#when i have a real issue and when im just nitpicking

[olderthannetfic]

I really fear I might be unleashing a storm of wank here, but out of curiosity, why does everyone I know who knows of the Fanlore wiki tell me it's nothing worth trying to edit things or create pages there? Everyone seems to have a very burnt-out, I-don't-want-to-get-into-it vibe when it comes up, so I assume there's some underlying issues I'm unaware of. However, it's hard to figure out what that is when people don't give any details beyond "it sucks, don't interact with it".

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It hasn't really gained the critical mass of editors necessary to make wiki work fun, IME. That can be an issue even if other things are fixed.

Some areas of fandom far from what OTW early adopters cared about are barely fleshed out at all, which can be intimidating if you aren't the kind of person who likes writing a whole article yourself. (I had to write the entire scanlation article at one point, for example.)

It has some areas where somebody wants to set up their little fiefdom and is a mega nitpicker about any edit, which is a common Wikipedia disease too but can be very shocking and offputting if you aren't used to fighting with dickheads on wikis.

And it has had many, many bad calls on the part of the people running it that have made it suck worse to work on. Some of those sound like they've improved over time. Some have gotten worse.

A few times, deeply misguided idiots (sorry, yes, I do mean you, friend who did this), have called for it to be more ~academic~ and have tried to police ~low quality~ contributions...

These are not people who have any real experience with functioning wiki cultures very clearly, and they should be ashamed of themselves for the chilling effect their bad takes had on Fanlore's struggling attempts to build an actual community of editors.

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Of course, some people are just Big Mad that other fans have noticed them and choose to discuss them without running every phrase past them first and/or that some bully's bullying behavior is documented and not swept under the rug.

A lot of people are really shit at understanding what PPOV (plural point of view) means and want Fanlore to either be only Objective Truth instead of an account of fandom social things or want it to only tell their own side of some wank.

[the-starlight-project]

I apologize for my previous long ask about large egg, but I have another question (which will likely also get big, sorry)

So, you know the pit™? You know, that one. Why is it there? And why is there an inaccessible maintenance tunnel there? Because there's no real way for people to get in there from the pit. Maybe it was made to be a spike pit? That still brings to question as to why there's an inaccessible maintenance tunnel connected right to it? Because if it is a spike pit, then it'd be pretty open enough for you to see the door to it (though youd probably have more pressing issues if youre close enough to see a door at the bottom. And if it's walled off, then why have it there at all, since there's no way to access it. Do people have to punch down that wall every time they have to put in a spike pit? And I suppose an even more important question would be why wasn't the top of the pit™ supported properly? You'd think they'd want to make sure that it would be supported properly so they don't hurt their actors (well, more like actor, since they can technically replace everyone else) and, like what happened in the comic, it could lead to the illusion being broken for sonic. Perhaps it was sabotage 🤔 anyways, thank you for your time and I can't wait to see more!

Btw im not trying to be rude with any of this, and I know its a nitpick, im just very curious

No, it's awesome that you're curious!! It's not nitpicking, I'd be asking the same questions too in your position!

The Pit™ was indeed originally a spikepit - that's why the walls were so Very Undoor-like. Keep in mind that this set has been in operation for a while, so changes definitely occured to keep it ... modern? Current? At least somewhat canon to what Sonic thinks is going on?

Point is, that spikepit was decomissioned a while ago, and thus covered over with Totally Real Dirt™. The replacement and swapping of spikepits was never really needed, because Sonic can hop out of them and the spikes never really got damaged, so the connection to the maintenence tunnels was put in place when the set was created to initially allow access for fitting The Pit™.

As for why the top wasn't supported properly ... well. Sabotage is certainly one theory, but .. not every employee does their job correctly. Pre-flight checks are ignored sometimes, and people pay the price for it.

#starlight au #project starlight #starlight ask tag! #mw replies

[the-meme-monarch]

If they remade Balan wonderworld but good what changes do you think would be most important

ohh ive had this stewing for a while so it's not just gonna be "what changes would be most important" it will also be some nitpicking

-i think. you could make it a game with no dialogue. i think that'd be novel and cool. but the weird thing is the actual game doesn't really commit to that? balan talks in-game. anyway they need to like. Actually tell the story bc as it stands w all the context being in the book isn't really great. more comprehensive cutscenes. and also I'm no game dev but like. it doesn't play well. i feel like it could stand to be more puzzley and maybe they can use that to help portray each residents stories more/better?

-i think the wonderworld should just abide by real time bc w it originally existing outside time and space kinda. Doesn't make complete sense to me. It being 'these twelve guys are having issues at the moment" makes more sense to me. therefore. dropping the cass attilio romance. It was weird anyway. princess merry is cass' older sister

-instead of the illusions of themselves that lead you to their negati boss form, it's a shadow that you see on the walls/ground(bc they're a shadow of their former selves haha). maybe your shadow is replaced w theirs?

-im thinking their backstory cutscenes are each told through different creative mediums:

-Fiona through sand animation, Eis through oil pastel on glass animation(like mob psycho 100 has) , Lucy through like a series of paintings? Cass maybe something similar to the mechanical puppets that hers is already, have Sana’s commit with wooden carved sets in stop motion (wouldn’t have to actually be Real stop motion, just make it look like it)

-either Balan just doesn’t have a ‘true form’ or his true form still reads as black bc i will continue to be 😐 over that for-absolutely-ever

-Cass’ cat has to die. I’m sorry. or at least get hit and nearly die. also I’m thinking the accident also caused Iben’s parents deaths bc i heard somebody suggest that in frankenbugs’ playthrough of it and that sounded cool to make it connected. and Cass shutting out her grief like it never happened while Iben let her grief consume her bc of the same accident also sounds cool

-also abt frankenbugs i agree w them that I don’t think Lucy’s stage needs any changing i think hers is the best structured. i think everyone else’s stages need to be changed to match

-also maybe reorder the levels so they're in like. have the more intense problems at the end. like Bruce's being the last level seems kinda Whatever after cass and iben's levels literally involve death

-i think have their ‘why they’re in wonderworld’ cutscene play at the beginning of their stage when you first get there, and the ‘what happens after they leave’ play after their boss fight like normal bc idk where to put it otherwise

-I think it'd be neat if the hub world was the theatre instead of the isle of tims. what little we actually see of the theatre in the opening cutscene looks GREAT and i think that'd make for a cooler hub to get to all the stages w the character posters. i honestly don't really care for the tims (i like them in theory not really in practice) and much less the tower

and that's all i got rn but i might come back to this I'm watching the 1993 mario movie rn

#the monarch’s court #balan wonderworld

[coldresolve]

A huge part of the whump being torture apologia discussion comes from the fact that people exoticize torture. It's foreign. It's something you see in spy movies and read about in thrillers. It's a pain that most people can safely distance themselves from in order to experience emotional catharsis or simple enjoyment. The thing is, some people don't get to have that distance.

It's hard for me to describe the sheer grief that comes with it all. I know a man who was tortured in prison. People who faced abuse from family so severe that it amounted to torture. Someone whose torture was to watch their friends be deliberately hurt. I wish whump writers could learn to have compassion for these people as well, even if their lived experiences are not exceptionally common or openly spoken about.

If an author portrays domestic abuse in their writing, it's generally considered necessary and responsible for them to either write the abuse in a realistic way or to state outside their writing that their portrayal of this very real issue is unrealistic. This respects people's lived experiences with abuse and prevents creating a culture of normalizing and glorifying abusive behavior.

It's most definitely not too much to ask of whump writers to uphold those same standards when writing about torture.

you have no idea how nice it is to get someone well spoken and well thought out in my inbox every once in a while. uh im on like hr 30 of being awake and kinda struggling piecing my thoughts together right now, so forgive me if i dont make a lot of sense, but i wanna say sth

the tone of your ask for some reason really hit a nerve for me. like getting slapped in the face, kind of. i think its the fact you come across really compassionate and just. calm, thoughtful in this. kinda puts my approach into perspective lol

i think im just angry about this topic. like ive got a passion for wanting to get it right, but its driven by anger and frustration. having ppl nitpick the fuck out of everything i say instead of actually having the sorts of conversations that should be had about the topic. i know me being angry edgy tantrum controversial oh whats he gonna say now guy and all that, turns people away from listening to me but i dont know how else to approach it sometimes, i don't want to make excuses for people who i feel should know better. i dont have that kind of patience i guess, at least not right now

i think that anger is like a manifestation, symptom. im angry about the people this happens to, and how catastrophic it is. angry at the people who let it happen. the systems that are built around it. people don't see how systemic torture can be. im angry that the fucking war on terror media frenzy was so effective, because your average person still fucking believes in all the bullshit. or the idea of torture survivors being "broken" like its a personal failure, like its the result of their own shortcomings when they're some of the strongest people you can meet. just all these unfair ideas about it that are everywhere. and people still somehow find it necessary to keep spreading those ideas, even if they know theyre wrong. when it doesnt add anything of value, youre not saying anything about it, youre not actually adding something to the conversation by going along with the bullshit, youre literally just entertaining yourself

i dont know how to not be angry about it, i think. thats the growth goal for me i guess, cause i know this isnt the sorta thing thats gonna fix itself tomorrow. and i dunno your ask just made me think about that, like how i handle this on a personal level. and i think itd be healthy for me to step away from the discussion for a couple days at least and just. accept that i tried to reach people this round, maybe it didnt really work, thats fine, ill try again some other time. also i am writing all this very slowly cause my skull is kinda collapsing in on itself so to speak and maybe that has something to do with me being sorta hopelessly frustrated lmfao. apologies

#asks

[cosmo-production]

ranting/reivew the failtopia season 2 cast's canon outfits (my opinions, these just the design wore during the finale battle) starting with the greenhorne gang + mar

mar:

im confilcted on his look becuase one hand it fits his character perfectly but on the other its kinda bland that the starting outfit is the one he keeps. mar isn't really a standout guy. His whole gimmick is how bland and apathetic he is to this weird and wacky world he lives so this basic look fits him really well; it really appeals the real Mario with a role as "the everyman" or jack of all trades. I would love for him to wear the hero chef outfit as an upgrade because the base colors fit the mar's color pallet but add gold as the accent color, but it does seem too flashy for his taste, and the suit has a small tinge of overdesign.

Orion:

Orion has a similar case to his friend when comes to outfit, yes on the character side of things, it does fit well, but from a design standpoint, it doesn't really work as well, I could talk about how the color palette is bloated or the design is incohesive but THATS THE POINT it's NOT SUPPOSED to LOOK GOOD. if we're to give a rating it would just be a comically large question mark

shrimp:

so the heart look is actually really good with only problem being that there was a cyan palette that would work well, but the pink does stand out a lot more in contrast to the body, your eyes are gonna be draw to the mouth so the outfit being so cute aesthetic wise to contrast the uneasy feeling the mouth gives off works in her favor, the small frame kinda covers up the over design issue you might have with it

friend:

friends' final outfit is solid, with a lot of character and style. At the same time, I preferred the pink look for them. Black doesn't feel like their type of color, but that's just nitpicking. the outfit is more priest than a cleric, but it fits with the friend's somewhat mysterious nature. "zone replacing Lee as the additional character on friend's face is something that mostly down to preface; it was one of friend's main selling points as a character but both work in there own way with zone being more separate and in line with the outfit but lee fits more with friends when it comes to symmetry.

#failtopia #failboat miitopia #failboat #miitopia #failboat mar #failtopia mar #failtopia shrimp #failtopia friend #failtopia orion

[belfrygargoyles]

COMPLETELY unrelated to any of that. maybe im just nitpicking but it Bothers me when people call dungeon meshi horny and mean it with their whole chests.

bc like the thing about the word horny is that it can at times- particularly on spheres like tumblr- be used as shorthand for “very enthusiastic/passionate/shown in loving detail” rather than anything having to do with actual eroticism, and its also a funny word that is frequently used as a joke and lightheartedly.

and so like yeah to a point dungeon meshi is horny about food… but actually horny? ive seen people post the senshi pantyshots and panels that center on a nude/near nude attractive body or someone licking or eating something and claim it as proof that it’s a hornier manga than people think it is and like… man.

that bothers me a bit, because one of the things i adore most about ryoko kui’s art is the dedication and skill she has for depicting bodies, the physicality of hem, her understanding for the ways they move and why and how they can move like that, and the very clear admiration and appreciation she has just for the pure visual, artistic potential in just a body. there are no actual “sex appeal” panels or pages in dungeon meshi- yes there are panels featuring the bodies of objectively beautiful characters who are depicted in intensely visually appealing ways, but at no point is “sex appeal” ever… anything. There is an entire supplemental page of her nude study sketches of izutsumi, just different poses and posture studies including one where shes on her back, legs spread, just chillin, and it… is not even remotely approaching “intended to be teasing or sexy or appreciate the sexy form of a feminine body relaxing.” it’s just figure studies. Multiple sketch pages and supplementals of characters in their underwear, beachwear spreads, a character in canon who is only ever seen completely naked- and none of it has ever been framed as or presented for titillation or intentionally suggestive.

and make no mistake- im a sex positive ace with a real nonstandard relationship with sex and eroticism (as far as the mainstream is concerned, at least), there are aspects of dungeon meshi that 100% hit some of those boxes for me. i adore it when people can explore sex, eroticism, fascinations that aren’t directly sexual but trend into a fixation that can only be described as fetish-adjacent despite not being remotely related to sex or arousal or fetish at all, in their art.

but i also do take personal issue with people assigning or projecting sexual intent onto things that Seriously Are Not. It’s up there with people who snicker or gag or point and shout FEET! TOES! YOU SHOWED BARE FEET AT ALL! FOOT FETISHIST! any time someone does any art whatsoever that at any point has bare feet in frame. foot fetishes are fine, and yeah they’re one of the most common body part related fetishes, but good god, do people not realize how annoying, rude, and reductive it is to take an objectively neutral body part and then never shut the fuck up about people’s dicks getting hard over it? art to depict and explore kink is awesome, but art’s purpose and driving force of inspiration is not sexuality- eroticism is not the sole, unifying, core concept that drives all creativity. to insist that it is is to completely ignore and disregard any of the artists actual meaning, intent, or emotion driving their creation, and decide that no, you sly dog you, i know what’s really up, you can’t fool me- you’re getting your rocks off with this, aren’t you?

which. i dont think i should need to explain why that kinda sucks, actually.

#personal

[yj-98]

6 and 25 🧐

hi jessie <33

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

this is genuinely so hard LOL ......... i avoid shipping spaces typically like if i like 2 characters in a relationship i do it in such a vacuum. i find bætcest shippers annoying but i also do Not go out of my way to interact with them 😭 like. especially jæytim and stuff im like. related to the rant i just had to how those 2 just do not give a shit about each other + are SO mischaracterized in anything fanon. i find it so baffling when people try to bend over backwards to justify them

ig id call timkon shippers annoying but mostly in the way that like. at this point timkon is a parody of itself outside the like. handful of mutuals and people i follow who like them. i just do not interact with that either because i care about myself

....... a lot of tim ships actually. tim fans outside the trusted people i know might be the issue here. bat ships in general maybe also. some of yall with superbat and dickkory i do not jive with.

i think that whatever the arrowverse people have going on is kinda annoying too but . now im just nitpicking

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

this ones a real thinker............. i think im tired of hearing a lot of peoples takes on mr bruce wayne batman himself LOL idk. hes complicated hes got a lot of nuance and history and i think theres a lot to be said on how he appears in non-batman books vs his own runs. and how perception of him in-universe with the characters who's POVs were seeing vs his own vs how writers so regularly misunderstand the concept of batman also as a symbol of hope and his general attitude towards kids and giving parents 2nd chances. and just in general how writers biases affects him and how much of a zeitgeist his character is. idk.

i am a rly big fan of him hes special to me in a specific kind of way that i really cant. keep going on abt. but ill try to keep it brief with i understand and agree w/ a lot of things said but i simply get so sick and tired of the .........fanonization in both directions his character goes thru and the way people complain abt him no matter what. no winning w/ that guy

#asks #boudicca #cam 🏛

[420technoblazeit]

hi it's the person who asked what you thought about the writing. i actually love the fact you wrote a whole ass essay if you have more thoughts pls share those too. the brainworms are real and i have them too 😭😭😭

ok it's the "thoughts on the writing" asker back after actually reading the post. right off the bat i think you have a really good point about watching more shows :O i don't watch a lot of shows, the last thing i really got into was the magnus archives. which is sorta a ridiculously high standard to set things to (magnus archives my beloved). at the end of the day any criticisms i have are more nitpicks so i'll try to take a step back and not be super harsh and yeah, i think most of the issues come down to pacing. they did the best they could with 8 20 minute episodes. i wish characters like husk, angeldust, and vaggie had more screentime, and charlie and alastor had more development but... realistically, there just wasn't time. things felt rushed bcs they WERE rushed, the writers had to fit a lot into a short amount. overall good take i say :] thank you for sharing!

oh i remember tma! i liked that podcast but i preferred it when it was standalone statements and i kinda lost interest at season 5 but it was pretty good. ty for the ask im thinkign about hh nonstop it's fuckign killing me tbh. yk the meme of that knight protecting a princess from attackers that's me protecting all my followers from the 50+ huskerdust rbed fanarts i have saved in my drafts

#the pig squeals #hazbin hotel

[menalez]

Separatism, non-radical women identifying as radical, motherhood, children and transitioning are real issues to radical feminism

You're the discourse queen lolllll

If you want genuine discourse with no trolls and no weird shit and no chronically online people who aren't even radical destroying good conversations then perhaps log off and try in real life

In the past you have been intensely anti-natalist but pick and choose when to reveal that, depending on who's the audience and which side you're picking in a debate

Pick an issue you personally think is real enough and then try to envision how radblr can possibly discuss it constructively. The issues aren't not real enough, any issue will be debated the same.

1. sure, except they’re not the most important issues in the world and yet are given disproportionate weight on radblr. that’s my point.

2. and? the issue isn’t discourse, it’s the fact that people here are hellbent on discourse that leads to nothing and goes nowhere instead of any constructive convo.

3. but i’m not talking about real life, im talking about how it could be better online (aka by moving on from useless discourse topics that are rehashed every few months with no resolution beyond us being more and more divided & disillusioned)

4. i’m still anti-natalist. i still think having kids is a selfish act and a lot of ethical issues would prevent me from having kids. i just have never used that to be weird to mothers. that’s not me “picking and choosing” when i reveal my beliefs, it’s simply knowing how to discuss your beliefs without being inflammatory or even downright misogynistic

5. i have hardly seen 1/4th the energy placed on a lot of issues i’ve mentioned on my blog compared to what i have seen placed on nitpicking and fighting semantics on separatism once every 2 months.

[myst1calx]

unironically i kinda hate how sonic feels and acts in newer media (specifically prime and a bit of idw)

rant/tangent time wooo

note: might be a bit unorganized due to this being on my old azz galaxy s7 edge lol

alright. So i just finished reading the idw sonic comics allll the way up to the the most recent side comic, Scrapnik Island #4.

So like, while reading the main idw comic i kinda felt like.. sonic was just kinda a dick near the end for no reason??? Like yeah hes mostly fine in the beginning but once we get to the point where people put these high expectations on him and hes basically under a lot of pressure (which i understand) but i feel like the way they are characterizing him is just :

"haha sonic doesnt care and acts on inpulse like a dick and doesnt recognize the shit hes done and is basically a little shit lmao he also is just kinda and idiot and seems to forget things on the basis of when it most convient for him !!!"

i didnt really feel much of it in idw until the later chapters, but it started to get prevalent when i was reading these in between me watching Sonic Boom. (The Show, which is my favorite outside of AOSTH.)

Now personally, i think Sonic Boom's charactasation of Sonic is probably the best one we have had in a long while. Although its a comedy, i like how sonic is aware of what's going on and takes into account what his friends are suggesting.

Like the episode where he does something that affects a citizen of the town, (minds going blank on what the towns name is lmao) and when his friends (and the other villagers) let him join the whole "talk about our feelings" club thing,

at first, he opposes the idea of apologizing saying that calling people "people" isnt bad, (ik this was played for jokes it still supports my argument.) they encourage him to recognize that what he did was wrong,, and they tell him to go apologize, and he does, albeit with a bit of "ok fine i admit it pls go away" but atleast he doesnt outright deny it or seem stupid for trying to do so and failing.

Thats my issue with prime, sonic just seems like an oblivious idiot who doesnt recogize how to read the damn room and listen to his friends when it matters most. He acts like a tiny child, which doesnt make sense to me, because hes been through adventures and times similar to this and for most of the newer media they dont wanna recognize sonics shortcomings and upbringings as a character at all??????? Like i think frontiers got it right with the story, and sonic who understood what was going on and stopped every once in a while to smell the roses and help his friends!

But in newer media outside of frontiers, it seems like sonic doesnt know how to smell the fucking roses every once in a while and stop thinking on impulse, like they are making him seem like he only acts on impulse, all the damn time, with no regards of what was or is being said to him or even taking it into account???

Like yes, we fucking get it sonic can sometimes act on impulse when hes in a stressful situation thats what makes him seem real, makes him seem human.

But, when you make him into this douche canoe who acts on inpulse all the time, disregards his friends when it matters most, and casually dissapoints them when ever he feels like it, or when it benefits him (cough cough the picnic scene in prime), i dont think most people would want him to have a good time, which im sure is the reason why most people, including myself, thought sonic deserved that punch from shadow. (who is great in prime btw, was okay in boom too but needed more time to flesh him out outside of 3 eps hes supper immature and i love him lmao) He's a dick. And i dont like him.

So, i hope to god they rewrite sonics character in prime s2 because he was unrionically just a giant fuckin dick instead of a snarky but caring 'anti hero' (like in boom) and that makes me really mad grahhhh

[also side tangent i dont hate prime (lemme make this clear) this whole sonic rant was just me nitpicking how sonic is currently in media outside of frontiers

ALSO ALSO SIDE TANGENT 2 HOW DID THEY FUCK UP SONIC SO BAD BUT GOT SHADOW ALL GOOD AND SHIT????? WHATT???? BRO THEY ARE POLAR OPPOSITE CIRCLE GRAPHS WHICH OVERLAP THEY ARE NOT THAT HARD TO MAKE SOBS INTENTLY]

#myst1calrambles #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sonicidw #sonic prime #sonicboom #sonic rant #sorry for ranting so much grrr #i was tired of this thing #had to get out at some point #prime just made me rly mad #sonic prime spoilers

[whataphantasia]

ok it's nighttime where i am which makes it PERFECT to go on about my

✨post-crystallized ninjago brain ramble and non-critical retrospective✨

because. ninjago do be making my brain go !! and i need to yell abt it to myself to my blog void b4 i go onto dragons rising and stuff. i talked abt this on discord but only 2 ppl following me are in that server so wtv (hi btw X3)

i want to preface this by saying i dont interact with the ninjago fandom at all, and i know near nothing about behind-the-scenes things or stuff said by production. this is all my thoughts babeyy (which means im going to sound absolutely clueless and talk abt things that hav probably already been resolved. wtv) none of this is supposed to be critical thinking LOL pls dont attack me. i sound complainey but i dont hate the show, this is how i show love for media <3

really the most pressing thing to me was. being really frustrated about garmadon’s whole arc at the end of tournament of elements. yknow when misako finds out about the letter. i feel like they didn’t really go into depth about RESOLVING that whole thing, like showing the repercussions and thoughts of all parties involved after the fact? how does this affect their family? i suppose misako and lloyd talked about it during day of the departed, kind of? but. my needy ass just goes “IT WASN’T ENOUGH.” really, i don’t really like character death or sacrifice as the resolution to a conflict or arc unless it’s done really well, and. is this supposed to feel unsatisfying?! because it is to me!!

yes. i know it’s a kids show. its super likely something's going over my head right now, but. it really made me think again because misako and garmadon didn’t really even talk after harumi revived his oni side, and especially after all the interactions lloyd and garmadon had during crystallized. seriously, someone rec me fics that explore misako and garmadon talking post tournament of elements please JDKWNFJSND. and really i didn’t hate the resolution of tournament of elements... this is my single major nitpick about it LOL

continuing with that thought, like. lloyd has lost his dad multiple times... this isn’t fair to him!!! give bro a break!!! (silly) (i know its fiction LOL) honestly why doesn’t he have WORSE trust issues after considering his mom and harumi and all the other people who’ve abandoned slash betrayed him?! and yeah misako really is the least terrible offender here, and i’m not blaming her— but ya can’t ignore that it DID affect him. this is why i was really excited for the prospect of a corruption arc for him during crystallized, however brief. he deserves it! let him destroy a few buildings, maybe kill a guy! let him fulfill his rise of the serpentine dreams, but for real this time! again REC ME FICS RAGHH

...though yes. i know he’s developed really far to the point he’d never hurt people like that, and tbh you could say he was never really evil in the first place but. you gotta understand that the corruption arc is one of my FAVORITE tropes. i’ll do anything for em... it’s my fatal flaw...

heck like. this is why i was really excited for the ice emperor because i KNEW that was zane the moment i saw him LMAO. he’s my favorite character how can i not tell. but in the end he just lost his memories and was being manipulated by some other bad guy... same thing goes for possession, lloyd wasn’t the bad guy, it was morro possessing him... its not the same </3 let them be lead astray even WITH their past memories and relationships and feelings... i need the angst... (you can tell im insane because im saying this about a lego show)

anyways point is. i like corruption arcs. and i WILL write fic about the ice emperor gaining more agency no matter how out of character and detached from the original message it is. (even sillier connotation)

okay thats the end of me nitpicking for now, i think. i mean i have a lot of qualms... esp about wu characterization in the new animation studio half, but. thats one thing i know that has been talked abt AT LENGTH. and idk if this is an unpopular opinion but i liked all da seasons for different reasons, they all appeal to my different happy little facets of media i enjoy :) im still fresh off of watching the show again for the first time in forever so this opinion will probably change, who knows.

really im just happy to have gone thru the whole main series! including wu's teas! not including dragons rising tho. ill get around to that after this. and maybe look into more production and behind the scenes stuff, and the games and supplementary content too. i love consuming content 🥰

anyway... uhm. can you tell zane is my favorite. because i said it explicitly some sentences ago. god he is so. ykwhat heres a screenshot bc i dont want to write this all out again

thanks for listening bye :3

ninjago... my favorite piece of inherently kind of problematic but overall very fun and well meaning media (esp in the later seasons compared to the earlier ones)... kisses it

#ph_ninjago #ph_ramb #a REALLY long ramb. im being so fr

[imbeingstalked98]

Stalkers are so damn entitled

There are other people in my position, other people worse than me, other people inflicting more aggression on to others, and people want to take advantage of my goodnature bc even while I have less, while I have nothing, I still am willing to give up my financial resources for someone else just to be betrayed

The internet, the public, watches me like im their source of entertainment. It's not like I've overheard them yell at their partners. Imagine having a partner screaming at you over the phone nitpicking every single penny you have bc your relationship is a transaction. I don't need to hear that part of your life, thats why I let you have more privacy in a separate room.

Unlike the majority watching over me, thinking they need to set an example for others by torturing someone to the point they can't live peacefully with the people they trust. Isolate myself, dismiss myself, no longer hold any value towards being social. The more you know someone the more you realize the good and bad they do. Thats why many people settle in toxic relationships.

I love my partner, just like I love my parents. I loved my friends but the constant need to seek betrayal, breaking every boundary. I used to think, why would anyone care about what I'm doing

They care a lot bc they don't have the things I do, well guess what

I rather trade their lives, their responsibilities, their mental health, than to be surveillance like a TV show. These people are teaching their kids how to be fucked up.

Yes, I CAN be full of myself, in the privacy of myself. Yes, I CAN have opinions of others and recognize their behavior. I CAN hold grudges against my partner, bc these things aren't meant to be public, just like everyone else. You think being "real" means to be passive aggressively disrespectful and mock someone else? Pretending to be someone to provoke them, pretending to be my friend to use me and mess with me, randomly disappear while we spend time and have everyone in that restaurant make a shitty comment about what common decency is.

Every part of me that is toxic is incomparable to being a stalker. Because that means you show up to my work place, you then look for me, then you try to record me and harass me, OR you hack my devices you show everyone my private life just to make sure everyone knows what Im doing 24/7, OR you come to where I live leave discarded food in front of the garage take a flower from my garden show up to my work place to let me know where I live, OR you get your groupies to join in on the harassment and follow me to San Diego when I went to go see my doctor, MY FUCKING DOCTOR, OR you pretend that it must be my "delusions" that Im being stalked and followed and not because people feel addicted to being creepy as fuck

If I KNEW how to get a background check on myself, IF I KNEW HOW to hack someone, IF I KNEW HOW to make other ppl disrespect someone else, I would be as low as the rest of you. Stalking me since February, spreads to my employment, spreads to my neighborhood, spreads to my close friends, family, but it didn't spread to me, bc what will I do if I gain access to how I'm being hacked. If I report it, will anyone ever stop, I think all they'll ever do is escalate the situation,

Complain about me being tired, well if you had to put up with this bullshit for the past year, you'd blow your brains out, so you're probably wondering how I managed this far.

My issues w my partner, are supposed to be private, he holds grudges against me, and my grudge against him is that hes mad that I forced him to apologize for the abuse he put me through, for years, and while things have improved, he still tries to control me when hes upset by breaking us up,

How many other people out there have their partner tell you "dont bring up the past" after they've cheated on you or abused you, to make sure you're at fault when you tell them not to repeat a shitty thing they've done,

We have a hard time leaving our partners, because we love them, or because were impoverished, most impoverished women stay in these kinds of relationships, or we think our partners would improve, and while he has, ME holding my grudges, being upset, exhausted over and over I see people repeating the same ways I've been mistreated just to turn around like "no one done anything to you" but will mimic and copy mock me, hack me, stalk me,

I can't go outside, just like that one YouTuber getting doxxed after sssniperwolf posted his address. If you were stalked, if you were mocked, if you dealt w people disrespecting you everyday, you can't expect to be happy and positive, joyful and outgoing. I felt happy bc I didn't think I was actually the center of attention. I make jokes w random ass people bc I like making others happy, I say dumb things bc I like being funny, but my resource of comedy comes from making others happy, not making others worse.

If you were stalked you'll know what its liked to see people treat you like shit over the things you do, and all of us lose our narcissism when were put on display, like a zoo animal, even they don't deserve to be held captured, people just prefer their entertainment over what is actually justified.

Fuck gang stalking, if you contribute to this, you're no better than me.

[jejesart]

I'm trying to say your Valentine's comic is abit sus, cause if you're shipping a child with an adult i hope you notice what's wrong in that equation.

well.......... i guess you just have to live with the fact that i do know and still ship those two fictional people

now, if this questionable person may say something else

im not gonna lie, when i remember that akari was stated to be 15 years old i did think mmmm yeah thats uncomfortable. but i fell in love with volokari dynamic so i just rewrite this 'equation' you said to suit my taste. i age akari up in my head. i imagine them get together when they are older (they need time anyway, volo needs some serious fixing first lol). i headcanon volo to be in his late teens or early twenties so they don't have huge age gap (i dont mind age gap but its more to my taste if my ships are only 3-4 years apart). i imagine akari being 15 is only cyllene and everyone assuming because short people and people who look younger than they actually are exist, and so on. heck i can make akari actually an immortal or had transmuted her soul into a 15 year old body and got transported to hisui as punishment from arceus. and the best thing is i totally can do that because they are fictional people from a game, so i figure i can do whatever i want with them. i focus on their dynamic more, a deranged bastard that has lost his faith in the goodness of the world and then enter this one stranger into his world and somehow fill that void with love.

i am aware there are people who don't share my preference or don't bend the traits like i do. i am more than aware of the arts/fics that involve tropes that make me uncomfortable, and it definitely cannot be bent because it's the very essence of the arts/fics, like non-con or degradation (volokari has huge potential in that area, i sadly admit). since i know i won't feel good if i look at them i turn my eyes away from those things. i think people who create those contents fully aware that not everyone agrees with their creations but they still do it willingly, so i figure arguing with them will be just a huge waste of time. i work full-time and i have my life and family to take care. i'd rather tend to those things because they are what actually have effects to my life as a real human being.

if you actually read all of that then well. thank you lmao. i hope you consider my words a little. and i hope you get that (1) you just simply cannot control other people to suit your comfort, you're in control of what you immerse in but not what other people do. if you already see a bit and you don't like it then just stop (2) what people enjoy in fiction more often than not doesn't reflect what they agree to in reality (3) you literally nitpick over fictional things. if you have time to take issue with fictional things then realise this, there are real things outside your screen that need more of your attention. there is a world outside your window that you need to live in, like it or not. you better tend to those things rather than taking care of strangers on the internet that absolutely have no impact to your life and don't have place for you in their lives.

if you still want to argue some more (maybe you do enjoy arguing online), let's just agree to disagree for my mental health lmao

#it turns into a full ramble under the cut lmaoo #trust me i wanna be cool and like 'whatever you do you' but i am. annoying LMAO #but now that i have said my piece its enough haha #jeje replies #anon

[souichieatr]

the boys react to you walking out during an argument

with oikawa t. and iwaizumi h. gn!reader

warnings: cursing

oikawa t.

-you both have been talking about this issue for awhile, the issue being his fangirls

-they always say rude things to you, make up lies about you, theyve never gone as far as to hurt you but still they try and break you and oikawa up

-you are always telling him to ask them to stop or just do something to defend you and it's always “youre over exaggerating” or straight up says youre lying

-so you bring it up again and when he starts with the same bs excuse you walk out

you both just got to his house as you were gonna have dinner and spend the night at his house, you brought up the topic at the door. he sighs as he reaches down to take off his shoes, when he says “y/n why do you always bring this up, why are you always so rude to-” but before he can finish he hears the door slam and the place you were standing empty. he stills for a minute thinking what's happening, not bothering putting his shoes back on all the way he chases after you. grabbing your wrist “y/n let me explain” he rushed out. he sees you clench your fist as you pulled it away from him and turned around. “no tooru because you ‘explaining’ is you just praising how well they treat you and the nice things they get you” you say as you raise your voice in a mocking tone, “they are only nice to you and treat everyone else like garbage, even iwaizumi has been a victim to their cruel words and actions so for once get over your ego and open your eyes, its like i have to make you choose between me or them but don't get confused i'm not asking you because if you actually have to think of an answer for that obviously this relationship was a mistake and a waste of time for both of us”

iwaizumi h.

-its finals week and youve been kinda stressed with the studying and assignments the teachers have been piling up and to actually take care of yourself is at this point not a priority

-youve been staying up at night trying to finish everything then sleep through your classes, not eating real meals choosing random snacks and energy drinks, and to add on you havent been cleaning after yourself so your room is a mess

-now because you're so busy with school you also haven't been talking with iwaizumi and every time he sees you at school your dark circles have gotten worse

-and then when he asks to hang out you always say youre busy or youre tired then on the rare when you do hand out hes always nitpicking at you

it's finally friday the first one in what seems like awhile you dont have any work to catch up on or make up or even do, you go to iwaizumi’s house to spend the evening with him. the walk home was quiet and when you get in his room you sit on his bed and say “ah im tired” and he makes a grunt saying “how are you tired all you ever do is sleep” in an annoyed tone. you look at him with a confused face “why are you so annoyed?” he sighs and starts with “you know your parents called me” then starts to lecture you about how you need to clean then when you try and defend yourself he gets louder. when he walks in his connected bathroom you gather your stuff and walk out his house. when hearing the front door open he pops his head in his room seeing you gone he rushes out. he rushes in front of you putting his hands on your shoulders, turning harshly knocking them off. “y/n liste-” he tries to say but gets cut off by an angry finger in his face and facing him an angry face. “no you listen hajime i didn't come over to get a lecture from you all ive been doing is listening to everyone complain how tired everyone is of me and the way i act, you think i like falling behind on my classes?, you think i like getting yelled at?, you think i like staying up at ungodly hours?” you say getting louder each point you make, taking a step back you take a deep breath. “all everyone has been doing is complaining and all up my ass but never giving me solutions then whenever i ask for help its always ‘what do you want me to do about it’ or ‘you should apologize for your actions’ no im not gonna apologize because im not gonna change nor can i help any of this, so please hajime understand on why i dont want this from you”

#haikyu x reader #haikyu #haikyuu #oikawa x reader #oikawa tooru #oikawa toru x reader #oikawa x you #oikawa x y/n #oikawa scenarios #iwaizumi x you #iwaizumi fanfic #iwaizumi oneshot #iwaizumi scenarios #iwaizumi x y/n #iwaizumi x reader #iwaizumi hajime #haikyuu oikawa #haikyuu iwaizumi

[silverswanqueen]

Nitpick #7. It’s technically the 7th where I am and This gets ramble-y so I apologize:

One thing that I find very unpredictable to the point of annoyance is just how hard a Grimm will be to kill.

I mean, there are obvious exceptions. Beowolves are basically fodder and most of the characters cut through all of them like butter, especially those that are not of much larger size than a very large human (im thinking Hazel with this measurement in mind FYI). There’s also the established lore that older Grimm are smarter and therefore more dangerous, but that raises the question of just how old can Grimm get, and do they just get smarter or do they also get thicker skin/bone plates for armor/increased agility/etc?

For example, the Goliath introduced by Oobleck in V2. He explains the dangers of these Grimm, but if those Goliath are such a huge threat, why do Yang, Blake and Elm handle one so easily by luring it to a location (thus negating the ‘smart’ trait), stopping it with sheer brute force, and then flinging it into the air like it’s nothing? In the same breath, Ruby, Harriet, and Penny struggle to take one down and Harriet nearly dies. And if Blake could take on a Goliath by outrunning it and dodging hits from multiple Grimm, how is it the centipede Grimm in V8 bested her even though it would be considered less dangerous than the Goliath and has less bone platting? If Blake can take down a Goliath but can’t take down the centipede, does this mean Goliath < centipede? And in V1, Blake couldn’t penetrate the nevermore’s skin with her katana, but when Weiss attempts to summon a nevermore, the centipede Grimm kill it within seconds. Does this mean Goliath < nevermore < centipede? And in reference to V5, Weiss attempts to destroy a Queen Lancer with an entire cargo ship’s supply of dust, and yet the Queen Lancer emerges unscathed, but cannot endure a swipe of her Armor Gigas’s sword? So where does the Queen Lancer rank into this? Is it resistant to dust? But when Weiss summons a Queen Lancer at the V5 finale, Hazel is able to one shot it with a single lightning dust strike. So are Weiss’s summons just weaker than the normal Grimm?

I never know what to expect when someone is slicing at a Grimm. Will it dissipate immediately, or will it tank the hit like it’s nothing? Grimm are either made of butter or made of steel, and there’s no in between. Even the larger Grimm are potentially fodder. Ruby acts terrified before the leviathan Grimm, but after it begins to break free of the stone created through silver eyes, Cordovin one shots it with a drill to the neck. If Cordovin can kill the leviathan with no issue, why is the frozen wyvern on top of Beacon an issue? Is this Grimm a young version of a leviathan and therefore weaker? Why was it so easy to kill despite the buildup? We have no set hierarchy of Grimm and there’s no real threat unless the Grimm are somehow made impervious to blades and guns for… little reason.

#rwde #nitpick november #this is super ramble-y #but trying to figure out the Grimm animal hierarchy is near impossible #Grimm can be uber smart in one scene and mindless in the next #so how do we know which ones are the older/smarter? #there’s no visual indicator for this

[hyperfixation-hideout]

i actually like hearing your thoughts on the show even the critical ones cause im scared to say my thoughts if there not positive sometimes cause when i do i get people angry at me and thinking im hating on rwby for fun or being nitpicking or ect. ive been folowing you awhile and i know you like the show and are nice about things and give benefit of doubt but you still get fought when you dont like something so i think ill keep keeping my mouth shut haha

I'm glad someone likes what I have to say, thank you, that means a lot <3 I've also been (and still am tbh) pretty scared of sharing my thoughts on RWBY, even the posts that are mostly positive and just have one or two qualms sit in my drafts for ages out of fear they'll be taken as hate. It's part of why I've found some solace in the r/RWBYcritics sub recently -- there are myriad positions, opinions, discussions, etc., both positive and negative, and people are generally open to having their mind changed and giving other perspectives a real chance before responding with theirs. Whereas my personal experience (and anecdotal from others) in the main RWBY sub has been very much that if someone has an opinion (positive, negative, or neutral), others often feel the need to argue the "right" opinion and react angrily if theirs doesn't align, calling people stupid for not interpreting things the same way or liking the same things/characters.

A lot of the time parts of the FNDM can feel consensus-based. Like there are right and wrong ways to think, feel, interpret, and discuss any given thing that happens in the show. Even things like people who headcanon Yang as bisexual being called lesbophobic because the FNDM decided she's a lesbian. I got called lesbophobic for saying I headcanon Weiss as aroace, or that I would love for her to not end up in a romantic relationship. Or black people voicing issues with how the White Fang was presented being called racist, only to reveal they're black, at which point they're told they're being sexist or homophobic instead for criticizing a show with female leads, written by straight cis men. There's a lot of assuming morality when it comes to how critics are seen, when a huge portion are critiquing it because they're women, queer, people of color, disabled, neurodivergent, or otherwise marginalized, and want to address how certain things regarding them were handled. But the first assumption is hate. It can get overwhelming and frankly unhealthy.

Not all of the FNDM is like this, of course! And I've made a lotta friends here! As a whole though, it can be a bit... unwelcoming towards critique to say the least. And as such, a lot of fans feel pressured to shove down and swallow our thoughts on the show if they deviate in any way from the majority consensus. There's nothing wrong with enjoying things that happen in RWBY; there's nothing wrong with disliking things that happen in RWBY.

I do feel that often when posting more critical analyses or opinions that my points are automatically taken in bad faith (which is kinda ironic since that's the accusation levied against critics wrt the show), especially if I tag with "rwby crit" or "rwde" or even "crtq." I tag so people who don't like seeing these takes can blacklist, and people who do like thinking about this stuff can find it and have a discussion. But some people seek out these tags with the intent to argue and act as though every critic has the same opinions, intent, and morality. Fans are not a monolith, nor are critics, and we need to all recognize that we're diverse individuals and not diametrically opposed. I consider myself part of both.

I will say this: to my knowledge, I've never lost a follower on this blog for speaking my mind on things I find personally confusing, disappointing, problematic, etc. And I am so grateful that this community, this cozy corner of the fandom, is more open to hearing thoughts that might differ from their own, and even sometimes changes their minds, or changes mine!

I'm sorry you don't feel able to express how you feel about a show you enjoy without getting attacked. I hope the RWBY FNDM grows more open-minded and collaborative as time goes on, because I really LOVE analyzing the show from a meta and storytelling standpoint, especially as a writer, and fostering discussion is fun for me. One of my favorite parts of RWBY is engaging with the community. Theorizing, analyzing, discussing, critiquing, reacting, creating... and it's unfortunate that I feel I'll drive people away the moment I say I don't like something. I am open to people responding with their own thoughts, and always try to see it from their pov, but more often than not the replies to critique I've seen are aggressive and make assumptions about the critic as a person, coming from a place of wanting to defend the show and showrunners rather than genuinely wanting to have a conversation. It feels very us vs them, and I don't like the polarization that attitude simultaneously feeds on and nourishes.

So thanks for sticking around, y'all <3

#tagging so people can blacklist #fndm crit #rwby crit #rwde #crtq #i'm glad I havent had to deal with much hate #but i see it all the time #and it's just stressful when I just wanna think about the show with a critical lens #it actually makes me enjoy it more #quinpost #quinanswer