#harshly critical

[kittyboones]

John Wolfe is cosplaying as Ashley from Resident Evil 4 for a charity livestream right now !!!

#kitty.txt #John Wolfe #Harshly Critical #HarshlyCritical #Streamers #Ashley Graham #Resident Evil 4 #Cosplay #I love John Wolfe and posting his cosplays have become one of my post subgenres atp

[polar-night-scout]

was looking through some older art and I found this Keyleth sketch I made years ago when I was actively listening to Critical Role. I decided to post it unpolished because I like this sharp and dynamic energy that usually gets lost as I process the art more.

#Keyleth #Critical Role #finding this was interesting because I don't remember drawing it at all #it was along with more art that was never finished or posted because I felt it was “not good enough” #but looking at it #it all has some cool details or approaches going on #for a moment i was filled with this weird sympathy for younger me who was drawing these and judging them harshly #instead of sharing in the joys of fandom #unrelated but commissions are open

[cancerian-woman]

disliking Bonnie because of Caroline’s transition is always funny to me because y’all will bluntly ignore Bonnie’s trauma with vampires at that time to strengthen your disdain for her during her reaction to Caroline’s transition. “Caroline needed her friend…it’s Bonnie’s fault she turned in the first place..” blah blah blah.

#i saw some comments on an old blog and i just LMFAOO #but i standby the claim that a lot of Bonnie critics are done harshly naturally by other fans bc of her race lol #dria rambles #anti tvd #anti the vampire diaries #anti caroline forbes

[ennyxy]

Unfortunately I'm not good with backgrounds for pictures like this, but eh. I'll include a transparent one under the cut.

Anyway the sketch for this looked a bit different but I did some adjustments in the end. Just something I drew for fun, as always ^^

#toh #the owl house #the collector #king clawthorne #platinum bones #toh fanart #toh king #toh collector #my art #artists on tumblr #Drawing these characters honestly makes me very happy #so I should be less critical of myself #istg sometimes i judge myself too harshly

[dragoneveryday]

Day 4 - Redraw

(Original from 2019.)

#dragon #dragons #daily dragon #the original took me TWO HOURS. the redraw took me forty five minutes. #anyways if your art is looking more like the second half of this then the first: you’re doing great. Just have fun. things will get easier. #I recommend looking up how to draw tutorials on YouTube and getting in the habit of drawing the underline form in shapes before drawing #don’t criticize yourself too harshly. Just have fun. #I love looking at beginner artist’s work it’s very refreshing #also also also: DONT DELETE YOUR OLD ART. feel free to put it in a seperate folder and not look at it. but keep it. if you don’t you’ll #regret it #OCs

[galahadenough]

I like the koroks. I do. They are rather adorable, their puzzles are fun, I enjoy seeing people lose their minds collecting all of the korok seeds. I adore Hetsu. I even get some amusement from how easily I can hear “ya ha ha!” echo in my head.

But.

The more often we get koroks in games the more it bothers me. I was wondering if I was just being old fashioned in my preference for the kokiri, but that’s what helped me realize what exactly was starting to bother me about them. They don’t feel very fleshed out.

They are childish in many ways, and while that does bring the kokiri to mind, shaped as literal children as they are, the koroks type of childishness is drastically different.

They feel like a caricature of idealized childish innocence from an adult perspective. And that feels so much worse to me when I remember that kokiri distrusted adults.

They are cute as they waddle around. They hero-worship Link, calling him Mr. Hero, wanting so badly to help him and to play games with him. Especially with totk and the backpack koroks, there is an added aspect of incompetence and needing Link’s help.

The kokiri on the other hand show a different side to this type of character. They are shaped as children and they are played out as children, but they show some of the harsher sides of childhood. The bullying, the ego, the exclusion of perceived outsiders in their treatment of Link and distrust of adults.

And that’s not to say that children are naturally nasty to each other, but it ties in with two other points for me.

Link is an outsider. Even in oot when he was raised among the kokiri he was an outsider.

And the kokiri and koroks both live in the lost woods. They live within woods that drive people mad, that are known to trap those who enter and transform them into stalfos. One of the best terms I’ve heard to refer to them is fey-adjacent. As much as I’ve enjoyed the koroks, it feels like they are missing a sharpness that should come from their background, a wildness, a hint of danger. And maybe a bit more individual personality.

#loz #totk #botw #koroks #kokiri #criticism #I love these games #this criticism is not meant harshly #and I’m trying to not stray too far into negativity

[kyouka-supremacy]

Somewhat related to that akutagawa ada ask: is it just me or does it feel like Asagiri completely forgot all of the abuse that dazai put akutagawa through

Oh man... We've been through this. But seriously, once again, my personal opinion is that it's not like the bsd author forgets at all, because they don't consider it abuse to begin with?? We all know bsd has an extremely distasteful portrayal of abuse, often framing it as something that helped people grow and was even made in their interest. Author did not forget about the abuse Dazai inflicted Akutagawa, in fact, they consistently keep depicting Dazai hurting Akutagawa because according to them it's all just to shape Akutagawa in a better person, it's good for him. At least on this front (but on all the others too, really), Dazai is not doing any wrong, and it's shown in the way he's been been consistently hurting Akutagawa and was never asked to make amends even after switching to the good side, because for the author he is already doing good. I don't know what else to say. In chapter 9, in chapter 34, in chapter 36, in chapter 51, in chapter 84: there's no growth in how Dazai treats Akutagawa. Because author doesn't believe anything needs to be changed. Because Dazai is already perfect for how he is. Because you've seen it in the last chapter, Dazai is an already fulfilled character, there's no space left for flaws, nor improvement.

#¯\_(╯_╰)_/¯ #I've made and deleted before posting more rant posts about the last chapter than you can imagine lmao #Not over the chapter itself but over the fact that all the people who used to harshly reply to my old posts- #were now suddenly criticizing Dazai's writing. #Fundamentally agreeing with what I was saying to begin with. #Because Dazai's writing has always been like this. #I just wish we were all a little kinder with each other ajhewsgbekhkafakfb there was no reason to be mean in the first place #bsd #people asks me stuff

[sanasanakun]

Since people are discussing Larian’s “people pleasing” updates with this latest hot fix, I’m gonna add my two (unnecessary) cents to this as well. I really love Baldurs Gate 3 for the choices and agency it affords me as a player. That’s its main draw to me. However, when comparing it to its main inspiration (i.e BioWare games), the writing in BG3 is far worse.

And I think this shines through the most with the companion content disparity. I do think Astarion is a very well written character, but I also think his popularity partially comes from the other characters being far too underwritten. This isn’t even touching on Karlach’s lack of depth and the shocking disparity that is Wyll’s entire storyline/character. But other companions like Shadowheart and Gale, while well written, lack the same attention and suffer for it.

And god, the villains. I think that’s another egregiously bad area of the writing. Kethric gets a whole act! Meanwhile, Orin is interesting but crammed into sharing space with Gortash. And Gortash is given an incredible backstory that ties to another villain, but nothing is done with it and it’s mostly hidden in notes. And the story overall is just ok. Act 2 is easily the most compelling. But compared to BioWare, the story is lackluster imo. The Dark Urge plot line is the most interesting part of the overall main storyline, but it’s not afforded enough detail or content (imo).

And none of this is helped by Larian removing bits and pieces of their characters in these hotfixes. I really wish they’d just start adding content to flesh out these problem areas, especially Wyll and Minthara.

#also I feel like some fans are getting bitter about the Astarion content disparity #I know I’ve been bitter about it cause he never really hit off with me #so maybe it was more noticeable for me? but yeah I think people are like ok come on now #esp cause it’s taken Larian so long to devote that same attention to other characters #but that’s just meeeee so don’t get mad since it’s just all my opinion on that matter #anything I write here is honestly inconsequential #but Larian’s involvement within the fandom and their need to respond to it #has always made me side eye and question their writing ability #larian critical #I’m also just a really harsh person when it comes to consuming media #so I could be overly mean with this one but like… #if I like something I will criticize it more harshly idk why #baldurs gate 3 critical

[dolorianwolf]

A tear in the membrane, allows the voices in

#disco elysium #harry du bois #the furies #ough hearing damage by thom yorke is just Harry. #the ‘you can do no wrong (in my eyes)’ is both Kim @ Harry and Harry @ Kim #I can’t draw the skills but I needed to put this somewhere #I can’t draw in general lmao #hm I hate this actually but I’m posting it anyway. did you know Van Gogh hated starry night and would have scrapped it or painted over it i #if he hadn’t died #sometimes we criticize our work so harshly we leave no room for anyone else to give their opinion #and our best bet to receive love and attention is to put everything we create into the universe and hope we live to see it appreciated #including anything we perceive as being not good enough #ANYWAY #idk where I’m going with this. love yourself and your work you never know what piece of your soul will stick with other people

[kleioscanvas]

Blend and Picker, retired marines of the Malazan Empire and proud owners of a former Elder God Temple turned tavern

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #malazan #fantasy #fantasy art #character art #wlw #wlw art #don't ask me about malazan i have strong opinions #there are many things i will harshly criticize about the series but these two aren't one of them

[kittyboones]

JOHN WOLFE IS COSPLAYING ADA WONG ON STREAM RIGHT NOW, OMG

#kitty.txt #Ada Wong #Cosplay #John Wolfe #Harshly Critical #Resident Evil

[devilsskettle]

don’t worry darling is like. unnecessarily trying to reinvent the stepford wives however it is inch resting to me that this movie got so buried by whatever was going on with the cast drama when it’s a movie that speaks to delusional radicalized incel bullshit + the stake that men have in controlling women’s lives and bodies + power dynamics etc etc which idk i just feel like even otherwise progressive people are so quick to completely shut down media with feminist themes if it’s too in-your-face about it and they’ll come up with a bunch of excuses about why it’s cringe. i’ve seen so many people be like “don’t even bother to watch the film, it probably sucks, the drama during production is way more entertaining” like whatever, it’s not a revolutionary movie, i liked it though and i think we still need explicitly feminist films and i have concerns about dismissing a film without even knowing the basic premise because of (what seem to me to be low stakes) interpersonal issues among the cast

#don’t worry darling #the reveal was both extremely obvious and pretty disturbing to me #i also think it was very appealing visually and of course florence pugh was very very good #also retro-futurist sci-fi will always get me. love that shit #it’s definitely unoriginal and there are some glaring flaws with the script but like. #it’s more interesting than anything marvel has put out in the last 7 years #and people are still all over that shit #idk it’s like the target audience for these types of films are also the people who are going to judge it the most harshly #which of course we should be critical etc but like. do we want ANY mainstream movies that don’t pander to the conservative ethos or what #anyway that’s just my onion about it

[team7-headquarter]

I'm kinda curious about the period of time when Minato was Hokage, because there's so much you could say about Konoha depending on it. It could be that I don't remember what the manga says about it too, but anyway.

We know that before Minato was Hokage, the discrimination towards jinchuurikis was high. We know it from Kushina's story. After Minato, the jinchuurikis discrimination was not exactly as bad as it could have been (and the bar is soooo low) in physical terms, but the level of sheer isolation was ridiculous. Sure, Kushina had guards and she lived in a tower with a perimeter drawn around it, one that she couldn't surpass. The difference is that Kushina knew why she was being isolated, there was someone willing to teach her about it right from the start, a family member even if distant, someone with the same experience.

All Naruto knew is that he was unwanted. He had no family, no one was willing to guide him. No, not even Iruka. I'm talking about before in the manga, before Iruka realized how much Naruto needed him and did something about it.

If that was before and after, how was it during the time Minato was Hokage?

Did Minato push for Kushina to become Hokage? Was the idea rejected? Did he get angry? It was her dream after all. Or did they realize it would be impossible so they pushed Minato to go for it? Were they sad about the idea of Kushina having to live her dream through Minato, because they wouldn't let her go for it? When did Kushina give up and change her goal in life?

Did Minato tell anyone about his plan on how to get rid of the jinchuuriki discrimination? Did he talk about it with Kushina? We know that they planned Naruto's birth and tried to make it as safe as possible. When the time to seal Kurama within Naruto came, they both knew how Konoha would treat Naruto. Minato wanted Naruto to be viewed as the son of a hero, but his wishes were thrown aside as soon as his body was cold enough.

With no law to protect the jinchuuriki of the kyubi, I wonder how bold the people of Konoha were in their discrimination against Kushina while Minato was Hokage. Times were different, Minato was highly respected and feared, but how many times did he have to tell someone to mind their words? How many times did he catch Kushina avoiding a certain restaurant or a street? Did he ever feel a slight of resentment against his home for the way they treated his wife? His pregnant wife?

Were there rumors of the child being a monster for being the son of a jinchuuriki? It could be that some Konoha parents telling their kids to not play with the little Uzumaki/Namikaze was a thing before Naruto was even born?

From what I've seen, Konoha has no gentleness for kids of prestigious lineages. Being a child of a powerful shinobi makes your life worse, in fact. A million times over: it happened to Sasuke, to Neji, it happened to Kakashi in the generation before them, it happened to Itachi in the in-between.

I don't think that being the son of the hokage would have saved Naruto for being mistreated by the village. Not when his mother was a jinchuuriki.

It just makes me wonder, you know?

In the time he had, how did Minato try to change things to protect his family?

Was it a matter of needing more time? Or there wasn't a plan at all?

#I've realized this reads as if I'm harshly criticizing Minato #as always the problem is not within the character but the plot holes in the story itself #Kishimoto clearly presents Minato as a man who loves his family but not always does the best for them #he struggles balancing his duty to konoha and his role as a father and a husband #it is a fact that he failed to protect Naruto #but the lack on information about his time as a hokage makes it seems like he waa failing his family before Naruto was even born #it contradicts what we saw of him in the newest Naruto one-shot #he created the rasengan to protect Kushina and help her be free and safe #he reacued her when she was kidnapped #he stood up for her #they seemed to love each other deeply and Kushina had the temper to chase after him if she thought he was avoiding her for example #sealing kurama within naruto was really bad but in the end he had little time and there were on a big crisis #I wonder what type of pressure was put on him while he was Hokage #even when he was really smart and dangerous and whatever he still was young #he failed his genin team too #I'm sorry but all those pieces are not in Minato's favor #which makes him a great character for being complex and compelling #but anyway #maybe I am criticizing Minato but not in bad faith okay? #minato namikaze #kushina uzumaki #naruto uzumaki #naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto classic

[jorindasfate]

The thing that infuriates me the most about the trans people in sports debate is that all these people insisting that TIMs don't have a physical advantage over women don't say shit about letting TIFS compete in men's sports because they know VERY WELL thay they'd be at a physical disadvantage. Sport is supposed to be split based on sex, not gender identity. How the fuck are you gonna argue that trans people need to have their identity "affirmed" by being allowed to pick which sex they'd like to compete with?? When the only relevance of sex in this context is your biological condition. I am so sick of anything criticising this being framed as anti-trans. Being allowed to compete with the opposite sex because you want to is a privilege, not a right.

#this is harshly worded but I saw a stupid ass argument about it so I'm mad #gender critical #terfblr

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

i do understand why selim was so depressed in the last episode - bizarre double standards about fratricide against him notwithstanding, he still did kill his brother and his young nephews - but i'd be lying if i said nurbanu's words to him don't make me cackle. "have we fought for nothing all these years? to cry and mourn in corners? what did you expect? taking the throne with roses?" she can give him the sweetest most encouraging pep talks or she can lay into him like nobody else

#this is part of the reason why they're one of the few couples on the show that are a real partnership #nurbanu can harshly criticize him but it's coming from a place of concern. #and selim KNOWS that. he might not always like it and he might not always be willing to hear it #but he knows it's bc she cares about him #like i can't imagine bayezid or mustafa or suleiman letting their partners tear into them so harshly #muhteşem yüzyıl #muhtesem yuzyil #magnificent century #nurbanu sultan #selim #sehzade selim #selim x nurbanu #mc tag #i ramble

[no1ryomafan]

The only thing I’m hesitant about is if I do make in depth mega man post is I’m low key afraid to be hostile even if I’m having this moment of self awareness by that fact- it’s just a lot of the awful takes I’ve seen in the fandom stuck with me and I wanna give my two cents to how dumb some of them are but I have to also remember the tumblr environment of the fandom is probably the exact opposite of what I’m use to it given it was fucking twitter so the fandom is probably far *less* hostile here so I gotta like not be a massive dick/overly defensive about something I like when no one trying to beef with me anyways.

#meg text #as you can tell- I’m not use people being nice about this interest which is sad💀 #I will make sure to actually tag in depth post so if no one wants to see you can mute it though #I will mainly talk about ZX though probably cause I feel it’s the series that’s neglected the most in story talk #it’s not perfect but people harshly criticize it when it’s like- far better executed then X lol #peeps just need to realize it’s not supposed to be like Zero even if they’re tied in some aspects #(And also well- they kinda had to put it on the LC bc no one would buy a two pack of just ZX)