What do you think about the criticism of "wasted potential" and how it relates to a show like RWBY? Because I'm often rather ambivalent to it because of how often it feels like a useless buzzword used when a person isn't willing or able to be specific about what specifically is wasted.

I honestly struggle to care about the term at times because I usually don't care that much about what the story didn't do so much as what it DID do and what the point it's trying to make is.

true wasted potential, imo, is when a story sets up something important and then fumbles the execution badly enough that it creates a narrative dead end. tts s3 is wasted potential: s1-2 meticulously set up a slow-boiling conflict between cassandra and rapunzel, driven by rapunzel’s toxic behaviors and disregard for cassandra’s boundaries, and culminating in rapunzel accidentally turning cassandra’s arm to a charred husk and then getting mad at her for being upset. s3 swerves so hard that none of that is followed through and cassandra’s villain arc is framed solely as the result of an irrational breakdown sparked by her discovery that rapunzel’s kidnapper was her mother (<- we learn about this in the first episode of s3) and fueled by zhan tiri’s manipulation. her charred arm literally is not mentioned even once.

what wasted potential means to a lot of people is “i thought the story would be x but it’s y,” or other variations on the basic sentiment that they had an expectation that was not met. in some contexts this is an entirely fair line of criticism (say, gaybaiting or stories derailed by executive meddling or stories with good ideas that are very poorly written), sometimes it’s a matter of taste, and sometimes it’s just a thinly-veiled way to dress up “i expected this story to cater to me and i’m mad that it didn’t” in a less entitled-sounding package.

as it pertains to rwby the wasted potential line, from what i’ve seen of it, comes mostly from either a place of disinterest in (or active disdain for) the thematic storyline or dislike for the repeated breaking of the narrative status quo, or both, or else it’s specific criticism of the white fang arc which does indeed squander its potential.

just found out Dallon Weekes is autistic and has ADHD wow cool

There's this old as hell interview where Ohken is like "Yeah in high school all I did was watch late night shows and jack off. But hey there's a lot of guys like that and I want guys like that to listen to my music" which, like, I KNOW he's talked many times about having been a virgin loser in high school but you can't just say this shit when you're one of the coolest guys to ever live

hawkeye pierce my best friend my special guy he loves so hard and so much and settles for anything in return he's given away pieces of himself to so many people and he'll never ask for them back he's a hero he's a saint he's a martyr yet he thinks he's unworthy of prayer he thinks he's unworthy of respect the people he loves will take and take and there will be nothing left and he will still love them all the same

What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030

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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

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listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

I think I can trace my intense hatred for the whole "regulations are just corporate bullshit, building codes are just The Man's way of keeping you down, we should return to pre-industrial barter and trade systems" nonsense back to when I first started doing electrical work at one of the largest hospitals in the country.

I have had to learn so much about all the special conditions in the National Electric Code for healthcare systems. All the systems that keep hospitals running, all the redundancies and backups that make sure one disaster or outage won't take out the hospital's life support, all the rules about different spaces within the hospital and the different standards that apply to each of them. And a lot of it is ridiculously over-engineered and overly redundant, but all of it is in the service of saving even one life from being lost to some wacky series of coincidences that could have been prevented with that redundancy.

I've done significantly less work in food production plants and the like, but I know they have similar standards to make sure the plants aren't going to explode or to make sure a careless maintenance tech isn't accidentally dropping screws into jars of baby food or whatever. And research labs have them to make sure some idiot doesn't leave a wrench inside a transformer and wreck a multi-million dollar machine when they try to switch it on.

Living in the self-sufficient commune is all fun and games until someone needs a kidney transplant and suddenly wants a clean, reliable hospital with doctors that are subject to some kind of overseeing body, is my point.

FNAF Sun reviews Michael Afton’s art,,

atla renaissance pt 3 calls to me like a siren

The Forbidden Bun

He let his impulsive thoughts win

Lucifer saluting Sir Pentious is everything to me.

Hats off to you Sir, you made it, in Heaven.

I miss them T^T I miss the blue girlies