#steven universe the movie villain

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Bracket G Round 3

Other Friends (Steven Universe The Movie) - Villain: Spinel

Nerdy Prudes Must Die (Nerdy Prudes Must Die) - Villain: Maxwell Jägerman

#villain song showdown #villain song showdown round 3 #vss bracket g #spinel #steven universe #steven universe the movie #nerdy prudes must die #starkid #team starkid #tournament poll #Youtube

[fabuloustrash05]

Note: I’m only focusing on ANIMATED MOVIES, so no live action/Broadway musicals or TV show songs.

#tumblr polls #polls #villain songs #music #Anastasia #cats don’t dance #ferngully: the last rainforest #the prince of egypt #dreamworks #hoodwinked #the swan princess #the pebble and the penguin #the lorax #steven universe the movie #cartoon network

[best-female-villain-tournament]

A villain is someone who is evil and has ill intent

most villains are antagonists but not all antagonists are villains

#best-female-villain-tournament #preliminary polls #prelim polls p2 #spinel #su #steven universe #steven universe movie

[comphetkoncass]

sometimes being in dc batfandom is like 'wow i just read 50,000 words and there wasnt a single female character in any of them'

#i blinked and when i came to...... theyd completely forgotten cass #can you imagine if there was any media that did this with girls #even steven universe has. steven universe. as the protagonist #she ra has bow and a few other guys #im fr drawing a blank even animated barbie movies have kens and guy villains

[im-diseased-but-cool]

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a post where someone is comparing Invincible to Steven Universe I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

#invincible #diseasy speaky #that being said i fucjinf hate the comparison because it does not make sense #the only two similarities in the shows is half alien baby is traumatized by absentish alien parent whomp whomp #this is coming from someone whos watched steven universe too #theres like twelve different shows and comics or movies rhat have that same plot. #steven universe isnt the only show to have that plot nor is it the only show to do it well. plenty of other medias have done it waay before. #saw a post where it summed it up as “both shows defeat the villain with the power of love but invicible has swears” #i saw red #because thats just wrong. #invicible is not a show that solves problems with just love you absolute fool. arguably steven universe isnt a show that does that either. #they deal with complex problems in complex ways #dear god have i gone senile?? no! #sometimes people have funny takes... other times.. guh not so much.

[docgold13]

Profiles in Villainy

Spinel

Spinel was created thousands of years ago by the entity known as Pink Diamond.  The being was created to comfort the lonely Pink Diamond after they had lost their first Pearl to White Diamond. The two would play in Pink's garden until Pink outgrew Spinel and became bored with them.  Here, Pink abandoned Spinel by pretending to play a game where Spinel stood alone for thousands of years while Pink never returned.

After finally discovering Pink’s abandonment by way of Steven's message to the universe, Spinel traveled to earth.  There they attempted to destroy all organic life on the planet as an act of revenge against Pink.

After making amends with Steven and the Crystal Gems, the Diamonds take Spinel back to live with them on their Homeworld. Now reformed and free, They are still living with the Diamonds, living a less destructive and aggressive life.

Sarah Stiles provided the voice for Spinel with the character originally appearing in the 2019 feature, Steven Universe: The Movie.

#Profiles in Villainy #Spinel #Steven Universe #Sarah Stiles #Steven Universe: The Movie #cut-out #paper art #Villains!

[youareinacomawakeup]

Nobody’s going to get this comparison because I’m willing to bet the overlap of these two fandoms is, like, ten to fourteen people total, but

#tfw you trick a villain into thinking you allied yourself with them #but you start to actually care about them when you realize they're just kind of sad #but you still have to do something about the fact that they're hurting people #and they realize you were always planning on betraying them #but without the context that you're reluctant to harm them in any way #so they're even more sad and honestly hurt that their one friend turned on them #... #if the owl house ends with the collector dying to protect king and his friends from belos #or because of the whole 'titans and collectors have opposite energies' thing #like they can't coexist for long #the way shadow couldn't exist in the light #i'm gonna be sad #man the steven universe movie made me think of majora's mask #(little chaotic being who was going to destroy the world just wants 3-4 giant friends actually) #and now the owl house is making me think of four swords #all i need is for a third soft little gay cartoon to make me think of wind waker #then i'll have one for all three of my favorite zeldas #the legend of zelda: four swords+ #the legend of zelda: four swords adventures #vidow #the owl house #same fucking energy except king and the collector are too baby for me to ship them #those are just buddies #deified besties #omnipotent bffs

[aguinhaac]

Just some spin fanart,

#steven universe #su #steven universe spinel #su spinel #su spoilers #steven universe spoilers #steven universe the movie #steven universe the movie spinel #su the movie #su the movie spinel #su movie #steven universe movie #su villain #steven universe villain #steven universe future #su future

[scadaddletime]

Behold. Full collection of blorbos

#hazbin hotel #nope movie #beetlejuice #futurama #gravity falls #villainous #helluva boss #steven universe #super mario bros movie #danganronpa #the owl house #puss in boots: the last wish #rottmnt #dhmis #potc #corpse bride #ferngully: the last rainforest #undertale #my hero academia #friday night funkin #the muppets #gonzo the great #across the spider verse #into the spiderverse #the batman 2004 #sonic the hedgehog #the book of life #looney tunes #titan ae #more fandoms I don’t have room to tag

[cryptotheism]

A Review of The Way Of The Shadow Wolves: The Deep State And The Hijacking Of America by Steven Segal

Alleged rapist and human trafficker, cop groupie, washed-up action movie star, and personal friend to Vladimir Putin, the paradox of Steven Segal is how he manages to stick around despite being –by damn near every account– a universally unpleasant vacuum of charisma. I could go on, but I feel that no introduction of Steven would be complete without the tale of the headlock. Legends tell of Steven’s conflict with legendary martial artist and hollywood stunt coordinator “Judo” Gene Lebell. Allegedly, the two fell into an argument on the set of the film Out For Justice. The crux being Steven’s claim that he was “immune” to being choked unconscious. Allegedly, LeBell called his bluff, and put the actor in a headlock. A headlock that resulted in Steven losing consciousness, and control of his bowels. Steven denies the story. He also wrote a book.

The book is garbage, but garbage in a way that can be easily overstated. I wanted to take a page from other reviewers of this book, and call the text what it is; a fever dream of exhausting mediocrity, swaddled in delusions of grandeur. I wanted to whale on it. I wanted to denounce it like some ridiculous fire-and-brimstone preacher of internet literary criticism. But this does not capture the core, the essence of Way of the Shadow Wolves. There is a paradox at the heart of this text, a contradiction that even now I struggle to describe. Because despite everything, despite the balls-to-the-walls premise, the disastrous prose, and the buckwild plot, this book is deeply and powerfully boring. To call it a fever dream is to imply that it might be exciting. 

Some books are bad in a way that must be experienced firsthand. This is not one of those books. In a way, I feel that you’ve already read this book. You know Steven Segal. You met him in elementary school, when he told you he has “every black belt.” You met him in college when you tricked him into smoking a bag of oregano. You met him at your most recent family gathering, where you were trapped in an awkward one-sided conversation about “those people.” The bad-ness of Steven’s work is deeply familiar. 

We have our boots. We have our waders. We have our shovels. But, before we wade into the shit, there is one more thing we need to get out of the way: The Shadow Wolves are real. In 1972 the United States government agreed to the Tohono O'odham Nation’s demand that border enforcement agents patrolling their land have at least one quarter native ancestry. The result being the specialized unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers known as The Shadow Wolves. In the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film, Dr. Eggman states that they are who trained him in the art of tracking. 

WAY OF THE SHADOW WOLVES

Let us cook Way of the Shadow Wolves from scratch. Think of every dogshit C-list action movie you’ve ever seen. Ideally, you want the trash cuts of post-9/11 hysteria marbled with ex-cia heroes and vaguely arab villains. Drop it all into a stockpot. Next, roughly dice some comic books and kung-fu movies, the more racist the better. Now add some datura, it doesn't matter if it's edible or not, because you saw a native American in a movie make something like that once and you’re totally 1/64th Cherokee. Add a whole can of Qanon and a whole can of racism. Boil until you have pacing thicker than mud. 

Way of the Shadow Wolves is a police procedural meets a spy thriller, a fast-paced action drama about elite agents on the fringes of the law who have the huge sweaty meaty balls to do what needs to be done for our country. It is Steven's attempt at the action schlock he embodies as an actor. Our hero is John Gode: Shadow Wolf. Reservation-born native American tracker, ICE agent, and Kung-Fu master. I believe he might have been described at one point. If he was, I do not care. Steven does not care. It does not matter. John Gode is Steven, and he’s the most badass dude to ever not be gay. He is: Special Agent Shaman Cop. He’s gonna beat up the deep state. That’s all you need to really need to know. In fact, it is shocking just how little you need to know about this book. 

We begin in a movie theater, where our protagonist is alone, watching the end credits of a movie about the atrocious treatment of native Americans on behalf of the united states government. When the film finally ends, John says to himself “It’s about time.” He gets up to leave. The chapter immediately ends. My compliments to the chef. A delightfully bland apéritif of a character introduction. Steven uses the essential point of first contact with our protagonist to tell us vital information like “He doesn’t like it when movies are long.” or maybe “He didn’t like this movie about the trail of tears.” It is unclear. To quote English-Albanian philosopher Dua Lipa, “Go girl, give us nothing.”

I have been dancing around the quality of the writing. It seems impossible to approach without the footing of a new paragraph, an opponent that requires full-focus, an all-out assault. It is nigh-incomprehensible. I hate comparing bad writing to drugs. It feels too easy. But there is a specific air to Way of the Shadow Wolves. There is a distinct cadence, simultaneously manic and lethargic, that comes from attempting to write while day drunk on over-prescribed amphetamines. And make no mistake, if Steven was not entranced by the muse of Too Many Uppers And Downers At The Same Time, if he wrote this thing stone sober, that is worse. Small quotes will not do the writing style justice, you must see for yourself how sentences flow into each other:

“The desperado’s mind went back in time to a small town in Mexico twelve years before, where he first met his two cohorts when they were thrown together by a tragic set of circumstances. Their parents had been gunned down by a cartel who was at war with a competing cartel for control of the area, which was a pathway to the American border near Nogales, Arizona. All three had been shepherded to a local mission where they were being cared for by the Franciscans, who were becoming overwhelmed by the growing number of children left homeless due to the rampant killings by the warring cartels . . .”

Labyrinthine. A paragraph structure that would feel more at home with Calvino, or Garcia Marquez at his most experimental, though stripped of its deft control and musicality. Segal will regularly change temporal perspective in the middle of sentences. A single run-on sentence will begin in the past, have a middle clause in the present, and then return to the past by the end. There is a downright massive cast of characters for a 200 page book. Damn near every chapter introduces three or four more names, and we are lucky if Steven describes them before discarding them entirely. This book is a slog. I find myself losing patience with Steven. 

—

Some time has passed since I began writing this review. Originally, my approach was surgical disassembly. I was going to go over the plot, summarize its anatomy, pick apart its flaws with surgical precision. But the more I cut, the more I felt as if I was the butt of a joke. I was performing an autopsy on a clown, pulling sheets of colorful rope from its gut, and the cadaver was laughing at me. 

There is a moment, about halfway through. A woman approaches John at a bar. An assassin, who later attacks John in the parking lot with karate. A furious series of crescent kicks, effortlessly blocked by John Gode, who punches her in the ribs and knocks her to the ground. Realizing that her martial arts are defeated, she draws her gun, but John Gode is too fast. He fires his own weapon before she can get the shot off, killing her instantly. “Her round went upward toward the sky as she fell backward with eyes wide open, seeing nothing.”

This scene stuck with me. It illustrates one of the critical flaws at the heart of Way of the Shadow Wolves. Nothing hurts John. Nothing even gets close. He does not struggle. He does not sweat. He does not bleed. Steven clearly intends this scene to be badass, a moment where his self-insert hero defeats a dangerous enemy without trying. This book is an action movie, but John’s untouchability makes every action scene read as a moment of profound and boring cruelty. This was not a contest of master martial artists. This was an adult kicking a child in the throat.

I find myself losing patience with Steven. I am running out of humorous ways to describe this vapid tripe. This is, in my mind, the greatest condemnation of bad writing. There is no hell lower than being boring to mock. I see myself as a sort of sommelier of the awkward and disastrous. I will be the first to tell you “Wait! Don’t throw that out! There are things to be learned!” But Steven repeatedly proves himself to be a sort of Alchemist of Shit, capable of transmuting theoretically interesting bullshit into just fucking nothing. If this book deserves credit for anything, it is its miraculous ability to squander its own premise. 

Why write this? Any of this? Steven clearly does not read. Or, if he does, he seems to subsist entirely on a diet of comic books about monkeys that do kung-fu. Why write this? At some level it all comes down to “because Steven wanted to” right? 

Right? 

But I cannot shake the feeling. To call this book masturbatory is to imply that Steven might have enjoyed it. There is a desperation to the power fantasy here. To be feared by men, desired by women, revered by all, yaddah yaddah yaddah, all the same trite excretions of blunt masculinity. But there is something else. Steven wants the same thing that every conspiracy theorist wants; a simple world. A world he can understand. Steven is exhausted, overwhelmed with a world he feels he can neither effect nor understand. I am exhausted. 

I fear my earlier allusions to expressionist novels may have been more spot on than I imagined. Way of the Shadow Wolves has a plot in the sense that Sunny-D contains fruit juice. Its presence is a formality, a ceremonial hat worn for tax purposes. The plot is there, but it is unimportant. This is not a text that can be debated with. Because within the world of the text, politics is not complex. It is not actually a web of interconnected groups, each with their own interests, rivalries, alliances, and historical contexts. Behind all of it is two things: Good guys, and bad guys. The good guys are all working together, and the bad guys are all working together. 

I find myself losing patience with Steven. I fear my earlier allusions to expressionist novels may have been more spot on than I imagined. Way of the Shadow Wolves has a plot.

John Gode finds a human tooth in the desert. It belongs to a body, a body of a woman described in lurid detail. Nearby, he meets a young native American man, a man who calls himself Sweet Tooth. The body is missing teeth, missing hands, missing feet. A trademark cartel killing. A young native American man. “I’m gonna be like, your assistant right?” A buddy cop dynamic. Meeting the task force. Tailing an ICE van full of cartel soldiers. A hostage situation. A shootout in the desert. Far away, faceless men in suits with masonic ranks plan a mass killing. Some sounded like they had Arabic accents. Freemasonry. Interrogation with a snake. The corpse was a woman. The woman was a reporter. She had the evidence on a flash drive, evidence that proved the existence of the deep state. What if its all connected? A sex scene, or almost a sex scene. A sex scene interrupted. A shootout in the desert. Kung Fu assassins at a bar. A cartel defector. A shootout in the desert. What if its all connected. They’re working with the Jihadists. The USA is already “half latino.” The government is paying the cartels to ship Jihadists north across the border. They’re well-trained and well armed. You can’t trust anyone. A terrorist defector who hears the voice of the prophet. The ghost of John’s grandfather. The sun sets over the Sonora. A shootout in the desert. They kidnapped John’s mother. Bring them the flash drive. They’re planning to bomb the casino. A shootout in the desert. The police chief was a traitor. The Catholics are in on it. Its all connected. A shootout in the desert. Assault by night. Rescuing the hostage. A knife dipped in pigs blood. A pit of vipers in the sonora. 

Steven ends a chapter with the line. “They had functioned like a well-oiled machine that had just saved two innocent lives. All lives matter. Do they not?” 

I am tired. I find myself at a neighborhood block party, trapped in a conversation I’ve had a thousand times. This time the man on the other end is a sweaty divorcee in range glasses who looks like a sunburned thumb. Last week, it was a woman with a necklace of crystals and blonde hair bleached blonder. “Haha yeah” I say, looking down at my phone. “Burgers look good this year huh?”

Thank you to my Patreon supporters who made this review possible.

#Steven Segal Review

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Bracket G Round 1

Biskit Family Business (Littlest Pet Shop) - Villains: Fisher, Whittany, and Brittany Biskit

Other Friends (Steven Universe The Movie) - Villain: Spinel

Mod comment: I think my brain chemistry was altered by listening to Other Friends. It's wild.

#villain song showdown #vss bracket g #villain song showdown round 1 #steven universe #steven universe the movie #spinel #littlest pet shop #lps #whittany biskit #brittany biskit #tournament poll #Youtube

[coffehbeans]

Okay but like, where's the men?

On the topic of g/t media can I talk about another, more niche thing I wish we saw more of? Giant men. Hear me out.

Giantess enjoyers eat SO well, specially in anime. Like, what the heck? Aashush I guess it's because it's more common to like female giants than the reverse but, I'll explain. In the latest games I've been following I've gotten two examples of giant women, back to back, Phantylia from Honkai Star Rail and Izanami from Onmyoji.

Both are bosses from their respective games and I mean, Look at this!!! You guys are eating so good!

Not to mention the other countless examples of giant women in media like Susan from MVA, the entirety of Steven Universe, Diane from Nanatsu, that superhero I forgot the name of from BNHA, even Gigantic, the canceled movie, would have a girl as the giant character.

There's so much content of female giants in media and there's so few male giants in comparison. What examples can we give aside from kids' cartoons? Sho? Gulliver? The giant from Jack and The Beanstalk? And that's it, I think.

When we do get male giants, they're mostly beast-like. Give me elegant male giants, give me princely, ikemen type of giants. Make them nice to look at! I want more healthy masculinity portrayed in media that has g/t, compared to the countless examples of healthy feminity we get.

Just pointing out the discrepancy in content and, I mean, we can guess the reason for that, right? But I really wish we could see more g/t content in media involving men lmao Mostly because I find it cooler, as well as more appealing.

Back to HSR, there's a future villain that is the god of destruction that Might deliver what I'm looking for but it's a big question mark at the moment. But if he does, maybe I'll finally get a bit of what I want to see more of? I sure hope so cause look at this guy-

#g/t discussion #g/t community #g/t #giant/tiny #coffeh rambles #I have no idea how popular or unpopular this opinion is but there you have it

[spaciebabie]

OKAY THE ONE THING I DONT LIKE ABOUT STEVEN UNIVERSE IS HOW THEY VILIFY PINK DIAMOND/ROSE QUARTZ BRO SHE'S LITERALLY AN ABUSE SURVIVOR MAKING CHOICES AN ABUSE SURVIVOR WOULD MAKE AND THE PLOT AND EVEN STEVEN IS LIKE, "yeah she sucks," BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR TA FUCKING GOD BE SO REAL RN.

"she made mistakes/hard decisions" TURNS INTA, "she was a bad person," IN THE MOVIE AND FINAL SEASON LIKE??? SHE WAS A LEADER OF A REBELLION AND HADTA PRIORITIZE CERTAIN THINGS SHE DIDNT WANT TA MAKE THOSE DECISIONS!! SHE CARED ABOUT THE GEMS AROUND HER!! SHE LIED CUZ SHE FELT SHE HADTA. SHE WASNT SOME SPOILED BRAT SHE MADE SOUND DECISIONS FOR HER CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!!! she literally tried ta tell the gems around her she was like them and told them not ta put her on a pedestal but they did anyway??? and got upset when she turned out ta be a flawed person???

like thats not ta say characters arent justified in being upset with her actions but making her out ta be a bad person cuz she inadvertently hurt people??? painting her as a villain b/c her abusive guardians decided ta go apeship on earth and any crystal gems they came in contact with???? when she was likely in survival mode???? i hate the way the show paints her i hate hate hate it.

grrrrr GRRRRR

#i rewatched the movie and brooooooooooo 😭😭😭😭 #LEAVE HER ALONE!!! LEAVE HER ALONE!!!! #spacie spoinks #rant #(?? sorta) #i dont have a lot of complaints abt the show but i really dont like this specific treatment of her character #steven said‚ 'yeah that sounds like something my mom would do' AS IF SHE WAS A BAD PERSON WHO JUST GOT RID OF SPINEL TA GET RID OF HER?? #WHICH IS A CONTRADICTION OF HER CHARACTER AND EVERYTHING SHE STANDS FOR???? #WE DONT KNOW WHY SHE LEFT SPINEL BUT I DONT THINK SHE DID IT OUT OF MALICE. #THERE'S NO WAY #abuse mention #grrrr BROOOOOOOOOOOO #RIPS MY HAIR OUT

[fandomtrumpshate]

Listed fandom fun

A bit of random data before we jump into the rankings for listed fandoms …

Since the numbers post yesterday we've had signups for nearly 60 new auctions, bringing the current total to 779. That beats the number of signups for 2016/7, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, and puts us withing spitting distance of our record last year of 819. Can we do it? Will we do it? Signal boost FTH posts and encourage others to participate. More money raised for good causes, more fanworks in the world — it's a win/win!

We posted yesterday about the state of our unlisted write-in fandoms (we've had nine new ones since then!). Time to check in with the rankings for the listed fandoms.

At the top of the pack we have:

87 K-Pop * 66 Good Omens 50 Sherlock Holmes * 44 Harry Potter * 37 Marvel * 32 DC * 31 Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed 27 Red, White, & Royal Blue 25 Star Wars * 23 Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Our first tie is for 11th place -

22 Avatar The Last Airbender 22 Teen Wolf

And after that, nearly every other place is a tie. And which ones are ties for which places can be shifted slightly with just one signup. Or completely upended with two. Where will your fandom land?

Remember that if your fandom isn't here (or in the rest of the list below the cut), you can write it in. Signups are OPEN through Monday!

19 Supernatural 18 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star 18 Locked Tomb Trilogy 18 Stranger Things 17 All for the Game 16 Our Flag Means Death 16 Tolkien * 16 The Witcher 15 Boku no Hiro Akademia (My Hero Academia) 15 Original Work 15 Percy Jackson and the Olympians 14 Baldur's Gate 3 14 Hockey RPF 12 The Old Guard 12 Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official's Blessing) 11 The Magnus Archives 11 Star Trek * 10 Check Please! 10 Dungeons & Dragons 10 Haikyuu!!! 10 Hazbin Hotel 10 Jujutsu Kaisen 9 A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon 9 One PIece 8 Doctor Who * 8 Hades (video game) 8 Heartstopper 8 James Bond 8 Kingsman 8 Merlin 8 Naruto 8 Suits 7 Dragon Age * 7 Justified 7 Raven Cycle 7 Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast 7 The Sandman 7 Shadowhunters 7 SK8 the Infinity 6 Captive Prince 6 Critical Role 6 Final Fantasy * 6 Fullmetal Alchemist 6 Hannibal 6 Kinnporsche 6 The Maze Runner 6 Queen's Thief 6 Stargate 6 Steven Universe 6 Top Gun Movies 6 Yuri!!! On Ice 5 Alex Rider 5 Grishaverse 5 Interview With The Vampire 5 Malevolent (Podcast) 5 The Murderbot Diaries 5 Nirvana in Fire 5 The Owl House 5 RWBY 4 Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (The Husky & His White Cat Shizun) 4 Genshin Impact 4 Les Misérables 4 The Magicians 4 Pokemon 4 Witch Hat Atelier 3 Arcane 3 Disney's Descendants 3 Elder Scrolls 3 Hetalia 3 Hunger Games 3 Legend of Zelda 3 Spy x Family 3 Tian Ya Ke / Word of Honor 3 Trigun 3 Welcome to Night Vale 3 Wheel of Time 3 Young Royals 2 Benoit Blanc Mysteries (Knives Out, Glass Onion) 2 Disco Elysium 2 Encanto 2 Gundam Wing 2 The Last of Us 2 Leverage 2 Miraculous Ladybug 2 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries 2 Mysterious Lotus Casebook 2 Schitt's Creek 2 Super Mario Bros. 1 Assassin's Creed 1 Attack on Titan 1 Diamond no Ace 1 Fire Emblem Three Houses 1 Homestuck 1 Stellar Firma 1 Wednesday / The Addams Family

#fth 2024 #fandom trumps hate #fanworks charity auction #listed fandoms #numbers #signups are OPEN

[treetownconfessions]

whos on ur dni list

fans of genshin impact, cookie run, one piece, kpop, undertale, friday night funkin, steven universe, homestuck, naruto, fnaf, persona, roblox, my hero academia, the owl house, south park, walten files, total drama island, doki doki literature club, harry potter, my little pony, lion king, madoka magica, metal family, ninjago, monkie kid, the lego movie, rick and morty, battle for dream island, monster high, animal crossing, hunterxhunter, sonic, villainous, mario, yakuza, deltarune, stardew valley, league of legends, littlest pet shop, parappa, yokai watch, jojo's bizarre adventure, amazing world of gumball, creepypasta, warrior cats, marvel, countryhumans, voltron, alvin and the chipmunks, star wars, baldi's basics, omori, touhou, rpg horror, dead by daylight, madness combat, amphibia, curious george, splatoon, apex, plants vs zombies, portal, half-life, naughty bear, any sims game, invader zim, fran bow, resident evil, octodad, bendy and the ink machine, little nightmares, helluva boss, cuphead, hazbin hotel, smiling friends, project sekai, and ace attorney are all on my dni list :( if any of u apply then please dni </3

my friend, i am praying this is copypasta

why the fuck are you here.

#please.

[ordinaryschmuck]

Alright, last time ever that I’ll talk about Velma. I promise.

Because I’ve been extra salty towards this show all week, and I don’t want to take it further than that. Talking nothing but bad stuff about this show for the entirety of its run is exactly what the writers want. They want us to hate watch it so we can talk about each new atrocity the show brings up week after week, and call us haters or anti-woke propagandists. When, in reality, they don’t give a FUCK about any of that. They don’t care about other races, genders, or sexualities. They just WANT you to think they do. Know how I can tell? Because I’ve SEEN genuine attempts of representation.

THIS is a genuine attempt of representation. Matt Braly, the series creator of Amphibia and a Thai-American, felt like Thai culture was underrepresented in media. So, he not only made his main character and her Thai, but he also dedicated subplots and entire episodes showcasing the culture he wanted to represent.

THIS is a genuine attempt at representation. Dana Terrace, series creator of The Owl House and open Bisexual, wanted a main character that was explicitly bi to finally help kids feel like they’re seen. To help give the representation SHE always wanted.

But when I look at Velma? None of it hits the same.

This isn’t a genuine attempt for representation. This is Mindy Kuling turning a character into a self-insert to make herself look smarter than everyone else and the most important person in a narrative. Truth is, this Velma is nothing more than a sociopath, narcissistic dipshit who thinks she’s better than everyone else but is actually more aggravating than endearing.

So...Good job representing YOURSELF there, Mindy.

And this?

This isn’t representation. This is a shield.

A way to protect the show from any criticism because it couldn’t possibly be bad. They have gay characters! Gay characters are good in everything!

Except that is the LAST reason you should include gay characters! Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE more LGBTQA+ representation in media. What I don’t love is obvious attempts to pander to audiences just to avoid criticisms. And keep in mind, this is NOT the first attempt a creator wanted to make Velma gay.

James Gunn wanted to make her gay in the live action movie, but WB said no.

Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated (the GOAT of the Scooby-Doo franchise) wanted to make Velma gay, but could only imply it because Cartoon Network didn’t greenlit Steven Universe yet.

THOSE are genuine attempts to make Velma gay, to represent people because the creators of both products agreed that it was the least they could do.

But making Velma and Daphne a thing just to protect a show is nothing more than shallow and inconsiderate of the hard fight dozens of people put up with for the sake of representation.

And, honestly, I’d be a little more forgiving if the writing in Velma was good. But it’s not.

Within the first minute, this show features...

Cockroaches having sex...

And fifteen year olds taking a shower to make a joke about how over-sexualized a series’ pilot can be.

First of all: FUCK YOU FOR MAKING ME FIND THIS SCREEN SHOT FOR A POINT!

Second: You lose every ounce of credibility that you actually care about people when one of the first moves you make in your series is to sexualize minors for the sake of a joke.

A joke that doesn’t make sense at that. Point me to a series pilot that’s over-sexualized. If you get more than ten, I’ll say you have a point. I won’t say that sexualizing minors to make it was a good thing, but I’ll at least say that, “Yeah. You’re right. So many pilots do this. SO STOP DOING IT!”

That’s the level of writing Velma has. And it’s why they have their “representation” to protect themselves. Meanwhile, you want to know the level of writing you’ll find in The Owl House and Amphibia?

Villains who prove that the most dangerous people are the ones who make the rules.

Jokes that are actually funny.

Likable main protagonists who are kind and caring to the people around them.

Protagonists who have heartfelt relationships with other great characters, to the point that it breaks your heart to see them leave each other.

And on top of that, actually good representation. But here’s the thing: The representation isn’t only genuine. It’s a bonus. Something great to add onto everything else the writers and the creators do right.

What it isn’t is an attempt to protect a show from what it does wrong.

And that’s it. That’s the LAST time I’ll ever talk about Velma. I really mean it this time.

Talking about this show past it’s premier is already more attention it deserves. And if you were smart, you would not only stop watching, but stop talking. The best attention to give something you hate is NO attention.

If you really want to waste time, waste it by watching something good, like The Owl House and Amphibia. They may be kids shows, but they have more maturity than a single second of Velma.

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