#just a kid when the world hit me

[mooninkling]

Gifted kid they told me I was sometime, And lie it would be to say I didn't believe. One day, when, I don't know to tell, Life decided I had it too well. I found myself between the walls Of trusting myself or my teen phase calls. Horrendous nights full of tissues hidden under the bed, Days on the phone with a smiling dad. Things started fading, Never once I was or wanted to be depressing But everything felt without meaning As my life when I was 9 or 10 and I found about dying.

-Fragment from Gotta sort you out

#thoughts #my poetry #writing poetry #absolutely exhausted #i keep remembering those days #how the world started to suffocate me little by little #and i was so surprised #expecting the beautiful life I saw on TV since I was a kid #expecting the beautiful life of a teenager that never came #i was just a kid #just a kid when the world hit me #shook reality #destroyed #everything #plagued my mind with darkness #teenage #kid #life #reality hurts

[puppyeared]

i think the reason why im so drawn to spirit tracks and pkmn scarvi is that having the legendary/princess as a companion rather than a goal that marks the games completion makes me feel satisfied the way i would after helping a friend

my brother always teases me about how I still havent finished botw after almost 7 years bc "id rather be out picking flowers" which i wont say is untrue. and yes i know Zeldas been holding off ganon for 100 years, yes i can get some sort of idea what her relationship with link was like by recalling memories and going through her diary. ive always loved botw for its unique storytelling and setting which makes it stand out, because it lets you get to know who you're saving.

but because theyre memories, it only works if theres something for the player to investigate that already happened. its retroactive (but effective nonetheless)

on the other hand, spirit tracks does something similar but instead of having the player try to piece together memories and interpret them as a spectator, you actually have an opportunity to get to know zelda yourself by talking to her and working together. besides making it a gameplay mechanic, giving the player control over how they interact with zelda makes it so much more personable.

and I find that making the goal feel personal instead of an obligation gives me more of a reason to work towards it. I know what kind of person botw zelda was but as the player, shes still very much a stranger to me. but spirit tracks zelda? thats my friend!!!! she invited me to go to the beach after we get her body back!!! i dont want to whip her to make her move faster thats mean :(

you know how hostage negotiators are trained to introduce themselves and get to know the person theyre negotiating with because its harder to hurt someone when you know what their favorite food is? its kinda like that, because it feels like im helping a friend than being told or led to do smth

and although i havent played scarvi myself, i feel an attachment to koraidon and miraidon even just watching playthrough clips because its like!! thats my weird scaly dog!! it loves sandwiches and we're friends!!! you know!!!!!!

#i dont normally write long posts like this but i think ive been trying to put this into words for a long time and it finally happened #my cloth mother spirit tracks zelda and my wire mother lttp zelda #ACTUALLY ANOTHER THING when i was a kid i always felt guilty when i had to catch the legendary at the end of the game #because to me it was like 'i know none of this is real but if i capture you and have you under my thumb am i robbing the world of something #normal thoughts for a 10 year old to have #when i talked to my brother abt this he was like 'i mean yeah the point is to dunk on the NPCs what were you expecting' and i mean i think #i get that its supposed to feel rewarding because the legendary is THE reward. but it doesnt feel right and i dislike he feeling of pushing #others down to get ahead. i guess u can argue sun/moon does smth similar where you have nebby with lillie #but lillie still ends up handing nebby over to the player and i STILL feel bad because im like shit man you raised that little guy #and koraidon/miraidon feels less like a reward but more like overpowered motorcycle lizard that is just so oupydog. and i love him #and in spirit tracks i went out of my way doing some of the side quests bc zelda asked nicely and honestly that was enough for me #i think all of this boils down to.. i feel very protective abt things i care abt so stories that give me a reason to care hits harder #this can also go the other way bc i CRIED when i finished links awakening because i KNEW every person and im responsible for #literally the end of their world. like. there was a family with 5 kids. marin loved singing and cared about me. she was my FRIEND #i just. ugh. i have too many feelings rn. i kinda wanna draw more spirit tracks link and zelda i think that wld make me feel better #yapping #diary #loz #pokemon

[imminent-danger-came]

Absolutely ripped 7 foot tall man but he’s a baby girl

#like I said #Sandy single-handedly destroyed toxic masculinity #It's about his kindness alright #Mr ''I just want to be there for my friends when they need me'' reminds me of the ''I would hold your hand at the dentist'' post #Like. Oh my fucking god #2x08 hits me so fucking hard every time #IT'S ABOUT CHOOSING KINDNESS ALRIGHT #''I *am* a monster! That's what the world expects me to be—so that's exactly what I'm gonna give 'em!'' LIKE #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #I LOVE YOU SANDY #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk sandy #monkie kid

[mattodore]

guy whose childhood drags behind him like a dead body

#river dipping #simblr #ts4 #ts4 edit #theodore doe #echthroi #i forgot to post this after sharing theo's birthday edit last night... listen i was so tired i just hit post and passed out #but so far today i've just been looking through character page themes for a bit and messing around with codes while watching dropout tv #i still need to get to my activity feed sometime today or tomorrow and then i want to set aside some time to just hang out on here #and catch up on things like i keep disappearing and missing out on posts jgkhjfnkh so i gotta do that... #but i'm actually fighting off the world's biggest nap rn..... my meds work really well but lord i'm still so tired all the time woof #so i'll probably end up caving soon lmao #but!!! anyway!! THEO!!! there was nothing i could do abt the proportions on theo as a kid like i couldn't make his head any smaller... #the sims team actually hate me so bad and are trying to force the huge cartoonishly big heads onto my sims </3 #also when i aged him down to a kid like all of his presets were gone so i just had to try and replicate them to the best of my abilities #his lip preset actually has a much deeper cupid's bow but thanks to the liquify tool <33333 it looks like his regular preset #i've actually posted teen theo on here before but i've made a ton of changes to him since then so this version is pretty different compared #to the older version of him at sixteen #he's definitely got more baby fat than he did before like his cheeks are pretty round #um. also i have these closeups i took of adult theo from the pose i made for his birthday edit that i gotta edit a lil and then post!!! #bc you really didn't get to see his expression or the actual pose that well and EYEEEE personally am really in love with the details #of the pose itself like ugh.......... theo is so.......................... yeah. #holds him

[theloveinc]

Gojo smiles that smile. The one that curls his lips ever so slightly at the corners, and barely wrinkles his brow as it drags itself upward. The one that taunts with endless questions with no clear answers… with his chin in his palm, his bangs dripping down the tilt of his face, and his dark glasses slipping, too.

“Am I not a nuisance?” he asks, he tests, he trials, waiting for you to stumble, to fall, to berate him for being the spiteful person that he knows very well everyone secretly loves.

Instead, you raise your own brows in question. Inhale, almost in a deep sigh. Then you tilt your chin in and laugh.

“Our lives nearly end every day and you think I find you a nuisance? The people I love have been murdered only for you to ask if you’re the nuisance?” You roll your eyes. “Don’t kid yourself, Satoru. You could never be the problem.”

#gojo #do I tag this as gojo x reader? #truck it #gojo x reader #ego death gojo ego death gojo #I love him but I need to humble him so badly it’s #it’s bc he’s an uneducated man in education #THE WORST KIND #thinking he’s all that everyone pretending he ain’t sh*t when we all know HE IS SH*T #makes me want to hit him with a broom like #the world has real problems I don’t care u want to act all goofy !!!!! #it’s just cuz I’ve been working with kids but like … they do things they think you’ll be mad abt… and when u aren’t mad… they’re shocked #gojo is so like. #I know his tomfoolery is all on purpose even tho he’s genuinely silly and kind at heart #but like… everyone falling for it and kinda not taking him seriously… #I mean I get it a lot of the time but also #where is the ego death… where is the vulnerability… he needs to be ignored #truly I think that’s something that would drive him INSANE #am I explaining this correctly? #like I just process him so differently than everything I read #which doesn’t make all that bad but like… I need the combo. the nuisance. I gotta earn the silly after #breaking him in #nuance*** not nuisance LOL #anyway #sorry if this bad I tired #caitie post #gen

[punkeropercyjackson]

Thinking every character would be into older men is a weird ass assumption to make actually,especially when the characters in question aren't even adults

#fr i'm 22 and men with full head of grey hairs have hit on me and i still wish i'd beat their asses in public instead running away in fear #i don't even have p//edo trauma i just find no appeal in dating men old enough to be my dad(the way this phrase is a romance/p*rn trope.die) #and no i am not saying all age gaps are bad i ship some age gap pairings and one of my selfships is a 40something y/o with a 60something y/o #i just think there's a world of difference between a young adult and someone a few years older and two minors with a 1 or 2 year age diff #and someone who's just starting out being grown and someone with decades of experience or a middle schooler and a college student #this goes quadruple for characters from pg media.you can't call 'curate your experience' when you're invading children's spaces #i assure you that most kids and even adults are MUCH more interested in rizzing up people their age than getting pewpaws and mewmaws #antiproship #age gap cw #percy jackson #antilukercy #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #stephanie brown #antisladick #antisladejay #antijayslade #roy harper #antijayroy #ra's al-ghul #antijaytim #antitimras #jon kent #antidamijon #antijaysteph #bi #trans #summerposting

[marinsawakening]

WAIT KAITO AND SHINICHI ARE CONFIRMED COUSINS NOW?????

First: I'M WINNING

Second: My sincerest condolences to the kaishin shippers. I know this sounds sarcastic but it's actually not. Sincerely this must really suck and I can't even imagine what wars are being waged among the shippers right now.

Third: However pretending that this is some sudden nonsensical plot twist is just straight up denial I'm sorry but Kaito and Shinichi have been canonically confirmed to look like twins for years now. Kaito famously utilized this to sneak past security while disguised as Shinichi without needing to wear a mask. All he needed to do was ruffle his hair and boom not even Shinichi's best friends were able to tell them apart. It was hilarious. Anyway this wasn't some one-off either this has been a recurring piece of canon. Frankly it'd be way weirder if they just happened to look identical without being related, and the only reason that fan theory wasn't more popular was because of how awkward that'd make things for the kaishin shippers.

Fourth: Can we PLEASE talk about how funny this is oh my god the family dynamics. This is the single funniest family in the world I'm losing my MIND

#just. oh my god. what were toichi and yusaku's parents doing #that one of their kids turned out to be a world famous mystery writer and the other an international jewel thief #are you telling me kaito could've just hit up his genius detective cousin when he suspected foul play with his dad's death?? #y'know? instead of doing All That???? #I haven't seen the movie yet I don't know the specifics I'm assuming neither of them knew so I guess not but still. oh my god #most importantly: #ARE YOU TELLING ME TOICHI KUROBA'S BROTHER BECAME WORLD FAMOUS FOR A BOOK SERIES ABOUT A PHANTOM THIEF???????? #OH MY GOD. I AM WINNING. THIS IS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING SHIT #my posts #dcmk

[peridotite]

im still reeling from gohan outright stating that he doesn't like fighting. everything he's been through since he was 4 years old up to adulthood. and he doesn't like fighting. every exhausting training he's had, every battle he's ever fought, every victory or defeat, every villain he's ever had to face for the sake of the world. and he doesn't like fighting. he's just a kid who wants to make the people he loves proud

#ok like obviously gohan hits different fpr me bc he's been my fave since i was a tiny child but like. he's just so different from the rest #goku and krillin and the others wanted to be fighters. saiyans want to fight. piccolo likes it too he spends his free time getting stronger #goten and trunks want to fight. even future trunks was eager to follow in gohan's footsteps and likes training #but gohan was just a kid violently thrust into world defining battle after world defining battle #he never wanted to be a fighter #its just the reality he was born into #he constantly states that ''im the son of goku!'' so he Has to do this he Has to defeat them but he just wants to be a researcher!! #he's a little kid with no friends his age except an also traumatized alien child #bc he spent his entire childhood either fighting for his life or training til his bones broke or locked in his room studying advanced shit #his best friend is his mentor/surrogate dad who kidnapped him and beat him up and abandoned him in the wild for 6 months when he was FOUR #(ily piccolo) #anyway. i love gohan im glad he lives a happy life in his adulthood (ignoring whatever the hell happens in dbs and dbs super hero) #my posts #dbz #gohan

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Might be a hot take but a major character’s death is really only as good as the weight and the treatment that the narrative gives it. Sure, any author has the ability to write death as they see fit. But whether the consumer (of any given form of media) is actually able to emotionally connect and resonate with the departure of someone who has occupied a good chunk of narrative space very heavily depends on how it’s treated within the story. If it’s a major character, the narrative needs enough built-in breathing space. As in, the consumer doesn’t have to fill in the blanks as to how the death impacted the plot or the remaining characters. Let the narrative do that for them, and that would actually allow the consumer to better react and relate to that major death (sadness, anger, joy, etc). Allow the rest of the characters (who were impacted by the deceased) to react to their parting. Let them engage with the death in a manner that helps justify the character’s inclusion in the narrative to begin with. Make it clear how the character’s life and (especially) their death relate to the larger themes of the story. Because most consumers aren’t stupid. We don’t want our hands held at every waking moment, but we also don’t want our investment in a story to be insulted just for the sake of a cheap shock. Give us time to breathe and grieve. And respect that we have put in a lot of emotional investment in a story and its characters, and we deserve to have that acknowledged.

#recent developments in a very popular ip have forced me to think about how creators treat the deaths of major or main characters #and the discourse of ~ohh we don’t need to see every single thing~ has got me thinking #like sure we don’t need to be spoon fed everything but consumers have varying emotional investments depending on the characters #a side character it’s passable if we don’t get any fanfare but a MAIN??? #we’ve invested so much into their journey and the themes in their arcs and how they affect the world around them #is it too bad to want that to be actually acknowledged by & within the narrative? #so that whole thing got me to think about main characters whose deaths were well done in fiction #ned stark imo is a really good one because the immediate payoff of his death is the start of the wot5k and long term effect was #that the stark kids now had to fill in their father’s shoes and rise and become leaders in their own right and while we still have twow an #ados we can also tell as shown in adwd that the long term effect of Ned’s legacy is that house stark will be preserved even when it’s on th #brink of extinction #so that’s a well done imo because we also see throughout 4 books just how much his death meant to the kids #his death hurts because we see how his kids are hurting - jon arya sansa bran are GOING THROUGH IT AND IT HURTS! #I’d argue MCU did a pretty good job of showing tony’s everlasting legacy after his death and they did that through Peter who was the proteg #we can love and grieve for tony though peter whom we love and have come to relate to so Tony’s death has a lot of narrative weight #and how it’s handled is satisfying even though we’re hurt that he’s gone #same with sirius and dumbledore in HP - sirius’ especially hits sooo hard because Harry goes absolutely apeshit in ootp and then has to #pick up the pieces in hbp + dumbledore’s life and death is given quite a good amount of narrative space for both harry and the reader #the recent developments in jjk have me worried that a certain someone’s departure won’t be given the narrative weight it deserves #and part of that is gege’s pacing being wonky because oops it’s another big fight that will take god knows how many chapters idk #I’ll wait and see but as of right now….i feel like fan complaints about it shouldn’t be brushed aside because they’re super valid 😕 #asoiaf #harry potter #jujutsu kaisen #mcu #marvel #comics #manga

[immamapletreekid]

instead of grinding for finals i lost hours to a one piece wiki spiral

#IT ALL STARTED...WITH CP9S INDEPENDENT REPORT #in the most predictable fashion. ive yet again fallen for the “dangerous murder bot villains are actually a found family and genuinely care #for one another“ #PLSSS THE WAY THEY ALL WORKED SO HARD TO EARN THE MONEY TO TREAT LUCCI #thinking so hard about how they are one collecfive unit. they move together they work travel live thrive together #giggled so hard at kaku giraffe slide #SOEAKING OF WHICH I JUST LEARNED KAKU IS THE YOUNGEST OUT OF CP9 #HE WAS 18 WHEN THEY PLANTED HIM AND THE OTHERS IN WATER 7 #im not ok im ripping my pillow to shreds punchjng the wall screaming shaking good GOD DJFJ #KALIFAS DAD WAS IN THE PREV GEN OF CP9????? SO SHES RRALLY BEEN THERE THROUGH IT ALL #thinking about lucci and jabra and blueno trio... #yes i originally was devastated to discover my favourite shipwrifjts were actually undercover government assassins but like #the found family.....maybe not found family but FORGED FAMILY THEY MADE IT WORK #i still think it's so silly that. kaku is the youngest but hes second ij terms od power and he speaks like an old man #in my ideal world cp9 brutally murders spandam and they live their best lives after doijg whatever #attention span for stats and cs??? nonexistent #but yea sure i can spend 2 hours memorizing the key detaisl from the wiki entries of all cp9 agents and making a chart and timeline #maybe this is a sign...that i need to fix this before it causes bigger issues #rambling about stuff #wait omg no last thought is how when all the cp9 members reunite after 5 years and firsg thing they do is immediately check their doriki #and jabras upset by how both lucci ajd kakus are higher than his now but then u think about how hes the oldest in their group #heck five years ago when they were sent off to water 7 those two were 23 and FUCKIJG 18 YEARS OLD #OF COURSE HES UPSET THESE TWO FUCKING KIDS ARE STRONGEE THAN HIM #who holds seniority over them. im actually devastated and extremely entertained #the last time u see the youngest of your group hes some 18 year old kid you could best in a spar. maybe even leave some words of wisdom for #then he goes and leanrs how to build ships for 5 years and comes back stronger than u #they are a family to me... HE COULD HAVE ABANDONED TJEM?!?! THEM ALL HAD THE CHOICE OF LEAVING THE OTHERS BEHIND TO SAVE THEMSELVES #BUT THEY DIDNT. HE STILL GAVE KALIFA HIS SHIRT AND CARRIED KAKU ON HIS BACK ALL THE WAY TO ST POPLAR #biting my hands hitting the wall scratchijg the floors screaming shakijg not normal about these guys #THE WAY JABRA HAS A PET CHICKEN TO COUJTER HATTORI

[words-be-upon-ye]

There are a couple tropes I really love in the space of Miraculous Ladybug fan works, but quite possibly my favorite is when the miraculous holders just get creature from using their powers.

Like yeah, I would say that hosting the power of an abstract concept given sentience, that got shoved into the shape of an animal and bound to a piece of jewelry, would kinda mess with your body a bit.

The little bit of this we get in canon is basically that Adrien loves being a cat and the whole Tikki munches incident.

But I love it when people give them ears and wings and tails, give them eyes that aren't quite human anymore. Fuck with their gender and their sense of body. Sometimes it's body horror, sometimes it's just aesthetic. Love it either way.

I just think it's so fun, a lot of the time it's combined with the like "when a holder and the kawami really respect and bond with each other there's nothing that can be done except having magic bleed into the holder" I think that's fun, but also just making the animal of the kwami a bigger deal is fun. Like if you're going to make it a ladybug you might as well give her wings and antenna and mirrored eyes.

#yes I do like ml #there's just so many characters I like to mess with in my head #also sue me I'm trans and have a certain respect for body horror. for the forced change of your physical self especially when you chose it #anyway I alwasys ramble in the tags #I set up this side blog to hide random writing thoughts I had and oh boy do I have a lot and none of them are on here #and recenetly (and by recently I mean like the past year) I've been hit with so many ml thoughts) #they're all gay #and some of them are cohesive #actually a lot of them revolve around chloe and au's where she gets a meaningful improvement arc #give that gay girl intresting stuff #miraculous ladybug #ml #although one of my ideas is also my very fun very gender take of ml where to conceal their identities ladybug and chat start pretending #to be different people under the masks like they don't need to like explicitly say. they just #switch costumes a lot and they like slyly hint at maybe theres dozens of people who pass around the miraculous to make sure that their #Identities are always safe #and to support the act they also start changing the genders they present as as holders. everyone is like “it's clearly multiple people” #and during this process marinette and Adrien are both like slowly having personal gender revelations #and gabe is like tearing his hair out over having to fight this secret group of superheros that he can never find or catch #but he's still just getting his ass kicked by two kids who're doing the world's most successful costumes change bits #it's like those “fake dating” tropes where they're like “oh but we really do love each other” but with gender #“oh I've got a great idea lets pretend to be different genders sometimes” #cut to “hmh ok so I think I'm not pretending anymore” #oh I do always ramble in the tags

[digirainebow]

i didn't think jacob would be arguing with olivia, wanting it almost as much as her. what the hell. i expected the self defeated, taking one for the team attitude but actively needing it like her? when he had been trying to stop her all night? i feel like i've been blasted by a buckshot

#digi discusses #the world needs more jacobs and i just took him out of it #did he go back to being a kid again? to see the lights of possibility again? #to feel like he's doing something exciting and worthwhile again not by making art but by being “freed” by maggie's knowledge once more? #or did he. choose another timeline entirely? augh i'm gonna have to watch the ending back again...where did he go... #maggie would be turning in her graaaaaave to know he chose this. she would hate that for him she would h a t e it #the anna parallels. stuck between time only able to hear him on radios if you are lucky. fuck off #becoming an urban legend...i think he would have liked that. immortalized just like he wanted. ugh wait did riley do that for him #but the details getting lost his name becoming warped over time? i think riley (and i) would feel it was almost disrespectful to his memory #the fact he puts meeting riley on the same pedestal as saving camena. god god god god. even when they aren't friends they are. #riley talking to athena like a person like he did. i am MISERABLE #its the dys exocolonist thing all over again. he's happy and that's...good. but he could have been just as happy if he'd stayed too #every single time i think about the hug i'm going to cry #every single ending has done this to me there is literally no winning #being kinda mean to him was bad enough but this ending just feels! it feels like riley. like i. drove him to. #girl i need to log off bye #oxenfree II spoilers #yeah there's the essay. just took a minute #i will make another one about hurt healed olivia in a bit too because that. made me sob. that one hit really...close to home #he says when he was a teenager he would have fallen for it if someone told him he could open a portal in the sky and make things better #what a liar he would still do it now #EDIT: NO i knew it he says almost exactly what nona says after you hug her when you hug him. the orange-associated characters strike again

[wretchedspecimen]

i've been seeing a lot of posts about the way children don't get treated as human beings deserving of respect but i want to talk about the way so many of these negative experiences children have with adults come at the hands of people whose literal job is to deal with children (parents, teachers, healthcare workers etc.)

#i've seen a lot of people talking about the childfree child haters which is valid #as someone who doesn't want kids i can agree that the way some of those people talk is absolutely wild #i saw a reddit post a while ago where someone was asking if they could call the cops on a 7 yr old who hit them. yes seriously #but really i think the more pressing issue is the number of adults who are around children often by choice and yet- #still don't know how to treat them properly #it feels like a lot of people who take up these jobs have kind of an idealized version of the way the children around them should act #and if the child in question doesn't meet those expectations the adult can be downright cruel towards them #and if that kid is neurodivergent and/or disabled hooo boy that cruelty ramps up tenfold !! #keep in mind that these expectations would be unrealistic for a grown adult let alone a developing human being who's still figuring out- #the world #it will never make sense to me how many people will either have kids/choose to work with kids and then be surprised when said kid- #acts like *gasp* a child #and the effect that it has on a child to be constantly put down and reprimanded for doing normal human things is devastating #it reminds me of the quote 'the axe forgets but the tree remembers' #the vast majority of the time these adults won't give their actions a second thought #but the kids have to tend to their emotional wounds for the rest of their lives #ugh it's just so frustrating

[willowfey]

someone tell me to be brave and hit send on this email

#i wrote a story a long time ago that feels like it came from behind my ribs #and i’m about to send it to my author/publisher auntie #but. i’ve only let like. a few people in the world read this. and even tho they’ve all been lovely it makes my skin feel #too sensitive. u know what i mean? when ppl read my writing that isn’t fic. it makes my chest feel weird. like i’m sick #i don’t know why i want to be an author. well. yes i do but #anyway this is an auntie who has always thought the best of me even when she had no reason to. she was there at my birth #she’ll be there when I’M having kids. this is an Important Lady. #and she’s a wonderful writer and i just. #i never show anyone anything i’ve made or done bc i can’t bear the thought of being disappointing #i know it’s not a big deal but it is to me and if she tells me it’s just okay i think i’ll throw up possibly #i don’t want to prove her wrong. i don’t want to face the truth that i am not what she thought i’d be. #i know it’s just one little story and it doesn’t hold my entire worth i KNOW she will not be disappointed in me. so why can’t i hit send #WHY CANT I

[spiritofjustice]

last thing i’ll say about Clone High for now: i know a lot of people hated episode 1 (esp after it leaked online a couple months ago) bcs it was all about Cancel Culture after the 2003 clones have to readjust to 2023 culture, but honestly it didn’t bother me. some of it was kinda ~cringe~ ig but honestly it did a good job not just being like “cancel culture bad!!!” in that boring one-note conservative way a lot of shows do and showed the absurdity of all sides ig?

which is a centrist ass opinion to have i know but it’s a funnie comedy show and thats rly the best we can do in a show like this imo. Abe wasn’t right (they def showed that through Topher Bus and Ivan the Terrible supporting him through it but being terrible people that he shouldn’t get close with), the way the new clones handled Abe having a lot of outdated lingo and opinions wasn’t right, and the way Joan reacted wasn’t right either. funny enough i think Confucius was the one who was closest to getting it right, he just gets bogged down with his obsession with tiktok clout or whatever just to show how apologies / cancellation get wrapped up in this pageantry that’s pretty damn worthless ultimately

the episode could’ve been much stronger but i didn’t find it wildly cringe the way a lot of people did. it was just mad clunky like all the fucking episodes have been.

#Psy's no punctuation posts #clone high tag #i think in terms of the best episode so far my favorite was 2? #it still wasn't great but i genuinely thought Topher and JFK getting into a stupid fight in a tiktok comment section was extremely funny #but see i think that scene is a great example of the clunkiness #like i get part of the joke is likely how unfunny and longwinded their insults are but it didn't work for me #esp when Confucius corrects Topher's grammar with a really longwinded response #to me. this is an obvious joke but it would've been funnier if COnfucius was typing for a really long time and hits submit #and then when it cuts to Abe and Topher looking at the comment it just says *you're #that would've been so much funnier and more effective than the way they handled it #also i feel like Abe was just at Topher's house so the writers wouldn't feel bad leaving him out of the episode #cause man he did not need to be there #the inclusion of tiktok (or yknow the tiktok knockoff) felt very clunky and like How Do You Do Fellow Kids-esque #but like it can WORK bcs it's about the 2003 clones learning abt the new world and they do not do nearly enough with it

[pointsfortrying]

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#rye rambles #rye rants #cw child abuse mention #gjskgkslg #sometimes i wish child abuse was socially acceptable to talk ab for fandom reasons #which is not something i would've thought id think ab sm and yet #me when i wish i could talk ab a hc and say its 'bc it happened to me a lot' #<- me whe i want to say that s.tan pines g.ravity f.alls could've been kicked out multiple times growing up #(a hc of which i have many! detailed thoughts on) #or me when i want to take a shortcut in trying to explain why xyz is my fav character #'they hit children-' okay like. first off #this other popular and well loved character hits his kid too but nobody talks ab that #bc in the context of the world/series/cartoon like nature of all of it it doesn't hold the same depth as it does irl #is it good? not but also its a series ab god damn pirates-- #and secondly ive Been hit as a kid Many times #bites teeth #its like. i get it i rly do but also #it just. annoys me when someone tries to tell me /I/ cant like a fictional character #bc of xyz as if I Havent Gone through xyz in a scenario Devoid of the fictional context that comes with #a Fictional Series that has Cartoonish violence and where things are different #like. do i think its right No #am i capable of literary analysis/reading comprehensive Yes #<- meaner than it should be but also bites teeth #nobody has to like said character but raaaghh #ppl reducing characters with a lot of depth n complexities to two bad traits/decisions my loathed #just. overall its just the implications that ppl think i take child abuse lightly bc of a fucking fictional character i like #annoys me to no end #considering the fact that it Is a Very personal and close topic to me #vent #bc i forgot that oops me when i stay up til 5:30am and i get rambly (negative)