#the show had so much potential man

[moon-lite]

the worst thing marvel has ever done was promote the falcon and the winter soldier as a buddy cop show only for it to not be that at all.

#ngl the times they did try to make jokes felt weird because they barely let sam and bucky be friends #so it just came across as kinda awkward instead of the 'funny two besties having bants' they were aiming for #the show had so much potential man #i've been mourning what we could've had since episode 6 aired #sambucky #the falcon and the winter soldier #tfatws #sam wilson #bucky barnes #captain america #the winter soldier

[babulekbabayaga]

I did him (I have to redesign his face).

#hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel critical adam #he had so much character and angst potential for being the first man created and seeing all his descendants crawl to sin hopelessly #And being the one in charged to executing them #I wish that was explored while still mainting that harsh and jerk side of his personality #However instead of being crude he more witty and subtle #You know what i mean #Ugh #Love you the Adam in my headcanon #also gave him some wrinkles and mature features since well he is literally a dad who had his son murder his other son #made me think why did the show never ever mention his children?!??? #WHERES CAIN WHAT ARE CAINS FEELINGS ABOUT ALL THIS??? #hazbin hotel redesign #hazbin hotel adam

[hayleysummers]

every single one of Elijah’s love interests are incredibly hot and badass woman, and that’s just what happens when you’re the sexiest man in the entire tvdu

#tvd #the originals #elijah mikaelson #when it comes to face and voice marcel is the hottest man hands down #but something about elijah in to specifically just oozes sex appeal idk idk that’s just me #and haylijah is my ride or die but I’m still bitter about how the writers put elijah with all these beautiful woc #only to discard them when the plot was done with #and violently too #like why couldn’t we have kept celeste the entire season?? #WHY???? #Gia’s whole story was completely thrown away for man pain #and aya …don’t even get me started #she had so much going for her as a character and she had relationships with a lot of the cast #the show tried to be more diverse but still treated the characters of color outside the main cast like crap #even then the way they wrote marcel was eyebrow raising at times #and they never fully used vincent to his potential #and keelin was a glorified extra #N E WAYS UNMM ELIJAH YOURE SEXY AND HAVE GOOD TASTE IN WOMEN

[dowiththatwhatyouwill]

God imagine Vegeta slowly falling accidentally in love with a human and he has to come to terms with his own internalized homophobia and xenophobia

He has to earn respect and forgiveness for his past misdeeds and learn to be better and simply just how to be without Frieza or the need/acceptability for violence

There's enough suffering in the universe already, and he realizes that love and kindness feel worlds better than the worlds he's destroyed

Falling in love feels simultaneously like heaven and the worst form of torture he's ever experienced

For the first time in his life since childhood, someone sees him and it is the most terrifying, painful ordeal to memory

(Also this way he won't get neutered like he did in the show and can have real (slow) believable character development that culminates in a real person with morals he knows how to stand by without contradicting them but is still very much chaotic and Proud)

(Imp Vegeta supremacy)

This man needs to be held

But he also needs to work for it

#his pride is one of his defining character traits #don't take it from him #but this man needs to balance his priorities #f this show had so much potential #especially the namek saga #help i love him #imp vegeta supremacy #vegeta x reader #vegeta x male reader #vegeta dbz #dragon ball z #namek saga

[volfoss]

i think honestly what irritates me about yoshidas work SO much is that people will tell you that banana fish is THE gay manga (ignoring the many things that came before it and were more groundbreaking, ie MW literally having on screen (or like. on panel but still.) gay sex in it and that came out like a decade before BF did) when there really isn't barely any gay rep outside of the pedophiles and the one time ash drops the f slur. like im sorry but somehow yasha, a work she wrote in 1996, has more gay rep in it but also has the same issues.

i truly do not get how people can enjoy banana fish with the rampant racism every 2 pages or the rampant sexual assault plotlines (on women and ash bc he is just... written like how yoshida writes women lmao) that are handled IMPOSSIBLY bad and sincerely i hoped yasha would be better because it had been like a decade or so between works. and then it proceeds to continue with the heres our blonde genius protagonist who everyone is weird as fuck to and will sexually harrass and everyone finds it a VERY funny joke to point out how feminine he is when theres barely any women in the work (if you exclude the ones that are being raped/killed/creepy to minors. which to be fair yasha has toned down the sa a LOT) and that its funny that hes kind of gay except not really!! and its just absurd to me how it just persists in all of her stuff because she is not an author that handles gay stuff well. like the scene in banana fish where ash is completely ok getting gang raped and did it solely to get into the hospital when its been SHOWN that he has a lot of trauma with that. and then right after his friend makes a joke at ash's expense about that. like sincerely and genuinely is this what we are hyping up as the old retro gay manga. go read some tezuka and stop reading shit that the most the main characters do is share a kiss in a nonromantic sense and is obsessed w making every gay person be evil!!

#twist rambles #sorry mw u will always be famous to me (horrible fucking manga to experience for like 50% of the time but also it rocksss and theres #about anything tw worthy in there but i wish more ppl did read it) #sorry im like. i like to read her stuff bc her art is interesting to me but oh my god it makes me so angryyyy #rape mention #ask to tag #like... you do not understand my one sided rivalry w her it is SO intense like... bf was one of the worst reading experiences ive ever had #my tzk gay recs are: black jack (protag literally has a transmasc ex bf) and mw (for aforementioned reasons but its like. genuinely bonkers #and honestly there r a lot of minor characters that r lgbt in his works and like. can we please read smth that doesnt suck 100% of the time #like idk god bf is so baffling to me bc theres NOTHING there other than like. the new horrors every chapter. and yasha seems to be reusing #some plot points so it double sucks. haunted by the one analysis showing how the two had similar themes and point 1 was literally child #exploitation like... man. god it sucks. like not that mw is perfect bc its not and its a media i have a lot of thoughts on but man. id take #that over bf anyday bc like... sincerely how is anyone looking past the horrors there!! the story is a jumbled mess and it rly doesnt have #much to sayyyy but whatever lol!! id love if the characters were in a better media id love if ash didnt end the story feeling positively #towards the man who groomed him but whateverrrr lol #this is super disorganized as a post but like. genuinely it is so infuriating bc some of the plot concepts in yasha have potential and then #she keeps doing this like!!

[merlinmerlot]

I could play one of the most beautiful well crafted video games on the planet and it will never be as appealing to me as one that kind of sucks shit but has soooo much potential

#merlin.txt #just finished cyberpunk #i feel like they could have done sooo much more with the concepts they had #the game showed us a bit of everything in the world but i dont think they explored any one topic enough #and they pulled a ton of punches. the ending did not feel like this big 'grab your allies and fuck the corpos' thing it shouldve been #it was mostly just tying up johnnys loose end. one big loop. which i fuck with; but it wasnt rlly anticapitalist at all in that sense #i have a bunch of other thoughts on johnny but ill save it #but god. the beginning (act 1 and the first bits of act 2) where just soooo fucking good #and it rlly felt like it was going to gear up into this huge thing instead of just being one last hurrah for rogue and johnny #AUUUGHH theres just So Much Potential. goddamn #imo i think the major thing is that at some point it stopped being v's story. it was everyone elses #he has Very little agency. which is interesting but man this guy deserves better #when it comes down to it the game Is really shallow. whenever there is any sincerity in themes its very centrist #the fact is you dont rlly meet many characters in game who are Truly working to take down corps except for johnny and he doesnt rlly count #and if there Are its usually played for irony and laughs (looking at kerry) or theyre flat out kind of awful. #judys story is probably the best of the companions bc shes actively trying to help sex workers and its played very positively #i also think two of the main themes (letting go of the past; what it means to die) are Majorly helped by some incredible emotional beats #and w/o some just Really Really good scenes and good repetition of lines and motifs its very tropey. #ok i wasnt going to write a full thing. but let me be clear: i fucking loved this game. i would not be writing so much if i did not love it #the sun ending was Still soooo vindicating. v is still kicking and that's all that matters to me #(it helps that v is a Great protag like one of the Best voiced rpg protags next to hawke da2) #(which is kind of a funny comparison since i think both protags suffer from a lack of agency) #ok im done now

[otogariado]

i get why people would opt to say walter was a terrible person since the beginning, but i think that's like, the most boring takeaway you can get about his character. he was already insecure and prideful from the start, and it's what would hurt him and keep hurting him. but like, being insecure and prideful are regular traits any regular person can have. the actions that he makes because of these traits, which in turn keep fueling his ego more and more, are what makes him an interesting character. and he was already pretty capable of hurting other people, but he wasn't doing it out of malice, but more because of careless selfishness at first. what makes walter terrifying is that the more he does it, the more he becomes aware of what he's doing, and the more he keeps going and keeps being more and more meticulous and deliberate about what he does that hurts people and even to the point when it was specifically to hurt people.

i think the traits were there in walter from the beginning—the pilot did a pretty good job of establishing how powerless he's felt all his life and just how susceptible he is to letting this newfound perceived power get to his head so easily. he even says this explicitly in 5x06 "Buyout" when he tells jesse "i'm not in the money business, i'm in the empire business". but saying he was this monster from the start kind of implies he didn't undergo through a character arc throughout the show when it's quite literally what he did. he got worse. so much worse. through mostly the fault of his own fragility.

#idk if i put it into words right but i'm just musing #was walter a good person when brba started? up in the air. but his family genuinely adored him. despite feeling like a loser teacher #some of his coworkers actually really liked and respected him. he was just as much of a regular person as anyone else was tbh #you know it's interesting that he and gale basically have the same motivations. why jump to meth of all things. why go from 0 to 100 when #it sounds COMPLETELY ridiculous. but they were both very passionate about chemistry who felt like their potentials were wasted and felt #like they were finally putting their skills to good use again. getting to flex their muscles and shit. whenever they cook better purer meth #than most other people. i think it's a really genius idea to have this premise for the show lol #cz as much as walter is motivated by him feeling like he desperately has to take control of his own life he also is a scientist at heart #who desperately needs to apply his knowledge and skills somewhere where it would feel gratifying #seriously dude you could've tried to get a paper published or two or something. djhdidhd #but the academe has its own Politics and whatnot. so one could only speculate why walt didn't get to pursue that any more #(aside from the whole grey matter industries thing) #anyway uhhh i hope i get the post across lol not to sound cheesy cliche but brba is a corruption slash character deterioration arc #quite literally the whole point is that he Didn't Start Off Like This And He Gets Worse #again. he already had some of his bad tendencies and traits but it's like. we all do that's not necessarily inherently make or break #it's what he DOES and KEEPS DOING. CONSCIOUSLY that turns him into the horrifying man he is by the end of it all #so i just think if your biggest takeaway is Walter Was Always A Monster then you're just missing the whole damn point #op #brbaposting

[mushroomjar]

I just think Oshi No Ko could've been extremely good if it hadn't been written by a man

#not to be a misandrist but the potential was sooo there and it was thrown away bc the mangaka would rather write a harem for his mid #male protagonist which for some reason had to include incest???? between a 30-something man and his previously 16 year old patient #'wah wah now they're the same age' NOT MENTALLY. WE ESTABLISHED THAT IN THE FIRST EPISODE. DID WE ALREADY FORGET THAT #like i know they're trying to retcon that but baby aqua still behaved like a 30-something doctor and baby-ruby acted like a 16 year old. bc #THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE!!! #also why does the mangaka hate women. i thought this was aqua and ruby's story and yet ruby has 0 importance to the plot #of all the shows i had to drop to focus on my exams i'm glad i dropped this one #the way they handled the entirety of akane's plot was so weird too like :/ girl #the way they trashed kana's arc hurts me so much bc i've loved acting my whole life so i was so excited to watch a critique of that industry #but noooo then we couldn't add her to the list of girls who have the hots for aqua could we :/ #cat rambles #not main tagging bc i'm scared #edit: i was willing to put up with the reincarnation plotline!! i was willing to put up with it if it meant a cool mystery story + criticism #of idol and acting and everything industries!! but nooooo!! the mangaka can't write an interesting mystery if he's too busy making a harem #for his uninteresting protagonist!!!

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

god tywin lannister deserved worse

just remembering elias death and i wanna puke and the way tywin talks about elia and what happened is so damn gross

but rip tommen and myrcella we all know what’s about to happen in the next book :/

the cycle of violence just keeps spinning and damn you tywin for beginning it

(i got a bit crazy in the tags 💀)

#rest in peace elia and rhaenys #i’m one of those crazy ppl who thinks jaqen h’ghar is aegon 💀 #literally lost the teeny tiny amount of credibility i had #anyways i think doran’s in on it and i think rhaegar switched out asharas child for aegon paralleling the baby swap jon does #the pact made in braavos about viserys and dany marriages is a half truth half lie #and arianne being sent to faegon is simply doran testing his heir. if she messes up then whoever’s spying for doran will correct her #gerold dayne knows too much that’s why doran thinks he’s too dangerous #but this would make the dornish plot sooooo much more interesting and would show that no doran hasn’t been doing nothing #it would also automatically make the daynes more important #jaqen (aegon) was in kings landing to kill robert but got caught by varys. syrio was sent to find him. ned cleared out the black cells tho #saving aegon in the process. fun how we’re actually introduced to this character through lyanna starks mini me arya #aegon was able to kill robert with a boar tho so mission accomplished. #now he’s in old town trying to hatch his dragon egg. the stone beast taking flight in danys vision is aegon being symbolically depicted… #..as a spinx #i’m crazy delusional. but ppl who think faegon is actually aegon are even more delusional than me #plus the real aegon being alive fulfills the suns son part of quaithes warnings #i like this theory bc it makes the dorne plot more interesting and it explains whatever is going on with jaqen h’ghar cause he is sus #yes yes i know i’m delusional 💀 i just think it’d be a very interesting twist #kinda hoping no one sees this post at this point bc i know no one will take this theory well lol #i do think this theory can be supported by the text tho #and cerseis throw away line about ned stealing asharas baby would suddenly become peak foreshadowing #barristan comparign dany to ashara would also be peak foreshadowing bc ashara would take the place of gilly in this parallel and she was dis #dishonored by someone at harrenhall. likely aerys and then she turned to a stark probably brandon for comfort #tbh i think it was ashara who lied to brandon about what happened to lyanna. perhaps she was trying to mess with brandon’s wedding and #was trying to get back at rhaegar for humiliating elia at the tourney. i highly doubt it was baelish who lied to brandon cause brandon #has little reason to believe him and no reason to trust him. ashara tho? arthur daynes sister and elias lady in waiting? also his lover? #anyways varys the spider potentially stealing aegon away (if he did take a child it was the false aegon) is there to parallel the others #who ride ice spiders taking crasters sons. tbh i think it was aegon who decided he wanted to train as a faceless man so he could get revenge #on his own terms. and the sea lord of braavos at the time was in on it and helped aegon with his plans #the unveiling coming up is going to be a lot more important than arya just reclaiming her identity. yes im delusional lmao. rant over

[moinsbienquekaworu]

How have I been in fandom for - going on 8 years (?) and not gotten into fanvids before?? All the association I could have been making.... All the memories.... All the composition and clever editing....

#going a little bit insane frankly #it's been about a month of absolute and utter mcu frenzy in my brain and i'm. vibrating #truly feels like some kind of intense fever at times #i've rewatched talitha78's set fire to the rain vid so many times it entrances me #it's to the point where every time i see that shot of loki grabbing mjolnir i hear 'you rose to claim it' #btw hello 13 years late to the party but like. 20 seconds in and i felt like that vid unlocked something in my artist brain #no because the lyrics are 'i let it fall / my heart / and as it fell / you rose to claim it' right #and so she puts clips of thor being banished and losing mjolnir and then loki trying to grab it #which. the interaction between the song and the video making mjolnir thor's heart.... not even 20 seconds!! #it's so clean to me #it's like when i actually took a good look at bill cipher's design and realised he had such expressive potential #and i had to do like a page of doodles about it #in 20 seconds that fanvid from 2011 made me want to make animatics so so bad #which btw i watched it partly because a fic i liked cited it as an inspiration #and partly because i looked at the dates #and realised that the creator put it out like not even two weeks after the movie came out?? #absolutely insane. i love this so much #this is like having a family heirloom in your hands #grandma lending me the necklace she wore to her first date with grandpa for my anniversary dinner or something #i have just entered a new fandom and the fans who were here before are showing me what it was like when they'd just arrived too #the sacred texts and such also #anyway. man i love fandom. #wow i have a ramble tag now

[tenitchyfingers]

still not over the end of Barry

#did anyone notice perhaps #i don't know what to do with my life #this shit is hitting harder than i thought it would #and i don't even know what to do about it #generally i'd write fanfiction but i don't have ships here #and i have no notes #i don't want the story to go in another direction #and the original is just perfect as it is #no need to add or change anything #but it also breaks my heart genuinely #fundamentally Barry Berkman is a flawed man who had so much potential to be a good person #and in multiple instances he showed he was always capable of actual love for another human being #hell the bit where he gets Sally after she killed that guy #and told her 'you didn't do this i did - say barry berkman did this' even though he didn't #because the reasoning is 'i'm already broken and a goner & i don't want you to become like me' #what is that if not selfless love #barry hbo #and in many ways i really relate to the feeling of being fundamentally broken #i'm not a murderer but i've felt broken and completely alone so often - matter of fact that's how i live my life #so i can't help it - i'll never resist empathizing with a broken soul #when the world's kicked the shit out of you enough you get it

[handfulofmuses]

Honestly tho I would have an easier time liking TLG if they didn’t add that roar. Mainly because Kion just relies so heavily on it

#ooc #before that roar he was just I’ll get my dad #in general #half of the cast was dumbed down to make the guard look better #i was always upset the original trio did not come back but like #it’s for the better #they most likely would have butchered Ed and Banzai so much #i can tell this show wouldn’t take them serious #i need to stop being so critical of that show but now that I’m rewatching it again #man this show had potential but it was not used

[abyssruler]

sorry for the inactivity lately, i’ve been busy obsessing over asoiaf (again) and just finished dealing with a crisis after realizing that i do, in fact, like aegon. no, not the conqueror. yes, the musty one.

#there are several musty aegons so i must clarify that it is specifically aegon ii #yes…..i know…..how tragic….. #i mean if they didn’t want me to like him maybe they shouldn’t have cast tom glynn-carney for him #bc my god that man is gorgeous #also aegon had so much wasted potential in the show and was given more depth than he ever had in f&b #‘do you love me?’ YES I DO COME HERE 😭😭 #they should’ve let him run away across the narrow sea with sunfyre #do not mention the things he has done…i’ve seen it….but i pretend i do not #not genshin #ash talks #asoiaf #hotd

[variousqueerthings]

helloooo, another new rider on the mash bandwagon here, almost done with season 2, quick question for you and any other mash fans who see this - will there ever come a time that i dont hate frank burns with the fire of a thousand suns, tyfyt

OHHH MY GOODNESS YOU'RE WATCHING MASH!!!!!

and look, the thing about frank burns is that... no, there will never be a time when he is not the weak-willed bigot who's been given the opportunity to feel special and carry a weapon -- there are times where he'll say something and you'll suddenly go, "oh, I get why you're like this..." in the "cool story bro, still murder" type of way

larry linville really did the most, thank you for your sacrifice in accurately portraying the kind of guy who definitely loved mccarthyism and in modern days would have voted for tr*mp

now margaret on the other hand....

#frank burns #MASH #hello hello hello!! #twobrokenwyngs #❤ asks #the thing i like so so much is how margaret had this clear potential to grow as a character which seemed obvious from the get go #and often a woman is kept static so a man can develop but in this case it's frank's stagnancy that contrasts her growth #but there will be a couple more seasons of you going MARGARET YOU CAN DO BETTER! #(or margaret you don't need guys at all) #is this the ask to mention the hawkeye and frank crackship (or the hawkeye would have sex with frank #JUST to fuck with him and make him have a sexuality crisis ship -- he might regret it ofc but frank would regret it more) #(and what is this dynamic on the show if not hawkeye finding incredibly specific ways to fuck with him over and over)

[shenenemoore]

really taking a look at the harley episodes and im shocked at how...nuanced...he is? hes very much a violent guy, dont get me wrong, but the scenes with him and amy. or even like the more mutually understanding moments with cory. OR THE SCENE WHERE HIM AND JOEY SIT IN DURING FRANKIE'S POETRY READING. it's all so indicative of his 'softer' side, his compassion for people in his life, wanting to be a better person for those people, wanting to understand his loved ones despite his lack of understanding himself..... man

#zathrak speak #i did not expect this . at all #all the times ive rewatched bmw and im like aw man here we go again. harley on his bullshit once more #harley #NEW TAG? LOL???? #aughhh its a shame his run on the show was so short. harley had a lot of growing up to do. even as an adult repeating highschool! #highschool being one of the things he couldve grown out of had the matthews stayed in his life #now i doubt he would do this like on a character behavior level but him going to college with eric & jack. so much potential right there #jeric having their own ENFORCER !!! LORD.... #okay okay i promise i will stop rambling about harley kiner i PROMISE

[transgenbur]

just got hit with the urge to draw cbenchtrio in 2022

#crimeboys have always been dear to my heart but 2021 was All About benchtrio for me #and then that whole disaster of a plot point with cranboo dying out of nowhere & being stuck in limbo for longer than even cwilbur did #with no apparent end in sight and no reasoning no nothing #i havent moved on from 2021 i still want cbeeduo & michael to live happily in snowchester & hang out with ctommy every day #cbeeduo arguing and fixing their communication issues. cclingy finally talking abt shit. ctommy being the uncle he deserved to be to michael #im aware so much of their dynamic was created by the fandom and built off scraps from canon but i dont care they had so much potential #i want cranboo resurrection like the most cliché sickly sweet thing ever where he shows up like ‘Hi :D’ and ctubbo or ctommy hug tackles him #i want cranboo & cwilbur to have a follow up talk to the one they had in the burger van ab wil not being a bad person #i want cranboo & ctechno to have tea parties. i want cranboo to bake with cniki. i want crainduo to have a Real talk. #i want ctubbo to get better closure from ctechno. i want the syndicate to own up to what they did & start fixing things from there. #i want ctommy to set up a tailor shop. i want cpuffy expanding her office and adding flowers cniki brought her. #i want cbeeduo to cook in the mornings together. i want ctommy to sew a new coat for cwil and add little embroidery details to it. #maybe i just want them all to be happy. #maybe its less about cbenchtrio specifically and more about the slowly growing loneliness & hollowness of the server #fuck man i miss them all. i envy ctommy/ccrime solos bc while theyre my favourites forever and ever i still care abt the others #ccrime running away for a simple cottagecore life after all this would mean everythingto me- #—but if these other characters dont also get some kind of happy ending ill forever besad about it #alex.rambles.txt #c!benchtrio #mcyt