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#idk she's just such a squick character for me. she annoys me to no end. i even stopped watching arnold's playthrough for a bit because of
rubys-domain · 10 months
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damn, i still got a healthy amount of posts in the queue. i went a little ham in my last queuing spree huh
#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo,ide yo !!#and i'll have probably twice as many to add to the queue next time it runs out#i do like posts for the purpose of queuing them later#sometimes i'm just too lazy to queue stuff yk#like adding the tags and all that#anyway i'll just ramble about stuff under here#i hope that arnold (murderofbirds on youtube/twitch) has chongyun gameplay moments recorded at some point#hearing him admit that he wanted chongyun to be his main dps at first but then ended up not doing that made me :(#we seriously need more chongyun appreciation in this world#idk if he ever streamed character hangouts. or if he's uploaded the vods to youtube if he did#i don't want to sift through his channel to find out because i do enjoy his playthrough as-is. i kinda don't wanna spoil the experience by#finding out that he doesn't have any recorded content on chongyun at all and having much less motivation to keep watching his playthrough#it's hard for me to find good videos to watch over meals these days. and i'm not about to disqualify months' worth of genshin vods#i'm glad he reacted positively to xingqiu's story quest tho. especially after hating him as a playable unit (at first anyway)#people like him because he's meta but most people know jack about his character#i'm glad he can look past one aspect of a character he doesn't like and fully appreciate the other parts#can't say the same about myself with xiangling tho#idk she's just such a squick character for me. she annoys me to no end. i even stopped watching arnold's playthrough for a bit because of#how much he used xiangling and talking about how much he loves xiangling every two seconds#im glad he eventually benched her. and im also glad he didnt get to see her in wanmin restaurant like he was hoping to when he got to liyue#man i have very petty feelings towards xiangling lol#im still annoyed at my irl (ex-friend atp tbh) for going “nooo but she's so strong and metaaaa” when i told her about how much i dislike her#like fam. even if she did 1 mil damage with barely any investment i still wouldn't care. i don't like her. end of story#it's not like it's uncommon for people to hate bennett. and he's one of the most broken units in the game#(ironically i actually like bennett as a character)#(it's also why i insist on calling my main team chongqiunett instead of national variant. national implies xiangling is there)#i'm trying really hard not to go on a whole rant about everything i don't like about her#/sigh/ anyway.
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just-antithings · 1 year
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Apologies for how long this is But,,
People who are antis about vocaloids are the funniest.
"She's 16" my buddy, she is sounds. She can be whatever you want her to be. She is a disembodied voice making noises that you can string together into a song. Watch me make her say "Hello my name is Miku and I'm 38 years old and I do my taxes. I have two kids". The high school idol girl who loves leeks Guidelines used for marketing and to kickstart producers' creativity are not the same as canon character traits (p sure the leek thing was even added by fans and adopted into official shit??). You can follow it or you can just not according to your will.
"Rin and Len are siblings" they're whatever you want them to be. Every single Vocaloid is whatever the fuck you want them to be. They're not characters. They're instruments. They're ideas. They're a baseline to build your own character on top of.
I've been listening to VOCALOID for 12 years. Miku doesn't have to be depicted with one design, with one character type, with one age. Neither do any of the others. Sometimes Rin and Len are siblings and sometimes they are an unrelated couple. Sometimes Miku is 16 and sometimes she is a grown ass woman with a job, or a housewife. And yeah sometimes they're sexualized in their teens and sometimes Rin and Len are an incestuous couple but that's the individual producer's choice. That's what's cool about VOCALOID ??? people do whatever the hell they want and tell weird and funky stories or even discuss personal traumatic events through the anonymity of a robot voice.
Like I guess I can understand even if I don't agree with people who do this with actual characters with established backstories and canon and reasons one might be squicked out by people using their image to play with taboos. But no VOCALOID is that. Acting like Miku being 16 is a law set in stone is so ridiculous to me. It's, like... do you even listen to VOCALOID? lol. Just went and shuffled a random playlist of songs to get some examples — I got a song where Miku is literally an actual Child who can't be much older than 12; I got a song where Miku is a doll; I got a song where Miku is a newscaster; and I got a song where Miku is in-universe a VOCALOID.
I'm just. very very tired and also confused and I guess I remain a bit amused but it's so sad and pathetic. I have been arguing in YouTube comment sections about VOCALOID since I was like 11 years old 😭 it never ends but it has become more annoying. Like idk does anyone else remember the era of "*nosebleeds* len is a shota >w< I ship him with kaito omg yaoii". It's probably good in some ways we've moved past that but I would still trade This for that instantly.
yeah it’s ridiculous how people will be like “miku can be anything” but then turn around and say that she has to be 16
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For the "tell me a character and these are the ships" Stanford and/or Stanly Pines? Crossovers more than allowed.
ooh, that's a neat one! admittedly doing this made me realize i don't have a tonnnnn of ships for either character, but that's okay. gotta get creative with it!
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STANLEY
my notp for them: HMM i guesssss him and carla always left me kinda cold. i wouldn't call that a notp, tho. more of a 'mehtp', really. just didn't interest me, so seeing it all over back when the show was still airing was kinda annoying. my brotp for them: him and mabel's dynamic was always VERY sweet to me. my otp for them: him and the dumb wife oc i made for him because she's a babe and just as awful/gross as he is UHH see i was a big stan/rick shipper back in the day, but i really soured on the direction r&m took and ended up losing interest in it as a result. so i guess i really like him and eda, since they canonically were married for a very brief period of time? my second choice pairing for them: always had a soft spot for fiddlestan. my fluffy pairing for them: fiddlestan is this tbh my angsty pairing for them: maybe him and bill? but specifically like this. my favorite poly ship for them: him with money and happiness. my weirdest pairing for them: any pairing at all. this man is basically undateable. he's nice to his family, but oh my god he can be kind of a dick for no reason.
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STANFORD
my notp for them: again not really a notp in the sense there's anything about it that repels me, just uhh...not interested in him and fiddleford? i get the appeal, truly, just didn't ever click for me. admittedly wasn't crazy about the fandom's interpretation that romantic feelings existed between them while fiddleford was still married but that's because i'm squicked by infidelity and not like...a moral judgment, on my end. my brotp for them: ford and dipper! my otp for them: bill/ford babeyyy. i love the whole "bitter ex vibes" with ships, and boy do they fit that to a t. loved all the angsty art that people made around the time their shared backstory was revealed. my second choice pairing for them: bill/jheselbraum. i am not immune to Big Pretty Lady. my fluffy pairing for them: dunno! i guess i like seeing ocs shipped with him that are more understanding of some of his insecurities. my angsty pairing for them: i feel like bill and ford is this. my favorite poly ship for them: my weirdest pairing for them: probably him and eda also PFF. idk there's something very funny about ford accidentally stumbling into his brother's ex's dimension, falling for eda, then trying to introduce them later only to be told "WAIT A SECOND THAT'S THE LADY THAT CONNED ME OUTTA MY CAR".
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Like I said in an earlier post, I’ve decided to try and get into Romance this year. The Bride Test was an early foray into the genre. I listened to an audio version of it and...it was alright. I’m gonna put my thoughts under a cut for spoilers but yeah not my favourite book ever. I gave it 3 stars on goodreads but in reality it was maybe a 2.5? I did however like some of the side characters more so I’d be willing to try the next book in the series.
So I didn’t love the initial setup with his mum flying overseas to try and find him a bride, it felt very manipulative and icky. And in fact I think a lot of how people behaved towards Khai came off as manipulative, right down to the fake wedding at the end. I’m sure it wasn’t intended that way but it definitely didn’t sit right with me.
Then there were the main characters. Neither of them really did anything for me. Khai was alright but I found Esme particularly annoying and half of what she did came off as less quirky cute and more just like....stupid? The tree thing and the wedding dress thing are the two big ones that come to mind and neither of them hit right for me. I understand romances books (much like romcom movies of which im generally a fan) require some level of suspension of disbelief but the wedding dress thing was too ridiculous. It ended up feeling like a very contrived way to have her topless around Khai which was unnecessary since he’d obviously already noticed she had tits while she was chopping down the tree. 
And don’t get me started about the kid! This book did the equivalent of every sitcom that made the main couple have a kid, in that she was mentioned once or twice but never was really part of the show. She was a plot device to explain why her mum dropped out of school. 
I think this one was probably not a great choice for me. It hit a couple of squicks of mine - virgin characters (i can’t do it in fanfic and apparently I can’t do it in actual books either) and...idk would you call it arranged marriage? whatever it is I am not a fan - and just generally felt a bit disappointing. 
Hopefully my next romance read is a little more successful but too many like this and I will be giving up on the genre.
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amorremanet · 2 years
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okay so I just read your entire post on m*lly and a*thur weasley and I have to say I agree with you on pretty much everything and, while I knew they were bad people, I didn't even realise a lot of what they did were bad and since I don't just JKR's narration as far as I can throw her so I was wondering what your view on the other Weasleys are, since I don't particularly like Ron. I'd love to hear another perspective.
Hey, nonny!
I'm sorry to disappoint here, and I really don't want to be rude when you've been so nice? But anymore, engaging with HP anything mostly makes me feel nauseated and ashamed of myself for how much time and energy I put into the fandom, only to have Joanne end up going full on T3RF and perpetuating bigoted garbage that actively makes the world more hostile toward and dangerous for several people I love.
[sorry for the L1ndsay Ell1s video link, and ftr, I'm not co-signing everything she's ever said; I just think this particular video is solid. Watch it with an adblocker on if you don't want her getting any adsense from your view]
So, again, I'm sorry, and please don't feel like you did anything wrong here; I'm rarely on tumblr anymore, and when I am, I don't talk about HP, so you had no way of knowing any of my thoughts or how much I'm still in the fandom or not. But the only real perspective I really feel up to giving here is that Percy is my favorite, Fred is my least favorite, I probably wouldn't like Ginny even if she weren't done dirty by Joanne's internalized misogyny but that's just down to "Ginny isn't my personal cup of tea, character-wise" rather than anything being bad or wrong or whatever about her, and Ron……………is fine.
idk, I used to hate Ron, but it was mostly the overcompensation of a twelve-year-old who hadn't realized that she was allowed to ship Hermione with girls, just like she was increasingly shipping W0lfstar, because apparently, girls being with girls was NOT just something that Takeuchi Naoko-sensei made up for Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune (in my defense, it was 2002, and I was raised Catholic).
So, the HP fandom that I'd seen by that point made me feel like I had to pick some kind of side in the "who should Hermione get with" debate, and out of the most popular ships for her at the time, I didn't personally like her with Draco (my favorite Draco scene was and still is the one with the Amazing Bouncing Ferret), Ron (it seemed like the obvious endgame, which annoyed the part of me that was a bratty tweenager and being pointlessly nonconformist, but also I projected onto her and I didn't want to get with Ron—which, in retrospect? is just because I was a lesbian and didn't know it yet, but……see previous point about being sheltered), or Snape (teacher/student just isn't my thing and usually squicks me)
Which meant that Harry won by process of elimination, which meant that I had to vitriolically hate the other ships and think they were all stupid and bad because I was twelve and the culture on the message boards at the time really led me to believe that being consumed with hatred for the ships you don't like was, like, normal, or a good way to be, or a recipe for happiness. (It's not any of those things, and I don't recommend it, but……blah blah, 12-year-old Kassie was a sweet summer child who didn't even know she was gay yet, despite how the highest praise she could give to any of the famous boys she crushed on—Orlando Bloom, Hayden Christensen, Enrique Iglesias, I could name more—was "he's almost pretty enough to be a girl.")
(also, that video in the link is about the sordid tale of MsScribe, which is definitely well beyond the normal scope of drama in Ye Olde HP Fandom of the early naughts………but although Eldena Doubleca5t doesn't make this point, I personally believe that one of the reasons why MsScribe got away with her elaborate, massively convoluted sockpuppetry for so long? was that she weaponized the anti-Harry/Ginny sentiment that a lot of Harry/Hermione shippers held, and spending as much time hating the other ship as you did actually loving and appreciating your own ship was so normalized as part of How To Be A Shipper In The HP Fandom that nobody questioned why a bunch of ostensibly random alleged H/G shippers would come out of nowhere to harass an H/Hr shipper who was basically a nobody, at the time.
It wasn't even exclusive to these ships. I remember when a fan-artist who I liked from Sailor Moon stuff started making HP art, they did mostly spend their time drawing Remus/Snape, but they made more than one piece shitting on Remus/Sirius just for existing and had multiple friends and fans supporting them in that. Because the whole concept of "just don't talk about the ships you don't like" was totally foreign to A LOT of Ye Olde School HP fan forums, LJ comms, etc. and bashing the ships you didn't like rather than actually enjoying the ships you DO like was treated as Essential for proving that you really loved your ships.
It was a toxic, bullshit culture that hit SEVERAL boiling points, over and over and over again, with several different ship wars because all of us collectively learned jack with a side of squat from every single instance where this happened. But……this jaunt down fandom history lane is way, way off-topic and not what you actually asked about, so. Sorry for that.)
A N Y W A Y.
TL;DR: I used to hate Ron, but it was grounded in fandom bullshit (and more specifically: ship war pissing contest bullshit), and he didn't actually deserve how much I hated him. But I also don't really have strong feelings on him. Y'know, he's fine. Not my cuppa, but I don't find him, like, grotesquely offensive or anything?
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A friend says QiRong gives her mixed feeling, something about a not so very well done redemption in her opinion? so I’m curious to see what’s the whole deal with him haha he defo annoyed me, but I think it makes him interesting. When I read he looked like XL I was like is this a clone thing? A long lost twin? But no, he’s just the annoying cousin lmfao lolol
I think I’m just dumb cause I was like wait pei jr did what? For what? When I watched the song his, So when I read I think I understood his thoughts behind it better
My friends are afraid I won’t like MuQing so I’m like *sweats profusely* what does he do I’m scared. He is either hated or loved there’s no in between, or so I’ve been told
As for spoilers well I know who Nan Feng and Fu Yao are, that beefleaf have a tragic ending (but not why or what happened, and also something about MingYi... I think? Like that’s it there something about him but, again, idk the what) , Xie Lian is... someone but I’m blanking on the name so thanks for that brain! There was something else I got spoiled but I can’t remember and ah! Well I know MuQing has a mother and that may or may not be very important, like I know she exists but not for what purpose
And idk I don’t think xl having a cream pie kink is a spoiler LMAO but I know that too
omg you're making me think that qi rong is kind of the opposite of xue yang for me? XY has the genius and charisma and tragic backstory, but in execution, he squicks me out. QR on the other hand is an annoying fuck, an annoying fuck, and an annoying fuck, but in execution, he's, ,, hilariously charming??? like don't get me wrong he's a fucking bastard in every way but i don't mind his presence at all lmao. as for his redemption arc, i'm not too mad 'cause i don't think he was meant to be redeemed in a way that matters, so whether or not it succeeded can totally be up to the reader.
also omg, long lost twin. that's thematically prescient, i love it :eyes:
NO I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND LMFAO re: xiao pei. To make it worse i read the book first and totally was like, ", huh? what's going on?"
Mu Qing, Jiang Cheng, and Shen Jiu are the ultimate Hate-Them-or-Love-Them trio when it comes to fandom, it seems. And that's so fucking fierce of them. I don't think MQ does anything unforgivable, and I love a poor bitch with Issues™ lololol. Obviously, I don't think he's beyond critique, and i'm a little obsessed with the direction MXTX took with him. I would love to know what you think, post-Book 2 and post-Book 4!!!
CAN I TELL YOU. I LITERALLY DIDN'T CLOCK NAN FENG AND FU YAO UNTIL BOOK 4 KLJSADNFLKJASNDLFKAJNSDLFKJANLDS I'M SUCH A BLIND BITCH I WAS JUST LIKE "oh hahaha that's great" and didn't, , connect the dots,,
ah, beefleaf <3 <3 to this day I still don't really understand why majority of fandom seems to portray them as fluffy lesbians—not that it's bad. I just...didn't have that urge, post-canon? Mingyi is also my Favorite Character of tgcf muah <3 <3 i'll say this—while i do love beefleaf, i am also perfectly content with them not being together
DIANXIA'S CREAMPIE KINK NFJNDJFNDJFNJDNFDNFDKNFKJNN like. good for hua cheng, honestly. okay but can ghosts nut
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(1) I didn't mean to trigger anyone with the sex question. and still I can't see how one's personal disgust for such a natural and beautiful (as we agreed) thing automatically justifies calling people names. and also, the fetish? I get it, but wasn't the point of said monologue more philosophical and less personal? people fetishize danger because it's the natural defense mechanism of the psyche. addiction is #1 problem for Regis, sure, but he was a serial killer. he is in no position to complain
(2) ofc we should keep in mind character's main problems, but is being sexualized really as important for regis as his addiction? or his socialization? you don't like him having sex because it's discomforting somehow, but he had relationships with the brothel maman and a succubus, and we should assume that it wasn't at all sexual? succubus has a primal need to feed on sex and she dealed with it with regis by drinking herbal tea and watching tv shows about how asexuality rules? idk 
ok im gonna break this down because it’s quite long, just skip to the end paragraph if you want a consise answer
I can't see how one's personal disgust for such a natural and beautiful (as we agreed) thing automatically justifies calling people names.
i’m not disgusted by sex / sex-repulsed. that’s of course a personal thing to share, but it seems to be what you are insinuating. all i said is that i do not want to see p*rn that i have not consented to seeing. 
but yeah i am gonna call these people names when they are unable to interact with any character/media without only making nsfw content of it and not considering anything else about that character/media. and when they don’t tag their content and post it w/o filter so that anyone who may not consent to seeing random porn can stumble across it, on a site that literally banned adult content months ago as well as has a large population of minors. 
i’ll be trying to talk to someone about regis lol or find non-sexual content about him and ALL I GET is porn and sexual takes. it’s fucking annoying
and also, the fetish? I get it, but wasn't the point of said monologue more philosophical and less personal? people fetishize danger because it's the natural defense mechanism of the psyche.
it’s vague as to whether it is only philosophical or personal, but those philosophizing typically do not speak about issues relating to their species without it being at least a little bit personal.
addiction is #1 problem for Regis, sure, but he was a serial killer. he is in no position to complain. ofc we should keep in mind character's main problems, but is being sexualized really as important for regis as his addiction? or his socialization?
okay first of all, i disagree with the statement that regis was a serial killer, lol, in baptism of fire, he mentions that the victims of higher vampires are rarely killed.
i think what you are trying to argue is that regis being sexualized in-universe is not a main issue for him, and you’d be right, it’s not a main issue in-universe. but if you had been following my points at all, you’d understand that i am speaking about how he is treated out-of-universe by the fandom. him having issues regarding addiction and socialization in-universe is not relevant at all to the issue of him being overly sexualized by the fandom. this argument holds no water.
he had relationships with the brothel maman and a succubus, and we should assume that it wasn't at all sexual?
i will explain a little about how i feel about regis’s canon female love interests: i’m gonna preface this with: why does anyone have to make a man and woman have a relationship. is that really necessary. come on.
i like how you brought up the queen of the night (assumedly, because i don’t know what you mean by “brothel maman” except maybe “brothel woman”) when her being in charge of a brothel was literally an addition / interpretation by CDPR and not in the books, like. who is oversexualizing women and vampires now. in the books regis just says it was probably / it was something serious but she left him because he continued to be an alcoholic. (of course, she has no canon name given in the books, and “queen of the night” is just a title she has. i don’t really care much about names and her real name is probably way longer than that. but i think it is a nice touch that regis’s name means king, and hers’ is queen, so i continue to call her this, i also call her “queenie” because i think it’s cute :3). i think they are both gay and were just trying to be heterosexual because it seemed like what they should do since they were already friends, then they had too many disagreements and fell out.
i think for the succubus, that was an annoying addition by sapkowski to give everyone in the hansa a heterosexual partner thus reason to stay in the fairy-tale duchy. plus the idea of “she’s a nymphomaniac, he’s an alcoholic!” is incredibly cringe to have as an idea of why they would be a good couple. and why must regis be shipped with a woman to be happy? even more cringe.
and we should assume that it wasn't at all sexual? succubus has a primal need to feed on sex and she dealed with it with regis by drinking herbal tea and watching tv shows about how asexuality rules? idk
“we should assume” ? you can have your own headcanons, i do not dictate what you believe! don’t be bothered by my headcanons if you disagree! 
i think it would be super fitting if their relationship wasn’t romantic or sexual though, because the witcher is all about breaking fantasy tropes. you know, there’s a vampire that drinks no blood, so why not a succubus that doesn’t have sex with men? 
the idea that succubi rely on sex to like, feed off of energy, is totally a tw3 conception, the books never said anything about that. for all we know, they could function like higher vampires and not need sex to survive, they just enjoy it like others do... though i think if they had to exist like that, then i would quote colin robinson from wwdits, with “i don’t live to feed... i feed to live” ... but yeah also having a whole character/fantasy species that is like. “a woman but she NEEDS to have SEX otherwise she will DIE” is pretty annoying lol
for me personally, i have headcanons that she was experiencing compulsory heterosexuality and regis just spoke to her like, so are you really having sex with these men because you want to or because you feel like you’re supposed to? and i think it would have been nice for natanis to speak with a man (a “man” ... heh... okay the post about regis’ gender is an entirely different post) who doesn’t just see her as a sexual being, much like regis gets to speak with humans who don’t consider him a monster. THUS CUE VERY FUNNY MONTAGE of her trying to sneak into human society to fit in and interact with humans (i don’t disagree with the tw3 design of succubi, so we can roll with that. she wears a hat kind of like sile de tancarville’s tw2 design to cover her horns, lol). idk how this turns out, i think she just starts fucking the noble ladies instead of the noble men, and then the noble ladies don’t want to complain anymore.
you don't like him having sex because it's discomforting somehow, but
i literally don’t even headcanon regis as asexual (okay, maybe in the scientific sense because my vampire headcanons are elaborate and i think it’s more interesting than heterosexual coupling) ... like you are literally sending asks to someone with the URL gayregis (although i know you can be gay and asexual simultaneously) ... i am not against regis having sex like, AT ALL, lol. i just do not find the content interesting and i do not want to interact with it because if you followed my blog / saw my pinned post(s) you’d know a large portion of my content about regis is family oriented and also about him being a mentor to angouleme, and i shouldn’t have to like, explain my family trauma to someone with an anonymous identity to get you to understand why seeing this character in this specific way is important to me and why p*rn of him squicks me out. why are you mad that i do not want to see p*rn that i do not consent to seeing? it’s my own business.
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Ape-man is just,,,,,, annoying,,,,,, I haven't even seen the whole thing, but his character just,,,, is Bad. Like. His entire personality annoys me. I also really dislike the whole relationship with him and rumors. But I love Klaus, bc he's a delight, Vanya, bc she's a delight, Ben, bc he's a good boy, and five, bc he's,,,,, something, but I love him. And I do want to watch the rest. But I know I just won't??? I really need my sister to come over and watch it with Me so I actually will,,,,,, ~S
He rubbed me wrong for most of the show, too. Like, Ape-man just absolutely refuses to compromise or take anyone else’s opinions/ideas into account, and he’s so quick to judge. Ape-man just can’t see past the end of his own nose. But, he’s the favorite character of a very good friend of mine so I’ve tried my best for the whole show so far to keep an open mind for him (except for my few hours of absolute seething rage this morning after his actions in later episodes). I’m just gonna hold out hope for his character development next season into something that is tolerable lol. (and also the whole relationship between him and Allison definitely squicks me out too, like they may not be biological siblings but they were raised as siblings so it’s kind of eeueuuuhghghgh to put a romance there) I’m willing to give him a second chance, but that’s also because once I calm down from my anger I can empathize with almost any side that’s not outright and blatantly evil, which he’s not (even if he’s done a lot of crappy things), and I can’t even 100% blame him for it because parental abuse that you just stay in not realizing what it’s doing to you???? Screws you up. Real bad, Trust me, I wasn’t always even a mildly good person lol, and my abusive household isn’t nearly as severe as he lived through. I just had this realization right before hitting post and now I’ve found kindness in my heart for his character again, though I’m still angry with him and don’t approve of his actions.
Klaus honestly??? I want to put my son in therapy. he deserves so much better than the life he’s had and I hope he gets some help, or at least finally some support from his siblings, next season.
Same with Vanya, she lived through so much crap and deserved so much better, and she’s done a lot of things wrong and I’m not just gonna glance over the absolutely awful things she’s done, but she still deserves love and another chance to really live her life.
Ben didn’t deserve to die. Idk even how he died but I adore him and I’m looking forward to more Ben next season so much. 
And Five is somehow very lovable despite being such a callous person? Maybe it’s the baby-face activating the Mom Instincts so deeply ingrained in my very soul, but I just want to protect the poor old man.
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welcometoteamz · 5 years
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Since there’s a new influx of iZombie roleplayers I figured I’d make a little PSA post to cover my bases; in case you can’t help but be a bit judgemental as you skim my blog in spite of yourself.
Relationship discussions/thoughts and such below~
I’m Tim. As far as I know, this was the first iZombie roleplay blog on tumblr. I created it March 25, 2015. The show premiered March 17th.
I don’t say this to humblebrag, bc honestly, who tf cares?
I just say this to provide some context. I’ve been here since day one, writing Blaine.
I was here during the literal year long hiatus between the end of S2 and the start of S3.
During that time I wrote Blaine’s amnesia as being a legitimate and lasting affliction. In many ways, he became almost a divergent character who was Blaine in face and name only.
He developed relationships with some characters (whose writers may or may not still be around) such as Peyton and Liv that don’t exactly reflect that in canon. So if you see something you kinda sideye, that’s probably why. Context matters. There’s backstory to certain verses that explain how and why.
THAT SAID! Though I have no problem writing canon divergent Blaine (or verses that skew off from points in canon I don’t care for) I’m also cool with/enjoy writing Blaine at any point in the timeline. S1 Zombie Blaine at his most despicable. S2 human Blaine. Amnesiac Blaine. Blaine faking his amnesia. Blaine with aforementioned permanent amnesia. Mid S3-S4 Blaine. A Blaine who is working with Major and Fillmore-Graves.
ALL THE BLAINES~ *:・゚✧*:・゚✧
At the end of the day, I ship Blaine and chemistry. And just because he’s attracted to your character doesn’t mean he’ll actually catch feelings for them. In regards to canon Blaine, I refer to David’s comments and Rob Thomas’. His feelings for Peyton were real, and made him wish he had not done such despicable things in life.
Which is to say, yes, he had/may have regrets, but due to selfish reasons and not so much remorse.
Keep in mind, I’ll try to be respectful off all ships, and will refrain from publicly turning up my nose at any of yours. All I ask is that you do the same. I won’t force any ships on anyone, and I’m totally down for platonic and antagonistic relationships.
Here’s a guide tho, if it helps, to my thoughts on Blaine’s relationships as it would stand with a canon Blaine.
Thoughts on Blaine’s relationships:
-Peyton, while certainly recognizing the problematic elements. I was on board and then they pulled the rug out from under me. I have an explanation, from Blaine’s POV for why he lied, but in no way do I excuse it nor is it a justification. I won’t force this ship on anyone, I’m fine with it being platonic or antagonistic. If you want to write it, but only at certain points in time or canon divergent ones where he didn’t lie or whatever... that’s cool. Just let me know, because while I enjoy it, I know some people may be squicked out by it.
-Rita. No, they never met. No, she shouldn’t have died. Yes, I’m bitter. They didn’t meet in canon, but I can see canon Blaine being with her. As an annoyance/partner/eventual friend and possibly more. So I’m mentioning her. Mainly to promote @fairisfair, who writes her and is pretty much my exclusive Rita not that I really expect any others to pop up.
-Liv. Look. I know. In canon this is a special hell ship that would probably never ever ever happen.... but..... he enjoys her. As meddlesome as she’s been, I don’t think Blaine hates her. I think during his amnesia stint, he enjoyed and appreciated her friendship. In another world where he never killed anyone, and she didn’t see him with Boss’ goons? Who knows? Or again, developed after the amnesia and carefully done. IDK. That said I’m totally down for petty and antagonistic frienemy bickering.
-Ravi. Ravi irritates Blaine mainly due to the whole Peyton thing, but Blaine does respect and understand Peyton’s choice even if it bums him out. Ravi can be a bit nerdy and annoy Blaine, but I think Blaine has a tiiiny bit of respect for him whether or not he’d admit it. Ravi’s a good person and loyal to his friends and he respects that. Plus, his big brain. It’s also fun to rile him up.
-Major: Blaine and Major’s dynamic is so...??? Unusual? To go from trying to kill each other to unwilling alliance to Blaine being the reason Major found Natalie and Major understanding and not resenting Blaine for not wanting to remember and then now their partnership... like...we never got Major getting in Blaine’s face after it came out Blaine lied. Blaine was willing to let Major die, after Major basically was willing to be bygones and tease him about being a lounge singer. I like Maine. Not romantic Maine, but I find their relationship fascinating.
-Don E. Look, I can’t help but think maybe Don E. felt a little spurned by Blaine in addition to taken for granted... and that one sided feelings may have played a part in that. I mean he stood in the rain watching Blaine and noting Peyton, while Blaine sang about loving someone even though it hurts because they don’t love you back. But look. Blaine doesn’t treat Don E. like a lackey anymore. When those two goons in 1x04 tried to make their own brain business? Blaine killed them. When Don E. did it? ...not only do I think Blaine was impressed, but Don E. was all he had left. He was willing to forgive him stealing his clients and unfreezing Angus, and made him a partner, and appreciates him. Don E. is his only real and best friend. For all the wronging each other that went on towards the end of S2 and beginning of S3, when Angus died and Don E was there and comforting him yet saying what needed to be said? Feelings. Kissing him on the head, calling him dweeb, taking his face in his hands.
Risking his own life to save his, which had only been done before in the case of Peyton...
Blaine cares about Don E., and you can fight me on that.
Chase: Ok, this is where the bitterness starts. I would have loved a S4 of Blaine and Chase antagonistic over the fact that Blaine killed his brother but Chase can’t kill him because of the brain shortage. We saw Chase blackmail Blaine, but we never got to see Blaine call his bluff and remind him that he had him by the short n curlies as well. Be smug and lord the fact that Chase needs him now after turning down his earlier proposal, saying he had enough brains. I wanted to see them actually working well together, and coming to respect each other somehow despite hating what each stands for... culminating in a showdown.
We didn’t get that. Chase was just fine to let Blaine be after he found Mama Leone, and Harrison Graves is never mentioned, and they never have a scene again.
Angus: Ok Fuck Angus. Before we knew what a garbage human being the actor who played him is, I was mildly excited but the choice to make him a religious cult leader and the execution coupled with the fact he didn’t end up the big bad and it was just all a bunch of filler that made me have to look at that fuckface’s face?? ... not worth it imo. He should have been left to rot in the well, and in a world where he was played by someone else it would have been nice to see him take control by using Enzo to reach out to those in Fillmore Graves who were loyal to Carey Gold’s cause and staging a SHIELD/HYDRA esque coup. But that is another thread that they didn’t continue.
So alas.but in verses/threads that have to acknowledge him, the alternate faceclaim will be Robert Carlyle.
I’d include Blaine’s relationship with Clive but they’ve only had like four scenes together which go from Clive questioning Blaine/wanting to put Blaine away/questioning Blaine again/willing to let Blaine and Don E help on an investigation/questioning Blaine again....
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why do you think people hold his cheating against blaine tho?
uhhhhh double standards???
maybe more like quadruple standards actually...
okay so like, fucking everyone in that show cheats, almost. rachel and finn both do (finn makes a fucking habit of it), so it’s not like our leads are our moral high ground. kurt doesn’t, though the whole chandler thing still squicks me out and i don’t totally remember how the mercedes/sam/shane thing went down but i don’t think she cheated either, so perhaps our secondary leads are more our moral high bar. 
but let’s do a quick stroll through our main characters: quinn cheats (twice), puck helps both quinn and rachel cheat (which ties into his issues with finn more than anything i think but That’s A Different Talk), santana helps someone cheat (canonically she only helps brittany on artie, but i wouldn’t be totally surprised if there were other instances), brittany cheats (once i think?), sam cheats (once? i think? i might talk about that too here), hell tina cheats. mike helps someone cheat. jake cheats, too. so like, blaine isn’t an outlier here.
what makes him different is that we see him actively regretting it. puck, quinn, rachel and sam all show some regret over their actions but we don’t have episodes dedicated to them being sad. and i think that’s the issue, which is the worst thing -- blaine feels bad and he’s demonised for it. of course, it didn’t help that the fandom already didn’t like him and anti-klainers (which were just as plentiful as klainers back in the day) seemed to side with one boy over the other and i always saw more kurt supporters than those who sided with blaine, which like. i get. we knew kurt more, we went through his struggles with him -- we met blaine post-sadie hawkins, post-recovery, he was already well-adjusted (...ish) so there was less to grab onto if we wanted to connect with this character.
but that leads to this: blaine cheats because he’s being emotionally neglected by his partner, which isn’t a Good Thing and i’ll never say it is. but it’s not like he’s cheating for fun -- he’s alone and hurt and has tried to reach out but is rebuffed at every point. blaine cheats and immediately tells kurt (which is rare for glee actually, sam’s the only other person who came forward immediately and i think puck comes forward about rachel pretty quickly) and like, i don’t understand people who say darren criss is a bad actor (*points frantically at his emmy*) because the scene where he tells kurt the truth is genuinely heartbreaking. blaine looks fucking disgusted with himself. 
and at that point, kurt’s definitely valid in pushing blaine away -- he doesn’t want to hear blaine’s explanations, nor should he have to. it’s all too new, too fresh, too volatile. they can talk another time.
except they don’t?
and that leads us to the next four episodes, where blaine struggles with his sense of self -- he doesn’t have closure on his relationship with kurt, because kurt wouldn’t talk to him. and so much of blaine’s identity is tangled up in kurt (which is an Issue obviously) that he just... loses himself. there’s definitely a point to all those metas where blaine coming to mckinley was a major step back for him as a character and we really see that here, and i think that might be where all the hate comes from? we see the fallout from blaine’s perspective, the Bad Guy of the situation (they’re both bad guys imo but it be like that sometimes) so people struggle to empathise with him. also kurt emotionally neglecting blaine was REALLY brushed over because while we only see two episodes of it (and it wasn’t shown in-depth or anything) blaine experienced at least a month of it (i lean towards more because we voted our class representatives two months into the school year but i know things are different) which doesn’t help matters.
i know people get annoyed with the “blaine probably has a mental illness” line of thought but there’s definitely something there -- kid joined 27 clubs, became senior class president and took over a nationals-winning glee club in his senior year. he was also salutatorian (i mean i’m sure he would’ve been bumped if artie and tina sorted out their issue but he still got second-highest marks in the class even if he technically ranked third). there is no way that kid didn’t have something leading him into mania (i have a lot of stock in the bipolar!blaine theory can u tell). 
but if there is something there (ryan even admitted he thought blaine might have depression but there is so much more there), i think that explains his actions a lot. it doesn’t excuse them of course, but explanations are important. 
anyway, people already hated blaine. this just gave them a canon reason to fire against him. 
also, since i said i’d talk about it: sam cheats on mercedes in s5 and it’s shitty and our girl deserves better, but sam tells her immediately. i remember fucking nothing about how that conversation went, but it ended well. the fandom didn’t fire back against sam anywhere near as much as they did blaine (which leads us into a weird talk about how they [the fandom] will fight for kurt but not mercedes but i prefer to look it as the outcome of samcedes’ conversation was more positive), but i definitely remember people using that against him -- while people like brittany, quinn and tina got off without much flack.
(i also don’t really remember finn getting much shit over it but??? i feel like i just missed it???)
so not super sure what the fuck happened there (outside of pre-existing baseless hate for the characters but it’s not like people had a reason to love quinn pre-puck revelation so??? idk???). i do find it interesting though. i never really got why people hated blaine and sam so much when they were genuinely kind-hearted males, something sorely lacking from our tv screens at the time, but... idk, people just wanted to hate, i think.
like people blame them for the downfall of glee but lmao bitch??? that’s on the fucking writers??? chord and darren didn’t storm into the writer’s room and demand writing quality go the fuck down, chill out.
okay so rounding back to klaine again because i have fucking Thoughts on this mess: i do genuinely think that should’ve been the end of them. blaine would learn how to be by himself (which is a huge issue for him, i always found help! a way too fitting song when i took away the context-- my independence seems to vanish in this haze) and kurt would learn to take responsibility for his own shortcomings (which he never did which, thinking about it, may be why at the end of every watch-through i walk away not liking kurt despite fully enjoying him whilst watching the show) and they’d go be very happy.
i’ve mentioned my endgames for them before so i won’t talk too much about it but i don’t really think they’d ever be friends (so many fanfictions have them stay friends post break-up and??? what). kurt’s trust in blaine is too fractured and for blaine, kurt is an ugly reminder of a sad part of his life -- there’s too much history there. they play nice, of course, at reunions and parties and all that, but they never talk much. one day blaine will say i’m happy you’re happy and kurt will smile and say well, i’m happy that you’re happy too and that will be the end of it. elliott will come up and give kurt a big kiss and blaine will leave to go find sam (or sebastian? my endgames are shifting, i think). it’s not an apology and it’s not forgiveness, but it’s as close as they’re ever going to get.
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Just finished the second Night Vale novel It Devours! that I got my hands on when I got a hold of my pre-order yesterday. (So sue me. College strike up here gave me some free time)
So some thoughts?
BIIIIG SPOILERS obviously.
Firstly I’d just like to say that I LOVE the ending. Specifically I love the way the relationship between Nilanjana and Darryl ends. GOD that was so refreshing! Honestly their relationship felt rushed and empty anyway and it was SO fucking nice to see a realistic potential end to a new adult relationship.
In regards to the early parts of the relationship? The writing seemed to have a preoccupation with kisses and lips that squicked me more then anything, but I’ve never been a big kissing person in general so maybe it’s just that.
The sex mentioned, especially with how explicitly they did so, kind of felt... I’m just going to say it, a little annoying? *sigh* Now I get that there aren’t too many places where even this minor level of detail and frankness about sex could come up, but seeing what felt like the first slightly more explicit handling of it then like, Carlos jokingly getting turned on by science or some such as the podcast has done (Not counting the semi-obscure and one time live show they recently did of course. Night Vale after dark I THINK it might have been called? With Cecil and Dylan reading some nsfw content?) what felt like the first more explicit handling went to... well a hetero sex scene and, eh, call me a bitter queer but like, ANY thing else would have felt more interesting. Idk, I was just rather meh about the whole thing.
Oh and well I’m at it, “Sex in Night Vale take’s a little longer, but when it starts it happens much like anywhere else.” also felt kind off to me. Just picky queer sex positive feminist things I guess. It ain’t a big thing, but if anyone else had written it I’d be rolling my eyes going “yo there’s more then one way to fuck my hetero dude friend. It’s not all about cis ass, able bodied penis in vaginal sex.) but again, that’s just me being picky as SHIT because I, to be frank, expect a heckuva lot from Night Vale what with them consistently delivering for 3 year (Specifically how long I’ve been listening I mean. Don’t recall how many year’s they’ve been around in general.)
Also like, the lead up TO the sex was weird? We had a window into both their heads but at no point were we lead to believe they were physically particularly attracted to each other before the sex? It jumped from “maybe he’s kind of cute” to fucking? Like give us a few bits of her (preferably her because fuck yes not shying away from female sexuality) eyes getting caught on his body or some overt desire or something. Direct us to something that says “physical” attraction. (and let’s REALLY not have it be a possessive stereotype about her getting jealous over some female friend of his and taking it out by getting touchy feely with a guy she barely knows for that matter) It just felt really flat. Really lacking it what should have been easy build up. Minor build up, because sex can absolutely and should absolutely be shown sometimes as something human, and pleasant, and potentially just chill and fun to do, but like, we have an internal view of their heads, as such we should have seen SOME small nudge of physical attraction before hand. Some tug. Don’t give the audience nothing and then expect them to buy a relationship that, as it turns out in the end, was largely just based on good/fun sex.
Um, also; IF anyone else had written that whole “let’s cosign forms and get blood work done, lol look how long this is taking” pre-sex bit, then I honestly would have taken it as a “consent is a mood breaker and millennials are prudish idiots ruining sex with their safe sex and their checks for consent.” Idk. That joke felt a little off the mark. Just me being picky again.
Another thing? Nilanjana is fat! Yaaay! That was unexpectedly cool! (Would have preferred if they had said “fat” versus “overweight”. Fat’s not a dirty word, being fat isn’t a reflection on your morals and all that, but hey, not everyone is up with the latest fat acceptance stuff I guess. But like, “over” weight. Over whose weight? Over what supposed perfect weight? Is that supposed to be your short hand for “doesn’t exercise” ‘cause those sure as hell aren’t inherently connected. Correlation doesn’t equal causation. Pbthhh. >.>)
Speaking of being picky, or maybe this was just a very clever sign that Darryl and Nilanjana’s relationship wouldn’t work out in the long term, did Nilanjana REALLY have to get so jealous and competitive with Stephanie? Did she have to instantly dislike and distrust her because of “the way Darryl looked at her”? Because to recap that made all the women in the book in relation to Nilanjana, judgemental, shallow, and foolish (Lusia), cold, untrustworthy, and naive (Stephanie. “Naive” because of her religion in Nilanjana’s books and soooort of by the narrative as well), literally just a world threatening zealous cultist (Munn), or a goofy, initially untrustworthy sidekick (Jamillah).
I mean even Josh Crayton got better billing in this round then either his mum or Jackie who got tiny cameo’s each. =/ I would have liked to see more of those two.
While we’re on the subject of female characters. NIGHT VALE PLEASE. PLEASE give us some more background or remotely confirmed wlw!!! Jeeze. Seriously! We got another random background guy, or at least person getting refereed to with he/him pronouns who got a boyfriend, (The helicopter fellow) and though we already knew Josh was bi/pan otherwise not straight, he got a briefly mentioned boyfriend in this one! And of course the show focus is always Cecil and Carlos which racks the points waaay up for amazing, awesome mlm representation. We DID get a tiny cameo from Basimah Bashara which was neat, and a small moment with Michael Nguyen, but that’s the thing with those two and wlw in Night Vale in general isn’t it? While one can... hope? Somewhat with evidence? That Maureen and Michael might be a couple now, might be positive wlw representation, that was never actually made super clear. (Looking back on it it WAS made super clear with Basimah, so good on them with that!)
There’s also Jackie and Sheriff Sam. I HAVE to say, I was absolutely PREYING Jackie and Dana got together when Jackie mentioned she was dating someone from “high up in the government” so the let down I felt from finding out it was Sam instead came mostly from that. =p (Give Dana a girlfrieeend. Sure there’s always Alice Isn’t Dead but that ain’t the same. =p) Sam uses they/them pronouns and we can probably safely assume from that that they’re meant to be NB, genderqueer, genderfuild, or otherwise just not a cis character, so that’s wonderful, and Jackie dating them pretty much pings her as some variety of queer (or at least queer friendly, but then the majority of Night Vale is.) as well, so that’s also neat! I dooon’t think we had that from her before? Maybe there was something in the first book I’m forgetting. (I am personally mad happy that Jackie is queer or at least chill with nb folk, as she reminds me of myself in way too many ways. Awkward high-fives and “dude’s” and all.) That being said, how old is Sheriff Sam? I always pictured them at like 40 something from the voice. >.> Lol apparently not.
So on a more world building, less representation based note; Kevin.
Kevin is a prophet in the churches lore apparently. That’s neat? I guess? Here’s the thing, when WAS the Joyous Congregation founded? And my main concern; when did Kevin go through the Old Oak Door that showed him the smiling god for the first time??? The Congregation, or at least the general concept of the religion of the smiling god seems fully formed back during the Strex arc, and more then that Kevin hasn’t (as far as we know. Also please Finknor give us more Kevin. Triptych Broke. My. Heart. and I’m begging you.) been back to Night Vale or otherwise out of the desert other world since the time Steve pushed him in at the end of the Strex arc.
I don’t WANT to think that Kevin founded the whole religion. It’s always seemed very much like a thing that existed before him and more importantly not a thing he did before Strex!him if you will, but who knows I guess. =/
That’s the thing. I always thought of the smiling god AS ENTIRELY a Strex concept, and I’m going to wager a guess that at least at the start Finknor did too. It’s so tied into Strex. Inseparable from Strex’s meaning and purpose. Smile. Work. Be empty. Pretend to be happy. Smiling IS Strex, it’s a Strex thing, so it kind of made me feel... like it felt a bit rewrite-y to not even mention Strex at all during this book?
I mean was the smiling god NOT behind Strex? Was the congregation not at least back a couple years ago indistinguishable from Strex? Idk. These are all questions I have.
Talking about things that feel rewrite-y, I’m not sure I did the idea of Carlos actually being in the desert other world for TEN YEARS. Here’s the thing. We were, at the very least, as the audience lead to believe that Cecil and Carlos were thinking of LIVING there. Of moving there. a MASSIVE freaking part of the Carlos in the desert other world arc had us second guessing Carlos and Cecil’s whole relationship ffs! That WAS the subtext of the arc! The purpose! That Carlos seemed more interested in science and research of the desert other world then getting back to freaking Cecil! And now you’re going to claim that not only was he there ten years, which we had NO foreshadowing of during the arc at ALL as far as I can see, but he only ever wanted desperately to get home? Again the twist at the end of the desert other world arc is Cecil unexpectedly NOT MOVING THERE. WHAT? Nah man. That was some silly re-write stuff right there. Contradicting what world building we have on the desert other world until now.
Another thing highly related to that? Where the fuck was the nomadic giant army?? Or hell, even just Kevin and that dumb roller coaster they built? (I GUESS you could say that they all... died... ? And the roller coaster... vanished completely? But nah. Not really because aging doesn’t work there now does it?) Doug and Elisha thanks? Yet more stuff that made Carlos seem at home (and for that matter time passing relatively similarly from the sort of relationships he formed and reported on) in the desert other world. Ugh. I really don’t like that whole ten years thing. It seemed excessive too. Like two or even three years would have been more believable from what we saw of Carlos during that time, and even with only the single year I could already understand Carlos being traumatized from the event. Idk.
Speaking of world building for the desert other world? Assuming we keep with previous would building regarding it we are NOT done with it yet. Or rather, we probably shouldn’t be. There’s WAY too much going on there. Kevin’s still in there, he named it DESERT BLUFFS ffs. (I’m still waiting for the day we get the plot twist that the other world IS the desert bluffs we know from the past or something very similar to that. I also noticed a hella conspicuous absence of talk about desert bluffs OR the desert other world during the Huntokar revelations of the last finished arc. That place is MAD secret to the point that it’s not even on the radar of Huntokar, and probably The Glow Cloud, Distant Prince, Woman from Italy and other elder god type things.)
Then there’s Dana’s drawings up on the mountain. The spiraling murals of triangles I believe it was? We are NOT done with that place. I know at the end Darryl is like “well maybe the smiling god wasn’t that stupid centipede” and we’re supposed to at least sort of think like Nilanjana and be like “Yea huh. Sure. You just want to think that to protect your beliefs.” but honestly yeah, I don’t remotely think the centipede was really... the smiling god? Unless like I said, Kevin started the religion all together which I very much hope he didn’t? So yea, probably not the smiling god, DEFINITELY not the biggest threat in the desert other world. Up until now the “light” trying to get into Night Vale has been really obtuse and obscure. Really vague and therefore menacing and cool. I don’t think Finknor are bad enough writers to just toss all that away on a giant centipede. I’m a cynical person. Usually I’d add “At least I hope not” to that sentence, but damn it all if I don’t KNOW that Finknor are better writers then that.
Also there was the whole “hey wait the “ritual” to summon the god probably wasn’t just a coincidence” idea dropped in there to explore. So yeah. Lot’s to look at still.
Speaking of the ritual? Did you guys caaaaatch iiiiiit??? The jumping. How frantic jumping was a big part of the ritual? Maybe I’m just reaching but it sounded SO much like Kevin’s narration jumping bit from way back in The Sandstorm that Cecil mirrors with his own narration bit in his episode.
I’m SOOOO glad we got a glimpse into additional meaning for that kid jumping trying to recapture the feeling of flight scene for Kevin. It would be cool if more meaning was discovered for it in the future.
I’ve always read Cecil’s retrospective kid scene in those episodes as maybe relating too whatever happens in Cassette Tapes, or maaaybe some weird shit with Kevin himself in a metaphorical or otherwise obscured reference to why the heck the whole doubles thing happens anyway. (Also again, doubles, Desert bluff weirdness. Another thing I attributed to possibly the smiling god that could definitely not be if it were just a centipede, but honestly whether it’s a centipede or not I think it would be much more interesting if the smiling god was only a corrupting force for Desert bluffs and not the “weird Night Vale thing” that causes them to exist in the first place. And like I said? What’s cool is that it seems to not be Huntokar’s fault either that Desert Bluffs exists so that’s neat. That mean’s there’s some other weird shit going on there for us to find out.)
Ok one thing I forgot about the time rules of the desert other world and Kevin? You don’t AGE in the desert other world. Kevin when he contact Cecil in the last section of Triptych say’s he is very old. Now he could mean ancient as in “lived a very long time” but he specifically says “very old” and seems like his health might even me failing. Certainly he puts on a different voice. Anyway, all that leading up to the theory that we can extrapolate from that that Kevin will escape the desert other world at some point. Which isn’t too much of a stretch, and I think we all kind of expected (and I desperately hoped for after Triptych tyvm. FFS Cecil if you know how he ends up and also what he used to be like why not GO SAVE KEVIN FROM THAT FATE! Jeeze man! I really wish that had been part of the arc following Triptych and genuinely thought it might be. Like please. Cecil how can you just leave him there???)
All and all I liked the first novel a LOT more, but I liked this novel. Heck if it it wasn’t from Night Vale crew, meaning I had kind of hyped standards for it already, it probably would have been super awesome.
I mean there were some parts of the first novel I didn’t like, and I’m feeling some similar feelings regarding how the smiling god and desert other world turned out looking a bit mundane in this story and left a lot of “but if they were really just this, then why this old plot point” feelings just like the Man in the Tan Jacket did last novel (WHY was he interested in the underground city damn it? Especially with what we now know about Huntokar? WHY was he working with the Apache Tracker? What the hell were they doing? What was the post office all about?) but all and all I still preferred the first novel to this one. It felt more... human I guess. Had that good good recognizable story about a mom and her kid, growing up, parents, relationships, becoming an adult and a helluva lot of other stuff. Not that this one didn’t have a neat story about religion and science (that part honestly felt a little too basic for me) and fitting into one’s communities (that part was alright) but the first novel just hit the right cords more. Personally at least I felt more attached to everyone AND enjoyed the treatment of the themes more. Idk exacccctly why, but I absolutely enjoyed the first novel way more. It felt more like it’s own entity. A valid reason to use a different medium. A really new and cool thing where we could step into the shoes of likeable, fully rounded characters. This novel felt a lot more like a sometimes wacky one off live show with new characters or something. =/ I still enjoyed it, but not as much, and mostly the parts I did enjoy were all humor and surreal Night Vale goodness.
Alright. Well. That ends my rambling for now. I’m sure I’ll have many instances of trying to get to sleep and thoughts of the novel bouncing around in my head begging me to write them down or otherwise talk about them, so I guess I gotta emphasize the “for now” part.
This is long as shit and I’d be mildly surprised and utterly flattered if anyone can make it through my rambling.
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Aight so here is my lil Ol vent, 90% of it is barely understandable rambling but here it is.
So my hyper fixation atm is what little bit of lore I’ve got from Overwatch fan fiction lol And because I only have little tid bits my brain is all “let’s fill in the gaps! Make up our own plot!” N I’m just like “no! Dumbass, this isn’t good for us! We need to stop trying to think of this and get back in touch with the real world!” But of course that never fucking works, and this one is esp bad and idk y? Like I’ve had hyper fixations before but they’ve never been THIS intense. Haven’t torn me up this bad before.
But like, the bits I do get of the lore is that everything in this continent is screwed n my paranoia has gone like “that’s gonna happen soon!” N I just scream internally everytime. I guess I just really hate it when American media people decide to make my country nothing more than an apocalyptic wasteland. Like, they love to focus only on the shitty bland white Australian culture while this place literally has the oldest people n culture in the world???? Like what the koories got is so much better than the white bullshit excuse for a “culture” that Americans seems to be in love be with.
And speaking of American idolisation of white Australians, it really peeves me off that the two Australian characters are basically the Overwatch universe equivalent of racists and when I learned that I was just “fuck, THIS again. Like we needed more examples of ‘casual Aussie racism” and it’s super annoying because they’re shipped together n it’s like my dream come fucking true like they’re BOTH Australian AND gay??? Yes! Finally! Something I can personally relate to! But then I found out they are futuristic robo racists. But like, u know of anything else with gay Australians with a large fan base that updates near constantly? No! So I just have to suck it up ignore it cuz this is as good as it’s gonna get for me. And I’m not saying that the roadrat people are racists in fact they’re the exact opposite n I know they’re in the same boat as me, trying to ignore the maybe metaphorical White Australian Racism so they can enjoy a gay couple with a great dynamic n very different body types.
It just peeves me off that once again, just like with all those shitty mad max movies n crocodile Dundee, white Australia is put in the spotlight in American media and any good culture that this continent has is ignored.
I guess now I’ll talk about the bits of lore my brain has decided to fill in???
Okay, so I know that like, the company or whatever that makes the robots decides everyone who lives in the desert can get fucked n move which is real shitty n happens allot today but I’ll talk about that later. So, desert people r understandably pissed. U can’t just do that, we’re gonna fight u! But instead of getting angry at the company, they get angry at the robots??? I think idk. But anyway, desert people decide robots r bad, n all must die. So they kill a bunch, n end up blowing up the nuclear reactor that makes robots, resulting in killing EVERYONE. Like EVERYTHING, robots people plants animals u name it. So now the desert people r all crazy n sick, and the rich city people n company people don’t want to help cuz it’s they fucking fault since that factory wasn’t supposed to be there. And so yeah, two Australian terrorists, blah blah.
But here’s the thing. Right now, real life right, the desert communities in central Australia are mostly Aboriginal. Cuz it’s they land, n they’re luckily been able to keep it that way cuz they’re so far from the coast n the cities. But the thing that happens all the time? They get pushed off of their land by mining companies. So when I learned that bit of Overwatch lore, I was like “hang on r they referencing this???” N so my brain started to fill in.
I’m guessing, that this lil desert town of 95% Aboriginal people r in the way of Future Robot Company. They want them gone, they wanna dig n make more robots (don’t know y???). BUT, you see, in certain areas of central Australia, the Aboriginal communities have been able to get official land rights recognised by the government. Which means they get to have a say in what happens to their country in the Parliament House (sometimes. It’s def not perfect). So, obviously this future desert town is like “lol no u can’t mine our country dumbass” n the gov gotta go with that. But, mining companies r horrible fucking people, so they find a loophole. They say “but we wanna make this a safe place for our robots! We love them n everyone is trying to kill them” so the gov shittily lets it happen, n the company is cheering cuz yay they get to mine n the robots will get blamed for it! So the desert people r all super pissed, n some decide that it must be taken out on the robots! They’re the ones doing all this! But like I said before, this shit happens irl all the time to desert communities. The Aboriginal community understands it’s this shitty company doing all this n using the already being oppressed (???) as an easy blame.
And this is where the “ALF” come in.
Now when I learned about that, it really squicked me out. Cuz here in Australia, there is this skin head group called “Australian patriots front” n the “ALF” that Mako joins sounds like these nazi scum decided to take advantage of these angry desert people, swapped 'Patriots’ with 'liberation’, n recruited these people to push their own hateful agenda. N mako fucking falls for it, cuz he really thinks the robots r to blame. But, the other part of the desert community sees right through this bullshit n tries to stop this group from doing their robot ethnic cleansing. So, being the reskinned nazis they are, the ALF starts to also attack the Aboriginal community of this town for not wanting to kill robots. Mako just goes along with it, cuz he’s young n stupid n hoo boy does he hate robots. So a big Ol fight breaks out. ALF goes to destroy the factory, despite the koories being like “dumbasses ur gonna kill us all its not the robots it’s the sickos in the cities go kill them” n boom. They kill everyone n everything, n have made everything to ever live in the desert sick for eternity. I’d like to think that 90% of the koories were able to get out of there before it all went to shit, so all the people remaining r mostly white. Which kinda explains y Mr. Scopophobia is a blond white guy. So, he grows up with all these remaining ALF people telling him the reason everything is bad is because robots did it. So he too hates robots for a thing they had no control over, n kills any he sees. He has no idea that at one point everyone who lived in this shell of a town was Aboriginal, and probably doesn’t even know that Koories are even a thing. Then yeah he meets mr pig face n decides to go kill robots n rich people (I’m happy with that) in the outside world, and mr pig just doesn’t tell him about how he was partly responsible for ruining their continent and ensuring a shitty upbringing for Jun Jun. why would he? He doesn’t wanna ruin this relationship! Sooo it’s just best lil stick thin man doesn’t know.
After lots of stealing n robot related hate crimes, they for some reason??? Join Overwatch (which I’m not really sure what they do???) n they barely avoid not killing the robots that work there. Which brings me to what I learned not too long ago, that the robots were raging against the machine (horf horf) n had decided to revolt against the human race(I for one welcome our new robot overlords) n start killing humans (2 wrongs don’t make a right buddies). So Overwatch decided to not just stop the robots from killing people, but squashing their revolution n making them back into the servants they were made to be (fuckin shitty) That’s what I understood anyway. Idk. If I’m right about that, why, of all fucking times of our history, would blizzard decide to have a story about a government organisation destroying an oppressed race’s revolution. Like, that’s in bad taste.
So yeah my illness riddled brain has decided to cling to all this, making daily life very difficult for me. Having massive disconnections from reality, like, shit that lasts almost a whole day till my rents get home n snap me out of it. I forget to eat, drink, walk Sputnik, etc. cuz I’m just so lost in my own thoughts. I’m seeing a psych today, but she n a bunch of others might decide if I tell them this to not let me have top surgery so I’m scared to tell her. And cuz my brain has clung onto all this crap, it’s always focusing on how the robots r getting abused n so my brains like “help them! Do it! Now!” N I’m just like “fucker they ain’t real u know this so y r u being a dumbass n wasting time on this” so I’m all pent up n frustrated. I’m not really sure on how to go about dealing with this. I can’t exactly set up a ritual n ask Bunjil n Bellin Bellin to give me a cure for my mental illnesses. I think I’ll look up ways to connect with reality when I get home n see what that tells me.
So yeah, I’m real frustrated. Frustrated with my tiny White Suburban Mum town, with the society we live in where I can’t find a place simply because I can’t do certainly n things n therefore useless to the working world. Frustrated that I can’t help the koorie community here cuz I have no useful skills, n all the hard work at school last year has been all for naught.
So yeah, hopefully this will be the end of this big Ol vent. I’m kinda scared about posting this, scared of people deciding I’m a bad person for whatever reasons in here n going after me. Last thing I need is a digital army against me. Aight bye bye.
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ayotofu · 7 years
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Fullmetal Alchemist for the salty ask meme
dammit ray how did you manage to pick the fandom that i’m probably the least salty about (which is in part because i watched it after it had already been out for a while and the fandom was largely dead)
also bro ur supposed to send me specific numbers jfc oh well we’ll see how this goes
What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*
Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*
answering these together because it’s the same one: RoyEd. Age differences tend to squick me and even when they changed the ages in fics i could never get over it lol
Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?
not for this one, no–again because I was never very involved. what are the controversial fandom opinions here even?
Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*
again, RoyEd. Platonic or bust.
Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*
not this particular fandom, no
Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?*
i actually didn’t like EdWinry much (i didn’t dislike it, i just mostly saw it as platonic) until i read some fics with it
Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*
i mean. a lot of the 2003 show lmao if that counts
Have you received anon hate? What about?*
i mean, i’ve definitely received anon hate, but thats always been about discourse or the fact that pidge in voltron is 0% cis or that one time i said that i kinda shipped zutara, never about FMA lmao
Most disliked character(s)? Why?
ahhhhhhhh, envy probably? he always kinda annoyed me lmao
Most disliked arc? Why?
hm idk i mostly dislike arcs that i feel are both unnecessary and annoying and FMA is so tightly controlled that there really isn’t anything i feel is unnecessary so i don’t know that i dislike much of anything–though i did always hate that brief moment where Al like. thinks Ed created him to be a puppet or something?? like jfc Al why are you putting so much trust in a serial killer here
Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
i liked Rose, and I feel like a lot of the fanbase doesnt, but i could also be wrong about that *shrug* but idk, i just thought she was an interesting and likable and realistic character and tbh i didn’t get why so many people hated her
Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
again, are there any unpopular arcs? i mean, i still have some measure of fondness for parts of the 2003 anime, even though most people hate it (which i really don’t blame them for, i just have fondness anyway)
Unpopular opinion about XXX character?
YOU DIDNT SPECIFY A CHARACTER SHITDICK but uh, edward elric is ace as fuck sorry i don’t make the rules
Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
????? idk bruh
Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?
??????? idk bruh
If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?
give a little bit more closure, i guess, regarding ed and al’s relationships with the military folk. we don’t really see them interact again after al gets his body back and i want to see that
Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…
man i dont know the show’s pretty great. OH YEAH LETS NOT KILL NINA AND HUGHES THERE YOU GO
Does not shipping something ‘popular’ mean you’re in denial and/or biased?
no?? never has and never will i can’t believe this i even a question tbh different people have different tastes jfc
What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?
idk, the lack of focus on platonic relationships sometimes? but that’s me in every fandom
What is the purest ship in the fandom?
idfk probably AlMei if we’re being real
What are your thoughts on crack ships?
g o  f o r  i t
Popular character you hate?
ENVY THE FUCKING ASSFUCK
Unpopular character you love?
i mean, she’s not my fave, but again, rose?
Would you recommend XXX to a friend? Why or why not?
HELL FUCKING YEAH IVE DONE IT BEFORE AND I’LL DO IT AGAIN
How would you end XXX/Would you change the ending of XXX?
i mean, again, a little more closure on ed and al’s relationships with the military guys
Most shippable character?
tbh i don’t think much about FMA ships but maybe Roy? there’s a lot of other military folks i’d ship him with. Also Winry ships well with like every lady she comes into contact with if you think about it
Least shippable character?
Olivier Armstrong because she’s aroace as fuck fight me
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hawkland · 7 years
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for the in depth fandom questions: svu
@adarafaelbarbas also asked for my SVU thoughts, so here you both go! 
And it got long, so I’m putting it all behind cut….
Top 5 favourite characters: Top 2 are no surprise to anyone: John Munch & Fin Tutuola of course. After that? At the moment I’d probably have to say Casey Novak, George Huang, and Don Cragen. But that can vary a bit depending on which episodes/seasons I’ve been watching recently.
Other characters you like: Hmm, well, I’d say I “like” most of the regulars through the years, or else I wouldn’t be a fan in the first place, would I? If I had to pick say five more to round out my top 10, though, I’d probably go with Melinda Warner, Alex Cabot, Olivia Benson of the early seasons, Nick Amaro, and Rafael Barba. 
Least favourite characters:  Chester Lake, any of the ever-changing ADAs from seasons 10-12, Dale Stuckey (you bastard you killed O’Halloran!), Elliot Stabler from about season 6 onward, Olivia Benson from at least season 16 onward (though she started annoying me at times far before that, especially in her attitude toward Rollins and Amaro in Season 13).
Otps: Munch/Fin, of course, before any others! I also ship Cabenson pretty hard; it was probably my first ship when I was watching the show originally. 
Notps: Eeeeeh, I always sort of tread lightly around declaring NOTPs because there are a lot of ships I don’t particularly care for, but my reasons can be weird/personal and I don’t like stirring up wank talking about them or the reasons why. But I will say that I definitely never liked E/O as a romantic ship, only as friends. And I have a personal squick for shipping Fin with anyone but Munch because I just want them to be together (and yet I’ll ship Munch with pretty much anyone else, though maybe not as an endgame ship, so I’m kind of a hypocrite that way? IDK…) I didn’t care for Tuckson, and Barisi…I just honestly don’t really see it, and while I’ve tried reading it in fic I’ve rarely found a story that convinced me or felt in character to my mind.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
Favourite friendships: Munch/Cragen, Fin/Amanda, Munch/Amaro, Munch/Benson, Bensler (early seasons before it all got fucked up)
Favourite family: I guess I’ll say Fin, because as messed-up as it may be, I do enjoy the episodes featuring Ken & I love the idea of Fin becoming a grandfather. I also really really want Ken & Alejandro to be together and be happy!
Favourite episodes: With so many seasons it’s hard to narrow it down to even a top 10. But some of the ones I will always rewatch when they’re on include Remorse, Nocturne, Legacy, Manhunt, Countdown, Denial, Careless, Painless, Haunted, Scavenger, Parts, Raw, Screwed, Alternate, Cold, Authority, Zebras, Anchor… ie, most of the very Fin and/or Munch-centric ones.
Favourite season/book/movie: Seasons 2 and 5 are my favorites—2 for the way the team really came together and so many of the cases/episodes featured ALL of the detectives working as a unit. 5 for some of the most interesting cases and the whole loss of Alex/introduction of Casey storyline.
Favourite quotes: Ah, so many but a few off the top of my head:
“If you don’t question authority, you lose your humanity.”
“I just know stuff.”
“That’s my Jew.”
“Once god gives you a uterus, then I’ll listen to your sermon.”
“Even a turd can float.”
Best musical moment: The final montage in Screwed set to Mark Isham’s “Sense of Touch”. The music is perfect and the ending of that episode always gets me emotional.
Moment that made you fangirl/boy the hardest: How do I even narrow it down?!?! Munch and Fin sharing a motel room in Manhunt, maybe, and finally having a bit of a heart-to-heart. That or when Ken has dinner with John to introduce Alejandro because I still insist there is no possible heterosexual context to that scene whatsoever.
When it really disappointed you: Oh so so many times but, probably one of the biggest disappointments for me was last year, all the hype about “Munch returns” when he ended up having all of about 2 minutes screen time—and really didn’t get to have any good interactions with anyone other than Benson & Noah.
Saddest moment: Munch’s retirement. You know, I still cannot watch that episode in its entirety? I’m not ready for the emotional gut-punch.
Most well done character death: Mmm…I might go with Sonya Paxton on that, because it was emotional and sad and yet she also was able to at least, in her death, provide evidence to catch her (and others) killer. Unlike Sister Peg and O’Halloran’s deaths which just felt cheap and unnecessary…and I won’t even go into how I feel about how they killed Mike Dodds (that’s why @ladyzootie and I are working on a story to set THAT right!)
Favourite guest star: Robin Williams in Authority, though I also loved Jeremy Irons, especially in his second appearance in Totem. As much as I love Huang, I would have enjoyed seeing more of Dr. Jackson as well; Irons was perfect in that role and brought a lot to the show with his character.
Favourite cast member:  Don’t make me choose between the Belz and Ice-T! I love them both too much to pick a favorite.
Character you wish was still alive: Mike. Dodds.
One thing you hope really happens: That the show either brings on a new full-time detective for the unit or starts using more supporting characters again: show the detectives going to the morgue, working with TARU, working with a psychiatrist instead of having Benson diagnosing and doing everything herself. But, I’m not holding out great hope for that.
Most shocking twist: Shocking in a not-good way: Tuckson. Sorry, I never bought it, I don’t see all this so-called evidence that the writers were “setting it up” for seasons before it happened. Total WTF??!?! for me.
When did you start watching/reading?: I actually vividly remember watching the pilot episode when it first aired in 1999. I’ve pretty much followed it on and off since then, watching regularly at least on thru Season 9 or so and I think that’s about when I lost at least some of my interest. But that said, I was mostly a casual fan until about 2 years ago when I really fell hard into it in a “fannish” way, after rewatching old episodes in reruns.
Best animal/creature: THE MONKEY IN THE BASKETBALL
Favourite location: The original squad room.
Trope you wish they would stop using: SAINT BENSON IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN DO EVERYTHING IN THE SQUAD. ENOUGH ALREADY.
One thing this show/book/film does better than others: Errrr…hmm. These days I can’t think of anything it does better than other shows besides bore and/or annoy me, sorry. In the earlier seasons I’d say it was unique in the way it tackled messy, painful, and often controversial issues of sexuality and “sexually based offenses”. It wasn’t always perfectly PC but it did a good job of presenting complexity and showcasing how societal ideas were changing and being challenged—without just feeling like a soapbox.
Funniest moments: All of Wildlife is pretty hysterically bad but in an entertaining way. In fact Mr. Hawkland just saw it for the first time this weekend and was laughing hysterically at some of the lines in it. But also Countdown, for having such a dark plot, is one of my favorites for all of the great one-liners and funny scenes ( “I’m not tipping all of you”, Munch and the empty coffee can, etc.)
Couple you would like to see: Ha ha ha ha, well of course Munch & Fin, but I know that will never happen. And honestly, even if it did I wouldn’t want it to be acknowledged as canon until the very last episode. Because the writers would surely fuck it up otherwise the way they do every other romance on this show. Otherwise I do kind of like Rollisi, not in an OMG I LOVE THEM sort of way but I do see potential for chemistry, and that Carisi could be a good kind of stabilizing influence on her with her crazy family life. But, would she in turn be good for him? That I’m not so sure about.
Actor/Actress you want to join the cast: I would SO love to see more of Bayard Ellis. His character was great and such a good foil to Benson. I’d love to see Andre Braugher return to the role.
Favourite outfit: Any of Fin’s suits in season 2.
Favourite item: Fin having a picture of Spartacus and Maximus (Ice’s dogs) on his desk (which I never noticed until @sammael77 caught it!)
Do you own anything related to this show/book/film?: A few fan-produced t-shirts, magnets and other odds and ends, my MunchFin iPhone case, and seasons 1-15 on DVD
What house/team/group/friendship group/family/race etc would you be in?: My “squad goals” would be the team from seasons 5-8: Munch, Fin, Benson, Stabler, Cragen, Novak, Warner, Huang. That’s my all-time favorite team. 
Most boring plotline: Anything involving the Stabler family.
Most laughably bad moment: “Redchannit”
Best flashback/flashfoward if any: Eh, I think the few times they’ve done as much haven’t been very good. I know I really disliked the way they repurposed season 1 footage for Manhattan Vigil to change what those scenes were initially about.
Most layered character: All right so it’s maybe my bias talking, but Munch! Especially because I “cheat” and include all of his Homicide characterization too. But honestly…Munch really is a lot more than a sarcastic conspiracy theorist. I think where I really love the complexities of his character coming through are his struggles with issues like suicide and assisted suicide, which came through not just in Painless but also Mercy. On one hand he’s such a strong personal choice advocate and on the other, he knows first-hand how difficult it is for family members when a loved one commits suicide. And what about protecting those who are not being given the choice to end their life or live?
But also, I love that he’s one of the few (main) characters the show ever allowed to remain childfree, yet he was also shown to be incredibly caring and good with children (illustrating that not all childfree people hate or are bad with kids; they just know they aren’t meant to raise one full-time.) He has complicated feelings about women, sometimes (especially early on) seeming incredibly bitter and cynical but deep down he is a lonely romantic. 
Most one dimensional character: Honestly, at this point, St. Benson the Holy Redeemer of All Rape Victims. 
Scariest moment: Hmmm…I’m having a hard time pinpointing this or narrowing it down to a single “scariest” scene. In general I get freaked out any time they show a serial killer’s “work den”, like in Manhunt or Signature. Because thinking about what those victims had to go through before being killed just makes me really feel sick to my stomach and horrified.
Grossest moment: Hyena vomit
Best looking male: Dammit, don’t make me pick between Munch or Fin because I can’t.
Best looking female: Casey Novak
Who you’re crushing on (if any): Of the current cast, only Fin, who just seems to be getting hotter with every passing year. Of all years, of course Munch, but I also crush on Casey and early season baby!butch Benson. 
Favourite cast moment: I think I’ll just say all of the episode Countdown, because to me that was ensemble perfection.
Favourite transportation: Eh, doesn’t really seem to apply here to this canon, does it?
Most beautiful scene (scenery/shot wise): Still gonna go with the end of Screwed, because I love that final scene with Fin, Ken and Darius on the courtroom steps.
Unanswered question/continuity issue/plot error that bugs you: 
Hahahahahahahah so many so many….
Continuity/plot error: It still bugs the crap out of me (especially as a fic writer who is anal about canon facts) that in Season 2 they messed with Munch’s background from Homicide, and tried to make it sound like he grew up in New York. THAT IS WRONG WRONG WRONG. I’m not going to throw away the family/childhood details we got in Homicide just because the SVU writers were lazy. And it really pains me because it comes up in two of my otherwise favorite episodes (Legacy and Manhunt), so when I’m writing anything where that might come up I have to go through mental gymnastics to explain why he might lie. Or just ignore SVU’s “canon” on that
Unanswered question: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO KEN & ALEJANDRO’S BABY? THAT POOR SURROGATE HAS BEEN PREGNANT FOREVER. Unless that’s just something they’ve completely forgotten about and we’re just to assume Fin is a grandfather now and never talks about it at work while everything and anything Olivia or Amanda does has to relate to them being mothers.
Best promo: Well, I really liked USA Network’s recent “Fin-a-thon” promo…especially for Ice talking about Fin & Munch.
At what point did you fall in love with this show/book:  I’ve mentioned this before, but the funny moment when I went from being a casual viewer to developing my current obsession was in Spousal Privilege when Fin said to Amanda: “ I learned two things in my 15 years here at SVU. One: you can’t take this job home to you. Two: you can’t take anyone from this job home with you.” I hadn’t been watching regularly for a number of years so immediately I was like, “WAIT A MINUTE DID HE JUST ACKNOWLEDGE HAVING A THING WITH MUNCH?!” It’s weird the things that set my shippy brain off. Suddenly I wanted to catch up on everything I missed, and that made me then want to rewatch EVERY episode, and mild fannishness became a total obsession.
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safyresky · 7 years
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For the send me a fandom thing..... Danny Phantom? (I am prepared to sit and read this all day I know you've got a quite a bit about this one hehe)
MELLO YOU HAVE UNLEASHED A HUGE CAN OF GHOST WORMS HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHEUHEU THANK YOU
How I entered/learned about the said game/show/movie/etc of that fandom
I started watching Danny Phantom around 12 as well!! I saw it advertised all over YTV, and it gave Saturday mornings on what use to be called the Vortex?? Which was like a segment, for lack of a better word, in which all the Saturday morning cartoons gave. Anyway, I always watched the Vortex so I managed to catch the premiere and I LOVED it
Anyway I ended up finding the fanfiction archive for it and the Danny Phantom ff archive is constantly BOUNCING or as kids say nowadays, lit?? And there were SO MANY GOOD WRITERS!!! So I mostly partook in that, and read some of the message boards on YTV’s website too. Then the show ended and I was dissatisfied with the mess that was Phantom Planet (as is the whole Fandom) and ironically enough, I can’t remember how (probably via dA. I even had a shitty insert yourself half-ghost OC man I was in DEEP and have not yet emmerged) I stumbled upon the HUGE phandom presence on ye old tumblr trash site and ended up joining BECAUSE of the Phandom and I have not left since they’re just so great and the parts of the Phandom I follow are such a good community and the ANGST and the FANART and the Discourse and the trash ships (DannyxPink Pants anyone?) and the “it’s not gay if he’s dead” and fucking WES WESTON that trash cryptid child like
The Phandom is SUCH A GOOD
Fave character
Wes isn’t even a canon character but he’s a fave! Honestly though, Danny was always my favourite character what a dork. What a wonderful, half-dead, angst filled pun freak DORK. Honestly re-watching Danny Phantom I’m like “well now I know where the love of puns came from”. They could’ve done SO MUCH with this troubled kid??? I loved it loved loved loved it and love him like what a GOOD
To be honest there’s soo many characters I like. Like Valerie is gr8, she’s also SUCH A GOOD and Jack Fenton is just hilarious, Maddie Fenton is so badass?????? WHAT A GOOD And Tucker, man just TF for Too Fine inDEED
Here’s a fun one, I use to HATE Dani Phantom because everyone at school watched Danny Phantom and when that episode aired everyone called me clone for at least a year it was VERY ANNOYING but now I’m just like whATEVER IDGAF SURE WHY NOT THE POWERS JUST HAVEN’T KICKED IN YET I GUESS (tbh hopefully they do soon). She’s a really gr8 character too!
I could go on but honestly I’m really, really lazy
Least fave character
Paulina sorta bothered me, probably b/c of the stereotype/trope of popular mean girl that was thrown at her. Sam could be cringey at times too. I cannot STAND Poindexter like hecker fuck he was sO ANNOYING and Walker is a punk ass bitch and I would fight him if I could (yeah yeah it’s against the rules I don’t give a fuck, I’ll punch him right in his square ghost face)
Lancer was also occasionally super unfair though “Teacher of the Year” definitely gave me a soft spot for him
OTP(s)
Danny and Sam, which is commonly known as Amethyst Ocean I believe b/c eye colours?? I think they have another ship name too that’s a lot less poetic ish but I can’t remember that discourse
And also Vengeful Babes which is Valerie and Dani okay like the moment I found that pairing EXISTED I was g o n e I really like the dynamic they could have???? I’d watch them beat of Vlad every day for the rest of my life and then go home together to eat shit and watch shitty movies. I just love them SO MUCH
Pairing that everyone likes but I don’t get
Okay I don’t know if everyone likes these two pairings?? I think their followings are SMALL but it’s Danny FentonxDanny Phantom which I just can’t get behind I am not a fan of the self ship it’s…idk it definitely is a squick that’s for sure (I think it’s ship name is Pitch Pearl, I can’t remember)
SAME WITH VLAD AND DANNY LIKE WHY??? WHY! I can’t stand that ship I really can’t it also squicks me I just don’t like it it makes me all cringey. Like I’m all for the mentor and student angle, if Vlad wasn’t such a vengeful fruit loop, but the ship ship like no please keep that 70 feet away from me, thanks.
Also I can’t recall if I’m using the term “squick” properly, but it sounds like icky and those ships make me feel icky soooooo
Fave thing about the fandom
EVERYTHING??
They’re so collaborative, it’s wonderful! The whole entire Fandom basically created Wes’ backstory and such together! The theories! The angst! The fanfiction! How we all come together to complain about the creator when he comes around like HEY WHADDUP HERE’S HOW EVERYHTING IS STOP BEING CREATIVE!!
THERE’S SOO MUCH MORE AND I KNOW I’M FORGETTING HALF OF IT BUT MAN THE PHANDOM IS SO WONDERFUL I LOVE THEM
The most despised thing
When Butch Hartman emerges on the internet-sphere with a double edged sword consisting of new content on one edge and killing all our fun on the other edge
Like honestly I don’t think there’s ever been a fandom that dislikes the show creator as much as the Phandom does. It’s beautiful how everyone comes together to bash him when he ruins our fave theories and general fun. It’s very heart warming.
If there is something I would change from said game/show/movie/etc., what would it be.
I would retcon a good chunk of season 3 okay and fix it up like the episode where the Fentons become rich and are totally ooc??? Yeah I’d absolutely retcon that and I’ve seen some REALLY GOOD POSTS lost DEEP in my TAG about how they would retcon it (tey being various phans)
And I would erase Phantom Planet completely. How, you ask? WELL.
I WOULD INCEPTION THE FUCK OUT OF PHANTOM PLANET. LIKE DANNY WAKES UP IN PAHNTOM PLANET OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND JUST TEARS IT APART LIKE “VLAD WOULD NEVER DO THAT” OR “TUCKER, MAYOR? REALLY?” OR “DISASTEROID? I MEAN, I LOVE PUNS BUT THAT’S GOING OVERKILL” because how fun would it be to see Danny tear apart his own finale? Very fun, that’s how
And how inception can I go?? HOw many times can Danny wake up before he wakes up, a helmet explodes off his head, and fucking Nocturn appears like “haaaay” 
AND THAT’S HOW I’D START SEASON 4 PALS.
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