#Griping I guess

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

I'm always a bit surprised when I see hate for Shaak Ti based on her "Republic property" line like it's some kind of slam dunk statement of her views... have you guys seriously never had to speak someone else's language before? I'm not even trying to comment on her motives or beliefs here- but whether you read her as advocating for Fives or not, if she was 100% unambiguously advocating for Fives there that would still have been the right thing to say to the Kaminoans to get custody of him.

#this just seems like such an obvious thing to me #and i guess it bugs me because there's a lot of focus on people saying the right things and not enough on people doing things #you know in general. on planet earth. #and this is so clearly a place where virtue signalling on Shaak's part would have been 100% useless. The Kaminoans do not care. #she's lawyering. it's such a basic thing. #i don't really want to go into the thornyness of jedi-clone relations right now or what the council did and did not do for and to them. #i know i'm basically a pro jedi blog but I don't think it's perfectly rosy either but i'm tired #so i should probably leave well enough alone #but i felt like griping about this one specific thing #which is not evidence of anything except rules-lawyering #shaak ti

[yumedoca]

It's them, the sillies!!!:P

Redraw of the photo from this screencap:

#didnt really work out how i wanted it to... #especially the eyes #i need it to be more slanted :'( #ran also kinda looks off to me #but it would be a shame not to post it after all that work so here it is #and even though i have gripes i guess it doesnt look all that bad... #detective conan #meitantei conan #detco #dcmk #shinichi kudo #sonoko suzuki #ran mori #my art #yucaillusts #god i love them sm #redraw

[floral-alchemist]

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

for dungeons meshis please

Hello my beloved partner, thank you for the ask!! <3

So, I have a bit of a confession to make. I ship Laios x Marcille--but only in the Golden Country.

Marcille is seen in the fandom largely as two things: the Complainer, and Falin's soulmate. While neither is wrong, I don't think she can really be both of these at the same time.

Marcille is, ultimately, a character who wants. She wants decent food. She wants Falin to return to the school. She wants her friends to outlive her. She wants Donato back.

Falin is the antithesis of this. Where Marcille has a foot in both Elven and Gnomish magic, Falin falls squarely on the Gnomish side. Instead of constructing a perfect dungeonarium, she fills her jar with the perfect conditions to let a dungeonarium construct itself. And when she finds her life is at its end, Falin accepts this, and simply does what she can to send her friends to safety.

Laios, on the other hand, has a lot of desire. He wants to eat monsters, for one. But more than that, he wants to exert his will upon the concept of monstrosity. In the back of his book he has sketched out his idea of what a perfect monster would be, and he fantasizes about designing a dungeon's economy to make most efficient use of its monsters.

He isn't static, of course. At its heart, the story tries to interrogate desire, and asks whether desire is an okay thing to have, and if/in what ways it is different from love. Falin loves spirits, and Laios loves and desires monsters, and ultimately he must grapple with the difference between those two things.

If Marcille grows, if she separates her desire from her love and weighs the two against each other, then she will have gone through her character arc and come out the other side a foil to Falin. But if she doesn't grow, if she doesn't change, if she spends eternity stagnating, Laios makes the most sense.

He is the default option, isn't he? They are the leading man and woman, and that's how these things usually go. The idea of never losing your loved ones is not so far off from the idea of a monster so perfect it can never be defeated. They do seem interested in each other in the Golden Country too. She blushes at his compliments, he uh.. is reminded of her by talk of milk. And they do have interpersonal chemistry--in fact it's the driving force of the series. And all it would take for Marcille to have a perfect happy eternal life with Laios is to not grow as a person, to keep her flaw of always always always wanting.

So Marcille complains, and that is her fatal flaw, which she must overcome in order to love things as they are, while she still can. And when she does this she will become Falin's soulmate and ideal partner. But before they can make a good couple Marcille must accept--and love--Falin for the precious mortal human she is.

#marcille donato #falin touden #dungeon meshi #laios touden #i guess my gripe with fandom is that it portrays characters as static rather than dynamic #(which makes them more memeable and easier to talk and think about to be fair) #asks #my posts #farcille #i would tag it the laios/marcille shipname too but i don't care enough to find out what it is

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Japanese Grand Prix - Sebastian Vettel

#im so glad theres no one here to witness my reaction to seb wins because my god #i dont think words exist in the english language for the screeching noises i make HAHAHAHAHA #i just love him too much and it is a very late hour so i feel so deranged abt him and its very unwell behavior #i am kissing the tv director was for this podium directly on the mouth because SO MANY GOOD SHOTS !!!!!!!!! #my main gripe(and youll see this often in my tags) is that they never have enough direct shots and also cut away at bad moments #this podium? absolutely fucking beautiful. i want to kiss the camera operators because their focusing and tracking is a thing of beauty #hes so cute this race!!!!!! i have way too much content so shall be 3 posts methinks. hope ya dont mind!! #ive seen a clip of him and tommi chest bumping but i didnt know it was this race so when it suddenly cut to them im like OH!!!! #seb at japan gp....truly magnificent every single season(we dont talk about 2007) #i usually put 'ft. [ther drivers] but clearly both the cameramen and i only had eyes for seb hahaha #i guess this time tommi and rocky are the features!! #sebastian vettel #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #we do a little bit of f1 #2009 japanese gp #2009 japanese grand prix #sv5

[whirlingbadger]

The CR subreddit continues to be a bastion of nuanced & thoughtful discussion *especially* whenever there is an intense episode /s

#cr spoilers #critical role #critical role c3e91 #critical role spoilers #just my opinion #I mean i guess at least the bitching there is consistent #Spin the wheel to see which gripe you hit first

[darkwood-sleddog]

Not to be a creep but are these guys related to your dogs? They look way too familiar.

PS - Canadian Dog Fancier has an Alaskan malnutrition showcase this week on Facebook!

They're not related closely at all, probably closest relative is some Storm Kloud relatives from the 70s-80s. The dogs above are very much show bred with M'Loot heavy pedigrees which are pretty opposite of my dogs, but their breeder is quite vocal about making judges less averse to solid white dogs in the show ring which i appreciate.

Also when i was doing pedigree research on these guys i found the most tumblr malamute ever:

#dogblr #faq #vanilla extract #probably some of the furthest pedigrees ive seen in a hot second #but i guess its nice to see that my dogs aren't too off very accomplished show dogs #my gripe with ckc showcases is its always folks that win the most at shows #not like a diversity of breeders within the breed or anything #and that goes for the ckc malamute showcase #just...show breeders with show titled dogs which to me isn't bad it's just boring

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

#I am so burnt out yall #idk how much more I can take #Im trying really hard #and its never enough #and I just.. need a break #idk what to do #Idk what Im doing with this post #I am just griping into the void I guess #personal

[kehideni]

I wonder how many of you understood the mistic power images and their significance, because they don’t only represent their powers.

It’s happening really fast, so much so that you almost see them go out at the same time, but actually the red flame(the one that forms the shield) is the first to go.

Nice little tie-in that Raph was the first to fall and from then on everything else seemed like a lost cause, the team was getting beat left and right.

But the tide turns when Leo apologizes and thematically gets rewarded with what he wanted all movie: cleared conscience (with his brother back). (His flaws start with his ego and only after that his blind desperation to fix his mistakes)

Once the red flame (shield) is back, the rest of the mystic fires could reignite.

#one of my gripes with this movie (although i loved it) is that this was a Leo movie :T #and my favourite is Raph #from the 4 turtles 3 got to have wishes and 1 was a reward item #Leo wanted to clear his conscience #Mikey wanted his mistic hands #Donnie wanted... hmmm now that i think about it Donnie didn't get to have a wish either #so Donnie and Raph didn't get to have wishes #Raph was a driving force (a plot element) and Donnie a plot solution as most science characters are #ok so my post also suggest that Raph was also a plot solution but still #April too was a plot solution #Casey was the third character then i guess cuz' he had a wish(goal) that he achieved by the end #ROTTMNT

[purgetrooperfox]

listen. I want to like bo-katan as the pathetic meow meow she is in the mando s3 era, but the lack of consistency in her narrative drives me insane and I truly cannot be the only one. her characterization swings from one end of the ambivalent-invested spectrum every single episode and like,,,, me too girl but it doesn't feel intended by the show creators and I'm sorry you're so poorly written

#this is my gripe. her motivations and characterization and shit are wildly inconsistent #i get the ambivalence and the being a bitch and all that. i get not liking the 'true mandalorians' or din's covert specifically #i get some level of awe on mandalore and yearning for belonging #but there has to be an adjustment from point a (i want to sit in my castle alone forever i hate you) to point b (yeah ill join your covert) #maybe it's all internal. but that isn't clear at all from the storytelling #there are better ways they could do this is all i'm saying #mando #mando spoilers #i GUESS #she has so much potential and i'm just not seeing that realized. but that could be said for every character in the show low key #anyway.

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

Sure, “the cycle is cycling” is a fun and cute thing to say but in all honesty? To me, the succession ending sort of accidentally broke that logic. Can you really draw the logical conclusion that the siblings end up like Ewan and Logan? No, because what was the reason for their estrangement? Ultimately, Ewan resents Logan for letting himself become the person he died as. Why was Logan like that? Because of the company (very simplisitc, there is more here obviously). Shiv literally takes that possibility away from Kendall by voting against him.

Does that mean being “out” magically fixes their shit? Of course not. Here is the thing. Kendall will always be trapped in the cycle of thinking he was meant to be CEO, it was instilled into him as a child! Part of him will always resent Shiv for her vote and will always come back to this formative moment. But. Does that mean he can never care about anything else, doomed to wander around as an empty shell? I don’t think so, we’ve been through the epic highs and lows of corporate fuckery with Ken, he somehow always returns to himself in the end, partially because of his siblings.

Shiv will always be stuck knowing that her being a woman plays a major part in the way her father and every other man in her life treats her. That resentment won’t go away either, it may even take a new shape with motherhood mixed in. But also, she is probably working a new angle with Tom as we speak. Maybe she’ll return to her political roots, who knows, she certainly will do everything to not become her mother even if she jokes about the opposite at the funeral. But the most important thing to me is the fact that, even in her resentment towards Ken, she tells him “I love you, but I can’t fucking stomach you”. The first part did not need to be there. And yet.

And Roman (always hardest to talk about for me, lol). Well, he will always look for guidance outside of himself, he will always need his family. His ending is lonely on one side, but there is a quiet beauty in it as well. After everything, there is a moment of solitude and being able to breathe, even reminisce. He just started really grieving and wherever the path leads, it will never lead back to Logan. It can’t. He will always love his father (and I need to take the moment to say- that is totally fine, we as observers have a different view on their relationship than him), but his father will never be able to abuse that or hold it against him again. The wheels have come off the cycle and the engine is dead. The entire fourth season can be seen as an attempt to keep the cycle alive, because it is comforting in a way. But it doesn’t work, because, I repeat, THE ENGINE IS LITERALLY DEAD.

See, succession clearly has shown that whereas Logan and Ewan had no desire to be a family, the sibs always find their way back to each other. After Ken’s season 1 bullshit. After Ken’s press conference. After the confrontation with Logan. Ewan tells people at the funeral “I loved him I suppose, but-” but none of them would ever say that. The love is so clearly, inarguably there and maybe that is the real tragedy; that in another world it could have been a much easier kind of love (but it rarely is, for most of us anyways).

#i guess you could say i have a personal gripe with the logan-ewan-rose kendall-shiv-roman allignment so what? #i also have a gripe with being needlessly melodramatic but don't feel to attacked by that i get it #it makes for poetic analysis #not gonna lie i have like two more posts about this in the drafts #both different flavors #because i will tell you one thing i had a gut reaction to all three sibling's endings and none of them were what you might expect #and i keep returning to them so those really inform my reading and rejection of certain theories #succession #succession season 4 #kendall roy #shiv roy #roman roy #logan roy

[pixelsjoy]

Me playing Tears of the Kingdom: As much as I miss the champions, it makes sense they're not mentioned much. It's been a hundred years since they died. Even if they survived the Calamity, most of them would probably be dead at this point. The only exception being Mipha, who would have been the only one that would still be alive if she survived the calamity due to her age. The reason they're still remembered so much in Breath of the Wild is because the Divine Beasts, one of the last remaining connections to them, are still active and looming in Hyrule. Impa also said that their spirits feel uneasy knowing their task of defeating the Calamity wasn't done. They were at peace when the Calamity was defeated and passed on. They're not brought up from that point on because them and their era are over and can be laid to rest.

Also me playing Tears of the Kingdom: - holding back tears - Damn I miss the champions

#LIKE YEAH. I GET IT FROM A THEMATIC POINT. BUT FROM A 'SIR THOSE ARE MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS' POINT. I AM ACHING #I love the sages in TotK! Don't get me wrong! #I mean look at my icon tee hee #But I've grown so attached to the champions their absence feels so off. I'm fifty-fifty on it #I wanna be clear: Big agree with people who say the Sheikah Shrines and tech being suddenly gone feels off #It's unexplained and feels far too significant to easily write off #I feel similar about the champions and how little they're mentioned in game #I don't think Zelda even has a single line of dialogue that mentions them. #She and Link lived through the calamity and knew them as friends #At least a tiny mention would have made sense since she does briefly talk about the Calamity with Sonia and Rauru #I guess it makes a little sense?? In regards to the developers wanting to be hush hush about BotW spoilers for newcomers #But the way they went about it is like they tried to forget it happened. It doesn't feel right. #This might also be my biased speaking cause the original sages? Cool and all #But they feel so hollow compared to the characters that the champions had #Anyways I am still VERY in love with TotK. It's consumed way too much of my time #But I also wanted to talk about this gripe dhdjfjejfjd #Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I'm sorry this is a whole wall of spilling #Anyways will I cope by remembering Age of Calamity is a thing despite how much it obliterates the timeline? #Dang right #Tears of the Kingdom #Breath of the Wild #TotK Spoilers #LoZ TotK #Loz BotW #BotW Champions #Long Post

[lelianaslefthand]

just playin around in photomode

#i want to learn how to actually use amm but baby steps so ive been playing with photomode #my gripe with it rn is that taking the picture through photomode smooths things out but i use reshade and it doesnt work nice with that.... #idk how people get their pictures so clean and sharp but im trying to figure it out!! #cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk 2077 photomode #v #.gameplay #.myedits #i mean i guess kinda sorta its technically edited #*weeks later* i just fucking realized the cursor is in the second one 😭

[antirepurp]

kieran over the course of indigo disk: it's not fair that Player gets everything and i get nothing after i've tried and worked so hard to get somewhere, i want to have something this once

kieran at the end: no it's ok Player can have the legendary pokemon it's okay they have everything i want to have and i get nothing like im some kind of npc or something

#soda offers you a can #i mean what the hell else could they have done with him i guess. you need the funny turtle for the dex and competitive scene #but this boy was some excellent bordeline meta commentary and he's forced to fall back in line in a way that breaks my fucking heart #the ogerpon is sitting in my box and i haven't touched it once after catching it. terapagos will do the same #but this is pokemon and it cannot leave its own formula and thus the kid will never get what he desires #and has to settle for being less in every conceivable way #he is not the hero and he will never be. he will never reach what he dreams of because he's doomed to the role of a side character #no matter how much i may care about him he will never be a hero #shitty poopy triple A game should not have me griping over a meta narrative it didn't even intend for us to explore. and yet

[balanceoflightanddark]

It's been implied by the fandom that Iroh can't be fire lord because of the other two nations' hatred and distrust for him given his brutal reputation as the dragon of the west.

It would make more sense and more consistent if Iroh explained that instead of assuming his own nation would turn on him for usurping the throne because that's exactly what Zuko did and it mostly turned out okay for him.

I think this is true on some level. While we never see anybody from the other Nations not trust Iroh, I could still see some people getting a little antsy about the guy who torched Ba Sing Se being crowned Fire Lord. Like there's no guarantee he's not gonna try to vie for Fire Nation supremacy just because he helped end the War. I don't even think he'd be well-liked by his own people since his retreat after Lu Ten's death basically spelled the end of his own military career.

That being said, by that logic Zuko would have his own problems being seen as a benevolent ruler since he did help overthrow Ba Sing Se, attacked Kyoshi Village, and raided Sokka and Katara's village. Sure it's small potatoes to what Iroh pulled, but it's not something anybody else is gonna overlook. I mean the Gaang threw what he did back in his face during his initial attempts to join. Who's to say the rest of the world isn't going to let him live that kind of stuff down? It'll be an uphill battle for the guy in terms of foreign relations.

Admittedly, you do bring up a good point about nobody really caring that Zuko was essentially a usurper. It would be telling that people just got used to this sort of power struggle with the Royal Family...which STILL isn't gonna be a good look for Zuko if his own people's first perception of the guy is that he did the exact same thing his father pulled with his sibling.

I'll be honest...the places where they left Zuko and Iroh at the end of the series don't exactly rub me the wrong way. I'm still not convinced that Zuko's finished his redemption arc and that sentiment hasn't really gone away with how the comics have handled him. And Iroh should NOT be able to retire into the city he burned to the ground. I guess the finale just left me with a colored perception of the two that I'm not sure I'm going to be able to shake off so easily. Your theory is good, obviously. And I think it makes more sense than Iroh assuming the populace would turn on him considering he pushed Zuko into fighting Azula in what was a power grab (even if it was justified). It's just when a retired war general who's guilty of starving the populace in a grueling 600 day siege gets to live in the city who suffered at his hand, the narrative just clashes with your idea.

Which I don't think means you're in the wrong here. It's just the narrative is that skewed.

#atla #atla meta #iroh #general iroh #zuko #fire lord zuko #iroh critical #...i guess if you want to go that route #more a narrative gripe than a character gripe #anon asked #anon answered

[kil9]

half of people say that guilty is about taemin killing all his bunkmates, and half of people say its about him turning them all gay, but theyre kind of the same thing when u look at thru the lens of guilt = sin, and in his eyes hes "damned them" by turning them to a life of homosexuality (but for real this time). also the "guilty pleasure" aspect where pleasure = sin and vice versa. everyone he touches becomes gay (gives in to pleasure), and by association becomes "guilty" (sinful), and at the same time he has his own guilt about making them that way, tho hes kinda like "welp, it is what it is" about it. its all so extremely gay catholic in that way.

#99.txt #taemin #and here i thought want was the gay catholic song. and then i thought it was idea. and now this #well i guess they all are #anyway this isnt really anything its just kinda my vague thoughts on it rn #this is the gayest taemin video yet tho. on account of the actual gay romance in it #im sorry it didnt click for me at first. i still dont really Love a lot of the aesthetic choices.... i think they could have done better #in some areas #but when i ignore the aesthetics and look at the themes of the video & the actual song i love it #i will say this 100x but i think if u wanna do grungy destruction then surely u can find a way to do it in an original way that doesnt look #exactly the same as every kpop video thats done that since 2011.... #my biggest gripe

[yekokataa]

getting really into time traveler youtube

#these videos actually indirectly addressed one of the minor gripes i had with pentiment #everyone was SO religious all the time #which i guess made sense for a monastery town #but wasn't the reality of everyone in that time period