#i had to say something

[just-another-frender-blog]

I’ve seen a lot of different “hot takes” about adult animation because of recent events that I don’t really want to get into on this blog. Mainly that all adult animated cartoons are vapid, derivative, ugly, nihilistic, cynical, shallow, etc., etc. But there ARE good adult cartoons out there, almost all of them get completely ignored.

There’s The Simpsons, Futurama (especially the earlier episodes for these shows), Castlevania, Close Enough, and BoJack Horseman. Then there are shows I haven’t really watched like King of the Hill, Bob’s Burgers, Inside Job, and Final Space. And there are likely quite a few that I’m missing, these are just off the top of my head. And of course, Close Enough, Final Space, and Inside Job just got canceled without getting much of a chance to get their feet off the ground.

And yes, I know these shows have fans. But if I’m being honest, their fanbases are so fucking tiny (with some exceptions). You rarely see people talking about these shows in the wider animation fan community. It feels like these shows are very much ignored outside of a small group of people. You have people screaming for good examples of adult animation, when the good ones we have are ignored and then get canceled.

And yes, I know these shows are flawed, but everything has flaws and problems. And if you actually watch these adult cartoons, you’ll find that they tackle a lot of meaningful subjects and actually have surprisingly positive outlooks on life. Not to mention that shows like BoJack Horseman and Close Enough have wonderful LGBTQIA representation that rarely gets discussed, if at all.

And you know what? The “art style” argument irritates the hell out of me. I personally don’t think any of these shows look ugly. They have art styles that are unique, that suit the show very well, and quite a few of them are diverse in terms of body types and race. Boiling everything to “ugly” is pretty shitty, given how many talented artists work their asses off on these shows.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t criticize adult animation, but I think it’s insulting to reduce an entire genre to “everything is terrible.” If you look into the history of many of these shows, the creators worked their asses off to get them greenlit, and are insanely passionate about telling great stories. It’s frustrating to see people boil everything down to “all adult cartoons are nothing but sex jokes and ugly art.”

#animation #the simpsons #inside job #close enough #futurama #bojack horseman #castlevania #king of the hill #final space #bob’s burgers #adult animation #i’m sick of seeing this take #i had to say something #once again i know these shows have fanbases #but they are ridiculously tiny compared to kid cartoon fanbases #and anime fanbases #my other hot take is that people just want everything to look like anime #where all the characters are conventionally attractive #because i see people shit on anime with unique art styles #but that’s for another post #long rant

[ye-olde-trojan-horse]

to the anon who dropped a little advice in my asks inbox, which I won’t be posting cause the world doesn’t need to see that shit.

unless you back up what you say when making allegations / comments like that, or have yourself not on anon so that someone can start an actual convo with you… don’t drop and run shit like that on people.

it might have been well intentioned - but who says those kinds of things? what the fuck was your goal?

impolitely, fuck off

#don’t fuck with me #and don’t fuck with my people #sorry everyone else who has to see this #and idek if said anon will see this #but fucking hell #i had to say something #unanswered asks #nathara is active? what.

[esha-isboogara]

not everyone who’s sexually attracted to rick sanchez has severe daddy issues,, some of us are just mentally ill 🫶🏼

#i had to say something #bc me and my dad are besties #i’m just sick #that’s all there is too it #i want to fuck a 2d old man #and that’s who i am #am i sorry ? #not one bit #i am cringe but i am free #rick sanchez #rick and morty

[anachrosims]

@sluttyjonahmagnus okay so I just finished TMA and got caught up with TMAGP and I've seen your username around

and all I can think is, "oh, so, regular Jonah Magnus"

#laksjdlkasjdld I'm so sorry #I had to say something #fuck that guy LOL #I love him he's so awful

[niramies-blog]

Hate hate HATE when a movie gives a character monstrous or anthropomorphic characteristics only to "cure" them later.

The most famous example is beauty and the beast, but I also saw a movie AGES ago which I CANNOT remember the name for the life of me that was about a girl whose family was cursed so she was born with a pig nose and hidden from everyone by her parents and, when she accepts she's beautiful the way she is, THE CURSE WEARS OFF.

I hate it so much, I see NO point in making a story about how it's ok to be different if you're going to "fix" the characters who ARE different later.

#nira.txt #english #my wrath was building up #i had to say SOMETHING #beauty and the beast

[lultimagoccia]

" heh. so what do it for you, cowboy? the mustache? everybody love the mustache. "

#;out for delivery [ ooc ] #( i missed the fun last night but DAMMIT #i had to say something #kudos to vigi for handling a question like that as best he could tho )

[tempest-jackal-ingalls]

I've been watching through the colour seasons of Laramie, and it's been impossible not to notice the intentional colour choices for Jess and Slim's outfits. Jess is always in cool colours, mostly blue and black, and Slim wears warm reds and browns. This of course is probably meant to reflect their personalities and backstories (Slim as passionate and morally upright, Jess as wandering ex-gunfighter, etc.)

They are even colour coordinated when they've just rolled out of bed:

The one thing that they both wear that doesn't match their usual tones is their jackets, in which they each wear the other's colours (the pockets and collar of Slim's jacket are dark blue and Jess's are a reddish brown).

I just... think that's sweet :) It shows that they are connected. Each one completes the other. It's also worth noting that sometimes, like in the GIF below with his red and blue checked shirt, little Mike is wearing both of their colours, symbolizing his connection to both of them.

Anyway, that's all :)

#laramie #laramie tv show #jess harper #slim sherman #mike williams #john smith #robert fuller #dennis holmes #I'm probably reading way too much into this #but I notice it every single time #I had to say something #long post

[eelfuneral]

Whitewashed =/= white person.

White-passing =/= white person

A character has to be a POC to be whitewashed, full stop. Calling Tech “white” is contributing to the whitewashing of him and other clones. He (and all clones) are based on a man played by Temuera Morrison, who is Māori. None of them are white, regardless of the weird design choices that the animators have made.

#tbb tech #i had to say something #guys not cool

[radiantbuddie]

I need to rant and I'm sorry but I have zero people in my life I trust with this so it's happening here. I got into an argument with my sister yesterday and oh boy the actual fight and the aftermath have really just been one fucking thing after another.

Highlights:

my sister getting incredibly defensive and offended and nasty over the fact that I actively root for non-hetero pairings

my sister telling me not to be "creepy" by wanting a person who has not yet been in a same sex relationship on screen to possibly be in a same sex relationship

my sister calling any fans creepy and predatory (because calling lgbtqa+ people predatory definitely isn't a red fucking flag) who might want to see lgbtqa+ storylines and who want to see coming out storylines for characters that she deems as "completely straight" and saying that forcing fictional characters to be anything but straight is predatory behavior

my sister outright demanding more than once to know whether I'm gay or bi when she realizes that I'm getting more and more furious with each word she says, essentially trying to force me to out myself when she's in the middle of revealing just how little of a safe space she is

my sister pulling the "well MY gay friends think [insert excuse for her thoughts/behavior here]" card

my sister ignoring me trying to set boundaries and when I tell her that she is saying things that are actively hurting me, she continues saying them even louder to drown out me trying to tell her that she's hurting me

my sister, after I shut her down and walked away, deciding in her fucking vile wicked mind that I've come out to her now and that the first thing she needs to do is to go to my extremely conservative mother and father to tell them that I'm gay

so that's a phone call I had to repeatedly lie on with my mother when she called me about it today because like fuck am I coming out to any of them when they are NOT safe at all, thankfully my sister is a shitty person to everyone so my mom was convinced that she was just trying to fuck shit up

yes my sister is incredibly homophobic and transphobic and pretty much any other phobic you can come up with, and shit like this is what I get to hear all the fucking time from her

and literally an hour before the argument, she had the audacity to say that I'm her favorite person in the world

#tw homophobia #like let's say for arguments sake that I HAD come out to her #which I didn't #all I said was that I was no longer willing to discuss this with her #like I should have just fucking lied and said yeah whatever I'm straight #but I didn't and I regret it #but even if I had come out #knowing that she would have run straight to our parents to let them know #just makes me feel more betrayed #like I didn't even actually come out and she still managed to out me #what the fuck #personal #sorry #I had to say something #this is a 40 year old woman y'all #and she's a CRAZED jkr defender and she's obsessed with the british royal family #so that's probably all you need to know about her

[nookisms]

I can't imagine Crisp Rat Mario saying "So long-a Bowser!" (cheerful and upbeat) but I sure can imagine him saying "So long Gay Bowser." (derogatory)

#Super Mario #mario movie 2023 #Chris Pratt #sorry #i had to say something #she speks #she speks originale

[obnoxiousarcade]

MEEOWWWWW MEOWWWWW

okay!

But there's one more small thing

Won't u please help save our galaxy,

#SPACE AAAAAAAGE #it came on spotify while i was making posts about gaurdians of gahoole #i had to say SOMETHING #fox (vulpes vulpes) on the internet for the first time

[lostintherealmsofthefandoms]

I have seen so many posts about wwx love for lz. From memes to long texts, all to hear that all posts about they, are about lwj love.

And the reason why there's so much about wwx love for lwj, is cause his love for lwj is obvious. That boy see a cloud and think on lwj. He see a watermelon and remembers of lwj. He talked about lwj all the damn time. This isn't love?

Wangxian is not, not balanced. Lwj loved wwx for years and wwx loved lwj back for years too. He was just too oblivious to notice his own feelings and lwj feelings.

To me, what I love mostly about wangxian is that they are realistic. Natural. Organic. There're the mostly organic and human couple I've read. They're like just two dudes who felt in love. First, sweet love. Balanced. Equal. Anyone who read the novel completely, entirely, can and will notice this.

Aye, I'm saying this due to have read things about how wangxian is not balanced in the novel and all this.

Please, people, just say your opinions on something about a novel if you have read the whole thing.

Is like when people say shit about bingqiu without read the extras. Or the whole novel. Just, don't. Read first. Talk later.

Although, still, I disagree. Lol

#mdzs #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan zhan #wei ying #lan wangji #this is not an indirect #but the discussion was about something else #and wouldn't fit mention this #but i couldn't keep my mouth shut #i had to say something #cause i can't stand when people don't read the whole thing #and talk shit about #read the whole thing and still think this #okay #but if you haven't even read all #just don't #cql #the untamed

[ncutii-gatwa]

it doesn’t matter if you’ve watched heartstopper or not. making an 18 year feel like he has to come out even when he’s not ready is fucked. shame on all of you who pressured him.

#random emma thoughts #kit connor #I had to say something #it’s fucked

[the-cinnamon-snail]

You get knocked hard on the head and instead of birds or stars you see the torpedo sharks.

#i had to say something #ask #ask box #inbox

[masnmounts]

i follow ur instagram you are super pretty!!!

um just want to say

1. thank u <3

2. please avoid my instagram if i haven’t given it to you because idek how you’ve found it but that’s scary!

#i had to say something #i need to shut up and say nothing #maddy’s asks

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

#almost wrote the champagne line as ''effervescent'' but legit could not write it without saying ''effervescent like a snail'' #ah tumblr... #writeblr #warm up #idk . having trouble writing rn #ps i don't like to talk about it . it is my medical information. but before you ask. yes this is about being on the spectrum #i really don't like when ppl make my writing about how im [whatever ID]. i want it to ring true for the people who it rings true for #i don't want it to be like ''awwwww look at this person!!! she's the EXCEPTION!!! :)" ..... #no.... not really..... #idk something gross happens whenever i admit to certain conditions and i turn into like inspiration p*rnography #like yes they actually let us use keyboards these days #furthermore i just... dont feel comfortable talking about this part of me. i had too bad of a childhood. adhd is one thing... #this one im like. still coming to terms with. which is like. my own journey. #idk. just please be kind. some things are more private than others. this one feels private to me. #i do not know how to help others w/this . and i do not know how to help myself. i will talk about it if im ever ready. idk if that will #actually ever happen #ty in advance i love u im kissing you we are kissing somewhere on the spectrum