#anti-sequel

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Demonization of the Enemies to Lovers Trope

I find it very disingenuous when Zutara antis compare or lump Zutara with problematic ships like Reylo and Dramione. Anyone who makes a claim like this should have not any opinions about ATLA respected. Because they obviously did not watch the show.

There are major differences that set Zutara apart from Reylo and Dramione.

Zutara vs Dramione - Friendship

Zuko and Katara reconciled and became very close friends in season 3. Draco and Hermione disliked each other in canon and the best of their relationship was civility. Dramione could have served the same narrative function as Zutara by representing union after war but Dramione lacked the canon building blocks that Zutara had.

Zutara vs Reylo - Redemption

Zuko has a powerful redemption arc. But even when Zuko was an antagonist, he was never truly evil. And Zuko's actions towards Katara (eg tying her to a tree) were not completely monstrous. Zuko and Katara never crossed any boundaries while enemies. When Katara starts showing compassion to Zuko, it is in season 2 when Zuko is no longer an active threat (eg. offering to heal Iroh and their emotional moment in the catacombs). Compare this to Reylo where there are all these romantic undertones while Reylo and Kylo are still enemies. Kylo also has a worse record than Zuko: murdering his dad, oppressing countless people, killing civilians, and maiming people. And Rey for some reason, before Kylo does anything to deserve it, begins to feel sorry for him. Unlike Zuko, we don't see Kylo truly atone for what he did to Rey. Not to mention the abusive elements in their relationship such as Kylo calling Rey worthless.

The point is that people need to stop demonizing enemies to lovers ships. And stop lumping healthy ships like Zutara with more toxic ships like Dramione and Reylo. It's not a fair comparison.

#anti reylo #anti dramione #zutara #enemies to lovers #enemies to friends to lovers #shipping discourse #star wars sequel trilogy #atla #harry potter series #atla zuko #atla katara #draco malfoy #hermione granger #kylo ren #rey #anti bad faith zutara antis #zutara supremacy

[justepilepsy]

Because of current frustration

Happy fuck spiderverse year.

The art direction is in part ableist.

You can enjoy the movie and still say that.

Note: it's ableist because it's using common animation and color choices KNOWN to cause seizures (and death) in audiences. This includes people who don't have epilepsy.

I will never not be bitter about this because the first movie message was about "anyone can wear the mask" when it clearly was excluding people by simply making it impossible to watch this film in a safe manner.

If you got a headache after watching that film. That's a photosensitive reaction and it means you're not immune to these effects. A movie you love should not give you a headache or dizziness or disorientation. It should not give an above average amount of people seizures.

And those effects causing these symptoms should not be hailed as the reason the film is good.

Spiderverse utilises other aspects of comic art to already stick out.

Rapid Glitch effects, large bright high contrast red and blue areas covering the screen, prolonged moving patterns, and flashing lights are not what make this film look good.

#spiderverse #if you send me death threats over this post youre not being original nor are you the first to do that over this topic #seizureverse #i still hope no one watching this sequel has a seizure or migraine because it sucks #please leave the cinema if you start to feel weird #you can enjoy media and still say when aspects of it are not good #actually epileptic #epilepsy #you can send me asks if you're not sure what this is about i will explain in more detail if you want to #but also my blog has a lot of seizureverse postings and you will find a lot with that tag #anti atsv #anti itsv #spider-verse

[dailydragon08]

Luke Skywalker who was bullied and called “wormie” and had a tense relationship with Owen and was lonely af, but who worked his ass off on the farm and was nice to people and dropped everything to help a stranger in need simply because they were in need anyway.

Luke Skywalker who was frustrated and impatient and chomping at the bit, but who took deep breaths and heard his mentors out but still did what felt right to him and went to save his friends even though he knew he was putting himself in danger by leaving before his training was done because they were his friends and he had to help them, there was no other option in his mind.

Luke Skywalker who lost the shining knight image of his father, his hand, his trust in his mentors, and his sense of identity all in one blow, but still went to the window to comfort Leia as Lando and Chewie left to look for Han anyway.

Luke Skywalker who had clearly learned a lot and become very powerful all on his own and blew up a crime lord’s palace to save his friends, but who went back to Dagobah to complete his training anyway because he thought “there’s always room to improve.”

Luke Skywalker who laughs at tiny teddy bears trying to arrest him and just hands his lightsaber over to them and is just chilling, absorbing everything while he’s tied up and pulling some harmless Force tricks while still perpetuating the idea that C-3PO is a god cuz it’s just too damn funny and he won’t be the one to shatter the Ewoks sense of how the galaxy works.

Luke Skywalker who comforts his sister even as he goes off to fight Vader and maybe die in the attempt (remember his line to the emperor “soon I’ll be dead and you with me,” man really thought he wouldn’t be coming back).

Luke Skywalker who was willing to cart Vader off with him to likely some remote corner of the galaxy and make up a plan as he went cuz he still loves his father and always believed he would come back to the light and just wanted a chance to be a real family.

Luke Skywalker who trusts in not only the Force, but connection, attachments, and himself.

This is my Luke Skywalker.

#luke skywalker #star wars #my thoughts #my luke thoughts #star wars discussion #anti disney #anti disney star wars #anti star wars sequels

[theautisticcentre]

People fr be sleeping on Han and Leia's son...

Poe Dameron!

(Yes those last two were intentional cause we stan Finn x Poe)

#star wars #star wars sequel trilogy #poe dameron #star wars finn #finn x poe #anti kylo ren

[genericpuff]

no but listen, rachel has truly embodied herself as persephone because she's constantly trying to "distance herself" from her past as a medical fetish artist but then keeps the name that's affiliated with her medical fetish art-

Like, I can't believe I never noticed it before tbh, but that was the thought that hit me while I was explaining to someone on reddit what the name "used bandaid" meant and why it was weird that Rachel is STILL using it on her print cover books, even now when she just recently set up a new Facebook account with her REAL NAME and not the used_bandaid penname (I feel like this is an attempt to "legitimize" herself in the industry but idk).

But that leads me into talking about how she keeps lying about LO being her first webcomic project and that really pisses me off. And yes, this is related to the used_bandaid thing, just bear with me here.

A lot of my contempt for this is for reasons that go beyond her, I just hate the notion that people should succeed on their "first try" and that's an idea that's often sold by people like Rachel who spin these grandiose stories of how they were just "trying it out" and suddenly wham! Fame and fortune! You can achieve all this and more if you just xyz!

Literally, in every interview I've found over the past couple years, she always heavily implies that LO was her "first attempt", that she had never used Webtoons prior to LO, and that she was just "dipping her toes" into the medium. None of this is true, she's literally been drawing webcomics since the early 2000's (possibly earlier but the earliest documentation we can find is of The Doctor Pepper Show), LO wasn't even her first webcomic on the Webtoons platform (that goes to The Doctor Foxglove Show which she ended up dumping a chapter in to work on LO almost immediately after starting it on Tumblr) and as much as she'll claim she "couldn't pay anyone to look at her work", she had landed a number of gigs that got her work out there, had been printed in anthology collections, and IIRC she had even won some small local NZ awards for her comics prior to LO. Shit, there was a local beer brand that had her art on its labelling.

But it really feels like she's trying her damn hardest to hide all that, never mentioning or implying that she did anything prior to LO, that she was just a "struggling graphic artist working in retail" until LO happened.

So why keep the penname that's directly affiliated with that past identity ??

It boggles my mind, honestly, especially considering she had gone by MULTIPLE usernames back then, some of which were actually pretty sane that she could have used instead (such as Rach Alex, which she uses in her FB groups, and Rachel Royale).

I wouldn't blame her if she was trying to hide her old medical fetish stuff, whether she didn't want it affiliated with her new LO branding or if she's just embarrassed by it, I can totally empathize with that because god knows I wouldn't be all that proud to show off the cringy shit I got up to during my early days on the Internet. But if she IS embarrassed by it, you'd think the last thing she'd want to keep is the name that's directly affiliated with the thing she's embarrassed by. Almost like a certain pink protagonist who goes by the name she earned after doing the thing she doesn't want to talk about.

But if she ISN'T embarrassed by it, then why lie?

Why paint this picture that LO was a one hit wonder, that she lived on "struggle street" until she found fame and fortune on Webtoons?

Oh right. Because it's a better story.

Because it's way more romantic to be some struggling indie darling who "came from nothing" and achieved fame through one big idea. Because it looks good for the platform who's trying to attract people to their app and website on the promise that you, too, can be a success story simply because you followed the exact same perceived steps that you saw another person follow and advertise.

If you can't tell from my tone, I really fucking hate this kind of disingenuous wish fulfillment advertising. It's manipulative, it's cruel, and it sets people up with expectations far beyond their scope of reaching, both due to the luck and "being in the right place at the right time" involved at best (which is a HUGE factor in stories like these that people never talk about), or through joy-killing comparison at worst when you don't achieve worldwide fame on your first try and wonder why everyone else did (spoiler: they didn't, they just want you to think that because it makes for better headlines and it gets you using whatever product they're affiliated with.)

If Rachel doesn't want to be tied down to her past, that's fine. But it's incredibly irresponsible and flat out cruel to lie about that past existing at all because it sets a horrible precedent to those who look up to her and want what she has.

And I say all that because I've seen what happens to the people starting out who admire these creators who painted the picture that they were just successful right off the bat. It's not a fun headspace to be in, it's robbed many creators like myself and others of their joy in creating, and it's really all just a ploy to get you to spend time and money and energy on a stupid corporate phone app that profits off your emotional investment and labor. Don't fall for it. Pretending like the Act of Wrath didn't happen doesn't remove it from history.

Anyways, I was gonna leave it at that, but then I ended up doing another rabbithole deep dive through her Wayback Machine and found album art she had illustrated for NZ band PorcelainToy. Enjoy this piece of her "dark era" art that still exists without needing to use the Wayback Machine.

#sorry btw if this seems like a sequel to the post i just made i stg they're not related #this post was written at like 4 am after doing another hyperfixated deep dive #so it's literally just an unfortunate but funny coincidence that it came right after me talking about my own roots LOL #i gotta go to bed i'm getting stabbed with ink tomorrow #lore olympus critical #lo critical #antiloreolympus #anti lore olympus #Youtube

[stonegoldsxcrxt]

LMFAOOOOOOO

#YALL ARE COOKED #star wars #star wars sequel trilogy #star wars sequels #anti reylo #anti kylo ren

[fromtheseventhhell]

Zutaras are really the original self-insert, "we understand the story soooooo much better than everybody else" girlies and they just never moved on

#anti zutara #no offense to anyone who ships it and follows me but I'm so over the shipping wars of this show that aired almost 20 years ago 😭 #at some point you guys are gonna need to hang it up cause there's a sequel series and these people are married with children like... #we get it if you were Katara you would've chosen Zuko but guess what?! you aren't and need to stop projecting onto her #the pretending to care about Katara is what really gets me cause she's never even implied to have romantic feelings for him #or vice-versa + it ignores her anger towards him and how long it took her to forgive him + rightfully so #criticizing the writing for Kataang is one thing but turning around and shipping Zutara while doing so is crazy work #ship it if you want but please stop pretending it makes more sense when both Zuko and Katara have their own separate romances 😭 #love how people have to age Aang down + infantilize him and erase Mai to make it work but sure it's the better option #stop erasing Katara's arc and development just to claim that Aang brings her down when she's been a bad-ass since season 1 #reducing her arc to that ONE moment with Zuko and ignoring all of her other development just to prop up a ship is nasty #Katara isn't a reward for Aang and she sure as hell isn't one for Zuko stop belittling her like that #if y'all didn't watch ATLA when you were 12 and think Zuko was cute this ship wouldn't even exist #thinking about that post that said the writers /pandered to dudebros/ like we all weren't children the delusion is crazy sdfssdfsdfsd #also seeing AANG of all characters getting whacked for a ship...please get a life and stay away from him #antizutara

[starlightandsunshine]

Lynchworthy Star Wars take no 2 of the day:

I don’t like the sequel trilogy personally but you know what? Kylo Ren’s storyline in tlj was good actually. Trying to use it to build a redemption arc cheapened both it and the characters involved

Like this guy is trying to be a bad guy right? He’s actively making all the wrong choices and deliberately plummeting down to make it worse for himself. And along comes this person who hates doesn’t like him. And they’re psychically connected by the make up of the universe

And at the start it’s really annoying that she’s connected to him. but then she tries to reach out a hand to him. She tries to help him climb up. And while she’s reaching down to pull him out he’s reaching up to try and pull her down. She’s trying so hard to help him get better and he decides that he wants power over love, greed over compassion.

He, like his grandfather before him, wants to try to have everything. And well that never works out, this is Star Wars. but he’s in the story so he doesn’t know that.

And the thing is this girl thinks it’s working, and like her teacher before her she ignores the advice of her mentor bc she thinks she knows better. And she’s wrong.

She gets there and he kills his master for power and asks her to join him. And she can’t. This isn’t what she wanted, she wanted to help him.

Where his grandfather chose power for love and let it corrupt him beyond recognition bc he wanted to have it all and then turned on his wife when she tried to stop him, Kylo Ren chooses power over love over and over and over again. He gets chance after chance and he always, deliberately, willingly chooses wrong.

And this makes Rey as a character stronger in turn. This teaches her that everyone makes a choice whether for good or for ill and that you cannot save someone who doesn’t want to be saved and wants to bring you down to them instead. but you might still die trying. Kylo Ren isn’t like Finn, he isn’t someone stuck in a bad situation with no choices that wants to do good. He wants power and he’ll do whatever he thinks he has to to get it. And now he wants her to be a part of that too.

And he fails at it. The more power he grabs for the more darkness he grasps, the more things slip through his fingers and leave him trembling in the dust of all that he’s wrought. He’s not sympathetic, he’s greedy and he’s trying to trick Rey into thinking his story is a tragedy of misunderstandings when it’s actually a wilful tragedy of choice. And that makes him a good character. Not a moral one. Not even necessarily a likeable one (ymmv). But an interesting one that has a lot to contribute to the story and the themes within.

Star Wars is about choices. Bad choices are choices too.

#Star Wars #star wars sequel trilogy #kylo ren #rey #anti reylo #like let characters be bad people in interesting ways #you don’t have to make the character good for the storyline to be interesting #the concept of the Rey/kylo ren side of tlj was interesting #the ultimate execution was just fumbled and then twisted dramatically in the the last film #YOU CAN DO INTERRSTING STORIES WITH YOUR VILLAINS WITHOUT A REDEMTPION ARC ACTUALLY #and you should!

[passionesolja]

#star wars #sw #sw prequels #sw sequels #original trilogy #sw hc #sw headcanons #sw memes #sith order #sith #Darth Vader #darth bane #darth plagueis #darth sidious #darth sion #Darth vindican #darth zannah #pro jedi #anti jedi #sw meta

[nateofgreat]

"If the Jedi are so great why do so many of them fall!"

Over the course of the George Lucas movies, there was a grand total of two defections (Dooku and Anakin), two. Broadening it to include all the movies there're five or so in the Sequel Trilogy if you count the unconfirmed theory that the Knights of Ren were also former students of Luke's.

So, that's about seven defections out of 10,000 in the movies themselves. But okay, when people talk about this they're usually talking about wider canon. So, everything I've personally seen put together there's...

-Bariss Offee (dang it Dave) and Pong Krell from the Clone Wars.

-Bode Akuna from Jedi Survivor.

-Baylan Skoll from Ahsoka.

-The Grand Inquisitor from Rebels.

-And Reva Sevander from Kenobi.

So taken altogether the Jedi are shown to experience about seventeen defections over the course of the movie era. Again, out of ten thousand members. Pretty good ratio I've got to say. The average organization of that size would have more turncoats.

The only case of mass defection I've seen in SW canon personally is in the confused, biased, and cynical world of the KOTOR games. Which made so little sense even by its own logic that they eventually had to write up some excuse like, "Oh uh, actually Vitiate/Valkorian/whatever mind tricked Revan!"

So I personally wouldn't even count it. As for the reason why these defections happen, it's pretty simple. Temptation, they give in to fear, to anger, pride, etc, and let it corrupt them. It sucks but it's something everyone struggles with varying extents.

#Star Wars #The Jedi #The Jedi Order #Pro Jedi #Jedi defense #In defense of the Jedi #anti jedi bashing #The Original Trilogy #The Prequel Trilogy #The Sequel trilogy #SW Rebels #TCW #KOTOR critical #KOTOR criticism #anti KOTOR

[caripr94]

Look what the news site for Disney has the audacity to say. In case you didn't have enough proof that they consider Hayden Christensen as nothing more than nostalgia bait.

Just when this guy is getting some respect and drawing in fans to their media, Disney is considering kicking him to the curb. And all they can say as an excuse is basically "we don't have any more stories for him" and "he's getting too old to make him look young". After they made up a canonically inconsistent adventure to drag desert hermit Obi-Wan into, CGI'ed up a 70-year-old Mark Hamill to play a mid-20s Luke Skywalker, and brought Palpatine back from the dead to cram into their sequel trilogy finale.

On the bright side, at least they can't butcher Hayden!Anakin anymore like they've done in these recent shows. But on the other hand, it gives me more reason to see Disney Lucasfilm crash and burn so that someone else can rebuild it from scratch and bring Hayden back in to give him the respect he deserves.

@tragicfantasy-girl, @nerdychristianfanboy, @roselani24, @fanfic-lover-girl, @fanfictasia, @gch1995, @riana-one, @marvelstars, @vaderdala1541, @wingletblackbird, @padawanlost, @redrikki, @kittenfangirl20, @rebelnurse, @friendlyneighborhoodgeek, @the-average-procrastinator, @clawedandcute, @the-far-bright-center

#star wars #anakin skywalker #hayden christensen #anti disney #anti disney star wars #anti lucasfilm #anti sequel trilogy #anti tros #anti kenobi show #darth vader

[humandisastertonystark]

So I just watched Aquaman 2 and I don't know how their whole relationship dynamic is in the comics but in the movie they seemed to be going for kind of a Thor and Loki dynamic with Orm and Arthur?

Like, big reckless, brutish brother and little clever, diplomatic brother (that doesn't wanna be considered his brother). Misunderstandings caused by parental incompetence. Little brother is treated as the evil, egoistic one that only wants the throne. Little brother gets defeated and imprisoned. Big brother gets him out cuz he needs his help.

Lots of joking and "sibling quarrels" while the little brother wonders what an idiot the other one is. The mother of course only wants them both to get along and her "misguided" son to know that she loves him.

Yadda, yadda I think you get the drift. Obviously it's not exactly the same but there were pretty obvious parallels.

(And may I also mention the ending scene where Arthur says "I am Aquaman" in a very familiar Tony Stark way)

I didn't dislike their dynamic btw, it actually worked well because Orm didn't (at least from what I've seen in the movies) have such a fucked up backstory like Loki (I stand corrected, what a surprise).

It's like they wanted to show how this sibling dynamic can actually work if you don't make one of them a gaslit punching bag.

#loki #marvel #aquaman #aquaman 2 #thor movies #dc universe #tony stark #loki and thor #orm aquaman #arthur and orm #orm marius #aquaman the lost kingdom spoilers #aquaman 2 spoilers #the sequel made me actually like orm #he's loki coded #also very glad that amber turd didn't have much screen time #anti amber heard

[samaspic31]

It's so funny to me that Disney even managed to disappoint EVERYONE with the rise of Skywalker. Usually, displeasing a part of a fandom at least means another part is getting catered to. But the rise of Skywalker? Pissed off EVERYONE.

The bigoted fans were mad at the 2 second gay kiss and 2 black characters existing, the anti-racist fans were mad finn's sidelining was continued and rose barely on screen, the gay fans were mad at disney using the gay kiss for marketing while removing it in homophobic countries, and no finnpoe despite both actors and directors agreeing with the fandom that it made sense. The people who hated reylo were mad they kissed, the reylos were mad kylo died. The people who like good villains got palpatine AGAIN. The people who like cohesive stories got a mess of storylines barely holding together full of plot holes (remember that sith dagger in the shape of the death star wreckage?). Aside from lando and wedge, not even that many good cameos. The stakes felt meaningless, a whole planet blew up and nobody gave a fuck because.... it was riddled with criminals? I guess?? The people here just for action scenes didn't get anything extraordinary.

Astonishing how well it frustrated every fucking body no matter what you're watching star wars for

#sam speaks #star wars #sequels #the rise of skywalker #rey Skywalker #poe dameron #finnpoe #anti reylo #for filtering purposes

[theautisticcentre]

This is not anti Reylo, but...No actually it is-

#star wars #star wars sequel trilogy #rey skywalker #star wars finn #lesbian rey #trans rey #bisexual finn #bigender finn #lesbian #transgender #bisexual #bigender #anti reylo #anti kylo ren

[fuedalreesespieces]

inuyasha after sunrise fucks him over for the hundreth time

#sunrise does NOT like his ass #imagine hating ur show's own main characters so much u inherently sabatoge their characters by adding unecessary lines #like im literally going back and forth between the manga like “this didn't happen”???? #i feel like they hate inukag genuinely #from that eh kiss scene to the cutting out of crucial inukag moments of development to adding in kikyo for drama #plus that god awful sequel that fucks them over into the next dimension #anyway enough ranting #inuyasha #inuyasha anime #inuyasha a feudal fairy tale #inukag #anti yashahime #inuyasha art #“art” LMAO #shitpost

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

seriously though, what did the citizens of etheria think about catra? as far as we know, she didn't do anything to make up for the damage that she caused, she didn't even mention them or express any guilt. did they just see her with adora and think “if she's dating she-ra, i guess she's not that bad”??

#i just know that if the show had a sequel or something #then nate would either not address catra's actions towards etheria at all #or he would make catra a victim again and make it seem like anyone who is against her is being unreasonable #because she's just poor kitty stop harrassing this innocent baby #spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop #anti catra #anticatra