ask for ppl to not unironically see "villainess revenge isekai" as the definition of korean manhwa.

idk as someone who resonates with why japanese isekai is so popular domestically + why a lot of korean manhwa feat. the same tropes (it's not for great reasons lads it's actually depressing tbh) i'm just starting to feel kind of pained by the generalization and need to separate "cute japanese girl in an otome game"/"japanese boy finds a harem in another world" from "korean girl dies and comes back as a villainess" bc they are just! applications to the same story device!!

recommendations for any who makes it this far down below <3

// also gladly recommend any of the examples i've listed in the above rant as i've read/watched all of them and adore them v much! //

save me princess

super refreshing fantasy manhwa ft. a princess and her ex-boyfriend having to save the world!

the beginning after the end

an AMERICAN web novel turned into a comic (but see it being not korean/japanese doesn't really matter when you just consider isekai as a genre...isn't it nice to not overthink it?) ft. a super-powerful wizard king reincarnated into another world and starting from scratch--gives mushoku tensei vibes but huge twists!

the reason why raeliana ended up at the duke's mansion

love love LOVE this story--read the title and you'll learn how this girl reincarnated as the character raeliana in a book gets married to a duke!

trash of the count's family

such a good novel!! a guy gets reborn as a lazy oaf and he takes the hero of the story under his wing...plot twists come up later on!

this time i will definitely be happy!

v good and refreshing for a shorter series! she's been reborn 3 times and remembers every time the hero's stabbed her in the back, and now she just wants to break up with him!

silver diamond

older manga but v good adventure w intrigue! a boy who loves plants get sucked into a desert world with demonic lizards and a mysterious bodyguard by his side. shonen-ai not BL but wonderful vibes nonetheless + great side characters!

the princess imprints a traitor

adore everything in this from the world (not in that way this society makes me so angry) to the machinations at play and the dynamic between the fl and ml

#isekai #mother's basement #inuyasha #digimon #fushigi yugi #.hack//legend of the twilight #log horizon #overlord #the saint's magic power is omnipotent #the white cat's revenge as plotted from the dragon king's lap #a returner's magic should be special #adonis #the lady and the beast #light and shadow #kumo desu ga nani ka #her majesty's swarm #fiance's observation log of a self-proclaimed villainess #death is the only ending for a villainess #the villainess wants to marry a commoner #save me princess #the beginning after the end #the reason why raeliana ended up at the duke's mansion #trash of the count's family #this time i will definitely be happy!#silver diamond #see i normally put the raw titles for everything but the tiny korean/japanese part of my brain is so tired bc my english brain went off #the princess imprints a traitor #manga #manhwa #donghua

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huntingrays · 3 years

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i’m here to ramble about my fantasy last life smp au bc… reasons. i want to write it but don’t have the energy so instead… rambling!

so have basics… like what most people are and the basic storyline. pls give me validation and ideas, i desire it

so basically, fantasy au. it’s a whole human hunters vs fantasy creatures sort of thing. also there’s gods and a bad fallen god. mostly, the non-humans are good and accepting, but not towards humans. they see them all as a threat and will at least injure on sight.

the hunters seek to kill all the non-humans in order to be the only ones remaining and to get more powerful from the ones they can harvest magical organs from.

however, the non-humans are being protected by the gods. so, the humans went prayed to the fallen god to help them defeat the gods. the fallen god, angry at being exiled, gives a few hunters the power to track down and kill gods

hundreds of years later, only a few survive. now, the magical beings have to join up and figure out how to defeat the fallen god

now, what everyone is!

jimmy, grian, mumbo, and scar are the main guys

jimmy: unknown but very powerful

grian: dragon hybrid

mumbo: cat (yes, a literal cat. not even a shifter. he claims he was cursed)

scar: werewolf

and some of the others that appear!

bdubs: nature spirit

etho: vampire

tango: dark elf

skiz: demon

martyn: elf

ren: werewolf

pearl: necromancer

cleo: zombie

impulse: elf

bigb: elf

joel: wizard

lizzie: goddess of the ocean

scott: god of the sky

and that’s them all!

now for some… headcanons? technically it’s my au so they’re like… canon ig

headcanons!

- etho is incredibly young. he’s only been a vampire for four years, and his group (all of them being 100+) tease him about endlessly. they act like he’s only four years old, and make jokes about it

- if bdubs doesn’t like some new member of their party, he will simply dare them to eat a poisonous berry or mushroom. the rest of the group of very tired of this but don’t want to object out of fear of being fed poison stew

- tango just… casually brings up trauma from his past. the others are like “you good bud?” and he’s just like “… no :(” poor guy

- ren and martyn took lizzie in under their protection the moment they saw her. for ren, it was out of respect. for martyn, it was out of fear

- grian can’t be in cold temperatures. he’s basically a lizard, pls keep him warm at all times

- scott and phil (a wizard) are old friends, and scott introduced phil to kristin (the goddess of death)

- phil’s coven is just him, joel, wilbur, and the bench trio (who cause so much chaos)

- cleo has a habit of making no noise when approaching people, so she ends up accidentally scaring so many people

- so many people have angst pasts. meanwhile, jimmy doesn’t know shit and has weird dreams

- jimmy, after finding out he’s the main character: hahaha… fuck

- also whenever jimmy learns something new about himself he’s just all :0

- jimmy is called timmy by his group. and he knows something is wrong whenever they call him jimmy

- whenever mumbo is being a pain or stubborn they just… grab him by the scruff of his neck

- whenever they’re traveling, scar is almost always in his wolf form. he got injured in his human form and it didn’t heal properly, which ends up hurting when he travels. however, his wolf form is completely fine, so he travels via wolf form. he will be in his human form if he’s just chilling with friends though

- they call jimmy a fish a lot. but also he eats fish and feels no remorse. he will go out of his way to kill every salmon he sees

- mumbo is just a lil cat. idk i think some 6+ foot tall man a smol cat is funny

- mumbo is a white cat with like black spots. like his ears and tail. also spots under his nose that look like a mustache lol

- mumbo often either rides around on scar’s back of grian’s shoulder

- most of the hunters are dsmp memebers. why? cause angst and also i be running out of smp characters

- also there will probs be hermit and empires members

- the four are trying to save the world but they’re very bad at it and two of them are animals and the two humanoids have only one braincell. the world is fucked

#last life #last life smp #last life smp au #drabbles #kinda #ray rambles #word vomit #take my ideas!!! take them!#i will only tag a few of them #ofc based on their characters ofc ofc #solidaritygaming #grian #mumbo jumbo #goodtimeswithscar #fantasy au make serotonin go brrrrr #also like it’s my au which means i can do whatever the hell i want hahahaha

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lizardtheartist · 11 months

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I think we should bring back the stuffed animal era of max

Examples:

I mean just look at him

Look at his stupidity, he’s so ugly and adorable, he’s like a fucking build a bear but menacing

He has absolutely not a SINGLE thought in that brain of his

#sam and max #freelance husbands #lizard rambles ig #if you don’t agree then I don’t care in the nicest way possible

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flyingcookierambles · 3 years

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wittwe muwues

jgriohagorhbiorghfvhgifvoghf ano really tho this is a gonna be a rambling weird gender shit post i just wanted to have a stupid name ghriohaguohguovhoge ok under the cut if you wanna read if not just move along bye lol

ok disclaimer on gender swap/genderbends, stuff like that

personally i am the person on the right of this post that doesn’t mind rule 63 of the internet its a good post that explains how some ppl may be ok with this trope and some are not

also more nuanced post explaining how genderswap/genderbends can be transphobic if not done well, etc.

anyways!

ive realized that in hindsight maybe i shouldve realized that i was not cis sooner bc i was always drawn to female/afab characters that crossdressed or hid their gender such as:

haruhi from ouran

mulan

haru from aoharu x kikanjuu that really edgy anime about some japanese ppl who have local bb gun tournaments in the woods, etc.

jackie faber, a girl who for various reasons disguises herself as a boy and sneaks onto a british navy ship

also altho it was minor and she wasn’t doing it in real life, moriko morioka from mmo junkie played her mmo with a male avatar

also not cross dressing or anything, but i was very interested by gender bends of characters and especially love the fiona and cake episodes of adventure time

alex dragalia lost (she doesn’t hide her gender or crossdress or anything, but she is very androgynous and i love her)

i guess that, much like how i never referred to myself with feminine terms or with she/her pronouns when thinking of myself, on some subconsciousness level, related to/with or wanted to be like them in the way that they were able to physically pass as male or be at least gender ambiguous. in hindsight, i probably was experiencing some major gender envy or something.

anywyas uwuwuuwuwuwuwu i wish that shapeshifting or devil fruit powers like iva’s (instant magical hrt via control of hormones) were real so i (and all other trans/gnc ppl can just instantly get the types of bodies that we want and can just change them any time or day and stuff like uuu that’d be so cool

maybe thats also why sci-fi things like altered carbon and ghost in the shell also appeal to me. like. if you have enough money, just. make your own android body and put your brain in it. discard your former useless flesh prison.

anyways ill probs make some meme with more recent characters that are like. gender envy. to me lol. more recently its just. like. androgynous boys. lol. like. mascula, summer norwin, vice, and delphi from dragalia lost. albedo from genshin. just. short king representation. love to see it lol.

(ironically, despite being a short person irl and i guess wanting to look like a short androgynous monarch of some kind, my ffxiv avatar is just. tall. tall man. tall lizard au ra manly man. fjrhiaoghreogiheriogheiohfg lol i couldve picked an average or slightly smaller than average cat man avatar but no. i want to be tall. playing ffxiv and having basically all the other scions look up to me in cutscenes bc they’re all not male au ra and im literally the physically tallest person in the room (other than urianger ig lol) gives me some small joy in my heart daily lololol)

#weird gender shit #lol

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