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woomycritiques543 · 11 months

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maybe let actual trans people and gnc people say what they have an issue with instead of acting like…one episode of a cartoon on youtube that has people do drag is going to result in mass murder?

idk it’s just funny to me that you seem so upset over what you think episode 5 will be

Stereotypes have literally caused genocides in the past, multiple times! Jim Crow laws even came from stereotypes of people like me, people who are poc! Not just that, but the stereotypes being portayed in the newest episode, are the same stereotypes being used as an excuse to try to kill drag queens, and children, right now!

The episode is literally going to show Moxxie, in drag, as a "danger around children" by depicting him trying to harm someone in front of kids, the exact type of stereotypes that

When if the media stopped constantly representing drag queens as "a danger to children", would attacks like this would have happened?

Actually... NO! Because this happened because of generations of misrepresentation, generations of public misinformation.

This isn't about "this makes this happen". It's about representation. -and the fact that so many of you forget what representation is to benefit a cartoon made by a cis white passing woman is actually disgusting. This episode literally has stereotypes that can and will cause more problems for the lgbt+ community, same for how Angel Dust caused more people to sexualize gay men being molested because of people like Ralphielle, same for how the pilot and episode 4 of S2 caused more people to say the r slur. This shit effects people, universally, it's not a "you have to be ___ to see that something is causing issues" ordeal. Misrepresentation is a universal problem that effects literally all minorities, all of us! Drag queens being misrepresented as a "danger around kids" is why the laws trying to ban them are happening... in the first place! Representation effects the reputation of us all! So speculation or not, do I, and multiple people from the trans community who have now said the same thing, have a right to be concerned? Yes! Yes, we all do, stop gatekeeping because you want to get off to Moxxie's femininity. It's gross, and people do have a right to be concerned.

Stereotypes are not "harmless". They effect all of us, the more stereotypes show trans women as a "danger" to kids in the bathroom, the more that drag queens are seen as a "danger around kids." The more that black lives are seen as "savages." The more that people who are disabled are seen as "stupid and useless". All of the stereotypes in Helluva Boss are stereotypes created from generations of oppresion. None of this is "ok."

There are literal threads about stereotypes like this being wrong everywhere. This isn't "for" me to "look good online/white knight", that would involve making assumptions with no other says.

This is for them, to say what they've all been saying now for DECADES! Trans lives are not "a danger to kids", these stereotypes need to stop, not just for their safety, but for the safety of all the lgbt+ community against conservative stereotypes!

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SPEAK OF THE DEVIL!

-and just to make it worse:

They even had the violence be done to the ONLY DARK SKINNED KID IN THE ENTIRE EPISODE!

HOLY SHIT Vivienne, this is some of the most unsubtle version of queerphobia in a cartoon that I have ever seen. Literally, all the episode does is fetishize Moxxie for being in drag, while he's meant to be disguised as a minor, while also literally, having even worse since Moxxie here isn't depicted as being a danger "around" kids like I thought he would be- he's a danger TO them! Which is even worse!

Because this year, an entire church full of children was attacked by transphobes for these exact assumptions about the drag community! These stereotypes have now gone too far, way too far, and now I wish that I begged harder for this episode to be post ponned because THIS YEAR Florida is planning to even cause physical harm to the drag community- for these exact stereotypes, that were originally created by conservatives... in the first place!

The Helluva Boss fandom even called the trans genocide "GOOD LAWS!" THEY'RE NOT EVEN BEING SUBTLE WITH THEIR TRANSPHOBIA ANYMORE!

This is literally how Vivziepop stans responded to my post trying to warn Spindlehorse to post pone this episode- they aren't just transphobic, Vivziepop stans actually want the trans community dead.

THIS EPISODE IS LITERALLY CAUSING MORE PEOPLE TO WANT THE TRANS COMMUNITY TO BE KILLED BY THESE LAWS! THIS IS A REAL FUCKING ORDEAL AND WE NEED TO STOP NORMALIZING THE STEREOTYPES IN THIS SHOW BEFORE THINGS GET ANY MORE OUT OF HAND!

Look. Stop turning your heads away and look at the harm the stereotypes from this show have now caused!

Again, for the last time, actually read my posts because so many of you said "But it's not going to be-" while not even looking at the previews, what I wrote, or anything! For fucks sake- Stop excusing Helluva Boss's stereotypes just because you want more episodes of a cartoon. These fictional characters are not more important than real people! It's a public show, and conservatives can and will see this episode it weaponize the imagery as a means to cause harm to us, the exact same way 4chan did so after episode 3 of S2. This shit is really getting out of hand. Which is all the reason why that my video on the Sallie May controversy will be released, Vivziepop will be held accountable, and I will make sure that not a single piece of vital info is excluded from that video in question.

#helluva boss #helluva boss criticism #tw transphobia #literally multiple people in different identities have now said that they dont like seeing their community being presented this way?#Not just with Vivziepop #But in general?#So maybe listen to them before coming after me for things people in the trans and drag community have now been verbally against MULTIPLE-#TIMES!#for YEARS now.#If we had this logic with all minorities and their civil rights my people would still be segregated smh. Gatekeeping solves nothing.

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dorizardthewizard · 21 days

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HSM (2006) rewatch pt 10

10: In which I do a strange amount of maths for a DCOM commentary

Chad: Hey. Look, we need to talk Taylor: Go.

You know for someone whose first lines in the whole movie are making fun of jocks and insulting Chad's intelligence, she listens to him real quick. Perhaps... she already had a bit of a crush on him but covered it up with insults to stick to the status quo? Also what happened between her last convo with Gabriella and now that made her suddenly want to break them up?

Hkjfdkf the way Taylor looks so baffled and then goes “whatever” at Chad’s watch thing. He’s a dork really

You want to be one of Charlie’s Angels Chad? Ok

If I were an East High student I would hate the basketball team so much, like wtf is all this Wildcat shit everywhere I don’t even know those guys fuck off

Ahh the intervention. I kinda wanted Zeke to be a bit more sympathetic to Troy, maybe be more reluctant to take part in this plan or actually not take part at all? Idk just to show some more nuance within these groups, although I guess baking is different and doesn’t interfere with basketball, Chad probably convinced him that this was necessary

Chad: Who was the first sophomore ever to make starting varsity? Wildcats: TROY! Chad: So who voted him our team captain this year? Wildcats: US! Chad: And who is gonna get their sorry butts kicked in Friday's championship game if Troy's worried about an audition? Wildcats: We are...

They sound so dejected on that last bit FSJDKKD

EXACTLY. WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING. Also this scene is where the contrast between Troy's blue outfit and the Wildcat red is most obvious, and Gabriella's in blue too. Costume symbolism!

Chad: I think you're forgetting about one very important 13th member of our squad. Troy: My dad. Chad: Yes, Troy. Wildcat basketball champion, class of 1981.

Wow Chad really played the dad card, huh. Guys it's not that big of a flex to be a champion at high school basketball 20 years ago, you don't need to look up to a guy that peaked in high school and seemingly never left.

Wait let me do the maths... so if Jack Bolton was class of 1981, i.e. 18 years old then, and Troy turned 17 in 2006 so was born in 1989, that means Mr Bolton was 26 when he became a father and 43 at the time of the fist movie.

There was a tiktok recently that the actor reacted to, where the person theorised that Mr Bolton had Troy at 18 and that's why he pressures Troy so much to go make a life for himself. Except they used the actor's age which is a bit silly, so that was my debunk. He was 26. Mystery solved that didn't need solving.

Ah, the “why do athletes get paid that much” debate

Taylor’s being so dramatic maybe SHE should join the drama club? In comparison to Troy's intervention where they actually bring out stuff that's important to him, this one's got a lot of waffle haha

Side note Taylor's fit is quite nice though

“I thought that you’re my friends. Win together, lose together, teammates” SO TRUE. GET 'EM.

KJHDFGKDFG THAT LAPTOP AND WEBCAM IS SO UNSUBTLE HE LITERALLY SETS IT UP AS HE SPEAKS

Obsessed with this video player screen and how the word “receiving” is misspelt. How are they even livestreaming this to her when it just looks like a normal video player hahaha

This is actually so mean wtf 😭 You made her cry! And Taylor’s reaction is terrible, just casually inviting her to the decathlon and lunch straight after

Why wouldn't Gabriella question this whole setup anyway? They were clearly planning for Troy to say this since they were ready with the webcam. Wouldn't she recognise that this was engineered on purpose? I guess it doesn't matter to her either way, as he still said those things.

OKAY to be fair they were trying to get Troy to quit the callbacks, it didn’t necessarily have to result in Troy dumping Gabriella (well they’re not dating but still) but it was Troy who took it to that level, even if he didn’t mean any of it.

This also shows a flaw of Troy’s and that's that he’s a bit of a people pleaser – he DOES argue with the Wildcats when he says he thought they were his friends, Chad doesn’t even offer a rebuttal, and instead of putting his foot down, in the same breath Troy dismisses the singing and Gabriella. Yeah his friends may still not have listened, but the right thing to do would be to draw his line in the sand and say they can't be friends if they won't support him. Because yeah they're being really mean about this! It's interesting because comparatively, Gabriella is better at setting boundaries and we'll see more of this in the second movie.

What is this random Wildcats gathering

#high school musical #hsm #high school musical (2006)#hsm liveblog #taylor mckessie #chad danforth #troy bolton #gabriella montez #jack bolton #dori watches hsm #my posts

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nightcoremoon · 2 years

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like, I understand why some people like offensive humor. postal 2 is one of my favorite video games, BECAUSE of a lot of social satire it implements… and also because it’s hilarious that there is a dedicated button to unzip your pants and take your dick out and then use your piss as a projectile weapon. and also because it’s hilarious that you can pick up a cat, shove your gun up its ass, and use it as a silencer. and also because it’s hilarious that fuckin crack pipes and fast food cheeseburgers are your health items. and also because it’s hilarious that violent video game protesters use violence to perpetuate their ideals. it is clearly the kind of game that is just trying to be big stupid silly fun and make only the slightest and most unsubtle social commentary. now, I do have to point out that… well, I have to mention the church fight. where the taliban send suicide bombers into the church, so the catholic priests arm themselves with assault rifles and holy hand grenades to fight the taliban. now, the taliban are known for suicide bombing, and they happen to be muslim (or at least they say they are but I’m pretty sure that a few central tenets of Islam say you shouldn’t kill people, especially not innocent people, but whatever), so there is a very easy case to make that the game is very islamophobic. which for 2003, I mean, no shit sherlock. everything in america was islamophobic until 2009 at the earliest- people shit themselves in fear when they heard that barack obama’s middle name was hussein. but you could very easily replace the taliban with any number of weird shit. how about vegans who, idk, use trebuchets of dead animals. something equally silly and off the wall for a mission whose objective is to confess your sins. I’m being completely serious, the level design of postal 2 is “do a simple errand, watch things fuck up, shoot things until they die, lather rinse repeat”. buy milk, either wait in line or steal it but they’ll catch you and it turns into a fight. go to the bank, either wait in line and watch a robbery happen, or steal cash from the vault directly and shoot your way past the cops. things like that. the point of the joke was not WOW MUSLIMS SURE ARE EVIL HUH??? the point of the joke was HEY WOULDNT IT BE FUCKED UP IF THE CRUSADES 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO JUST RANDOMLY HAPPENED RIGHT NEXT TO YOU??? which the latter is still very bad by today’s standards, but it could have very easily been worse. I mean this is a game where you get thwacked in the head and dragged off and shoved inside a gimp suit and potentially had a breach of consent performed to your asshole, after pissing on the grave of your dead dad in between getting an autograph from gary coleman and stealing a cop’s outfit to get people to sign a “make whiney congressmen play violent video games” petition. weird crazy shit constantly happening in the town but you’re playing a guy whose biggest worry is paying the late fees on a library book and the next time he gets to smoke crack. his wife is referred to in-universe as “The Bitch”. that’s literally her name in the wiki, “The Bitch.” you can piss on people to make them vomit, you can set them on fire with gasoline and matches and then piss on them to put the fire out, you can piss up in the air and make it rain down on you to put yourself out if you’re on fire, I’m sure that there’s even potential for a “piss only” challenge run. the point is, things can be offensive and it can be hilarious and it can be ~problematic~ if you view it through a modern lens, but it’s possible to be intelligent about it and recognize that you can appreciate artistic endeavors while criticizing the flaws in the background.

offensive humor can be funny if it’s done correctly. but only if its intent is positive in nature. postal 2 is a game made by people who wanted players to have FUN. and the horrific dystopia is a perfect world to showcase the ability to go further off the rails than even saints row did. running with scissors wasn’t trying to push a campaign of hatred towards muslims, they just wanted to make a video game that made people laugh. there was at least some artistic merit to be had.

there is no artistic value to being a dumb obnoxious cunt by making 0.0002mb worth of useless data serving only to clog up valuable server space, pollute the air, and add to a circlejerk of people who love the smell of their own farts. a plague of misery hath descent upon these losers.

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ofmd and communion

(idk if it needs to be said but MAJOR fucking spoilers below)

okay so i’ve seen a few meta posts in the past week discussing Christian imagery and symbolism in Our Flag Means Death, and there’s a particular aspect of that which I’ve been itching to talk about.

what I wanna discuss is the theme of consumption in this show, because there’s something really clever going on in this show with how people share food and I think it deserves to be pointed out. in literary theory, it’s typically understood that when someone is shown eating in a story, they’re not just eating. Eating in a narrative is always about consumption on a broader scale, and there’s essentially two acts that we associate with eating that come to mind during these scenes: communion, and sex. in this piece I’m going to be focused on the former, but keep in mind that it’s very rarely only one or the other.

when I talk about communion here, I’m not just talking about it in a religious sense. communion in its most basic definition is just the sharing or exchanging ideas or values, thoughts and feelings, and coming to an understanding. in Christian tradition, communion is a common term for the Eucharist, the act of eating bread and drinking wine to commemorate the acts of Jesus Christ. it’s one of the most sacred and significant acts of worship in Christian theology, and it is the primary method of reaffirming commitment to the faith and signifying belonging. when I say that a scene in OFMD is a communion scene (or more often a false communion) I mean that it’s a moment in which the characters have the chance to commit to or find belonging with a certain group, act, or individual, and that decision is reflected in consumption within the scene. who eats and who does not always reflects the decisions and alliances of the characters involved.

(much more below the cut)

now, @knowlesian has already made a VERY good post explaining how this symbolism is used in that particular scene between Izzy and Blackbeard. To quickly sum up, Ed is feeding Izzy literal flesh; the communion metaphor could not be more clear here. But in an actual act of communion, the idea is that you consume the flesh of God, not of yourself. Izzy’s act of communion here is naturally corrupt, an ouroboros of consumption. Through his worship of Ed, he only consumes himself. This scene is also laden with sexual metaphor as well, but for my purposes I’m focusing more on the communion aspect.

this piece about Izzy’s communion is fascinating, but it is also part of a larger metaphor that is built up throughout the series. there are a lot of scenes in this show about eating, each one carrying the metaphor a bit further and contextualizing the actions of the characters in new ways.

so in the first episode we have this scene, which is the first instance of eating seen in the show. significantly, this is a very sterile scene - not intimate at all. it’s tense, everyone is uncomfortable, and it’s meant to highlight how vulnerable stede is as a person.

this scene is a communion scene, but a highly specific one - the first one. the Last Supper, which is fitting considering the death that follows it. very biblical. the food and drink here is stede’s. and significantly, the only people we see eating are stede’s crew, and only sparingly. At this point they are reluctant disciples, not yet committed to Stede, but we can see them warming up to him in the fact that they take cautious sips from their teacups and nervous nibbles of the crackers. Significantly, the English do not eat or drink at all, which foreshadows the hostilities to come. but the important thing here is the crew, who become more dedicated to stede after this moment

interestingly, the most obvious and unsubtle moment of consumption that we see in this scene is from Black Pete, who drinks from his goblet while talking about the flags to the english. especially interesting because he was the one calling for stede’s removal in previous scenes.

also in this episode we have this fucking scene, in which stede is painful, obviously removed from the aspect of breaking bread with his family.

again, another dinner scene in which no one is seen eating anything. at the end you can see stede chewing, but we don’t see him eat on screen, and he’s alone in this act.

episodes two and three are sparse on the consumption metaphors, but there are two that kind of stand out - one being when lucius and stede drink the toe juice (kind of an initiation ritual / communion moment in which the juice represents the world of piracy, which stede is not yet ready to enter) and the tapas that he brings to the Spanish ship, which, yknow, he’s going to try and break bread with the spanish but will once again be betrayed, this time before the last supper can even happen.

episode 4 is when things get REALLY interesting here, and where parallels with Izzy’s later act of consumption can be made. the opening scenes to this episode are flashbacks to his time with Mary, which feature a lot of eating and drinking.

when they first sit at the table together, mary holds a glass of wine, while stede is reading - another instance of a rejected communion, in this case where the wine is representative of their marriage (there’s more sex metaphor here, but again, I digress). Mary partakes in the act of communion, committing to their marriage, but stede doesn’t even have a glass. he doesn’t have the option to even try.

and then, of course, we get the breakfast scene.

this is a real divergence, and the first moment where the offer of shared food is truly accepted. stede and edward actually break bread; edward accepts and partakes in the communion as does stede.

and yet - and this has to be intentional, I can’t imagine how it could be so deliberate otherwise - we don’t actually see edward eating the bread. it’s implied, we can see the movements, we know he did it. but both times that he bites into the bread, his face is covered by the rigging in between him and the camera.

like... okay. yet another false communion, or at least not one fully realized. edward hasn’t truly committed to stede, to this relationship, which is confirmed in the next scene where he tells izzy he plans to use stede for his own personal gains.

brilliant, honestly. and that’s okay! because the next scene, stede will, of course, literally be teaching edward how to properly accept his offer of communion.

i’m losing my mind! okay! okay.

I can’t even begin to unpack this one. the empty table is hugely significant; Ed is attempting to commit to this world, to belong to it, but there’s no food for him to consume. though this is rectified in a later scene, the damage is done. we know that he has no chance of belonging here, because the option was never really presented to him. like the wine in episode 2, edward doesn’t even have the chance to belong here.

(we could say sooooo much about all of this running parallel to izzy’s experience with lucius and drawing the crew and the sexual aspect of it all BUT. we won’t)

episode five has no moments of consumption, but it is when edward finally decides not to kill stede and fully commits to him emotionally. and the next scene we have of people consuming anything together is this iconic moment:

in which we see, for the first time, edward partake in the communion. he drinks the tea that stede offers him, committing to them - not to the aristocratic society that stede comes from, but to stede himself, their relationship.

and at the end of the episode this is reconfirmed when they decide to be co-captains, they again drink together in a mirror of the first scene.

and then we only go downhill from here. we have this scene in the next episode, where jack eats voraciously (it’s his table this time, even if the food belongs to stede) while edward is eating but not seen taking bites on screen, and stede doesn’t eat at all. once again, a false bread breaking, making it clear that stede and jack are at odds, with ed caught in the middle.

there’s no scenes of eating in episode 9, but then in episode 10 the metaphors are back full force - stede is back at the dinner table with his family, and no one is eating (more false communions) same as last time. ed is eating marmalade straight out of the jar, still participating in taking communion for his relationship with stede even though stede is no longer there.

this scene, in which all of stede’s peers are participating in worship of him, but stede doesn’t drink at all

and then, of course, izzy’s act of violent, self-destructive consumption, supposedly a communion in worship of blackbeard, but really just him consuming himself and his own delusions

I don’t think I’m ready to say that there’s overtly religious symbolism in most of these scenes, because I don’t think there are. But I do think that the way this show uses the “breaking of bread” and refusals to engage with people over the dinner table is extremely impressive. you can basically read the alliances and commitments of everyone in this show only through what they eat, which is just a level of detail I thought couldn’t be intentional at first but now I believe couldn’t not be. idk I’m just obsessed with this show and its commitment to metaphor. ofmd is offering me a feast and I am partaking

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #meta #analysis #honestly this is a fucking essay #if you read all of this i'm kissing you on the mouth and then asking you to get a therapist #i know i need one #edward teach #stede bonnet #ed teach #blackbeard #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #our flag means death hbo #spoilers #i'm literally sorry this is so long I thought about breaking it up into parts and then I decided not to because um #idk it's my blog i guess #and that seemed hard :)

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trashbaggage · 4 years

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a mr. and mrs. smith-flavoured assassin au

geralt and jaskier are assassins for different firms and run into each other on a job, thinking the other is a civilian. they use each other as a cover and (fall in love) get married, it’s all for the cover, swearsies :)

cut to like, 5 years later. they got a house in the suburbs and ciri stays with them every other week when she’s not at mom!yennefer’s place. they’re a little domestic family.

yennefer, unbeknownst to them, is the head of the firm jaskier works with. tissaia runs the other firm which employs geralt, and the two have a (mostly) friendly rivalry going on. ciri sees what’s up with her dads and tells yen; yen can’t believe the two most unsubtle (when not on a job) people she’s met haven’t clued in to the fact they both kill people for a living. she thinks it’s hilarious. she tells tissaia. she also thinks it’s hilarious and even lets out a slightly inelegant laugh. they decide to help the boys by sending them both on the same fake job.

the day of the set up comes, and while they’re both trying to go for the target they see each other. they’re both incredibly startled, and geralt sees jaskier give a sheepish wave through his scope as the target gets away.

jaskier gets back to the house first, with geralt not far behind, and before jaskier can get more than a “well, that was awkward darling” out geralt slams him up against a wall. jask is a bit disoriented but soon gets with the program. they fight and roll around (making a right mess of the place, good thing yen planned for this all to happen when it was her week with ciri) until geralt has jask pinned on the kitchen floor with the knife that was taped behind the professional portrait of roach the cat geralt drunkenly commissioned one night and jask just goes “wow, you’re really committing to this bit, I thought when you finally caved into my unsubtle role play hints you would just kinda half-ass it”. geralt stops and is visibly confused. “while this ‘fight’ (jask even does the air quotes) was quite exhilarating, i think that’s enough foreplay, c’mon and ravish me”.

geralt is still hella ????? and is like, uh, are we not gonna talk about how we just found out we’re rival assassins???? and jask goes uh, jUST??? babe, i’ve known you were an assassin for years, i THOUGHT YOU KNEW I WAS ONE TOO AND WE JUST WEREN’T TALKING ABOUT IT. and geralt is just WHAT.

jask: i thought you just wanted to keep work and home separate or smth, and that’s why we never seriously talked about it idk, but i make jokes about it ALL THE TIME

geralt: you thought i wouldn’t want to talk about the fact we both KILL PEOPLE FOR A LIVING?? and what jokes???

jaskier: i always wink when i ask about your day and how work can be ‘killer’

geralt: that’s just,, normal stuff! how would i have known from that??

jaskier: i call you john wick all the time and point out all the things they get wrong in assassin movies

geralt: but -

jaskier: you yell at me about leaving my knives out everywhere

geralt: i thought you just liked collecting sharp, pretty things -

jaskier: you’ve LITERALLY walked in on me stuffing body parts in a trash bag

geralt: it was halloween!! i thought they were fake! i thought you were just really into decorating that year!!!

jaskier: ....fine, I’ll give you that one, my haunted house that year was very involved and spooky. but i wrote ‘you’re the best ass-assin i know x’ in your birthday card three months ago!!!

geralt: you know how i feel about puns, i just thought you were being a little shit

jaskier: ohmygod, ohhhh my god how. you just - no. nope. we’re not fighting about this, all parties now know the truth, can we just get back to the sexytimes and talk later?

geralt: .....yeah ok

they do the do.

they eventually talk everything out.

yennefer congratulates them when she drops off ciri, and ciri just looks at the partially destroyed house and goes “FINALLY” and “my room better be in one piece” and jaskier and geralt deal with the twin bombshells of yen also being in the business and jaskier’s boss and the fact that ciri figured them out, but c’mon, she’s yen’s daughter, she knows what’s up.

the only real conflict in this story is

man vs. self as geralt tries to look back on their relationship with new eyes and sees a LOT of things making more sense and laments he’s not even the cleverest assassin in his own home

and

idiot vs. idiot (no explanation needed)

and

yennefer vs. man as she roasts both of them for being so goddamn oblivious and having the communication skills of a particularly dense walnut

everyone lives happily ever after, the end

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my-reality-my-rules · 3 years

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Hey friend, I also tried to tell my parents about shifting and they threatened to put me in the psych ward if I didn’t stop talking about it 🧍🏾.

But it’s okay because when I got a taste of shifting, it was worth the looks and threats.

not the psych ward-

no but this is actually very similar to what happened to me.

initially, i just wanted to see how they’d react. i tried letting them know through annoying and unsubtle clues. bits of gen z humour here and there that they wouldn’t understand, which i did exactly because they wouldn’t. eventually my sister caught on (but she doesn’t really know what it is) and thinks it’s a fun hobby thing i do. you’d have heard me saying things like, “I’m gonna shift tonight, R.I.P. this reality ayeee” or “Now reality can be whatever I want”. and honestly, things were quite funny at first because no one really knew what was going on, not even my brother (who’s usually updated on most things, but we’re not close, so). and me, being someone who likes causing chaos every now and then, enjoyed every bit of that confusion.

it only went to shit when my entire family found out about shifting. like . everyone. including extended family members. i don’t know how it spiralled but i mean—not that I’d expect anything less from a tight-knit family of blabbermouths but ffs-

literally one member’s business immediately becomes yours and another’s in this household and there is no privacy at all. so when one day my mom had enough of my shit and actually decided to look up what shifting was,,, well. you can guess what happened next. long story short, she confronted me about it and thought i was finally going mad. it’s gotten to the point where she actually even contacted one of her friends from school (who’s a psychologist) and considered getting me a session. i know they mean well, and considering I’ve had experiences like this before (back during gradeschool and middleschool), i know the concern is genuine. it can actually get serious. but things have gotten slightly out of hand.

the topic of shifting has become something foul in my household simply because of that. dealing with the situation itself tires me out because there’s a lot of expectations put on me. i haven’t shared this before, but here’s a little tidbit about my home life: being the eldest child and eldest grandchild is fucking exhausting. achievements feel forced and obligatory, and errors are met with either smugness or disgruntlement. it’s always about leading and setting examples.

it’s just so annoying when everyone else gets in on it. i understand that things can actually be fun if it had been a little friendly rivalry going on between cousins, but the extent that it reaches in my family?? haha...no. everyone thinks shifting is another internet-induced obsession that i have—which, okay, fair—but they’re treating me as if I’m about to break out and do rituals. they’re treating me as if I’m a fucking alien and it used to hurt but now it’s just so fucking iRritating-

the only other saving grace i can think of right now is the fact that my uncle (who’s also my godfather) is taking all this information in stride—and the best part is that he actually kind of understands. idk but i really vibe with this man, and it’s not just because of that easy acceptance. we also do share some similarities, as people, and i think it helped us bond. the resemblance between us is what really does it because i see myself in him and it becomes easier knowing there’s another person like me out there, even if our issues vary.

he’s actually really chill with shifting. i asked for his opinion on it, showed him some posts from amino and tiktok. he’s definitely intrigued, even if distant. I'm just happy there's someone else in this household that doesn't hold shifting against me.

#reality shifting #shifting realities #shifting #desired reality #shifter problems #rant post #Esther's shifting posts

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(Previously, on GG rewatch...)

So let's be clear, full disclosure here, I'm only rewatching this ep for the Fitzpatrick content...

I love that when the girls start being like "let's get back to normal" Beth's reflex response is, "but, um, we get to keep criming a little? Pwease???"

I think Beth is the extorsionist psychopath, but whatever. Tomato, tomahto...

Ten minutes literally happened in 1:30. Literally. This show's relationship with time, I just...

Man, Dean and Kenny are both disgusting little bullies!! Mocking a kid who peeded himself?? Come on, that’s just mean...

I want more Darren content for season 4!

Oh, a common dancing-on-graves theme in TWO SUCCESSIVE SCENES?? This show x being unsubtle is like an OTP. Also Beth is totally overdoing it, this scene is the Beth equivalent of a nervous breakdown.

THE. NUN. COSPLAY.

Never over Rio dramatically storming off HIS OWN CAR

I still stand by my theory: have you seen how many envelopes and packages they sell at Fitzpatrick's cover store? This man is Rio's envelopes dealer.

OMG the front desk girl is Dixie Sinclair from Insatiable/Annie Kim from Community!!! I can't believe I'm only recognizing her now!!!

Lowkey surprised that Annie knows how to correctly distinguish a cello case from a guitar one but good for her! Also, whatever the purpose of a cello case, who keeps their wallet inside of it????

How does Fitzpatrick know Annie and Ruby's names?? So far he's only met Beth once. The man did research on THEM, and the girls just... don't react??

JILTED LOVERS.

FOR THE MOST PART.

The awkwardness of this dinner is painful to watch. And why did they put Harry in a corner with the guests?? I really feel for this kid

Oh, enough with the whole Marriage Story-ish Beth/Dean dynamic. Dean, you're a domestic disaster and apologizing with puppy eyes every time you act dumb and put sauce all over your shirt, which for the record happened TWICE on screen, doesn't redeem you. Beth, STOP ENPATHIZING WITH HIM!!!!

"Any idiot can sell them, and I know just the guy"...

Meet Beth Boland, aka the woman who believes that she's the only smart person who knows what Google is for... And also throws things.

YOUR. LOVER.

Very surprised they thought about making a reference to the posh country club. Yes, that's how low my expectations for plot consistency with this show have fallen.

Shower in unattended locker rooms... We should thank the writers for all the fics that this simple line has enabled.

"So how does a lady like you get involved with a guy like that?" -> "they'll wanna know what someone like me is doing with someone like you"

In what universe asking someone to buy you a car after they offered to help with a bus ticket is an appropriate response??? WHO are these people?

I know it's a controversial opinion but the whole Ben tutoring Annie plotline just yikes me

I love Sweet dreams as a song, but the whole "do it" scene just breaks my little shipper heart

You know, I would actually fancy a Josh and Annie friendship if they just both stopped being so ambiguous... I really like how he talks her out of her duvet. Although why did Ben call him instead of, idk, BETH? Or anyone more important in her life? Plus Ben doesn't like Josh, does he?

Mhhh, technically a logarithm is NOT an exponent but go on...

Someone tells Dean that the moment you start forgettin about your kids and playing make-believe with legos is when you start losing any sex-appeal to your wife.

I mean, I love Phoebe but could she stop being gross for like five minutes? Also, isn't that SUPER stupid to buy a car for cash when you're supposed to lay low? Couldn't Ruby make a payment plan like everyone else? Or put the car in the donor's name?? The plot twists in this show, man...

#opportunities #gg rewatch #no I have nothing else to say #this was a neutral episode #my mind is blank rn

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Yoimiya is basic but I'll accept that bc her basicness is supposed to contrast Ayaka and fits with Pyro as a whole, she's a narrative tool for her counterpart, which is sad, but at least there's a point, so it's not necessarily incompetence, just decisions. I prefer molotov throwers anyway.

Being honest, I don't think Yoimiya and Ayaka are designed as foils (I don't think they have differing ideologies about resistance, I just think Ayaka is smart and Yoimiya is not), because I think if they're meant to be contrasted against anyone, it's Ba'al herself.

Ayaka is very much of the "A leader serves their people" mentality, where Ba'al at this point seems to follow "a people serves their leader". Where Ba'al considers Vision Holders acceptable losses in her quest for her ideals of eternity, Ayaka is incredibly empathetic to the everyone; vision holders, foreigners, civilians, whatever.

Meanwhile, Yoimiya and her fireworks are an unsubtle opposition to Ba'al's ideals "eternity" because by design that's exactly what fireworks aren't; Yoimiya discusses it in her quest.

The other primary reason I don't think there's an intentional contrast between Ayaka and Yoimiya is because Ayaka is already at direct odds with the Resistance Army, who are the extremely active force with nothing to lose the Yashiro Commission isn't. I'd also point to their individual character quests, where they both recklessly charge into danger to help others.

Plus, uh, when Genshin wants you to know two characters were designed to contrast against each other, they are not subtle about it.

Paimon: Strange... (Traveler): What's wrong? Paimon: Diluc and Kaeya are really alike, so why don't they get along? (Traveler): How are they alike, again? Paimon: Well, Kaeya's the kind of guy who acts shady in the light of day... Paimon: While Diluc is a shining beacon of justice in the dark of night! Paimon: Don't you think that's... kinda the same thing...? (Traveler): Uhh... I still don't see it.

Being honest, I genuinely don't think the main scenario writers are very good at writing. Genshin is like, the RWBY of videogames. They can barely manage coherent narratives.

(your second asks were similar so I chose the first one that came through and added the new last line, hope that's okay)

Imagine if Inazuma characters had hidden visions as a unifying design trait. Also, I'm not even sold on Ayaka strategising. She more does nothing effective and gets sad at her willing helplessness. Idk, keep pushing laws girl, maybe the other commissions will sleep in, forget their paperwork, and Ba'al will be too busy cancelling assessments to dismiss them all. I just feel, with Inazuma having foils, themes, conflict, dungeons, etc, it's at least slightly better than funeral shopping. I just think it's unfair to call her or Inazuma incoherent when most of this mess may still b solved in 2.1, and at least better than shopping.

Hidden Visions? Like a second Vision, or that Mihoyo actually bothered to hide their Visions on their character model? The latter would definitely help with immersion but I get why MHY didn't want to waste resources on it, and a for the first... I honestly think that if anyone will get one, it's Kazuha. For uh, obvious reasons.

As someone that also doesn't care for Ayaka, I think that's an incredibly uncharitable interpretation? I could just as easily say "Yoimiya's an idiot; all she does is help with tiny local problems! How is this going to help in the long run? How will this stop the decree? At least Ayaka's thinking of the big picture!"

Yoimiya and Ayaka have different goals. Yoimiya's essentially boils down to "I will help the people within reach", and Ayaka wants to help everyone by dismantling the decree. These goals are already on very different scales even before factoring in that now that Ayaka has failed doing things through legitimate channels, she now has to somehow figure out a way to overpower two other clans and a literal goddess without painting a huge target on her back. Step one: recruit a powerful outlander with a history of beating up ridiculously strong mythical enemies to act on her behalf without compromising her position or endangering her clan. Step two: well, uh...

Technically, it's fine that Ayaka doesn't have a plan but is only aware of all the dangers that acting out will pose. In a fuller narrative, you'd get to see her figure out what to do, get some wins, make some sacrifices, etc. However, Genshin doesn't give Ayaka a full narrative. As soon as she's put in a position where she's got what she needs to start acting (you), Act 2 shifts gears, shoves her out of focus and removes the one thing she'd gained that would enable her to act. She never got the chance!

This isn't an issue with Ayaka being a sook compared to Yoimiya; if anything, the narrative wants to paint her as being in a tough corner. The issue is that Mihoyo did not dedicate enough time to exploring Ayaka's actions or think about how this impacts her character. (and this is something that 2.1 is going to struggle to fix competently, given how short the acts are and that they now also need to focus on Ba'al, Yae, Kokomi, La Signora, and -allegedly- Scaramouche at the very least.)

And yeah, that includes Yoimiya and Ayaka's hilariously inappropriate quests. Do I think we're intended to read them as characters that aren't taking this seriously? No. Do I think Mihoyo made a bad move by placing the quests where it did? Yes. And so; I complain about Genshin misusing Ayaka, not that Ayaka is a bad character/person or incompetent.

I'm going to give Inazuma this; unlike Liyue, it has a better idea of where the focus of the story should be. Liyue still had themes (it has since botched the "humanity has no need of gods" thing, but it tried), and obviously it has conflicts, (Liyue does not have foils because Liyue's main characters were Childe and Zhongli, but you also don't need foils to have a satisfying narrative. Not that I'm saying Liyue had one), but it completely missed the mark when matching up what the outcome of the story should be against the characters it chose to focus on.

I think this is because Genshin isn't a story about humanity moving past needing the gods; I think it's going to turn out to be a story about the Gods' decisions on how to guide humanity (punctuated by the implicitly divine Travellers impacting Teyvat wherever they go), but it's still early days and either way it did not work for Liyue at all. Mihoyo was far too enamoured with the Adepti to utilise what they'd established in Liyue Harbour, and no one noticed that their entire plot was contrived to hell and back because it was absolutely critical they made sure you were just as in love with Zhongli as they were instead.

Similarly, I think Inazuma just barely scrapes by on competent narrative even if it is unsatisfying as hell because while it actually keeps the main conflict in sight, it's still built on your character being rewritten to justify half of Act 1 for whatever reason, is either uninterested or incapable of actually writing Ayaka's plot despite the entirety of Act 1 establishing it, speedran the story in Act 2 to try and cram in as many new characters as possible and, if the leaks about Ba'al and Scaramouche are to be believed, can't foreshadow to save their lives.

I think they're both pretty bad in different ways, but they're definitely both kind of... too ambitious in ways the writers can't keep up with. Inazuma's sidequests are the best in the game though. Can we move whoever writes them into the main story... plz... i beg,,,,,,,

I did have more fun playing Liyue's main story than I did Inazuma's, though. I largely chalk that up to Liyue at least having fun with Childe and Zhongli, and the occasional little moments of humanity interjected into the storyline - like Xiao and Dusky Ming, Ningguang being forced to graciously accept gift-wrapped slime or Zhongli and the Cocogoat. Or, uh, Childe genuinely being a simp that got his poor maiden heart shattered by mean ol' Morax. (Also, YMMV on their quests, but they're unique and much more character-focused). Inazuma is less interested in interplay between the playable characters so I don't even have that to tide me over, and fun characterisation/dynamics is half the fight. I still can't believe the stupid hotpot scene was off-screen.

#replies #ac plays genshin impact #inazuma establishes the bare minimum it needs to and then just barrels through the plot #liyue took too much time stopping to smell the roses #also i dont think i called ayaka or inazuma incoherent #just badly written #could be wrong

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WARNING FFH SPOILERS!!

Basically all my thoughts!

Okay can we just talk about literally the beginning??????

'I Will Always Love You' memoirs??? Holy shit I was cackling but also crying inside when they showed pictures of Tony

Then the whole plan??? To get MJ??? Oh my god, I fucking melt. I want a man like Peter who will confess to me on top of the Eiffel Tower and buy me jewellery based on the shit I'm passionate about!!!!

Also, that scene at the shelter? When he becomes overwhelmed by the mention of Tony, I started to think he might have PTSD or some sort of knee jerk reaction whenever he hears his name. The way he was already teary eyed after swinging away. I couldn't deal with that.

Then the whole plan failing on the plane and oh my god the bathroom scene?? When he starts cleaning up oh my god that's just pure cinnamon roll Peter, I die I swear.

Theeen Betty and Ned???? OH MY GOD SUCH CUTIES!!!!!! AHHHHHH they were so fun to watch istg "babe?" "babe."

When they had the whole montage of Peter just trailing around MJ and being sulky over Brad like an adorable puppy. Then getting that necklace??? Ooooof ugh kill me with your cuteness istg.

Then the whole thing with Peter not having his suit with him??? And wearing that festival mask? Shit cracked me up

And dear god save this kid from the never ending concussions from the bell tower.

Then the whole conversation between Talos Fury and Peter in his hotel room. Literally two very different energies meeting to a head. It was glorious.

Also when they introduced Quentin?? I was like fucking shOOk. For two reasons

One because he was such a dramatic, unsubtle, little bitch talking about his family's death and praising Peter like Tony did!

For another, BECAUSE HE HAD LOWKEY DADDY ENERGY AROUND PETER AND THE WAY PETER LIGHTS UP WHENEVER HE PRAISES HIM OH MY GOD IT REMINDED ME SO MUCH OF HIM AND TONY. FUCK.

ALSO UNIVERSE 616?? CMON BITCH HOW DARE YOU PULL THAT STUNT. MARVEL YOU COP OUT! :(

Then the inevitable glasses. Dear lord. Fuck me up with the whole Iron dad (or starker) feels that whole scene gave off. My heart hurted.

Then that scene when he had to take off his clothes to wear his suit fUCK! Lowkey tho I felt hot. Then Brad walks in and then tells him he's gonna tell MJ?? Like who the fuck????

Then that bus scene. Oh my god, shit made me laugh so hard istg. When he punched Flash and actually had to web the freaking air strike drone he sent in!!!!!!! Hswhhdhhe Peter is a fuckin mess.

EDITH :(((((( even dead I'm the hero. My fucking feelings took a fucking dive. "He always did love his acronyms" and the way Peter just chuckles, looks away with tearing eyes, voice cracking as he says "Yeah he did"

God fucking damn it.

Istg Marvel is just playing with my feelings now. It's so fucking unfair.

And then that whole fighting scene with the Fire Elemental? When I saw one of the drone take the hit, I was like. Wait a fucking moment.

Also, I caught this thing where Mysterio's magic hits the windshield of Fury’s car but instead of cracks like it should be, I saw bullet holes. And I took a moment to notice that.

NIGHT MONKEY! NIGHT MONKEY!

Then that bar scene!!!! Jesus christ. That was a whirlwind of emotions. The way Peter's smile just dropped when Beck wore the glasses and saw Tony within him. God.

Also like those backstories????? Damn. Legit. I got no other words.

The way that Peter seemed soooo disappointed when MJ lied about the reason why she kept staring at him? Ugh my heart.

YAS GIRL DO IT FOR ALL OF US! TURN AROUND!!!! (Also what the fuck that cute little chub on Tom's tummy before he tenses up for the camera is so fucking cute oh my god I fucking melt, I wanna hug him)

"It's not a competition." Yea sure, Ned. Sure.

Holy fuck. Holy fuck. HOLY FUCK.

THAT WHOLE ILLUSION SCENE?

One of the best things ever. It reminded me so much of the intros to the James Bond movies. All the smooth transitions and stunning fx. Fuck. It was all trippy.

And jesus. Using MJ like that????

Also What The Actual Fuck. When he made an illusion of Tony rising from his grave.

When I saw that tombstone, I already knew what name on it was. Didn't make it easier to see it with my own eyes.

I cant with this movie its too much for my poor heart to take.

Jesus christ when he got hit by the train.fuck nylife.

Then happy?

Oh no, I actually pretty much died at this scene.

The way Peter was so desperate on who to trust and the way he just relaxed when he realised Happy wasn't an illusion. The way Happy just went with it immediately, having similar past experience with Tony's paranoia. The way he held Peter in his arms, confused but so so so worried. The way he takes care of Peter's wounds and tries to calm him down. The way Peter breaks down over being alone, his friends being in danger, hurt over MJ, not being enough to measure up to Tony, all of his emotions coming to head. That was probably the most grounding scene I've seen of Peter ever. It really hurt in all the best ways.

"You can't measure up to Tony. No one can. Not even Tony." That line was so good because he knows the weight thats on Peter's shoulders, he knows that Peter feels pressured to take on the world, unwavering and brave and so sure of himself like Tony was. But the truth is, Tony was exactly like him behind the scenes. Tony was always breaking down, lagging behind and alone. So when he sees Peter break down, it's like seeing Tony all over again. And he can't help but soften.

"I don't think Tony would have done what he did if he didn't know you were going to be here after he was gone." And that just shattered me. He basically said that Tony would've done it all over again if he knew Peter was going to come back.

That moment, when he stares at Peter, that moment when he notices something that twists and warms his heart at the same time. When he sees Peter handle that tech and holograms seamlessly like Tony did, the way he runs his mouth with his genius, the way he seems so excited over the tech, you can see in Happy's eyes that all he sees is Tony. Tony imprinting the best parts of himself onto Peter.

He knows Peter can handle it.

And jesus christ, baby no. Its not led zeppelin, cmon.

That whole fight scene was fucking lit! I can't really explain much but wow MJ!!!! GO MJ AND BETTY!!! AYYY.

Fuck and the way Peter used his Peter Tingle to fight off the rest of the drones. That was so cool. Then when illusion Beck was handing him the glasses, he already knew that it wasn't the real him.

That heartbroken look in his eyes when he realised he can't save Beck.

His voice cracking when he wants to know theres no more illusions.

That peck? That kiss? That makeout???? These two ooze so much chemistry it actually hurts.

Ahhh that hand brush and them actually holding hands!!!!! That!!!!!!

Then flash with his mother not being around comment, fuck that kinda hurt me in the feels.

Peter having an intervention with Happy and May???? Holy shit I need more of that.

Then that date? Where they swing??? Wow goals.

And fuck Peter getting exposed. I swear my heart dropped down to my stomach.

ALSO J JONAH JAMESON HOLY SHIT I WAS SHAKING BECAUSE OF THAT!!!!

Credits scene:

Fury taking a vacation but not really is such a mood. Like he'd like a vacation but he also has to work. Idk but it might be hinting at the next captain marvel movie!!!!

Ahhh

This movie is a treasure. I am most likely going to watch it again because wow. I don't think I can take it all in 100% without watching it twice.

I saw it only a few hours ago but I already love it with all my heart. ❤️

I cant believe Marvel has me hooked with their Peter Parker. ❤️❤️❤️

#Spiderman far from home #Spiderman far from home spoilers #Far from home spoilers #Spiderman ffh spoilers #Ffh spoilers

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k you're so positive about everyting what can you say to make me feel better about saying "i care about both of you" to octavia? i feel like that dilutes her love for bellamy so much. is she just not confronting her love for him? idk it just feels like the writers again not caring about bellarke. putting bellamy on the same level as octavia for clarke.

OH FAM. FAM FAM FAM. The show is saying the exact opposite! In no uncertain terms! (Like…did you see the enormous, lovingly crafted charcoal Bellamy sketches everywhere? The were huge! The metaphor is not subtle! Bellamy takes up enormous real estate in her mind space for very good reason.)

Anyway, the line you’re referring to comes right after Not!Octavia says THIS:

“Fine, you wrote me off. At the conclave, at Tondc—I get it. But the thing is, I really thought you cared about Bellamy.”

Clarke answering Not!Octavia by saying she cares about BOTH of them is not diluting her caring about Bellamy—she’s directly answering the charges HER OWN SUBCONSCIOUS is throwing at her. (Remember this is not actually Octavia!!). Not!Octavia is accusing her of not caring about Bellamy, but also about not caring about O. Clarke is a kind person. She would of course assure Octavia to her (not)face that she cares about her and not just Bellamy. She wouldn’t just skip over that part of the accusation.

But her guilt for the things she’s done to Octavia is tied up in her guilt over Bellamy, and vice versa. (She let the bomb drop on Tondc for Bellamy, remember?). That fighting pit room is just a big ball of Blake pain. It’s why she’s confronted with the bloodiest, most lethal, most unforgiving Blake manifestation there is--Blodreina. A monster accusing Clarke of being an even worse monster.

But it’s super important that Bellamy ISN’T THERE—and that only through Octavia can we even get near the Bellamy-shaped elephant in the (murder)room. Clarke can face Octavia’s (presumed) disgust and disdain, even though it hurts like a bitch. She cannot face Bellamy’s. Not even a subconscious manifestation of it.

Even the way Octavia’s dialogue is formed is so crucial. She uses caring for Bellamy as a kill shot, just like Josephine does later. She’s saying, “Fine, you fucked me over and chose to let me get blown up, whatever, it’s shitty but I’m not BELLAMY. BELLAMY is special to you, different than everyone else, on a different level to you, and you even fucked HIM over. Do you care about ANYONE?? is there anyone you love that hasn’t suffered?”

THAT is what the Octavia manifestation is there to torture her over. She’s sticking a knife in one of Clarke’s softest spots. One of the things that Clarke and Bellamy have always explicitly given each other is forgiveness—and now here’s one of the very worst voices in Clarke’s head telling Clarke that she doesn’t actually have that. The one person (besides Madi, but children are different) who provides her with absolution and emotional safety…ACTUALLY thinks she’s a monster. She left him behind in the fighting pits. At the gates of Camp Jaha after Mt. Weather. The beautiful hug and forgiveness they shared earlier in s6, when Clarke thought she had shed her greatest sin of abandoning Bellamy by writing it on that lantern, is being weaponized against her. It’s not real. he doesn’t forgive you. You’re a monster, just like you’ve always thought.

Talking to Bellamy on the radio kept her sane and grounded (heh). Bellamy’s forgiveness and trust keep her centered (explicitly stated in s4 by Jaha). Take that away--hollow it out--and Clarke herself is hollowed.

And Clarke and Bellamy forgiving and absolving one another is absolutely bone-deep crucial to their character arcs. It always has been.

“He understands,” Clarke says, her heart in her voice. Because they’re the same! They’ve always been opposites but the same, balanced and equal, heart and head, leaders on space and leaders on earth, covered in blood to save their people but always washing it off the other. Clarke absolutely needs that to be true. Her worst fear is that it isn’t—that nobody understands her. That the blood doesn’t come out. That’s she’s a monster, and Bellamy of all people knows it.

Ain’t NOTHING diluted about what Clarke says. Sometimes you have to pay attention to what characters don’t say, and ESPECIALLY to HOW characters say things, like the way her voice breaks on “He forgave me”. God, his opinion and his trust and love are so important to her. Literally we see that without it, she starts to doubt her entire character. Clarke’s opinion of herself and Bellamy’s opinion of herself (and vice versa, but this is Clarkeland right now) are inextricably linked. Clarke gives up fighting and accepts brain death because of Bellamy taking that deal (and by the way Josephine frames it, inadvertently convincing Clarke that they really are better of without her). Bellamy gives up fighting and accepts heart death (Clarke-less existence) because it’s what hhe thinks Clarke would do. This isn’t me inferring. This is literally the plot on the screen.

UNSUBTLE AS ALL DAMN HELL and romantic as the damn Titanic movie poster

And the big, dramatic, HELL YEAH FEEL GOOD FIST PUMP of an ending is Clarke reaching across the void and against all damn odds making contact with…….who? BELLAMY. “He understands,” Clarke says, full of doubt that eh actually does, afraid that she’s only deluding herself, but HOO BOY WHO UNDERSTANDS CLARKE GRIFFIN BETTER? Bellamy literally understands the tapping of her finger! HER FINGER. TAPPING. He understands you bet your ASS ONE HUSBAND DOES!

There’s a reason it’s Bellamy who gets her message. Bellamy is her engine for emotional change. And she’s his. Been that way since Bellamy tried to get Clarke’s wristband off and Clarke said NO and then he didn’t let her fall in a pit of spikes. That was growth! That was Bellarke. That was the twin pillars of the show being established. They affect each other. And their effect on each other is the central plot of the whole damn story. And that shit is romantic as fuck. Literally the basis of all my favorite love stories.

Tl;dr: Stop gaslighting yourself, fam. The 100 has always been a big Bellarkeapalooza. Every major plotline, every dramatic climax, every emotional turning point. BELLARKAPALOOZA.

#the 100 #the 100 spoilers #bellarke af #OH FAM #asks answered #i er wrote a thesis paper #bellarkeapalooza #good lord we are a traumatized fandom aren't we

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ok but the superhero au is like, the best things to wake up to (esp after having slept like, 5 hours). also! i still don't know that much about comics but jiang cheng is basically storm?? but also wen qing's superpower is so amazing&fitting and i love her. and may i ask!! do we knowjiang fengmian's and yu ziyuan's powers yet!! also!! does superpowers being hereditary mean that the kid's power will be related/similar/a mix of the two (if both parents have a superpower) or can it be 100% new? 1/2

and lxc’s superpower is so fucking cool?? like idk if there is a superhero in marvel/dc/indie comics w/ that power, but i never would have come up w/ it!! also doesn’t that mean that lxc could render someone (temporarily) blind, if he manipulated photons in their line of vision?? and lwj’s superpower ;;;; listen as a music kid, sound manipulation is like, wow. (also???? tfw u manipulate sound to make a song for ur babe and name it after ur shipname BUT I DIGRESS). also i’d love to see (2/3 oops)

nonpowered lan “jesus those children are so dumb and undisciplined and they have those powers that we’re unleashing to the world???? fuck” qiren. and lastly, both the old and new council seem Very Serious, but also so much fun bc like, i keep imagining different sects/regions’ leaders subtly shading each other and dropping hints. so yeah i think i rambled a bit (whoops?? hope u don’t mind) but this is a very very exciting concept and please feel free to talk about it whenever u want!

dude never be sorry about rambling to me it is literally all that i live for and i love the opportunity to continue to blather about ideas, so!!

i imagine jiang cheng’s powers as a bit more localized than storm’s, at least at first. like he’ll get a cloud bursting right above him or lightning sparking out from his body, depending on how he’s feeling. he’s usually grumpy so the (purple) lightning is a near-constant, probably to the point that most people think his power is *just* lightning until he’s sad one day and there’s rain, or he actually smiles and the sun beams are Too Powerful.

wen qing’s power is one i admittedly think about a lot and insert into like, every superpowers story i think up, because i think having a character who is constantly healing turn around and be like “oh yeah i can manipulate your bones and muscles in bad ways, too” is just, too powerful in the best way. like someone tries to come for wen ning and wen qing just *looks* at them and suddenly their legs have snapped and their bones are broken.

i haven’t quite figured out whether the powers themselves are hereditary, or whether the possibility for powers is an inherited gene than expresses itself differently in each individual. i like the idea that jiang fengmian also had some kind of nature-based power that jiang yanli inherited? and i’d want madame yu’s to have something to do with her purple spider moniker… maybe something with lighting that people described as “stings”, and then that combined with jfm’s nature abilities gets you jc’s control over weather…

there’s a couple comics superheroes who deal with light! (dagger, dr light, monica rambeau…) and i kind of imagine lxc having access to their entire inventory of powers. so definitely blinding people flash-grenade style, making light constructions, creating mirages even…

and yes the ship name song would definitely be like, his ultimate power. lan wangji has it so bad and everyone is like “is wei wuxian manipulating his soul???” and lan xichen is just like, “no guys he’s just super gay and it be like that sometimes”

i haven’t really thought about whether secret identities would be a thing in this universe– probably yes??– so i can imagine that causing layers of amusement within the council. and also all the kids being very unsubtle about their names when they get sent off for training so it’s all a moot point eventually. (although that would be a way to introduce courtesy names… i’m thinking of titles = superhero monikers, so!)

#quality reply blog #mo dao zu shi #mdzs superhero au

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ayankun · 2 years

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Still learning the hard way that Melatonin has a distinct launch window that you can miss if you accidentally power through the ten minutes of sleepiness without going to sleep....

Not gonna take another 10mg so here's some pre-sleep insomnia notes:

The easy fix for the Luthor/Wellsobard situation is that Thawne is a speedster who can not only run back in time to the early 90s, but also to the early 90s of an alternate reality. However, more troublesome hoops to jump through if you want Wellsobard, which you do, because Thawne technically doesn't have his speed while he's stuck wearing that face/adopting that persona. But then, canon doesn't seem too bothered with resurrecting Tom Cavanagh's full-power Thawne without explanation whenever it suits them, so I think a niche, gratuitous rarepair fic shouldn't have to think too hard about it, either.

Second fic I'm not gonna write, is actually like, I think maybe three fics? The "undercover honeymooners" episode got to me -- which character do you POV from? That is, who's pining in the most heart-wrenching way, Clark or Lois? Well, it's Clark, but what's the angle? What's the knife-twist? Does he go into it blinkers off, jumping at the chance to live vicariously through this cover story? Or is he stricken, guilty almost, pained that it's all just pretend? OR, this one's my favorite, the sweet summer child doesn't think anything of it, until WHOOPS some scenario of the play-act hits too close to home and he's suddenly drowning in his secret feels. Or how about Lois' versions of the above??? Would be fun to explore these back to back to back, I think.

Also had more thoughts on restructuring the Clark/Lois/Superman triangle. If Clark is bi, he can use that to explain his brand of Superman-fixation. And then so it's not Clark puppydog-eying after Lois who's puppydog-eying after Superman, they're both competing for Superman's attention -- helps sell that Clark Kent and Superman are definitely two different people, in Lois' mind, anyhow, and this way she’s not just blowing off Clark right to his face, they both get to play the same game. AND Clark gets to be less creepy for allowing Superman to act on Clark's feelings for Lois, because in this scenario he also flirts with Clark, which is ultimately what brings Lois around because she finally realizes that she's actually jealous of Superman and therefore has feelings for Clark herself. Those wacky kids.

In other news, I really didn't know what to expect but the slow burn in Lois & Clark is KILLING ME. Don't get me wrong, I'm All About It, but how much more am I expected to survive?? I've literally screamed out loud at some of the cutesy, unsubtle, 90s-style predicaments where one or the other toes that line between them (or they both do, only to immediately down on the friends/coworkers thing) omg it's unbearable and also perfect. Remember that unparalleled shipper's delight Daily Planet flashback episode of Superman & Lois? Lois & Clark is like the 4-season 90s fever dream that that episode could only hint at. Just what the doctor ordered.

The other fun thing, generally speaking, is that all of the things I've articulated recently about what I want to see in the content and execution of a Superman story are basically all showing up as-requested in Naomi. Origin story dished out as character-driven mystery, out and proud bi protagonist, the story isn't framed around the alien-punching superhero this person will become, but rather is all about the person they are at each step of the journey. IDK if Naomi grows up to be famous for punching aliens. But even if I did know that in advance, I still think this is the most engaging way to be told, finding out each new detail as the hero does.

It didn't matter to me that I already knew what Kryptonite was gonna do to Clark; what mattered was that Clark didn't know, Jonathan and Martha didn't know, couldn't know, and their learning that lesson in the hardest of ways is what makes for great television. Also pairing that "Oh no why's this green rock messing with Clark" storyline with "bringing Lois home to meet the parents(we'rejustfriends,mom)" was genius. Perfection. He's Superman AND Clark Kent, always at the same time. Tell me less about the alien-punching and more about the conflicting desires to use one's powers for good whilst also desperately finding ways to hide these powers from one's loved ones.

Actually, now that I mention it, Naomi could use less mystery and more high school. Gimme a big ol' plate of that sweet sweet slice-of-life, with the spicy alien backstory in a little cup on the side.

#Superman AU fic thoughts #Lois & Clark thoughts #Naomi thoughts

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ratherembarrassing · 6 years

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a list of me talking about stuff that happened in supergirl 309 -- by me

previously on-- wait, no. nevermind.

TIMELINE?

WHAT TIMELINE??????

first off: so the crossover never happened.

on the one hand, GOOD. on the other hand, jesus h r u shitting me. it’s literally the next day, and i had to sit through god damn nazis for nothing.

second: this show has always had structural issues when it comes to switching between kara and supergirl, but throwing sam and reign into the mix clearly broke their brains.

someone was off burning symbols in the grass at the future home of the new l-corp research facility at the exact time sam was yelling at germans and picking up ruby and buying cookies and rushing to kara’s christmas party. idk who, but it wasn’t sam.

it broke their brains so much they accidentally implied james and lena were off to bone.

SUPERGIRL’S ABOUT TO GET HER ASS-- wait, where are those two off to???

“if that’s true, where have you been?” NOT EVEN KARA UNDERSTANDS WHERE SAM CAME FROM OR WHAT’S GOING ON.

this episode had a lot of things i enjoyed a lot, but it was a hot fucking mess. oh well.

but speaking of hot messes.

so, not to be a callous dick who thinks there’s an expiration date on grief, but i’m officially bored of kara’s sadness. if they refuse to make explicit that this really is about something bigger, if it really is just about kara having loved him, then i’m going to have to start judging that sadness against the reality of that relationship. she didn’t even like him, and no stories about all you can eat ribs and that one time they got drunk is going to make me forget that. the fact that they have to make up a second happy memory is REALLY FREAKING TELLING. and god, it’s such a waste. kara has so much to genuinely be sad about, and this is what they’re fixating on? she’s so heartbroken over this one jerk that she thinks she can ~*never love be human again*~??? holy cow.

i know we like to make fun of buffy now, because it’s cool to hate everything joss whedon ever did, but ‘high school = hell’ actually feels more nuanced than ‘heartbreak = my humanity is dead’ right now.

i can’t believe alex told her to be alien, to stop being human, in a moment of such unsubtle writing i felt the hammer leap out of my tv and smash my little toe. because if this really is about mon-el, then i am honestly dreading what’s going to finally remind kara she really truly can love be a human again.

didn’t nazi kara do that already last week?!?

please god don’t let kara sleep with mon-el in the current timeline. please just let her realise he’s happy and let him go off with his dork of a wife.

oh well.

CHRISTMAS!

sorry, everyone who headcanons the danvers as jewish.

delightful things that happened:

none for mon-el and mrs mon-el.

lena sticks to scotch like the queen that she is.

i assume she’s drinking away the need to question who the fuck mr j'onzz is.

j’onn loves hall and oates and empire strikes back, and is honestly the perfect danvers sisters’ father in just about every way.

kara’s apartment continues to expand in ways that defy physics and logic, and she now has a pantry where her bathroom was a couple of weeks ago.

“aw, crone buddies.”

sam’s a disaster, but we’ll get to that later.

alex is bonding with her future adopted daughter, which we’ll also get to probably like by next episode since they’re clearly rushing the heck towards that being a requirement.

“i work with supergirl sometimes,” announces the woman who is the most paranoid secret keeper on the planet to a 12 year old who clearly has a blabber mouth???????

who the fuck am i kidding, POWERPUFF GIRLS LOVE EACH OTHER IS THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY MATTERS

first, sam and lena and the no life pity party.

second, kara, remember when you thought you had chemistry with james? you should sit quietly in the corner now.

third, lena would kill them both except then she wouldn’t have any friends.

she’s just going to have some more scotch.

AND LENA WAS GOING TO CRY.

AND THEN SAM WAS GOING TO CRY.

even though she only met kara like three seconds ago.

and then i was going to cry because somehow kara still thinks of her life as being blessed even if her supposed reliance on sam and lena never really actually happened ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU LENA

except it totally is all about lena in my heart and my pants and also in james’ pants.

look. LOOK. we’re all just going to have to deal with the fact that i love this okay.

she pulled at his tie!

and then had the nerve to be embarrassed that she kissed him!

and then he fumbled their glasses onto a tray!

AND THEN SHE KISSED HIM AGAIN!

i loved this okay!

and if two women got exactly the same treatment as these two have, heck HALF THE LAST WEEKS OF THEM CRANKILY INTERACTING WITH BANTER, you’d all be screaming queerbaiting but also writing a million fics, so miss me with this ~THIS IS OUT OF NOWHERE~ claptrap, i live on tumblr, i know what you all ship.

‘BUT JAMES IS A MISOGYNIST!!1!’ okay, my racist friends.

‘a totally random symbol? on my random piece of property? it’s all over the city? shut up that’s irrelevant, IT’S CLEARLY ABOUT ME.’

“you’ve got feelings?” jimmyyyyyyy.

speaking of, BANTER!

“don’t worry, i’ll protect you.”

“hey, so we’re alive.” “yeah, well thank god i was here.”

“it’s just my quarterly assassination attempt.”

catco office: the scene of yet another public shirt rip, news at 11

sam’s worse at keeping her secret than kara.

i also don’t really get what her deal is.

so she doesn’t remember her trip to burning man, and then the next day she’s just completely fitted out with a full blown role play suit that she’s wandering around wearing but not noticing in anticipation of? the problem with giving your villain a fully developed existence is that it makes people wonder how the fuck spontaneous villainy actually works.

and then there’s the actual villainy itself.

the mark thing is arbitrary but old testament, fine.

but then she attacks, in order, drug dealers, morgan edge, and supergirl. one of these things is not like the other, fetish mask. e x p l a i n.

drug dealers: clearly bad.

morgan edge: tried to kill lena.

THIS WAS HILARIOUS.

lena: the fuck, girl?

also lena: i tried to kill him last time you saw me.

supergirl: ??????

it’s possible chad lowe explained, but ugh. i can’t with him and so i might have missed it.

“what we know about this kryptonian is she’s a pretender.” oops, nope. bring on the suffering.

also, i think you set your workplace a little bit on fire there, kara.

(it turns out i’ve been pronouncing hubris wrong my entire life!)

that final scene was bad ass

and the time out for hilarity was one of the best fights they’ve ever shot

but the random time out for hilarity totally threw me

but it was genuinely hilarious

and totally threw me

so much so

i didn’t realise

were

ruNNING OUT OF TIME

seriously, that fight scene went for 5 full minutes.

AND THEN SUDDENLY KARA THE ALIEN WHO IS CURRENTLY BEING COLD AND ALIEN AND NOT WARM AND HUMAN GOT HER ASS HANDED TO HER AND THAT’S IT FOR 2K17.

don’t be a cold alien, pals.

she’ll be okay, the lady from the literal future said so.

SEE YOU IN 2018!

#supergirl spoilers #stuff in a list by me

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hinasho · 4 years

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so i made it to season 2 of vikings and it isn’t bad. but i do like the l*st kingdom more. like i know tlk was based on a book so it had a more rigid storyline to follow, but that’s not really any excuse for why vikings made all these storylines in s1 that either went nowhere or had extremely unsatisfying ends

the MOST unsatisfying plot line so far has to be the rollo vs ragnar dynamic. all throughout season 1, they kept showing us that rollo hates always being behind his brother. (i mean he’s a huge fucking follower maybe if he actually tried to take the lead sometimes then shit would change but i digress) he’s tried to take everything from ragnar behind his back several times, his wife, his title as earl, etc. and then at the end when he FINALLY decides to do smthg about it and join sides with jarl borg, it’s like played up to be this huge thing. then they have one (1) battle in the first episode of season 2 and rollo who wasn’t hesitating to brutally murder all his past friends is just like “nevermind” and surrenders. and then afterwards he goes “i always wanted to get out from your shadow, but once i did, there was no sun at all” and like. okay.

now him surrendering to ragnar bc he loves his brother so much, and the “no sun at all line” was really fucking good and i think the script writers for this season did do much better in regards to dialogue. but wtf is rollo even talking about. “there was no sun” you were GLORIOUS in battle wth. he was cutting people down like a fucking tank and was smiling while doing so. he makes it sound like he went through his huge angsty thing when really the only reason he gave up is because the show wrote it in. it felt rushed. extremely so. and now his “angst” is all about how everybody in town (the village?) hates him bc of what he did but i still can’t even wrap my head around why he did it and how fucking rushed that storyline was.

the characters. most of them are kinda... poorly written? like i’ve said i haven’t watched s3 or 4 yet and am only on episode 2 of the second season, but after watching the entire first season it’d be nice if the characters went through engaging development.

siggy could’ve been one of the most complex characters on the show, she lost ALL of her children one by one and her husband and then her status. she lost it all and that’s not even an exaggeration. so you’d think we’d have seen her idk doing some plotting to gain allies or smthg. but nope, she was perfectly happy i guess being lagertha’s hand maiden. fortunately it seems like the show is rectifying this in season 2 because she’s started forging alliances and etc. so hopefully this season lets us see siggy reach the high potential a character like this is capable of.

ragnar’s squad feel like just plot devices. now i don’t wanna keep comparing tlk and vk but in tlk uthred’s squad felt like a family. they laughed together, cried together, hung out, had fun, went through hardships, together. even when they weren’t necessary for the plot or for uthred’s development, his squad was still there and still played important roles. with ragnar’s, they just feel like the writers’ chess pieces and not in a good way. when one of them offered to sacrifice himself in the priest’s place, i didn’t feel one ounce of sadness. and when rollo was butchering the rest of them, i was more shocked at how violent he was rather than feeling sad they were dying. ragnar keeps bringing up one eye whenever he refers to the battle, but him and one eye didn’t even seem that close. just...... it doesn’t feel like there’s any connection/genuine relationship there.

now what i do think the show has done right is lagertha, bjorn, and floki. i LOVE lagertha. she’s strong and will kill anybody that wrongs her or her family, but she’s also genuinely kind with how she treats other women and those less fortunate. honest to god i loved her taking ragnar’s place as earl while he was out raiding. and i love the self respect she has for herself, ragnar brought up that stupid idea of him marrying aslaug after knowing how much what happened between them hurts her, and she without speaking one word to him, took their son and divorced him. that was fucking amazing. i’m in love with this woman.

bjorn is a complicated one for me. i like the bond he has with his mother. ragnar is a scoundrel and instead of bjorn admiring his father for it, he actually resents him because of how strong his love is for his mom. at the same time tho he’s just kinda annoying sometimes ahdjhcjs like he can be a hothead for literally no reason. but at the SAME time, he’s what? 13/14? he’s young! so he’s gonna be annoying sometimes and it’s okay. i’m really curious to see what happens when he gets older. i feel like he’s gonna come back and challenge ragnar or smthg

floki. gustaf skarsgård is an amazing actor and really brings the character to life with the subtle (or unsubtle) things he adds to it, like the constant yelling and jumps and maniancal laughs and etc. and then when rollo got baptized, floki’s anger was genuinely unsettling. he was pissed and more serious than we’d ever seen him before. a part of me still has the theory that he’s actually the god loki just toying with the vikings.

but like to end this random rant, a big part of the show just feels extremely directionless. even in season 1, most of the time when the characters were working UP to the smthg or a storyline felt like it was building, it would end extremely fast and feel unsatisfying. it’s like the show creates and ends several plot lines within a matter of 2 or 3 episodes. it’s just very rushed.

but i didn’t think it was that bad tho. i have my favorite characters which i already talked about before, and the dialogue in s2 is already fucking amazing. the characters will say lines that’ll have me go “oohhh that was a good one”. so hopefully this season will handle some of the issues i had much better and i’m curious to keep watching

#babbles #vikings lb

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groundramon · 7 years

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Honestly building off of what I said last night, Robin is such an interesting character; not even necessarily as a character (although that too), but just in the way he’s structured.

On the surface, you can pretty much put all of the titans into pretty specific tropes. Not saying that’s all there is to them, but they dont seem like the most original and fleshed-out characters until you get to know them a little. Starfire is the nice quirky girl with a crush on the main character, Raven is the goth, Beast Boy is the goofy runt, and Cyborg is the snarky tough guy. Starfire talks funny, Raven is well a goth, and Beast Boy and Cyborg seem to try way too hard to be relatable to the Youths with their love of food, tv, and video games. They’re instantly identifiable and you can pick up on the basics of their personalities right away, even if the basics of their personalities aren’t the most original. (Again im not saying they’re two-dimensional tropes, they have traits that definitely keep them from being that, I’m just saying on the surface - like any three-dimensional character - they are)

But then you have Robin. For a while, I had a hard time placing my finger on his personality. If the other characters are two-dimensional tropes on the surface, Robin is a one-dimensional character whose nothing outside of his role as leader. For quite a while, all I got out of him was that he was the leader.

But that’s exactly it. That’s all he is. He’s been completely consumed by his drive for defeating villains. He’s a hollow shell of what should be just a teenage boy. His obsession has driven him time and time again to break his apparent moral compasses; its driven him to betray his friends, its driven him to kill, and its probably driven him to a variety of other things. His obsession with something so serious at such a young age and the stress that comes with it have picked apart his personality, his morality, his interests, his passion, and left him an empty shell of a 16ish-year-old boy. He can’t take time for himself, he can’t do things for himself - his brain has been so consumed by his obsession that he can’t function normally anymore.

I expected the words “Robin’s sociopathic obsession” to be an exaggeration of what happens in the show used for comedic effect, not an accurate-to-the-T description of it.

And granted Robin’s character might change a little as the series goes on; I’m only on season 1, after all (and I’ve only seen 1/3rd of the Trouble in Tokyo special so). But that’s what we’re given right now, at the start of the story. This is not the kind of character I expected to find in a kids show, and CERTAINLY not in the role of the lead protagonist, but god damn am I loving it.

I also find it kind of interesting that Robin seems to be the only normal human out of all of them. Maybe there’s more to his backstory that I haven’t gotten to yet, but the others seem like the type that’d be forced into the superhero life; either you’re a superhero or a villain when you have those kinds of problems, not a regular kid. Robin could take off his mask and go back to being a regular kid if he wanted to. So in a way, it makes sense that he was the one who got consumed by it; he was the only one who chose to do it.

There’s one more thing I want to talk about - Robin in Teen Titans Go. Out of all the characters in TTG, and granted I haven't actually seen a proper episode but I’ve seen bits and pieces, Robin seems to be the most different from his original counterpart. Cyborg is less confrontational and more annoying, Beast Boy is...well about the same but left unchecked for his behavior, half the time Raven joins in with the others instead of shutting them down like she’s supposed to but otherwise is still the goth she always is, and Starfire....actually does Starfire do anything in this show? She’s like never in the commercials and idk why, but I think she’s about the same. But while the others are just dumbed-down, unchecked versions of themselves, Robin is a completely different character. He’s loud, he’s unsubtle, he makes bad jokes...well he makes bad puns in the original so maybe that’s the one thing they have in common, besides both being the leader.

But in a way, that’s one change that...actually makes a lot of sense, and is probably the smartest change TTG made (even if you dont hate the show). You literally can’t do original Robin in a comedy. There’s nothing funny about him, unless you’re planning to make fun of mentally ill people or something (actually TTG probably did that somewhere so i shouldnt say that). Unlike the others, who have clearly comedic sides to their personality, Robin is just...the hollow leader. That’s not a funny character. And without any of the seriousness of the original series, he would just...sit around and do nothing most of the time in TTG. He might be able to make bad puns sometimes and would be the one to shout “Titans, go!” but other than that...he has nothing to do.

Also I remember reading somewhere that, at least while first working on the show, the writers had never seen the original - outside of maybe what they studied to get a feel for the world, or something, idk. I’d have to find a source for that because at least later on, it looks like they had some knowledge of the original series, but I do remember hearing that somewhere. So if you’re given the basic personalities of each of the characters from the original series, you get basically what TTG has. Raven is the goth girl, Starfire is the quirky alien, Beast Boy and Cyborg make too many bad (like legit bad) jokes, and Robin is the leader. Normally a leader of a team of people is loud, bossy, and likes to joke around with the others, so its not surprising that TTG Robin is the way he is. But to the show’s credit, again, that change actually works in their favor.

(Also worth mentioning; I’ve said before that Raven should be the straightman in TTG, and while I had the thought of that for a while, I got the terminology from a youtube video somewhere. But in that youtube video, the person said “Raven or Robin would be the perfect straightman character” and having never seen the original, I didn’t know how Robin could be the straightman nor why he’d need to be. But after seeing the original, yeah, I get it now. I still think Raven should be the straightman though; she still retains her serious/annoyed persona in TTG so it’d work for the show)

But dont be fooled; just because I was thinking about this last night doesnt mean i wasnt thinking about Beast Boy being called an otaku

#stormy speaks #stormy watches teen titans

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