#in honor of her being in europe rn

[idkhowbutitsvickie]

I was mentioned for this game a while ago but I finally have time to answer!

I was tagged by @s0livagant

rules: answer questions & tag 20 blogs that you are obliged to know better.

Names: Vickie (I don’t mind Vick and I used to be nicknamed Vicks on my dance team)

Pronouns: she/her/they/them

Star sign: Libra

Height: 5’4

Birthday: October 10, 2001

Current time: 5:06 pm

Favorite band: Right now I’d say Waterparks and IDKHOW, a couple all time favorites are Fall Out Boy, TOP, and Greenday. I also love Misterwives, DREAMERS, New Politics, The Aces, ummm (quickly looks at spotify) the Killers, lovelytheband, Beach Bunny, and Bad Suns

Favorite solo artist: asdbhsjfhj too many! I love Phoebe Bridgers rn, also mxmtoon, Conan Gray, Claud, Hayley Kiyoko, Chloe Moriondo

Song stuck in my head: Snow Globe by Waterparks bruhhh it’s so good

Last movie watched: The Platform (on Netflix)

When my main blog was created: haha November 2020 I am n e w

Last thing I googled: how CRISPR genetic engineering technology works

Other blogs: @purplehairedparxie is my art blog if anyone is interested

Why I chose my url: I was an still am obsessed with the band IDKHOW so I thought it would be funny

Following: 89

Followers: 30 (again I’m new)

Average hours of sleep: I try for about 8 or 9 but college is wack sometimes it’s less

Lucky number: 10

Dream job: Okay I have two dream jobs at the moment, one being a professional choreographer (I love dance more than life but I’m better at creating dances than doing them), and the one I’m currently pursuing which is an environmental engineer/sustainable designer. I want to design energy saving technologies, find the most efficient sources of clean energy, or hopefully build smart houses one day that work to help the environment instead of harm it.

Dream trip: Backpacking around Europe with my future girlfriend

Favorite food: I’m gonna be unoriginal and say pizza (it’s always good!)

Nationality: American/Canadian (my parents are French Canadian)

Favorite song: Ooof this is hard. One of my all time favorites is Take on me by Aha, but at the moment I would say my favorites are Serotonin by Girl in Red and Killer by Phoebe Bridgers

Top 3 fictional characters: (Why must I choose??) 1) Star Butterfly (from svtfoe), 2) Entrapta (from spop), 3) Luz Noceda (toh) (okay wait honorable mentions are Casey from Atypical and Rayla from the dragon prince)

I did this for fun so whoever wants to do it can join :)

#wow this took a sec but it was fun

[sparklyjojos]

(under the cut because long angry vent/rant about how I absolutely loathe what the BT narration does with stroheim and other characters, obvious content warning for na//zis and for stroheim fucking existing)

once again I saw someone on the net stanning Stroheim because they take every glorifying sentence the biased narration spoonfeeds them as gospel and I sgajhgaejARGH

listen I may love Battle Tendency for some themes and symbolism and the Pillar Men and be a die-hard watsonian theorist when it comes to these things but at the same time it’s also the one jojo part that makes me extremely upset and awakens my pissed off doylist who starts to yell WHAT THE FUCK, ARAKI

I fucking hate how some time after Stroheim and his cohort get introduced as a bunch of assholes spending their time being grandiose sadistic bastards, having that whole tounge-and-blade fixation trope to them, manhandling women with sexual abuse either present or strongly implied (not to mention, you know, killing and torturing people and overall being na//zis), they happen to mysteriously lose these behaviours around the time they start getting treated as heroes by the narration.

...the behaviours which at the same time mysteriously start showing up in Kars resulting in what looks like a jarring personality change. (there’s only so much you can explain with “he lost it after everyone he loved died”)

...Kars who just happens to act like this almost exclusively at times when Stroheim is in the vicinity - or, to be more accurate, after revealing his return from the dead Stroheim is only ever present in the plot when Kars is also there, most likely so he can look good in comparison.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out Araki only realized halfway through BT that he wanted to make Stroheim an ally (which seems likely, what with that sudden cyborg ressurection and shit) but had already written himself into a corner with characterization, so he just went “lol whatever” and swapped character sheet info around to manipulate the audience’s favour. Because god forbid we accidentally start sympathizing with Kars (an irredeemable bastard, yeah, but a fully fictional bastard who has his loved ones and motivations that aren’t just “for fuehrer”) more than with a literal fucking n//azi.

Wrote a complete monster? Don’t worry! Just show him standing as a hero next to smiling Speedwagon and Smokey, this will surely make people forget about how he kidnapped and tortured the first one and drove him to a suicide attempt, or about how he ordered the fellow civilian villagers of that one Mexican boy to be killed which is what men like Stroheim tend to do to people who aren’t white! Nobody will notice!

Fucking shit, I’d be less upset (which still means VERY upset fyi) about it if I didn’t witness my share of people on the Internet talking about how Kars was a flat evil character who has never cared about anyone ever (which is def not true but it’s not the important thing rn so I’m not going into it here) but somehow at the same time insisting that Stroheim was cool and heroic and Definitely Not Evil and praising him for being “not as racist as he could be” (an actual opinion I saw with my own two eyes, what the fuck, what the actual fuck, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE SS ON HIS COLLAR MEANS)

like why. Why the fuck, Araki. Listen, bro, if you make your (poc, queer-coded) main villain a monster whose evilness in the plot proper comes mainly from him regarding people as an animal-like lower race, and you simultaneously choose an unabashedly na//zi character to be treated as an honorable ally, then I’m sorry but there’s something really fucking wrong with your story.

The attempts to make us like Stroheim are shit. Forcing Stroheim into the final fight just to have him look like a hero is shit (and I do mean forcing, you could write him out with minimal changes, even him catching Joseph is not needed because Joseph was already explicitly shown in a flashback to know the trick to jump out off a falling plane unharmed).

The epilogue is goddamn awful and it honestly works best for me if i read it as being meant to be extremely bittersweet. Hurray, the Pillar Men are gone!... but the War is coming, Suzi and Joseph have to marry very very fast and flee Europe, and Stroheim goes on to probably merrily gun down civilians while Germany marches forth because oops, turns out the biggest, cruelest and most consistent threat to humans are not ancient supernatural Pillar Men, but other humans that we the Great Heroes chose to turn our judging sight away from because while they’re a threat they’re not a personal threat like Kars was and hey, they made us this cool prosthetic arm, how nice of them!

And our protagonist, Joseph Joestar, the son of a war hero RAF pilot, the man who in the face of grave danger still chose honorable battle against an equal opponent, the man who in his very first scene rescued Smokey from police brutality, spends his last scene in part 2 physically assaulting a Japanese man half his size because his daughter’s (chosen, non-abusive) husband who “took her from him” happens to be Japanese. Sorry, I don’t care if you yell at me about how oldseph has more to him, this isn’t SDC yet, it’s still BT and this should NOT be the scene you try to achieve closure for BT plot with, for fucks sake.

If Araki really wanted to make a commentary about the ‘spirit of humanity’, then he sure fucking did, but not in the way he meant to.

#rant #nazi tw /// #I'm just tired ok. I'm tired of my fav part being my hated part too