#STOP BEING BLAND

[adastreia-12]

pjo tv show continues to act like showing details and building atmosphere are concepts that it had a bad break up with and now won’t touch with a ten foot pole smh

#it’s a kids show yadda yadda no its literally a Disney production with the original author involved I am holding it to higher standards #kids show does not equal bad quality writing/cinematography/directing(???) #specifically I am talking about the glass #and not showing ares’ human skin bike #and not making his eyes flame orbs #and not really showcasing his anger aura #and the meh Hephaestus intro #and also not including Dionysus’ visions of power that he gave percy when he was stepping outta line #and generally anything that doesn’t give gravitas to gods at this point #and not utilizing music enough #and generally sound design #just #WHERE IS THE SPICE #STOP BEING BLAND #SHOW ME SOME CLOSE UPS #GIMMA THE DETAILS #YOU COULD DO IT FOR PERCY GETTING MIDASED IN THAT CHAIR WHY CANT YOU DO IT FOR ANYTHING ELSE #pjo tv show

[science-lings]

I love that the most popular ace attorney mlm ships are all just some guy (Phoenix, Apollo, Ryunosuke) who is as close as these games get to normal (limit of one unique accessory) and the total heartthrob (Edgeworth, Klavier, Kazuma) who is absolutely head over heels smitten with him

#guy who is a little dorky and pathetic being the type of the most desirable lawyers is just so funny to me #the vibe is wonderful here #those doe-eyed defense lawyers sure do have that unstoppable rizz despite being the protag flavor of bland #im not saying that they're normal but in the aa universe they're just... the least eccentric #Klavier and Kazuma are the blatant flirts but Edgeworth paces in his office and can't stop thinking about phoenix #he doesn't know how to flirt he just has a gay crisis whenever he remembers that he's insanely attracted to phoenix #He is so pissed that he's so in love with phoenix and it is so funny #ace attorney #wrightworth #narumitsu #klapollo #asoryuu

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

you know Monster High is doing alternative fashion well when you open an Instagram doll leak's comments and they're all "ewwww it's so ugly and clashing" like yeah? and? some of y'all need to go out and witness transgender faggotry because u are tooooo fucking boring

#you would vomit and faint at the sight of a drag king #I'm loving MH's neon nightmare era #i love tacky clothes i love clashing colors i love statement makeup i love uniqueness i love being untrendy i love being a freak #if you don't understand the vision then stop looking. easy peasy baby. #monster high #im sorry i just cannot get behind the way y'all want them all to look like bland 2020 tiktok 'scene' kids

[rasticore]

Gonna be fully real

Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are way more fun and engaging than like 80% of the shit y'all hype up as "good queer rep" like most of those are so goddamn boring

#they arent perfect but theyre at least not boring as fuck #shit like heartstopper where its the most bland twinks are just so boring #yall get so laser focused on there being a gay that you forget to have an actual series where stuff happens #let your weird viv beef die #and stop hyping up insanely bland shows just cause two dudes kiss at some point #hazbin hotel #helluva boss

[zannolin]

i think the most frustrating thing for me abt johnny and carmen going where it went is there was absolutely no development there. we got about two scenes of them having any kind of conversation that's not "stay the fuck away from my kid you weirdo" and then suddenly there's a whitesnake dream sequence? i was so excited to see where their friendship could go and it honestly felt more like carmen was treating johnny like another kid what with the "mom doesn't want you eating slim jims for breakfast anymore" and stuff. we didn't get ANY foundation for it being romantic despite he was a boy she was a girl can i make it any more obvious etc etc. i might not dislike it sooo much if there was ANYTHING there, or even an angle where it feels like an obligatory thing to do for carmen because her son's got a father figure in his life, or for johnny because he doesn't know what else to do with women in his life, but no. no. whitesnake dream sequence is supposed to make it all make sense i guess.

#karate kid verse #IM NOT OVER THIS i think about it every day. what they stole from me. #and its just like. theres nothing AFTER either #you get the brief on the outs of miguel being in the hospital and then theyre back together i guess and it jsut feels so bland and shallow #im not rooting for anything but for them to STOP bc its so bland #i feel no emotional investment #i cringe every time theyre onscren together when i used to be excited to see a new developing dynamic #it hurts me!!!

[das-lied-von-der-erde]

The way he’s so seductively posed, cigarette in hand, leaning over a fucking SYNTHESIZER… oh Brian why did you stop dressing like this

#I can’t believe he gave up his non binary swag #and I don’t say ‘non binary’ lightly because the stuff he said about his gender being between or outside the binary of male and female… ok! #he said it’s because he started leaning more into Ambient Music & realized the dissonance between his appearance vs his music #he said that his appearance is flamboyant and demands attention while his music is intentionally meant to be background noise #so he stopped wearing the makeup and dulled down his looks #and I just think that’s such a shame #I think having a dissonance between your artistic output & your personal style is funny #we need metal musicians and hyperpop artists who come on in a bland button down flannel shirt & khakis #and we need classical composers and ambient composers with long dyed hair and painted eyelids and colourful clothes #Brian Eno

[heloflor]

You know, considering that new untitled Peach game is a bit like Luigi’s Mansion with how it puts a Mario character in a new environment with new game mechanics, I’m kinda hoping Peach gets her own original villain the same way Luigi was given King Boo.

Hell, with Super Mario RPG coming back, which has many original characters, and with the characters from the Peach teaser being something other than Toads, it seems Nintendo might be willing to dip their toes into original characters again. So what’s better to start making new characters than by giving Peach her own bad guy ! Also the new Mario Bros game has some new characters as well from the looks of it, so again, it’s possible !

And don’t get me wrong, Bowser is absolutely iconic and I do enjoy the irony of Peach battling against him. But with this game not being a platformer, and again taking into consideration Luigi’s Mansion, it would be a fun change of pace for Peach to have a new villain in her own series (god I hope this game becomes a series of several games!!!). Plus, it seems Peach will be more and more playable in mainline games, meaning more Bowser beat-up from her anyways.

And yes, part of me wants that new villain to be a female character as it's been forever since Mario games has had one and I am very much aware of how people would go crazy over it for the shipping.

(Also going back to Bowser, it’s more of a “me” thing but I always found it slightly weird to see Bowser attack Peach, since he’s supposed to be in love with her (Paper Mario games prove it well) and in all the games she gets captured, there are no indications he ever raises a hand on her. Hell in Odyssey he’s very gentle when putting Tiara on Peach’s head. Also Peach is never particularly afraid of him despite how horrible he can be, which implies he doesn’t physically hurt her.

Fun fact : this is why I headcanon Super Princess Peach as taking place very soon after Super Paper Mario, since the two of them would have just spent weeks working together and getting along. So it would work for Bowser to lose his shit upon getting rejected yet again “despite doing everything right” and thus be willing to fight her. As for 3d World, there’s three other people Bowser can focus on to avoid hurting her)

#Super Mario #Princess Peach #Untitled Princess Peach game #Flor talks #you know; about the possibility of Peach not getting captured anymore in future games; I don't know how to feel about it #and funnily enough; it has nothing to do with Peach herself but instead with Bowser #the gist of it is that Bowser is a shitty person with a pretty big soft side #and outside of being a dad; the other thing showing that soft side is his love for Peach; granted the mainline games barely ever show it #but the RPGs do; and as messed up as it is; it's also kinda cute ! #and basically if Bowser stops kidnapping Peach; not only does it show less that he likes her in a sense as it reduces how obsessed he is #but most importantly it means Bowser will need new reasons to be a villain; reasons that might turn him into an irredeemable piece of shit #and that's what I'm afraid of; I like Bowser as that absolute douche with a soft spot who's willing to work with Mario if needed #I think the best way Nintendo could go about this would be to find a balance to the kidnappings #have all the big Mario 3d games be about Bowser kidnapping Peach along with a few of the mainline games #meanwhile have the other half of the mainline games feature Peach as playable + give her her own game series #(I mean reminder that in the 5 main 3d games; Luigi is only playable in the Galaxy ones #and for the first one takes finishing the game to unlock; so having Peach sometimes be the hero sometimes the damsel could work) #(the main issue with her being the damsel is that we never get to play as her; causing her to be seen as a bland character by many #but if we do play as her sometimes + she gets her own games; her being the damsel will be less of an issue) #(another way to fix the issue could also to go the early Paper Mario route and have her actually do things while captured)

[myhyperfixationisback]

Sony please release your cruel and un-creative grip on my autism creature game series. I beg of you. Let them at least start naming the series innuendos again… PLEASE. I’m sorry the Future series ever even got released at this point PLEASE go back to the old ways I beg you‼️

#ratchet and clank #the talkinator 2000 #I say this as someone who’s first game from the series I watched was Tools of Destruction and who’s first game I played was A Crack in Time #if all it led to was the series getting turned into the next ‘plays like it’s a Pixar game’ bullshit #I would have never wanted them 😭 #like this SUCKS man. the old ratchet and clank was full of so much personality it feels like the new ones are a corporate PARODY of it #let them name the games stupid dick jokes again. I KNOW it’s sony doing this. PLEASE #STOP MAKING RATCHET SO SERIOUS. ITS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY #to be clear I’m not saying what makes the old games good is all the dirty jokes. #but I WILL say the dirty jokes prevent the series from taking itself too seriously #which it has started to do. #man at this point I don’t give a shit about the Lombaxes! give me another evil capitalist to throw into the moon!! #and the ‘last of their kind’ trope really is getting milked for all its worth and I’m tired of it!! #clank’s ‘chosen one’ trope story had more creativity man!! #alister was like the one spark of life in the lombax thing and then it went straight to bland again #the main characters don’t NEED this to be interesting. they don’t need greater than themselves destinies. #ratchet and clank and the other characters are interesting and fun without that!! #the thing I always liked is that Ratchet is the gun happy mechanic and Clank is the quipping impulse control with the hero alignment #the hero thing rubs off on Ratchet and he does start being a hero with Clank but it’s not his first instinct lol #also extremely sad that the reboot took away the running joke that Clank is the one getting the glory for their heroics #they don’t have a destiny reason for getting into the hero thing. they just got started and liked it and kept going #a lot of the times neither of them even WANTS to be involved they just get roped in!! #like you can do some background shit for them but throwing out all the rest that makes these characters fun to focus on it isn’t the answer #man I just. miss the fun and weird stuff they used to do with the characters and cast and places #they still do big environments but there isn’t other fun wacky shit to match #it’s just ‘destiny’ and heroism. that was never the point of this series 😭

[phantaloon]

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#swiftie mutuals and followers pls stop reading lmao #and like #no me funen por favor #but the thing is i dont dislike taylor swift or her music #i think its generic and bland for the most part and way too overrated #but i mean its objectively good music #and it might be generic but it sells and it has a good beat so like yeah #but jfc why are swifties like that lmao #taylor is not the best songwriter or singer or artist or composer of the universe #never has been never will be #but yall just put her up in a pedestal like she's something out of this universe #but her music sounds exactly like any other soft pop with indie ish roots #and not that there's anything inherently bad with that #but she's just not as great as everyone makes her up to be #and im fucking exhausted of swifties making everything about taylor being the best or whatever #i feel like knowing the way swifties are makes me not enjoy listening to taylor on the radio or smth like that #like chill the fuck out guys #shes not the mesiah she's not aoty lmao #there's nothing wrong with liking her and her music but tone it down will you #i will now log off and pray i dont get hate for this

[little-laurance]

Wow someone said your kim rake was sexist ?? Where ?

Tbf the person did not directly respond to me or mention me, but they rbed another ask from the confession acc saying they had already seen someone being misogynistic [because of the Kim ask I rbed] and "saying it wasn't misogyny". As far as I could find, I'm the only person who rbed the ask at the time with a response and I literally said it wasn't misogyny in my rb. So I don't technically know it was me, but it was pretty clear they were referencing my post.

And like. It is genuinely so confusing to me. I don't even dislike Kim that much, she just frustrates me bc SO many other characters could have worked better in her place, and seeing that narrative frustration boiled down to "misogny" irks my bones. The person who (I think) called my response misogynistic said "be normal abt women". Like. Dude. Fella's is it misogynistic to dislike a female character?

#aphmau #aphblr #aphverse #discourse #<- I think #aphmau mystreet #mystreet #also I am being so genuine to that person or literally anyone #HOW is my response misogynistic??? #I literally don't get what they are saying #the thing I think they are calling misogny is that Laurance stans (like me) often want Laurance to replace Kim in Emerald Secret #and they are saying that's misogyny cuz he's a guy and she's a girl #I #I think that is literally it #but that's #that is not misogyny man #that's ''I wish my fav was in this season instead of some random character i don't know'' #let's stop using reactionary buzzwords in order to defend our stances on smth #you can like Kim man #I find her bland but like #you do you #like her #don't accuse ppl who don't like her of misogyny for no reason

[novelconcepts]

The degree of RAGE I feel every time I listen to an interview with and/or about a nonbinary person/character, and the interviewer just is allergic to they/them pronouns. Like. My dude. My good bitch. My brother in Christ. The whole POINT of this conversation is the enby thing. How are you failing THIS badly?!

#this dude bringing up an enby actor to an enby actor and using ONLY she/her pronouns for like two straight minutes #they should not HAVE to say ‘them. them.’ to correct you. you should be SO on that #I mean do better in general but ESPECIALLY in these circumstances #it’s so apparent when people just. refuse to try. and it’s fucking infuriating #also for this man to be talking about a movie that is LARGELY about gender expression and being nonbinary #and just be constantly reducing it to a 'love story' #like. no. it's not that. i mean you can take that out of it if you like (that man was AWFUL so i choose to uh. not.) #but the story was ABOUT gender. and gender presentation. and gender identity and looking a certain way but BEING a different thing inside #and to reduce that to 'a love story' to ensure this story is given half to this man who frankly does not narratively deserve it #is such a dude thing to do. to write and then to see in the finished product. whereas a queer person. an enby person. is gonna be like. #well. LOT more going on there actually. the 'love' is a weird complex backdrop for the actual things going on. #anyway. apparently that's my soapbox for the day #just reminds me of a few famous queer female movies where the story inevitably becomes ABOUT the bland white man who somehow convinces them #to sleep with him/date him/whatever. like. i. hated those movies as a teen and i hate them now. let non-men have their stories without dude #if they must be there do NOT pull the focus from the non-men to make sure the cishet boys aren't left out. this isn't for you. stop it.

[yelloworangesoda]

gotta get off the internet and only interact irl with people who were 30 before they got their shit together i cant keep doing it like this

#like this being. feeling like i have no future and nobody likes me #‘youre only 19’ only goes so far when i dont know any other fail 19 year olds #im not gonna be a damn dentist for sure but like. and ive said this a thousand times. what am i gonna do. i cant live a worthless nothing #life where i work a shitty job i hate. i have to like something #i hate my art. i hate my lack of creativity. my art is so bland i just dont think its in me anymore #i finished. and i hate it #i have other hobbies. i like to cross stitch. i like to sew. i like to paint. i like to make dolls. do you see the common theme here #i have a few more than that i technically could do but i cant create anymore and it kills me. i want to. i constantly want to but i cant #it doesnt help that even if i havw ideas i dont even want to do them #i was gonna draw some characters from a game i played when i was little but i just #didnt want to. at no point did it not feel like a chore #ill try to go to new mediums! its fun to mess around and then itll feel boring again and going back doesnt feel any better #idk. googling it is useless. ive tried all the things. for years. ive been TRYING to draw consistently and like. doodles are fine theyre fu #but theyre not what i want to do i want to make something im proud of. i drew almost every single day for like 2 years #and its not burnout bc its been like. 2 more years! and ive barely wanted to at all!!! #i want to be creative and i also want people to recognize it. different complaint but it sucks so bad #i feel like nobody likes me. still. nobody cares about what i do. nobody would care if i stopped #like except me but i can only support myself so far!!!! im so tired of it!!!! someone PLEASE be here for me and just say ‘hey i love this #drawing :)’ like you have no idea what that would do for me #not always. but yknow especially if its been a while. if you like it. if you dont like it :( idk. you should tell me that too i guess #yknow so i can have some confirmation so i dont feel like im crazy. idk. dont actually id never go online again. i would probably. well. #i dont like to say the words #simons spouting #vent :(

[dragoncarrion]

I think about this a lot (derogatory)

#shortext #there was something wrong with dsmp stans or whatever. #like omfg thats literally some bland ass guy not a silly character from a show #stop being so fucking weird

[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

[belovedisaster]

i am rereading a bunch of the arc 2 books (super bored) and honestly..why does NOBODY ever draw the side characters from these...like onyx, sirocco and rattlesnake, vulture, cobra, TYPHOON...... liosten to me

#im just picking them up and putting them down #i think darkness of dragons is a little odd in the way it handles #poverty and crime in the scorpion den #but qiblis family is really compelling...i really missed vulture i hated him so much #and cobra #fucking crying #i felt for qibli because i forgot she was just being nice to him to get his trust #it made me so fucking upset #also tui is not as bad of a writer as i remember #i think the protagonists are really bland #i get bored listening to. winter and qibli and moon babble all the time #and qibli becomes a kind of milquetoast pov when he stops doing his like...analysis #overthinking thing #though i guess you could put that down to his character development and becoming more relaxed BUT #THATS NEVER STATED #AND ALSO HE HAS NO REASON TO RELAX OVER THE COURSE OF DOD #but umm back to what i said about the scorpion den #its kind of gross and really revealing what tui about poverty or areas of poverty with the scorp den #there are definitely exceptions to some things ill say but #1. winter being a total dick about the poorer dragons in the sd and never getting anything for it and never having that challenged #LITERALLY CALLING A QIBLI A STREET THUG #and its just accepted by qibli being like #Well hes a prince. I guess he cant help it. I guess #2. the outclaws come off weird to me #and its weird how every dragon thats not an outclaw or accepted into them (usually translating to #special and smart and educated or having special talents) #is listed off as just being like. dumb and poor #but im especially thinking about sirocco and rattlensnake who are like #just as much victims of circumstance as qibli with a shitty mom but its fine because theyre stupid and violent #it feels like tuis going. Theres so many criminals and peddlers and p**rs in the scorpion den but qibli is special and good and should be li

[mave-riq]

To piggy of the ask, I always worry about alienating moots when I hard pivot into a new obsession but y’all.

I haven’t had this much fun taking about/engaging with an RPG since mass effect - the birthplace of my love for fandom and story driven games.

It feels like coming home, a return to form. I can’t wait to get the full thing and read all the HCs/theories/fics and see all the art and just lose myself in this ragtag group of messy people you call your companions ❤️

#mave.txt #baldurs gate 3 I love you biiiiiiitch #I ain’t never gonna stop loving you bIIITTch #this game is also making me love fantasy again! #I loved dragon age 2 and to some extent 1 #and then BioWare shit the bed and jsut made . the most bland games #and I know the lore isn’t whole cloth larian it’s D&D #but I had no idea d&d lore in and of itself was so expansive and interesting #highlights being learning about the githyanki and that elves don’t sleep but go into reverie