#ugh anyway

[artfulacrostic]

HERE WE GO YALL WE'RE SO FUCKING BACK!! i had no time to sit down and post last week so i've been sitting on these bad boys. i'm so EXCITED!

memes for The Bad Batch 3x01, "Confined"

*SPOILERS*

#the bad batch #tbb spoilers #the bad batch season 3 #tbb season 3 #tbb s3 #tbb omega #tbb crosshair #tbb lula #tbb lula 2 #nala se #doctor hemlock #emerie karr #batcher the lurca #tbb tech #r makes memes #these episodes had me SCREAMING dude #like WHAT THE FUCK #ugh anyway #on to the post for ep 2

[denjidenjiji]

haven’t been drawing much, school and stuff, so here’s stuff I did on the phone. Watched Haibane Renmei and experimented with new brushes because I’m not consistent

#art #digital art #ibispaintx #my art #haibane renmei #rakka haibane renmei #rakka #i’m so tired #ugh anyway #crows!! #i love crows #i am one of them

[abybweisse]

I really hate the yen press official translation, like the fan translations are much better in my opinion,the yen press one is very formal and wierd

Why would informal be better? 🤨

The big issue I see with fan translations is they have a higher tendency of being just plain wrong. And that's happened quite a few times. Example under the cut.

Like this scene, from ch13. Here's the licensed Yen Press version:

And here's a fan translation that's made its rounds online:

There have been times where the fans might have done a better job, but this is not one of those times. The Yen Press version is far superior, at least in this instance.

There's no way that Undertaker would have said he wants our earl to hang by the "collar" he wears as queen's watchdog. And if he had wanted that, he wouldn't follow up by saying that's boring... or that his duties are boring... oh, but come back if something happens. If it were what he wanted, he would find it entertaining. And he wouldn't be so eager to help again... if he'd rather see the kid hang.

It's much more interesting (and telling) that he doesn't want to see our earl hang by that "collar" -- especially not to hang himself -- and amusing that he'd make the pun "gravely disappointing". This lends itself to discussions about why reapers are reapers... and why Undertaker would care enough to not have our earl kill himself or get himself killed while performing his duties to the queen... whom Undertaker doesn't like onnnne biiiiiit. Even "praying" it doesn't happen. It gives off "we are related" vibes, to me! At least we later have Undertaker saying he doesn't want to lose any more Phantomhives, so wanting our earl to die makes no sense, even if they aren't related (though I think they are).

The licensed translation does have the occasional mistake, but overall it's much more consistent and correct.

If you just want an easy read and don't give a flying fuck about accuracy, go ahead and stick with the fan translations.

But if you want to get into discussing theories or actually understanding the story... read the licensed editions.

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #licensed vs fan translation #anon #i answered a thing #answered asks #lucky they submitted as anon #ugh anyway #jun 22 2023 #ch13 #for example #earl phantomhive #our earl #undertaker #reading comprehension

[maglorslostsilmaril]

hello maybe someone has already said this but uhhh do some of y’all realize how wrong it sounds out of concept to say that Sam was the true hero of LotR?

“Sam was the true hero! He had to carry Frodo because Frodo failed!” -> “All of Frodo’s contributions fail to matter because in the end he needed help. A hero is only valid if he doesn’t have to rely on anyone else.”

Like obviously not everyone who says that always means the second part, but overall like. That’s kinda the implication that’s being given. And it’s kinda messed up.

#like why is it wrong for him to need help?? #that’s so toxic #that all someone’s effort and contributions and suffering are worthless because in the end they faltered and needed support #ugh anyway #tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #sam gamgee #samwise gamgee #frodo #frodo baggins #yeah this isn’t meant to discredit sam either fyi #they’re both very important and neither could have done it without the other #like hello what makes you think Sam would magically be immune to the manipulation of a cursed object thousands of years old #HE WOULDNT SO STOP VILLIFYING FRODO FOR FALLING VICTIM TO IT #ughhh i will die on this hill

[carrotcakecrumble]

The ‘bully - coward - victim’ hit’s harder when you realise it’s somewhat a reflection of a Hawk that didn’t have a Tim

#fellow travelers #the way this show portrayed Roy Cohn was just #not to say refreshing but refreshing #Tim was brave for choosing the route he did but that doesn’t mean hawk was a coward #for wanting to live the only life he saw as viable #ugh anyway #when will I get over THIS SHOW

[purrincess-chat]

"If Adrinette broke up, who would you wanna see get together next?"

Yall are the biggest bunch of wild salty Sallys. We spent 5 seasons waiting for some shit to happen with the love square, and now people want things to go back to the way it was??? But actually worse??? Like, yall realize Adrinette breaking up would make the square worse, right? Can this fandom pull its head out of its ass? Grow the fuck up. 🙄

#s5 discourse #cat salts #will this fandom ever just accept that adrinette is together? #and yall really want them to break up after how hard they fucking worked to stay together in s5???? #saltiest bitches i ever did see and for what??? #theyre the same two ass people #delete later maybe idk #it's bad enough we still get 20 whos your favorite ls side polls every week as if the answers are gonna be different #this is the same shit just in a different hat #ugh anyway

[philosophiums]

there's a conversation happening on tiktok right now about why there has been such a sharp rise in people wanting to watch female-led anime instead of being so focused on shonen and the girl who posted the video listed her reasoning as shonen constantly fucking up "power creep" (her words but i'm pretty sure she meant power scaling).

anyway i'm going to subject you all to my thoughts on this because i refuse to post anything on tiktok. (i'm also putting this under a read more because it got longer than i thought it would SKJDBVKJDBVJ).

now, i don't think complaints of power scaling in shonen is a bad thing, but i also don't think it's actually the problem with shonen (nor do i think it's the reason that there's an increase in interest for female leads bc i think that's literally just people wanting to see more female main characters which is not new or surprising or weird, but that's not the point of this rn).

i think the problem with shonen (most of the time) is the lack of actual story content - like fucking... plots and themes and motifs.

her two examples were mha and jjk because to her they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum in regards to power scaling (in mha the villains are so weak that children can defeat them, and in jjk the villains are so strong that no one can defeat them), so i'm also going to work off of these two examples.

mha's problem is not that the children are the only ones who can fight the big bads, it's that we don't get to see proof that the kids are actually stronger than the adults. sure there's evidence of adults fighting the villains and losing vs the kids fighting the villains and winning, but there's no setup for like a mentor/mentee moment of the mentee finally besting their mentor and us the audience getting to see that they're finally stronger. in fact it's... typically the opposite.

mha shows us multiple times that even the strongest characters in the main cast of kids are not stronger than, say, kids who are two years older than them or their teachers, let alone the best and strongest professional heroes in the verse. and that's not a power scaling issue, that's a storytelling issue. because you can set up stories where kids are stronger than the adults in their verse, and you can write it in a way that makes sense, but mha does not do that.

and of course mha has multiple other storytelling problems, not the least of them being the fact that it set itself up to be one of those "if you believe in yourself and try hard enough you can do anything" stories only to immediately undermine itself by giving the mc the most powerful ability in the verse free of charge, making the entire opening sequence have zero emotional payoff (a problem that continues on and on forever in the anime/manga).

jjk, on the other hand, set itself up to be a story about cycles, about the past repeating itself, about the inevitability of curses and hardship and never learning from past mistakes, but all of that was completely abandoned somewhere in the middle of the shibuya arc and was never touched on again.

all of the main characters in jjk have direct mirrors within the main cast - yuji & geto, fushiguro & gojo, nobara & shoko, maki & toji, nanami & mei mei, the list goes on - and it had the perfect opportunity to either be a story about the inevitability of trauma cycles OR a story about breaking those cycles, but instead half the cast is now dead and it's become a manga that's just about cool-looking fights.

the problem with jjk is not that the villains are too strong/unbeatable (i actually think there could have been merit to making jjk a story where the villains win, but that would have required focusing on the theme of cycles which, again, has unfortunately been lost) - it's just that there's no fucking plot anymore. there's no meat. there's no point. even if the goal of jjk from the beginning was to subvert a lot of typical shonen tropes, it's so so hard to care about that anymore because there's no reason. the plot is gone, the themes have vanished, the emotion is no longer in the room with us, and it has absolutely nothing to do with (im)balances of power within the verse.

but of course this is not a new problem in shonen. it's so incredibly rare for shonen to have a good story that maintains from start to finish in a satisfying arc, and that's almost a staple of the genre now - training arcs and a war arcs and lots of fighting and very little actual substance. the ones that do have it are gold mines. but again, this is not a new problem and it's not a new conversation, and i don't think it's the heart of why that girl posted that video or why all those people agree with her.

i truly think the actual reason this conversation is happening is because there's a new set of people who have recently turned twenty-something and are realizing that they don't identify with shonen protagonists anymore because they're no longer teenagers. and i think those people are upset that the characters/stories aren't aging with them and are finally looking at all the shows they like and are realizing that they're constructed around a trope of, essentially, child soldiers fighting battles that the adults in their verses cannot. and these people are realizing that they maybe don't like that anymore.

because when you're a teenager, shonen is escapism or a power fantasy or both. it's more relatable because it's made for that age group. but when you're an adult you start going "hey... where are these kids' parents?" because you realize that it's unfair and unreasonable in real life to put so much pressure on literal children. (i always think of that post that went around tumblr a few years ago that was a gif of this character in a tv show saying something like "i'm 13. i'm practically an adult." - bc when you're a 10 year old watching that, you go Yeah That's Right She's So Old, but when you're 30 watching that, you're just internally groaning because you have been a full legal adult for this child's entire life and they're barely older than a baby to you).

but of course shonen (and YA lit and superhero cartoons/comics and the list goes on) is not meant to be "realistic."

but just because it's not crafted as realism doesn't mean it shouldn't have story elements or themes that can reflect reality and/or be applied to real life. it also doesn't mean it can't have a fucking plot SKJDBVJKDVB

#i just had to get that off my chest it was bothering me #like yes i do think the magic system in jjk is underdeveloped and wishy-washy and too complicated for something with so little substance #and also yes i do think mha is just a story about the justification of child soldiers #but also i don't think that's the reason they're bad #fucking. edward elric is *literally* a child soldier but fma is amazing because fma has a plot and themes #(one of which *is the fact that he is a literal child soldier* like...) #ugh anyway #i think im ranting because im frustrated that people will blame anything except bad writing #like sometimes you just have to admit that there isn't a plot and either choose to enjoy it for the pretty animations/art #or choose to leave because it no longer has substance #but you *gotta* be able to consume media and at least be able to notice when the Thing That's Wrong is the lack of an actual story #hhhhhhhhh #okay im done

[emergingghost]

i feel like i haven’t been a real person since 2018 aaaaah how do i get back into the world

#everything after that has been pointless and a waste of time #could argue that what i did at uni ended up being pointless too but at least i had fun and had purpose #UGH anyway

[helimir]

i look at the wiki for 5 seconds to check what happened to essek and verin’s dad and immediately get spoiled for this episode 😑😑😑

#and i didn’t even need to check #i was right #i’m not going to go back and look at it but i think it was in the #‘recent artwork’ or ‘recent articles’ section on the side #like i was on the essek thelyss article its not like i was on campaign 3 relevant pages #ugh anyway #critical role #campaign 3 #i’m dming call of the netherdeep and i hope i remember to never make this mistake again

[darksideofthepun]

Unfortunately Monday made it's way back.

#girls who smoke #girls with piercings #girls with tattoos #plus size #weed #witch #puffpuffpass #married #big babes #smoke with me #420 friendly #stoners of tumblr #work selfie #toking at work #bored at work #juicy lips #long hair #dark hair #monday #ugh anyway #follow me #me

[chloeseyeliner]

it's almost officially autumn, which means i have reached the point of my life when i wake up, (try my best to) do things, inter alia refresh the young royals tag for, like, an hour and a half every afternoon to see if there are any updates on the release of the third season, (try my best to) do other things, refresh the young royals tag again full of hope, (make an effort to) sleep. repeat.

#yes i have a life #... #idk i just associate yr with autumn okay? leave me be 💀 #speculation time #i think it's going to come out in spring #because it would be symbolic #(and bc it's exam prep season for june so i have to procrastinate somehow like i have done with all summer specifically exams lol) #(and bc one of the spring months is my birthday month lol) #in all seriousness #i really miss it #idk #i had time today #so i rewatched the last three episodes #and i was almost crying during my work out after #(but maybe this was bc of my poor physical state and this maddie gal on youtube pushing us lol) #ugh anyway #i am talking too much #young royals

[aaronstveit]

i know i rbed a post about it yesterday but i'm still so mad about what s&b did to wylan. they took literally his whole personality away. they took away his bashfulness and anxiety. they took away his cunning and his mischief. they took away his quiet courage and his jealousy. they watered him down to a bland outline of a person and then ruined his whole dynamic with jesper as a result. their whole thing in the books relied on their friendship, the slow burn, and their emotional turmoil, especially in crooked kingdom. they lost everything that made them special when the show had them hook up before the season even starts. they ruined all the reveals with wylan's backstory. they literally could not have done a worse job with him. and it sucks because jack wolfe probably could have done a wonderful job with wylan's character had it been written properly. but he never got the chance.

#i'm just so mad i'll never NOT be mad #this is somehow worse than all the bad characterization i've seen over the years w everyone thinking of him as like #some sort of uwu softboy #ugh ANYWAY #personal post #wylan van eck #anti s&b

[bookishjules]

you ever think christmas and christmas decorations are more about trying to reclaim the joy we had as children, the love and the hope and the wonder that we associated with christmas but have such a difficult time accessing anymore, than about the actual decorations themselves? are we excited for holidays and merriment, or are we taking every effort to try and give our inner child something to be happy about..

#bc that's what it feels like to me and idk idk idk is this how it feels for everyone? i hope not #i have a fear that christmas will never again be a happy holiday for me #bc it will never compare to what it felt like as a child #and idk that i've had a happy christmas since .. idk that year my parents couldn't afford presents so my sibs and i bought us a boardgame #that we played for the entirety of christmas day #and it was so simple and humble of a christmas you would think it would be easy to recreate those emotions... but here we are. #being alone i ny prob doesn't help. but it was hard before then too #ugh anyway #christmas #this is so cynical for me wtf

[mono-phobiic]

Ugh

#greek posts #greece #γρεεκ κουοτς #grungy girls #sad #aesthetic #ugh anyway #ellhnika

[padfootastic]

hey, so i've seen you lean into the cold arrogant black heir version of sirius lately, and i agree to an extent, because he was pretty intimidating and arrogant and didn't really care much about the public other than his people, but that doesn't really mean that he's this stoic, serious guy either right? he's pretty funny, definitely a troublemaker, and way too charming to stay in trouble for long. but at the same time, people know he's dangerous and should not be messed with because under all the charm, there absolutely was an element of 'fuck with me and i'll kill you'. and i know this sounds super contradictory but that's the whole point about sirius' character. he's a walking talking contradiction. he's so beautifully complex that turning him into this heir version is contradicting his entire character. what do you think? i would love to see you elaborate on this.

also, what do you think his humour is like? i've always thought of it as super sarcastic and dry. he def has a dark sense of humour, and he's so so sharp witted. anyway sorry if my ask was too long, i can talk for hours and hours about sirius.

no!!! anon no ask is too long when it’s about sirius. i can do the same (i have, in fact, done the same) it’s so valid.

i don’t think it’s such a contradiction at all, actually! i personally see sirius as this: a guy with a lot of masks, partially bc it’s been trained into him & partially bc he’s had to be. and i think he defaults to this cold, arrogant one because it’s the one he’s had longest—but around the right people, it fully melts away. the marauders and lily, yes but especially james and harry. that’s why i keep mentioning the outsider pov of it, people getting shocked when they see the difference in his behaviour. it’s why i wrote the patronus fic lolol.

i actually think that he had a lot…issues with the ‘heir’ version of himself (and yes, that’s a fanon concept i’ve absorbed entirely bc i love) because of what it represents and he tries hard to break away from it at all times. he probably went through an entire phase of teenage rebellion where he was doing everything against his family’s teachings bc it felt good. but, i love it when people can’t run away from their nature as much as they want to, so i always end up giving him some traits that basically make him hate himself looking into the mirror lmao

as for his humor, oh for sure!! this one’s definitely canon—he has a dry, sarcastic humor. (funnily, this is where i see a lot of similarities b/w him and harry for some reason) i think it can tend towards self deprecating sometimes. he’s also—hm. u can see his class in his words, and i think that might be true of his humor as well tho idk how to explain that better lol i think he’s the kind of person who’s so good at passive aggressiveness that you’ll never realise he insulted u to ur face (we have a phrase for it here—kaat ke haath mein dedi; i think sirius would be ace at that). and going off that, i do think his humor was also based on…belittling? other people. or rather, at the expense of other people in that way popular kids do sometimes. like him w the rat in swm, i think. casually cruel. a little mean.

#sirius black #sometimes i feel like i’m mean to sirius #and then i remember he’s my comfort character actually so it’s all good #i can never be mean to james tbh he’s too…paavam #but sirius? such a good character to mess around with #but like—if you’ve read my dark sirius fic—it’s kind of based on this premise of sirius and the heir being two sides of the same coin #and how he struggles with it but end of the day if he NEEDS to it’s not hard for him to wear that mask #idk i wanna okay around w it more #bc i think that balance of like. ruthlessness and tenderness is so so based #and i think sirius would really mail that #nail* #but yes. massive agree that sirius is made up of so much nuance #it’s so funny bc he genuinely gets a good well rounded characterisation lol #it’s mostly coherent too i’d say #but then She had to go and ruin it all 😔😔 #ugh anyway #come talk to me about sirius anytime anon! he’s my fav boy <3 #pen’s asks