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marley-manson · 5 months

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Do you have any petpeaves regarding the M*A*S*H fandom?

lol sure i'll take the opportunity provided to express a few, ty for the ask!

Overall Mash fandom is pretty awesome imo, and I actually don't have many compared to a lot of fandoms I've been in, and the ones I do have tend to apply to most fandoms anyway lol, they're staples of fandom in general.

-- The biggest one is probably the common take that Hawkeye is insecure, self-loathing, emotionally repressed, thinks he doesn't deserve love, yadda yadda yadda. This isn't really Mash specific because the bad-self-esteem-ray hits every bottom in fandom at some point lol, but it's extra grating in Mash fandom for me because to me it feels more blatantly OOC than most versions of this.

Now to be fair to fandom there are a few scattered lines throughout the series you can take out of context to justify this take, and one bad episode that provably contradicts the rest of the show (Who Knew), but I feel like you have to stretch like a gymnast to justify it and ignore 99% of the rest of the show and Hawkeye's behaviour.

And it's boring and flattens Hawkeye to a caricature of someone else imho.

-- Generally, and again this applies to all fandoms lbr, I dislike the way a lot of people need to jump to accusations of bigotry to justify their personal preferences. One example I've seen a couple of times that's absolutely bizarre to me is the take that if Klinger gets dicked down and/or feminized in fic it's because of racist fetishization. That's Maxwell Q. Klinger, the dude who wears dresses throughout most of the show and canonically grows to genuinely enjoy it. And even if he was 100% masculine, that's what a lot of fandom does to every single dude they love ever lol, all it means is that Klinger has a fanbase, which is a good thing. imo attitudes like these help contribute to non-white characters getting less fanworks about them, and while I don't think it's prevalent enough in Mash fandom to have a negative effect, I've seen it destroy other ships featuring characters of colour.

Another example is the classic bad take that if you don't ship women in het or interpret a heterosexual relationship as doomed/not romantic/etc, it's because of misogyny lol. It's not hugely common in Mash fandom but I've seen it occasionally from BJ/Peg shippers and the very occasional Margaret enthusiast.

Oh and another example is that depicting Hawkeye as effeminate is homophobia. Again, this is Hawkeye, the dude who proudly calls himself unmanly in various ways every episode and makes 50 jokes about wanting to get fucked in the ass. Frankly it's a bigger stretch to me to assume he wouldn't easily and happily adopt actual effeminate body language/phrasing and tone if he's, say, at the bar and wants to pull a top. Or maybe even just if there are no straight people around, yk? Why not? The take that writing unmasculine men is offensive is a fandom classic and usually strikes me itself as homophobic, gender essentialist, and basically just someone's masc4masc kink masquerading as an issue.

Like to be clear there is certainly bigotry in the Mash fandom, as in every fandom, and it's worth discussing, and sometimes depending on context it can even apply in the above cases (eg if a fic about Klinger getting dicked down earnestly described him as idk exotic or something, or if people who 'feminize' male characters take it to silly extremes and start writing meta about how these men are woman-coded/victims of misogyny lol) but this ain't it chief, this is people repackaging their own pet peeves in social justice language to win perceived arguments, and it's a bad vibe.

-- This one IS fairly Mash specific lol, and to be clear it's 100% harmless and just something that makes me roll my eyes sometimes because I'm not into it myself and it strips away the things I do like about the ship: the way a lot of Hawk/BJ fans headcanon BJ as much more supportive and sensitive to Hawkeye than he actually is, by taking various things he does and assuming he does them for Hawkeye, like he's constantly aware of Hawkeye's unexpressed needs and catering to them.

Yk, he wears pink shirts for Hawkeye! He grew the moustache for Hawkeye (never mind that Hawkeye hates it)! He stole Hawkeye's joke to give Hawkeye enrichment because Hawkeye loves... being upset I guess. Joker Is Wild? All for Hawkeye because Hawkeye loves being paranoid and alienating people. (The reasoning I've actually seen is that Hawkeye loves having an excuse to throw a tantrum lol). He totally comforts Hawkeye when Hawkeye is upset, they just never show it. He is devoted to Hawkeye, he'd do anything for him, ignore the episodes where he calls him crazy and ditches him while he's facing adversity. He's Hawkeye's emotional support!

I've seen it in serious meta and casual headcanons and fic where BJ just falls into role of tender, emotionally intelligent emotional support like it's an assumed part of their dynamic despite not only never seeing that in canon, but Hawkeye actually pointing out multiple times that BJ is not very supportive.

It's also a misreading of Hawkeye who is actually the emotional support of their friendship, rather than vice versa, and tends to go hand in hand with my first pet peeve: Hawkeye as an emotionally insecure, repressed mess lol. BJ goes to him when he needs a shoulder to cry on, something consistent to the point of it being a way to manipulate Hawkeye in Picture This. Not vice versa. Hawkeye goes to Margaret or Mulcahy or Sidney. The only example I can think of where BJ provides emotional support (by which I mean listening to Hawkeye's emotional concerns and offering supportive input) to Hawkeye is the end of Comrades in Arms, and it's like the bare minimum of fulfilling the typical best friend on tv role.

(I like that BJ doesn't fulfill that role tbh! It's more interesting that way, it makes their dynamic feel more unique and intriguing.)

-- Also people who think Mash got more progressive in the later seasons. I think it demonstrates a shallow understanding of the political implications of the show. Getting rid of the character with a slur for a nickname doesn't automatically equal less racist, it's just an easy thing to point to that doesn't require much critical thought. And the growing feminist concerns go hand in hand with depicting republicans, patriots, and racist imperialistic military commanders as good people.

And to be fair I sympathize with this take, I've seen it everywhere from fandom to grumbling republicans complaining about mash getting preachier to professionally written retrospectives and academic analysis lol, so it's not like I hold fandom to higher standards. The ways Mash grows more regressive are more insidious, and the problems in the early seasons are much more obvious and in your face than in the later seasons. And there will always be some debate on whether eg rampant womanizing is worse than pro-imperialism messages, though I know what side I fall on there.

But imo it still sucks that it's such a popular opinion.

-- The emphasis on found family, especially in a 'the war brought them together' sense. Any hint of gratitude that the war let them meet people they love in fic, or whatever. This is something I can't completely blame on fandom because the show itself veered uncomfortably close to this a few times too in the later years, but yeah I'm not a fan. To me the most important aspect of Mash is the fact that they all hate it there, the war is worse than hell, they're virtually prisoners trapped in a nightmare, and any of the draftees would absolutely trade those relationships for an end to the war or just a ticket home. Their friendships are less a silver lining and more a painkiller that just barely takes the edge off. I think this vibe is clearer in the first half of the show, but that's yet another reason the first half is better and more progressive politically lol. And it doesn't disappear in the latter half either, just gets a bit more muddied.

-- This kind of goes hand in hand with the above points, but I feel like it's more of an older Mash fandom issue that I encounter when archive diving moreso than a thing currently (though I do occasionally still see it these days): fans who actively like the military stuff lol. I've read fic where dog tags are kinked on/romanticized, fic that depicts draft-dodging as bad, etc. These days it's more stuff in line with the worst parts of canon, like taking Potter at face value as a Good authority figure who deserves respect because of his military experience, but yeah. Don't like that.

-- Okay that's all I got off the top of my head. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to whine lol

#text post #marley on mash #under a cut for people don't don't want to see negativity #i feel like i'm pretty chill in this post but like it's still complaining

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yooniesim · 4 months

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Oh really? You sympathize with me, do you? Isn't this you mocking me the minute you found out I was mourning my dad? Comparing my loss to you being evicted? Or were you genuinely sympathizing with my grief and battle then too?

Stay off my blog and never mention me again you disgusting freak. How dare you stalk my blog to read my posts about my trauma and grief and pretend to sympathize with me when you've been harassing me since my father's body was barely cold. You would know about attacking a stranger online you piece of shit. Making this disgusting post pretending to sympathize with me while passive aggressively insulting me about my "displaced grief". All because I banned your freak ass from my server because I don't cosign your Japanese child fetish. You can't even stop yourself from trying to use my pain to make yourself look better after deleting all your posts mocking me and calling me names. I tried to ignore you even though you attacked me first and wouldn't leave me alone, despite you lying and saying I did something to you first, the internet is forever and proof doesn't lie. I'm not fooled by you and I will not let anyone forget what you've done. To me and to others here. You wanna be attacked, you wanna be victimized, well you fucking will be. Eat my entire asshole.

#ceci speaks #nonsims #text #delete later #negative #zhuhaitang #how DARE you you piece of garbage #before u say im a stalker i saw this from someone else that was shocked u would say this #did you think this was going to make you look good to me???#what was the reason?????#who fucking acts like this!!!!!#i for one hope life never gets easier for you and you shit your pants every day #throwing this under a cut bc i dont wanna see this bitch ass on my blog anymore #not until the time comes

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deathbycoldopen · 2 months

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I finished the first season of the live action ATLA, and I have to say my reaction is… mixed.

I went into it determined to have an open mind, and there was definitely a good chunk that I enjoyed! For one thing, I love what they did with both Suki and Yue, taking advantage of the longer episode lengths to give them both lives and motivations beyond just “pretty girl that Sokka crushes on” (Suki obviously gets more depth in the og show during seasons 2 & 3, but Yue has always struck me as a rather one-dimensional character).

The best (if traumatizing) choice was to actually show the Fire Nation attack on the airbenders. Doing so gave a real emotional heft to Aang being displaced a hundred years with the weight of failing to prevent a past genocide, and the pressure of having to stop another without any idea how. Not only that, but it did a great job of indicating, right at the start of the show, that this was an adaptation indenting to transform what was fundamentally a kids’ show with complex themes into an adult series with the ability to really expand on that depth and complexity.

…and then it didn’t.

Oh, the show pokes at the repercussions of Iroh having waged a long and deadly siege agains Ba Sing Se, and it does a decent job at deepening the fuckery that is Zuko’s backstory. But so much of the more ambiguous or complex parts of the original have been flattened in this adaptation—and not in ways that can be explained by the compressed narrative. Instead, it feels like the sanitized story and characters are a direct result of a purity culture that demands all things black and white, never shades of gray.

Let’s look at Zuko, the villain-turned-hero with an iconic but bumpy redemption arc in the original series. Part of what makes Zuko’s story so goddamn compelling in the original is that he begins as a true villain, who does some horrible things and is led astray more often than not by his explosive temper; and yet his horrifying backstory and desperation for a loving family that never actually existed compel us to view him with some sympathy, even as he acts against our protagonists.

Yet in the adaptation, Zuko is consistently painted in a softer, kinder light than he was in the original. He has no hand in burning down the village on Kyoshi Island; he hears Aang out and even seems to consider Aang’s offer of friendship rather than immediately lashing out after the Blue Spirit reveal; he is notably more respectful to Iroh and loses his temper much less frequently and violently.

Even the change of Zuko fighting back against Ozai in the agni kai can be construed as him recognizing that Ozai is the bad guy, especially when it means that in order for his exile to make sense he has to defy his father again after he’s already been burned.

This is a pattern that is repeated with nearly all of the characters with any degree of ambiguity. Pakku is depicted as kind of a decent person who’s just being held back by his deference to tradition, rather than being pretty much an asshole regardless of whether he’s following tradition or not. Hahn is a nice guy who is in love with Yue but accepts her decision not to marry him, instead of a dick that sees her as a trophy and is more than happy to marry her despite her disinterest.

Sokka is a huge victim of this flattening of flaws. His early-show misogyny is entirely absent, making his stumbling with Suki a little odd and ungrounded, and his dismissal of Katara’s skills even more so. The narrative doesn’t allow him to be anywhere close to as boneheaded and stubborn as he is in the original—this version of Sokka would never angrily slash through the swamp despite the warning signs, or blatantly lie to Won Shi Ton and then even more blatantly steal from him.

Sokka isn’t even allowed the most understandable tactical mistake from the original show: using the air ship in the fight at the Northern Air Temple, and inadvertently delivering the Fire Nation’s greatest asset. That honor is given to a generalized “spies” that are distanced even from Sai himself.

If the heroes aren’t allowed to have flaws, the villains are even worse off, without anything that might make them sympathetic. Jet, who in the original sits in a similar in-between place as Zuko, is pushed firmly on the side of villain over the course of his two-episode arc. Instead of Jet fighting dirty against Fire Nation colonists who are nevertheless civilians, he bombs buildings in Omashu; it’s easier to denounce him when he’s hurting Earth Kingdom civilians with his tactics, rather than people who may or may not be complicit in the war. He’s even labeled a terrorist, an easy buzzword for a largely usamerican audience to point to and say “ah yes, that’s a bad guy.”

The main villains— Ozai, Zhao, and even the brief scene of Sozin— are ironically even more cartoonishly evil than in the animated show. Ozai and Sozin both declare their evil plans— out loud, with villainous aplomb— to use one major military movement as a distraction for another, even bigger movement. (Sozin’s plan at least made sense, in that the distraction was “leaked” intelligence rather than an actual deployment of troops. How the hell did Ozai have enough troops and a decent supply line to attack both the Northern Water Tribe and Omashu at the same time? And it’s not like the distraction actually served any purpose, since it’s explicitly stated several times that the separate nations don’t send aid to each other anymore.)

Ozai’s treatment of Zuko is even more abusive than in the original, especially with the aforementioned change where Zuko actually does fight back as ordered. His choice to burn Zuko and then later banish him then must be explained by Zuko showing compassion, a much more typically “evil” motivation than the more complex (though no less abusive) notion of Zuko dishonoring himself.

Zhao gets an even worse character lobotomy, which is impressive given that his original character is pretty unabashedly villainous. But rather than a devious, powerful, and ambitious commander looming over everything Zuko or Team Avatar does, this version of Zhao is cartoonishly incompetent. (It doesn’t help that the only thing I’ve seen Ken Leung in is Person of Interest, where he plays a similarly buffoonish character constantly in need of rescue. When held up against Jason Isaacs’ mesmerizing but intimidating voice in the original, there’s no comparison.)

Zhao is no longer a respected military leader but a backwoods commander who barely passed the exam to become an officer; his rise through the ranks isn’t due to military successes or a commanding presence but because Azula finds him easy to manipulate; cutting Jeong Jeong means that we don’t see Aang get the better of Zhao by playing on his temper and lack of control; even discovering the secret of the moon and ocean spirits seems more like blundering luck than actual determination and intelligence. You can’t take Zhao seriously as a threat in this adaptation, even when he’s killing the moon spirit and destroying the balance of the world— he’s a nuisance at best, with Azula as the real looming danger.

Disliking Zhao’s character changes might just come down to a matter of taste, of course. I’m always going to be more interested in intelligent, competent characters, whether they are heroes or villains. But it forms part of this pattern of flattening characters and plots and arcs, and brings me back to the fundamental question that kept hitting me over the head while watching the series.

Why?

Why make an adaptation? This is a question that comes up whenever an adaptation of anything is made: what does the adaptation bring to the table that the original did not? Often the answer to this question is money, but there’s usually an attempt to point to a different answer, if only to distract from the greed.

Sometimes the answer is simple— a translation, for example, is an adaptation made to reach a wider audience. Sometimes the answer is more complicated— changing Lord of the Rings from books to movies, as another example, took advantage of the music, acting, and visuals to pack more emotional punch than the books did.

I would argue, as I began to at the start of this post, that the benefit of adapting ATLA from an animated kids show to a live action series is the bucking of those “kids show” limitations. ATLA deals with a lot of serious, heavy topics that don’t get fully explored because they are too complicated and intense to be greenlit in a network show aimed at 10 year olds. In addition, ATLA (and particularly Legend of Korra after it) faced an uphill battle to portray some more sticky topics such as queerness, in part due to the time period when they were produced.

A live action show produced by Netflix seems to bypass all those hurdles, allowing for a darker and more socially progressive show than what the original was able to accomplish. But despite showing onscreen the destruction of the Air Nomads, the adaptation of ATLA seems more sanitized than the original, playing to the lowest common denominator in a way that the original never did, despite the latter being a kids show and the former ostensibly being for adults.

I came away from the new series with a bad taste in my mouth, even with some things that I really enjoyed, and I think this is the crux of why. The adaptation didn’t update the original; it stripped it of anything that might be deemed problematic and replaced it with a black and white worldview that is, in fact, antithetical to the themes of the original show.

After all, the creators seem to have reasoned, who would root for Zuko’s redemption if he actually needed redemption in the first place?

#atla #negativity #this got long so it’s under a cut #thinky thoughts #not main tagging for the new show #I don’t think it was egregious or anything #but this was really bothering me #anyway free palestine don’t forget to buy esims for gaza and contact representatives #and also trans women are women terfs can gtfo 😌#those tags aren’t relevant to what I wrote I just thought I’d remind people

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1pcii · 5 months

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'Rona redraw

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Extra: no filters, original sketch, and two alt versions for fun ^-^

also the original screenshot

#og screenshot + extra versions under cut #cw mild(?) eyestrain under cut #psii.png #1pc #one piece #fanart #one piece fanart #perona #ghost princess perona #negative hollow #thriller bark #id in alt text #these were so fun to do #i only recently realized you could colour over digital sketches instead of lining over them from scratch i love it sm

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jesusbutbetterrr · 4 months

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ok so next time we decide to play an ask game and go on anon and throw out some backhanded insults only to cover it up with compliments, let's take a second to step back and think about how that's not the best idea considering the fact that some people tend to over react to things even if it's not the serious and in the past.

You do not know the mental state of the people you say stuff to, and how easily that can mess with their mood. I honestly have no ill intentions saying this, but to be met with the term "so boring", even if it was just a first impression, isn't really the best. Yes I might just be over sensitive about it, that doesn't change the fact that it didn't sit well with me.

As someone who isn't a fan of indirect call outs and stuff, because they feel petty to me, I would like to be clear I'm not trying to be petty here. But for the love of everything, maybe let's not throw out negative stuff, even if it was unintentional, and then throw in positive stuff like it's not a big deal.

And considering the fact that I've probably gotten a more sugar coated version of what other people have been told by anons today, I also don't like seeing my friends get called bitches or cunts or anything else for that matter. Not saying that this was all said by the same person, but like just consider this a message to the people or whatever. Yes, these were all just first impressions of them, but maybe we shouldn't have shared that.

So yea

#this would be one of those times where i put this all under a cut thing #but like im not feeling it #again this might just be some huge over reaction #but this whole situation has negatively effected my mood for the rest of the day #and seeing friends get told even worse stuff doesn't help my mood in the slightest #jesus speakz

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dimension20stuff · 1 month

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Bitching and moaning under the cut

I really loved a lot of what happened in that episode. Putting aside my complaints about some beloved headcanons becoming canon contradictory (I know that's not really a big deal), Baron now canonically using he/they is just. So disappointing to me.

When Cassandra was she/her in ep one I was bummed, but then they switched to she/they and i was like oh, ok, maybe it's a plot point about reflecting Kristen and Kristen's arc with herself, ok yeah that's cool.

But now Baron, another canonically they/them character is now he/they. And I would LOVE if new characters were introed with multiple pronoun sets, or if established NPCs like Zayn or Tracker or whatever started using he/they or she/they. I would love if we were ADDING rep for neutral & gendered pronoun users, but this just feels like TAKING rep from characters that previously only used gender neutral pronouns....

And I KNOW they aren't major characters and only appeared for a bit but it just feels shitty to me. Like if Garthy's card suddenly had he/they I feel like people would be upset?

And people have mentioned that Baron was called by a number of pronouns in SY but i think that was a product of not stating the pronouns to the players in game. When the players in The Seven he/him'ed Baron Brennan corrected them. Garthy had a similar problem where players slipped up often but no one ever questions their pronouns or says "Garthy uses he and they".

And maybe I just missed it, but has ANYONE used gender neutral language for Cassandra since like the beginning of ep 1? It feels like the gendered pronouns were added just to make things easier, rather than because of actual change in the character.

I'm a multi pronoun user myself, like normally I would like the rep. But the fact that we are taking away characters that use they/them and not adding ANY new ones as far as I can tell (barring like the Thistlesprings but I don't think that's a very good faith argument) just stings. I'd rather the players accidentally use the wrong pronouns every once and a while than try to make it so if they do slip up it's ok because that's an acceptable pronoun for the character now.

#its such a small thing but its really bothering me. i just......i expected better.#i wasnt expecting this show and this cast/crew to do something that would hurt in this way yknow?#this post brought to you by: me #fhjy spoilers #also like i put it under a cut cuz i know people probably dont want this negativity #and also i think theres a really good chance this gets misinterpreted lol #I LIKE HE/THEY AND SHE/THEY. I USE THEM MYSELF.#but the they/thems shouldnt be retconned for that.#there isnt a limited number of genderqueer characters allowed. we can ADD she/theys and he/theys #without reducing the they/thems #and im not using the term nonbinary for a reason cuz i think that its left vague etc etc

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ollyou · 3 months

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The people who complain about me being on tumblr are so funny because why is your reaction to my existence just ranting about and saying you fell to your knees screaming seeing me to my face instead of blocking and moving on 😭😭😭🙏 YES SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT JUST NOW LMAOOO

what’s even funnier is when people basically tell me I’m the plague of the pmtok fandom. I don’t interact with the fandom </3 All I do is tag my posts with PMTOK related tags and that’s it so aside from people just wanting something to complain about (I know it’s useless in making posts about this but I need a good laugh at these people every once in a while), I’m not even interactive with the fandom.. mostly cause it’s dead though HAHAHAH it’s really rare to find origami siblings fans in the sea of LoS fans that makes up the majority of the active fandom tbh

Like I’m ngl I have zero clue what goes on in the PMTOK fandom cause I don’t even like the majority of it and I stick to my own space 😭 most of the community outside of my account’s space either are kids or act like kids (in a bad way) so I don’t wanna really go there anyway…. I just like Olly and Olivia and the partners! They are very special to me since PMTOK is my comfort game :]

No offense to the sane LoS fans btw you guys are chill! I just.. dont wanna be on that side of the fandom HAHAHAHAH SORRY…

#extra rambling under the cut #rambling #negative #kind of. like it delves into more negative stuff #ig the negative tag is really just for anything not positive

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alchemistdetective · 4 months

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My cousin passed away today

Admitted to hospital on Christmas Eve

Passed away 6 hours ago from too much water in the lungs

Cousin is the best person I know, loves everyone in my family, and I regularly talked with them, especially when it comes to life and career advice, etc, and even has a heart of gold to strangers

I'm still stopping and crying over and over again while just blankly looking at the ceiling on bed

Please, when you get the chance, hug your loved ones and tell them how much you love them

#OOC #Negative stuff under the cut but it's not related to Tumblr don't worry #Just need a place to vent

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douwatahima · 6 months

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the thing that keeps nagging at the back of my brain is that all of this, the miscommunication between ed and stede, the incoming conflict with prince ricky and the gang, everything with zheng, would feel better to me if there wasn't only one episode left.

don't get me wrong, i'm not against mess. i wouldn't even say i'm against mess in a finale. my favourite episode of the whole series is still episode ten of season one. however, djenks has said repeatedly in interviews that this finale wraps things up much more nicely than season one and could act as a series finale if they don't get season three. and i am...supremely doubtful.

there's been a lot of good stuff this season, a lot of stuff that i just adored, but these past two episodes (seven especially) have made it abundantly clear to me that max cutting two episodes off of their season order kinda fucked them. there hasn't been enough time to really build up ricky as a villain (he's in the first episode and then just...disappears for half the season) and now he's the main threat that we're supposed to care about. zheng seemed like she was on the war path for them in episode 3 and then...nothing. yeah, she fought stede but if he hadn't been too big for his britches she wouldn't have bothered. and ed and stede desperately need to talk. for like...longer than two seconds. and you expect me to believe all of this shit is going to be tied up in a neat enough little bow in half an hour???

i hate being negative about this show because i love it so so much and i've loved this season a lot up until all this but i just...idk man i really don't know how they can pull it all off and have it feel good.

#tv: our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #under a cut because it's negative so...don't like don't read i guess #i am ready to be wrong come next week but right now i'm just feeling kinda :/

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automatic-purification-system · 8 months

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Some thoughts about the new trailer!

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It's been so long... and finally... it's here!!!!

theories! theories first.

So, it seems like Homura might be doing her own version of the incubator pitch? (become a magical girl and all that) which would mean that she's been doing that part, presumably to keep things stable (to fight off the curses caused by her honestly still not ok soul gem so that madoka doesn't have to awaken perhaps?) I think that the new girl is going to be meant to show that- how things work in this new world, and why they maybe don't. (her outfit probably looks similar to homura's because homura made her a meguca, maybe?)

there's some telephone symbolism, but idk much about that kinda thing. the sounds for it are great though. I noticed that one of the voices over the phone was calling her "akuma-sama" (devil), and though this is absolutley a stretch i'm just going to connect that to my opinion that Homura isn't really a "devil", she just thinks of herself as one (because of guilt, going to catholic school, something something)

the voices on the phone also mention, multiple times, "bring hope". once again, something something madoka, the world is trying to set itself back to normal and Homura wants madkoa to not have to go back to being the law of cycles. the phone also says "release that girl" so yeah.

now! the designs! wow those're different!

I think sayaka's mummy wraps is because of what homura did at the end of rebellion- it's reminicent of the sayaka from the concept movie, so i'm going to assume that's what it is.

but all the other outfits are different too! Mami and Kyoko, the uniforms, everything! obviously, if it's all of this, then it's intentional, and it means something.

everything is almost, but not quite the same- if you saw a silouette, or from a distance, then you could maybe think it's the same, but not up close. the first thing this made me think of was like, the fading of memories? currently, this world is sustained by homura. but if her memory of some things starts getting a bit muddled, then would the things themselves change too? it could also be indicitive of a timeskip of some kind. maybe we'll see high school mami lol.

the last thing! as a tried and true magia record fan, I hope that this movie has nothing to do with it. I don't want it to be influenced by the game, connect to the story, none of it. one thing that i noticed though, was that the animation looks a lot like the artstyle of the magireco anime.

i'm... not really sure about this? mostly because some of the high-intensity action scenes from the magireco anime could get kind of hard to follow, which isn't a problem that the main series has ever really had all that much. it also looks kind of off in some scenes.

but! I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt. the slightly off artstyle could be like the outfit chagnes- to show that something is wrong here, things are off.

also i love the crazy enviornments and "everything is 7 medaphors deep" artstyle of rebellion. glad to see it make a return!!!!!!! the music is also so good!!!

overall: I am excite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#pmmm #magia record #thoughts #madoka magica #walpurgis rising #i did not proofread this at all #thus why it is under a cut #also there's some very very slight negativity at the end #gonna go watch the trailer on repeat now #watching the trailer while playing homu in magireco; an immersive experience

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shiitb4lls · 6 months

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oooo boy.

with everything that happened this week my cravings have been at an all time high. idk what it is about being home but it's only made them worse. also my parents have ... a ton of booze in the house. fingers crossed I'm strong enough to not give into my cravings. please wish me luck buddies. I'm nine weeks sober as of yesterday and I'm hoping not to have a lapse.

#landis speaks.#negativity under the cut #alcoholism //#addiction //

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( under a cut because i just went off im sorry bab ily ))

(( i hate the pressure. like, the stupid amounts of pressure for what is essentially just a hobby. but god forbid you say it's a hobby because then you get attacked with the 'BUT IT'S COMMUNICATION. IT'S A SOCIAL HOBBY. HOW DARE YOU NOT SPEAK TO ME 24/7'. i just hate it. i honestly resent it. i've come to avoid it because the pressure is so ridiculous.

like, the pressure in ALL aspects of roleplay.

everything from how much you're around, to who you write with to what you write to how you write. the genres you prefer, people you prefer. the people you associate with. the time you spend between rl, here, or tumblr / discord or whatever else. like every single lil thing is judged.

if you're online too much, you're terminally online and have no life. if you're not online enough, you're flaky and not a good communicator. if you write too much smut, you're clearly just a skank who only wants porn. if you write no smut, you're a prude and sex-repulsed - there must be something wrong with you!

what's that? you're under 25? fuck you, too young stay away from me.

hold up? you're over 30? fuck you, you're too old, stay away from me.

you dont write novella? not a real writer. go away.

you don't write one-liners? elistist. asshole. gross.

why didn't you respond to my 16 discord messages i sent you in the space of an hour? you must hate me.

yes i liked your plotting call, no i wont elaborate. you do all the work :-)

i've gotten shit from people for writing too much nsfw / smut before now. despite the 2000 word odd timeline i have written regarding heid. despite the many father/kid ships i have. the enemy ships i have. the threads that are comedy or horror or whatever else. the dynamics and plots i've begged for. doesn't matter, i wrote smut a few times so that means i'm a terrible rper & a worse person.

i was offline when my dad died and had people block me and when asked say 'you're not online enough / you didn't speak to ME enough'. my fucking dad died, was that not a good enough reason to not be online writing fictional characters ???

you're expected to pump out thread after thread after thread after ask after starter after thread and then still respond to every single message you have, because if you don't? oh, god forbid-

i just hate it. i'm not about that pressure and anyone who pressures anyone in rp is just a bit of an asshole honestly. it's a chill hobby that's entirely based online and should be treated as such. ))

#split under cut cause this goes on #talk a bout a rant wow #(ooc)#(answered)#tw rant #tw negative #is this unpopular lol

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