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How to describe My-Otome

After trying to think of the bast way to describe the Premise of My-Otome I decided on...

Battle Maid Hogwarts on Dune.

#My Otome #My-Otome #Anime #Battle Maid #Hogwarts #Dune #2000s Anime #Yuri #Yuki Kagiura #Crunchyroll #Retro Anime

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Someone should just make an AA style fangame where you play as Harvey.

older comics are so funny I love them

#harvey dent #ace attorney

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This person is so confidently incorrect it almost gave me an aneurysm.

The Sailor Senshi's outfits are NOT based on a school uniform fetish, holy fuck. Naoko Takeuchi based the Senshi's costumes on sailor uniforms because they're what actual Japanese middle school girls wear. She wanted to give girls a set of heroines who looked like them, and from everything I've heard Japanese girls were indeed thrilled by the Sailor Senshi's fuku.

Btw, this comment is from the notoriously bad Nostalgia Critic review on Sailor Moon, and it doesn't surprise me that people are echoing the points Doug made about "sexualization" in the comments. Just because y'all can't look at 15-year-olds in short skirts without fetishizing and slut-shaming them doesn't mean that was Naoko Takeuchi's intention, nor does it mean that Sailor Moon fans (who are predominately female/queer btw) fetishize the Senshi either.

I'm really trying to not give stupid people attention but I just had to rant about this, lol.

#Sailor Moon #Sailor Senshi #Sailor Fuku

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It's still kinda wild how Phineas and Ferb managed to completely hijack an idiom. Now whenever someone hears a sentence leading with "If I had a nickel for everytime [...]", odds are their brain auto fills with "I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice," rather than "I'd be rich," or "I could [action that requires purchasing something requiring an obscene amount of money]". Y'know, what the idiom originally was

#phineas and ferb

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One manifestation of this is when people think they're being Leftists by going along with criticizing people who watch Foreign media Dubbed because they're "too lazy to read". My ADD makes following Subs inherently difficult.

I think the reason a lot of leftists struggle with disability justice is that they haven't moved past the concept that discrimination isn't bad because it's objectively "wrong." yes, sexists are objectively wrong when they try to claim women are dumber than men. yes, antisemites are objectively wrong that jewish people are inherently greedy and run the state. yes, racists are wrong when they try to claim that white people are the superior race. and so on.

but then with disabled people, there are a lot of objective truths to the discrimination we face. people with IDs/LDs do fall behind and struggle with certain concepts. physically disabled people are often weaker and less capable of performing demanding tasks than able bodied people. many of us with mental illnesses are more reckless and less responsible. a lot of us are dependent on others and do not contribute much "worth".

and guess what? disabled people still deserve a place in the world. disabled people still deserve the supports they need. because they are people, and that should be enough to support them and believe they deserve a place at the table.

if your only rebuttal against discrimination is its objective inaccuracies, you are meeting bigots where they are at. you are validating the very concept that if and when people are truly incapable of being equal to the majority, that means they are worth less. this causes some leftists to then try to deny the objective realities of disabled people and/or become ableist themselves.

your rallying behind marginalized groups should start and end with the fact that people are completely worthy of life and equity, because they are fellow human beings and that should, frankly, be enough.

#Ableism #disability #ADD #Dubs #Dubbing #dub vs sub

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I wanna see an Earth-Three take on Harvey Dent/Two-Face

I recommend the Skip Intro video on Law and Order, it really breaks down why Left Leaning people are growing increasingly uncomfortable with the Premise of the Prosecutor having ever been a Good Guy.

Fortunately DC has present the idea of exploring stories that swap the traditional Moral Alignments on characters.

Imagine a story about an Authoritarian Centrist District Attorney who's in league with Punisher loving Cops and an Owl Themed Fascist Billionaire Vigilante. But then he begins a Redemption Arc when a POC being prosecuted for an Unjust Crime scars the right side of his face and becomes an Anarchist Vigilante seeking to bring down the Powerful People he once helped.

#Harvey Dent #Two-Face #DC Comics #Earth-Three #Earth-3 #Multiverse #Law and Order #ACAB #Owlman

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Also it's not like she was an Unambiguous good guy who never did anything wrong before the Morrison run.

It honestly really fucking sucks that Grant Morrison’s character assassination of Talia al Ghul has been so irrevocable that there are fans now who treat that retcon (which only happened because Grant misremembered her actual canon) as how she’s always been. It defines her character now, at least to certain fans.

Anyway, I should have known better than to defend her on an anti-ship post, because I’m usually more sensible than that, but it still frustrates and saddens me.

#talia al ghul

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I'm really tired of all this whining about the Talia change. The character Talia originally was was an already overdone Archetype in the 70s. Frankly I find it refreshing to finally have a Batman Villainess who can't be turned into a toothless Antiheroine.

It honestly really fucking sucks that Grant Morrison’s character assassination of Talia al Ghul has been so irrevocable that there are fans now who treat that retcon (which only happened because Grant misremembered her actual canon) as how she’s always been. It defines her character now, at least to certain fans.

Anyway, I should have known better than to defend her on an anti-ship post, because I’m usually more sensible than that, but it still frustrates and saddens me.

#talia al ghul

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Yeah the fact that the Dagar Dagorath foretells even Feanor's redemption is a powerful argument here. Among Children of Iluvatar none were as far fallen as him.

““If we are indeed the Eruhin, the Children of the One, then He will not suffer Himself to be deprived of His own, not by any Enemy, not even by ourselves.””

— From the Dialogue of Finrod and Andreth.

#Feanor #Feanorions #Silmarillion #Tolkien #Universal Salvation #Dagar Dagorath

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new rule: if you don't understand this you're not allowed to write superman

#Superman #Batman #Anime #Sailor Moon #Isekai #Raildex

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I didn't even know those were the same Actor. Truly a great Talent. RIP.

#BTAS #Two Face #Harvey Dent #Night Court #Bull #Batman The Animated Series

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While it’s neat that we have two PreCure shows right now, I do have a few issues with the new one.

Admittedly the first is less an issue with the show and more with Crunchyroll itself. Specifically it’s a little hard to get into the “where they are now” material when I have no idea who these women are. Why haven’t they picked up Yes! Pretty Cure 5? The only way I can get context here is piracy. I don’t think that’s what Crunchyroll wants to encourage, but that is what they’re doing here.

The second complaint is far more minor, but I am disappointed that rather than updating the PreCure designs for their current age they actually regressed Dream so they could use the old version (I assume anyway, because again I can’t watch the old version). Which could be neat if they were going to do anything with that, but at first glance this seems doubtful, so it’s just coming across as lazy.

And finally… seriously, you’re “tsk tsk”ing convenience store employees for following the health code?! Normally I’m supportive of environmental concerns but that’s just facepalming stupidity. Do you think stores want to throw food away? No! They want to sell it! But after a certain point that becomes more and more potentially hazardous. Those regulations exist for a reason you blithering imbeciles!

#Precure #Pretty Cure #Power of Hope

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I'm watching My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999

I'm watching My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 dubbed and it's good so far, however...

I really want Yamada to be properly Asexual but this being a romance probably doesn't bode well for that.

I also think Nekama is Trans of some type.

#yamada kun to lv999 no koi wo suru #Asexual #Ace #Asexuality

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I would say this is another example of Steph being the only Chuck Dixon character still defined by his politics. But on the modern Internet "Bad people are just bad and can't redeemed" has actually become a Left Wing talking point. Like this really sounds like how these characters would be written by Lily Orchard.

Seeing those BatFam webtoons of Steph and her dad issues makes me annoyed about One Bad Day: Two-Face all over again. One of the big reasons that issue was popular was because of how Steph didn’t trust Harvey for one second, didn’t feel any sympathy towards him, and criticized Bruce’s own sympathy for Harvey as being stupid and dangerous.

And in the end, the plot vindicates her skepticism when Harvey destroys his noble father for absolutely no reason. Just evil for the sake of evil.

Which only worked because the author went out of her way to create a whole new backstory for Harvey, turning his abusive monster of a dad into a kind, loving, successful man. “All the best parts of me are my father,” Harvey says at one point. This Harvey is written expressly to be exactly the person Steph says he is, just to prove her right. He is just rotten to the core, playing up a “good” side that isn’t really there to manipulate Bruce and others. And there seems to be no reason for it in this story other than to make Steph look like the only sensible person who can see through it.

It wouldn’t have worked the same way if the author had actually incorporated Harvey’s canonical abuse. I still wonder how Steph would react to that Harvey. How much empathy would she have for what he went through? Would she condemn him for not pulling himself up by his boostraps the way she did, choosing to become a hero instead of a monster? Would she take his mental illness into account, or the extent to which he tried to be heroic and was torn down by forces without and within? Or would she be like Dick, and flatly condemn him as a psychopath, unworthy of any sympathy and unable to be salvaged, if not redeemed?

And for that matter, what would that Harvey make of her? Even if she didn’t empathize with Harvey, what if he empathized with her? What if Two-Face decided to pay Cluemaster a little visit, to mete out some justice of his own, and how would Steph react to that?

There’s a far more interesting and troubling story to be written about Harvey with Steph (and/or Cass, for that matter), but it would require a writer who was willing to dive into these complex questions about what makes a monster. Someone willing to acknowledge that Two-Face is both villain and victim, an abusive “survivor” who arguably didn’t actually survive. A walking scar, still seeking out some sense of justice and fairness in his own broken way.

#stephanie brown #harvey dent #Lily Orchard #chuck dixon

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Here’s the thing, I think it’s valid interpretation for The Joker to NOT actually be Funny.  And that’s I like Leto’s performance, it’s Cringe on purpose, Jack Saint’s video on it is great.  I think making The Joker charismatic is actually quite problematic.  

I always like it when a Villain people thought was Cool and awesome has their Coolness taken away and is revealed to be Pathetic.  That’s what Ikuhara did to his own creation Akio in the Utena Movie, it was the Netflix Bebop did to Vicious and it’s the premise behind Leto’s Joker, in Ayer’s vision at least.

I don't think it's like, THE problem, but you really get impression no live action Joker since Ledger remember that he was like, actually funny? Not like, "sick psychopath's idea of funny" genuinely hilarious and only not in-universe, because he's actually killing people there for real.

I haven’t seen any other live-action Joker since Leto (I heard good things about Jeremiah in Gotham, and I hate everything I’ve seen of Barry Whatzitzname in The Batman), but I would posit that people didn’t even appreciate the fact that Ledger’s Joker WAS funny. They just focus on the creepiness and ideology and all that shit, while the humor isn’t considered important.

My reasoning is based on something I read waaayyyy back on Ain’t It Cool News (showing my age, as usual), where one of the biggest writers there talked about how he firmly believed the Joker SHOULDN’T be funny. That the Joker needs to be scary above all else, laughing at jokes that only makes sense to HIM. According to this writer (I think it was Drew McWeeney, AKA Moriarty), making the Joker funny robs him of his power as a monster.

You might imagine why I still remember that after all these years. Because it’s so hugely, glaringly wrong. And worse, going by how the Joker has been written since around the time of Grant Morrison, I fear that LOTS of people agree with that assessment. Which is why I have so rarely enjoyed the Joker at all over the past fifteen years.

#The Joker #Cowboy Bebop #Vicious #Utena #Akio

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#Bruce Wayne

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Someone tell the people doing the Harley Quinn show to revive this character.

That name sounds Hebrew in origin BTW.

Fun thing I just learned: in the 1966 Batman newspaper comic strips (published to capitalize on the hit show), the Penguin had his own henchgirl, Beulah, who was a proto Harley Quinn in physical appearance, personality, and accent.

#Harley Quinn #Beulah