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I decided to watch the show a few days ago, seeing if the initial interest I had after the pilot dropped could be properly fed. I thought the characters, world, and premise were all very promising and I really wanted to see them all fleshed out.
After watching the first season, my sentiment still stands true about the concept, but the execution... it left me feeling very underwhelmed.
I still firmly believe that the characters and worlds are great. I liked learning almost everyone's stories and wondering what would happen to them next. I think the animation is consistently very good and the soundtrack is phenomenal. I'll even give the show credit for (mostly) covering serious and dark topics quite well. I was definitely interested every time a character's backstory was hinted or revealed. I really like everything that the show sets up...
But when the writing, pacing, and much of the humour is so messy, it makes me difficult for me to fully appreciate the good that's there. Eight episodes was simply not enough time for the team to implement what they wanted (especially when they tried to squeeze six months of in-universe time to only three hours of content), and the world and character building suffered tremendously for it. It was hard for me to care much about the characters when I had so little time to learn about them. Sir Pentious is a prime example of this. Whenever the show wanted me to take him seriously, it was difficult to when he had maybe three episodes' worth of screen time. The whole show suffers from this, and it makes most of the emotionally gripping moments hit WAY less than I'm sure they were meant to. It's too fast and there's so much emotional whiplash between scenes, it makes the show such a roller coaster to watch from start to finish.
The lackluster comedy didn't help matters. When most of the punchlines are purely profanity or sexual innuendos, it's hard for me to not tune out from sheer aggravation. Every time Adam, Vox, or Valentino opened their mouths, I damn-near wanted to snap my monitor in two — they annoyed me so God damn much. I'll give the show credit, every episode had at least three or so jokes that got a good laugh out of me, but that's a far cry from the jokes that just made me groan.
I still really like the content WITHIN the universe, but when a vast majority of my entertainment from a show is coming from fan content rather than the show itself, I think that's a problem. I really hope that the team take the criticisms of the season to heart and give the world more time to properly develop. It's clear that they're setting up for further plots, and I'm still fairly interested in what they're working toward.
You know how (arguably) the most common fan theory about Luz's Palisman is that it's gonna be a snake?
Luz doesn't have the best history with snakes — if that one flashback and the whole "book report" thing at the beginning of the show is any indication.
What if it is a snake, and Luz's immediate reaction is to reject it because it reminds her of the very thing that more or less caused her to run away in the first place — completely contradicting her mentality of loving it for whatever it wants to be?
A message to Twitter users coming to tumblr: a message from your local duel-hellsite citizen
So, I’ve seen a ton of Twitter users talking about making and sharing their new tumblr blogs, to escape Elon Musk’s “anti censorship” bullshittery. First of all: welcome! I know it’s looking bleak over there; especially for trans people. But, now that you’re here, I’m here to tell you all about tumblr etiquette, how this website works, and how it’s different from Twitter. Because you can’t come onto here acting like it’s Twitter, lest The Beast get to you.
First, here are a small handful of tips!
Your likes and following are automatically set to public. You can make them private in your settings!
You can block tags from the settings, too.
There are lots of bots on here. If you’re not careful, you could be mistaken for one! The main way you can do this are changing your icon and header from the defaults.
You can queue and schedule posts so that your account posts throughout the day.
Now, let’s talk tumblr etiquette and how it’s different from Twitter. You’re a tumblr user now! It’s time to start acting like it!
Don’t just like posts. Likes don’t do anything for the algorithm. The way that you can help posts that you like is reblogging them to your blog. Especially for art!
We don’t say “oomfs” or “oomfies” or “moots”. Just “mutuals” is fine, thanks!
Adding onto a post with pointless comments is frowned upon. If all you have to say it “this is so true,” or something else to that effect, you should put that in the tags of your reblog.
Most people don’t have carrds or rentries on here. It’s not an obligation.
Similarly, we don’t censor words like “die” and “death”. Posts about wanting to brutally murder people in power go viral all the time, and it’s completely allowed. I’m serious! Enjoy your newfound freedom!
Blocking isn’t a big deal here. Get rid of any weird notion you have that morality is linked to blocking certain people.
But lastly, and most importantly:
Drop your discourse at the door.
If you try to post about most of the things that Twitter users discourse about, you will be laughed off the site. Especially LGBT+ discourse. Posts actively mocking topics of Twitter discourse go viral on here regularly.
Tumblr has healed since its discourse-ridden days, and it’s now very chill. For a lot of us, it’s the last pleasant social media site left, so don’t ruin it.
Here is a list of discourse-related things that tumblr users don’t do:
We don’t do callout posts, unless it’s something actually serious (like that one blog that had a human slave).
Everything that you heard on Twitter was “exclusive” to certain LGBT+ groups is used by just about everyone on here. Bi women use the double venus symbol on here. You’ll just have to learn to live with that.
In particular, I want to emphasize how much we don’t do flag discourse. To the point that somebody caring about flag discourse of any kind is how we tend to identify an ex-Twitter user.
On here, you will never have to see another slur discourse post again, unless you actively seek it out.
In case you all were wondering how low media literacy skills are over on the Bird App rn there is a debate over whether the Owl House (one of the strongest anti genocide/fascism pieces of media I've seen in a while) of "excusing" genocide bc they *checks notes* depicted the unredeemable villain doing it
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