#and it fucking shows

[terryboot]

not to sound like an old biddy but handing kids ipads and phones from the minute they're born does such a disservice to them.

#ive been working in schools for over a decade now #and i can say that the current batch of year 7s are unequivocally the worst behaved i've seen #they've never had to be bored in their lives because someone always gave them a screen #and it fucking shows #also i think they're all so used to being able to voice their every thought and opinion online #that they have no idea how to keep quiet while other people are speaking #i genuinely love working in schools #and ive had some great interactions with the year 7s in smaller groups #they are lovely kids #but my god in a classroom setting they're the fucking worst #i just think that being bored is hugely important for kids development #anyway #thats my old man yells at cloud moment for today #about me

[xhanisai]

My days, the ML fandom has the most conceited individuals in the fandom compared to all the other ones I’ve been in.

We have a huge fanbase full of people from all over the country because Miraculous Ladybug is an international successful cartoon- not the other way around.

Yes, this fandom is full of amazing talent and skills and we have so much fanworks of all kinds to enjoy.

BUT

We are not the only aspect that’s making the show thrive so get off your high horses sheeeeesh.

Also, warning. Don’t ever comment on my work saying shit like “omg so much better than canon” I will fucking give you a tight slap in the ass.

#ml fandom salt #again i hate talking about any kind of salt on social media because it's just a headache #and here i thought sonic fans were conceited af whenever a new fangame is released and the squabbling chickens there are like #'hurr durr they are SO MUCH better than SEGA ex deeeeee' #but nah dare i say it #the salters in the ML fandom are so much worse #you can't drown them out because they're everywhere #they are so ignorant and refuse to do basic research on how animation industries work and how many years it takes to write and create a show #and it fucking shows #imo #the salters are KILLING the fandom #compare us to 2015/2016 era #see how much livelier we used to be! #but now most people prefer to lurk and not engage with ML fan stuff because of fucking dumbasses like the salters #i AM a professional in the industry I KNOW HOW IT WORKS #IN TERMS OF ANIMATION AND ALL THAT JAZZ

[hedonists]

the biggest downside to reading in English, and never reading in your own language, is that sooner or later you'll forget how to write creatively in that language. I used to be decent at it and now there's just a black void when I try to think of how to say something, because obviously, reading is how you grow your vocabulary. You don't train that muscle it goes poof.

#nemesestext #I don’t think I've touched a book written in german for over a decade #and it fucking shows #so now I don’t know how to write in both English and my mother tongue isn't that amazing

[sailorsunspot]

i want to ask the general public why they feel the need to ensure that lesbians are also sexually and romantically available to men.

WHY do you feel the need to dilute the meaning of the term to make it an identity that is 1) an identity that can be used by men (and no this is not terfy trans-exclusionary rhetoric, I'm talking specifically about people who identify as men, specifically) and 2) an identity that does not exclude sexual and romantic attraction to men ask yourself why you are OH SO WILLING to literally divorce womenhood from the identity. is it actually "progressive", or is this your internalized misogyny and entitlement talking.

#some of y'all fucking HATE women #and it fucking shows #ive talked about this here sometimes #about my lamentations about how young queers have pivoted so hard as to literally reject womanhood #but this manifestation of it is...fucking sinister #what fucking performative bullshit #and to who's benefit?? #yeah yeah people have a complex relationship with gender #i fucking get it lmao im a gnc masc butch #but HOW does diluting the term ive taken for myself and muddling the waters help anyone #if you told me to my face that sometimes lesbians are attracted to men #id fucking punch you

[lovecolibri]

I find it really interesting and off-putting, the way some in the 911 fandom act like if you’re not liking the current season you’re just stupid. You just don’t Get It. You just don’t understand and you have a short attention span. Okay. Like it’s a bad thing to expect a piece of entertainment media to… entertain us? Like I hate to break it to them, but this isn’t exactly a world-changing piece of narrative fiction, it’s a commercial product designed to make money and once it becomes unprofitable it will end. The writers/producers have one job and that’s to keep the audience they have as they’re unlikely to bring in much new after six years. They are manifestly not doing a great job of that right now, as evidenced by the growing discontent in the audience and the declining ratings. Obviously not everything needs to be fanservice, but it’s also a lot like they’re taking for granted that they’ll *have* the time to tell these precious long-form storylines. You can’t take the audience for granted, and you cannot expect every actor to stick around forever. The plot has to move, it can’t just hang out in a holding pattern until the last handful of episodes in the season. And I just think the way some refuse to see this and act like we’re the crazy ones for seeing the problem… is mostly rooted in denial. They don’t want to be wrong, and they don’t want to have wasted their time getting emotionally invested. It’s also a simple fact that the number of shows that ended well are greatly outnumbered by the number of shows that ended badly, so it’s reasonable to start preparing ourselves. Ships or no ships, this many annoyed people didn’t just come out of nowhere and we’re not out of line for saying “hey this isn’t the show I used to love anymore, it’s changed and not for the better.” Not everything needs to be fanservice, but you do ultimately need to serve your fans or they won’t stay fans.

Absolutely, Nonnie, well said! I'm not going to hate on people wanting to be positive, I get that! I'm still enjoying aspects of the show and some of the moments we're getting and I find the investment in the show still worth it (for now).

But you touched on something that I think is important. "Like it’s a bad thing to expect a piece of entertainment media to… entertain us?" This right here is where myself and a lot of fans, and honestly a lot of the general audience is struggling. The emergencies aren't just...not as good as they used to be, they also aren't tying into the storylines like they used to. Like I said in this post, emergencies were often used to trigger a heart-to-heart talk between other characters so we the audience know what is going on in their heads, and it made the audience feel like there was a purpose to those scenes besides just filling up time in the episode because they helped move the plot forward! Now, since they aren't using a brief emergency scene to wow the viewer PLUS trigger a scene that pushes a character arc forward, they don't have any deep character driven moments to...drive the plot forward. So how do you fill up that time gap? Longer set up, longer emergencies has so far been the answer BUT because they aren't really driving the story forward they just feel too long and pointless, and the little bits of plot feel like they're just in a holding pattern and dragging out forever, or not getting the time to SHOW us on screen what is going on or what the characters are feeling. Because they're not talking to each other! Like you said "The plot has to move, it can’t just hang out in a holding pattern until the last handful of episodes in the season."

I also think it's important to point out that this is NOT just a fandom or just a "Buddie" fandom issue, it's across the board coming from fans, people who don't ship Buddie, and casual viewers alike! Even the lady I share an office with who is a casual viewer and thinks Eddie and Carla should get together, came out and said (before I said anything about what I thought of 6x09) that the episode was so boring and felt more like a silly Halloween episode instead of a good Christmas episode, and why didn’t they resolve anything like the thumb or the who the car belonged to, and why hasn’t Wendall come up before, and why is this sperm donor thing still happening. She said it was the worst episode she’s seen and it was boring and not at all like the show used to be, and she can't even remember character names half the time. But she's been watching every week since the show started and it's now been regulated to "watch the next day or sometime during the week" because it's not holding her attention anymore. The show has CLEARLY changed how it's doing things and it's NOT been for the better. It doesn't make you stupid to point it out, especially when so many people are saying the same things, PLUS the dwindling number of viewers (yes, demo matters more but going from 1.6 in key demo to .6 and dropping millions of viewers) is LOUD, especially for a show airing against sitcoms not even other procedurals.

Do I think the show can recover? Yeah, I do! Plenty of shows have a bad season or even two. I'm not sure this show can afford 3. And it's extra frustrating because this isn't a new show trying to find it's feet, and it isn't a show that's been on for 18 years and has one original character left who is unrecognizable and they're doing wild things for shock value. This is a show in it's PRIME. A show that was unlike a lot of other shows because it was rooted in HOPE, and in found family supporting each other, and characters leaning on their support system, and things working out well! This show provided something the world really needed at the time. Seeing the show's collapse away from that good, tight, deep but still lighthearted and hopeful at the core type of storytelling is crushing. Being able to so easily pinpoint where the issue is coming from (if you have a showrunner who admits to consistently struggling with basic pacing and plotting out stories, you will have a subpar plot and consequently subpar season) is at least helpful in knowing what kind of noise might make TPTB pay attention, but honestly if they haven't done anything before now, I doubt they will. (Unless they decide to pull the Buddie plug to get ratings back up meaning Tim comes back to get credit for that event.) You're right, you can't take the audience for granted and right now, 911 has been squeaking by with the good will it earned in previous seasons, but if the comments surrounding 6a are anything to go by, that good will has dried up. Tying up a fan and GA favorite character (Buck) into SEVERAL failed plotlines (tay kay/BT was unpopular, L was so hated they had to cut her out of almost all the promo ad severely cut her scenes for the rest of the season and so far she hasn't come back, and people are already sick of the sperm donor plot), while continuing to isolate him in those plotlines with side characters and away from the group (not just Buddie, but Buck/Maddie and ESPECIALLY Buck/Bobby which is a big fan favorite dynamic as well), and not even giving the audience familiar dynamics and interactions, or any depth of storytelling to hold on to, has further burned through the viewers good will.

"You do ultimately need to serve your fans or they won’t stay fans." Couldn't have said it better myself.

#my sweet nonnie friends #911 #911 spoilers #it's clear that for kr it isn't about the fans or the stories it's about her getting to be in charge and call the shots #and get a leg up so she has something to put on her resume for later #this isn't about treating the show/character/storylines or the audience with respect and love #and it fucking SHOWS

[lurkiestvoid]

"Putin doesn't need to make any trolls/bots to support [my side of issue]" is a great way to announce that you fundamentally do not understand neither how propaganda works nor how susceptible you are to it

#us politics #its cointelpro its literally just cointelpro #if you think that shit got declassified and all the world megacorps and govts were like #“hmm what a surprisingly effective manifesto on how to permanently disrupt rebellion. we'll never use that” #then at best you have zero critical thinking skills #and at worst you dont know your own political theory+history #AND IT FUCKING SHOWS

[kiradical]

When you’re so homesick that seeing your hometown CGI’d to 1940s makes you start crying…

Because even though it’s not the same you grew up with, they still took the time to get key details right.

#personal #a league of the own series #rockford peaches #I saw the Faust hotel and gasped and started crying and let me tell you if someone gave me money to move home I’d be there in an instant #nothing ever gets Rockford right #ever #E V E R #genuinely had to stop watching supernatural because they fucked it up so badly #like didn’t even google it #but it must have mattered at least a little to the creators of this show #and it fucking shows

[divkazkdovikde]

no actually i won’t go to sleep just now even though it’s been hours past midnight my eyes are bloodshot my head hurts and i can’t even fucking move

#nahhh too important stuff in my head #(what’s the name of the series where there were aliens but they were surfing actually?) #jesus fuck just kill me already #please #im begging you #my sleep schedule is fucked #and it fucking shows #anyway #q

[glassfullofsass]

In consideration of Vetrans Day, which I don't really intend to observe in any serious way IRL, I will say that I have never been so quickly, forcefully, and wholely removed from the experience of a fic as when last night I read, with my own two eyes, Nile Freeman, proud legacy Marine, say "I was in the Army."

#She would not FUCKING SAY that #Marines=/=Army #Some of y'all have never interacted with military personnel or engaged with even the most tangential of USAmerican military fiction #and it fucking shows #TOG #(I mean you are so valid & you should continue to not engage with the USAmerican military. I wish I had that privilege and I'm sure much of #the rest of the world would also like to live in that bliss)

[eldritchmochi]

it is absolutely wild the weird shit that throws me out of a fic like brain pls i would like something to do while i contort myself into Digestion Mode that ISNT daydream about writing my own fic because that is not conducive to staying in Digestion Mode

#mochi rambles #mochi's medical mischief #please for the love of god do not put your jeans in the dryer #i will crawl out of the vents and eat them if you do #i swear to fuck #also like #just dont wash your jeans if you can help it #i was SO pissy last month because i had to wash both my black jeans twice in a month #as a result of Hospital Gross #youre lucky if i wash my jeans more than twice a year #and it fucking SHOWS #my crust pants ive worn about 80% of the time for tttthree?? years now and have yet to wear out the thigh #n e wai essek either washes his clothes to bits very rapidly as an element of ocd/ocd tendencies #or he Does Not let anyone else do his laundry because it is a vast and Complicated dance of sniffing everything #with delicates bags and drying racks 'still clean' laundry baskets #there is no in between #and i will die on this hill

[myatlantispoets]

I've been taking more depression naps than usual lately and I don't like it

#thing is that i barely just started taking my meds again after refusing to take them for a few weeks #and it fucking shows #and i need to study so. i hope i re-stabilize myself soon (is that a word? eh) #i'm crying a lot more easily again i have mood swings like i haven't had in a long time... #venting

[lordspoooky]

Ice king is a really good character because they intoduce him and you're like "haha what a freak what's wrong with him" and then the show goes "oh! You want to know? Let me show you :)" and you end up just sitting there like

#hi you clicked on the root post :) #good ass character #i love characters that are 'hehe goofy weirdo' and then they show their backstory and they're the most tragic fucking character in the show' #adventure time #ice king

[vamprisms]

hate when streaming services are like.... you can now pay cinema prices to watch new releases at home! not to show my age but if i am watching it on my tv set then it's free??? you think you're an equal to big picturehouse? with no big screen? no big pop corn? you want to charge cinema price to show me a movey in my own house? Honour demands i kill you btw

#i miss her (video store) every fucking day she wouldn't have dreamt of charging so much to show me a movey in my own house #and she'd sell me a pop corn

[mr-malumm]

Stayed gone but vox narrates his passive aggressive insecure ass scrolling text from the bottom of his broadcast 👊💥📺

#plus what definitely canonically happened when this very important breaking news interrupted tv #are we sure this guy is allowed to be an overlord #imagining the audience just trying to enjoy their shows and then BOOM TV MAN AND HIS GAY INSECURITIES #your pitch crush is showing #radiostatic #i fell for the fucking tv #vox #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel #hazbin art #hazbin alastor #hazbin vox #alastor #katie killjoy #my art

[asthevermincrawls]

I think this person on reddit summed up the youtube adblocker situation perfectly. my reaction to this is not "oh man guess I'll watch ads." its, "well, I guess I'll just do something more productive with my time." I highly doubt any adblock user is going to willingly go back to watching ads. so what actually happens is youtube loses a functionally tiny amount of its userbase--because adblockers weren't even losing them a significant amount of money in the first place(!)--and a bunch of adblock users move on to something else. what a fantastic waste of time and effort

#did you do it? did you stick it to your userbase? did you show them whose boss? #did you make them watch your eight fucking unskippable ads in a row? did you? #a.txt

[firephoenix23]

Like I literally have second hand embarrassment for Vox after seeing what Alastor ACTUALLY is like in a rivalry.

Like homie wishes he could be that close to Alastor 😂😂

#can we get an F in the chat for my man Vox 😂 #I can imagine Vox like crying in his little incel tv room being why won’t Alastor say fuck you to me 🥺 #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #alastor #lucifer #hazbin vox #staticradio #radiostatic #sorry this isn’t my usual content but I couldn’t help myself #this show is wild