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butterrats · 4 months

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ATTENTION 2012 TMNT FANBASE I HAVE A PSA

I love 2012 Donnie

I severely dislike 2012 April, one could say I hate her.

I am allowed to have my own opinions on these not-real-people characters because it. Is. A. Cartoon.

No, I am not a misogynist because I hate 2012 April. I actually love literally all five female characters they put in the show except her (Wow writers...) I'm a fucking feminist lesbian. Disliking a female character does not make you a misogynist. I honestly think a lot of her slander is undeserved, but I'd be a goddamn liar if I didn't say I kinda (ok I love it) enjoy participating in it. HOWEVER, I do not think she is a bad person. Is she snippy, rude, entitled, and kinda a brat in my eyes? Yeah, no dip. Do I think she's evil and intentionally trying to seduce every guy she sees into being her man slave? Uh no. I think she's annoying and I dislike her, but I don't want her to burn in hell. I want what I want for every character I see on a show: *clears throat* OWNING UP TO THEIR SHIT AND CHANGING FOR THE BETTER AND NOT BEING A MARY SUE AND MANY OTHER THINGS I DON'T FEEL LIKE GETTING INTO AT 11:30 PM. This goes for literally all the characters on the show. I wanna see Donnie and Casey apologize to April for being weird with her, AND I want April to apologize to them for being weird with them. THEY ALL DESERVED BETTER. They all could have developed amazingly if the writers didn't stick their heads up their asses and spew whatever shit they inhaled onto the script. I have so many other examples of this: I want Splinter to realize the generational trauma he's inflicting on his sons, Karai developing her relationships with all her brothers, Casey going into his backstory, insert other example.

No, I am not encouraging "nice guy" behavior by loving on Donnie. Oh wow, a kid with zero social interaction outside of his three brothers an strict dad gets weirdly obsessed with the first person he develops romantic feelings for? Who could've seen that coming? He should have left her alone when she wanted to be left alone and given her space, yes, but goddamn people, these characters are children. They're always making dumb choices. It's TEENAGE mutant ninja turtles. My boy never once tried to force himself on this girl. Never tried turning her no into a yes. Never wanted her to do anything she wasn't okay with. He's not a "nice guy" or an "incel" or a "stalker" he's a smart boy who made some very dumb choices. So did literally every other character in the goddamn show. You wanna talk creepy? Leo knowingly had the hots for his motherfudging sister but that's a whole 'nother can of worms I ain't touching tonight baby. I just personally think Donnie has so many more redeeming qualities to his character. Honestly, in my opinion, his apology to April was good enough for me. Not perfect by any means, but good enough. Donnie is literally one of the only characters who quickly owns up when he messes up, I think that' worth something considering the characters. Honestly, Donnie is a sweetheart, super smart, sassy, and fun to watch, and I think his qualities outweigh his flaws, unlike how I feel about April. (How I feel about her.)

My morality should not be called into question when I have an opinion on a fictional character for fuck's sake. This franchise is beloved, BELOVE IT. Have your opinions, love April, hate April, love Donnie, hate Donnie, just enjoy yourselves (except you, Tcesters, stay the fuck away from me and my son.) These characters aren't perfect, they're flawed, they're young, they're children. It's not their fault they were written like shit. They're ALL good people at the end of the day.

I hate 2012 April's guts and I love 2012 Donnie to death. But that doesn't mean you have to as well. LOVE YOUR CHARACTERS.

Holy jumping Jesus on a hoagie sandwich why did I waste an hour of my life writing this? I need to get to bed, I have work tomorrow. Anyways, hope this gets to someone who needs it, love yourself, love characters, don't fucking ship siblings, eat your homework, and enjoy your life. Love you <3

#tmnt 2012 #2012 leo #2012 donnie #2012 raph #2012 mikey #2012 april #2012 splinter #2012 casey jones #tmnt

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moonlightdancer26 · 1 year

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I just discovered your blog and let me tell you : You're a breath of fresh air. I needed a break from the madness of the marauders stans. I hate how they stripped Snape of all his layers, all his complexity, and either gave it to Regulus or erase it. They reduced him to a one-dimensional bully. But the worst, is when they say that James and co. did nothing wrong, that they were just funny pranksters, that it was a RiValRY ( because 4 or 2 against 1 is clearly fair ). As someone who has been bullied as a child, that chapter made me want to vomit. How can anyone excuse that bs ?

Just to be clear, I will not excuse Snape's mistakes. He did fuck up many times, no excuses. But I truly believe that if he had a HEALTHY support system, and if there was therapy in the wizarding world, he would've never become a death eater. That guy joined Voldemort because he thought he had no choice, he pretended to be racist because he wanted to fit in. How can anyone be blind to that? And that's coming from someone who's had a crush on Sirius Black ( the adult one, the younger one can die ) before they turned him into a woke sissy.

That’s one of the biggest compliments I could ever receive, thank you so much 🥰

I completely agree, I don’t really have much of a problem if they think Severus is a bad person (he certainly was morally grey, so it isn’t that big of a reach), but there’s a difference between thinking a character is a bad person and stripping them of all their complexity and painting them to be a villain with zero redeeming qualities. Over the years, Severus has become a symbol of grey characters, and he is genuinely one of the most brilliantly-written characters I’ve ever seen or read. It’s so unfair of them to strip all that away and disregard his whole arc.

And the fact that they do all that while pretending like the most irrelevant characters ever (James and Reginald Regulus) had his best traits and were more canonically interesting than he is and then acting superior to Snape fans is insanely ridiculous. They do it with so much confidence too 💀 as if we were the ones who had to give the Character We Hate Whose Character We’ve Purposefully Simplified’s best traits to our non-existent faves.

As someone who has been bullied as a child, that chapter made me want to vomit. How can anyone excuse that bs ?

Ikr?? I read OoTP a few years before the same thing happened to me. And honestly, when I was a kid, every time I reread SWM after it happened I would get panic attacks. (It usually doesn’t happen now, but I still get filled with hatred whenever I read James physically immobilising and stripping Severus.)

I will not excuse Snape's mistakes. He did fuck up many times, no excuses. But I truly believe that if he had a HEALTHY support system, and if there was therapy in the wizarding world, he would've never become a death eater.

Absolutely. His trauma was left unattended and he was a 18/19 year old who was recruited by a charismatic man who promised his young followers power and respect. So many of the DEs we see in Harry’s time were recruited in their late teens/early twenties, and I think it really says a lot. Those are actual methods used in real life cults in order to groom, manipulate, and sometimes even emotionally blackmail people into joining. Severus was clearly a victim, and even if he had the worst intentions when joining, he eventually defected (and by eventually I mean literally less than two years) and fought for the light side 10 times longer than the amount he followed Voldy for, and he was vital to his demise. That more than makes up for it, and seeing people saying shit like “you’re not a hero for cleaning up milk you spilt�� makes it clear that his haters have zero reading comprehension or critical thinking skills.

And that's coming from someone who's had a crush on Sirius Black ( the adult one, the younger one can die ) before they turned him into a woke sissy.

lol I’m still obsessed with both the adult and younger one

#you can still dislike him and acknowledge that he’s complex 💀 it ain’t hard to admit that not ALL the characters you hate are irredeemable #anti snaters #anti james potter #pro severus snape #pro snape #severus snape #anti marauderfen #anti marauders stans #anti marauder stans #anti marauders stan #harry potter #snape #hp #ask #asks

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imeverywoman420 · 2 years

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Men wanting praise for being a “nice guy” is so funny bc nice guy is universally how you describe someone that has zero redeeming qualities. “Oh, hes a pretty nice guy”. Politeness is literally the bare minimum in society. The reason women fling themselves at “bad boys” is because most men are really ugly bc men screwed up natural selection by not allowing women to choose sex partners and the “bad boys” simply get away with more because who knows when another man that doesnt look like an ogre will come along?

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something-about-sunflowers · 1 year

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The thing is, though... Izzy is meant to irredeemable and unlikable. He was written with zero sympathy for him in text, he was written as an asshole who is malicious, disloyal, and cruel. He is ABUSIVE. He is emotionally manipulative, he gaslights, he makes verbal threats and physical assaults. He deliberately and strategically isolates Ed from his crew. He deliberately disobeys a direct order (an act of mutiny) against Ed when he doesn't stand down and duels Stede. He turns around and betrays Ed when he doesn't get what he wants. VIco is an abuse apologist Izzy stan just like you. And they, just like the rest of the cast, know that you disgusting cultists only care about Izzy. You don't give a shit about Ed, or Stede, or anyone else. You literally just flick your clits to Izzy being unpleasant and abusive. He has no redeeming qualities that weren't stolen from other characters or completely made up by fandom. He's not a good person. He's not a nice guy. His motives are selfish and cruel. He's lazy and he's racist. So you can like him. Because you're a piece of shit abuse apologist. And you and all the other Izzy cultists can hold your breath until you turn blue about how he's not the character he is. But he is. Izzy is not secretly the third protagonist. He's not going to turn around and save the day. He doesn't have a decent, self-sacrificing, genuinely good bone in his body. If there is a Jim/Izzy kiss, then you are hoping for the dissolution of Jim/Oluwande (I guess an ample-bodied, dark-skinned black man isn't good enough for you? But then again, all Izzy stans are ultimately shallow and stupid), and you are disgusting. You would rather Jim be with a man who is racist and cruel than a man who adores them. And you know what, you stupid cunt? Even if it does happen, it WOULDN'T automatically mean good things for Izzy. If Jim kisses him to distract him while other people escape, he's still a piece of shit abuser. But he'll be that regardless. Because he abusive. And he is the villain. There is no redeeming him. The show has made that perfectly fucking clear. He betrayed Ed. He threatened to kill Ed if Ed didn't do what he wanted. He is the thing Ed will have to overcome to truly be happy.

And you're disgusting.

Ok, first of all: Big fan! I've heard so much about you Anon! Second: this made me laugh so fucking hard. I needed a good laugh so thanks Anon! ❤

(Read-more for the sake of my followers dashes, I'm writing essays again lmfao.)

So like. You must hate Mary then too, yeah? Since she's meant to be Izzy's parallel? What do you think of David Jenkins telling us that 'Izzy is the one to watch on a re-watch'? Do you think he's worried we missed him being 'irredeemable'? See, cause I took that as 'see that there's nuance to his character and he's got pretty reasonable motivations if you pay attention' but now, well, I'm just not sure, Anon 😰.

Tell me, where is he malicious outside of, like, regular piracy business? When someone else instigates? Yeah, sounds about right, so cruel of him to not worship at a rich man's feet when said rich man acts like he's the scum of the earth before knowing a single thing about him. How malicious of him to not be buddy-buddy with people his boss has taken prisoner, who are actively antagonizing him. How disloyal of him to *checks notes* uh. Hm. Well. There's just- there's nothing here? Oh! Oh do you mean the thing he did to get to Stede? The thing that Calico Jack (hi, I also love him, does that make me extra problématique?) and Spanish Jackie helped him do? The thing he did because he believed it was in Ed's best interest, since he was acting wildly out of character and incredibly irrationally considering their dangerous profession/lifestyle? That must be on a different list, I don't have that listed under 'disloyal', strange.

Izzy can't even manipulate his own emotions lmfao. Gaslighting? Anon, you must be misremembering, gosh you're so silly. Can't keep anything straight in that head of yours can you? He lies sometimes, I'll give you that, at least by omission, but that's not gaslighting. I'm sure you'll not like this but Ed's actions with regards to Izzy are closer to gaslighting than anything Izzy does to Ed. Or the crew, which I'm assuming you're including in this since you mention 'physical assault' and Izzy's never laid a hand on Ed?

The same crew that he, as far as he was aware (because Ed was *gasp* manipulating him by withholding information), was to treat as prisoners who, upon completing their task of 'repair the ship so we can take it from you, since we're pirates' would be given 'the uzsh' treatment of execution? The crew that he doesn't lay a hand on at all afterwards? Ooh, or do you mean when he grabbed Fang's beard? When Fang was openly questioning his captain's orders? Something that, if unchecked, can lead to a mutiny?

Funny thing about 'he disobeys a direct order' is that, well, Ed doesn't give him a direct order? 'We're not doing this' does not equal 'stand down'. He also doesn't try to stop it. Like, at all. He doesn't even tell Stede to stand down. He may not have wanted it to happen but he didn't do anything to actually prevent it when he's literally the only person on the ship with the power to prevent it. 'Izzy I no longer want him dead', all he needed to say since Izzy was operating on 'Izzy I want him dead but I can't do it myself because I'm conflicted about killing and especially killing things I'm attached to'. If Izzy had ignored that, then we could talk about 'disobeying direct orders'.

Also, he's first mate, its his job to push back on questionable orders from the captain. That's not mutiny that's how you prevent a mutiny.

'When he doesn't get what he wants', being. . . What? What he thought Ed wanted because he didn't communicate otherwise? What he thought was in Ed's best interest, because he's acting irrationally and out of character (which is confirmed by Fang and Ivan, by the way)? He's wrong* about what Ed's best interests are but that doesn't change the fact that he was trying to help rather than harm.

*Arguably. Ed indulging Stede was dangerous. Even without the threat of the navy on their backs (Stede's fault), there was no coasting on Blackbeard's reputation on the Revenge. They'd have to deal with every threat instead of just the one's who'd go after Blackbeard anyway.

So, wait, is Vico one of us or nah? Cause, like, I'll gladly join a cult if Vico is there. What do you think about David Jenkins though? Since his favorite character seems to be Izzy as well? Anyway I'll grant that Stede isn't my favorite character but that hardly means I don't give a shit about him. As for Ed. I love him so much, Anon. I love him so much that I don't infantilize him for the sake of demonizing another character so that I can use that to justify sending anon hate to people with differing opinions to me. I love Ed because he's unpleasant and- *ahem* well.

Some nice misogyny there, by the way. Gonna go out on a limb and say a bit transphobic as well, since I know you're presuming we're all women, some of us are men, some of us are neither or both. Has some notes of sexual harassment too. No, I'm not kidding. You're fantasizing about a group of people, sexually, and sending them messages about it. That's like, textbook sexual harassment. Not cool Anon.

Anon. They're pirates. None of them are good people. None of them are nice guys. All of their motivations are selfish and cruel.

Ed 'loves a good maim'. He's Blackbeard. He's not Robin Hood. He doesn't have secret (or explicit) good motivations for piracy and torture and murder. Stede is a deadbeat dad who chose piracy. Which includes stealing from people, even the poor (do we forget the plant so easily?), despite him. Y'know. Being rich? And like, selfish and cruel are Stede and Ed's middle names, Anon. Turtle vs crab? Setting a ship on fire with everyone still inside? Doesn't matter if the fire was the one who killed them if you're the one who set the fire, Anon. Swede losing teeth/fingernails? But I wanna go on a treasure hunt! And let's not even bring up Mary and the kids.

'Lazy and racist', where? I am legitimately asking, Anon, where? Is it where he makes the crew do their actual jobs? That's his job. Oh, how about where, instead of getting captured by the native people for being a colonizer, he does business with them? (You know, the people who explicitly call out Stede and Pete for being racist?) How about working under and with BIPOC? You think Blackbeard would keep him around if he was being racist? You think Jackie would have given him the time of day if he was racist? You don't think Fang and Ivan would have had some comment about it during the mutiny/planning scene?

I'll do you a solid, you don't have to point to any particular scene that doesn't exist. The writers themselves have said that they're not trying to tackle racism in the show the way that having Izzy be anything but 'white person who is, by virtue of being white, some level of racist' would be. If you don't want to call literally every other sympathetic white character on the show racist, you shouldn't be saying it of Izzy either. Izzy isn't the one who owns a fucking plantation.

Anon, I'm so glad you're giving me permission to keep liking Izzy! Thank you so much! I'm so grateful the fandom has you here to delegate what people are allowed to like and do! What would we do without you?

Nobody thinks Izzy is 'secretly the third protagonist'. Not anymore than people think that of Jim or Oluwande or Frenchie, since they all have side-plots going on as well. As for whether or not he's going to turn around and save the day? We'll see. Obviously he's not going to do everything because he's not the protagonist(s), but he has the potential to try and help just as much as everybody else on either crew. You're certainly entitled to your opinion/interpretation of his character but I can just as well say 'I think you're wrong', especially when you come into my house and throw a fit about it.

Did you forget that Jim and Lucius kissed as well? Are you forgetting 'we don't own each other'? Hell, Anon, I specifically said 'I don't ship Jim and Izzy', but well. Something something 'people on this website piss on the poor' etc. (Anon, you can just say 'fat', its not a bad word. I'm fat, Oluwande is fat, I fucking love that he's fat. I'm also not the best suited to speak on BIPOC representation but I'm also super happy that they're not shying away from including dark-skinned actors like Samson and Leslie. But that doesn't fit into your narrative so 🤷‍♂️.) You can call me all the sweet things you like but it doesn't change the fact that the show has, pretty explicitly, said 'yay polyamory' and Jim (and Oluwande) has two hands. Leave alone the fact that Jim can kiss Lucius and just be friends with him, same as they could with Izzy.

Gosh, Anon, you're really hurting my feelings here. You really think I'm a stupid cunt? That hurts. Genuinely, I'm gutted. I don't think I'll ever recover.

Given that you're literally talking hypotheticals, as we all are, since we don't know what is going to happen in season 2, I'm not going to argue if it would 'mean good things for Izzy' if Jim kissed him. Though I will say, if Jim needed him distracted for people to escape (I'm assuming you mean escaping him, rather than Ed who is the proper threat to anyone in need of escaping right now) they could find easier ways to do it than kissing him?

And the sky is green. And cats are witches. And women have crystals in their bodies. I can say stuff too, Anon. I think you fundamentally misunderstand what redemption means, if we're being entirely honest here. Redemption has less to do with your previous actions and more to do with what you choose to do going forward. Clearly we disagree on his capacity for doing better going forward, and that's fine, its alright to be wrong Anon I won't judge you for that, but him having done bad in the past* has no bearing on his redemption if he chooses to do good in the future.

*'Bad' here being used both generously and ungenerously. Generously towards your definition of bad and ungenerously in the face of his rationale. He had perfectly valid reasons for doing the things he did, regardless of whether or not he should have done them.

I love you too Anon! I hope you have a good day at school tomorrow- er. On Monday, sorry, adult schedules don't always follow the 'weekends off' rules that kid's schedules do, I forget sometimes. Bye bye!

#the dork is being a dork #the dork answers #izzy hands #i'll be honest anon i was starting to feel left out that you hadn't sent me anything like you do to other izzy fans #but now i see you were just saving up all that stupid juuuuust for me #i legit needed a good rant tho #so like genuinely thank you for giving me the opportunity #and i did spend like 10 minutes laughing at this for the record #especially at 'vico is an abuse apologist too' lmfao #WILD

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stopthebig3 · 11 months

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Hinata & Sakura Stans or whatever you call them are so damn sensitive.

There’s this acc on twit who’s pretty much pro every character besides like Danzo that enjoys making playful jabs at the characters. They mean literally zero harm and are all jokes. They make posts picking on Kakashi, Obito, Sauske, etc and no one bats in eye.. but the minute they made a post making a playful jab at hinata they immediately tried to hound on them, insult them and ‘ratio’ them all bc they said it was kinda funny how hinata was thinking about Naruto’s hand while neji’s dead body was right there.

They even clarified they didn’t hate her?? They just found that part funny but the fact that they dared to imply that Hinata was this perfect little thing that needs to be constantly praised made the Stans so damn mad.

I thought these people ‘liked’ that Hinata was imperfect or whatever. So why do they get their panties in a twist whenever those flaws are pointed out?

They probably deep down know she has no redeeming qualities. Pointing out her insensitivity pisses them off, because their whole argument is that Hinata is "sweet/kind" so her getting wet over Naruto's manly hand when Neji just died kinda craps on that headcanon.

Her fandom is anything but nice, on twitter both Sakura stans and Hinata stans are these type of "bad bitches" who think most worthy accomplishment is getting a man, and they fight which man and which kids are better. They are like those facebook moms who try to hide how empty their life is by having competition on who posts most family bliss photos and photos of how much they can afford x luxury.

#anonymous #anti hinata

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beevean · 1 year

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How about a list of your favorite villains across media?

Wouldn't really know how to rank them but I can try :P

Eggman: funnily enough, it was Colors that made me realize "huh, he's actually a pretty good villain" lmao, so thanks Colors! Full of himself, iconic style, charismatic, he will destroy an ancient civilization site to take down his enemy and then build a circus in the same game (some of the games do a bang up job of displaying his personality without words!), proof that you can be both goofy and a serious threat.

Dahlia Hawthorne: absolutely my fave AA villain <3 she's petty and not even the final murderer, yet under her "cute girl who's secretly a bitch" façade lies an actual, scary demon, who doesn't even let death stop her from spreading her utter malice. Not even after Mia beautifully lays down how she's actually a miserable pathetic creature (which she is), does her creepy factor diminish.

Annie Wilkes: yeah an odd choice maybe, but Misery is one of my favorite books and Annie has so much presence and I was legit scared of her while reading. It's almost funny how she's essentially a parody of over-the-top entitled fans, and oh boy things did not get better since the '80s :)

Griffith: what can you say about this complex, tragic piece of shit? You can see him in many ways, you can blame him or forgive him depending on how much you believe in the effects of fate, he's mostly rememebered as "that asshole who raped Casca into insanity" but the arc he went through to get to that low point is only one of the many reasons the Golden Age arc is iconic. I like to see him as a stunted manchild who longed for human contact but his only way to get it was through control :)

Azula: nowadays I think she'd be treated more sympathetically due to her being a 14 yo girl raised by a monstruous dictator, but still, she starts off as a genuinely scary threat compared to the sympathetic Zuko, and her plan to take over the Earth Kingdom is actually clever ("don't flatter yourself, you were never even a player", fucking destroyed), but by the end of Book 3 you feel nothing but pity for the scared little girl with mommy issues she actually is.

Blue Diamond: she's always been my favorite of the Diamonds, and not just because she's beautiful :P she comes off as the "nice" Diamond, especially when juxtaposed to Yellow, and she has a soothing yet intimidating aura around her. But she's actually deeply selfish and callous, literally dragging everyone in her grief - her power immobilizes you with sheer sadness, it's almost scary - and she said she loved Pink a lot but she wasn't above abusing her. I find her fascinating. (I also like Yellow a lot for the opposite reasons: she has more redeeming qualities than one might think).

Beatrice Horseman: does she count? I'll count her. I hated her guts ever since S2E1, where she calls Bojack to outright tell him "you were born broken and there's nothing you can do about it", but then S4 comes around and man, does it recontexualize all the evil she did to Bojack. Not to the point of forgiving her (although Bojack's last moment of compassion gets me), but the entire situation, from her own childhood trauma to how she coped with it, is devastating, an excellent portrayal of the cycle of abuse.

Weil: at the cost of repeating myself, he's just a spiteful monster with zero redeeming qualities (dude manipulates two babies to do his evil bidding and it doesn't even scratch the surface), fully convinced that it's his own humanity who makes him such a monster, and you want him dead so badly

(shout out to Copy X, who is more minor than Weil but I like his concept a lot and I find him pathetic in a good way, super underrated and good thing he wasn't the real X turned evil)

Dracula: started off as a homage to horror movies, became a nearly Berserk-esque figure of a dark lord fated to die at the hands of his old friend's descendants and be brought back by humanity's darkest desires. You almost feel sorry for him and how he's nearly forced to be a monster... if it wasn't for his utter selfishness and petty spite against God that were there long before he became an avatar of Chaos.

Isaac: obviously :P minor villain that he is, he's an absolute delight, both an over the top petty asshole of a simp whose motivation is simply "make Hector suffer", and a tragic victim who did not deserve to see his whole life shatter in the span of a few minutes. Again, you'd feel very badly about him, and then you remember how he dangled Rosaly's head in front of Hector. Also Liam O'Brien <3

#dr. eggman #dahlia hawthorne #annie wilkes #griffith berserk #azula #blue diamond #beatrice horseman #dr. weil #dracula castlevania #isaac laforeze

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zero-buds · 2 years

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I swore i was gonna make Parker meta but I couldn't sleep because I'm trying to wrap my head around Our Mr. Wilson and his symbolism to the Yes Man Trope.

Not sure if that's the correct term, but I like it so I'm keeping it.

Note: I'm still on episode 13 so I haven't watched the last four episodes yet, but I've read the wiki so I have a vague idea of what happens. But my meta will be mainly for episodes 1-12.

What's the Yes Man Trope you ask? It's a trope used mainly for support characters who say yes to pretty much everything. If the main character says to jump off the bridge, they'll jump no questions asked. If they are asked to borrow money, they give without really any thought behind it, is instructed to choke someone out *coughs*, they throw their whole weight into it. Etc. Etc.

It's kind of like the people pleaser but they're not doing it as a measure of their self-worth, it's more like, they just... don't have the capacity to say no? Like, they fundamentally have no thoughts running in their heads so they need someone to give them direction?

And there's plenty of examples of this happening in Leverage: Redemption through the support villains. Some of them are directionless with good intentions, and some have hero worship syndrome, while others? Others are just a little too trusting or naive. I'll come back to this at a later point.

Harry Wilson at the beginning of Redemption is a newcomer with absolutely zero criminal skill. He is introduced as some hot shot corporate lawyer first, and a novice thief second. As the hot shot corporate lawyer, we learned that he did some really shitty things without thinking about it. Apathetic and unfazed is what some interpretations have called Wilson's sentiments to his job.

And like, normally, when someone is the Yes Man and realize that what they're doing is shitty, it's because deep down all they wanted to do was be accepted into a group. So they do all these things that people tell them to do without any thoughts to it.

Harry's a little different. He's not just the Yes Man. He's literally the one who told his firm to do all those shitty things in the first place! Why? To be accepted into the fold? He was a good lawyer, he could have been a good person too in the firm. It's implied that the firm didn't take those vicious cases until Harry came along. Now this could be a form of manipulation of memory by the firm as a tactic, but maybe there's some truth in there too.

The support villains have different reasons for being the Yes Man. Some of them had no choice while others simply didn't have a spine to leave. Juxtaposed to those people is Harry who genuinely has no problems committing crimes as long as it helps his guilty conscience. He's slick, but it's almost as if his personality is a sponge. He absorbs charm and exudes confidence but has almost no thoughts or opinions that are his own. Most of the time, he's just spitting facts or relaying information that he reads from time to time or parrots what other people tell him.

This is an interesting way to bring Mr. Wilson into the fold of Leverage: Redemption and as the audience's muse when we get confused. Except, I don't know about you, but when Mr. Wilson does break the mold and acts impulsively, he's always apologetic after but never remorseful about it. Almost sociopathic in a way, but with golden retriever vibes. Kind of why it's hard to stay mad at him for very long.

When the others do break the mold, they regret their past actions and try to do better in a similar way in which Harry has been trying to rectify his.

One of the most redeeming qualities that Harry has as the Yes Man Trope personified is his heart. It's in the right place and is kind to the people around him, but often misguided. So, there's not a lot for us to be mad at.

Also, I suspect he has either undiagnosed bipolar disorder or... like, he's on the spectrum. I don't have any evidence on this, just an interpretation.

#leverage #im just rambling #leverage meta #leverage: redemption #harry wilson

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androgynousblackbox · 1 year

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Chainsaw Man getting an anime was the ultimate monkey's paw wish, the fandom is filling with antis with zero reading comprehension

Eeeh, I was seeing posts about how no one should find Makima attractive (because she is eeeeeeeviiillllll) or how bad is to ship Power and Denji (because they are "brother and sister", you see) even before the anime came out. Manga readers alone hyped out the work so fucking much that bad takes were there long before the first episode dropped. I saw at least three people who decided to read the entire manga for a video and two of them said "there is no morals here, everyone is bad people", which was... literally the worst fucking reading of that story I can ever fucking imagine. People see characters not being 100% sunshine flowers 100% of the time and they go "oh, this one is evil and has no fucking redeeming qualities at all." Like no, you are just bad at reading and can't grasp the concept of character evolving with time.

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ocolast · 6 months

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fate zero sucks

Fate/Zero is a gateway anime of the worst kind. It's a bad series, a clusterfuck of story and characterization that isn't very well done by any aspect, but which attempts to compensate for its weaknesses by adding in excessive edgy bullshit and DARKNESS. The normal moron can see this as the shit it is, and may enjoy it, hate it or be indifferent to it, but all the while recognizing that the series itself, regardless of their opinion, is plain bad.

this is the worst emo edgy bullshit i`ve ever saw in my whole fucking life this is fucking depressing and edgy also everything urobuchi writes are some edgy pretentious pile of horseshit pretentious that makes some fuckers think they are smart and mature for watching and reading his edgy and pretentious garbage like fate zero which is a pile of edgy shit and saya no uta which also edgy garbage some losers think urobuchi stories are deep and mature but in reality his stories are just some edgy and pretentious pile of fucking shit the characters are shit and fucking emo saber backstory in zero and stay night are most edgy depressing emo bullshit her self-hate makes me wanna punch the fucking screen i prefer saber in ubw and other fate spinoffs lancer backstory edgy bullshit and emo nuff said kiritsugu jesus christ he is the worst fucking character his backstory is the most fucking depressing emo pile of shit i`ve ever seen in my fucking life this character is the most edgy pile of shit and this backstory is fucking dogshit and He has absolutely NO redeeming qualities to speak of. A man who is willing to betray his own family (I'll leave it at that as to not spoil anything) solely for his own personal gain. There is literally no reason to root for him, and honestly if I had cared about any of the other characters, I would've rooted against him.

Why did he kill HIS FOSTER MOM and why did he kill his father without thinking twice? I don't believe it can be settled with "you're the only guy who can do this because you can", it makes no fucking sense whatsoever, he isn't human, the characters aren't human, just a massive cluster of edgy shit with somewhat.

and the Edgelord levels. The way that some characters suffer before they die are unjustified and it's only a resource to get audience's attention. Also there are filler episodes in order to show this suffering, in other words, more edgelord shit. The philosophy of the show. Is simple, retarded and childish at the same time (in the context of the show): If you kill, you are a bad person. So if I kill someone with the same attitude as Hitler, I am automatically a bad person no matter how many lives I have saved by doing that.

the ending is fucking shit its the most edgy fucking pile of shit.

only the good characters were waver and rider.

look i like games like manhunt, manhunt is dark but not edgy emo or depressing the game is violent and gory but not edgy emo or depressing but this anime is just edgy depressing fucking emo, I fail to understand why people praise this literal piece of shit, because I can't define it with anything else but shit, when it's but a generic, boring, cringey and nonsenical shows for edgy kids.

nobody wanna feel misery like this urobuchi motherfucker And after having watched this I saw juvenile shounen-like Fate/Stay Night anime series from 2006. It's almost beyond my belief that people (as of late 2023) rate Fate/Zero so well and F/SN so badly. Yes, 2006 anime is cliched. Its stereotypical high-school protagonist is shit too much. There is a generic romance plot. Hell, the whole coming-of-mage plot is ultra generic. And yes, it's more light-hearted. But still I liked it more, even though I was spoiled by prequel. The creators of Fate Zero failed to notice that it's not enough to be "darker and edgier" to have a good plot and interesting characters. The art part of the anime is only thing in which creators didn't fail. But it annoys me that.

overall fate zero is just an edgy pile of fucking horseshit is one of the most shitty edgy emo depressing garbage i`ve ever seen this pile of shit is just some overrated edgy emo garbage The only enjoyment I ever had from this show was the fact that it was over. I felt like if I had been freed from a cage I was forced to stay in for several days, do you know that feeling? I guess you do. and that i why prefer the fate spinoffs like fate extra fate extella fate prisma illya fate apocrypha and fate grand order, because they are much more light-hearted and better than this pile of edgy emo shit zero and edgy survivor guilt bullshit fate stay night ubw and hf i don`t give a flying fuck if you downvote this, this is only my fucking opinion

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luineile · 6 months

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Mr. Queen review

Long story short, not impressed.

Meh overall. I dragged myself through the drama. The first half is VERY stagnant and there's little reason and logic behind character's actions. Sure, the humor is OK, but the execution is so lackluster and the timing is odd, as a result the jokes are hilarious out of context, but in the drama they just fall flat. I caught myself laughing barely two or three times throughout, which says a lot, because I laugh at anything.

The characters are EXCLUSIVELY one-dimensional. There's no connection forming between them and the viewer. I really can't give two shits if things go their way or not.

Can I address the elephants in the room? One. How come the queen and the consort can leave the court/palace without problems? If yes, then why did the girls see saw to take a peek over the fences - it was the only way they could see the outside world? Right? Two. Why are ministers and random men allowed into the harem ALL the time? 😂 It's ridiculous!

Can I also note that for a king who reads Joseon era playboy regularly, he's weirdly uninterested in women 😂😂 He has two wives and three concubines, but shows zero interest in any of them for the longest time. Da fuck? 😅

There's no hope the second male lead either. He has ZERO redeeming qualities and NO personality. I felt literally nothing when he died. He had only one emotion/expression throughout the series - a sad incel emo boy. Yawn.

P. S. Thank GOD finally a drama that adresses the absurd "cross-dressing to sneak out" trope. As if putting on a man's clothes can change a feminine face into a masculine 😂

#Mr queen #K drama #Autumn drama season #Disappointed

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kenobihater · 1 year

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cannot BELIEVE i have to fucking say this because i can barely believe this type of person exists but if you're an o/zai sympathizer you're getting blocked on sight. i usually don't give a single flying fuck about ppl who like bad guys and i enjoy a couple of villains myself but like... man. bad dads hit different for me. i hate oz/ai and i genuinely think you're a freak if you watch a show where a man burns half his kid's face off for funsies and then try and see the good in him lmao. this is literally more incomprehensible to me than denet/hor apologists and em/hyr enjoyers. like at least deneth/or seems capable of love and emh/yr seems perhaps distantly fond of ciri in the third game, even if he's motivated by selfish reasons. oz/ai has fuck all going for him. nothing. zero redeeming qualities whatsoever. the fucker is emotionally and physically abusive to his family, threatened to kill his son multiple times and tried to carry through on those threats, pitted his children against each other and twisted his youngest into a weapon, helped kill his own dad and stole the throne from his grieving brother, and oh, yeah, tried to commit genocide but failed because a bunch of kids whooped his sorry ass. he sucks so fucking hard it's not even funny. i'd usually shake my head upon finding someone who likes a character i don't, say "different strokes for different folks", block, and move on with my day, but genuinely i think you're fucked if you empathize with someone like that :)

#just blocked like four or five fucking people after finding one weird blog and their mutuals. god. i'm genuinely baffled #god. god. sorry for the rant just what is WRONG with people.#if you're a fan of him and you're reading this i'm not interested in debating you. you're a freak as far as i'm concerned! end of story!#and yes i KNOW i'm projecting and i'm comfortable with that! i'm allowed to think abusive dads are the scum of the earth!#ugh. i'm genuinely disturbed by the blogs i found tonight #also sidenote: one of them was a ky/le ron apologist LMAO #i'm constantly vindicated by my decision to block every fan of his i come across bc all of them are fucking weirdos #it's like a litmus test for terrible fandom opinions. do you like k/lye ron? if yes then uh BYE BITCH #len speaks

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hologramcowboy · 2 years

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Jensen’s comments about his home life are always so weird. Like why would you brag that you, a 44 year old man, can’t do basic house maintenance/upkeep? If that’s true not only is that the biggest turnoff, but it actually makes me feel sorry for Danneel. Imagine being super sick, and coming out of isolation to a household that’s a mess and needs your immediate attention because your husband is incompetent.

On the other hand if Jensen is just lying to make Danneel look good that’s also pathetic. If I had zero talent, zero personality and no redeeming qualities so my husband had to pretend that I was a super housewife in this the year of our Lord 2022 I would send myself off to live out the rest of my days in a convent.

Honestly it’s probably a mix of the two. Jensen doesn’t really do much when he’s at home citing how hard he works as the reason why and Danneel will reheat a frozen lasagne once a week and occasionally take the children to school. They both pat themselves on the back for their hard work while the nanny picks up all of the slack.

Yes, he turns into into a comic character skit but really none of what he recounts if even remotely funny, it points to an awful atmosphere within the family, discontentment and especially contempt for Danneel. I didn't find what he said attractive either, he seemed like a highschool jock who only thinks about himself and lets everyone else do the work for him. I doubt Danneel does any work, she has what? Two nannies? Since she has no career and people won't cast her due to her gawdawful attitude, Jensen tries to make her seem like a home maker but ends up having her look like some sort of unbalanced household dictator. I think he just tries to hurriedly come up with funny things to say and tanks it with comments that make both him and Danneel look like a disconnected couple from the 70' who are basically living together but not in love. Also, just my preference, but If I was Danneel I'd be deeply offended by Jensen constantly trying to make me into the maid as if my only purpose was the kitchen or keeping things ordered. Surely, there's more to Danneel than being a "saint" because she cleans and takes care of the kids?? I mean, I dislike her but c'mon. There really is nothing to their love, it's clear by every comment Jensen makes. To him she's just a convenient task achiever. As for his stories, like you pointed out, it very much seems he is overcompensating, trying to make the story gel and there must be a reason behind that. I am sure he is aware of the bad image Danneel has, he might be trying to make her seem home focused to clean up her image somewhat but unfortunately, they are both Actors so trying to pass her off for the maid only creates obstacles for her credibility in her career so yes, Anon, like you I feel sorry for her too, not just for the lack of work on Jensen's part but for the negative impact all of this is having on her already shady image. In HW image is Everything so pushing the cleaning toilets, kitchen, bla bla narrative takes out of the race for the already limited roles she can play and places her in the un-castable (can I make up a new word?) category. She should be going for the villain/cougar roles, instead she is aiming for the toilet. Literally. WTF. lol

#anti jenneel #anti danneel

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