#shoehorning is not good

[sophfandoms53]

Every day my complaints about ducktales continue to be validated

#lost cargo being a backdoor pilot for a talespin reboot #the fact they use the word SHOEHORNED #be so fr rn #i cannot make this up #they actually wasted time #and lowkey admitted it #shoehorning is not good #like guys you had an actual plot going on #why did you waste an episode like this for a spin off you knew wasn’t happening????? #or at least don’t know is happening??? #your own show didn’t get renewed like c’mon #ducktales #ducktales 2017

[genericpuff]

Its from a while back (262) because i prefer to kill my brain all at once, but WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WITH HER SHIRT. That is a SQUARE. It was like this in multiple panels too

What's even funnier / weirder is why are they wearing the shirts in the first place?

1.) Eros and Psyche seem to be completely isolated in the prison, even if Apollo or Leto forced them to wear them they should be able to just remove them if they really don't want to be wearing them as soon as they're unsupervised.

2.) Who's gonna see them wearing the shirts? It's not like they were forced to do some "Apollo 4 King" video on TikTok to make it seem like they were aligning with Apollo, they're deadass just sitting in a prison cell wearing these shirts for seemingly no one and nothing but Apollo's entertainment?

3.) Love how we're just gonna pretend that Apollo's original campaign wasn't "Apollo for President". Love that for him that he finally figured out he lives in a monarchy and not a democracy.

#rachel's really trying to find ways to justify having eros and psyche in the plot #instead of giving them proper character development to begin with #seriously what was the point in rushing over their reunion and marriage if you're just gonna shoehorn them into another plot entirely #once again rachel having all the pieces for a good story and jamming them all into the wrong places together #lore olympus critical #anti lore olympus #lo critical #ask me anything #ama #anon ama #anon ask me anything

[redjennies]

all of you are so fucking stupid and I hate you.

#i recently saw someone trying to shoehorn ME into a story about the Power of Friendship and just like ...no. it really isn't. #if anything one of the recurring themes of the ME trilogy is that you dont have to like people to work with them towards a common goal #also like there are other FAR more prominent themes in the series #like ''is transhumanism good or bad? discuss.'' #not tagging

[angle0fthegourd]

If you think Connor is boring, I'm sorry but you're objectively wrong. This dude is the funniest bitch out there.

#i forgot about him picking fights with achilles lmao #very good 'oh right this guys like super young' moments #hes also so smug #i love him #hes a subtle character but thats why i like him #what makes other people feel like hes wooden and two dementional #makes me think of a young kid who was forced to grow up too fast and shoehorn himself into what he thinks he Should be #and thus feels like he has no agency #leading to things like the blow ups at achilles as he grapples with himself to feel like hes in control #ac3 #assassin's creed 3 #connor kenway #ratonhnhaké:ton #ratonhnhaké:ton kenway #but him fighting with achilles reminds me of me fighting with my dad fr lol

[klkirbles]

consider. ex catholic gale and shadowheart modern AU childhood friends.

shadowheart's parents and gale's mum being friends since the two were babies. they expected gale and shadowheart to eventually get together since they were stupidly young, even encouraged it. this never happened, but the families remained as close as ever, even meeting up for holidays well into their adulthood.

both drifted away from the religion for different reasons however they still appreciate the aesthetics and history that comes with it. they're always a phone call away when they need to confide in each other when the ~guilt~ takes hold.

the two of them in their late 30s has gale dressed in gaudy vibrant sweaters and thick frames, and shadowheart in monochrome outfits like she just walked off a runway. they look to be from completely different worlds to outsiders, like they couldn't possibly have anything in common.

meeting and befriending the other companions, who think they're together, and even ask if there was ever anything between them. they both loudly defend themselves because 'EW, NO! THEY'RE LIKE A SIBLING TO ME!'

both have insane amount of dirt on the other, and stories from early teens/twenties that they share with the group after a bottle of wine in order to embarrass the other.

#gale and shadowheart friendship is so important to me btw #i plan to shoehorn it into a few fic ideas i have #thanks to the epilogue for giving me crumbs to work with for post game #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #shadowheart #i feel even when ur former catholic u can still have a good relationship w ur parents #i mean obviously not me but ive had friends who r still on good terms #and their parents themselves also distance themselves from the religion #or are just a bit more open minded than u expect

[jungwookjins]

[231206] onlyoneof for 韓流plus+

#ninemill get to be main guys here bc this magazine (?) interview was about bub <33 #they all look so goood #on one hand i hate that 8d keeps shoehorning in the units #on the other hand the kyujung pic just looks so good they always get the vibes right #onlyoneof #ooo #ooo twt

[pillowprincessvarric]

The thing about Kelder being ~crazy~ is that even if you don't care about the ableism of it all (though you should!) it's also just, bad writing lol

#it doesn't Do anything for the plotpoints they're introducing in fact i would argue it undermines and confuses them #and it feels awkward and shoehorned in. like it just wasn't good bigotry is a craft failure etc etc

[romanceyourdemons]

“american christianity so american the christ has rotted away from inside unnoticed” can definitely be a good horror concept

#guess who just watched children of the corn (1984) #it was pretty good! #the ‘any religion without love and compassion at its center is false’ bit felt pretty shoehorned in but it had some really fun parts too #christianity tw #ryddles

[buddiesmutslut]

I’m being so ffr rn, if the show runners definitively show that Buddie is not going to happen?

I’m probably not going to be watching anymore.

I mean it when I say that they’re literally the sole reason I watched this show in the first place. I saw a billion TikTok edits of them & was like “Idek these characters I need to watch this show and see what’s going on over there.”

And like, it’s a fun show, I’m not saying it isn’t, but first responder shows are a dime a dozen. There are other shows that have queer characters and found family and wild adventures. Granted, they don’t have Buck & his bi arc, but I’d still read fanfics to get my Evan Buckley fix lol.

I don’t need them right now, I’m so down for the slow burn, will-they-won’t-they & the pining & the yearning & the build up and the GOOD foundation. I want to see Eddie figuring himself out and dealing with his repression and figuring out he’s queer (& Demi, pls God. I hope if I just say it enough, I can will it into existence somehow) before anything happens with the two of them, but if they take definitive steps to have one of them like, marry someone else or something, I think I’m gonna head out. Find me on ao3 for the rest of my days lol.

#911 abc #buddie #demisexual eddie diaz #also pls don’t come at me with “you don’t care about bi representation”. he’s already bi #he’s always been bi & I’ve loved watching him on this journey #but his & Eddie’s relationship is literally the only reason I started this show in the first place #and again if they find good LI’s & bring them more into focus #the time spent on the Buddie relationship will decrease. that’s just how tv & time limits work #and if my favorite relationship on the show goes away then why would I continue watching it religiously? #also I know I’m a bitch & would therefore hate any person they brought in to be the HEA for them & that’s not fun for anyone #not that I would bully the actor/actress bc im not an ASSHOLE #eddie diaz #evan buckley #I literally watched Booth & Bones take like 9 seasons to get together I am IN IT with a slow burn #unless they do what they did last season & shoehorn 2 LI’s in at the last second on the last episode then I guess I wouldn’t have a choice #Tim would’ve pulled a fast one on me #also I will watch literally anything else Oliver Stark is in SNOOKUMS I love you so much. come home the kids miss you 😂 #& probably Lou also bc he’s so freaking cute irl I wanna die #with his curly hair and his silly faces and his muscles and his wanting to be held in the dark #LOU BABY ILL HOLD YOU IF THE POWER GOES OUT #I have spent too much of my life & time & energy to get 0 payout and it’s honestly unsustainable but that’s a whole different problem

[brsb4hls]

Oh look, here's why season 2 sucks:

#good omens 2 #good omens critical #I mean as if it wasn't blatantly obvious that there is absolutely nothing even remotely Pratchett-y in that season #that's exactly what is missing #it's just Gaiman writing a bunch of fanservice #for whatever reason #'instant gratification' maybe #see what I did there? #authors should stay clear of fanservice honestly #maybe even fandom as a whole #it's obviously bad for the creative process #why even shoehorn that 'bridge' in? #could have just made one sequel with Pratchett's ideas included #and publish your fanfic as an unused script #ah I'm still not over it #this will take a while

[itspileofgoodthings]

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#the thing is. and it doesn’t matter #but like. Ken’s love for Barbie was played as a joke but it also wasn’t #and I just think that his charisma and love should have been allowed to center her more and sort of …. I don’t know #sweep her up on the wave of his charm as she headed out of Barbieland into the real world #it didn’t even HAVE to make it full on romance #because I think the sort of splitting up of Barbie and Ken as this joined identity was good and necessary #and she had this journey to becoming human she had to take first #and tbh I think it would have worked if they had ended the movie as friends #with only the hint of something more #but the simple truth is that the most consistently human thing in the movie as far as SHE was concerned #was that he really loved her! and being loved that way. Is part of being human and even part of becoming human #it’s to feel that warmth and understand it #the Gloria thing didn’t really carry enough emotional weight for me. nor did the vague girlbossery. The creator was shoehorned in #or even the touching (in itself) montage of mothers and daughters at the end #but the realest relationship Barbie had the closest thing she had to it was being loved by Ken #and if they both became human? and she stepped into that space with that warmth of love supporting her #and making her step into this wider world? that would have been something #and the thing is yes yes. He’s basically the Michael Scott of Ken’s. He’s doing the things he shouldn’t be doing in reaction to it #and he has to learn and NOT do that and realize he’s kenough #but that stupid line at the end? Where Gloria’s like ‘honey he stole your house etc. don’t feel BAD for him’ #rings hollow. especially because the General Public DID feel bad for him. He was the only one to feel bad for!!!!!!!!! #so Greta and co. Tried to make this Point about rejecting the guy who thinks you Owe him Something #But Ryan’s Ken was not really that guy! He just wasn’t! The core is too pure the love is too real! so the ending is just kinda mean #and it de-centralized her! Ironically enough!!!! Ken WANTED her to have the world. His best self did! #the movie should have let him give it to her. that is really it at the end of the day #barbie

[deus-ex-mona]

when the lip differs from the lip

#aizo’s really too good for this series (sometimes). very male lead of him i have to say #he forgives his mother for being like *that* to him and still loves her despite everything #he shows kindness to people who openly hate him (mona; granted it was only to make up for his bf’s earlier misdeeds) #a n d he tolerates yujiro’s nonsense (bc he loooooves him) despite their frequent arguments and disagreements all #meanwhile yujiro openly hates on people who go after his bf (kanami 2k20: never forget… and chizuutan to a degree too ig) #man i miss honeypre event stories (says this all the time). i miss seeing aizo pine on main (while being dense about his own feelings) #and yujiro being salty on main (while somehow being even denserrrrrrrr about his own feelings for aizo) #those event stories truly were some of the best shipping fuel for ss lxl #(also ngl but. i liked how hiyoko was still present in their stories as the supportive friend role to them…) #(unlike a certain [redacted] anime which turned her into a horrible self-insert who shoehorns herself into situations unrelated to her) #(*cough* aizo’s so-called ‘fake trauma’ *cough* ‘how could yujiro’s family hate him when his mom makes him such a nice lunch????’ *cough*) #(wished we could’ve seen more of the jk trio in the event stories though [sadge]. bring back honeypre p l s) #um anyway!!!!!! see y’all when the next lxl mv drops ig???? maybe later in the week???? sometime between wed-fri???? idk?????

[fictionadventurer]

Me: Is this Farmer Boy sequel written in 2012 really going to be able to feel like a legitimate follow-up to the style and atmosphere of the original, or is it just another modern cash-grab?

Heather Williams, on page 2: Best of all, he knew that fall meant crispy spareribs and sweet cider and hot roasted potatoes with melting butter and all the pumpkin pie he could eat.

Me: ....it looks like I can trust you. Carry on.

#little house #farmer boy goes west #i'm about halfway through and i'm fairly impressed #she seems to be making a legitimate effort to match some of the stylistic quirks of the original #there are pieces that are anachronistic or too modern #or elements that fit better into the laura books than the almanzo one #(mrs. wilder of farmer boy would not give an explanation of the history of jenny lind trunks even though caroline ingalls would) #there is a lot of focus on food (good) #perhaps a bit too much focus on horses (he wouldn't spend *all* his time thinking about starlight) #the throughline of 'what does he want to be' is stupid when we know he wants to be a farmer #the parents feel less old-fashioned than they did in the original #the sibling dynamics are pretty good (especially with alice) #there are some things that are fun in light of the later books but aren't obnoxious wink wink style foreshadowing #the author's note makes it clear that she did try to do her research and stick to real history and to laura's heavily altered timeline #and i can totally forgive her for a really shoehorned in conversation #because when you find out that the future founder of sears was in spring valley at the same time as almanzo #you *have* to stick that in no matter how clunky it is

[rassicas]

Did anything at all come of the "Save Our Salmons" post? I just remembered it and was like, "... huh. Whatever happened with that?" I guess it could've been in reference to Grizz using the eggs for the rocket, but the egg usage feels somehow disconnected from the Salmonids in RotM. :/

yeah no I still think about that, 'save our salmons' really amounted to nothing <3 ROTM's human extinction lore was amazing, and then everything else.....a whole lot of wasted potential

#asks #octavio. save our salmons. the bear foreshadowing made way too obvious/poorly handled. idols feeling shoehorned in there. #missing basic explanations for why things are the way they are #no further info on orca and what it thinks of grizz despite it possibly betraying him? #whatever the fuck sealife energy sudden magic bullshit #fuzzy octarians are just there how did grizz get them #poor explanation on how grizzco came to be #weird lack of mention of the judds which may be intentional but it feels kind of. weak imo #literally no good reason for why grizz took cuttlefish the brain thing makes no sense. poorly done plot device. #et cetera et cetera

[ride-a-dromedary]

Halsin desperately wanting children vs Minthara's cut pregnancy storyline face off in the square, but they violently start making out instead.

#FOR THE RECORD this is a joke...but also *eyes emoji* #BG3 Musing #halsin/minthara has very big you wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look/act stupid energy #and then they proceed to do so #fantastic racism vs fantastic prejudice due to past experience and cultural influence face off and make a baby maybe if u wanna idk #maybe we could learn to see the best and accept the less than best in each other and grow and develop as people if you wanna idk #*could* this have been good? it absolutely could have been in the right writer's hands #'but x party said/did -' i do not listen to larian's rules nor whatever they have added here #nor - like i said - did i ever trust them to implement this properly or well and they did not disappoint #any ultimatum they have shoehorned in is not canon to me #if you can recruit minty on a good playthrough now for whatever excuse you should be able to recruit the both of them i don't make the rule #otherwise there is no point - keep her in the evil playthroughs #if i had a nickel every time a elf companion was implied to want or have a babies ever after ending (even in cut content) #i'd have two nickels which isn't a lot BUT WEIRD THAT-

[redlyriumidol]

I was talking about this on reddit but I don't think Dorian having the necromancer specialisation fits him really... at all. I can believe he's interested in necromancy (though this isn't really shown apart from one banter with cassandra) and gaider said he was drawn to it because it was difficult- that makes sense, but I just think the vibes are off. Like necromancy kind of gives... a dark and emo edgelord sort of thing. It's inherently creepy lol and kind of disgusting, visceral, gloomy. Whereas Dorian is flashy and bright, immaculately groomed, intellectual, showy. It doesn't track, for me at least.

What I would have given him is a glyph-based specialisation. Like a more complex version of these:

And I would have woven time magic into it- so glyphs of haste, slowing, things like that. As it stands it makes little sense that the focus ability for necromancy is haste; it's only in there because of Dorian, like what has that got to do with raising the dead. I like the glyphs because they're very visually impressive, beautiful even. They're bright and flashy. I also think a mage would have to study glyphs carefully in order to "draw" them correctly. This works with Dorian's background as an academic/scholar, and time magic in general fits him, not just because he studied it with Alexius, but thematically as a "rebellious archivist" or a historian.

#dorian pavus #dragon age #dragon age talks #anyway bring back the unique character specialisations from da2 i loved those so much #in dai i feel like some of the characters were kind of shoehorned into specialisations when they didnt really fit #others were good matches but especially given they actually delved into the lore behind each spec #like you have to drink dragon blood to become a reaver. so does that mean iron bull has? its weird #dorian's the worst offender though. i think sera's is a bit random too