#its not that some of these stories werent like.

[ciderjacks]

ik everyone and their mother has said this already but I appreciate how many episodes of puppet history focus on non-white stories and are both respectful and dont just focus on mass suffering at the hands of white people, and when they do have episodes involving that they still make sure to focus on the people fighting back and not just "oh this horrible thing was done, sad!"

Also I appreciate how Shane makes an effort to pronounce shit correctly, and to be respectful of people's cultures and spirituality, and to find lesser known stories from these cultures. It's always cool to go into the comments and see people who usually don't see their history or people acknowledged talking about how happy the episode made them.

#I hope he does an episode on ndn history I feel like it would heal the part of me who had to sit through 30000 white history teachers #all telling the same story #as good as it is to be in a time where colonization and native people get acknowledged beyond the basic “they were there and then we were!” #bs it's also like. ive had several times where ive had to step out in class bc my white teacher was talking about how white people #slaughtered ppl like me. in horrific horrific detail. some stories which still haunt me. #I know much of our history is soaked in tragedy but I would be happy to see a puppet history episode talking about what we did divorced fro #the white man or at least. what we did when we werent being betrayed and raped and murdered. yk. cause i feel like thats literally all #people know about us. its probably a reason why so many white americans think we're not around anymore haha #if I could commission a puppet history episode i'd commission one on ndn history tbh #sorry tags got ranty #puppet history #shane madej

[lycanr0t]

i feel very frustrated about the trend of giving chil body hair bc if it was any other anime twink i would be thrilled its just that it seems to only be because people are SO afraid of him looking young they have to make him hairy to justify liking him in ships.

meanwhile it does directly go against canon (he literally is supposed to look like a child. this is integral to both his character and his race's lore as a whole and it makes no damn sense that he would be mistaken for a child if he has body hair i mean. cmon.)

and it's like. some men are hairless. some men look young. when youre a trans man in your 20s-30s its especially common to be mistaken for a teenager, even more so if you're not on t. and short. these traits do not make you less of a man or an adult. :/

#rot posts #listen its like. i just wish ppl werent doing it for the reasons they seem to be #you NEVER see tiny little men get body hair in fanart i should know ive been in multiple fandoms where i was the only 1 givin bitches hair #but it also sucks when its like. clearly from a place of discomfort and not wanting him to seem young #rather than actually loving body hair #for example where is laios with body hair. wheres kabru. mithrun. literally any other character #(senshi us a slight exception on account of semi canonically having hair) #it just feels like a performance for no one. ok yeah good job you made chil look like a hairy 30 year old #did you pay attention to how that totally disregards his story and how he canonically looks like a child and that IS an important aspect #half foots face infantilism to an extreme and his appearance is a part of this. the discrimination he faces is partially BECAUSE of looks! #so changing him to erase such a HUGE important aspect of his race's lore just bc ppl seem uncomfortable with him being young looking feels #idk the feeling. its frustrating to me #i just wish there was some self reflection here. i guess. some actual acknowledgement of his canon struggles #do you even like chil if you cant accept one of his core canonical traits... #whew anyways this is HUGELY a limited edition post bc im deleting it as soon as my husband reads it ❤️ #i hate drama i hate discourse so like always if you try to start shit i will ignore + block you soo fast dont try me

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

Tell Me A Story 1x07 (p1)

#whumpedit #whump gifs #my gifs #whump #car crash #supported walk #injury #gabe perez #tell me a story #1x07 #watched this show ages ago and got reminded of it again #idk why i never giffed it theres some amazing stuff #its a dark fairytales retelling thing and i think its hänsel&gretel and little red riding hood and the three pigs #but its in modern new york and a bit edgy but i like it #i mean the original fairytales werent tame at all either lol #paul wesley is also in it and james wolk from zoo

[always-a-joyful-note]

I think the reason I like the 5 Eccentrics so much is that it's just such a good depiction of the….variety of friendship. Because it was a group literally created to be destroyed. It was, in other words, a forced union of 5 people who might have never or barely interacted. Yet even with that, even knowing that, they all chose to have a meaningful friendship with each other - they chose to be friends and remain friends even if their union was forced, even if the very reason that they met was to be taken down. It's almost the arranged marriage trope but it wouldn't work as well like marriage because it really isn't that. It's like the family system (brought together by chance and a common identity) but it's still different. Because they didn't HAVE to be friends even if sharing the same label, because they didn't have to keep sticking around each other and become a real family. They chose to be friends in spite of all odds, chose to be grateful even amidst their destruction, and forged a precious bond that not even their predetermined fall could break and in this essay I will -

#fandom spamdom #enstars #ensemble stars #stuff i say #welcome to the inevitable five eccentrics post that i finally made you may move along now #BUT NO FOR REAL YOU GUYS IM SO OUGH OVER THE FRIENDSHIPS IN ENSTARS #for all the crazy that goes on in the story the friendships and the brotherhood (or siblinghood in some cases) is just so - #i dont even know the characters that well but i could go on forever about the amagis or sakumas or aoi twins #and maybe add a dash of the tsukasa-oukawa cousinhood while we're at it #and thats not even mentioning himeru and his brother #but the eccentrics have had me in a chokehold ever since the anime and the element miniseries and they havent let me go #its about connections that were forced but bonds that were forged instead #its about being thrust into the fire together and deciding to be the cooling water for each other instead of keeping a distance from them #its about friendship and family and realising theyre human because they found people like their own selves #and it messes me up how they also found people to establish their humanity with asides from each other #idk how to explain it because they always talk about how they werent very human before while im shaking them.... #...because you guys WERE human. you ARE human. you have always been human but never treated as such... #....andfjaisojr eifowjifjsof eive lost coherence #i swear enstars hasnt made me go on about the human condition and the philosophy of humanity #i was already like this before the game #also i just find it so fascinating how the stories establish each of the idol boys' humanity.... #....but at the same time the art and the very nature of the industry theyre participating in also kind of forces them to keep it under wrap #(like come on. even the name idols is so compelling...things made by man but revered as gods and potentially more fallible than man etc) #anyway disclaimer that these are all my opinions etc..

[dishsaop]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

#i say lesbians but i guess i mean sapphic #im just like. tired of gnawing #and of men also. sorry men in my life i love you but on god if i have to pretend one more man is butch just to get #content that isnt m/m or m/f im going to turn into a horse and run into the wilderness until im saved from the glue factory by a plucky #young woman except instead of letting her have her formative summer where she trains me and bonds w me and wins a competition w me #im going to commit horse suicide in front of her & change her life forever. just because im so tired of bland CW-marketable women kissing & #digging for scraps in a refuse bin while brushing aside 7002993829292929939292929399394 gay and het romances #m text #i will also take nonfictional lesbians if its like a story #not to be whiny on main but one of the hardest hurdles i had to jump wasnt realizing i was a lesbian. i came out to myself and to friends a #lesbian multiple times. but i would always walk it back when a friend would express doubt or a male friend would ask me out #bc i dont and especially then didnt know very many lesbians in person. and so i had to turn to examples #and all i fucking had were fictional women who liked men. or fictional lesbians who were so cleaned and sanitized and prettified #(you all know what i mean right. the 2 skinny white girls one blonde one brunette. im not crazy right) #and i would be like. i dont feel things when i look at these fictional lesbians so i guess i belong back here #(this is also bc my gender ended up being fuckier than i realized but shhhhh) #I WAS GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THESE TAGS but theyre too long and im lost. #anyway the point is if people werent so fucking weird abt fictional or onscreen lesbians maybe thered be a lot more people comfortable bein #out as lesbian #like sorry but this awful ouroboros of 'all lesbians onscreen have to be cute and sanitized' meaning that people write and believe wlw has #to be cute and pure and sanitized (OR a 'badge of honor' bc good for u u doodled two women together or had it as a background in ur fic) #meaning that therefore all portrayals of lesbianism continue to be like this. is just #and im also gonna be honest theres probably a lot of good sapphic media im just in the wrong circles to have stumbled into lol. so #yknow. personal viewer bias here #but i still like swing wildly between overly brandishing my dykeness as a badge to feel like im proving im lesbian #and like. backing up under a blanket bc i dont wanna be weird or annoying or freak people out #but if people just Saw Normal Ass Lesbians. aough. #im going to watch revolutionary girl utena one of these days even if i struggled w the writing style the first few episodes #I JUST WANNA SEE AN OLD BUTCH ONSCREEN GET SOME PUSSY. #like it also doesnt help im mostly femme4butch so seeing 2 femmes on screen is like. okay cool so what. but only femmes are 'marketable'

[summerendroll]

my worst trait is being a shounen enjoyer and then complaining about all the fights

#do u think some shounen r like this because some creators decided its easiest to get thru story conflict by beating enemies #idk. anyways jjba has crept up on me in a moment of weakness again and im like damnn stone ocean would be soo good if it werent #for all those fights idc about!

[jacksprostate]

how did you like The Shining?

It was enjoyable, I liked the set design and I do like when a movie has a pretty fluid original soundtrack rather than prescripted beats. Hard not to remember that Kubrick abused the shit out of Duvall. I can see how people get very obsessive over interpreting this movie. I don't think it sparked that in me but it was like, worth the watch. Tbh I think if I didn't know about the immense hype around it I would be even more meh on it. I was sort of always a bit out of place watching it because, purposefully as far as I could tell, it felt as if everyone was acting around each other, without being an interacting whole, which was an effect that just didn't really play out well for me. If I even rewatch it maybe I'll like it more then but for now I'll put it in "It's always fun to watch a movie with my friends but this was solidly mid to me."

#asks #it files into the type of media where an overall simple story is made purposefully vague and more ambiguous and then lots of #specific details are peppered around #as to inspire people to think way harder about it even though #it kind of obviously seems purposefully lacking #which like. i guess some people enjoy that #but I personally prefer movies and books that just unilaterally commit to what they're doing #like it's not complexity that i shy away from at all #but nothing feels more limpdick to me than something that kneecaps its own message to provide a larger avenue for artiste interpretation #all the supposed interpretations of the shining are limited imo by the fact that none of them seem to be baked in as the dedicated thought #i'm all for niche interpretations #and i dont think author intent is The One True Interpretation #but I think a story should be consistent enough that interpretations can be very strong even if they werent the authors intent #or the inconsistencies should be part of the interpretation #which does seem to happen with the shining dgmw #idk #it feels like a very 'why are the curtains blue' movie. and i actually really love symbol interpretation and whatnot like that!! #i just like. when it is more cohesive. i hate when it feels like its being purposefully waylaid #im sure some shining fans may find this take highly degenerate but thats their problem #if youre going to do an abstract interprative piece #the main meat should still stand strongly on its own #and it just didnt feel like the shining's did for me

[mxdotpng]

the ray stories about asch and luke are making me so sick. just, constantly. in any other situation. Any other situation. where they were in any other roles. asch wouldn't have been so hostile to luke. and luke wouldn't have to watch asch die before he could try and make amends.

#.text #tales of the abyss #it is just so obvious. to Me. #i knew before i knew abt the rays stories. its just something i can. feel. #from the way asch talks about and to luke. and the way he acts. i just know i KNOW there was some part of him #that wished they werent in this situation. and i look at the rays stories and how asch keeps making excuses and its like. ah #'we're not in our world so we dont have to be in our assigned roles from there' asch do you even hear yourself speak. #luke called him brother and he was just embarrassed. he trains luke in their free time and isnt even like. an asshole about it. #then the recent one where luke said he does see asch as a brother. because in this world thats what theyre allowed to be. #hang on i have to like. lay down on the floor and stare at thw ceiling and cry and #👍

[arundolyn]

You. Thoughts on uni2 story content?

admittedly i havent played the Most bc ive been recovering from getting my teeth yoinked and fighting game takes too much brain power atm BUT. confused as to why theres no proper story mode like chronicle was in cl-r, as for arcades- intrigued by linne's specifically and tbh kinda happy about it. enk's is SO...... BITING HIM. CARMINE'S IS FUCKING BONKERS BUT HONESTLY I CAN'T SAY I EXPECTED ANY LESS FROM HIS CRAZY ASS

overall. in general. Tonally. the Finality of it feels. not. actually? there? really? it seems arbitrary. it's hard to have actual like. how do i put it. meat. of a story. without a real story mode. like all we get are arcades??? both from a storytelling standpoint and also like ALL the promo material it kinda falls flat on what was promised, or at least Implied. i was literally streaming it for my bf day 1 and when i opened the game one of the first things i said was "wait there's no actual story mode option?" to have such heavy emphasis on how this is the End this is the Last one For Real feels forced when we haven't had any legit buildup to that point and even in the game itself aside from cliche anime vague dialogue about how This Needs To End and whatnot it doesn't narratively convey this all that effectively

like personally im not all that . idk. disappointed? by that bc i still need to catch up on chronicle mode from cl-r and haven't had time/focus to do so buuuuut... like. idk it feels weird now? why'd they throw chronicle into the middle game and now leave the supposed last one hanging. especially when theres a lot of loose plot threads that arent getting delivered on adequately, and by the fundamental nature of arcade modes in fighting games none of them are exactly fully 100% for real canon because there's a lot of contradictions so........ what does actually happen. kuon dies yeah sure that was his whole thing and kinda the whole conceit of this game sure sure whatever but like what ELSE? esp with carmine's arcade being so tonally weird the whole time and him talking about how he's dying anyway like SURE IN HIS ENDING HE GOES FULLY APESHITT BUT LIKE WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM FOR REALSIES DOES HE JUST DESPAWN?

all this aside its fun and i like it and all howwwwever there is a slight sense of like.. barring system rework and ui updates it feels like this could just be cl-r dlc of kaguya tsurugi and kuon and not a hell of a lot would change overall?

#cawing #Anonymous #i straight up thought i was jsut missing a menu option or something but like HELLO! #or maybe that if i finish everyones arcades it would show the true ending like old blazblue but uh... sure doesnt seem taht way huh #like dont get me wrong i love corny fighting game shit but at the same time like #in some ways these feel like the shallowest fg arcades ive ever played save for the ones in continuum shift #and at least cs had a gimmicky excuse for why there was only really much of consequence in like. 4 of them #AND additionally had character story modes as real plot so its not like they NEEDED the arcades to be that substantial #and they werent historically until cp bc everything got condensed into one major storyline #which i would be fine if unib took that route but it just. idk doesnt seem like they wanted to commit to that?? #uniposting #like i love the game love kaguya love kuon love my blorbos buuuuuut its a bit lacking. just a bit #kuon is fun to play but damn did this justify a whole game #also minor gripe but im salty they dotn give the option of past themes. i was so excited when i saw the themes in the gallery #but no. you can just Play them. fuck off #whoops that got long lmao. never ask my opinion on anything worst mistake of my life

[dismalzelenka]

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#today i had a pianist during a rehearsal go “wow your voice you just have so much natural talent i mean some people really work for years—” #and i kinda snapped #and i was polite but also i unloaded the entire story of the last thirteen years in the cosmic joke that is my life #this lady got thirteen years of trauma in a twenty minute speed run #she Learned Things today about existential despair and the societal clusterfuck that is the Trans Experience #and how that intersects in the classical singing world in an incredibly challenging and fucked up way #and how i went from scooting under the door into a voice program with seven lessons under me #and then three years later proceeded to fling myself into a testosterone fueled vocal puberty in the midst of a professional singing degree #and lost the respect and support of most of the vocal and choir faculty because everyone thought i was committing professional suicide #if it werent for my own voice teacher (who at some point became the mother figure I'd never had) keeping me afloat i would not be here #i have c-ptsd from the shit i went through in the choir department #i had to drop out of school for a semester because my body just folded under the stress #i started getting migraines severe enough i was hospitalized twice with stroke-like symptoms #two weeks ago i had a former teacher from the early days deadname me in front of our colleagues #she tried to play it off as no big deal and it just reminded me no matter how successful i become in this field #no matter how much work i put in to overcome my past #its always going to come back and find me through people who refuse to learn respect #and somehow! im still here! im making a living in the field i trained for #how many people in my generation in the arts degree sector can say that?? by some metrics i am thriving but jesus goddamn #i clawed and fought and bit and dragged myself to where i am right now and had to find my voice TWICE and the worst part is #she meant well #the pianist i mean #and i was polite when i told my story but it was so important to me that she understood #no amount of talent would have gotten me here without sleepless nights and long hours and blood and sweat and tears and you know what #maybe i am a better person for it but dont compliment me by implying i have some inherent gift from a god i dont even believe in #dont tell me your god put me in this place to teach other people compassion #i didnt brush the door of death as many times as i did for the sake of someone else's enlightenment #its been a long 13 years. hell its been a long 2023. in the last eleven months ive had a fundamental upheaval #of everything i thought i knew and understood about myself #so yea im standing at the gate to hell looking the devil in the eye. try me bitch. ive endured worse.

[lesbiten]

i will always be of the opinion that so many people (men) ended up not liking subnautica below zero purely because the mc is a woman who talks and has opinions on things

#like you dont have to be able to perfectly project yourself onto the mc to like a game :sob: #it makes me sad because sbz is genuinely still a great game but so many people are just like 'um its worse subnautica' #and then you ask them why and theyre like 'its just bad!' and then the 'bad' in question is they added interesting characters #that doesnt make it worse it just makes it different. bozo #now. the people who dont like it because the world map is smaller or because of the changes in development. valid #i also would have liked to see the original story be the final story but at the end of the day thats the story they went with #i like seeing people who werent there for the development play it. bc they almost always love it and think its just as good if not better #than subnautica #i genuinely think ppls nostalgia and in some cases mens misogyny get in the way of them realizing sbz is a fantastic game #simon says

[yuridovewing]

i get that a new team had taken over at this point and that’s probably why the writing is suddenly different this way, but i cannot get over my Immense disappointment that despite the books focusing a lot on sibling dynamics and issues, a lot on family and melodrama, that they decided to stop giving pov chapters to both siblings here when alderheart and sparkpelts dynamic has SO much potential

#imagine oots but there was no ivypool chapters and we just focused on the dovewing stuff #i do prefer dovewing of the two but like. part of that is bc we saw BOTH sisters’ perspective #at that point it wasnt ‘’this guys wrong this guy is god (mostly)’’ but it was different #there was… Some nuance to be had with the dove and ivy situation #while here all wr get is alderheart. no perspective on spark besides his biased view #sparkpelt has no voice no anything. she just fades into the background while also being a tool to make alder look good #and this time the resentment and rivalry doesnt even culminate to dark forest manipulation so like #it feels like the writers werent interested in sparkpelt as anything but a tool they could shape to make alder look good #sure we dont need both sides for it to be compelling sometimes the biased view can tell a story on its own through unreliable narrator stuff #but wc doesnt even do that. its more like ‘’ugh sparkpaw is a brat. she has everything alderpaw has nothing. ok anyways unrelated thing time #avos liveread

[doomxdriven]

#;outofstories (ooc); #//GRANTED i think bansui is kinda safe atm. the kido corps seems to have largely been forgotten in canon BUT... #//who knows. kubo has already expanded the lore/filled in some holes in the recent anime adaptation of tybw (like with the og gotei 13) #//i think its unlikely there but WHO KNOWS.... #//i worry mostly about the hell arc stuff which. is on hold atm but ik that its going to EVENTUALLY continue #//and i'm already kinda expecting to. maybe have to tweak bansui's noble house stuff to fit what we may see there #//since. the still-to-be-revealed fourth great noble house is said to have something to do with Hell. would make sense that #//they play some role in all of that stuff to happen. #//but if kubo decides to actually do something with the kido corps i might 💀 #//like if we're being real kido and the kido corps should have been used more in the story and its weird that they werent???? #//like a whole ass branch of the soul society's military structure was just forGOTTEN?? FSJHGFSJDGHFGHJ #//but bls future kubo don't smite me HJSDGFSGHJ #//we already kinda ignore canon in this house but stiLL??

[the-trans-dragon]

I forget that I have family out there, and it's super weird to hear that they've been talking amongst themselves about me. Or rather, they try to talk about me, but don't know me, and so they just invent a little blorbo and make up stories about blorbo-me and then go on with their life.

#sorenhoots #anyways i love not talking to them or knowing them or anything. i keep in touch with my mom and thats it. there are some others id love to #catch up with tbh--cousins and stuff. people younger than me who werent solidified into being Very Religious Conservative Adults. id love to #know how they turned out and what theyre up to. i suspected a couple were lgbt and i hope theyre doing good. but like... 🤷 its hard to want #relationship with the ones who i knew as a kid. they have either become strangers or people i wouldnt get along with. or they are people i #outright never liked. or they were people i loved but who i do not love now and never ever want to see again. #anyways its weird to hear their trickled-down stories about The Version Of Me They Misremember. especially the ones made up by the people #whove spent their entire lives making up wild fake stories and insisting theyre true. im not going to diagnose them in my tags. id have #sympathy for them if they hadnt each introduced such cruelty and violence into my life. but alas they did and so i despise them and have no #interest in the labels of their psyche or how to get along with them. im too busy trying to figure out the parts of my brain that resemble #theirs and bettering myself and trying to be good for my community

[colognedecigarette]

thinking about beast/ars and how much it disappointed me.

#it was very much a run of the mill action shounen #which is ironic considering there werent even all that many fights in it #but it's really hard to properly classify as one genre or the other because it wants to be SO MANY THINGS at once #we started with what seemed like a promise for competitive high school career with the concept of beastars #plus a healthy dash of murder mystery. it was pretty good. it was solid #but then the protag didnt even try to outwit the murderer. it ended up being an all out brawl #so it kinda failed to deliver to conclude the murder mystery element in what would be considered conventional for the genre #soon after the competitive high school aspect was dropped‚ too when the prospective beastar dropped out #and the protag doesnt even try to maybe pursue that direction despite being a fairly good fit #(i.e. the author could have taken that route as a storyline with little adjustments made) #by the end of the first arc two of the promised storyline literally advertised by its synopsis and first chapter is dropped #(arguably the murder mystery one was solved. but see above for my dissatisfaction with its conclusion) #and then after that it was ... what? slice of life? romance drama? #the prospective couple barely had any chemistry but most shounen authors suck ass with romance so fine. i'll let that slide. #on par with the course etc etc #for quite a while the story meandered. it was a crime drama. then a half-assed coming of age. then it was a mystery again #but despite having gone the detective mystery route on the first arc the second time around it sucked even more #which was. amazing to say the least #yet much like the first time it ended in an all out brawl again. disappointing. #it tried to touch on some sociopolitical aspects with the prejudice and herbivore/carnivore tension #but the prejudice is consistently shown to be deserved; what with the carnivores harassing herbivores when theyre not outright eating them #and the tension was concluded with simply ''oh my god you guys the carnivores are actually okay 🥺 they care about us 🥺🥺'' #in the most infantilising tone possible. blergh. yuck. #and in the end the status quo didnt change. literally all that changed was the back alley market being destroyed #yet what little impact it had was quickly squashed with the narrative itself saying ''yea there'll just be another one popping up lol'' #beastar was a disappointment because it not only didnt deliver on what it initially advertised #(i.e. the concept of a beastar as sort of the bridge and peacemaker between herbivores and carnivores) #it also just fall short even as a mediocre shounen with its inability to decide what it wanted to be #a smart and calculating mystery? an action-packed battle manga? a drama? who knows!! #it changes depending on what the author feels like writing this week!!

[sapphic-luthor]

have you seen dead to me? if so have you watched the new season and if so what did you think!

i actually just finished it last night and i REALLY really liked it, and i thought it was an incredibly thought provoking and gorgeous bit of storytelling. now i don’t necessarily think it’s the best season of the three of them plot wise, but like emotionally the story this season told about the characters i felt to be a really incredible way to end the series.

the main criticisms i have been seeing on twitter have been really irritating imo. i’m not sure why so many people watching The Grief And Loss Show are so shocked that there’s grief and loss in it— dead to me has never and was never going go be a ~happy ending~ show, and i find it bizarre how many people seem to have felt entitled to a fluffy fanfic ending to a show largely about learning to survive horrible emotional suffering lol.

#im more than happy to accept criticisms about it not being of the same quality of the last two seasons #like the jokes werent quite as clever or quick #there were def some plot loose ends #but all in all the story it told i was very happy with #and i think its incredible they managed to finish the last season given christina’s diagnosis #she’s a real fucking trooper to finish filming and i am really appreciative of what she sacrificed for us to have that last season #answered #anonymous #dead to me