#i needed to rant about this somewhere

[angieisalive]

I just realized that the reason I didn't immediately catch Terry's coming out scene is because in the Greek subtitles they translated it to 'when I was young the other elves show me as weak but I always knew that I had power inside me' which completely changes the meaning of the scene. So I went a bit further and changed the sound from English to the Greek dub and its even worse because they changed doe to fawn or more accurately translated 'little deer'. Which again changes the meaning of the scene and doesn't bring across the fact that Terry is a trans man .

#tdp #the dragon prince #tdp spoilers #tdp terry #erasure #I needed to rant about this somewhere #but I guess I should have expected it #and turned my subtitles to english #at least they couldnt censor the janaya scenes in any way

[arthursfuckinghat]

I know the gang cares about Arthur and they knew his sickness was serious and it's part of the narrative and whatnot, but really would it have killed them to just offer the occasional "is there anything you need Arthur?" or "anything we can do to help?" or even "how are you feeling today?" - I'm sure Arthur would rather be pestered slightly than have his rapid illness get straight up ignored yknow?

#I know you can talk to one of the girls and rev swanson about it #but other than the mood being down at camp everything runs as normal #“hey arthur I know you have a serious illness but I need to you to go hunting get supplies and help micah and john and sadie and bill and-” #my face when susan started ranting about the lockbox getting broken and how upset she was and arthur was just like 😐 #the guy has bigger problems susan I mean that respectfully #😭 #most of arthurs greet lines in beaver hollow are asking how people are doing and thanking them #but whenever anyone speaks to arthur it's always “oh hey arthur” or “dutch told me to tell you to meet him somewhere” #or they express how much they don't like the camp and arthur just apologises #:( #arthur cares so much about them it would be nice to see them appreciate him a bit more #he saved as much of them as he could #oh arthur #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #mick squeaks #arthur morgan #red dead redemption community #red dead redemption 2 spoilers #mick thinks

[i-love-your-light]

burrows end ep1 is SO GOOD god im sorry but i really can't imagine the audacity of some ppl watching a 2 minute trailer for a season of Dimension 20 that hasn't come out yet and confidently saying "i know better than any of the experts involved in making it and i think they should've used a different system for this game"

like i can't even IMAGINE being aabria and logging on after the trailer for something i worked really hard on dropped and seeing a bunch of people being like 'ugh dnd was such a bad choice of system' when they had SEEN NONE OF THE SHOW??!!?! how would you know???

anyway, everything she does is literally perfect and SO immediately captivating. she is both generous and awe-inspiring in her command of the table and it is an honor to even get to watch her do what she does at all!!!! literally blessed with the presence of a ttrpg and storytelling goddess and some of y'all have the audacity to complain. couldn't be me though!

#also like.... idk do ppl give this same energy to the white man dms?? i think not #like yeah different systems are great! #but i think what makes D20 special is all the ways that they take the system everyone knows best and show you #all the possibilities you can achieve with it #idk my personal opinion but i think if you say dnd is a bad storytelling system u simply lack creativity #know the rules so you can break them baby! #anyway #needed to rant about this somewhere #dimension 20 #burrow's end #aabria iyengar

[lollytea]

Unfortunately due to TOH being cut short by Disney a lot of character arcs and more storyline could not be fully fleshed out and finished as Dana had to wrap up everybody’s story in just a few episodes

I'm fully aware that Disney's intervention is responsible for a lot of the plotlines getting suffocated. Which is why I don't think it's fair to go harassing crew members with "why didn't THIS happen??" and all that, because nobody really knows what they endured working on those final episodes and how much they had to cut and rewrite. But from things Dana has said, it was likely a very stressful and exhausting experience. So I don't like to make assumptions about the crew being incompetent. Nobody knows how the season WOULD have turned out if they had been granted full creative freedom and breathing room to develop it to their hearts content.

However, me not directing personal ire towards the crew doesn't mean that I think that the show is immune to criticism. Its flawed. It might not be entirely the crew's fault but that doesn't mean we can't talk about how it's flawed. If anything, I think acknowledging and dissecting its weaknesses is a good learning opportunity for what we should consider when creating our own stories.

Season 3 is a bit of a mess. There's good stuff. There's some less than good stuff. I think ultimately, as a story about Luz, King and Eda, it knocks it out of the park. When they were left with no other option, they decided to prioritize the writing of their three protagonists and I think that was the correct choice.

But I've been thinking about the three specials and how they stand on their own, quality wise, and honestly, there's valid criticism to be said that is completely unrelated to the shortening.

Bear in mind that the crew has known since Follies that the show was getting cut short and they needed to start wrapping up loose ends. So it's not like they started writing Thanks to Them believing it was the first of 20+ more episodes. They knew that they were going to be writing a 40 minute special. So the execution had to be tight, concise and satisfying, right?

Well...it was....weird. Definitely fun. Good for fan service. The main hook was the witch kids navigating the human world in their dorky witchy way. And initially, that was enough. But once the novelty of that wears off and we focus on the plot of the special, what do we have left?

Thanks to Them is very guilty of lore baiting. Dropping in stuff that they know damn well that they're never going to elaborate on, leaving the audience with a feeling of intrigue that is never going to be satiated.

I personally think that is just bad writing. They knew they didn't have a full season 3 and rather than rewrite the means of which the hexsquads finds answers, they still made the choice to drop in what are most likely vague ideas from the initial draft.

I think, if they had no intention of developing it in future specials, there was no point to that scene of Masha telling the Wittebane story. It was just...filler. To stretch out the running time. Which is....kind of precious. Only 40 minutes. If you're obsessive enough about lore, you already knew the story from the Hollow Mind paintings. That scene was for casual viewers. Which is useless, because there's no point in casual viewers learning about Evelyn and Caleb because it never went anywhere.

Also. I personally think that if there was any value to learning the Wittebane lore without making it plot relevant, it would be for the sake of character development. We wanted to know how the kids would react to this knowledge.

Well how did they react?

*Shrug* They seemed a little unnerved but they kinda forgot about it the second they got off the hayride.

So what was the point of all that? What was the point?

Is it because we wanted "Goodbye, Evelyn," to be more of gut punch?

Was it worth it? Was "Goodbye, Evelyn" worth it? We know fucking nothing about Evelyn.

I think the rebus was a stupid and lazy means for the kids to discover Titan's blood. You introduce this mysterious object that was hidden under the floorboards and then you just use it as a plot device.

When the kids uncover the rebus and find the secret code inside, the viewer is not thinking about how it can be used as a means to an end (finding blood) The viewer is thinking "what the fuck is that thing and how did it get there and how did Flapjack know it was there?"

Questions that will not be answered <333

ALL IM SAYING is that I'm sure the crew could have come up with another way for the kids to have a Titan's blood treasure hunt. Maybe they could have dug a little more into the history of Gravesfield and follow leads on weird things happening on this one spot in the graveyard (which turns out to be because there's magical energy there, revealed when Luz realizes she can use glyphs)

I just think that if you're gonna leave the mystery box a mystery, you shouldn't have included it.

And I know. Its subtle storytelling. There's elements of what could have been a far more complex story and they're leaving hints of it here and there.

Well the thing about that is I think the hints are very unsatisfying and weaken the episode's plot significantly.

Also I don't think they should get to just pick and choose what parts of the lore are subtle and what parts are ham-fisted.

YES we are going to be reminded like three times that Flapjack is being secretive and hiding things from Hunter.

NO we are never going to get a payoff for that because he gets shanked and dies first.

BUT!! BUT!! If you squint, its IMPLIED that Flapjack belonged to Evelyn and blah blah blah

You don't get to rub things in the audience face and then choose to be all subtle about it at the last minute. Pick one or the other.

Anyway....I think they could have written Thanks to Them as more of an intriguing and suspenseful horror mystery where they spend forty minutes gathering clues and everything finally clicks together at the very end. That's not what we got.

We got a very weak attempt on the Hexsquad's part to be little detectives, but like a minute of screen time was devoted to them dicking around in a library, a costume shop, and a zoo.

I don't think we can blame the shortening for this.

#very sorry i got distracted and went on a little rant about ttt #this was unrelated to your ask i just tend to go on tangents #i needed to unload it somewhere tho

[skellydun]

if you're going to lie on your resume lie about things you've done not the titles you've held or the time you spent working somewhere for the love of fuck

#bc if u lie about stupid catchable things then you make cute little dudes named dylans days really long and full of unnecessary phone calls #im so tired 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #u can bullshit the bullet points not the titles or tiME U SPENT WORKING SOMEWHERE THE BACKGROUND CHECK WILL CATCH IT #I will delete this i just need to rant lmak #lmao

[mattynmarns]

bro I've thought about leaving dtblr so many times within the past year but like. I've got to stay at least until primeboys meetup. then maybe I'll turn normal

#(I will Not Be Normal. btw) #everytime I see George I turn into la creatura #but idk been thinking about if opening tumblr on my phone makes me more happy or stressed #I'm still so so so interested in dteam and friends and everything #but sometimes being on here suck. lowkey lowkey #maybe I just want to consume content without knowing who's picking fights with dream this week #idk many thoughts #but if I do Become Normal here's your warning #heckin rants #mcyt #I will probably delete this soon but. I needed to say this somewhere

[hajihiko]

I really want to hear like negative takes from you about either characters or the game

Do you think when you get comfy enough you’d share?

its not quite about being comfortable, I just also like to focus on what I enjoy more than what I don't. Except when I want to *bitch*, but I generally do that with trusted friends (not just regarding dr).

#I've mentioned most of what I passionately dislike and I don't feel a need to rehash it or anything. It's in there somewhere #not an art #It's a little too easy for me to bitch about things so I'm careful to pick my audience. Lest I regret what I say #Shout-out to T my friend T from Life for listening to all my pissy rants

[titsthedamnseason]

i honestly do not understand this never ending conversation about tay’s lack of promo. i know to some people the success / numbers is a big part of stan culture meanwhile im truly just here to enjoy the music so maybe that’s why i don’t get it. but regardless, the artist in question is TAYLOR SWIFT? yes for smaller artists there is maybe more concern about charting and numbers but i have literally zero doubt that ttpd will debut at number 1 and quite frankly, i doubt taylor does either. her fame has surpassed the need for promo. i don’t think there’s anyone that would be even slightly interested that doesn’t know she has an album dropping

i also think the people complaining / worrying about the lack of promo are severely undervaluing the merits of the subtle promo strategy. like i said, at this point in her career taylor doesn’t need to worry about getting listeners, but probably if she was doing more promo that would definitely cause backlash. and if she released a lead single ahead of time it would just give people the opportunity to make judgements and write up criticisms and possibly deter certain people from listening to the rest because they would feel they heard enough and imagine the rest would be the same. instead, she’s building massive anticipation. everybody is going to be listening bc she’s been so cryptic about it that no one knows what to expect. sometimes no promo IS the best promo.

and lastly, i think another big part of why certain swifties want a massive promo campaign is the desire for more “content” from taylor. i think this is inherently problematic regardless but especially with an album dealing with such personal emotional pain, i understand why she might not want to go on a massive campaign talking about it. instead, she’s having a great week hanging out with her new boyfriend at coachella and knowing that is making me way happier than if she was suiting up doing interviews every night. let’s all please try to stop exploiting taylor and demanding things of her and instead remember that she’s also just a human that has a right to live her life as she chooses, even during an album release week

#this is mostly about twitter not tumblr #but i needed to rant SOMEWHERE #mine #taylor swift

[theheirofthesharingan]

people be really stanning obito when he committed crimes and ruined a young beautiful couple's life and then be hating on itachi. so unserious just say you hate pretty and popular people

just say you hate pretty and popular people

Hehehe, yeah. Look at this beauty.

*swoons*

Jokes aside. It's baffling how people favour Obito over Itachi and then there are those who wonder how can people love Itachi and think so highly of him. I've never understood love for Obito, at least at Itachi's expense. Obito wanted to change the system. Which one? He himself created the problem by attacking the village.

Minato and Kushina didn't deserve to die the day their son was born. Naruto didn't deserve to go through any of what he did. Itachi didn't deserve to be put in the position where he had to choose between not to let a horrific war happen and kill his parents. Sasuke didn't deserve to go through literally anything he did since his childhood. Yahiko didn't deserve to die either. Nagato didn't deserve to lose his best friend. Konan didn't deserve to lose the love of her life. Akatsuki could have been revolutionary in keeping the peace.

People blame Danzo, but was Danzo alone in all this? Surely, Obito and Danzo didn't work as a team but their goals seemed to work out just fine from the beginning. Itachi should be blamed, but Obito planning war was okay. Many would say 'he was just lying to Sasuke to make Itachi look like a good guy'. If so, why was he sneaking into the village. And if the clan had actually revolted, he'd have taken advantage of the incident too. He wasn't visiting the village for the sake of nostalgia and some picnic.

Not just that, he knew from the start Kakashi wasn't responsible for Rin's death. He knew Rin committed suicide and Kakashi was suffering from the trauma as a result. Yet he blamed him and his whole arc is about that.

He was all about his pain, his sufferings - which I do not deny - and how the world needs to know and pay for what was done to him.

Itachi on the other hand never had much of a choice. Still he took the responsibility (which his haters somehow don't see) and never made his pains others' problems.

In the evil hierarchy of the Uchiha clan Itachi must be at the second lowest. The lowest would be Sasuke, who doesn't actually kill people. xD

#itachi #ask #anon #uchiha itachi #itachi uchiha #thanks sending me this ask though because i needed to rant about this somewhere

[skz-miroh]

my favourite trope in vld fanfic is where keith is wearing the blade of marmora uniform and lance just straight up doesn’t recognise him and starts flirting with who he thinks is this mysterious stranger and poor keith is just so confused

#i am aware that my account is slowly turning into rants about klance fic #and theres nothing you can do to stop me #anyway link to fic is in the comments #go read it its great #i also need to rant about it somewhere and where better than tumblr #klance #keith kogane #lance mcclain #vld #voltron #voltron: legendary defender #hunk vld #takashi shirogane #pidge holt #allura vld #coran vld #ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #fanfic #fic recs #klance fic rec #if anyone has anymore fic recs like this let me know

[goldensunset]

i don't really know how to word this but like i feel like i'm gonna forever have to deal with the pain and heartache of one of my very first pokémon games- the first 'normal' pokémon game i've ever played, that i will have lasting nostalgia and love for as a result of it being formative to my introduction into the series- being the one that will forever be looked down upon for bad graphics and technical issues as a result of the game having been rushed

like i honest to goodness want to scream and yell and cry into the void about how this means everything to me and will always be one of my fave games just in general. but how am i gonna do that without someone being like 'the broken overpriced mess? the one that's missing all this stuff from the older games that was great? the thing with all the cringe? that one?' or whatever. and the thing is they aren't wrong for their criticisms either like i know the fact that they rushed this wonderful game hardcore is a massive stain on its reputation and it hurts me too but like i cannot turn off the brain full of love in me and be a mean critic. or even an impartial one. i mean i criticize everything i love don't get me wrong i am constantly running my mouth about what i like and don't like. but at the end of the day i approach all media with an unusually optimistic mindset. if you see me talk a ton about something no matter what i'm saying you can bet it means i love it.

just. aaagh. it's always tough being a new fan of an old series. i'm like too embarrassed to express my opinions bc i feel like they're invalid y'know? i feel so exhausted every time i see something to the effect of like 'oh those poor kids these days having to deal with such bad quality everything what a bad time to be a fan of pokémon wow y'all make me feel so old' well see the thing is i actually am thriving and i love it here. and i'm also an adult myself so i have more critical thinking skills than people who played red when they were like five years old did. and even with the power of critical thinking i manage to be in love with this. join me in marvelling at the beauty of life

#sorry for the massive rant i am full of both love and rage but i feel alone in this world about this particular subject #my other fav complaint is like 'they make it too easy to xyz these days' #to me that reads like 'i suffered so why shouldn't they' #yes we should encourage people to spend 100 hours grinding to do basic story requirements. #to weed out the true gamers from the weaklings. or maybe we could use the spare time in our lives to touch grass #the only easy-fication change in sv i don't like is the ability to access boxes right from the menu #that kinda cheapens the need to strategically organize a team before heading somewhere #i can.. sorta understand being miffed about the remember moves mechanic? #frankly platinum was so stressful with not being able to freely switch without great hassle/cost #it would have been a fair enough compromise to make you pay a bit of lp or something #or do it for free but having to go to like a pokécenter or something #i'll never agree that exp share is bad though sorry #pokémon #ok but about the 'i feel bad for kids these days with these ugly designs/lame 3D models' thing #yeah i have news for you every gen has its ugly/stupid pokémon. #dude look at exeggcute #and some of the oldest spritework is hideous #granted the ds era spritework was beautiful #but i don't see what is so bad about the 3D models of today? they're both nice... #dude play an indie game or something if it's that important to you idk #it will never be the 90s again. it will never be the 00s again. i'm sorry.

[doli-nemae]

I want to celebrate pride month, I want to draw my characters, I want to calmly play games and laugh with my friends but I'm reading what russians has fucking done to part of my country and I only want to scream in agony because THIS is happening while everyone in the world are just chilling and living their best life :)

I just... I just can't

#rant because I need to yell about this somewhere ok?

[alkibiadessuperfan]

struggling rn cause i wish i knew other lesbians irl to talk to or have as a rolemodel.

#my workplace is fun and while i do not have the impression they are homophobic they are all straight and #the girls my age there really always blocked off when talking about dating stuff even though thry ALWAYS tell me avout their tinder guys #is this queer loneliness?? #idk #i listen to yall really but every single day some guy from apps like😭 pls #and then to always block off when i start about girls and my dating life #ok i get it you are disgusted by me ig #ugh #but then they call you pet names and think yoh want smth or so #😭 im so sorry i needed to get this out somewhere #im feeling alone lowkey like i did in school when i wasnt out #but it will be better #when i see my friends again #and my best friend also has a boyfriend now which i am sooo happy about (he sounds wonderfullll!!!!!) #but can anyone around me not talk about dating men every day😮‍💨 #dont get me wrong i love you all and i am happy for you and will gladly listen but give me the same energy #rant #personal #lesbian #lgbtq

[sluttyten]

My afraid-of-romance ass has just been asked by another regular customer for my number and the stupid thing is that again I do think this guy is kinda cute and I really probably should say yes

#the fear tho lmao #what am I afraid of? I have no fucking clue #this is why I’m still questioning my sexuality lol like what am I? do I even actually like guys? do I like anyone? #in an existential spiral at the moment #but honestly why do they always ask for my number #like dude just give me yours and let me make the decision when you’re not right here in front of me #but I felt bad telling him no today just because the last time a customer asked and I said yes I almost immediately regretted it #and then that didn’t work out because I thought he was too young #young* and now he still sometimes comes by and I just feel awkward about it #maybe I should turn to Facebook and see if I can find him because I have set an age limit for myself and I really don’t want to entertain #anyone younger than that #but I’m……… I know I’m like never active in here anymore #but I just needed to talk about this somewhere #because any of my coworkers would probably tell me I’m being ridiculous or they’d just seriously keep questioning why I keep saying no to #customers that hit on me and my best friend would probably also not get it #idk y’all I just needed to rant about it/talk about it #anyway I’m definitely gonna stress over this until tomorrow #and I’m gonna feel really bad if he stops coming by

[class-a-fanatic]

THIS👏IS👏NOT👏ANAKIN

Hear me out, why would Ahsoka even see him in the world between worlds? We know that Anakin can appear as a force ghost in the real world, so why would it be hear that he magically decided to see her for the first time in FIVE YEARS?

With his appearance, again, why would he feel the need to appear in his full clone wars era robes? We know he appears in the standard jedi robes to others, so why would he opt for his old ones now? And the LIGHTSABER?! That’s VADERS LIGHTSABER. Why would Anakin feel the need to dress how he did as a Jedi, but then hold his sith lightsaber?

The odd de-aging thing they did could play into this too. Why would he choose to look like a 20 year old when Ahsoka and everyone else knows that he’s died in his fourties? And before people go after how he looked young in the return of the jedi remake, that’s because he was IN HIS TWENTIES when they filmed that. They would do the same if they filmed hayden in his fourties’, as we saw in the kenobi series. So why do they now care that he looks a certain age for perhaps a certain era?

Jacen does the “I have a bad feeling” shtick, but this time it feels more sinister. And while this can absolutely apply to morgan and crew going to thrawn and ezra, I feel that it applies to everything going on in the episode. Sabine is being tempted by attachment for ezra and is risking the new republic. Ahsoka being tempted by the same thing, but she can’t change anything about hers, or can she? Perhaps if anakin wasn’t REALLY Anakin and just a decoy to lure her into a false sense of safety and use her to change something drastically in the past.

Also, VADERS THEME JUST PLAYING AT THE END?! After everything, you can’t tell me that it’s just a simple reminder of the past. Baylan directly told ahsoka that like her master, her legacy is one of death and destruction right before she fell off the cliff. The fact that those two are referenced in the same episode tells me that ahsoka will be faced with a challenge, one that could lead her on a path like anakins if she gives in to the temptation.

I truly think that there’s foul play involved. Some dark entity is trying to use anakin as a weak spot, trying to alter him to pull ahsoka into that false sense of security to make her more susceptible to dark influence. Or maybe not and felony has no vision and will try to once again put full blame on jedi for their genocide and show ahsoka as forgiving him for all of his crimes because “oooo the jedi failed US so they’re responsible for our actions🥰”

#I hope this makes sense #I was ranting about it to someone a realized I just needed to write it down somewhere #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #pro jedi #ahsoka #star wars

[myfandomhalf]

The amount of Dazai mischaracterization in this fandom is CRAZY

I’m not tagging this with a thing because I don’t feel like getting jumped today but whew I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of people finally realizing that Dazai doesn’t actually give a shit about Sigma past “this is a person -> this person became involved in a dangerous situation -> the right thing to do is my best to try to keep them alive” NOT “I must keep this person alive because they matter a lot to me personally and I would be very sad if they died or got hurt” 🥴 plus also the fact that Sigma is useful to him for information, I do think he would’ve tried to keep him alive even if he wasn’t useful, but NOT because he cares about him or has some sort of personal interest in his well being 💀 (he also would probably not have tried as hard if sigma wasn’t useful)

Like that’s so crazy to me do y’all even know who Dazai is 😭😭

Anyway like I was saying I was pleasantly surprised and then those people started showing up with their pitchforks and now I’m back to having very little faith

#just needed somewhere to rant #why do you guys want Dazai to be a goody goody so bad #DAZAI?? caring about a man he met 10 minutes ago??? #PLEEEEAAASE be so serious #he barely even cares about (redacted for my own safety) #I saw someone say well I’m insert mental health stuff here and I met someone new and cared about them quickly #like okay??? lmao 💀💀 #who cares??? #you’re not Dazai??? #but wait 🤔🤔 ohhh I see #you’re projecting #now that makes more sense #please separate yourselves from characters when you’re analyzing CANON content #okay I’m done #believe it or not I have more controversial opinions #but this is so ridiculous #the funny part is as SOON as I saw that panel I told myself #watch them twist this to make it seem as if Dazai is worrying about sigma #AND I WAS RIGHT