#deal with criticism and hate

[lovegrowsart]

it's pretty wild to me that people don't see that aang running off to save katara in CoD is his luke in empire strikes back moment, where he runs headlong into his want and attachment and he's narratively punished for doing so and not learning his lesson - aang runs after katara despite guru pathik's warning, like luke runs after leia and han from yoda on dagobah despite yoda's warning; similarly, as a result, things go to hell in ba sing se like they do on bespin - aang enters the avatar state before he's ready and gets killed, and ba sing se falls to the fire nation, luke fights vader before he's ready, loses a hand, and symbolically commits suicide after vader tells him he's luke's father.

the difference between their character arcs is that george lucas and co. actually went thru with luke's hero's journey and understood the fundamental difference between attachment and love, whereas I don't think bryke understood this difference and then dropped this from aang's arc pretty much completely and replaced it with aang digging in his heels into his want and attachment and he gets rewarded with energy bending from a lion turtle, the avatar state from a random pointy rock, and his forever girl from the self-indulgent white men that couldn't bring themselves to give their hero a compelling character arc that meant he might not have gotten everything he wanted at the end.

#the wasted potential of aang's arc gets to me so bad #the narrative and thematic set up is entirely there and they just shove it in the bin lmao #it especially irks as someone raised buddhist and dealing with writers that invoke these themes out of a fascination #with the religion and philosophy but then a complete unwillingess to actually commit to what those themes require of the character arcs #anyway sorry to say it #but zuko's arc does a better job embodying buddhist themes than aang's does in the end #despite all misappropriated aesthetics to the contrary #aang critical #but its really the writing like i LIKE aang i love his potential i hate how self indulgently he's written by the end of the show #atla critical #meta* #holly talks bs #also yes it would've been better narratively for aang katara zuko to the go the way of luke leia han #even if katara couldn't have been revealed as aang's surprise secret twin lmao #the thematic conceit of the triangle is the same in that luke and aang get over their infatuation with the first pretty girl he sees #and becomes the hero he needs to be #meanwhile hanleia and zutara are saving each other and being cool and kissing #anyway

[xxprincess1x]

Izzy when Ed is signing the Act of Grace document:

"Think about what you're doing, Ed. Do you really want to lick the King's boots?"

Meanwhile Izzy literally earlier that week:

Plotting with the English Navy (essentially the sea police) to get Stede killed just so he can have Ed handed over to him, in exchange for his services to the King.

I'm sorry to break it to you Iggy, but isn't that also licking the King's boots? But for an entirely selfish reason that disregards the feelings of the person you're supposedly doing it for?

#i just rewatched this episode and i just cant deal with Izzy's logic #if i was better at meta analysis i could probably write more in depth on this #but truely he was just thinking of himself here and didn't give a flying fuck what it would do to Ed #imagine if Stede had been killed by firing squad #izzy gets what he wants and Ed just has to go on living a life he was already hating and fantasising about ending #izzy critical #<cause im not about getting into a fight over this im just recording whats there #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet

[joji-itta]

Was there anything else for the hazbin hotel actual story, like, more interesting and original instead of what we're seeing right now? because it seems that Viv was just empty of ideas and only took advantage of the bunch of most boring/predictable headcanons and fan comics that her fans made during the wait instead of something completely of her own I M O.

This also applies for helluva.

#i am still very very salty for what they are doing to my woman lilith #because what was going in the pilot was far more interesting also for charlie #luci is just another boring and disappointing character by the way #also useless i hate this guy #whats your deal with your female cast viv??? #hazbin hotel critical #anti vivziepop #vivziepop critical

[stuckinapril]

I’ve always loved medicine bc it’s the perfect intersection of science and humanity—the two things I value above all else in this world. Truly adored it since I was in the cradle. But now I’m thinking about how so much of my journey to neurosurgery will have to involve KILLING my feelings essentially bc how do you survive otherwise

#Not to mention the surprisingly high suicide rate of surgeons that’s been brought to my attention lately #Honestly I just started my neuro internship and just saw my first patient in clinic #And on the day I did I was critical of my neurologist for being so robotic about it #Now I can see why #I’m still at a point where I can’t even do a chart review for a patient without feeling so fucking sad #And I can see how that can get unsustainable after a while #But it’s like if I kill the feelings that drive my passion for medicine to begin with then what’s the point #It’s not like I’m in it for the money or prestige bc that’s so dumb considering how long the schooling is #But literally how to deal #My supervisors at the clinic very much all speak about the dementia patients w a learned impartialness #But I don’t wanna be that way one day :( but how to be anything else and still survive #I’m pre med so I still have time and maybe my opinion will change and I’ll wanna do another specialty #But when it comes to this every specialty will involve human lives and navigating that regardless #That said I can see why surgeons are at higher risk or depression suicide etc #The whole point of this internship is to teach myself how to navigate this stuff but. Hate it #p #med tag

[nellasbookplanet]

No but I have thoughts on the reception of socially awkward characters like Keyleth and Yasha, and how many fans will only accept them if they appeal to their brand of 'acceptable' social awkwardness.

Keyleth took up space in her awkwardness. It wasn't cutesy and attractive, couldn’t be romanticized. She stumbled and fumbled and never stopped letting her voice be heard, even if she sometimes was wrong. And people hated that. How dare this female character be loud and daring in her flaws! How dare the narrative not punish her for it but rather let her grow powerful in her self!

Yasha, meanwhile, didn’t take up space. She was quiet. Shy. Disappeared in the group. And for the longest time, her character was largely left alone. Then she, too, dared to take up space; she started to heal, express herself in ways that were no longer quiet or threatening but still equally as awkward. And suddenly, there was the Yasha hate. I've seen claims that she has no personality simply because she's quiet, that her goofier moments are out of character, that her awkwardness in conversations is cringy, that she's only a good character when she sticks to the strong quiet type.

Keyleth isn’t cutesy in her flaws the way her character archetype often is. Yasha isn't the strong quiet type you would expect when first meeting her. Why would you want them to be? They shouldn’t have to adhere to these stereotypes to be appreciated as characters.

#critical role #cr2 #cr1 #yasha nydoorin #keyleth #every time i see someone claim yasha is cringy or lacking in personality i wonder how they deal with socially awkward people irl #do they think shy people only have the personality trait of quiet? #anyway. yasha and keyleth aren’t the only characters to get this kind of hate #keyleth is awkward but not cutesy or apologetic. dudes hate that #vex is 'strong and sexy female character' but has actual agency and flaws. dudes hate that #jester is a romantic ideal until she has an opinion of who she likes. shippers hate that #anyway (again). rambling apropos of nothing i just wanted to talk about my girls #bc it will never cease to horrify me how weird people get about socially awkward characters #very strong 'just be normal' vibes #nella talks cr

[quicktimeeventfull]

like my wild stance ok is you are allowed to hate cartoon characters & if you find them irritating you can just say that, you don’t have to make up justifications about why the people who like them are evil

#i think she is like. kind of intentionally an annoying character #you can find her annoying it’s literally fine & not that serious #imo back in the day a lot of people disliked her bc she is very adjacent to a particular kind of stereotype of women #which honestly is a completely fair criticism #whereas now theres some weird tense moralistic stance people take #where it’s misogynistic if you hate her OR pro-abuse if you like her #its just nonsensical #like truly its not that big a deal one way or another u know

[reigningmax]

not people getting mad at max for not publicly shaming or shit talking his dad?????

#my post #what the fuck do you want him to say #'my dad is a dick and shouldn't have said anything'????? #cause THAT would have gone down well sure. #'he should be critical of his dad' #its not his job to do that publicly to satisfy you :) #his trauma is not for us to judge how he deals with lmao #do i hate jos? yes. do i think just cause we do that max should too? no. and do i think people on tumblr get all high and mighty about #parental relationships? also yes #it is not YOUR dad is it? you want to tell your dad off publicly? go ahead #he doesnt have to do it just for publicity sake #you dont know what happens behind closed doors bro!!!

[xbomboi]

thoughts about Epic Winter, & reconciling its place in Ever After High’s story as a whole

i wanna talk about epic winter because it—arguably more than any other aspect of the franchise—is definitely ever after high’s ‘ugly duckling’ piece of media, so to speak.

now obviously, a lot of it has to do with being the final big installment in eah’s main story, its premise being a side quest that sidelines the main protagonists in favor of new characters who are comparably far less compelling as the show’s actual leads, leaving the audience without any actual closure to the story which they were following.

in isolation, epic winter isn’t that terrible (though i think most would agree its better parts are the ones centered around already-established characters as opposed to the new ones), but in context it leaves a sour taste.

i entirely understand why anyone rewriting the series would either heavily rework it, only keep more important story beats such as daring’s arc & faybelle’s side plot, or completely remove the outing altogether.

in my case, however, deleting epic winter isn’t an option; my intentions are to continue where ever after high left off, and organically finish what they started. that means epic winter stays in tact, sanity be damned.

with that writing handicap, i can’t edit any pre-existing media in the ever after high animated lineup, which has forced me to brainstorm ways to recontextualize the purpose for epic winter’s place in the story and make the time spent on its story retroactively feel, at the very least, a little more worth it.

and the solution i found comes from viewing all that is introduced in the special through chehkov's gun.

(if you're unfamiliar, chehkov's gun is a narrative rule that everything introduced in a story must be done so with a purpose to serve. i.e. if you give a character a gun, they must shoot it.)

what's done is done; if we have to go on this detour following crystal winter and the top of the world, so be it. but let's pocket it like a tool that can be used later.

so here's my idea: bring crystal and the winter kingdom back into the story later down the line when the events of the story have reached a far more grandiose scale.

basically, i think the best way to use crystal would be when the story reaches a point of confronting and opposing the ruling powers in the fairytale world. having become the new snow queen, naturally, she'd be included in a gathering of the rulers of the kingdoms in the fairytale world.

i want there to be a moment in the story where the ruling powers gather together, and we see familiar faces return (including ones that we'd be introduced to after epic winter but prior to this), such as snow white, king charming, the queen of hearts, and of course, crystal.

with her outlook that would most reasonably be more aligned with the students at ever after high, she could end up being one of-if not the sole person-those present to voice opposition to whatever unfavorable verdict the rest of the rulers have made, as it would serve as direct conflict for the protagonists. she'd find herself outnumbered and ultimately her voice holding little to no power to sway the decision (especially being disregarded for her rather young age). afterwards we'd see her reflect on her frustrations with her colleagues and their rule of the system, thinking about it in terms of what kind of ruler she wants to be, before seeing her find determination towards something, though we aren’t yet shown what she actually decides to do.

the next time we'd see her would then come a little later, the conflict reaching the most dire circumstances. all hope is lost for our heroes; raven, apple, and co. would be down on their luck against odds they're unable to overcome. and that's when crystal would show up to offer her support, providing the numbers of her kingdom as allies to help better the odds. (she wouldn't be the only ally to show up, as this would be a 'getting help from all the friends we made along the way' ordeal. she would simply be one of said friends.)

crystal's help would ultimately play a part in winning the conflict. and because the audience would be familiar with crystal and the winter kingdom to a decent extent way prior to that point, the inclusion of it in the present fight at hand wouldn't feel like an ass-pull or a deus ex machina of sorts; it would make sense and feel earned for the most part.

and i think that's honestly the best thing to be made of epic winter's main adventure. we can't change it or fix it as it is, but we can create a payoff for it all later down the line. think of it like begrudgingly doing chores that lack any enjoyment factor, only to find that afterwards, you're glad you did.

so, yeah, that's my idea for how to give epic winter a genuine purpose. but i'm just spitballing.

#honest to god though i'm positive that had there been at LEAST one more special after epic winter #that shifted focus back to the already established characters and story #even if it was still inconclusive on eah's story as a whole #had it existed #epic winter wouldn't be AS hated as it is #it would most likely still receive a great deal of (deserved) criticism #but there wouldn't be the same amount of disdain held towards it #oh well #eah #ever after high #ever after high epic winter #eah epic winter #epic winter #crystal winter #raven queen #apple white #daring charming #faybelle thorn #ramble #duncontent

[mayfieldss]

👏stop👏hating👏millie👏bobby👏brown👏for👏being👏a👏loud👏woman👏

#i personally love loud woman and they should be celebrated #in a world where woman are constantly silenced and criticized for having opinions of their own we should be supporting each other #not tearing others down #stating what she likes and or doesn't like and making her presence known in the world does not make her a bad person #it also doesn't make her a difficult person #I'm sick of people praising men for knowing what they want and knocking woman down for doing the same #powerful woman are not annoying woman #why is there a difference between a man that is a boss and a 'bossy' woman?? #she's a boss bitch who has to deal with y'all criticism every day of her life so yeah she might say things that are blunt or on the nose #but y'all would praise her honesty and laugh at her jokes if she was a man #so shut ur hating ass mouths before i shut them for you #eva rambles #millie bobby brown #stranger things cast #mbb #damsel netflix

[wildmelon]

i don't understand the urge to write hate think pieces about video game characters/their writing on here like at all

#NOT constructive criticism HATE #the wyll fans esp are critical geniuses #i mean actual mean spirited morally superior hate posts #like guess what guys: i used to dislike gale #and i just kept that shit to myself bc why would i come ruin everyone's fun why does it matter #then i spent more time w the character and engaging with him and it opened my eyes! love him now! it's chill #there r a couple things i do find triggering also... wyll's first kiss being locked behind a persuasion check #and really just the whole premise of astarion's first romantic encounter #but like ik that's a ME thing and it's not inherently evil and there are many ways to interpret etc #but yeah i just never kiss wyll that night #astarion i have more trouble with and im trying to headcanon my way out of it after avoiding his romance for awhile #i just personally can't deal with the idea of someone engaging in sex while dissociating/not being wholeheartedly engaged #now im rambling lol but yeah confessions #lush.talk

[trekkele]

ok time to be negative again i cannot stand the trope “character x finds out bruce ““let”” his sons murderer live and chews him out then goes to kill joker” because 60% of the time its a character who has an independent no kill rule, and absolutely zero business yelling at Bruce about anything. Fuck ooooooffffff with the guilt tripping about bruce not committing murder!!!!!

#unpopular opinion: you do not have to set your life on fire and renege on your morals in memory of someone #you really dont #NOT TO FUCKING MENTION #these fics always make a HUGE deal about how dick killed joker and then completely ignore that he had such a breakdown about it bruce had to #revive the fucker in order for him to be ok #bruce killed joker once and tried at least twice more #i understand this is a personal preference but this is my personal blog so #if some person i didnt know walked into my house and started criticizing how i grieved my dead son i would not stand there and take it the #way yall write bruce taking it #oh i really do hate this stupid trope lmao

[deer-with-a-stick]

Literally screaming into a void right now but jesus christ why the hell do so many people hate Gale?? Is this because of Dragon Age??? He's my boy leave him alone

#both he and astarion ask things of you #but you don't see people going “fuck astarion i hate him for making me feed him i'm going to completely ignore his need for blood” #nah its just gale because the debuffs of bloodless don't matter to people as much as magic items #people you have to feed him like 3 minor artifacts #chill the fuck out #if you have genuine character analysis and criticism great I'd love to hear it #but all I've seen right now is #“he gives me anders vibes i hate him” #“he eats my artifacts i hate him” #and “he made a deal with the devil because I forgot to give him artifacts and now he 'hate me for no reason'" #buddy he's going to die in an explosion that kill thousands #maybe millions #what did you expect when you broke your promise to help him?? #anyway rant kinda over #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate three #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #baldur's gate three spoilers #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #gale of waterdeep #gale #gale bg3 #bg3 gale #I lied there's more #he gets a fucking condition that tells you when you need to feed him now I think #“arcane hunger” ITS REALLY NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO HELP HIM #JESUS CHRIST #stop hating

[cienie-isengardu]

Fire Lord Zuko and Iroh

One thing that will never sit well with me in regard to the post-war Avatar: The Last Airbender world, especially as presented in the comics series, is the fact that Iroh gets so easily out of the mess of reforming Fire Nation and have relative happy ending, while 17 years old Fire Lord Zuko is left to deal with all the political shitty nightmare on his own. 

And look, I get the storytelling goal of the new generation stepping in and “repairing” the world the previous generation fucked up and all. But Zuko is not just forced to undo damage done by his father’s six years of regime or Sozin and Azulon, but by Iroh as well, because Iroh was part of the Fire Nation set to conquer other people. It was Iroh that besiege a Ba Sing Sai for 600 days - it was him who joked about burning the city to ashes in his letter to beloved family - and who didn’t finish the task only because his son died, with little regard to how many of Fire Nation soldiers or Earth Kingdom soldiers and civilians was killed through the almost two years because he had once a vision he will take the Ba Sing Sai. 

Zuko’s formal education ended at the age of 13,  when his father burned his face and banished to chase Avatar that no one saw for hundred years already. Sure, the animation series showed that Iroh was teaching his nephew both firebending and what makes one a good leader but what Zuko experienced and learned during his banishment is not exactly the equivalent of political knowledge he will need as Fire Lord who must find a way to rehabilitate Fire Nation in the eyes of the world but also figure out how to reform an imperialistic and military country into peaceful society with stable economy. A country that saw him as disgrace and traitor not so long ago, mind you.

And as much I see a merit in Iroh’s decision to pass the throne to Zuko - the Avatar’s friend and firebending master, him choosing tea shop over Zuko is just so fucking wrong to me. Iroh literally admitted Zuko was like a son to him in the first season and spent the next one trying to keep his nephew safe from their horrible family and other dangers and I’m supposed to believe when Zuko officially became Fire Lord with not only political nightmare to solve peacefully but also his abusive father to keep an eye on* and younger sister with mental breakdown, Iroh just… washed his hands from those problems so he could enjoy tea and Pai Sho game in peace? In Ba Sing Sai of all possible places with no consequence? Like, seriously?  

Legend of Korra strongly implies Zuko did a good job and had a healthy relationship with his family, as both Fire Lord Izumi and General Iroh II seem to be fine people on their own. Which is great and nice! But does Zuko really need to deal with problems created by his predecessors all by himself where there is alive Iroh, the actually fully trained, educated Crown Prince to help him get a grip of the political matters at least in the first few years of Zuko’s rule? I really want to know what Iroh was thinking? Give a throne to Zuko and hope the boy will survive all the assassination attempts and magically figure out how to deal with the consequences of war that lasted for 100 years?

I like Iroh but I’m not blind to his flaws and him being part of White Lotus should not be a free pass from the problems he helped create in the first place.

*Aang finding a way to stop Ozai without killing him is great for him and I’m happy he managed to do so while staying true to his own culture but he is not the one that is left to deal with Ozai for upcoming years. Taking Ozai’s bending doesn’t magically erase his abuse toward Zuko and Azula and the man still has political supporters that made Zuko’s life much harder and more dangerous than the kid deserves.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #prince zuko #fire lord zuko #zuko #uncle iroh #my rants #because this makes me so angry #iroh get a free pass while zuko is left alone to unfuck the mess on his own? #no thanks #if zuko was like a son to iroh he should be there and help him deal with reformation of fire nation #let's be real here if iroh stay with zuko the fire lord would not need to turn to his abusive father for advice in the promise comics #i get it i really do #but i hate this plot #atla critical #just in case

[soullessjack]

new level of hatred unlocked for when jacks only fanon characterization is to say “dean and cas are gay and my gay dads and Sam is just the uncle guy because Dean and Cas are gay” and not have any personality outside of shipping his own fathers and being a gay little baby with gay dads and remember Sam isn’t his dad he’s the uncle guy because dean and Cas can’t be gay if there’s three dads

#literally can you people stop being this way about jack it is actually dealing damage to me #spn #supernatural #jack kline #spn fandom #destiel #dean winchester #castiel #deancas #sam winchester #tfw2.0 #spn critical #fandom critical #I’m not anti destiel I’m not anti destiel i repeat as reassurance but you can vaguely understand that I’m reassuring myself and not you #bonus points for sam erasure because we just can’t stop there can we #hate this place #can you people let jack be an actual fucking character for once jesus fucking lord

[hydrachea]

FNAF was so fun.

#i had my hopes up as soon as i saw how much critics fucking hated it #went in expecting a venom kinda deal of 'bad movie that's a very good time' #wasn't disappointed #i love violence #and the living tombstone #and this series in general time to give markiplier another rewatch #remember always: i am cringe but i am free #ray's records #yes it's been over a month since the movie came out #but YOU try organizing a cinema outing with several friends who all have jobs #worth it tho we all had a blast

[galedekarios]

I love Gale! And I'm with you on all your takes. But I gotta ask, is there a reason you censor some character names in the posts? I can understand doing that in the tags. But yea, I'm just curious.

thank you, anon!

yes, i do it sometimes so they don't show up in searches. searches work differently than tags. if a post mentions a character, even if they aren't tagged, they'll usually still show up in a search for that character.

#so it's usually smth i do when i don't want to deal with fandom at large and a post getting out of control #or if it's critical of a character #i'll censor out of respect for that characters' fans because i know what it's like to have hate posts in the tags of a character you really #like and it's just not what the tags are for imo #there are critical or anti tags for that #i hope that clears it up <3 #text: asks #text: personal