Story time: Iām a trans guy. I have an identical twin.
Weāre both tall, androgynous, and have naturally deep voices
In high school a rumor was spread that one of us was trans. For years, everyone in school had convinced themselves that my twin was āthe trans oneā. She rolled with it to keep me safe, and said it felt like a compliment to be mistaken for a trans woman since she looked up to a lot of trans women. That didnāt stop the bullying, but itās easier to deal with when itās directed at the wrong person.
Iām engaged to a feminine cis guy who is several inches shorter than me. I have 20-30lbs on him and I can dead lift him. Heās more delicate and soft both physically and socially. He cries during sad movies, owns half a million stuffed animals, and clings to my arm when heās nervous or itās cold out (oh yeah, also heās adorable)
Whenever the topic of being trans comes up, cis people tend to think heās the one who is trans. Direct allĀ āwhat do your parents think?ā comments onto him. Completely ignore me. Ask him invasive/transphobic questions about his body. Tell himĀ āyou pass so well!ā through grit teeth. Like with my sister, I get pretty pissed about this, but thereās not much I can do about it.
I have had to argue with cis people to establish the fact Iām trans because they donāt believe me & think Iām joking. theyāre likeĀ ābut heās - no, sheās trans!ā and frantically point fingers at my fiance and sister. Because thereās no way an adult cis woman could be taller than 5ā²9 and choose to be bare-faced, and an adult cis man could love How To Train Your Dragon 2Ā with a fiery passion, enough to watch it 3 times in the theatre.Ā
Terfs take one look at us and try to convince my sister sheāllĀ never have a uterus or that sheās āappropriating womenās spacesā. Transphobes say my boyfriend will āalways be a girlā and call him gendered slurs. They talk over them, block them, and grill them about what genitalia they have online. Completely unknowing that theyāre talking to two cisgender people who are gay and gnc.
@ young, closeted, scared trans people: any cis person who insists they can somehowĀ āknowā yourĀ ābirth sexā by looking at you becauseĀ āitās so obvious!ā is full of shit. people come in all shapes and sizes regardless of gender. Not only are they being transphobic, but theyāre being homophobic too.
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Very good points ! Though I believe I can add one thing regarding both the Pacinator and the Pointy-Heads :
While not stated outright, it seems to be implied the one(s) who hired the Pacinator are the aliens. Or at least, that's the most logical conclusion one can make considering, like you mentioned, that 1) The Pacinator works for a "bigger threat" than the ghosts, and 2) The Pointy-Heads HAVE proven they CAN be a bigger threat than the ghosts in the season one finale.
... And if it weren't for season two's writting, they probably would have still been the "bigger threat".
Okay, time to make a post to criticise PMATGA with its inconsistencies! (Probably + other stuff)
(definitely not because of boredom)
Okay so, since it's been a while since I've seen the show, some takes might be a bit invalided due to forgetting some aspects from the show if they were ever established already, so feel free to correct me after reading!
So the first two episodes, huh...
Remember when Betrayus was menacing and threatening in these episodes? While his comedic personality was balanced well with it?
Only for his threatening aspect to be taken away from him, replacing him only with his childish/pathetic personality instead?
Speaking of, he implied that he was the one who murdered the yellow ones, right? The question is; why did he do it? Why did he commit a mass murder on his kind? Why and how did he become power-hungry? Was he always like this? Was it revenge? For what? What was he trying to achieve besides wanting to rule Pacworld?
And if his murder on the yellow ones was supposed to be because they were the rulers of Pacworld back then, why didn't he just murder the certain rules at the time and overtake their throne? Why did he go all out of his way to murder every single one of them just to eliminate them?
And only for all these questions to get retconned to be changed to instead of being a murder! Oh no! They only got frozen instead! Oh no! By this new antagonist we learn of in the same season!
The Pacinator
I admit, his whole dailouge about him freezing all the yellow ones and working under someone more dangerous than Betrayus does sound a lot more intriguing! I really liked what they were going for when they chose that route! Well yes, i would've love it if they stayed on their old root with the original idea, but i guess a little bit of a rewrite wouldn't hurt? Right???? (If you know you know)
But then, here comes the questions: who hired him? Who is this bigger threat they were implying here? You can't just tell us that and never bring the Pacinator back again, or erasing the mention of this bigger threat! What got the Pacinator so invested into his job as an exterminator after the incident with his mom? Why does he enjoy it so much? Why is he never brought up again after his mysterious escape???
And that leads us the next antagonists who have been added near the last of season one, as another attempt to rewrite the disappearance of the yellow ones! Are you keeping up with this?
The PointyHeads, specifically Apex
Tbh, even up until now i love aliens! They've always been an interest to me, so of course i ended up loving their first introduction!
I just wish they were given more episodes to talk more about themselves, and what their home planet looks like, and what's their life style like... And most of all, what their relation to the yellow ones?
When did they capture the yellow ones? Why are they experimenting on them to begin with? Yes its said the yellow ones are special, but when did they learn that? Were they in Pacworld long ago before deciding to kidnap them all? When did they learn they missed one yellow orb?
Are the yellow ones this OP to begin with?? Is this why they're all being exterminated?? (Well when you think about it this way, Pac is already too OP for his main protagonist syndrome lol)
And you know what they do about all this in the end? They literally just say F it! Let's make them in Pacworld yet again in the last episode! BRUH???
Speaking of! Let's talk about Elli's existence!
So Elli, the (probably used to be) most disliked character due to some controversial stuff as she was the last character to be introduced in the very last episode as a last straw...
I can't think of any inconsistency besides bringing up how we don't even get to learn about her until very late in the series, and how her existence seems to be just an excuse to be a plot device, as we learn nothing about her character outside of the descriptions Sir C and Stratos brought up about her...
And of course we can't forget, one of the most reasons she's disliked in the fandom is due to her being used as another excuse to ship her with Pacster
AND SPEAKING OF...
Remember how Rotanda adopted Pac as her grandson in her only debut episode? Remember how she mentions she was never blessed with any grandkids before the last episode of the series? Keep in mind Elliptica was mentioned in her debut to be Stratos and Betrayus' niece, making her Rotanda's granddaughter, which makes this whole shipping thing with her and a Pac being a big yikes
(i can only give it a benefit of the doubt if the writers might have forgotten about Pac's adoption completely, although it's a bit suspicious no one pointed it out beforehand)
And now for the ghosts and power berries!
Remember when it was said no one knows what happens when a ghost eat a power berry? And it was one of the main reasons they were keeping them away from Betrayus?
Only for it to be retconned at Captain Benshi's debut? and even Pac was smugging about it as he knew what he was doing!
I have no thoughts about it as i always forget this fact honestly, and even then i wish they kept the premise they originally went for...
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Spiral i can understand, since they probably didn't know what to do with him as his existence was probably meant to be Pac's best friend (even though he's the most underwhelming character who we barely know of and wish he was given his own episode[s]), but Ghost Gang? They're literally the OGs of the Pacman franshise! They're barely given the episodes detected to each one of them! They're always given this whole role of "we need to warn Pac and help him!", it's always the "where's the Ghost Gang" but never the "how's the Ghost Gang"
Yeah we did get an episode detected to Blinky _which mind you, was literally at season two, past the time where you're supposed to build your characters to know them better at season one_ , as we learn he's a Pac-Fu master, which is a good character build up in my opinion! I just wish it was hinted beforehand that he knows something we don't know instead of it being out of nowhere when the episode decided to introduce Master Goo...
Pinky we don't know much of her besides her obsession with Pac, thinking he has something for her, and even then, one inconsistency that personally makes me and some people a bit uncomfortable to mention, was when Clyde implied in Nobody Knows episode, she dated two tenticle ghosts... Unless we have to assume they were teenagers as well as her and Pac, but we are not sure exactly...
I still wish we were given more information of her and for f sake! Not talk about Pacster every sentence! We need to learn more of her!
Same goes with Inky and Clyde! We know nothing of these two! I think we only know Clyde is one of the kindhearted ghosts to exist, and he's a cook, and the goofball of the group, and that's it. I don't think we even know much of Inky besides his sarcastic personality and wanting to be on the winning side... Just UGH!
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Alr i think that's all i have in mind, sorry if it's all over the place and unorganized, i wrote this all in two nights as of now
You're free to disagree with me and correct me if I'm wrong! You can even add your opinion too! I just felt like giving some criticism to it in a public post, even though the show's been dead for a decade, haha
So hope you enjoyed it!
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My mind is reeling about ur hc for Ninja Cookie being Nori Cookie but imagine if he met Gim Cookie, what is his reaction?
Oh, right ! I almost forgot about Gim cookie being also algae based. Which is funny since I do remember fearing what would his name be when he was first revealed.
Thankfully he ended up being culturally dinstinct, since (obviously) he's based on the korean equivalent of nori (which is japanese).
Back to the question : I don't think either of them would have much of a reaction, lol.
I feel cookies who are made with the same ingredients wouldn't necessarily feel the need to point it out, much like how anyone wouldn't necessarily be like "Oh, we have the same eye colour" or "Oh, we have the same type of hair", you know what I mean ?
However I can think that Gim would (at first) be suspicious of Ninja/Nori simply because of his pet Little Ghost, lmao.
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