#im getting emotional about animals again

[vennitrii]

hey man maybe if you think about the fact that dogs dream, and that non-human animals play, and that octopuses decorate their dens, and that there are non-human animals that have cultures, and that ants teach each other, and that fossils exist, and that there are so many forms of language and communication, and that fellow apes look so much like us, and that we are not alone you'll see the beauty and joy

#im getting emotional about animals again #things are so hard but animals and nature and etc are so cool and make me so happy and it helps keeps me going #there ARE things to be happy about i prommys #natureposting #new tag for animal stuff maybe #op #positivity

[lazycranberrydoodles]

its prosecutor jiang wanyin!!!! oh fuck!!! / gifs + au rambling below the cut / follow for more mdzs x aa crossover stuff :3

all the gifs i made (poses traced off franziska):

hes so similar to franziska when you think about it. theyre both deeply insecure tsundere adoptive younger sibling of successful main characters. who carry whips. something something edgeworth choosing death and wwx actually dying also

his share code is HWFEFF if you wanna use him in a trial! you can't share backgrounds but heres the scenery from the donghua i used.

the easiest way to put custom stuff into objection.lol is to send it in discord and then use the link from opening it in your browser :)

a whole lot of AU stuff

the art im making is for if mdzs was an ace attorney game, playing from WWX's POV to solve various mysteries/cases over the course of the plot. so this scene would be from turnabout goddess, which would loosely cover the dafan mountain mystery.

cases include:

Turnabout Revenge (Mo Manor, quick introductory first case)

Turnabout Goddess (Dafan mountain, the good times flashback)

Turnabout Saber (the man-eating castle (omg hiii nhs))

The Blind Turnabout (Yi City arc)

Turnabout Deviation (the Koi Tower conference, Empathy on NMJ ala turnabout memories or beginnings. opening cutscene is his qi deviation)

The Blood-Soaked Turnabout (second Burial Mounds siege, flashbacks: Xuanwu, Sunshot, YLLZ, Nightless City massacre)

Turnabout Lotus Seeds (testimony about JGY, tree scene, golden core reveal, bathtub scene. opening cutscene could be JGS' death but that would make it canon rather than ambiguous)

Turnabout Confession (Guanyin temple)

the problem with splitting novel!mdzs into turnabouts is that flashbacks are a huge chunk of the book but they don't have mysteries/ cases to solve so they've gotta be lumped together with present day stuff. imo? many of the flashbacks would likely have to be abridged so they could be retold ala DL-6, SL-9, or the fourth grade incident, where characters talk about it over some pieces of art. this is really difficult when theres a metric ton of unspoken, complex, and signifcant history between every character lmao

there's not as much of a problem with the cql timeline but i have not finished it. so.

the opening cutscenes in ace attorney always show the murder and/or the murderer plotting. the first cutscene of the game would be MXY summoning WWX, muttering about getting revenge on his family (it would also be good for him to mention the yllz being dead because that's how the novel starts.) cut to WWX's POV as he wakes up covered in blood and the investigation segment begins.

for investigations of monsters (goddess, saber, etc) the cutscene would be a scene of some poor throwaway cultivator getting their shit wrecked.

it would be cool to make a breakdown for JGY but again I need to review that scene cause I don't know who I'd base him on. maybe Vasquez or Dahlia.

tell me your thoughts!! i'm working off of a mdzs summary/ skimming the novel because i don't remember it too well so if i get anything wrong please yell at me

Jin Ling's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost

#PLEAAAASE send it to me if you do actually use my animations in a case🥺 #here im adapting mdzs to aa gameplay rather than making a mdzs AU where they are lawyers #so jiang cheng is not a prosecutor in this hes just angry. and on the right side of the screen #that man has not graduated law school but then again no one in ace attorney has either #the names are based off of how ace attorney cases are either named after a distinctive item/location (bigtop bridge samurai etc) #or the main emotional/character type thing that happens (goodbyes reminiscence farewell) #the mdzs/aa au where the stories get blended (ie my tags on the nhs post) is very interesting but i would have to think about it very hard #and i dont want to . i would rather think about what the court record would look like (its full of severed limbs) #MDZS' EXPLORATIONS OF MORALITY MAKE ME CHEW ON ROCKS #urrgh i got carried away writing this post & wrote a couple hundred words comparing aa and mdzs' attitudes towards morality & public opinio #i could write an essay on this topic tbh. #can i call this an au? its the same story in the same universe just in a different format. hmm #mdzs #aa #art #mo dao zu shi #ace attorney #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #cql #the untamed #jiang cheng #jin ling #objection.lol #flashing image tw #pixel art #animation #my art #franziska von karma #i guess?? #mdzs aa au

[moonpaw]

Fighting DEMONS rn trying not to get invested in one piece to figure out wtf you're posting about!!!!

come here cyber.... we have this thang

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#mp answers #i've been trying so hard not to be annoying to my bnha friends but if you will allow me to push this for this ask let me say 🙏 #if you're afraid of the episode count for one piece the manga is a lot quicker read while being just as enjoyable because the art style is #an actual delight. its great its fantastic im absolutely in love with it #the series is soooo good and i know luffy can seem unappealing to people before they start but he's just SUCH a great character & continues #to be even now. the story is SO GOOD the characters are SO GOOD... theres so much lore and world building that its insane #if you read the manga we get 'cover stories' on what's going on with previous characters to see what theyre up to even though we moved on #from where we left them. a lot of these cover stories blend into the main story so well its just seamless #there's one where we get introduced to a character we dont see hundreds of episodes into the anime and they show up like; during the second #saga. the series is about traveling to other islands and every single arc has been tied to another in some way or form that shows up later #even if its sagas and sagas later- it still becomes relevant again!! it's a huge ongoing story and there isnt a single arc that feels like #it has no purpose (sans filler in the anime-but even then!! some filler arcs are really entertaining!) #it's emotional! its sad! its downright stupid and silly but GOD... you can feel the love that oda put into this series and his characters #and the emotions in the expressions and the messages the story gives off it just makes me UEUHGHHAHGHH!!! #it's all about the adventure and the romance of it all! its about the freedom it brings and bringing freedom to others! #its a series where treasure should be a focus given its pirates and the its a giant treasure hunt for the one piece and yet! and yet so man #of the characters treasures are things that are not coins and gems but people and promises and family and and #im going to EXPLODE i love one piece

[andthen-light]

okay girls im going to be a little hashtag critical here but i have been ruminating LONG ENOUGH and i really really do not like that scene in the graphic novel murder on the rockport limited where lucretia recognized the umbrastaff. i understand what they were trying to do and i understand you have to change things for the medium but its kind of a disservice to both lucretia and taakos characters imo. lucretia works so hard to keep the boys from questioning things like why would she have a reaction like that. like they couldve alluded to her recognizing it but a scene like that is so in your face and it takes power away from the scene in crystal kingdom where red robe barry recognizes it. and wrt taakos character like. hes never Particularly trustful of lucretia like on a personal level but overall he trusts the bureau and lucretia until reunion tour. adding in a scene like that at that point in the story makes no sense like u cannot convince me taako would not start questioning what the directors really up to and why she had such a personal reaction.

#taz balance #main tags for this 1 coz im curious if anyone else has similar thoughts. any of the other girls really freaking autistic abt this show lol #and again i get tht its partially the medium just. i dunnooooo like #the foreshadowing in balance already feels good feels organic. and i get they gotta allude to the bigger behind the scenes plot for new #readers but they do that already with the scenes w the red robeeeee likecjdknf #does this make any sense. do i sound nutz #ugh god girls once we get the animated series (🙏) i am going to. explode i hope they make some different decisions kfjfjdnf #creatively speaking #i rlly do think the medium has a lot to deal with it tho like i just dont think balance works in a graphic novel #like the plot is overall tje same but it doesnt have the same story feel. does that make sense #UGH AND ANOTHER THING. i get tht by showing her reaction adds to the freaking angst or whatever but part of why her character is so tragic #is that we dont see that! she keeps her emotions in check the girl does not let ppl in bcoz she feels she cant! and like #when we as like the readers the audience or whatever see her react like that so strongly and so angrily its like. shes no longer mysterious #and finding out who lucretia really is by the end of stolen century doesnt have the same impact. bcoz we already Know shes hiding something #its not just hinted at #ugh WHATEVER im normal about this show im so normal

[lecliss]

I finished the special story in Connections and it got me to bawl my eyes out so bad. That story was so much more meaningful and emotional and impactful than the entirety of Naruto itself. What the fuck do you mean it was written by Kishimoto????? He did NOT write something for a side story in one of the ultimate ninja storm games and make it better than anything he's ever done before. There's just no fucking way.

#i fucking hate when filler and non canon side stuff is like. better than canon lmao #and not cuz like. filler doesnt deserve it ooo fuck filler whatever NO!!!!! BECAUSE IF ITS GOOD PEOPLE STILL DONT WATCH AND THEN CALL YOU #A LOSER EVEN BOTHERING WITH FILLER!!!!! FUCK OFF!!!! FUCK NARUTO AND FUCK SASUKE AND YOU KNOW WHAT. EVEN FUCK OBITO #NO THIS IS ABOUT BORUTO AND NANASHI AND HOW THAT WAS THE BEST NARUTO AND YES EVEN BORUTO CONTENT EVER CREATED #AND NO ONES GOING TO CARE BECAUSE WAAAA FILLER IS STUPID AND IT SUCKS WAAAAA SUCK MY COCK #the best most emotional arc in bleach is fucking filler. the connections side story is barely even filler when its for a fucking VIDEO GAME #ITS NOT FUCKING FAIRRRRRRRR!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #that was the best naruto content ever. better than even blood prison by a loooooong shot #it just fucked me up man. it really really fucked me up and REALLY got to me #i started getting pissed off how far down the rabbit hole it is of content people actovely DONT want #its an original side story in a game people play for the pvp. its boruto related. ITS FILLER as in no relation to the #plot written by ikemoto #its boruto and its filler and what could people possibly hate more? boruto filler. #but nanashi was an amazing character and bort proved once again that hes the bestest boy in the whole wide world #and not to mentiom merz was really really hot when he took the bandages off his face. im SORRY BUT ITS TRUEEEEE LOOK AT HIM!!!!! FUCK DUDE #and message was so so beautiful and so was the animation and the effects. and just. GOD. they could have made that a movie #MAAAAN i wish it was!!!! that woulda made an INCREDIBLE movie!!!!! #im not gonna get over this. i will always be obsessed with this. holy shit #also im sorry mitsuki but i ship BoruNana/BoruHika now. #at least with nanashi i dont have to worry about her whole character getting thrown to the wayside since her story's already over #now this is reminding me of the anime throwing ryogi away even tho his relationship with shikadai made me feral #just cuz that wasnt an arc in the manga!!! WHICH WAS STILL TOTALLY IN AN ERA OF THEM HAVING ALMOST NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER #thats what fuckin shoulda happened. the anime and manga should have stayed wildly different stories #i hate how all the original plots that the anime started with got shafted to follow the manga's story #ryogi didnt matter. KAGURA DIDNT FUCKING MATTER CUZ THEY KILLED HIM OFF LATER CUZ I GUESS I NON-MANGA CHARACTER DOESNT MATTER #FUCK OFF!!!!!!! #i hate it here. i fucking hate naruto. leave me alone i need to wallow. im going to wallow brb. i need a wallow sesh #personal

[im-still-watching-anime]

i have been So Busy and my brain desperately begging me to rewatch all my silly little sports animes when i’m trying to focus is really not it

#had to make a post to brag because i am mentally capable of watching haikyuu again #for the longest time it just gave me violent high school flashbacks so i avoided it but i rewatched it recently without much trouble😎 #call that growth #you know im mature because i can watch volleyball anime without getting nightmares about my past now😎 #also been slowly rewatching free whenever i get a free second #and gotta be honest i like it so much more when i skip all the scenes that give me VIOLENT secondhand embarrassment #rip rei tbh i Cannot look at him #i am here for makoharu soulmates and that is it😤 #they give me more emotions than i want tbh #i am NOT immune to the bonds growing up compilation #sorry for the tag rambling im trying to finish an exam and need the thoughts to Get Out™️

[soldier-poet-king]

Tbh might fuck around and get back into anime bc I'm just. Have not had any interest in western tv shows for years and I need a distraction beyond my current ones

#my brain keeps being like....u should watch anime again #something about exaggerated tropes but also deeply emotional plots #theres more breadth to anime genres than there are to western cartoons #even if im a normie who just watches mostly shonen #im just. im. brain wants it #might even fuck around and get back into snk #even despite fhe controversy and whatever #i just. rlly miss Levi. #crunchyroll my beloved. I miss u.

[healingheartdogs]

I'll tell ya what though, nothing makes you want to get out of dog stuff for a while quite like your childhood dog passing traumatically in your arms

#ive barely been a person since Banana died #his life and his death both haunt me daily #every time im in bed cuddling with Hermes i cry about it #wanting to do better for your current and future pets does jack all for the dead #i wanted to at least give him a good last day but i couldnt even do that #training with Hermes and Eevee fills me with grief and guilt and often launches me into flashbacks of his death #ive been so burned out and sick since we moved and covid ruined my health even more #and now trying to get better and get back into working with my dogs regularly without him... it feels wrong #better late than never doesnt apply when death is involved #death #animal death #tw death #tw animal death #early morning sad hours ig #i gave myself flashbacks again and this is me trying to intellectualize my way out of my emotional response

[thatpunnyperson]

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#the worst thing about having the death of a family member either human or animal is that #when you go back through your pictures of them #you know how the story ends #and it makes all the happiness a little bittersweet #like dark chocolate #its warm and enjoyable and good enough that you keep coming back for it #but it has this bitter and drying note to it that you only remember when it hits you again #and yet you keep going back for more because remembering the good and happy times is just so sweet and warm #enough to offset the sadness until it hits again #reminiscing has its drawbacks and hindsight is 20/20 so you start to look at the photos like 'thats when it started and we didnt know yet' #and 'you can tell he was ill at this point what we didnt know anything was wrong because he still acted normal' #and 'we had no idea how bad it would get so we tried to keep things normal for his sake to keep him comfortable' #and even back before the end when it was 'he was so happy in this photo' with the heaviness of the word 'was' #yeah it was the past but it was also when he was alive #and having the double meaning carried by the single word of 'was' makes it dangerously easy to tip the weight of those emotions over #anyway if im laying down and i cry then my tears go into my ears and it feels very weird #almost as weird as living in a world without him #punny speaks #tw death mention #tw death

[blueslight]

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#I domt think I made it clear enough to my now ex girlfriend that I broke up with her because she is absolutely unbearably clingy #and now.i feel guilty that she didnt get it cuz like until she realizes that all her relationships are gonna fail cuz any normal guy would #lose his fucking mind at her and anyone who WOULDNT would probably use her depedence to abuse her and like. I know that and i feel.bad for #evidently not making it clear enough to her #cause like also even now shes still being clingy with me ....and i find myself unable to set proper boundaries cause I dont wanna be mean #and them im morally unhappy with myself. but like then again i DO set boundaries she just doesnt respect them . and then I lose my #composure and get mean and thats even worse cuz i dont wanna be mean to someome as fragile as her but like. Shes suffocated me so much im #in the mindset of a cornered injured animal . and they bite #and it frustrates me that i cant react organically to her cause i always have to keep quiet and not protest even when she really crosses #my boundarjes cuz i dont wanna upset her #and she even said herself that even now im the omly.person she wants to talk to and i told her several.times to go talk to our other #friends cuz how am i supposed to comfort her about her breakup WHEN I DID THE FUCKING BREAKING UP.. #plus I dont want that like i dont want the sole responsiblity for her social interactioms and emotional support just because shes #got unhealthy attachment behavior and refuses to get therapy .. #and like now its like well i domt wanna be mean or hurt her even more but also I dont wanna comfort my ex ABOUT *OUR* FUCKIMG BREAKUP that #is 1. fucked up EVEN THO we are still friends like id.comfort her about other stuff but how does she not realize that this wont. help #and 2. it gives me fuckin war flashbacks to my last relationship which just activates my injured animal instinct even further #and Idk why i cant set boundaries w her cuz i can do it well with other people but she just paralyzes me somehow w this stuff EVEN THO WE #GET ALONG WELL WHEN WERE LIKE NORMALLY PLATONICALLY INTERACRING #idk man i just need a fucking breather like i understand breakups hurt and i was anticipating giving her space until we can properly be #friends again (which we agreed on wanting) but like #Its not gonna get any better for her if shes constantly interacting w me #and on god her attachmenr to me isnt entirely healthy AND I DOMR WANNA SUPPORT HER UNHEALTHY BEHAVIORS but i also dont wanna be constantly #like acting on a meta level thinking whats besr for HER instead of just acting on instinct ...

[ittybittybumblebee]

I wish i had time to do more animation bc im not bragging when i say i think im pretty good at it, i just sortof have an instict about how to apply weight in movement and i just wish i could show you guys it more bc i really love doing it and i wish i had time to do more

#the one thing i feel valid in saying im good at #YOU DONT UNDERSTAND I LOVE MAKING PICTURES MOVE ITS LIKE I GET TO MAKE MY OWN THIGNS COME TO LIFE ITS SO GREAT #i love applying the flow of movement but its also needs to be PACED WELL #and not to toot my own horn but a lot of animation i see (personal taste) could be paced to be a lot more eyecatching and attention drawing #if it were paced as if to make each scene memorable and stick in your head like it needs to be rough and snappy but PLEASINGly imperfect to #create the illusion of movement following the weight of the object being displaced in drawing form over and over again with each frame #DONT GET ME STARTED ON SHADOWS AND HIGHLIGHTS #it needs to STAND OUT but also be subtle and full of narrative expression DO YOU GET ME DO YOU GET ME #please i am very passionate about art and animation #THE VALUES AND LINEWEIGHT CONTRIBUTE ALOT TO THE SCENES EMOTION AND FEEL #CAN YOU EVEN COMPREHEND ME my mind you dont know you dont know i cant get it out in words theres so much #sorry for going on and on but really #i like animation a lot #AND ALOS COMPOSTION OF A SCENE #GOOD COMPOSITION IS GOOD #ok im done

[leatherbookmark]

i swear to god, jgy being bitchy/prickly as a proof that he's finally opened up to someone is possibly my most disliked fandom treatment of him, because with obvious jgy haters at least I know we have exactly nothing to talk about! aaaaand block! but then people who claim to love him just make him into a total opposite of who he was in the novel and it's just like. sigh

#practically every time i bitch about it i bring up the fact that Yes the perspective of being able to be your worst self with no fear that #the person who sees that will hate you and book it is seductive and heady #but its never about that. or rather: when you read the novel you get the feel that jgy is wearing a smiling mask almost #constantly and it would be nice for him to not have to do that. but often fanworks lack that element and jgy is just a bitch #i mean yes sometimes you get a vague mention of difficult work! or some vague idea of a backstory that hints at jgy being a bitch #because he got hurt in the past and its his armor. and thats nice but its not jin guangyao. whose whole thing in canon was that he was #ALWAYS polite. i guess most fans picture a smile that you can See is fake and murderous but its not the case in the novel at all #and even if there really IS a setting where jgy can let himself be a bitch in front of his partner... it's just. so annoying #like jgy isn't a person but a little chihuahua throwing a little fit hihihi! how funny! have we mentioned he's so short? #I haven't found a fic where jgy genuinely can complain about his work/family/whatever troubles him and the other person reacts in a way #that would be a satisfying and appropriate emotional reaction for him (idk how to put it but for example when i need to vent i also need #the person im venting to to agree that yeah this is shitty/bullshit! which is why i dont really vent to people anymore lol) #it always has this comical undertone and it feels so wrong 4 me #on top of that this bitchy little a-yao is so popular that people dont even think twice about it. just like nmj who's so warm and loving #not to mention endlessly queer and supportive that people forget the original flavour (to borrow the sv term lol) #and again i do understand! one of my past otps was very Quirky and over the top (thats anime 4 u) and i soaked up the rare moments when #they were just people with complex feelings like a fucking sponge. then my fic was all about the complex feelings without any of the #quirkiness because i was tired of its abundance in canon. but in a way because of this they were a complete 180 from their canon selves #so like. i guess i understand. but what i dont understand is that this assumes thay jgy's smiles and kindness are ALL a front and that the #bitch (or gremlin! he and wwx are ~gremlin friends~ uh huh) is the True Self. and i mean. w h a t #people got So hooked up on short bitchy customer service employee forced to hide his oceans of snark behind a smile so fake its cracking at #the edges thay they forgot about the man who would do everything for people he loved + enjoyed making them happy and comfortable #and was kind to his subordinates. there's nothing of that dude in popular fics and im not even sure if authors know he existed #the closest we have is him trying to be the favourite uncle/satisfy his in-laws first/show off which just seems so shallow lmao #and its like Oh God #i know 'these are all fictional characters eli' but ashfhfkflsahfjsgod #shut up shrimp

[mothslimes]

one thing you can always trust in is that tumblr users are going to be weird about hozier and neil gaiman

#mik talks #tumblr users with they/he pronouns when asked to stop worshipping strange men on the internet #i have nothing for or against both of these men #except that i feel kind of bad that hoziers entire fandom is just actually allergic to the intended meaning of his songs #similar to how mitskis fans just project whatever they want into her songs even when theyre explicitly about something else. like racism #besides the point anyway i just.... i guess u can always trust a tumblr user to have a parasocial relationship with a random man #the more i spend time on this website the more im starting to see strange patterns.......like i got a bit too high....hrmmm... #there is a...man worship here. except for the lesbians all the users here are obsessed with worshipping a particular man #or more than one man. NOT DIRECTED AT MY MUTUALS ILY i mean it in a way of like.... when u interact with so much man-centered #media that u forget that women are deeply complex emotional beings TOO and yes ive seen that happen . #and convince urself every man u meet is really deep and tortured by hashtag misandry and repressing soooo much trauma.... etc #MAN OBSESSION. MAN WORSHIP. DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE SENSE #maybe its because a large chunk of htis websites population is transmasc i guess u do develop an obsession with masculinity #just like some newly out transfems get rlly into female centric anime or other things (no hate i think its awesome) #except here ur in an echo chamber of trans men obsessing over cis men and its like eeeehhhyhhhh u do know women exist too right #might be speaking entirely out my ass here and exposing my own insecurities but berhaps. #part of it is a fear that once you interact on a deeply complex level with women in fictional media you may question your gender identity #again. because so much of modern women lead media is in my experience centered around redefining what it means to be a woman #thats a level of introspection a buncha insecure transmascs who are already triyng to prove themselves as not-women every day #are often not ready to confront themselves with. u clearly define the woman label in ur head and then define urself as outside of it #well thats not really how it works and ur gonna have to accept that some women are going to be just like you. with the same gender feelings #and are still going to identify as women. the only thing that makes ur gender valid is urself unfortunately. #wow this used to be a post about neil gaiman and hozier what happened #anyway yeah stop treating these men like theyre your friends theyre not hope this helps

[nineinchnailsonchalkboard]

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#ok ok so i stand by saying the world isnt full of love and i dont have hope BUT #god damn if there is nothing on the planet i love anymore there will always be one thing that never fails #i STILL would like to yell about it from rooftops but unfortunatelyyyyyy cant #:| i love 1 thing and 1 thing only (lies. i love animals too and also like 2 other things but that's it) #THE ENDING OF THIS RECORDING JDKFJFJFHSJSK PLEASE IM SOBBING PLEASE just like that suddenly i feel a little empathy again #it's beautiful truly wow #if only paul could see how this is a GOOD thing and not like. some evil bullshit per usual #sad to say there's very few things like this that make me feel like a real human being but IT'S HEALTHY i think #please dont encourage me to shut this out #if i want to be fucking insane over literally music(!!!) let me do it and let me travel thousands of miles BECAUSE I FUCKING CAN #and because honestly? it makes me normal. when im kept from being my weird obsessive self i turn into a sadistic dickwad alright? fuck off #NO OH GOD IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE NOOOO NO NO #this is wholesome please oh god no why did i word it like that fucking hell #tldr i heard a song and i felt emotions like empathy that i havent felt in a while. and it never fails with some artists #just feels like i cant listen to some artists or songs around others sometimes because they seem uptight and dont get it

[lecliss]

It looks like the plot in G.U. is starting to bring in things from the anime now and I was wondering if I should watch it before playing any further but from what info I could find, there's soooo much more to it than just one show and there's a whole watch order list and spoilers to be mindful of and oooh my god. What have I gotten myself into???

#not to mention the whole 'havent played the first game' thing #i mean. i would say its fine now that i know kite and balmung and orca are previous game characters. plus those emails from the start #for me it adds a mystery of wondering what happened to them if it really is them and not just lookalikes #tho i guess for other people seeing them again is more emotional than mysterious #this feels like the old days of when i played kh2 first then kh1 and spent YEARS never having played recom lol #but id say g.u. does a good job of creating a mystery rather than confusion if you didnt play the first game #i dont feel lost at all. and apparently its recommended to only watch some of the anime after part 2 anyway #so i guess im good??? #its just. my god theres a lot im gonna have to get to huh. #am i even gonna be able to find all these mid 2000s shows and ovas and what are these movies people are talking about??? #.hack is MY mcu lmao #personal

[icecreamkink]

im very aware that when people rec sports media by saying things like 'you dont need to like sports at all!!' what it usually means is 'enjoying this sport will actively get in the way of liking this media' and its fine. ok. but like. People Who Self Proclaimedly Don't Like Sports

for fucks sake stop saying that ted lasso is Actually a good and competent coach bc he ✨ Cares ✨ . one, not enough and two. he is actually really fucking not; gonna put this under a cut and its kinda negative beware etc

yeah the premise of the show is 'haha american dude doesn't know what hes doing' i know, and football isnt the point, i know, but its. you have to admit at some point that ted lasso wants to have it both ways; it wants the haha what Is football and it wants to defend teds coaching style bc he is a kind person. bc he knows how to bring people out of their shell on a personal level. and thats great.  there is a discussion in the fandom whether caring abt winning is or isn't more important than caring for the people on the team in professional sports, or if ted is or isnt a good coach bc hes not v confrontational, and in my view these are not issues at all. however what everyone seemingly ignores is that-

ted is and continues to be for the entire show, HUGELY incompetent and ignorant, just, completely ignorant of anything regarding football, by his own constant admission, and he never cares to or bothers to learn. anything, at all. at any point. no, his kindness is NOT enough to make him a competent professional. no, his mental struggles dont explain why he is uninterested in doing his job. not only that, his disregard with understanding what the fuck it is hes doing at all is actually a pretty big hole in the 'caring' and even the 'underestimated' characterization of teds. like, people claim he's helping the athletes "on and off the field" but thats not true; he's only helping them off the field. ted does shit all to help them on the field, shit all, even his match choices, like benching jamie and starting with roy, are personal decisions thinking about them off the field. but a team of professionals and a club that employs dozens more people than ted lasso portrays depends on him and the narrative seems not to realize this. this is their livelihoods, not a footy camp for children. giving them books is great, but its not a substitute to knowing even the basics of whats at stake , like relegation, for example and i cant get over how many people found this blatant ignorance cute.

the fact that at episode 8 ted doesn't know what relegation is; that months into the job we're still having 'what is offside lollol' jokes; the fact that on the day richmond is going to play everton, he has no idea they haven't won against everton in decades, which means he hasnt reasearched everton at all. that only the day before a match against man city , only then teds gonna bother with gameplan strategies, meaning, again, he didnt research their oponent at all even though its a crucial game and man city is a technically much superior team that would demand careful tactic to beat; the fact he sees that nate, a kit man, has some tactical understanding and then just settles with relying on him alone, not even like, getting someone else to exchange ideas and train nate as a coach, just 'sure this'll do'. (there is also the fact that richmond is illogically understaffed and it bothers me like an itch, but like. its a show, alright, whatever)

these are jokes, yeah, but they're also ted being bad at his job. he has not done the minimum, really not even the bare minimim amount of research. he doesn't get familiar with the game, he doesn't understand positions, tactics, rules, plays, he doesn't know football history, he doesn't research the oponents, he doesn't even know how the league works! again, that's months into his position; the fact on the last episode of season one, after training Richmond for half a season, on the brink of relegation, ted is still fucking telling rebecca he doesn't know anything. as if he doesn't have not only the ability, opportunity but also the obligation of yknow. reasearching. getting informed. doing his job. care, since ppl love to talk about how much he cares. the idea that ted can care about the players as people while at the same time apparently not giving a fuck abt understanding what theyre all doing here is a huge, gaping logical hole in ted lasso's writing; before analyzing whether or not ted is a pushover, whether or not teds too passive, whether or not hes too non competitive, whether his positivity is good or bad, we have to ignore the fact this show actually tried to get away with 'nate and roy (both inexperienced too btw) take care of pesky game strategy, performance analysis, a team training and ted, the manager, only takes care of the players hearts <3' as if thats not only fair, but a good thing. he is utterly uninterested in half of his job, and that makes him a bad professional (and contradictingly selfish, too);   and 'oh football isnt the point' simply doesnt cut it for me. its lazy, and its annoying.

AND. for the record . i think ted lasso misses gigantic comedic and storytelling opportunities by doing this. teds clueless fish out of water self would be a lot more endearing and a lot more interesting and a lot funnier if it came up when hes researching his job, being interested in it, learning about it instead of being passively told these things and continuing to ignore them. rebecca being frustrated that her plan is shaking bc ted is willing to do the work and step up to his role would have been so much more effective than her being stumped bc hes just so aw shucks nice, period. they couldve shown that ted isnt just kind, but responsible, self aware, caring. it definitely would've helped with the show not feeling slimily 'usamericans come to teach meanie brits how to Lowve and to show how their outlook on life is Better' at times ( which was thankfully made more complicated in s2, but its still kind of there in the story tbh). there are endless hilarious football drama that they couldve used or brought up. there are so many storytelling opportunities to be found within matches. many more and more interesting contrasts as to how the popular sports in the us work vs how football works. football has an extremely unique relationship with people (in good and bad ways) and the show baaarely touches on that. like fucking hell we never even see the secondary characters that we assume are passionate so much as watch a match.

So. for the love of god. and i say all this as someone who did enjoy ted lasso, if mostly isolated episodes or storylines. stop saying ted is a good coach. he might be a good friend, a good influence, a good motivational speaker, tocador de pandeiro. a good pov character. but he is really not a good coach, much less a good manager, and thats a very valid criticism of the show

#i even wonder if this will come up in s3 #what with nate being their most important tactician and ted and beard not knowing much #and both roys lack of experience and possible emotional issues #but for that to happen the show would have to be self aware about it and i really dont think they are #sigh #ted lasso has great characters and v interesting mental illness rep and dynamics and manages to complicate their after school special #vibes in interesting ways in s2 #but football isnt only not the point its unimportant and uncared for in the show and thats . shitty honestle #its just obvious this show is penned by and for usamericans at the end of the day #and its really not abt the show needing to be all abt football #im not even getting into how wildly illogically understaffed richmond is and the fact they seemingly dont have a medical staff and how we #dont see any matches and how the training scale and exercises are wrong and how they never talk abt defense and how they talk abt individua #individual plays as if their game strategies #and how they dont train new techniques #i accept all of that #and again. i LIKED ted lasso i did but its just. fucks sake sometimes yknow #i really dont know why western media has so much issue with integrating sports dynamics with interpersonal arcs #sports anime is in general so much better at it #what goes on #and yknow its funny cause im really not that much of a footy fan #but whenever i see ppl being like 'its not abt football at all and thats why its great' i wanna kick some shins #ted lasso negative #i guess #m. #ted lasso