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problemswithbooks · 2 years

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It's clear as day you don't understand shit about mha so just drop the manga, you sound stupid asf talking about the whole toga, deku and uraraka situation. So get your ass the fuck outta this fandom and read something else you dumb bitch.

Holy shit, why are you so retarded when it comes to mha?

How did I get four angry messages for a post that I politely tagged as anti-villain, and left Toga out of the tags on? These two are just hate, while the others are actually trying to debate with what I wrote to some extent, which is at least somewhat better.

But still, I don't really get it. If these people love the villains so much then they should filter tags, or you know to block me. I've been critical of the villains before this, and have complained about Toga's character multiple times. If they can't stand someone saying something negative about the cartoon girl they like, then they should just block.

The rule is, if you want to hate read someone's posts you can't come into their ask box and get huffy. You have to either make your own vague post about it or complain to a blog that will side with you (but to be honest you should probably block if it makes you this mad).

I have every right to be in the fandom if I want. Plus, I do read other things--how do you think I spot MHA's flaws? Because I've seen these themes pulled off way better.

(Also, maybe don't use an ableist slur over a comic for teenagers. Or call someone a bitch. Real people actually have feelings, until your cartoon Best Girl.)

How the hell don't you understand that the reason toga acts like she does is because she doesn't understand social cues and is bad at expressing herself because of her upbringing. Which is obviously why she's only able to really communicate with the league and even they still think she's crazy, so you're not making any sense.

But Toga does understand social ques. That's why I have a problem with her. If she didn't understand basic social ques, Toga wouldn't have been able to ever appear normal, which she did until she was around 14-15 or something. Plus, she's honestly rather normal around the League. The only one who calls her crazy anymore is Dabi, and that's just because his major characterization is aloof asshole.

Also, you know who has trouble understanding social ques--I do, but you know what I'm still smart enough to understand that brandishing a knife and not actually asking the question I want an answer to is going to get me poor results. If I go up to a practical stranger, kick them in the balls, then ask them out, when I really just wanted to know the time I can't use my autism and abusive mom to as an excuse. It's pretty common sense that that's just not something that you do to people and if you do, it's fair if they get mad at you.

Nor is saying she can't control herself a good excuse. It doesn't matter if sucking blood and becoming someone is her normal, or that she has some biological draw to do so. Again, people can't use the excuse that they were horny to get away with sexual assault. As long as Toga understands the difference between right and wrong, which she does, then her desire for blood isn't enough to give her a pass.

It's funny how you assumed mirko got damaged first when really shiagraki's attack amount to nothing and she got spare parts instantly. Also your outlook of her character is incredibly flawed and very ignorant. But going through your blog that seems to be the case for the majority of your mha takes.

Even though this one isn't about Toga, it seems pretty clear the reason they were brought to my blog was the post on Toga.

I didn't assume Mirko got damaged first--she literally was the first one to take a hit during this war. I didn't expect her to die or be out of the fight right away, I was just annoyed that Hori follows the pattern of hurting his adult female Heroes. Especially in Mirko's case because it's clear he just wants to draw her all sexy and bloodied up (I guess that's where Toga's fetish comes from lol).

As for my outlook on her character being flawed, I don't quite understand what you're talking about. Mirko isn't important to taking down Shigaraki. The only one who can take down Shigaraki is Izuku--the main character. He regenerates so any damage she does won't last. She might help wear him down along with Bakugou, but given Hori's track record with his previous female Pros I will be shocked if she doesn't get taken out of the fight pretty fast. The other Pros will most likely follow her so Bakugou can have his shining moment, but either way I don't see Mirko getting out of this fight without serious damage that will ultimately be drawn like soft core porn (just like last time).

It's not even that big a deal to me. It's annoying and it takes away from the story, but I'm used to fan service and sexist depictions of women in stories, particularly manga. But given how burnt out Hori seems to be and how awful mangaka are treated I can understand why he might want to draw some sexy ladies to get through it. It's still sexist and I'm going to point that out, but it's not the worst mistake that he's made in crafting this story.

So, that ends my angry asks. if I get anymore, especially like the first two I will just delete them and block the sender. I don't mind having minor debates but these were just insults. You can disagree with my takes, but either block me or explain your side without calling me stupid or using ableist slurs.

#hate mail

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joemerl · 5 years

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This is my 10,000th Tumblr post.

Wow. I’ve wasted a lot of time on this hellsite, haven’t I? I remember my first post, way back in 2013, complaining that Tumblr was all glitchy for me. (Apparently it doesn’t work with Internet Explorer.) At first I was mostly just posting dumb jokes about Young Justice, but since then I’ve branched out to posting dumb jokes about all sorts of shows. Eventually I even started reblogging, and now my blog is a mess of memes, funny animal gifs and bad puns.

Tumblr really offers a lot of creative outlets, y’know? Weirdly in-depth character analyses, ask blogs, events like Writer’s Month...I’ve been on here for more than six years and I’m still trying new things. Like the last couple of days, I live-blogged watching The Emoji Movie. I got a few notes on those posts, but it didn’t turn out to be the hilarious, engaging comedy act that I was hoping. Ah, well; it was still a fun experiment.

So anyway, as this milestone got closer and closer, I wondered: what should my 10,000th post actually be? It seems anticlimactic to just reblog some Harry Potter joke or an ask list or something. What could I do that would be worthy of such a momentous occasion?

Finally I settled on this: a review of The Emoji Movie.

Y’all should have expected this; y’all know that I’m trash.

(Spoilers to follow)

This movie is not as bad as you probably think it is.

Is it a dumb premise? Yes. It is a cliché mess? Also yes, but if you like all the movies that this is ripping off (Wreck-It Ralph, The Lego Movie and most of Pixar) then you might like this too. The plot doesn’t really make sense, but it makes enough sense to be coherent, which is more than I can say for some of the other bad kid’s movies that I’ve watched on Netflix.

(Admittedly, it probably helps that I’m too tech-dumb to spot all of the things wrong with this movie. I don’t even own a smartphone. My brother and I co-own a flip phone which hasn’t worked for months and which we thus mostly use as a clock.)

The story, as you probably already know, is about a “Meh” emoji (so like, 😐) named Gene who malfunctions so that he expresses multiple emotions, which is a big no-no in the dystopian world of Textopolis. (I will say, by repressed dystopian standards, this world is rather bright and cheerful.) Gene’s particular app/city/planet is owned by a teenage boy named Alex, who has a crush on a nothing of a character named Addie.

Addie sends Alex a text, OMGWTFBBQ, and he tries to send a 😐 in his response. Gene makes the wrong face, however, which is Serious Business to the point where the emojis’...boss? president? Führer? named Smiler wants to delete him. So Gene goes on a quest to try to fix his malfunction, accompanied by a ✋ named Hi-5 and a mysterious hacker emoji named Jailbreak. Their journey through the other apps keeps messing up Alex’s phone, however, to the point where he’s going to have it wiped at the Apple Store or something.

Let’s go through the characters.

Gene is kind of generic, but he’s a consistently nice character who brings out the best in others. The downside is that he spends the whole movie accidentally harming others and never really stops to feel guilty about it. His arc is learning to be himself, because of course it is.

Hi-5 used to be one of Alex’s favorite emojis, making him a VIP in Textopolis, but has since fallen into disuse. His goal on the quest is to reprogram himself back onto the list of favorites. He mostly provides comic relief with his dumb and often self-absorbed ways.

Jailbreak is...a lot less annoying than I expected her to be. A lot of fictional Tough Girls are just unpleasant for the first half of the movie and then turn into standard love interests, but she benefits from switching to nice very quickly. Eventually we find out that she used to be a princess emoji (👸🏽) who wants to escape that role for no stated reason, except that Rebellious Princesses are so common in fiction that at this point we’re not expected to question it. (I guess stereotypical princess stuff doesn’t fit her personality, but these days the stereotype is really just not liking the stereotype.) The movie’s attempts to make a feminist statement out of her backstory fall pretty flat, but other than that Jailbreak is, like Gene, generic but likable.

Smiler is the main villain, and she’s kind of fun because of her constant cheerfulness, which lasts before, during and after her role as a villain. The problem is that her “evil plan” comes down to trying to save the world after our hero has doomed it. I guess we’re supposed to hate how chipper she is about wanting to kill him, but again, she’s a 😁 and thus always happy about everything. It’s interested that they decided on a female villain, which aren’t very common for movies with male protagonists, though her existence is part of the reason that Jailbreak’s feminist message doesn’t work.

Mel and Mary Meh are Gene’s parent, who go looking for him when he runs away. I’ve seen some people call them annoying because they just have one joke (being “meh” about everything), but it worked for Crimson and Ennui and their scene in (an Instagram photo of) Paris was nice.

Poop is a poop emoji played by Patrick Stewart cashing in a paycheck. He’s not in the movie as much as the ads made you believe.

Akiko Glitter: R.I.P. Though to be fair her app was going to send our protagonists to their deaths.

The human characters are...I’ve said “generic” a lot in this review, haven’t I? Alex is a standard nervous teenage boy, and the only reason I don’t call Addie a sexy lamp is because lamps can’t send or receive text messages. (Seriously, she has, like, three lines.) Alex also has a slightly jerkish best friend whose name may or may not have ever been mentioned.

Other things to note:

There are a lot of dumb puns and visual gags, which are good if you like dumb puns and visual gags, which I do.

If you like diversity, the human leads are all different races (...I think), and Jailbreak has a darker complexion than most other emojis. Though this is also a prime example of how diversity is not enough to actually carry a movie.

The art is actually really good, and the different app-worlds give the animators a lot of room for creativity.

I also watched The Boss Baby a few months ago and this probably holds up better.

tl;dr: At the end of the day, I did not hate The Emoji Movie and maybe even consider it a guilty pleasure. Go watch it if you don’t have super-high standards, or download it into your kid’s brain in a few years so that they can see what it was like when humans and cell phones were separate entities.

#Tumblr #10000th post #The Emoji Movie #The Boss Baby

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