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dawnlovesham · 8 months
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Don't forget Yor Forger, Marin Kitagawa, Makima, Power, Ai Hoshino, Rem, and whatever Rent-A-Girlfriend or Quintessential Quintuplets girl is their so-called "best girl"
Cishet dudebro weebs really have nothing to do with their life huh
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hirundo-demersalis · 8 months
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If Madoka Magica was released in 2014-2017, you'd have tags like #pmmmcritical containing unhinged and opinionated discourse posts like: "Unfriendly fucking reminder to STOP fucking joking about He/ad/less Ma//mi because her death fucking TRAUMATIZED Mad//oka and Sa//yaka and you're a monster if you think a 15-year-old getting decapitated by a witch in front of her friends and giving them PTSD is funny", alongside various random posts rabidly hating on Kyubey or Madoka's little brother.
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kideaternomnom · 4 months
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The Zuko x Mai defenders of ATLA fandom are genuinely so funny due to how hard they try to defend that absolutely ass ship…I see some say how Zuko is happiest with Mai? And how Mai is the only one to make him smile? When dawg- Iroh, Ursa, the Gaang at the end of S3, etc all exist. Mai IS NOT the only person to make him smile when they’re not arguing. 😭 I’m still re watching ATLA and I’m not done yet but I don’t even recall any scene where Zuko worried about Mai in the Boiling Rock episode after she defended them. ☠️
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i want to try something. reblog this post with the stupidest take you've heard from the spop fandom.
I'll go first:
“catra is mean because she's a cat.”
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moomingitz · 4 months
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Finally checked out, Helluva Boss, as observe Hazbin Hotel about to officially premiere from a safe distance and I was curious what it's sister spin-off series series was like.
It was alright. Definitely flawed, especially when it comes to the overuse of swearing and dirty jokes(but not for the usual reasons other people do) but it has gotten better with that as of the last two latest episodes. But I enjoyed it for most of the part and I feel like I didn't waste my time binging what is out so far. Oh, and Fizzarolli and Asmodeus are really cute together.
I wonder what interesting and insightful discussions there are out there of these two series from the fandom and publi-
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ultraericthered · 5 months
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Why am I encountering Akito Sohma discourse in 2024, soon to be exactly 5 years since the premiere of the second anime adaptation?
Not naming names, only commenting on the garbage takes here.
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No duh on "being abused doesn't justify abusing others", but you might want to tell that to all the stans and simps for (usually male) villains who were abused and took their inexcusable actions towards others even further than Akito would've ever dared to yet they get their crimes downplayed or even defended and rationalized with "the abuse they suffered made them into people who act this way, don't judge the way any abuse victim internalizes and externalizes their trauma from the abuse they experienced, there is no 'perfect victim' y'know?", and are said to "deserve better" or "deserve" redemption.
The idea that Akito "got away with everything Scot-free" seems like a really poor reading of the story based on only the notion that if Akito is not dead, locked up in a penitentiary or asylum, or left completely alone and miserable forever by the end of the story, she faced zero consequences for her actions. Totally disregarding how almost the entirety of what the 2019 anime has as its final season was reality coming in to smack Akito around repeatedly and make her face all the natural consequences of her actions, of how she'd lived her life and ruled over her family as an abusive tyrant. See this? All of this?:
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This is all Akito's karma. It's from the punishment she wrought for herself. The misery she passed around through her family came back around in full, and she had to watch her entire world, the world of the "eternal banquet" she was promised and believed herself entitled to, gradually unravel along with her own mental and emotional state.
In the anime at least, it hits a crescendo that's regretably so brief and silent that it's easy to miss, but when Akito has mentally shut down and is just sitting there moping beside Shigure, we're shown a bit where she suddenly gets up, like she just hit a breaking point and without any thought, just on pure instinct and emotional impulse, she walks to the screen door and hits her head against it. Given her frail, shaky body language, and the mix of alarm and pity that lurks beneath Shigure's still calm facade, I'm to assume that Akito is wailing and screaming. She's having a full psychotic breakdown.
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"She never apologized, never made amends, never did anything to deserve anyone's love and forgiveness". ...I'm sorry, this person really stopped watching after Tohru got put in the hospital, huh? In the last couple of episodes, Akito did nothing BUT be apologetic and set out to make whatever amends she could, including undoing all remaining bonds and breaking the Zodiac curse! She did nothing to "deserve" anyone's love and forgiveness even at this point because now she at last understood she was undeserving of such things and was entitled to nothing, especially nothing from her victims, after the way she'd behaved and the many sins she'd committed. Forgiveness is earned and granted, never "deserved", and it's always a choice whether or not to grant it, so anyone who'd never forgive Akito for as long as they lived would be entirely within their right to do so, and so would be those who did make the choice to forgive her. Neither is invalid. And love is never a matter of "earned", "deserved", or "owed", and to think that it IS is ironically adopting a very Akito mentality.
Also have to go back to that "she never apologized" thing. Really?
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Really?
And if "that Tohru, of all people, befriended her despite the horrific things she did to her (not yet and in fact he'd just rejected her) husband" disgusts anyone, than Fruits Basket was never the story for them and Tohru was never a character they were going to love. That moment, and that gesture from Tohru, was one of THE core pillars of the entire narrative, something everything had been building up to from the very beginning. Tohru looked deep inside the cruel, childish, deranged, abusive, controlling, possessive, selfish, cowardly, downright evil pseudo-god that she, and the entire Sohma family, knew as Akito Sohma and she found who Akito Sohma truly was: a sad, abused, broken, twisted, pathetic, wretched, needy and terrified child who'd suffered through an upbringing in which she'd never been allowed to forge a single human connection with anyone else that was not dependent upon her status as the family head and the bonds with the Zodiacs that was her promised birthright, and was thus left with so much vulnerability, so much mental and emotional instability, such fear of living her life in the world as the woman she should be, as the human being she should be, that she kept concealed beneath the armor of a wrathful god who she felt could be comfortably in control of everything in her life and keep it all from slipping away from her and leaving her all alone with all her internal anguish and misery. It's that Akito Sohma who Tohru reached out to and extended the offer of friendship, to become her first ever true human friend in her life, no string attached and no bonds or godhood required. Because that's what Fruits Basket was always all about: the existence and value of love. family, and friendships as forged, mutual, equally consensual connections between humans rather than as some divine mandate upon animals or some commodity to be horded by a god.
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Already took shots at "she gets away with everying and does nothing to deserve anyone's love or forgiveness". On the belief that Akito needed to be jailed for her crimes, that is actually something I can agree with and see as a weakness in the series' ending. Once the Zodiac curse was broken and Akito was no longer "God", there'd now be nothing standing in the way of some of the Sohmas, the family members and servants alike, pushing charges against Akito for all the worst things she'd committed against them. We should've been told that such legal action was taken and that Akito knew it was coming and accepted it, being fully ready to accept accountability and justice for her crimes. When last we'd see her and Shigure, they could be doing a round of community service together! That would've been perfect! But Takaya didn't go that route, and I think what we did got was also satisfactory: Akito had lived her life with power, privileges, and freedom with which to do whatever she wanted but was also a prisoner of her own damaged psyche and of the broken family system she was born into and had to play such a large role in perpetuating, so by the end, it's now flipped so that Akito has been internally set free, is healing and finding inner peace, but without the Zodiac curse, the family headship in a lonelier, harder, constraining position but she voluntarily endures with it so that she may live the rest of her life atoning for the sins she'd committed when she was "God", all at a distance from family members who mostly will never forgive her, never think any better of her, and are glad to be free of her. So the idea that Akito's fate not being punitive enough being akin to a slap on the wrist is misguided. It's a lifelong committment to restorative justice and not getting all she desired that Akito's made, and she has to endure it while being romantically involved with Shigure, which honestly feels like a punishment worse than prison!
Piss the fuck off with the "blatant abuse apologist" claim, too. This is the same bullcrap spewed towards Kohei Horikoshi when he gave Endeavor a self improvement/atonement arc. WIth both Endeavor and Akito, the narrative is never at any point remotely pretending that their actions are anything but monstrously abusive, toxic, cruel, harmful and wrong. They're bad and so the abuser is made to feel bad about having ever done them and must face up to all the natural karmic consequences that will inconvenience their lives. An anti-abuse narrative that does not keep it as simple and black-and-white as "the abuser is 100% Bad Person, it's a problem that they exist and hurt people, the solution is to remove them from life entirely" yet still condemns the abuser for their actions and champions their victims ability to move beyond them, find healing, peace, love, and happiness in lives better than what the abuser could ever hope for, is not in the slightest bit "abuse apologism": no apologies or excuses for the abuse are being made.
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Not Akito-related, just showing how this same person truly feels about Fruits Basket on the whole due to how "problematic" it is. If it's not for you, fine, and this is actually 100% correct regarding Katsuya Honda being a sociopathic predator who fucked a child student of his yet it get beyond inappropriately framed as a beautiful, romantic, loving thing within the narrative. But when it reaches this hyperbolic "the entire series has no value, it's irredeemable media and deserves to be trashed" level of vitriol for the work...nah. That's not agreeable.
And then there's this anon who called in to say:
Seeing you rightfully call out the utter bullshit of Akito's "redemption" has me heated. The story becomes irredeemably bad the moment the forgiveness shit is pushed.
Let me say this much: there was no "redemption" or "redemption arc" for Akito. She had her big epiphany and recieved personal salvation from Tohru's approach to her, and from then on she turned herself towards self-improvement and atonement for her many sins while finally living a true human life of her own. Atonement /=/ redemption, as all avenues for her to redeem herself for her abusive acts directly to those effected by said abusive acts got closed off a long time ago.
And forgiveness is entirely another matter from redemption and atonement. Tohru, Kureno, Shigure, Momiji, Arisa, and Saki chose to forgive Akito. Literally no one else was shown to do so. Rin even said outright she could never forgive Akito after everything she did, and in the anime at least, she was positioned as not in the wrong for that.
Takaya is on my shit list for life for how she handled Tohru's character, she is my favourite I love her compassion for people and her determination to never give up despite how difficult things can be plus her learning to move on from her crippling grief resonates with me. The ending Takaya gives her is fucking vile Tohru forgiving and befriending Akito is bullshit and my mind is never going to change on that.
"I love her compassion for people." "Tohru forgiving and befriending Akito is bullshit!" Do...you not see how these are conflicting ideas? "Tohru is wonderful for how much empathy and compassion she has for people...wait no, not THAT people!" How do you miss that big?
The sole reason Tohru wants to break the curse is because she sees how much her friends are suffering under Akito's abuse both mentally and physically. She would never be so inconsiderate of their feelings as to befriend the person who hurt them so much.
And she also saw how much Akito herself was suffering under the curse and the role that was forced upon her from birth. Also, how is choosing to befriend her friends abuser inconsiderate when they don't need to factor into it at all? Tohru doesn't try to force Yuki, Kyo, Rin, Momiji, Hiro, Kisa and the rest to also be friends with Akito. She at no point even considers that possibility. What's between Tohru and Akito is kept purely between them, away from Akito's victims. Tohru understands that they'd never be comfortable around Akito due to having a history with her that Tohru herself does not have, and while she wants to help Akito move past her pain and put in the good work to make reparations for her sins, she's not going to ever downplay how vile those sins were and how badly they hurt people, nor would she put up even the pretense of giving absolution of them to Akito.
That's not even getting to my other major problem with this storyline Tohru never even learns about half of the horrific shit Akito does to her friends, Takaya intentionally has her character be left in the dark. Not to mention how abusive akito is to HER!
Why does it need to be Tohru's business to know absolutely every horrible deed Akito ever did to every person she was ever horrible to? Akito did that shit, it happened, there's nothing Tohru can do that could possibly change that or make any of it better. And oh dear, are we getting into the "antagonistic behavior = abuse" bullshit again?
She manipulates her the first time they meet and then at the beach house she threatens her and scratches up her face. Tohru outright admits she is scared of her. Then towards the end of the story akito then has the audacity to blame her for the zodiacs not loving her despite that being the consequences of her own disgusting actions. She shows up at the house to hurt and potentially kill Tohru, she slaps her multiple times, stabs her and pushes her close to the cliffs end directly putting her in danger. Akito almost gets the poor girl killed. Akito spends the entire story being an abusive monster to Tohru and the people she loves. And nearly leads to multiple characters dying, Takaya really wants us to think a friendship Between the two of them is cute because they both relate to being lonely????
Ah yes. Yes we are. Most of what's described above is Akito being a cruel villain and acting as a threatening adversary to Tohru, with actions that are clearly reprehensible and uncalled for but are not inherently "abusive", as Akito is treating a stranger badly and making enemies with her rather than being in any relationship in which she can treat her abusively. The hardest into abuse it ever swings is when Akito is holding a knife to Tohru and physically strikes her, and that's when Akito is in the midst of a full-blown psychotic episode.
And that the characters apparently aren't that different to each other??? When they clearly are. Tohru is a kind and compassionate person who helps those around her while Akito is a manipulative snake who treats those around her like they are her possessions. Tohru grows up being bullied and alone. Akito is a child abuser and commits multiple attempted murders. Trust me Takaya these characters aside from them having tragic backstories and fears of abandonment are as far away from each other as you can get.
Tohru was brought up to be kind and selfless, to the point of seeing her own self as lesser in value than others. Akito's upbringing shaped her into becoming cruel and selfish, to the point of seeing others as possessions for her to keep hold of, to pleasure her with a sense of superiorty as a cover for her own poor self image and lack of self-worth. Tohru was left alone without her mother and was ostracized by her peers. Akito was left alone without her father (as her own mother would never give her the time of day) and was "othered" by literally every person around her. They're foils. Akito is a broken reflection of what Tohru might've become if Kyoko had not put in that effort to be such a kind, loving, nurturing parent, and Akito always envied Tohru because she reflects the girl she might've been had she been allowed to be, and not internalized everything wrong with the Sohma family nor adopted her mother's own internalized misogyny.
The friendship is disgusting, Akito is an evil bitch period she is not Tohru's problem or her responsibility. Also Uo and Hana being friends with her after they find out she nearly killed their best friend and Kureno was also so gross. The characters do some of the most OOC shit in order to give Akito one of the least deserving redemption arcs i have ever seen. It is truly some of the most atrocious, insulting writing, Takaya should be embarrassed for thinking this was an acceptable way to end the story.
If you want to get technical, none of the Sohmas are Tohru's problem or responsibility. It's not on her to "fix" them or be their therapist and savior, she doesn't owe them anything. She chooses to help them out of compassion, empathy, and a desire to do right by others, to see true justice done and freedom, peace, and happiness assured for the people she cares about in their lives going forward, With Akito too, she did not impose or make her into her responsibility; she extended her hand. She offered Akito a choice. The friendship would not happen if Akito decided she was unwilling to put in the effort to do her part and accept the care, help, comfort and understanding offered to her by Tohru. So yeah, you can blame Akito for that too, even though it's not a wrong thing of her to do whatsoever! Uotani also did not become Akito's friend, more like a friendly acquaintance. Hanajima did follow Tohru's lead and befriend her, and considering she knows how it feels to internally tear yourself apart with self-loathing over guilt from having hurt people to the point of cursing your very identity and existence, I'd say her decision makes sense.
I haven't read the spin off but Akito having a child just reinforces that she is still the same selfish person she has always been. Her wanting to have children but deciding not to because of how they would suffer due to her terrible actions would actually mean she has to live with the consequences of what she has done. but of course we can't have that.
Meh. Not much a fan of that spin off and I'm kind of hoping we don't get it adapted into an anime. Some things are best left open-ended.
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transfemlogan · 1 year
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Logan: it's really cute that you're gonna, "defeat me with the power of the dark sides", and all, but, again, I am Logic from Thomas' mind, so I don't know how well it's gonna work—
Janus: you motherfucker, you didn't let me finish!
Logan: uh-huh? Go ahead.
Janus: I have all this power in my han-
Logan: yeah, duh-duh-duh-duh, shut up, shut up, shut up the fuck up. I'm logi- I don't CARE. I DO NOT CARE!
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kharmii · 1 month
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Maybe Marchy wants you to delete their post because they don't want to be affiliated with you, specifically. You're sort of a trash human being who can't get past werewolves being fictional creatures who have been a part of human mythology for thousands of years. Oh, and you're also transphobic and borderline homophobic. No one seems to like you, Kharm. Take a hint and keep your opinions to yourself for a change.
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I haven't seen werewolf pron in a long time because all the people into it blocked me before I had a chance to block them. Srsly tho, there is no fandom as thirsty for dog-ass as submas. Beautiful men = Out of Style. Grotesque hairy stank-factories = In Style.
I don't like a lot of you either. I'd have been over this fandom ages ago if I wasn't into making dubious translations of Asian art. It's not like I'd want to go diving head first into My Hero Academia either, as it's mostly a bunch of kids. I suppose Erasurehead x Present Mike is appealing in the 'opposites attract' sort of way, but I'm not into Endeavor x Hawks because the former is too much of an alpha male. A main plot point was how Endeavor got into an arranged marriage with a once influential family that was struggling. They sold their daughter to Endeavor so he could selectively breed perfect superhero babies.
Endeavor: *taps watch* My recovery time is twenty minutes. That's how often you are getting bred until that baby sticks. After that, we could go once an hour for fun. (My goddamn #1 hero)
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Anyway, nobody has yet to answer my question about why it's acceptable in fandom to be a shitting dick nipple fkn furry into a million stupid fetishes, yet a lot of those people still have the gall to have a 'Proshippers DNI' on their pages. Why is it okay to cherry pick the two things? (Pedophilia/Incest) but it's okay to belong to a group of people (furries) who are overrepresented in irl cases of sexual abuse? Why is one sort of weirdo more socially acceptable than another?
Side note: A lot of furries I've encountered are into belly kink. You know how they are always saying yaoi is offensive to irl gay men because woman pidgeonhole gay men into heteronormative female fantasies? Well, first of all, fuck gay men and men in general. It's part of male privilege that all biological males -whether straight gay or trans- have this attitude like their feelings are of utmost importance, and that they should be allowed to regulate what we do. If gay men don't like my gay men fantasies, then fight me.
Where was I....so belly kink is a very heteronormative feminine fantasy. It's a very female fantasy to want to see a feminine looking person being comforted by their masculine partner when they are suffering with a huge swollen pregnant looking belly. I can see the appeal of it if the person with the fat belly is pretty looking, like the Dabiten ship. Unfortunately, I too often saw depictions of this featuring gross ass furries that one could just imagine the stank lines wafting out of.
Another side note: Is there the same sort of crap in other fandoms one sees in submas? -Like does every other fandom get flooded with two-dick dragon morbidly obese omegaverse bullshit? I'll say it again because I have the right to my opinion....I'll bet a lot of monster fkn bullshit is trans coded, like they want to normalize fat hairy men with vaginas and/or dubious genitals (like multiple dicks, yo..) looking pregnant. It's yet another side effect of our fossil fuel driven glut where too many people have amygdales not functioning correctly which causes dysfunction with dopamine regulation. A person with a healthy sense of their own mortality would be repulsed by pregnant trans male figures because of the potential of getting a really messed up baby.
Seriously, doctors are supposed to experiment on animals before moving to humans. How many female animals were pumped with male hormones then made pregnant? Have there been a lot of studies done on what unnatural male hormones might do to a developing baby in the womb? -Or are we in the midst of ongoing legal experimentation on humans?
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werewolf-cuddles · 2 years
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idk why antis act surprised when fans of media where 98% of the main cast are related to eachother end up shipping incest pairings
seems kinda inevitable under those circumstances
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prodogg · 2 years
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Interacting with mutuals that are chill people is the best thing here. All these people thinking they are better person because of not liking/liking a ship are so whiny and immature.
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sweetescapeartist · 2 years
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DRAGON BALL FANS TRULY CANNOT READ
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Bruh... I present evidence of an official Toriyama interview and that the Super Hero film itself says it is a sequel to Broly.
Then I simply ask the guy to present his evidence.
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Then, the dude deflects & says that I didn't present evidence, basically admitting he can't read...
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For further context, this is what I posted.
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Also another tweet that shows the official DBS twitter's 2018 tweet about Toriyama's interview.
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Also Gohan is wearing Piccolo's gi in DBS: Super Hero because Piccolo put him in it. That DOES NOT mean its connected to the manga just because of clothing.
If that was the case then why doesn't manga Goku in the brief retelling of the Broly movie have tassels on his sash/obi when the Goku in the DBS: Broly movie does?? 🤔
[Spoiler warning for Super Hero]
Another point is that anime Gohan had a base form & Ultimate form while manga Gohan doesn't use an ultimate form at all and is always in base.
The guy is being purposefully stupid because I refuse to believe he is truly illiterate.
Last point to further prove Toriyama's statements about the movies being in the anime continuity rather than the manga continuity.
This is what Gohan says in the anime & is nowhere in the manga...
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And then, that line is paid off by Gohan attaining an Ultimate form that no one has ever seen before.
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Which is a throwback to the way that the limited color DB manga showed SSJ Goku with white hair & red eyes.
Its kinda like the fan-made Gohan Blanco, but the eyes aren't blueish or silver.
(Depending on what kanji is used, "Final" can also be translated as "Ultimate." So it's another ultimate form just as Gohan said he wanted to achieve in the anime.)
The movies are in the anime continuity but they are also an intersecting point for both anime & manga since the manga skips over Broly. The brief manga retelling of Broly differs from the anime movie too since it skipped it.
And lastly, there is no anime-filler in DBS. The DBS anime predates the DBS manga so if anything, the manga has filler.
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dawnlovesham · 1 year
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There's drama on Ani/Trendz and once again I have to say that site and its Twitter account is a JOKE.
They just had to exclude Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury because we're not allowed to have fun. The fact they're high on Oshi No Ko and Hell's Paradise mlw ships which barely have any dynamic and interaction really tells a lot. Ironic how their Twitter header is SuleMio at the moment.
This is not new when I have seen Ani/Trendz bullshit. Have you ever seen their awards this year which was literally nothing but Bocchi The Rigged? Or them tweeting about Hirogaru Sky Precure which is very disturbing because I'm sure they're not aware that it's an anime targeted at 2-6 year old girls.
This behaviour is exactly why I hate the Western anime industry and fandom. Crunchyroll is a greedy empire run by adults pretending to be teen weebs pathetically trying to appease and entertain actual teen weebs coupled with their obsession with underpayment so that they could spend their money on an office that looks like cultural appropriation at its finest, Anime News Network has reviewers who are just self-entitled prudes that dump their personality all over their writing. And when you try to call them back on how wrong they are, they'll go snowflake mode and defensive over their opinions and words because they can't handle criticism, Anitrendz is an obnoxious biased joke also run by teen weebs, and Anitwt and Anime TikTok, we all know is a miserable, hateful community that needs to be burned into ashes. At least MyAnimeList is the least problematic one as we speak.
If anyone wants to know what they did to Witch From Mercury, message me if you like
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sketch-shepherd · 2 years
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kideaternomnom · 3 months
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Bro Azula stans on Tumblr will never fail to have me dumbfounded by their stupid ass takes on Zuko or their mischaracterization on him just to upscale Azula 💀like literally I just saw one saying that he wanted to regain his honor just for the throne like uh what.
He wanted his honor back for the love of his father. It's to show that his father's love isn't what he really needs and that Ozai is an abusive asshole. Y'all are literally erasing the main point of his character arc. 😭
I love both Fire siblings as characters and I relate heavily to Azula on parts however downplaying another abuse victim just to upscale another is a VERY bad look. Especially the fact that it's canon that Azula was mean to Zuko and he literally created a chant to comfort himself after she made him feel unsafe. ☠️
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konboyblues · 10 months
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Not Bruce Timm or any of those writers! Don’t do Barbara dirty like that! 😭 But you know I do think she would have daddy/mommy issues. Her actual dad Roger Gordon died which sent her to live with her uncle Jim Gordon who may or may not be her actual dad because he had an affair with her actual mom behind his brother’s back. Jim also cheated on his wife with another woman. Barbara’s mother and stepmother have both died. Barbara would have major relationship issues if all her history was considered still canon. Some writers are just boring and don’t do anything with it.
sjdhshdjddj 😂😂😂 so when i meant daddy issues, i meant the way her relationship with bruce has evolved since her conception as a character (from possible love interest to being a bat variant in 2023), and tho her possibly being an affair baby is absolutely hilarious, i meant that i greatly enjoy the clownery that is her relationship with bruce throughout the years. now critics will say There Are No Daddy Issues, but i think bruce timm would disagree, but in my personal opinion, the writers over the years ACCIDENTALLY gave barbara daddy issues by not keeping true to her ORIGINAL concept idea (aka being a contemporary of bruce versus her eventually evolving into a contemporary of dick), and thus putting her character in this INSANE pickle where she HAS to have a Weird Relationship With Bruce in order to be a bat variant, but now with fandumb’s obsession with dickbabs, bruce timm’s rebellion with brubabs, oracle stans revolt with nobody/babs, and the constant infantalization of batverse characters that portray any and all robins and bat variants as bruce’s “children” when most of them are not, she’s in this weird place where ppl remember her for being creepy with dick, some ppl simply don’t want her anywhere near the bat variants and robins anymore, dickbabs nation is winning in the current batverse runs, brubabs stans got an animated sex scene, AND YET…….. nobody wanna just write her for her and actually give her the time and complexity she COULD have right now.
anon you are absolutely right that barbara has a RICH history that can be used to develop her greatly, but they’ve cheapened out for this cookie cutter shit. i’d go as far as to say that they shoulda let barbara keep her age gap with dick. put it out there that Something Is Amiss Here, but the steady pursuit towards “sanitizing” the absolute wretchedness that is 99.99% of dc comics history……. sad. they forget that this tyler perry shit actually sells.
like let her be weird. unapproachable, even. she is, canonically, Very Weird, but she aint crazy enough anymore smh, the writers keep pulling back like they’re trying not to offend delicate shipper sensibilities. mothafuckas think riddlebabs is ew. bro riddlebabs would actually make her so FUNNY. maybe even let some of her darker traits shine instead of being dickie the heartthrob’s redhead gf. at least with riddlebabs, her daddy issues could blossom considering riddler and jim have a kinda sorta frenship when eddie’s not wilin and off his meds 😂😂😂
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moomingitz · 2 years
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I miss when the most controversial things to happen in Steven Universe was Amethyst shapeshifting into Rose Quartz in front of Greg, and a harmless non-canon crossover episode with Uncle Grandpa.
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