#some good but a lot bland

[polygondotcomvideoproducer]

i really wish i hadn’t gotten spoiled on the Big Reveal at the end but overall the ep was ok. it was Fun like how doctor who is but literally every character couldve used more character moments

It had its moments but the writers have consistently failed to get me invested in these characters so I just felt nothing for them

#there were Moments don't get me wrong #there were certainly moments i enjoyed and it's not nearly the worst thing this era has given us #but a lot of the episode's content just felt kind of derivative #I'm all for taking plot points and shit that have been used before and applying nee meaning or emotional contexts #but that would require motivations and emotions which are almost always absent in ch*bnall scripts #a lot of fanservice in the episode too #that's just kind of a neutral statement about the episode to me bc it was pretty hit or miss imo #the hologram turning into 5 for tegan? sweet. i liked that #but a lot of other parts of fanservice just felt a little shallow to me. like ace destroying the dalek w a baseball bat #like. i get it. i know who ace is. but why would it be her weapon of choice against a damn dalek? am i missing something there? #and then there's really shallow shit like the space cargo train being called ''toraji'' #like the star from 42. remember that doctor who fans? all ur fond memories of 42? remember how consistently mediocre I've been? #he's got a right to do that. it's his last episode. and I've got a right to think it's dumb #i thought namedropping villengard in moffats last episode was dumb too #and do u remember what i said earlier about the content of the episode being derivative? #it really is the sum of its parts #some good but a lot bland #at least the master was absolutely serving this episode 😔 #personal

[canisalbus]

Whenever someone says "This would kill a Victorian child." Or "This would kill a medieval peasant." I have to think about Machete. Would he... would he survive eating a Dorito?

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#I've never had doritos myself so I have no point of reference #I think they sell them here nowadays but it's a fairly new thing and I don't eat a lot of chips #they had spices in the past but they were extremely expensive #I think most of them had to be imported from South/Southeast Asia #India in particular #few could afford such luxury goods but if you could serve people spicy food it was a mark of wealth #so historically a lot of upper class dishes were extra flavorful #potentially to an overpowering degree maybe #it was a status thing #a dorito wouldn't kill him but I've mentioned he secretly tends to favor somewhat bland and unthreatening foods #that won't set off his sensory issues #he'll eat the various nutmeg cinnamon clove saffron ginger creations people serve to him because declining would be a massive faux pas #but it's not an enjoyable experience #answered #anonymous #give him some light broth and a little bit underseasoned chicken to eat with his watered down wine

[phoenixcatch7]

Man I am just SO CONFUSED. About the time line of this game.

No one is telling me how long links been gone! Or how long the botw-totk timeskip was! They all just started selling my stuff again lol. I'm going to have to get everything redyed!

Me: hey random stranger! Lore dump? You look like a lore dumper.

Kindly npc: why hullo there, link ^^! My, I haven't seen you in a while since the calamity ended! I was so worried when they said you and the princess had gone missing! But it's good to see you're well.

Me: aw, thanks. How long has it actually been tho.

Kindly npc: ^u^

#Having a great time btw I've just been chased across a near sea of miasma by stal riders and more! 10/10 nearly died in a high speed chase #Made it out relatively unscathed which is truly amazing lmao #Spoilers ahead: I have had the funniest time doing the great plateau quest chain. Once I sucked it up and made nice with the creepy statue. #He's(?) been alright. Fair trader. Good deals. I've mostly been terrorising kohga in between absolutely failing to craft working vehicles X #His new boss fights are so much easier than the first one lol. Less fun I'll admit but the music is groovy. You can probably make a #Machine and try and dog fight him but with few exceptions the turning circles are decrepit so I just stuck to mild dodging and shooting him #And running over to hit him some more. Kinda bland for a boss fight I'll say. Could have done with a lot more pizazz. It's kohga come on. #Anyway I do feel kinda bad because apparently he's been stuck down there for however many months/years and I AM kinda cheating with the arm #After the first fight he fled to the gerudo mine and the steward very nicely showed me how to get there but never underestimate #My procrastination because I'd already found it by just exploring so I just teleported. In game it must have been terrifying lmao #Racing across an endless void filled only by the light of your rapidly running out of battery glider and the red glow of the gloom away fro #The apparently immortal ancient warrior who beat you up and tossed you down there and there's no sign of perusal so you're probably safe #But you get there and he's already sitting there poking some bananas having wiped out your goons and plundered your supplies. #Like sorry man but the arm comes with the hero territory I can't exactly take it off. #Maybe if you stopped terrorising the people purah would let you have one of her long distance teleportation slates. It comes with photos? #It can't have been long since botw link hasn't grown an inch XD. Also I've been turning the lore timeline over in my head and still no idea #Are we not sure Rauru isn't from some alternate timeline that got fused with the main loz timeline by accident?? #loz #legend of zelda #totk #loz totk #tears of the kingdom #loz tears of the kingdom #totk spoilers

[worstloki]

Thor: your food tastes horrible, what have you done to your natural produce

Tony: I order in from Iraq to feel something

#Steve: yes bananas taste bland now but I assumed it was because of pollution #Natasha: someone needs to educate you on what’s been going on with everything in the quarter century you missed. not me tho #Steve: please understand that is a lot of stuff to learn #Clint: just order some pizza in and put on a selective breeding documentary #Loki pulling up a map like where is that on the planet #Tony pointing at different countries like ‘and I get X from here when I can. Y has organic dried herbs that are good. Z for almonds’ #Thor horrified like why does it have to come from so far away to be good #Bruce like hey doesn’t your realm import stuff from other entire planets #Thor: that’s completely different #Clint: it’s called sharing. it’s how pizza and coffee came about

[dishsaop]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

#i say lesbians but i guess i mean sapphic #im just like. tired of gnawing #and of men also. sorry men in my life i love you but on god if i have to pretend one more man is butch just to get #content that isnt m/m or m/f im going to turn into a horse and run into the wilderness until im saved from the glue factory by a plucky #young woman except instead of letting her have her formative summer where she trains me and bonds w me and wins a competition w me #im going to commit horse suicide in front of her & change her life forever. just because im so tired of bland CW-marketable women kissing & #digging for scraps in a refuse bin while brushing aside 7002993829292929939292929399394 gay and het romances #m text #i will also take nonfictional lesbians if its like a story #not to be whiny on main but one of the hardest hurdles i had to jump wasnt realizing i was a lesbian. i came out to myself and to friends a #lesbian multiple times. but i would always walk it back when a friend would express doubt or a male friend would ask me out #bc i dont and especially then didnt know very many lesbians in person. and so i had to turn to examples #and all i fucking had were fictional women who liked men. or fictional lesbians who were so cleaned and sanitized and prettified #(you all know what i mean right. the 2 skinny white girls one blonde one brunette. im not crazy right) #and i would be like. i dont feel things when i look at these fictional lesbians so i guess i belong back here #(this is also bc my gender ended up being fuckier than i realized but shhhhh) #I WAS GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THESE TAGS but theyre too long and im lost. #anyway the point is if people werent so fucking weird abt fictional or onscreen lesbians maybe thered be a lot more people comfortable bein #out as lesbian #like sorry but this awful ouroboros of 'all lesbians onscreen have to be cute and sanitized' meaning that people write and believe wlw has #to be cute and pure and sanitized (OR a 'badge of honor' bc good for u u doodled two women together or had it as a background in ur fic) #meaning that therefore all portrayals of lesbianism continue to be like this. is just #and im also gonna be honest theres probably a lot of good sapphic media im just in the wrong circles to have stumbled into lol. so #yknow. personal viewer bias here #but i still like swing wildly between overly brandishing my dykeness as a badge to feel like im proving im lesbian #and like. backing up under a blanket bc i dont wanna be weird or annoying or freak people out #but if people just Saw Normal Ass Lesbians. aough. #im going to watch revolutionary girl utena one of these days even if i struggled w the writing style the first few episodes #I JUST WANNA SEE AN OLD BUTCH ONSCREEN GET SOME PUSSY. #like it also doesnt help im mostly femme4butch so seeing 2 femmes on screen is like. okay cool so what. but only femmes are 'marketable'

[roobylavender]

considering what you have spoken about regarding selina do you also get frustrated with like…i cant quite explain it but sometimes especially in more recent years shes been posed or positioned like some sort of damsel that needs a big strong man to save her and like im not saying she should be portrayed with the “hollywood level feminism” for lack of a better term im just think about how old versions of selina would have hated that. like im just thinking of anytime in the reeves movie where bruce grabs her or forces her mouth shut or even when he didnt allow her to kill falcone and im just thinking she should claw the fuck out of him for that. i just miss a version of selina who wouldnt allow anyone to walk all over her personal autonomy like that

oh absolutely! in fact this is specifically why i can't stand loeb's take on her character lol (and as we both know that was a significant point of reference for the reeves film). it's really jarring to transition from her volume one and two canon to the long halloween / dark victory / when in rome. i think a lot of people tend to latch onto these books because tim sale's art is to die for and it's obv hard not to enjoy a good murder mystery. in that aspect they're still books i can enjoy in isolation. but i find it very difficult to enjoy them as a selina fan specifically because in every single one it's like she's looking for solace and security in a man and i'm not sure why. like what was so bad about her original backstory of having a deadbeat dad (whether you ascribe to the volume one or volume two version of him) and why did she need to go looking for her "real" father in carmine falcone. why did she need to seek out temporary boytoy relief in italy. why did she dream about being saved by bruce. none of it really has a reason other than to create a "lack" in her for the sake of it being there, because she'd never needed a man like that before in her post-crisis narrative. as you mentioned it was quite to the contrary and she was fiercely independent and protective of her own peace, esp from men. when she felt empty or without a connection or lifeline to someone real, it was mostly about people like maggie or holly or arizona. her people

what i think it ultimately comes down to are two things: the first thing is the diminishment of her post-crisis origins. after all, it's convenient to ignore how distrustful selina is of people, and of men with power at their leisure to abuse specifically, when her post-crisis origins are no longer relevant to her personal characterization. although selina's status as a sex worker is more prominent now, it was more or less completely swept under the rug for the bulk of volume two. loeb also refused to engage with it in any capacity. it only really resurfaced with the conclusion to volume two because it drew direct parallels to how we initially found her in volume one, and then brubaker expanded on it once again in his take on the character, which was notably juxtaposed against a pre-existing romance with bruce and brings me to the second thing. i've already waxed about this at length so this may very well be recap but i really don't think selina's lack of control over her personal autonomy can be divorced of the modern portrayal of the romance. when selina looking for security and understanding and comfort in bruce is what drives the romance forward there's not much room to maintain her original values and guarded demeanor, if not her outright defensiveness and hostility. a lot of people look at the extensive trauma selina has experienced and argue that she deserves to be in a relationship with someone who allows her to let those walls down. this isn't incorrect in theory. but it does repeatedly ignore who she is. it's kind of like the point i was making about bruce yesterday. exploring the inherently abusive nature of robin or of bruce's right to his children in light of that fact is interesting to do, but the actual execution has rarely managed to take into account who bruce actually is

for however nice it might be for selina to let her walls down romantically and look for solace in bruce—and i say this mostly for the sake of argument, personally i would argue against its necessity—it's realistically not something she's actually going to do. at least not as willfully as she's been portrayed to. realistically she's going to make it extremely hard, which if anything is precisely the appeal. i love it when selina gives bruce a hard time. i love that it's not supposed to be easy or maybe even a possibility for him to win her over bc there's so much about his own ideological stances that's flawed and in opposition to her own. she doesn't have to be any less unrelenting in her principles and worldview for that romance between them to be compelling bc at the end of the day the entire crux of it is that against all odds bruce cares. for however wrong he thinks she might be in a given moment or in her stance against the government, he knows who she is and how hard she's fought and what she's survived and it makes him sympathetic to her because she's real. she's a wonderful character through which to explore the logical limits of bruce's self-righteousness and categorization of crime, as well as a wonderful mirror to hold up to his face as he starts to ask himself whether what he's doing is really the only means of keeping the city safe. and the novelty of it all is that you don't have to sacrifice her character for any of that to be true. writers have simply deluded themselves into believing that they have to and that's why we are where we are today

#you're so real about the reeves movie btw i think she should have kicked him off of a building personally #outbox #also not something i mentioned above but i think a looooot of people cling to bronze age selina #because it was purportedly her first 'positive' portrayal. personally i would argue against that though #i think her golden age iteration was plenty 'positive' and there was an inherent understanding that although she loved supervillainy #she wasn't necessarily evil in a way comparable to other rogues. she always had an inclination towards mercy and bruce Noticed that #which is what made their relationship really interesting. bc she was committing crimes and in his head he was like #yeaaaah she's wrong. but she's also not hurting anyone per se. and she's so pretty. let me turn a blind eye it's fine #these were more generic ideas that newell subsequently rewrapped in new skin and then further developed along a political lens #but i think a lot of people comparatively prefer bronze age selina bc it fully embraced a romance in the most traditional sense #so at the end of the day a lot of the fan sentiment really comes down to preferring wish fulfillment over good storytelling. at least imo #bronze age selina to me is one of the most boring characters ever. and i also hate that she has to 'prove' she's no longer villainous to br #to bruce. and the fact that he suspects her. like since the 40s it's been word of law by the ogs that bruce Doesn't suspect her #he's the first person to not suspect her while everyone around him is judging him for it #i know writers and perspectives change etc etc but when that's what the original creators of both characters are telling you #i feel like it has to hold some weight #so yeah. bronze age might as well be the shit under my shoe it's so boring and bland and most of all ahistorical #bronze age batkat i mean

[kkujo]

bruabba and fugio are good ships however 80% of the people who post about them are annoying about it. like. same with jotakak and kakyoin stans actually. the way ppl obsess over them and water it down until it's so uwuified and far removed from the source that the characters are just bland and boring. idk where i was going with this

#don't get me wrong i enjoy all 3 ships and i like kakyoin and i like part 5 #but the way these things get treated in the fandom is so annoying it's genuinely so annoying #unfortunately a lot of part 5 stans just completely get the characterisation wrong #like bruno isn't an uwu softboy mommy 😭😭😭😭 yes he's a parental figure but he's also like really unhinged and traumatised. #he's a good person but he's fucked up why are we making him into a bland uwu cinnamon roll #same w fugo and giorno.... they both have severe trauma & fugo has anger issues and giorno can be manipulative and cold etc etc #so it's so weird to me when ppl see them as like cutesy softboys DOES THIS MAKE SENSE #also people misunderstand giorno as boring or too similar to jonathan but the whole point is he's a mix of jonathan and dio... #yes he's kind but he will also do almost anything to achieve his goals even if it means people die #he's actually a really interesting character with different layers but people miss it 😭 #< obviously it's fine to draw/write cutesy stuff and not focus on character analysis. sometimes u just gotta make it fluffy #but i swear it's like 90% of the content for some of these characters #kakyoin especially holy shit. the like. feminization of kakyoin in the fandom is literally gross at times #when ppl turn him into like a twinky little femboy... come on be so real have you SEEN him #especially when ppl hc him as trans masc and then draw him hyper feminine.... when in canon he's rlly masculine.... guys ☹ #<like obviously trans men can be feminine but when ppl make a masculine character super feminine bc of a trans hc. that's. weird

[socialprawn]

Embarrassingly, I'm drawing a comic just for my eyes which continues the legacy of my Soul Eater fan manga from 2011....

So I started looking up Soul Eater clips again and I saw more of Marie... I used to not like her because 13 year olds like edgy stuff only HAHA but now I love her so much, she is probably one of my favourite SE characters ;v;

#crona number 1 always and forever... #i also have the same sentiments towards maka btw i used to dislike her for some reason but i think i just wanted to be her a lot ;v; #i have been a maka lover for much longer though i just thought marie was bland #AND SHE ISNT!!! >:( #i also need to read the manga i know im missing out on actual good stuff...

[grassbreads]

I've been meaning to do this for months but I finally fucking bought more lao gan ma. I am going to be unstoppable.

#had to mail order it so I got two different kinds for shits and giggles #In my college town I used to live an easy walk from an asian grocery store that sold it #but now there's nowhere near me that sells any :( #god I miss that little shop #for a random midwestern college town. that place had a surprisingly solid selection of east asian stores and restaurants #maybe because my uni had a lot of chinese international students? #but anyway I'm sooo psyched to have lao gan ma again #was eating some bland-ass from-frozen 'orange chicken' and thinking about how good it would be with some mixed in #and I finally had to pull the trigger and eat the shipping charge #I need it in my life #and I can make pepcorn!! #invasion of the frogs

[shaykai]

I’m trying to not be disappointed in Side Order but then I remember that the base game + plus the DLC is $90 and the music in it wasn’t very good despite three idols (all three of which we have songs from in other games and they’re bops) all being there and I’m not good about it actually

#spoilers for side order in the tags #I don’t like Order sjsjsjsjsj like #I think the issue is I’m comparing it to octo expansion #but tartar was infinitely cooler????? #and the music was good #and the game had so much more variety #it’s a roguelike so I understand it’s going to repeat but in that case I point you to hades #like the least they could’ve done is change up the color scheme dhdjjdjdjd #the ink was cool but I don’t think it’s enough to cover for the bland and repetitive levels #also also also I was sooooo excited about Dedf1sh being there and to hear them and pearl and marina sing #and all we get is a remix of fly octo fly??? and it’s worse???? djsjsjsjjsjsjs #at least to me- I like the og more #anyways I have a lot of opinions (few of which are positive. there are some just not many dhsjsjsj) #splatoon side order spoilers

[soltudes]

Strawberry pop moon icons (1/3): mirai kasuga.

renders gathered here.

#the idolm@ster #the idolmaster #idolm@ster #idolmaster #imas #im@s #the idolm@ster million live #million live #mirishita #icons #mine: icons #mirai kasuga #kasuga mirai #mirai #imas icons #idolmaster icons #I originally wanna make all of ml icons but I give up. Just realized that some of the girls has a lot of questionable/bland arts. #so for now‚ I'll only do icons that centers around the main trio. #I chose to make circled instead of the usual squared ones. don't know if it's good tho

[cloudbends]

I got so absorbed in the game that I forgot to post about it. oops

#vi rambling #persona #ok. sorted out my thoughts somewhat i think #i think. the gameplay has been greatly improved. i think its well rounded and improves some of what was iffy originally #however. i think my main issue is the storytelling approach theyre taking in terms of tone ans visuals and priorities #because like. tartarus looks genuinely incredible #but something about the games overall muted grungy tone. that worked so well with its overall deathly feel of foreboding. is lost #and well while the effort is put in gameplay and immersion i feel like. the cutscenes are severely lacking. so much was encapsulated in the #cinematogoraphy and editing and overall minimalist aesthetic of the original that here is just. told very plainly and takes away a lot of #the impact of these moments. despite most of the voices being a MAJOR improvement. #idk if this is articulating my feelings on the matter but hopefully it does #its most prominent in their choices of what to keep as cinematics and what to replace with 3d cutscenes and even those are. very bland to me #idk. but im having a great time. especially when i can stop being insane and treat this not as the definitive version of this game. #and yeah i will be talking critically because i like critiquing things even when i like them. its not like i think the original p3 is #objectively perfect. but narratively and visually and thematically and tonally it was perfect to Me. in a way that wasnt recaptured #SORRY ANYWAYS #im after the second full moon we got fuuka her voice is wonderful . also bebes goddamn social link being voiced had me choked... REALLY GOOD

[syncrovoid-presents]

Random thoughts: Can't wait until I move again next year back to the valley. Super excited for all our local festivals and celebrations!! Sadly they dont happen where I am now, no one even has heard of them.

Big L to these folks they don't know the freedom of trading skills and the fresh sea and local wildlife. Or celebrating just to celebrate. Where are the get togethers? Where are the potlucks? The community? The rules of politeness and friendliness are different here and it's strange how friendly from the valley is seen as overextending yourself here.

Also I can't wait to see the mechanical riding bull at the various ocean creature festivals we do! Also no one does any cèilidh here? It is strange and interesting and folks around this city (very far fromthe valley) are different? But I am acclimating, although I still am looking forward to going back too

#syncrovoid.txt #rambling #we have festivals every other weekend in the valley! some big and some are town specific #cèilidh are like social get togethers. like casual parties really? its a local word! #some folks will sing or bring instruments to them too #also there is SO many less artists around here? where are the hand sculptures? the many painters? the small art galleries all around town? #the houses are so sad here too. none are blue or yellow or orange or green. theyre all the same few bland colours #where is the fun? where is the pizzazz? where is the sparks of personality? #home sick #the houses are so crowded too? no one has space. and everything here is branded. there's no generational stores? few family run businesses? #there is public transportation though! that is limited to one bus in the valley where the towns can be an hour or two a part #it is odd though. starting to miss home i think. i do miss the acceptance of artists a lot. in the valley it is celebrated! #nearly everyone has some arts they are good at or enjoy #and personal time (time away from work) is just a given #there is like no connection to the land or history here either? #ghough the valley is a hodgepodge of things at least we still have some local slang and words and whatnot #anywho! it is what it is #its weird to feel homesickness when ive moved like 10 times before? only other place i feel like this towards is my forest #i spent nearly all my time there when we lived there. last day before we moved they started beinging in the machines to tear it down #climbed high in a tree on the farthest edges and wayched as they began bulldozing it down and tearing it up #aucks to know all the wonders and life has been paved over and destroyed #but i cant go back to that home (the forest) because it no longer exists. the valley still exists though so!! that is great!! #anyways i am rambling haha

[apollo-cackling]

sometimes it feels like artists make purposefully bad/bland acoustic versions of their songs as a psyop to make you hate acoustic songs lol

#se has just listened to the raincatchers ep #my rambles #idk what I expected lol even in my favourite album of hers (and the only one I'd consider objectively Good) #I still find a sizable chunk of it to be potentially mid and 2 outright pretty bad (although I have a soft spot for one of them) #just feels kinda bad that a lot of her recent acoustic versions have some like #pretty objectively bland instrumentations when piano sketches and young heart exist lol #music musings

[be-good-to-bugs]

i am so so tired lately

#the bin #'lately' as if im not always like this. i wanna sleep so much but my body also wont do that proper either :/ dont know why #i think i might have insomnia or something. or maybe im bipolar. my doctor said maybe thats it but they dont really know #idk what to do abt the sleep issue tho. my body just refuses to stay asleep rn and a lot of the time it refuses to sleep at all #i feel sick to my stomach today too :( today was. not good. i did some bad things and im just trying to not be upset over them #its hard though. idk. everything feels so much all the time and i want to let it out somehow but my body just wont for some reason #i think maybe i should decorate my room and that will make me happier. ofc i dont have anything on hand nor the money to go buy #stuff so idk when i can do that. its so bland n undecorated so no wonder i feel insane all th time. nowhere in the whole house is decorated #ill maybe take some cardboard and paint some stuff on them to put up. maybe some lil bunnies. i migjt have the $15 to go get weaving #supplies and then i can make some stuff that way. i already have embroidery floss so i could embroider on to make it cool looking #i miss my knitting supplies. i could totally make some cool wall stuff with that. oh well. ill just wanna feel calm isntead of upset always

[jellyloveru]

just realised that my favourite mediocre children's book is somewhat similar to some far more mediocre children's book :(

#балаболим #talking about this book series. throughers/drafts (skwosnyaki/сквозняки) #(the name is a certain group of people who can travel THROUGH the fabric of the worlds. but it also sounds like the inside wind - draft) #like. ok i don't knkw where to start #from the name to the idea and execution and word play (i don't see it often in russian. english's more flexible in that) i love it #it's so simple and yet... #ok i'll try to get further into it later. why am i writing this. i've read a first chapter of some far more popular book series. chasodei #(clock-wizards). and um. it's so bland... oh this girl is so good in a not so good class and she's got no parents but a grandma #and then it turns out she has a father and siblings who live in a secret world that might dissapear because of the regular one #oh and she was sent away because she could enherit everything because she's so cool and shit. because of some. rules and stuff. yeha #i neither read nor watched h/p but it sounds a whole lot like it. from what i know #and the thing that bothers me is a simularities with the first book of throughers/drafts #like. masha (main character) accidentaly gets into another world and through some events gets like. a ton of money #ok. ok post canceled. these simularities are really puny. i just realised that. but still. i'm posting this because my thoughts are here #also yeha. why is the h/p copy much more popular than my skvoznyaki huh. why. makes ya think i guess