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tainted-scholar · 10 days
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tainted-scholar · 18 days
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Sometimes people get their start in fandom with something like, idk, the MCU or light action shows like Supernatural or children's fantasy like Warriors (this last example said with love), where the writing is an inconsistent mess, characterization can change on a dime, there's no themes stronger than like "family" or "stop the bad guy from changing our way of life". And their fandom experience is taking the hints of interesting ideas presented and dropped and spinning them into something interesting, or just fluffy and fun, and then discarding the rest.
And then these people come to a piece of art that like. Actually has themes and good writing and a coherent vision, but they're still trained on The Giant Trash Heap That Must Be Sorted Through, so they start their routine of excising fun yaoi moments and throwing the rest in the trash, except now the rest is like. A professionally made passion project by a group of skilled writers with a hundred years writing experience between them, and this fan is writing the same coffee shop AUs as ever. And it makes something that feels same-y and fandom out of something unique and well-made and, well, interesting.
And like. That's their prerogative, more power to them, but it makes me wanna pull my hair out to talk to these people about a piece of media I actually care about beyond that Trash Heap level.
And if you're someone whose only fandom experience has been Trash Sorting and you're running into people arguing with you abt their favorite piece of media, give them a second thought I guess?
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tainted-scholar · 23 days
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Thinking about him again (Count Dracula)
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tainted-scholar · 24 days
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tainted-scholar · 1 month
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hey Castlevania fans. did ya'll know that Dragonforce did a song for both Curse of Darkness and Symphony of the Night? give 'em a listen:
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tainted-scholar · 2 months
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tainted-scholar · 2 months
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Idk why I didn't post this here before
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tainted-scholar · 2 months
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"We realized that the Fire Nation's whole imperial-colonization-thing was kind of iffy, so we took that out too."
Alright now this pissed me off
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What do you MEAN you're going to remove one of the most important aspects of Sokka's character arc in the first season? What do you MEAN you're going to remove Sokka unlearning misogyny, accepting change and embracing his role as a fighter and protector of the Avatar in order to end the war? What do you MEAN???
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tainted-scholar · 2 months
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The agonising feel when a character tag is full of shipping that you Simply Do Not Vibe With. The solution is, naturally, to keep scrolling. But the wince, the WINCE.
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tainted-scholar · 2 months
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The Vampire Killer switches between being a leather whip or some kind of long flail throughout the series (And even game, in the case of some of the classic titles).
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tainted-scholar · 2 months
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it is crazy how “if this childrens show doesn’t kill their villain at the end it’s irredeemable media” became such a popular opinion here. like people were calling steven universe fascist apologia. and to be clear I don’t even think that would be the case for non childrens media, either. perhaps holding every single story up to the same standard of “does it follow the acceptable narrative path or is it evil propaganda” isn’t the most anti-fascist thing, either. maybe.
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tainted-scholar · 2 months
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"READ MY DNI" no. use your block button like an adult. i'm not scrolling through the many-paragraphs-long pinned posts of every blog i reblog something from. if you insist certain types of people aren't welcome in the notes of your posts then it's your responsibility to curate that. or choose a closed social media platform like facebook or instagram. or go and live in a barn away from humanity if you really don't like sharing the world with people who are different from you
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tainted-scholar · 2 months
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As someone who loves video games and understands how unique they are as a medium, I will never understand why do many people turn their noses up at them. It's been 30-40 years since they were first introduced, and yet some people still act like they aren't art, or can tell a story as good as a book.
Even those that come in to 'adapt' the stories of the games still act like assholes about the source material, acting like it's inferior to whatever medium they adapted it to. Hell, the DmC: Reboot was just shitting on the original, saying that DMC in general was inferior to their product, and look where that got them. The fact it was salvaged by the current producer/programmer for DMC doesn't make the game less mediocre.
Some people need to respect the industry more.
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tainted-scholar · 3 months
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the chozo: ok we’re gonna be amish on tallon iv. no technology, we’ll attain a higher understanding of the universe other chozo: ok. still gonna have a shitton of doors you gotta shoot with a laser cannon to open tho? chozo: yeah of course dont be a dumbass
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tainted-scholar · 3 months
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void okay fuckit
reblog so more people see it yadayada im curious now
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tainted-scholar · 3 months
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It’s Trivia Tidbit Tuesday!
In Episode 6 of The Animation, Minamimoto recites a mnemonic rhyme to remember the digits of pi. In the poem “Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling…” every word has the exact number of letters as a digit of pi!
To illustrate this visually: pi is 3.14159265358979[…] and each word in the poem has the exact number of letters as a digit of pi: Sir (3), I (1) bear (4) a (1) rhyme (5) excelling (9)… and so on!
Compared to the game, he simply recites all the numbers!
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tainted-scholar · 3 months
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