#bc i CARE ABOUT THIS FRANCHISE

[ganondoodle]

every now and then i get comments on some of my older rants about totk and im pretty sure its usually the very first post without any of the additions i tend to add later on-

old post about how i found it a lil weird that the one of the first things rauru and sonia doing is put zelda back into a little white maiden dress even tho her own clothes didnt look damaged at all and were far more practical and someone commented that its so she doesnt stand out (something that was said in nearly every comment i got on that post already) and that it was only weird bc i was making it weird or sth xD

but it made me think about it again, so .... that excuse doesnt work for me at all bc .. why wouldnt she want to stand out? whats the danger of that? her suddendly appearing out of nowhere, not knowing anything of the traditions or happenings of the time, being around the king and queen all the time with a duplicate enigma stone and unknown technology (purah pad) isnt weird? i know the excuse of oohoho shes a distant relative of sonia (i know its far stretched techinically true i guess) but why even do that, why go to such lengths of keeping her time traveling secret? making her less of a target for gan isnt really sensical either bc he went for sonia anyway, despite zelda clearly being the younger and less experienced of the two with less control of her power, and if he knew she was techinically more powerful .. well then shes even less in danger, and if he might have wanted to get information from her what could he have gained from it really? she didnt really know anything more anyway? like all she could tell him would be like you will lose i guess lol

(also you could keep it secret from him but why from the others, i just dont see the point, i dont find her look pretty either, she just looks uncomfortable, like if she gets put in to a lil white uwu maiden dress AGAIN im just gonna assume ok you are stripped of all your agency and will sacricifce yourself again wahoo what fun)

in a world were time magic is normal why wouldnt you just say yep she literally came from the future to help us? the usual rules of time travel, as in, dont tell anyone who you are, dont mess with the happenings bc everything can have major consequences, doesnt apply anyway, she goes around by her real name and is involved in literally every major happening .. so why care?? keeping it secret from gan for the future? why? he literally recognizes her within a split second anyway

(no gonna get into why i think her time travelling in the first place is like .. so forced? its only segway to put her out of the game essentially and the oh no tragic twist, but like why, she got the powers and the stone so she unconcisouly travels ... back in time ..?? why not reverse the stones she fell from or something, if it was soemthing that would come up again ok! like she did the time travel accidentally and then learned how to return over the time she spent in the past thats good!! i like that idea, but its never broguht up again, the closest thing to it is the weird two time bubbles that just serve to give you her time powers (whats up with how that went down anyway) and then to send the mastersword back ... why even do that when it could have fallen and travelled back with her right away?? and both of those are at the very start of the game AND IT NEVER COMES UP AGAIN, like fine if it was her trying to go back but not getting it right so she creates weird ass time bubbles cool! why not put them all over the place with them getting bigger and maybe being able to talk to link from the past idk SOMETHING- ok ill stop here ...)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rants #i just keep finding things that are neat build ups or whatever and then its NEVER FOLLOWED UP ON #i HATE being made to care about soemthing and then it all being dropped without a word #like i feel betrayed and cheated on for caring about stufff in this game #like with impa hell yeah lets research a way to bring zelda back wowooo and then its nothing #its just .. doesnt matter lol #yes im mad #bc i CARE ABOUT THIS FRANCHISE #botw WORKED with its setting and worldbulding an themes #totk doesnt and its driving me nuts

[shadszyyx]

im about to be such a stupid hater but as an aromantic person i hate the httyd 3 ending.

#YES i know its similar to the books ending #but idk man toothless leaving hiccup to go live far away with some random dragon he met like two days ago after he and hiccup have basically #grown up together just rubs me the wrong way #they've been through so much together #both literally saving the life of the other at one point #and YES i know they didn't just leave bc of that #but CMON THEIR FRIENDSHIP??? toothless and hiccup care so much about eachother #they're basically eachother's whole world #they're soulmates even /p #even valka tells her son that he has the soul of a dragon #idc what ppl say #idc if the ending was supposed to be ''realistic'' #it's a fictional world they could've came up with a happier ending where they didn't have to get separated #also i love love love astrid #dont get me wrong #but even since i was a kid i never really cared that much about her's and hiccups relationship #← aka aroace person speaking #yeah they have a lot of cute moments together #just bc im aroace that doesn't mean i cant find their relationship really cute #but again the friendship between dragons and humans is what the story is all about #idk where im going with this anymore sorry #im tired n mad n i just wanted to talk about one of my favorite franchises in the world #i love to just pretend the actual stayed together at the end of the third movie n also the light fury doesnt really exist #sorry but thats a topic for another post #bc i feel like this one has too many tags already #not that i completely hate the light fury #its more complicated than that

[dizzybevvie]

If I die within the next week know it wasnt an accident

#I dont have the energy to elaborate rn and this is a /lh #i just have sooo much nostalgia for rob/dob and every plot point is wrapped up in a lil bow instead of stretching for 9373927393 episodes #i get thats some peoples style! its just not rlly mine :3 #as a kid i loved every dragon from Book Of Dragons having its own episode #and i feel like ppl forget that when rtte was coming out; they could only go so far! #like the second movie had already come out. they knew where they were going #which is definitely a strength of the show in some regards #but rob/dob didnt have that #we hsd no idea where rhe franchise was going #which made big lore revelations so meaningful #Hiccup discovering the box with a present from his (thought diseased) mother??? THAT WAS SO WILD TO 5 YEAR OLD ME #or Borks papers and the isle of night (which turned out to be a ruse but like!!!! IT STILL FELT SO BIG AT THE TIME!!!!!!) #idk. #i feel like ive been trying to downplay my love for rob/dob which really ignited my love for the franchise to begin with #bc the animation was janky and no one had really seen it and no one in my entire life had ever valued it like i did #(read: i was autistic and didnt realise caring so much about something wasnt “normal”) #But i rewatched it this year and yknow what? it holds up. i ADORE riders of berk. FIGHT ME. #(Sonic destruction Knuckles voice) Try some shit youll catch these hands #FIGHT ME. YOU'LL WIN #httyd #rob/dob #riders of berk #defenders of berk #race to the edge #NOT RTTE NEGATIVITY BTW!!!!! I LOVE RTTE TE WRITING IS RLLY GOOD ITS JUST THE FORMAT OF ROB APPEALS MORE TO ME PERSONALLY #how to train your dragon #hiccup how to train your dragon #beverly says stuff

[marklikely]

like that l.a. times article is rightfully being dragged through the mud so maybe my complaining is redundant. but i think if you wrote "maybe barbie would get a nomination if she survived a mass murder plot" you should never be allowed to write again

#the disrespect to not only lily gladstone (who deserves the win) but also more important to the real atrocity that kotfm portrays #like. belittling the actual violence that happened in real life against these women and the men in their community. #jesus fucking christ i have no words for you. over a movie about barbie dolls. you should lose all credibility forever. #avpost #also ill say it i think its stupid that ryan gosling felt the need to apologize for his nomination #when a woman in the same movie literally did get an equivalent nom in best supporting actress.... #which is crazy bc idk that america ferrera did her best work in this movie but like good for her. does she not exist to barbie fans? #double also i cant believe theres this much nonsense over a movie that got EIGHT NOMINATIONS being 'snubbed' #and this is just the barbie discourse dont get me started on the discourse around other movies most of which is also stupid #god the consequences of a year where people start moving from big franchise schlock to Caring Abt Film. annoying discourse. #well anyway. theres more important things in the world im just so tired of oscar discourse and i had to rant a little bit.

[kohakhearts]

hey that pokemon 2000 gifset + your jn dub analysis made me think about the pokemon 2000 dub - I've only seen it subbed once (compared to the hundred times I watched it dubbed as a child) so I could be misremembering, but didn't the dub completely change the themes of the movie with the chosen one ash thing?

i actually haven’t watched the sub nearly as many as times as the dub either :p but i have read extensively about this topic bc it’s personally my favourite pokemon movie and yes! the first and second pokemon movies are both victim to this (like mewtwo’s epic speech we all love so much at the end of the first movie…being a complete fabrication by the dub team :p you gotta give those writers credit - they were VERY good at what they did), largely i’m guessing due to cultural values and expectations. since they were trying to sell the anime to an american audience, not a japanese one.

tangentially, i will say i also think that’s the root of this like…subtle distinction some people have between the characters “ash” and “satoshi.” i don’t differentiate them in any big way myself because fundamentally they still are very much the same, but it is true that in japanese, ash has somewhat different mannerisms and responds differently to events at times, especially in the early anime when it was so much easier to get away with making big changes for…a big assortment of reasons haha.

in THIS movie in particular, some of those things are like…well. the prophecy is probably the most obvious change. the dub team rewrote it to include the chosen one reference, which works great because of the word play on ash’s name. in japanese, it just says “an exceptional trainer will appear to help calm the wrath of the gods.” ash’s response to this is more mild trepidation than outright fear. he doesn’t hesitate like he does in the dub. and tbh? both reactions make perfect sense for his character in my opinion.

in japanese, his concern is more "do you really think i can fit that role?" this...tracks pretty well with his character development by this point. like yeah he said he could win the indigo league, but he's also thinking about dropping out after gary loses; it's that little grain of insecurity he has, which he's normally good at covering up with arrogance (a lot of which is also very genuine, don't get me wrong). but he sees the opportunity to help and he takes it. that's just...what ash does.

in english, though, the prophecy is pretty clearly about him. there's no one else it could be. it has to be him. and he...doesn't like that? that scares him. which, fair. anyone would be terrified by being singled out like that. it's also so much...not ash's thing, even at this point in the series. his character development is about embracing having to work hard to do well. to keep trying until you get it right, no matter how many times you get it wrong. the idea of being a "chosen one" completely robs him of his ability to be so single-minded about what he wants his destiny to be that it manifests as pre-determined; it just...pre-determines it for him, if that makes sense. lol.

the thesis of the japanese version of the film is that no one person or pokemon can stand on their own. everyone needs help. it's about harmonizing with each other and with nature. about letting others help you, and helping them in turn. the english version rewrites that into a story about power and destiny. the title alone says it all, right? it's called "the power of one" - no reference to lugia, no reference to the birds. in japan, the title is about the revelation (or "birth") of lugia.

westerners love a good chosen one story, so this was a really good choice by the dub team in that respect. i mean, it's a narrative that's stuck really well. fandom loves chosen one ash! in general, western fanbases are really into this narrative. it's everywhere. and there's a lot that goes into that, culturally, and especially religiously, historically, etc. so at the end of the day, i don't think the change is so much about conflicting ideas about collectivism and individualism. it's more about goals and ideals, on a personal level.

let me say again for the 273456784th time, i love that they resolved ash's story by having him realize that the goal he's really been striving for all this time is to meet and befriend pokemon. to learn from them. to earn their trust. it's like...he did the thing that everyone else thought represented his goal, maybe even himself included, only to realize that his dream was never about the end of it anyway. it was about everything he learnt and everyone he met along the way. (i also suspect nobody writing in 1997 knew that that would be the ultimate resolution, either. but it makes sense in the entire context. it's kind of a nice irony, even. to only figure it out after writing the story :p)

and i think this little distinction is important to that goal! it's his whole character! which is why even though i too love chosen one characters, i don't necessarily think of ash as one. because even if he is, his whole Thing is that he wants to try. a lot of the chosen one narrative is about characters being reluctant to be used for a "greater good," or about them collapsing under that pressure. ash doesn't really have that. he does what he thinks is right because he...thinks it's right. sometimes, sure, others have to push him into it a bit, but usually they're actually pushing the other way - it's too dangerous, you're going to get hurt, etc. and to me, i don't know - thinking of times he's died, or nearly died, and some legendary or mythical pokemon has saved him at the last minute...i don't think that has to mean he's special in a cosmic sort of way. i think it just means he's special to them. that he did something for them, or for someone else they had come to care for (thinking manaphy responding to may's emotions, not just to the fact that ash was drowning, or in mpm ash convincing latios to trust him because of their mutual desire to save latias, etc.), and so they want to help him. which is completely opposite to the typical chosen one narrative, i think? because he doesn't do those things out of obligation...he does them because he thinks he can become a better trainer by doing them, and he wants to do that. and well. he did do that.

anyway my tl;dr here is YES they changed the theme a lot haha, but i find it fun that they also changed the characters’ responses to that theme. funnily that’s…kind of also what fanfiction writers do all the time, lmao, but that’s a whole other conversation.

#answered #im sure id have something more insightful to say if id watched the original recently but i havent Dx #*meta #i guess #also re: the chosen one narrative being very religious #its more to the idea specifically of a character who does selfless things for the sake of being selfless and it often ends with the #character martyring themself somehow. which i dont think it’s necessarily WRONG to say is what ash does. self-sacrificial is not a Bad way #to describe him. i think its a reasonable and compelling read on his character. its just not mine i guess because as much as i also love #chosen one characters what i love most about it isnt the fact that they are a chosen one #so much as what the consequences of that have been because what they really want deep down is to just…not have to save the world #but ash isnt really like that. saving the world is more of a byproduct of what hes actually trying to do. which is to help others #rather than being forced to save the world to help the ones he cares for. its kinda opposite. idk. maybe i’ll write a post about this #properly someday bc rn my brain is mush and i can only think of three major western franchises that even have chosen ones lol

[boneless-mika]

Finally going to join the Snufkin hype probably

#that new game is so cute and all the cosplayers I’ve seen are amazing #strange wording perhaps I should’ve said Moominvalley hype but who cares about Moomin #it’s all about Snufkin in my brain #the side characters truly make Moomin as a franchise special #fun fact: I went to the like moomin park as a child and bc it’s in Finland Little My spoke Finnish to me and it terrified me

[trispriart]

Birds of a Feather

#beedraws #crowe #the crow #crow jr #I'm not tagging destiny fuck you #dnd #I hate my dm bc she forces my character into caring about canon characters from already existing franchises #did I think I would be adopting the crow destiny 2 as my son? nope but here we are #did I think I would be marrying xehanort/sora kingdom hearts? nope but here we are #anyway this dnd thing is fun welcome to my tags #hi mori if you're reading this #don't look at me caring about destiny now

[feline-evil]

Being into some game series's is a constant cycle of going 'ok, ok maybe this'll be the one we'll be so back on, maybe THIS time it'll be good' and getting hit in the face w how joever it is hard enough to make your ears ring every time

#jay talkin #sorry 4 bein a hater any tiny shreds of hope i had for silent hill as a franchise just got squeezed outta me im done #not a value judgement nor a taste judgement its just a ME personally thing imma enjoy the old ones n leave well enough alone #i got like....what. ten fifteen mins into watching the new free one they put out and hough boy #dont read on if u dont want 2 see opinions #ok so. beats u over the head w everything is disastrously unsubtle dialogue feels clunky #beats and aesthetics feel ripped wholesale from the pt-like boom years ago so it feels unoriginal #i hit a point where it handled a real world thing so fucking stupidly that i tapped out because i do not care to see #how awfully thats going to play out. it gives u a warning up front that there will be triggering content in it #heed that warning bc it is not subtle about it it is completely in your face with no artistry at all #i am not a believer you CANT approach triggering subjects i just think the way theyre doing it is fucking dumb #its dumb and shallow and feels completely uninformed by any real experience and its trite #7 years ago it wld have been passable. today its overdone and undercooked #and hey maybe it gets good further in. i have zero interest in waiting for that godbless and godspeed #if you enjoy it u enjoy it u dont gotta bother me w it. i think its bad and im allowed to <3

[ars0nism]

least favorite thing about existing is how engrained h*rry p*tter is in society like if i dont like dsmp yeah whatever block the tumblr tags and dont go on tik tok too much whatever. dont like that shitshow??? good luck trying to avoid it!! its fucking everywhere!!

#im all for just. letting people exist #i dont care what fandoms ur in. just tag ur shit #if i dont have it blacklisted ?? thats on me #but p*tter is so engrained in modern society its in random unrelated quizzes. its what your classmates talk about randomly #doesnt matter which fucking fandom youre in. what group youre with (unless theyre all hp antis). theyll mention it #'whats ur house 🥺🥺' my house is go fuck yourself #listen im a zodiac sign bitch. i get it. but stop. fucking. talking. about. the terf world. #'i dont support jkr tho death of the author' oh but you support blatant antisemitism & fucking slavery apologizing ??????? #the media reflects the views of the author #and YEAH im a 19th century literature enjoyer. but guess what. bram stoker isnt gaining SHIT from all of us reading dracula #not to mention i can recognize and criticize these novels on their problematic bits #ive never met a h*rry p*tter fan with critical reading skills #'all this bc of a kin quiz' ok listen they gave aroace & alloace as options but not aroallo i was already upset and then boom #no tik tok i dont care about the new fantastic beasts. if mads and jude law want to be gay for each other they can do it anywhere else #and no classmates im not being a killjoy im just not tolerating literally every kind of bigotry under the sun #because im a normal person #and you know what else im fucking sick of #WHEN THEYCGET MAD AT ME FOR NOT LIKING IT ???? #'please dont talk about that franchise near me it makes me uncomfy & upset' 'youre overreacting' #AM I??? AM I???? #IT WAS MY CHILDHOOD TOO AND IM TRANS MY CHILDHOOD IDOL HATES PEOPLE LIKE ME #I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HATE IT I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE UPSET #i would give my life defending trans women. you wouldnt even give up a single fucking kids franchise #anyway #i should quit my antidepressants i should go back to being too tired for anger #back to therapy i need coping mechanisms but for anger this time

[dmclemblems]

dimitri literally is completely suicidal in this game right to the end

is nobody going to actually help this man i mean he literally just said there is nobody he more desires to end than himself and then says he must thank their adversary for letting him kill a phantom of himself

like

is nobody going to help him

not even after this being one of many instances of him being utterly suicidal

i mean he’s very vocal about it

is nobody... gonna... help him...

#Three Hopes #Dimitri #literally like ??? i get that there's only so much time for writing and stuff #but with the amount of times he says suicidal things you'd think they'd have room to like #stick something in there where someone gets super worried #especially after chapter eight I mean you'd think with how strong his support system is #that ppl would be like whoaaaaaaaaaa back up what did you say #BUT NO NOPE NOBODY EVEN SITS HIM DOWN AND TALKS TO HIM and I don't even blame the characters #I blame it on being a poor writing choice bc the characters SHOULD and ABSOLUTELY WOULD #but the writers for some reason just decided not to include it which is kinda lame #he obviously needs a lot more than just a support system alone #as someone who has been in the same mental place and said the same kind of shit just as often #he needs a lot more than just good friends bc good friends are great but that alone doesn't cure the problem #ngl he's the most openly suicidal character probably in the FE franchise and it's a huge shame that #they didn't bother writing in people actually trying to do something about it bc when it comes to #how severe Dimi's mental illness is they did a good job with that esp in AM #but they don't rly have ppl properly helping him through it and you can do that without needing modern therapy #I mean if Rodrigue heard him talking like this you better BELIEVE he would not let it go and would talk to Dimi #it's a shame they basically just left out all the blatant worry and care that everyone would have had

[ganondoodle]

the more time goes on the more negative i feel about totk, its got lots of reasons but aside from me thinking about what else they could have easily done instead of what we got its more and more bc its so put on a pedestal like its the best zelda ever and also its affecting botw in retrospect, not just by the lore, but the fact that people have been saying even shortly after totks release that theres 'no point playing botw' anymore, and will see botw as nothing but totks "bad" prototype is just SO infuriating to me

you know when you initially feel neutral (or ignorable dislike) about a character but then the fandom for some reason gets so insanely obsessed with them that you just start disliking them more and more over time ... yeah

#ganondoodles talks #i know its da new game so of course its the focus #but its 99.99% just praise and i just dont get it #the only criticism i see is from a few people in my little fandom bubble and from annoying ytubers who just hate without reason #no i am not complaining about idk monster variety or complain that the dodge tech is unfair bc i dont always get it (lol) #im too insane over this franchise to only care about gameplay #anyway #if i dont get this comic update done today i might as well quit #(joking) #i havent dared watching any of the big zelda you tuber guys... are there even any that have similar complaints as me or am i just that weir #... i might just be that weird #i have always been the odd one in my -ultimately harmless but nonetheless very important to me media-opinions anyway

[k1rishiki]

sorry but i think all the issues w the celtic servant's characterization in fgo is scáthach's fault

#fgo's specialest little girl (derogatory) #i usually don't get mad abt fate servants but she's.... she and cu did to ALL the celts what karna did to arjuna #which is to say. nerfed them all (both characterization + strength-wise) to make herself look better in comparison #but the difference is that. while karna and cu were a preestablished and complex character in the franchise b4 fgo #(the game that's known for ironing out its characters' personality for marketability's sake). scáthach is a fgo original #which means she sucks. and she sucks more bc she's the reason why so many other characters also suck #and why characters who were preestablished (diarmuid) are suddenly acting nothing like they did when she wasn't there for comparison #i hate scáthach a little. or a lot. the celts deserve better + i don't care about her at all i don't want to see her and i don't want to #be reminded of her. fgo stop forcing me to encounter scáthach challenge #romeo.txt

[judesstfrancis]

the thing about scream is that it was always about sidney prescott that is the point she is what the entire franchise hinges on. and then the new filmmakers come in and say yeah it was always the plan to move on from sidney eventually and she would've been written out even if neve hadn't refused the deal for scream vi like that is so rotted

#the one redeeming quality of 2022 WAS the characters I'll admit it but like #scream isn't about the killers at all it's about sidney prescott and her life and her struggling to keep it together #when she has to constantly relive the worst moments of her life either bc it's happening all over again #or bc the media won't ever let her forget it #ghostface is. not the main character and he never has been #it's always just a couple of stupid losers with a bad motive #and THAT'S what the franchise is centered around. k*llers are loser u should be caring about sidney prescott instead #and to turn their back on that is kind of. well #anyway not to make it a moral dilemma it's really only that deep To Me #but I really truly do think that continuing the franchise without sidney takes away from the entire meaning of the films #text post #horror tag

[pedro-pascal]

nothing pushes my self esteem lower than your txt posts cause ill watch the mandalorian and have a great time and i like marvel movies too then ill come on here to see you say how everything about the episodes was bad and anyone who enjoys it is a stupid shitbrained idiot with bad taste and comparing it negatively to marvel cause everyone on tmblr hates marvel now.

but you make some of the most beautiful gifs on here so i still like following you for those.

wtf anon, i don't think i ever belittled someone bc they liked marvel (maybe some of my friends bc ik they don't even enjoy it so much so i kindly make fun of them)

i actually think it's great that you enjoy stuff. i personally am very critical of what i watch so that's why i kinda always criticise things. the thing about mando is that the episode is like good ya know? but if you compare this to the whole star wars thing and like the whole story of star wars then i think some stuff is lacking. and that's star wars fans for you. we love to bitch about stuff. do not take it personally. i'm also french so that doesn't help because we love to complain

at the end of the day it's just an opinion and most opinions are neither wrong or right. if you feel happy about your opinion then you shouldn't be affected by others!!!

if i make you so sad and hurt, please , unfollow me. it's not healthy. i have a very opinionated mind so if it makes you uncomfortable, please unfollow/block me. it's not worth your mental health i promise. a lot of people make better gifs than me and they don't say a single word soo i guess you'd be better with them!

#for the record i liked a lot of the first MCU movies and i think i watched all of the movies until avengers endgame #i also watch all the spidey. and i love some stuff about the MCU but not everything #same for mando. i am critical bc it thought the first season was exceptionally good and then it became cash grab for disney #overall i don't think your opinion is wrong. i'm more critic about the way disney is handling these franchises #because they don't care much about the content. they care about the money #which to me is the death of the art #anonymous #so yeah please unfollow me nonnie. it's not healthy. i swear you'll feel better w/out me

[ruairy]

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#its hard being a pokemon fan nowadays bc i love the stupid batrling creature games so much but its getting more abd more obvs #that pokemon conpany do not gove a shit about the games they're putting out 😶 #pokemon sleep app is practically a joke #I don't need to talk about the lackluster console games theyve put out as much as i did genuinely enjoy all of them #so fucking annoying when u care more about a franchise than its actual creators 🌝 #anyway rumours are that August will have a new pokemon direct and I'm like yaaay new games maybe!!?? and im also like oh no more new games #i hope that the scarvi dlc ends up being good :')

[professionaljester]

do we have to have the conversation of If you like/support harry potter your supporting a TERF and her ideals again

#abc shut it #like she’s said if you support Hp your a terf #i don’t care if you personally don’t believe you’re a terf and are consuming harry potter #all trans people are going to perceive you as a terf no matter what #bc you are consciously supporting a terf and her franchise and giving her your support and money #let it die so she can die off forgotten about and poor #stop giving her your support and money she’s a vile person