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Well, I was gonna take longer on this post, but I went to reblog something today and came to the frankly startling realization that some of you clowns already have me blocked? Babes, I haven’t done anything yet. At least let me do something first.
Anyways, here’s why there isn’t any moral greyness in the Avatar franchise villains, you guys are just horny:
I know I said it a bajillion times on this blog, but the point of Avatar is to make a direct statement on colonialism, genocide, and ecological harm. It touches all these interconnected themes; militarism, imperialism, racism, colorism, and it comes at them in a way that is supposed to give you an unbiased view of this. We are not watching a movie about Earth and about the genocide of our indigenous peoples because a lot of people already have preconceived notions about these topics. Please see my lovely studious deracination post for more detail, but essentially; Sometimes it’s easier to approach these issues when you (white people) don’t feel like they are targeting you (white people).
You are supposed to sympathize with the Na’vi. You are supposed to see things from their perspective, and maybe gain the ability to understand the complexity and harm that caused by all these big themes I mentioned above. A prevalent theme in The Way of Water is this long lasting trauma felt in these communities, especially displayed in Neytiri and her subsequent treatment of Spider. You are supposed to See, understand? That is moral greyness, something you the viewer knows that is wrong in a protagonist character, but you understand why and how they ended up there. You are torn.
And sometimes, the way you read or view a narrative that employs studious deracination allows you to look at yourself and your own biases more. Basically what I’m saying is sympathizing more with the recoms and Quaritch is more of a you thing, guys.
I’ll say this again, there is nothing wrong with finding them hot, villains are fun. I am a huge fan of Quaritch in the first movie, especially the scenes where he holds his breath to shoot at Trudy’s Sampson. He’s a great villain! But he is not redeemable. Quaritch not only is our main representation for all the genocide, colonialism, imperialism, and racism present in the themes and inspiration behind the script, but he also doesn’t do anything to deserve redemption?
For real world issues such as the ones Quaritch represents, there should be direct addresses and attempts to unlearn behaviors and make amends in order to redeem that character without presenting those issues as non-issues. Think Zuko in A:TLA. Direct amends, directly addressed, and no one has ever excuses his actions because he is the first to condemn them. What people think makes Quartich redeemable is being (questionably) nice to his son. That is entirely unrelated to what he needs to be redeemed for, and is therefore not relevant. Not to mention the mountains of Stockholm Syndrome, trauma, damage, and harm he actually did to that kid, but oh well. Don’t get me started on Quartich’s Lima Syndrome.
He still kidnaps and tries to kill many innocent children (even unrelated children, he didn’t know who the Sully’s were at first just random Na’vi kids and a human that he also kidnaps before knowing him, and he takes Tsireya captive at the end too) just to get to their dad, kidnaps Spider and takes him to be tortured (yes that’s his fault), manipulates Spider into helping the recoms (telling him he can stay and be tortured or come with them is not a choice, that is a manipulation tactic), kills the ilu to torture the Ta’unui, has the tulkun killed and displayed specifically to bait Jake and the Metkayina into a war, burns down the Ta’unui village, and tries to kill the Tsahík of the Ta’unui (important to note he had to have learned what a Tsahík was likely from Spider to have used to term, knew what she was to the clan and how important she was and choose her to target) and only didn’t because Spider begged for her life. I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but guys. If he doesn’t kill a defenseless and random unrelated woman just because his own kid asks him not to, thats actually not good! It’s not a good reason! That’s not developing a moral compass actually! We can say all we want that old human Quaritch wouldn’t have stopped because of Spider: you don’t fucking know! Dude could have loved his kid so much and that was his whole driving reason to burn Hometree to the ground, so he could make it all nice for his kid. It actually just doesn’t make it okay or redeemable. It’s not morally grey, his morals are clear. He does not feel bad for what he’s done, that’s clear. Bad people can also like their kids, and also have slutty waists.
For the other recoms, I hope I do not have to explain that not a single one of them does a single thing to even suggest they could be redeemed. The fact that they were brought back does not bode well for their records. Lyle Wainfleet has now killed two named Avatar characters, he killed Seze in Avatar as well as Neteyam. Dude was pissed when Trudy didn’t let him help shoot at Hometree lol. The military industrial complex doesn’t need ur help with their image lol.
Again, go crazy go stupid for them all. But let’s remember the point of this whole thing here. The military genocide boys are not getting redeemed in Avatar, guys, and they are certainly not raising that kid.
#at least the billy stans let me do stuff before putting me on that blocklist#which was still incredibly funny#i reblogged it :)#i was gonna stay chill until we made it to 1k before i made the targeted decision to loose followers but oh well#needs must#and i really enjoy a good genocide villain discussion post#i find this redemption trend very sus and fascinating#white male villains get so much slack and its so so suspect#the people that asked for this post: i hope it's what u wanted besties#miles quaritch#lyle wainfleet#recoms#is he babygirl or did he just commit a warcrime??/#he can't babygirl his way out of this one!#miles spider socorro#tsireya#jake sully#trudy chacon#spider socorro#neytiri sully#avatar#avatar the way of water#james cameron avatar#melissa og#melissa on avatar (cameron)#melissa does discourse#melissa is an english major
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Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.
Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.
Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.
Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.
#pjo#percy jackson#nico di angelo#Percy shows up at CJ and squints at Nico like ''hm. why do i feel like i hate you? like i just wanna punch you in the face?''#and Nico just immediately goes ''huh no idea anyways i have to go-'' and jumps into Tartarus#but not before he gives Hazel essentially a detailed explanation of ''this is Percy i cant say much but please dont let him die <3''#and Nico's whole Tartarus trip was basically a whole ''im doing this so no one else has to''#only for Percy and Annabeth to fall in like one book later and Nico proceeds to spend the next book internally screaming about it#and then Cupid calls him out on it and the next book#Nico's just like ''at this point im hoping i keel over within the next week just so i can force this dumb crush to chill the fuck out''#Nico staring pointedly at Will: ''For my own sake i need to form another crush RIGHT NOW so i can finally get over Percy.''#''this has been so bad for my health''#Nico's crush on Percy is just too funny to me. horrible pick my guy. terrible job. love that for you. he could not be less interested.#Percy LITERALLY TRIES TO KILL NICO and ditch him in the underworld and Nico is somehow STILL like ''but i love him''#Percy basically chokes him. beats up his dad. tells him ''go get smited by your dad for me.'' and ditches him.#and Nico's opinions/crush on him DO NOT CHANGE#though also Nico's reaction to Percy beating up his dad + skeletons is SO funny. his jaw is on the floor. he's flustered about it.#he just witnessed Percy be incredibly hot and proceeded to go ''yea i'll do anything for this man. collect reinforcements of 3 gods? sure''#nico you absolute DISASTER with HORRIBLE TASTE. you can do better. raise your standards.#which tbh is funnier when you factor in sun and the star. Nico just wont stop crushing on guys who dislike him and everything he stands for
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It's "the Stark sisters have complementary skillsets" until someone points out that Arya is good at math and Sansa isn't. Then suddenly Arya is an unreliable narrator, Sansa is just being humble, and she'll magically have that skill if/when it becomes relevant
#the absolute refusal of this fandom to believe that Arya is better at an /intellectual/ subject than Sansa is ridiculous#and the funniest part is that Sansa explicitly states she isn't good at math herself but people still pretend not to see it#they want to force the brain and brawn shit on them sooooo badly and it's just never gonna work because Arya is incredibly intelligent#and that's constantly reinforced...her being good at math just introduces how analytical she is which is a HUGE part of her character#the irony of the /don't pit the sisters against each other/ stans doing the most to compare and divide their stories + characters#if they didn't base their takes on fanon it wouldn't be an issue though 🤷🏾♀️#so funny to bring up the fact that Arya is canonically good at math cause it goes against basically every fandom idea about her#that along with her overall intelligence cause they can't handle her being more then someone's bodyguard
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in which cleo is very much not recognized
#stream liveblogging#zombiecleo#hermitcraft#to be clear i think she's told this story before but it's still funny and i haven't seen a clip of it#also she's faceless at least in part because she would have 100% risked getting fired while she was a teacher if she WERE recognized#although that doesn't matter anymore and she just wants to be faceless now#which is so incredibly valid if i were a youtuber id 100% be faceless#anyway. fantastic story. cleo awkwardly: IS THAT SO? HERMITCRAFT? WEIRD.
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#reposting this 3 yr old meme with better handwriting bc it's still INCREDIBLY fucking funny to me#bnha#aizawa#mic#erasermic#yes i am the original artist. no i don't remember which blog i posted this on back in the day
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tagged by @herbaklava @timrothencrantz and @wutheringdyke to post my top nine new-to-me watches of the year—thank you all!
in no particular order (l-r, top row to bottom row):
skinamarink (kyle edward ball, 2023)
great freedom (sebastian meise, 2021)
earth mama (savanah leaf, 2023)
nineteen eighty-four (michael radford, 1984)
enys men (mark jenkin, 2022)
marina abramović & ulay: no predicted end (kasper bech dyg, 2022)
paris 5:59: théo & hugo (olivier ducastel and jacques martineau, 2016)
nationtime (william greaves, 1972)
giants and toys (yasuzo masumura, 1958)
while i hit my continual goal of half of the films by women and nonbinary filmmakers, i still definitely need to keep up with deliberately seeking out films by directors of color! tell me your faves if you’ve seen any of these; do we think i can hit 150 titles in 2024? 👀🎬🍿🎥
i'll tag @sightofsea / @lesbiancolumbo / @nelson-riddle-me-this / @draftdodgerag / @edwardalbee / @majorbaby / @radioprune / @glennmillerorchestra / @deadpanwalking and anyone else who'd like to do this!
my full watchlist is included under the cut, favorites of the year are bolded in red:
The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia (Jonni Phillips, 2019)
Nothing Bad Can Happen (Katrin Gebbe, 2013)
Dive (Lucía Puenzo, 2022)
The Menu (Mark Mylod, 2022)
The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio, 2022)
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022)
Shapeless (Samantha Aldana, 2021)
Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball, 2023)
Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)
Actual People (Kit Zauhar, 2021)
Honeycomb (Avalon Fast 2022)
Warrendale (Allan King, 1967)
Women Talking (Sarah Polley, 2022)
This Place Rules (Andrew Callaghan, 2022)
Nationtime (William Greaves, 1972)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)
Incident in a Ghostland (Pascal Laugier, 2018)
Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004)
I Start Counting (David Greene, 1970)
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino, 2022)
Tár (Todd Field, 2022)
The Most Dangerous Game (Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel, 1932)
These Three (William Wyler, 1936)
Dead End (William Wyler, 1937)
The Sport Parade (Dudley Murphy, 1932)
We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, 2021)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1995)
Smile (Parker Finn, 2022)
Holiday (Isabella Eklöf, 2018)
When Women Kill (Lee Grant, 1983)
Softie (Samuel Theis, 2021)
My Old School (Jono McLeod, 2022)
Beyond The Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, 2015)
Infinity Pool (Brandon Cronenberg, 2023)
Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, 2021)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2007)
Enys Men (Mark Jenkin, 2022)
Bully (Larry Clark, 2001)
My King (Maïwenn, 2015)
Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
Marina Abramovic & Ulay: No Predicted End (Kasper Bech Dyg, 2022)
Elles (Małgośka Szumowska, 2011)
Poison Ivy (Katt Shea, 1992)
ear for eye (debbie tucker green, 2021)
Spring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon, 2020)
God's Creatures (Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, 2023)
I Blame Society (Gillian Wallace Horvat, 2020)
Bama Rush (Rachel Fleit, 2023)
Is This Fate? (Helga Reidemeister, 1979)
Paris 5:59: Théo & Hugo (Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, 2016)
Madeline's Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)
The Strays (Nathaniel Martello-White, 2023)
Here Is Always Somewhere Else (René Daalder, 2007)
The Weather Underground (Sam Green and Bill Siegel, 2002)
American Revolution 2 (Mike Gray, 1969)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King, 2021)
Underground (Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler, 1976)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)
Baby Ruby (Bess Wohl, 2022)
Welcome to Me (Shira Piven, 2014)
Clock (Alexis Jacknow, 2023)
Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan, 2023)
Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley, 2022)
Soft & Quiet (Beth de Araújo, 2022)
Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean, 1999)
The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean, 2016)
Violent Playground (Basil Dearden, 1958)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
A Banquet (Ruth Paxton, 2021)
Jagged Mind (Kelley Kali, 2023)
The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1974)
Good Boy (Viljar Bøe, 2023)
Sanctuary (Zachary Wigon, 2022)
Little Girl (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2020)
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes, 1964)
Massacre at Central High (Rene Daalder, 1976)
Summer of Soul (Amir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021)
Bad Things (Stewart Thorndike, 2023)
Still (Takashi Doscher , 2018)
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)
The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)
The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring (Erin Lee Carr, 2023)
Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura, 1958)
Spoonful of Sugar (Mercedes Bryce Morgan, 2022)
Double Lover (François Ozon , 2017)
Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn, 2022)
Don't Call Me Son (Anna Muylaert, 2016)
Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise, 2021)
Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)
The Mind of Mr. Soames (Alan Cooke, 1970)
The Bloody Child (Nina Menkes, 1996)
Bunker (Jenny Perlin, 2021)
Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve, 2009)
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (Brian Knappenberger, 2023)
The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell, 2004)
Giant Little Ones (Keith Behrman, 2018)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer(Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford, 1984)
Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, 2023)
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, 2023)
May December (Todd Haynes, 2023)
Free Chol Soo Lee (Julie Ha and Eugene Yi, 2022)
Girl (Lukas Dhont, 2018)
Queen of Hearts (May el-Toukhy, 2019)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984)
System Crasher (Nora Fingscheidt, 2019)
Burden (Richard Dewey and Timothy Marrinan, 2016)
As Above, So Below (Larry Clark, 1973)
The Captive (Chantal Akerman, 2000)
Run Rabbit Run (Daina Reid, 2023)
Subject (Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall, 2022)
Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf, 2023)
Woodshock (Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy, 2017)
Swept Away (Lina Wertmüller, 1974)
Meadowland (Reed Morano, 2015)
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes, 2022)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
Zola (Janicza Bravo, 2021)
The Starling Girl (Laurel Parmet, 2023)
Night Comes On (Jordana Spiro, 2018)
Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940)
#so many good films this year!#so funny that the ones that people have really strong feelings on i did not really like this year (minus skinamarink which was incredible#and still absolutely haunts me—some of the other 2023 releases were :/)
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^ real line of dialogue from the napoleon movie btw. spoken by napoleon to the british ambassador.
#<- stolen from some random review article bc i couldn't remember it word for word from the theatre#anyways picture this said in an incredibly childish way#i think it is intended to be funny in a stupid way which. well i did laugh. at how stupid is was. the writing is still bad though#thoughts
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Everyone should go watch Densel’s Animal Crossing series on YouTube right now just for these moments alone
#Animal Crossing#Tom Nook#Isabelle#They're just so!!!!! You know?????#I would put them on the self ship blog but an Event is going on over there this month#So we get MAIN posting#The HUG I'm falling apart#The SASS#I love it so much#The entire series is incredibly funny and seriously really good#If you're okay with Video Game characters are real and have emotions in a Meta Way plotlines#Which I know is one of those things that bothers people#but I still reccomend it because the first like 5 are just funny one offs#And then you get to Town Meeting and things go crazy#In a really really good way#And again it's VERY funny#I love it a lot and this hug gif is going to be playing in my head forever
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the thing abt mizu is that she is extremely non-binary in such a genderqueer way that she has homoerotic energy w men and extremely sapphic energy w women.
#i know this is gross simplification bc mizu's relationship to womanhood is quite a few layers of complicated#bc she has never been allowed to be human let alone woman in a society where mixed race is seen as a greater condemnation than womanhood#and a lot of her dressing up as a man is to save herself from the reach of said misogyny which wont let her be addressed as a woman#but sure be dehumanized as one.#but it is funny to think of how homoerotically charged her interactions w taigen are. as opposed to her interactions w women. w akemi.#i have not finished the show yet i've still quite a few eps to go. but god her being mixed race has been so incredibly isolating.#she struggles w intimacy she feels like she has to do everything alone bc who in the world wouldnt hate her? would not turn her in for coin#her easily clockable ethnicity has challenged both her ability to live w womanhood#and be a part of womanhood in a society where women are treated so poorly.#anyway this is a joke post simply to comment on how mizu's chemistry w taigen is as opposed to mizu's chemistry w akemi#i'd beseech you to not take it seriously. like i said. its a gross simplification. and this is a joke post.#im watching blue eye samurai and the art style is pretty cool
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"Cuhut it out- you guys!"
"Nu-uh, not until you're all perked up first! You don't want those gym challengers meetin' with an ol' mopey leader, do ya?"
"Whitney's right, dear friend. No need to hide that beautiful smile of yours, alright?~"
What it takes to cheer up Johto's beloved ghost boy 👻💕
#some incredibly self-indulgent fluff for my own sake SKJDFSNDFS#Morty was having one of Those days where the weight of his responsibilities as leader and expectations as someone meant to bring back Ho-Oh#-felt a little too heavy to handle (more so than usual)#luckily his best friends (and mayhaps crush of nearly an entire decade) are here to take a stand against his low mood 🤼#I've been having brainrot of Whitney's dynamics with these two alrighttttt they all deserve to be silly with each other#best wingman award goes to this girlie for putting up with these two's mutual pining antics for years sdkfjskjdfh#the way I see it Morty and Whitney were besties way back before they had even become leaders (with Morty being the older between them)#there were definitely rumors going around between their towns about how they're an item#when the reality is that Whitney's more focused on winning the affections of the other cute girls she hangs out with#while Morty's a repressed gay lad burdened with religious guilt SDJFHUISJDNFS /LH /LH#the second Whitney caught wind of Morty actually developing a crush on someone you just Know she was on his ass Immediately#asking about aaall the details--who he is- what he does- how he dresses- if he could even conceivably pass her standards of how a--#--fitting partner for her best friend's meant to be#to which an incredibly exasperated Morty struggles to answer because Eusine is just beyond his comprehension /affectionate#when Whitney does eventually get to meet him in person the first time she most certainly takes a jab at his fashion sense SDKJFSDFNS#BUT they do end up getting along a lot better than Morty braced for- which was a huge relief to him#it soon reaches that point where Eusine's secretly asking her for details on the things Morty likes and how to possibly impress him#all the while Morty's asking her for advice on how he could cope with his feelings when he's still unsure on whether they'd be requited#Whitney finds the whole ordeal simultaneously very funny and perhaps one of the most frustrating things imaginable SDKJFSKDNFS#enough of me yapping thouuughhhhhh I should save that for its own post 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️#pokemon tickle#gym leader morty#morty pokemon#gym leader whitney#whitney pokemon#mystery man eusine#eusine pokemon#eusine#lee!morty#ler!eusine
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Getting up to trouble is his speciality (Patreon)
#Doodles#SCII#Helix#ZEX#The Captain#Mixed set! :D Lots of singular doodles - one-offs or ones that apply to a few different scenes#The kiss is random tho <3 I still haven't gotten to ZEX showing off his uniform to Zelnick! I want them to!!#Him seeing his Captain in his uniform was so lovely tho <3 I love Big Love and that was so <3 Hehe#Smooch ♥#ZEX does not eat enough ;; He eats like a bird and it's highly distressing#I actually wrote in my notes that I was surprised he wasn't hurting In The Same entry as when he was experiencing hunger pangs haha#It doesn't help that he tends to talk through meals rather than eat - he's so much more interested in making connections with humans!#As far as metaphors go - killing himself for the sake of trying to bridge that gap - I mean it's apt but ZEX please#I think it was while he was talking to Wally at one point that he framed the War in a very flippant light-hearted way which was funny to me#I don't think that's the descriptor most people would use haha#Swearing <3 <3 VUX terminology <3 <3#I want a VUX glossary of terms so badly hehe I've been slowly compiling a few here and there :3 Direct translation! The dream ♫#Him getting stressed enough to swear is very endearing haha ♪ What do you mean I'm endeared by everything he does don't be silly#The next one of me deeply enjoying when he's creepy is not proof of anything! Just because I Happen to also like that!!#I do really love when he's creepy tho agh <3 <3 The mental image of him as The Hunter - casually cornering and capturing his prey <3#In that instance he was interrupted pretty quickly but the setup was there!! And it was extremely good!!!#I love how huffy he gets as well haha ''All these humans interrupting my seduction attempts >O( ...Wait O|'' lol#And finally an exchange on the board between him and Scarecrow haha so many fun faces around!!#I love him being completely baffled by a non-mechanical construct it just short-circuits his brain haha ♥#He's so intelligent but there exists things unknowable!#The image of him tapping his pen is so Incredibly cute ah <3 Where did he learn such a thing! Does it translate from his VUX form to this ♪#Anything everything ♥ Learned or known! It's wonderful
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I think we should bring back basic etiquette lessons such as shutting the fuck up when you’re watching a movie in a group that is not exclusively your friend group 🙂
#welcome to another Mick Airs Out Their Grievances and by god is it a VERY long one#prob best if u don't expand the tags#am I being maybe a bit meaner about this than I would be for any other movie? maybe but pac rim is one of my favorite movies of all time#so I think I get a pass on this one.#one of the groups on campus is hosting movie nights & I went to this one bc I've only ever watched pac rim on my laptop and wanted to watch#it on a larger screen. yay yippee I love this movie!#there r maybe 10-ish of us in this room and a three person friend group is sitting on the couch one of whom has seen the movie and two who#have not. okay so far so normal.#and then the movie starts and they won't! stop! fucking! commentating! the whole fucking movie!!! I don't have a problem with doing that#when I'm in just my friend group because I know that I can tell my friend to stop talking or pause the movie or whatnot but not when I'm in#a large group w people I'm not good friends with ffs#and the comments aren't even funny or anything they're all oh this is JUST like in iron widow!! oh they're SO gay and autistic!!! and#they're talking so loud about this that it completely drowns out the movie audio which has already been turned up a few times#like. be considerate!! some of us want to yknow actually listen to what's going on and not whatever bullshit you're saying#I nearly walked out three or four times before I actually wound up doing so#I may have been a bit of a bitch at the end but I don't care. I got up to leave because this was not an enjoyable environment and one of#them offered to turn the movie down if it was too loud. this caught me a bit off guard since I expected them to still be so wrapped up in#their convo and. well. I may have said 'it's not the movie that's too loud' before closing the door#this also reminds me a lot about my issues with online shipping culture and it bleeding through into how we interact with media irl#this is probably heavily influenced by my aromanticism but I'm so sick of people constantly reading romantic relationships into everything#AND placing more importance on those relationships than any other form. I don't mind romance in media. I think if done right it has great#emotional impact on a story but when a movie is running and when other people who may not want to hear it are in the room watching it too#is not the time to be loudly saying 'he's autistic!' 'they're in love!' 'she has a crush on him!'#I have my own interpretations of the movie some of which agree with what they said and some of which don't but that's beside the point of#knowing how to coexist politely in public#anyway. I think they were awful and annoying and they ruined my night out.#I think I'm just so incredibly mad about this because I love the movie and I was looking forward to watching it in a group of people who#found it cool as well while still having some modicum of politeness#I almost wish I had been meaner but that's the extreme annoyance talking I think#hater hour over love u guys bye
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made my first dnd character ever and she's a total cunt and i love her
#her name is kaia she's a half-elf bard btw. if u even care#the DM came up with a backstory with me bc i CANNOT invent shit on the spot so i basically let him take the wheel#which im not mad about bc it's my first campaign and i was nervous and im still Weird about anything writing-related in front of others#so i kind of accepted that me just being open about my own ideas wasn't gonna happen anytime soon and will take time#and he was really good about it like didn't give me shit for not contributing he just on the fly came up with a whole ass backstory#i love being around writers it was genuinely very beautiful to watch BUT it's also very funny the backstory he came up with#bc now kaia by chance has an absent father and an incredibly close but complex relationship with her mother#and she expresses all of her emotions and anger and hurt towards these things and other experiences through her art form (music)#like? lol. lmao even. like why did he come up with that backstory SPECIFICALLY im giggling#hella goes to uni#it's our first session tonight im very excited <3
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Honestly though saying (or implying) that vocaloid or vocal synths in general "devalues the human voice" is SUCH an incredibly shit take for SO many reasons.
Like yeah Saki Fujita getting so many other roles in voice acting because of her contribution to Hatsune Miku (the anime cameos and stuff are usually done with her original voice, them modified to be robotic) is a bit of an outlier when most other vocaloid and sythns don't have that influence.
You can even sort of wave off the dozens upon dozens of people who go for realistic tuning- like whenever a synth has any sort of clarity, there are like five people commenting about how real they sound. Clearly people do still care about human sounding vocals, because they go nuts over realistic vtuning.
There are many different aspects of vocaloid that use human voices, too- from Set It Off's duet "Why Do I?", human rap artists using Miku's vocals as background, and the entire CONCEPT of Project Sekai which releases AND COMMISSIONS songs for vocal synths and real people.
But the sheer number of vocaloid producers who use their own vocals as back up (MikitoP, PinoochioP, and I believe Kira off the top of my head), the number of producers who can sing and/or do self covers (again Kira, GIGA, Ayase, Teniwoha, syudou and so many more), and the amount of vocal producers who have gone forward with legit musical careers after working with vocaloid (Kenshi Yonezu, most notably, who did work for years under the alias Hachi)
I mean, hell. There are vocaloid producers who go on to become vocaloid vocals themselves- like nostraightanswer, the vocal provider for DEX, who has made both vocaloid and original songs. Some even duets.
That's not even including creators like JubyPhonic, Rachie, Will Stenson, Lollia, Octavia, Razzy and Co., and SO many other HUMAN cover artists who gained following or honed their skills on none other than vocaloid covers. (And that's just a handful of English Cover artists, not like Sati Akura a Russian cover artist or Ado who has commissioned songs from vocaloid artists)
It's also not including UTAUites who input their own voices to use for covers.
"Devalues the human voice" is such blatant bs. They ARE human voices. They are OUR voices. "You'd think by now that we would have learned, behind every piece if art is a human to be heard." (- CircusP, 'Better Off Worse')
#and another thing#about bad faith interpretations#'it isn't that creative'#is just astronomically funny to me#because oh yeah I forgot how Detrimental (Maki ft. Big Al) sounds EXACTLY like Afraid Of Everything (Luka) and Better Off Worse (vFlower)#and Misery Loves Company (DEX) which are all by the same creator Circus-P#Usseewa sounds EXACTLY like Idiot and Cute Girlfriend (sydou)#Piece Of Art sounds exactly like Machine Gun and Games and Boom! Boom! Boom! (Kira)#hell even producers like DECO and wowaka who have styles that they tend to follow still sound differeng#Rollin Girl. Unknown Mother Goose. Two Faced Lovers- they're all distinct songa#Animal. Cinderella. Vampire. Zombies. and other DECO songs from the same line are still all uniquely different#hell 'no creativity'?#say that to (Not) A Devil where Miku duets HERSELF in the tuning style of two different producers (DECO*27 and Pinocchio P)#the people making duet covers with UTAU and VSythn Teto#vocaloid has always been a haven for creatives#for the artists who draw. the designers who make outfits. tuners. lyricists. MV makers. cover artists.#I'd say there's never been a more cohesively creative community#which is a little biased but genuinely#there's such an incredible outreach from the community as it grows#as it has grown
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I am often told I have the most dead lifeless eyes
#This reads like a joke post but for real people say this to me crazy often given how that's kind of a weird and mean thing to say#Like it doesn't bother me because it's true and funny and also a fair statement to say about light eyes in general but still#'cold eyes' 'dead eyes' 'lifeless eyes' 'serial killer eyes' etc it's incredible#(Got told that again at my job which is what prompted the post from a couple hours ago)
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probably the most important tests i've taken for mattodore 🧑💻
#theo's on the left and matthias is on the right btw... though i think you can tell that just based on the percentage bars 😭#matthias fr just likes everything. love my little hedonist <333#river dipping#theodore doe#matthias evanoff#echthroi#oc extras#uh.....#nsft#...??? idk they're words on a screen but just in case#the 41% non-monogamist vs. 81%... lol#idk if i mentioned this before but while mattodore are monogamist they do still have sex with other people together#but bc of how jealous theo is the threesomes they have have a general no-touch rule wrt matthias#like he's entirely off limits to their third. theo is very strict abt this too... he'll be immediately taken out of a scene#if a hand even grazes matthias's skin... which is funny considering they mostly have threesomes with women anyway bc of his jealousy#and yet he still reacts poorly. like theo knows matthias is gay it's just that he's jealous in a completely irrational way#matthias likes it tho <3 it pleases him like nothing else to watch theo snap at someone not to touch him. like he's rock solid every time 🤷#guy whose jealousy meter is always at zero vs. guy whose jealous meter is always at a hundred... incredible dynamic imo#anyway......... i edited two other screenshots too but they're just for me <3 and i think i'm getting tired now#so i'm going to try to sleep. i'm counting on this jerma stream to keep my brain busy until i pass out.#if that doesn't work then i'll be scooping out my brain w/ a spoon as an alternative
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