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I love how Noelle is like, a really strong central character of deltarune, despite only being playable in the second chapter:

the mystery behind Dess and the ripples that left throughout the town

the catalyst for chapter 2

everything about snowgrave route and her being the angel

her mother's the mayor

her father's the one with the emotional story clutch of being in the hospital and close to death

her strained relationship with Kris

her budding relationship with Susie

Like, so far, she's the most "main character" out of the cast, as we're denied knowing too much about what Kris is up to on their own, and Susie hasn't shared a single thing about her personal life.

anyway just listen to lost girl/find her

#deltarune #noelle holiday #kris dreemurr #lost girl #dess holiday #find her #spamton sweepstakes #dashinglistens #dashingposts #dashingthoughts

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Something funny about Fionna the Human is that (even back from when I was a kid) I always considered her older than Finn when she was first conceptualized and then put into the actual show (hence why it's much more natural to pair her up with Marshall and Gumball where as with Finn it's very important that there's a clear age gap/lack of interest towards their counterparts [further added by how she's clearly on equal terms with them in the realistic/modern version of her world])

But now that we've actually grown up with Finn, she's (alongside Marshall Lee and Prince Gumball) naturally sort of stagnated.

She's definitely older, time has clearly passed, but at the same time she feels *younger* than Finn (or at the very least has clearly not yet been subjected to the horrors™ that required/allowed finn to mature the way he has)

Just something that kind of further cements the fact that Fionna really isn't *just* "what if Finn was female/genderswapped", she's always been very distinctly her own separate kind of version of Finn

a lot like how Fern *is* Finn, but also very much not Finn

She's not "Fionna Mertens"

She's Fionna Campbell

#dashingposts #adventure time #fionna the human #fionna campbell #dashingthoughts #fionna and cake #dashinwatches #dashingwatches: adventure time

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Now that I've gotten more used to it, it's kind of funny seeing how well Hunter actually does match up with Huntress Wizard's Design

They got the obvious cat eyes, the triangular hair, the one glove, the line from her shirt, the belt line that puts her into a kind of hourglass figure, which is probably why they made him buff

Ironically, I think noticing the two mainly brown boots are what made it click, it was like "oh yeah, can't have HW without their boots"

Which becomes funny, cause look at what they were going to do to them, like, who is this guy

#dashingposts #dashingthoughts #hunter wizard #huntress wizard #I guess only wizards can get a silly little hat #sad #adventure time #fionna and cake #dashinwatches #dashingwatches: adventure time #also she lost her nose i think they didn't notice that she has a nose

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Made a long thread quote retweeting this post that basically just retreads what I rambled about a while ago but with less words and more room for misinterpreting

#dashingposts #dashingthoughts #long post #homestuck #davepetasprite #davepeta #davepetasprite^2

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The thing that gets me about how some people are being like "Bridget being trans is a loss for effeminate men representation" is like, does her being a woman somehow stop you from relating to the same story beats she has that are now being expanded on? Is it not enough that she still had those struggles of having to hide parts of herself, having to deal with how people react to her presentation and then finding the confidence to go with her own flow? Of being raised towards presenting as a certain way, only to go out and prove herself on her own terms, and successfully come out on top?

She went out, dressed how she wanted, made mad cash and kicked mad ass with a FUCKING YO-YO and TEDDYBEAR, and made so much money that she even managed to break down the very superstitions that forced her into needing to hide herself in the first place: so what exactly makes her story any less palpable than it was before?

Part of what also gets me about this is seeing some tags on a post that were like: what about representation for women (trans or otherwise) who were forced to reject their femininity, finding themselves lost, only to allow themselves that femininity at a later age? If we say representation is only skin-deep, is this still not a recognizable win rather than some major net loss?

It just seems like a weird thing to get stuck up on: people have resonated with stories that don't 1-to-1 fit with their exact circumstances of gender (or even race, as I'm sure any non-white effeminate men looking up to bridget would be used to this sort of thing).

Considering her design is roughly the same but modernized, and the core of her writing hasn't actually changed, maybe question why Bridget is suddenly a "loss" to you now that she's trans or now that she's a woman, because, I don't know, if one or both of those is the issue, that seems less like "a loss for effeminate men" and more like a you problem.

#guilty gear #guilty gear strive #bridget #like I'm definitely not some authority on transness or who gets to count what as representation #but something seems a bit sussy wussy if the crux of your issue lies in a character being a woman #or a character being trans #I don't know I'm just saying shit #long post #dashingposts #dashingthoughts

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my controversial hs take (yes this is another random rant about davepeta)

disclaimer: do not take any of this too seriously, I'm mostly talking to myself and not really stepping into some kind of "hs discourse analyst" ring for a character I'm clearly just overly attached to, whatever nonsense I spout is probably not going to change minds nor be able to have my mind changed about, nor do I stand by any strong claim to properly remember the story or things said by characters

readers' discretion is advised

some people act like davepeta has, like, no history in the comic and like sure as the singular entity of "davepetasprite" they appear for about 10 pages, a flash and a bit in the epilogues, but it feels like having to explain object permanence to a child because they aren't just a singular entity, they were and very much still are Davesprite and Nepeta.

"it sucks davesprite's character just ends there" well, they're davepeta now and a big part within those "measly 10 pages" that some people love to point out being so short was explicitly about having BEEN davesprite and where they go from there, and further interacting with Arquisprite partly based on that history with Bro

"it sucks that nepeta didn't get to do much, davepetasprite is just catboy dave" Davepeta is more than just "Dave but cat puns", Nepeta's vibes are still going strong, you are undermining just how much Nepeta molds them and overestimating the way Dave acts. The very Strider bias you're pointing out happening is influencing how you see them come across. A big part that made the Davepeta/Arquius Reunion so different from the Dave/Dirk reunion was their Nepeta part and her relationship with Arquius as Equius.

Yes, it sucks that Nepeta was without a doubt shafted by the comic, and multiple jokes were made to make light of that fact, but, again, Davepeta is STILL a continuation of the characters they're made up of. It's a continuous timeline of the characters, them actualizing and becoming their own person didn't erase the things that got them there, from the silly to the dramatic.

People act like just because they talk about being connected to different versions of Nepeta and Dave that they didn't actively live through, that means that they're "UTTERLY DISCONNECTED" from the specific versions of Dave and Nepeta they were made from.

But the very things that make you like Davesprite and that make you like Nepeta STILL EXIST, they still went through all of that: Davepeta was there when Pounce died, Davepeta was killed by Gamzee when Equius failed to stop him, they were alongside Bro when he fought Jack and they were there on the ship: messing with John and failing to be a good mate to Jade (even if the Jade they apologized to about it was a different one).

Them concluding that they're now "their own person" growing from that isn't them saying none of that applies to who they are, but that they have a new perspective of reconciling with that past.

What's probably ironic about it all is that in dismissing Davepeta as a continuation of Davesprite, people (outside of story) are just putting on Davesprite the very thing he was talking about when people (in-story) refused to acknowledge that he was the "real dave", only as Davepeta they know they don't have to care about that anymore.

Everything from Nepeta and Davesprite being thrown to the side by the comic, to them forming Davepeta and being able to meet up with Arquius and Jade, accumulate in a lot of the themes Homestuck runs with from extremely early on, but you get some people who really truly just don't get it, to the point where I feel like I'm saying "to be fair, you have to have a really high IQ to enjoy Davepeta as a character", which is a shame cause they're a really silly and fun character who extends from two characters who were in some dark places, rather than subtracting them out of the comic.

#dashingposts #long post #dashingthoughts #i'm not proofreading this #read at your own discretion #i warned you about the post being wrong bro #dashingedits #homestuck #nepeta leijon #davepetasprite #davesprite

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low quality titty jumpscare, but

for some reason I've elected to do little cattails when in actually it's just, like, a rectangular patch of fur here

I'm not going to stop, I like it, I just wonder where I got it from

I also notice that I've forgotten about that little, like, V shape on her stomach, but in general I notice a lot of art does that/forgets a lot of her fur, so eh

it's funny seeing art that has her cat ears but no fur or no fur/cat ears at all, cause it's like, what do you think is going on here

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I feel like I've probably typed this thought out before, but every time I'm reminded of the fionna and cake "discourse" (because people bring these two being so stylistically different so much, it's really nothing new) and how some people act towards towards genderbends in general (which, fair, I can get where you're coming from and all, sometimes it's just straight up ridiculous) it always seemed at least a little silly to me in this case specifically because, like, it all stems from

Nat just having a very curvy/flowy style and a whole world being built from said style, after the fact

Fionna and a lot of the characters in her world being similar but still somewhat distinctly different take on Finn's (no, I'm not talking about how the show justifies exploring the idea by making it Ice King fanfiction, that's an in-universe excuse for a real world concept being adapted for the show) like how in the comics Ice Queen was a frozen water nymph with a history with Cake, or in general how Cake isn't just "female Jake the dog" but is a cat dating weird black hole producing unicorn not *just* a male lady rainicorn.

4chan's old AT community being a mishmash of AUs and random OC, admittedly some more "problematic" than others

and just what happens when random people working on the show pop up here and there (I don't know about now, but people who work on shows stopping by 4chan's cartoon board because it was easily accessible and anonymous wasn't too uncommon)

But years after and due to an EXTREME lack of context (or just people who had their issues finding other people who had the same issues and then those posts blowing up to a point of people who didn't have said issues seeing it), some people just say "why does the young tube boy now have curves. Having curves is so fucked up because don't worry about it, by the way."

which on a surface level I understand but is incredibly ironic because at the same time, there were and still are people who liked her because she's largely just a regular looking girl in a similar situation to Finn, with her body type being seen as unconventional because that's kind of just what Nat goes for and why a lot of people like Bee and Puppycat

which very much goes against the "rules" usually used for Adventure Time characters and Finn specifically, and in any other show would probably have been heavily limited if not for how fast and loose the show played around with the concepts it was willingly to explore

Like, for as much as I understand (and how funny it is) making a "Genderbent" Finn be the same design but with a venus sign pointing to her in response to the preexisting Fionna, I don't think this same line of thought (alone) would have lead to anything else that marks just how wildly different the world of "Fionna and Cake" is, because it sort of misses the forest for the trees.

I don't know, I think it's sort of funny how these kinds of general thoughts can change, and how something that can be so wild at one point can end up being mundane and seen as "tropey" later on, especially with something on a mundane level as this. Because the idea that "people were fine with it then, so people should be fine with it now" is dangerous, but "people can voice their complaints now, so it was always kind of messed up" I wouldn't really agree with wholesale, either.

At the end of the day, it's kind of just differing opinions with different understandings of the contexts leading to them, especially since this just started as a silly little drawing that blew up into an AU that then got into the show it was made for, and etc.

It'll be very interesting to see how things change up in the actual Fionna and Cake special.

#dashingposts #dashingthoughts #long post #adventure time #fionna and cake #genderbend #genderbending #genderbend discourse #fionna and cake discourse

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The thing about "Birdo v Birdetta" is that while yes, "Birdetta" is what the game manual says she prefers to be called, this is the very same game manual that misgenders her in the first place and said info is only used there, and is over 30 years old

Meanwhile, almost all subsequent releases featuring her have her referred to/referring to *herself* as Birdo, so a part of me feels like it's just natural to refer to her as Birdo because that's kind of how she presents herself, if that makes sense? But at the same time, almost all of these subsequent appearances includes some unnecessary with transphobic slight, whether through jokes or poor translations, so that hardly singles out said old game manual

And then there's "Birdo" as her name versus "Birdo" as her species, and then her name being Catherine in Japanese, and how she also really likes to be called Cathie

This video goes into a couple of trans characters, but she and the topic of her name is within the very first minutes

So it sort of feels weird to not refer to her as Birdo, being how she's called for ages, but I also can't say I don't understand where people are coming from when they feel like doing so is akin to deadnaming her, even though said name comes from the very case of misgendering her

#dashingposts #dashingthoughts #I don't think I have a point here im just thinking #Youtube #super mario bros #birdo #birdetta

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(at least from my understanding) people finding the pairing of the onceler with himself weird/funny wasn't because the action of doing so was somehow inherently immoral/problematic but because the circumstances of there being no other character but an eviler version of themselves to ship with and then how it compounded into hundreds of AUs centered solely around said character being shipped with themselves is something to behold

If fandom had a better and more recognized word for these kinds of ships other than [x]"c*st", then (while there would understandably still be people who would find it weird and offputting) there would be less people who think someone being shipped with an alternate version of themselves was somehow "problematic".

I can't find it because I'm bad at tagging my rants, but I've said it before: the power of language is a heavy thing in why people are so bad at seeing how "pro"sh*ppers are because the first thing they see without context is someone who is "pro shipping", meanwhile "anti" invokes a strong negative feeling even if that person is literally just someone who says "hey, this is kind of gross, don't follow me if you're into that", which is why "antis" range from "just a normal human being who really shouldn't be called anything" to "someone who is proactively against and calls out the behaviors of people doing bad things, sometimes to the detriment of themselves of those around them"

Basically, people who see something with "cest" in it very rightfully and generally will have a reason to react negatively to it, before getting any kind of context.

It all depends on the story's text and (since it's shipping) fandom interaction: there's a stark difference between, say, people who might actually end up somehow shipping Simon with the Winter King who are basically their own archetype of "Simon" versus people who somehow ship Finn and Fern even though the writing contextually and consistently portrays them as familial and brother-like (by Finn's own words even) and almost always attracts *those* types of creeps who would ship them precisely because of that

In a way, it requires experience with stories that may vaguely touch upon it through clones or alternate timelines (or sometimes genderbending), then the ability to think critically in what's being portrayed and for what purpose, and then whether or not it's even important/relevant to be talking about shipping in the first place

Basically, same conclusion as last time: if it was called literally anything else, there'd probably be less of an immediate ick factor

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What's funny about the "legendaries are going to be motorcycle mounts" idea is that while their names Koraidon in Scarlet and Miraidon in Violet are already thematic (korai -> ancient and mirai -> future and don -> tooth/usually referencing lizards/dinosaurs), if true, they can be taken even further:

Ko-RIDE-on and Mi-RIDE-on

#dashingposts #koraidon #miraidon #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #dashingthoughts

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As much as there is a "homestucks don't read homestuck" issue that could be discussed, I don't think the answer is to go "Well, so-and-so didn't remember that on page 9669 Bimbo Baggins say he Spoinked the Fingle, so they clearly don't understand anything that happens in the comic at all" is the course you want to go down

Like, there's "misremembering the comic" there's "misinterpreting the comic" and there's "this is a minor trivia point that while interesting to remember isn't conclusive on how much of a good reader™ you are"

Also, in terms of people not (fully) reading the epilogues and voicing disdain, while yeah there is a "people who dunk on works without fairly engaging with them" issue that could be discussed, I don't think the answer is to go "Well, this person stopped reading something they didn't enjoy, so that means that they dislike it in bad faith because you need to have fully completed something in order to discuss your issues with it"

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Finally seeing Wapeach makes me see why Nintendo rejected the design.

Oh my God, like, it's soooo boring

Not even the "redesigns" where people make slight changes to it work, and like, people are making well drawn fanart for it, don't get me wrong, but yeah, sometimes things are rejected because they're not that interesting on their own

I don't even think they need to go the "fat and evil route" or "give her a mustache cowards" or "make her weird!", I understand the reference and how they got there, and get the juxtaposition of small dainty but has a temper character in charge of abrasive ugly mooks, but also because I understand that reference it doesn't stand out and kind of just randomly turns the two-man comedy duo into lackeys.

On her own, she's just a chibi Peach with random orbs on her head, and as a concept I don't know if we add anything with a third Wa

Course I could just be a hipster hesitant to any change, it's a bit ironic to say it's a boring design that doesn't bring much to the table when Waluigi is just purple lankey Luigi, but I don't think "and also she sometimes has an axe" makes her any more interesting, and we do have the retrospect of Rosalina existing so adding another random "blonde character in a dress" doesn't help, even if she'd have come first.

Anything you'd want to do with a Wapeach would probably be funnier if done with Daisy (acknowledging that people calling Daisy a Wa is a touchy topic for Daisy fans, but fanart of Daisy and at least Waluigi have been pretty funny and it'd build the idea of the characters we know being a bit more tight), or could just use any number of Wario's cast of characters and build them up

In any case, it's still really cool to see concept art proving they really did give some thought to the idea far enough to actually sketch stuff out

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You tell a hs fan that Hussie made a lot of things up as they went along and that many of the things she wrote changed over time:

they might vaguely understand and start branching off in how they discuss hs, its characters and its concepts

But if you tell them that troll romance (specifically moirails, but conveniently never auspisticism) as a system is more complicated than just "hussie used the word 'romance' so obviously everything is romantic" and "hussie took a long time writing about this one thing so obviously it's extremely serious and should be applied one-to-one to real world relationships (just ignore every time the comic talks about pairings ignoring quadrants, how much troll society was specifically tailored to ignore certain relationships, or bring up how the focused character groups exploring these quadrants are teenagers who constantly compartmentalized/question their feelings, as well as the parallels between existing shipping culture that it exists to somewhat parody):

that's when people start digging stakes in the ground

like there's a difference between "hold on, maybe hussie was kind of spitting with this, let's see how we can build on this IRL/in fanon" and "this is a concrete, foolproof system, designed by an infallible wit that people get 'wrong' because 'they just don't understanding it like I do'"

#I don't know #some of you guys are waaay to scared of the word ''platonic'' #and I simply don't interact with fandom enough to care about people calling it the ''bestie'' quadrant as if that's an issue #dashingposts #dashingthoughts

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Bitches will be like: It's a shame this specific homestuck flash isn't as huge as the other ones, it's kind of just silly, doesn't move the plot along too much, and wastes a good song

My Sister in Christ, you read the silly and doesn't move the plot along much comic

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no, I'm sorry, I'm going to make another post about this, this just feels like it's flat out not true?

We had a whole thing about how funny this twitter post was because of the immensely apparent and continuously rotating teenage audience, but like, it's still true. Half-true at worse, if you consider how it develops later on, but arguably so because you still get references to adult fandom things, that clearly aren't put in for teens.

yeah, just because it was a silly comic written *about* teenagers growing up, doesn't mean it was a silly comic written *for* teenagers growing up

I mean I'm just being pedantic, I think the content warning is good, but like, you can't tell me Andrew Hussie was thinking "oh boy, my teenage audience is going to love these very specific references to things I and my established audience of internet nerds grew up with"

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