#I don't give a single shit about football or sport in general really

[maiiyahh]

why sports anime charas wouldn't immediately get folded by ppl from shounens

okay so obviously this isn't going to talk about people from REALLY REALLY op verses like fucking dragonball or bleach or one piece, because literally everyone gets folded by them except for ppl from their own worlds and the mcs from those shitty reincarnated time-traveling tower climbing bullshit manhwas. i will mainly be talking about my hero academia and black clover bc these are the two that i think are somewhat 'weaker' (relatively!! relatively!!!!) compared to other mangas and animes ive seen. also when im refering to shounen i mean like,, ones with powers. ALSO, and this is really important, I AM NOT SAYING THAT THE SPORTS CHARACTERS WOULD WIN. i'm just saying that they're stronger than they get credit for, especially since a lot of people who i see debating this stuff aren't athletes and don't really understand how sport affects you in other parts of your life (including but not limited to fights)

SO!! point 1!! i think this gets swept under the carpet a lot whenever ppl are debating who's better, but powers that work in a specific sport can be translated into something outside of that sport. take midorima from knb as an example: he can shoot really good 3-pointers. well, outside of basketball, that probably means that he would have: a, really good spatial awareness since he never loses the ball or bumps into someone while shooting, b, insane hand-eye coordination, and c, crazy accuracy whenever he throws stuff in general. that's all stuff that's pretty useful in a fight, ngl. honestly, this skillset is kinda better than half the ppl in class 1a. like, sure, they've got quirks, but take away their quirks and most of them are basically useless.

POINT TWO. if a character has a power like isagi's meta vision or kuroko's vanishing thing (idk if it has a name) it's not gonna go away as soon as they get in a fight. meta vision literally lets isagi predict the future. there is no reason why this ability wouldn't give him the upper hand in a fight with someone else. especially since it's not strictly confined to football. the only thing he needs is data, and he can get a lot of that from watching fights. honestly, meta vision is so broken that i just know if he was in bnha it would count as a quirk.

POINT THREE, specifically for people like kise ryouta and reo mikage. anyone who can copy other people will still be able to do it. like obviously they're not gonna be able to shoot fire or do a domain expansion or summon a stand or any of that shit, but they can still copy physical moves. so if they go watch 100 videos of ppl doing krav maga or some shit they'll be able to do it, which would make them pretty strong. considering how in bnha (sorry bnha fans ur anime is just the easiest to compare too) people with more mentally-focused quirks can become really strong just by relying on a weapon or learning some sort of fighting style. in black clover literally half the people get beaten up by some kid who has zero magic and a sword. like, what's stopping kise from grabbing a sword and slamming into some random ua kid's head?? it's not like they'd see it coming.

okay i know you're getting sick of me at this point but just hear me out

sports anime are only underrated in fights because people assume that every single person with powers immediately solos. like, normally they do, but a lot of the time it's not a zero diff fight, like come on. sure, zoro would kill hinata, but would yaomomo really beat reo mikage?? like are you sure?? are you only going off the fact that since she has powers she wins?? think about it for a second, please, i beg of you. powers =/= strong. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

#tw opinion #animanga debates let goo #blue lock #knb #sports manga #sports anime #in this essay i will- #anti bnha #blue lock manga spoilers #maii rants #trying to decodify the sports anime power system #if only my english teacher wanted to hear about this

[rainingmbappe]

im gonna be so generous with your logic here. no one is talking about the players. people are critcising city because of their practices and financial backing.

yes all sports ownership is suspect/problematic. very few teams/clubs are owned by a nation state, giving them essentially unlimited resources.

look at the haaland deal. transfermarkt had his market value at 150M but city officially paid 60M. its the lowest MV/Fee in at least the last 6 years in football and probably longer.

theres a reason city were charged with 115 violations of FFP regulations over the past few years.

no one is saying the players dont work hard. but it is very easy to win competitions when you have a €1B squad and can pay people 200k/week to sit on the bench.

I know all of that, dear anon I really really really do. And I know we're drowning in money I KNOW. People are acting like I'm sitting here denying the charges. I'm not!!!!!!!!!! I'm ashamed of them!!!!!!!!!!! Istg the very original post was pure passion and love for the players. I had arsenal fans shitting on the players, and I was emotional and defensive. Every single person was very quick to point out oil money, WHICH I ADDRESSED TOO. I don't know what people want from me. I'm sorry Liverpool lost to city. I'm sorry Arsenal is probably going to lose to the city. Choosing city to support as a 9 year old kid wasn't a choice. It happened. Should I apologize for that, too????

#seeing my boys win shit after YEARS of barely being a club makes me so happy #arsenal and liverpool fans are threatened and its obvious #ifk what to say to yall atp #anon ask #answered

[entamewitchlulu]

honestly my MO for writing dnd style fantasy "races" is just like. that's just a people. they're all just a people. tieflings aren't innately evil and they don't descend from demons (though some ethnic groups may have creation mythos implying that possibility), they're just another kind of people. goblins aren't innately more greedy or rude than others, they're just another people that has the whole gamut of personalities. orcs aren't brutal they're just people who tend towards different value systems depending on where they grew up and live. i hate any in-universe, "canon" justification for why a whole ass species is all the same (because it's lowkey racism but also because its lazy).

There may be a couple of biological differences (sure, tieflings can generally resist fire, dragonborn can breathe out different gases, halflings tend to be quieter on their feet), but other than that they're just. people. they have their own cultures, values, backgrounds, etc.

that's why i've always hated any dnd race-specific feature that's cultural because like that's such a HUGE generalization to make about a whole species!! It might make sense for all mountain dwarves to resist poison because as a whole they have evolved in environmental niches that cause them to resist toxins, but it doesn't make sense to me that every single one of them has Stonecunning and knows all about rocks. There must be a significant proportion of dwarven society that doesn't give a shit about rocks. it's like saying all humans have an advantage when making intelligence checks related to football/soccer. Soccer might be like, the most popular sport in human history but that doesn't mean every single human knows shit about soccer. And you're telling me every single high elf ever has had weapons training?? sure, it's probably more likely to show up in the kind of character who becomes an adventurer, but what about someone's fun concept of like. idk. an elven accountant. you're telling me that elf was trained in the longsword as a child? every single elf ever knows how to use a longbow because they were born an elf?? that's so silly. it's so reductive of their possible backstories.

And there are some that just REALLY rub me the wrong way, like kobolds all get this stupid "cowering" feat where they can pretend to grovel to distract an enemy and like!! that sucks man!!! you're telling me every single kobold ever is practiced in the art of pretending to be weak and pathetic so that big creatures don't kill them?? that's so twisted and rude. i'm so mad they didn't canonize the unearthed arcana version of kobolds that gave them draconic resiliences.

anyway. um. i got kind of heated there for a second and it turned into a rant rather than a measured thought process but like. that's where im at. i love d&d as a springboard but i also like to give things a lot more heart and individuality than i feel the mechanics allow sometimes. i don't want to see a whole species flattened into one concept. i wanna see them show the full spectrum of expression because the truest form of fantasy is the one that expresses a whole spread of HUMAN possibilities, even through a fantasy lens, and to reduce a whole race, fantasy or not, to just a handful of cultural touchstones, is just so....boring and sad.

#lulu talks

[macabrecabra]

do you have a topic or game or something that you're super passionate about? like that you can write like 50 pages about without stopping? if so, literally please write it, its literally one of my favorite things reading and listening to people talk about things they're into

OH so many things honestly XD

First one that comes to mind: Eyeshield 21 is an underrated masterpiece of a manga >8I It is a sports manga about American Football...so I think people dismiss it. It also came out around the time One Piece, Naruto, ect were coming out so it got buried...but it was SO FUCKING GOOD >8I

Like everything I learned about how to write interesting, likeable characters with compelling character growth that doesn't rely soley on cheap reasoning and shoe-horned romantic subplots I learned in this manga >8I It was the first series I wrote fanfiction for actually...so it means A LOT to me 83

(Read more for the full rant XD)

So yes, Eyeshield 21 is about football and about a group of highschoolers wanting to get to the big bowl game and play before they graduate, so there is big stakes in it....but AH it is SO much more than that! Like when not playing football, the training and interactions with the characters are SO GOOD! Each one you can just watch slowly going through transformations that are believable and well paced. That they are coming to grips with struggles I have gone through: Parents not liking a hobby, wanting to be good at one thing but having talent elsewhere and giving up on a dream, of being in the shadow of a more successful sibling.... just some real shit. The characters, even the minor ones, all have really great quirks that make them memorable within moments, then each gets so much depth in so few panels and lines, like you really just can understand quickly each character, their motivations, without any monologues! Flashbacks are kept to a minimal and for impact, not just for "tragic backstory". Not to mention even the villains, the people whom you are coded to dislike...are GIVEN CHANCES TO GROW! Like Agon comes off as generally despicable, but then you realize he has always been talented/gotten what he wanted and people just fed into that all his life. When he is forced to confront how awful and wrong that behavior is, how it is affecting his brother....he changes! It forces him to reflect and you see it play out in that football game! He pays for his behavior BUT also learns to do better! THAT is character development! The Haha brothers also went from being your typical Japanese gang bullies to coming into their own, no longer bullies but actively helping the team, wanting to grow, opening up about their past and hobbies and just....realizing they were called losers by their own parents and that want to be "someone" caused them to be bullies, but football/the team showed them they could be appreciated without being jackasses just SO FUCKING GOOOOOODDDD!

Also... NO ROMANCES. There are no couples established, no romantic scenes. It keeps the drama on how the team builds. Not to say it isn't clear certain characters don't grow to care for each other, but they don't focus on it like a laser or make a single character's trait as "love interest". This means the lady characters DO get to really shine. Even minor characters who are the girlfriends of some of the players have enough quirk and bite that you just love em. Just the focus on the interpersonal between everyone, rivals and comrades, the whole Sakuraba growth from idol to throwing that away to pursue what he wants.... *chef kiss* If you haven't read Eyeshield 21, I would highly recommend it! You don't have to know American Football to understand it and the manga is really good about making the sport easy to follow for the story. Not to mention top-notch art (drawn by the guy doing One Punch Man now) and again, just a very well paced story that will make you hyped on emotions every damn game and moment in between. Every struggle and just won't be a character you forget! (There is an anime but it isn't ...very good which makes me upset as the actual manga is SO GOOD >8I)

#Maca speaks #Maca rants #Listen I love this manga and it needs more love #It is a masterpiece #and more people should be aware >8I

[savrenim]

thoughts on dumbledore? Or the fantastic beasts premise in general

I'll be honest I saw the first Fantastic Beasts movie bc it seemed exciting and friends were there to see it with me, decided not to see the second I don't even know if JKR was out as a dangerous transphobe at the time I think it was because of Johnny Depp that I decided not to and promptly felt incredibly vindicated when everyone said it was terrible and character assassination from the first movie and not even worth torrent, and has there even been a third I genuinely have no idea bc these days I try to stay as far away from JKR properties again just bc, like. not interested in giving her money or contributing to conversations that will lead others to give her money. So "premise" is probably the best I can do for you.

Going on a tangent that I promise will make sense a paragraph down: I worked for nearly a decade during summers at gay theater camp AKA larp camp (the Wayfinder Experience) that is the best way to larp because games were one-time things with new entire world backgrounds and characters and game mechanics invented for each week of camp sets and costumes made anew each week by production that would culminate in said single 4-5 hour game that really and truly was like being in a novel where you were the main character, we were all living our best lives. One of these games was called The Golden Blade, written by my friend Jay Dragon who has gone on to become a genius indie ttrpg designer, bUT ANYWAYS. the concept of The Golden Blade was there was this tournament for adventuring parties of five-ish typical adventuring party members every year with a huge reward and said tournament had a lot of rules but mostly consisted of going around this big arena and fighting monsters and claiming flags, this also was Fantasy Sports like football but 1000x more popular for the fantasy continent we were on but decidedly a Sports Team Mood, campers were cast as members of these adventuring teams, the referees, and a bunch of rich spectators who had bought tickets to the tournament and also all had their own plotlines going. The game was set up as such: there were three rounds of the tournament where I guess flags and monsters were reset in between?, the first round went completely normal, the second round shit started to go down, and the third round was discarded because it had been revealed that there were a whole bunch of supernatural creatures/ gods who were all trying to control this sword that could cause the end of the universe and do a lot of other things, it was super dramatic, I played said universe's equivalent of the Archangel Michael and one of the kids was a Joan-of-Arc type prophet and I think I might have convinced them to end the world this was a long time ago. BUT ANYWAYS.

The Golden Blade was arguably the most popular game of that summer, it was a huge hit. And that's saying a lot, there were a bunch of really good games that summer.

The single criticism that was leveled against The Golden Blade by anyone ever, was that the tournament was really freaking cool and they really didn't need any other epic plotline and while what happened was great and everyone loved game, they would have been equally happy to have just...played the full tournament, no dramatic world-ending twists, just take what was a really cool setup for something really interesting in and of itself and play it straight.

Now you see where I'm going re Fantastic Beasts?

From what I remember of the first movie it was pretty good because it was mostly about running around after some crazy fantastic magical beasts, and the single criticism was "it really didn't have to be anything fancier than that, no need for a bigger plotline, honestly we would have been completely chill with almost a nature documentary about these beasts." From what I've heard about the second movie, they, like... go into the Wizarding War? and the plot is all about said Big Dramatic War? and, like.... where is the fun cute lighthearted we kind of were all just here for found family and adorable magical animals and zany adventures chasing them down and helping save them, we didn't sign up for Plot to happen, we didn't need Plot to happen at all, now that you're making Plot happen this isn't something that I want to be watching at all.

I feel like "thoughts on Dumbledore" is therefore going to be, like. Not something that I can answer at least in the context of Fantastic Beasts. given that I saw the first movie, once, when it first came out, and wasn't he in there and played by Jude Law or something for all of literally five minutes? in which case my thoughts on that Dumbledore is "Jude Law seems like a pretty cool actor." thoughts on Dumbledore generally as a character concept is that I do very much love the concept of "utterly and horrifyingly ice cold master manipulator leading the team of good guys that everyone thinks is a total sweetheart but in reality has been worn down so much by the horrors that they've seen that at this point they're completely and utterly down with sacrificing children for the greater good" and the philosophical concept of "okay you're one of the good guys, do you let this happen because you need this person to win the war, or is this unacceptable and how do you deal with/potentially react to the collateral damage of morals causing more horrific destruction than if you'd let the master manipulator stay leading." I have a variation on that trope in one of the many original works that I'm writing of considering time loops and a character group that is in theory trying to save the world from complete world-ending apocalypse but in practice after being through 300+ time loops have gotten incredibly cavalier about certain things because they're all just so fucking tired and have seen every single possible way for this to go wrong so by the time it comes to "yeah sure murder these 1000 children because they unfortunately stumbled upon information that if it makes its way back to this country in particular will lead to a weapon of mass destruction being deployed that cracks the entire planet like an egg, and we don't have enough resources to actually make sure all 1000 of these children never speak to anyone ever of what they saw because there are like five different apocalypses that we're trying to stop at once, so oops if we missed our window to stop them guess it's on the checklist to murder them all" and have done it so many times at that point that it doesn't even strike them as something to be upset about, it's just another box on the checklist. like. I call that group and especially their leaders a Dumbledore-type character and that is fascinating to me but at this point we're more into fandom and cultural impact of Dumbledore than Dumbledore himself, I don't know if I care enough about HP and its extended universe to have any further opinions about Dumbledore himself.

#writing #asks #sorry anon if this is super unsatisfying #I haven't thought about the HP world in years and probably will continue to not think about it for years after this #oh the leader of my time loopers is also gay #but I'm pretty sure literally everyone in that book is gay #I don't even remember if they confirm Dumbledore to be gay in FB #if so I wish him his best gay life #unless he has to date Johnny Depp #in which case rip I'm very sorry