#just had to get this out

[sludgewolf]

We need to talk about the lack of "filler" in series that're been released recently

I just watched a video about ATLA and it's filler or lack there of and, they're right, ATLA doesn't have filler episodes as we define "filler episodes" now. Our understanding of filler is closer to what's used for anime that is, non canon episodes that are made so the anime doesn't catch up with the manga. Applying this to western animation (I say animation bc I graduated in it thus a better understanding and I don't really watch many live action series so I don't have much of a say) we ended up with the impression that it means "episodes that don't move the plot forward"

Which, doesn't make sense with Western animation since most of it isn't a adaptation of something else, or with comic adaptations for ex, they're mostly adaptations of various arcs coming together as a single story. Smt very different from the manga to anime adaptation process

Comparing ATLA who positively doesn't have "filler" and X-men 97 who negatively doesn't have "filler" is a good example of what I'm trying to say.

Not all of ATLA episodes move the "learn the elements and defeat the firelord" plot forward and that's good thank fuck not all episodes are rushing ahead to throwing this 12yo we barely know into a battle with a full grown adult who's perpetrating a war against the rest of the world. Instead we actually get to know the characters, we see them traveling from the South to the North Pole instead of spawning where the plot demands, we see Aang adapt to the world post iceberg nap and learn to be the avatar, we see the effect the 100 year war had in this world. And most of all, the more "filler" episodes contributed to the pacing of the series, when binging the series now I still feel like the Gaang traveled across the whole world and didn't just teleport to the plot.

Opposed to X-men 97, don't get me wrong I'm absolutely loving it but the story is always being racing forward at a breakneck speed. They did try to pace it better inter cutting the main plot with Scott, Jean, Madelyne, Wolverine's whole deal and the "LifeDeath " plot, but if there wasn't the weekly wait for the next episode we would not have any time to breathe and digest what happened in the episodes.

I'm still confused on how Madelyne went from trying to have a normal life outside the x-men to being in Genosha's council. Still on Madelyne, I didn't care that they had to part ways with Nathan, ik he's their baby and all that, but as soon as they named the baby Nathan I knew they were throwing that baby to the future to complete the time loop of him being in the original series. And that's because they never got the chance to try to make us care, the writing team couldn't waste time with that since they only had 8 episodes to tell all these stories, the speed that the plot is being taken makes me believe that when writing this season Disney still hadn't signed on the second season and when they did it was too late to rework the script.

This whole thing is reminding me of Hazbin Hotel's pacing problems, analyzing it as if I didn't watch the pilot, we just met the characters and suddenly had to care that they were going to die in six months, we don't really know Charlie other than 1. she's Lucifer's daughter, 2. daddy issues that aren't rly addressed besides jokes, 3. she's with Vaggie (other character we didn't get to know) and 4. she's the owner of the hotel and wants to rehabilitate the sinners. The worst part of it is, we teleported from the start of the season to 6 months later out of nowhere and suddenly we're at the finale with the big boss battle. Of course HuskDust is a more popular ship than Charlie and Vaggie, we never got the chance to see them being together other than in episodes when the characters are being dragged by the plot while Angel and Husk had an episode where we met them and got the time to see them interact without being pushed by the extermination plot

This is exactly why "filler episodes" are important, we should actually know who these characters are before the big fight at the end so we can actually care about what happens to them. X-men 97 may not suffer that much from it but it's because we already knew most of the characters, but we never got to meet this version of Madelyne, see her going out alone to a world that hates her existence, see her morn having been forced to send her baby off to the future and maybe not being able to see him ever again and finally see never see how did she even end up in Genosha.

Or Storm, sure we got a two parter, but how did she get to fuck knows where to meet Forge in that bar, what did she go through during the time she was traveling alone, it's not as if people wouldn't recognize her as a x-men even if she'd left the team, maybe see more of how the relationship between her and Forge developed, cuz I didn't get why she still wants to be with him even after he basically created the tec that was turned into the weapons used to kill mutants, that's smt one can't just forgive, and yes I'd like to see her as she struggles with not having her powers, smt other than she feeling lonely without the wind (this would work even as just a montage with sad music as she travels to the fuckall haunted desert)

On a rly quick note on Invincible I do think they did a good job with their pacing and character development with the time they had, I'd like to have seen a bit more of Rex's development from complete douche to Lizard Leader homemade lobotomy to where we are now, but on the Grayson family whole thing they did an amazing job at showing how they're dealing with the aftermath of season 1, there was just a little jump from Debbie downing a bottle of wine every day to full bug mom mode but I do think she'd step up to it no doubt.

Maybe just some scenes of her still working through s1 trauma and questioning wtf is wrong w Nolan bc from her perspective he just killed hundreds of ppl on Earth, almost killed Mark, fucked off to space and suddenly there's a purple half bug baby living in her house calling her mom. But I don't think that's strictly necessary since there's always fanfiction to bridge this gap and it's just a minor thing that bothered me

TLDR: Filler in western cartoons isn't really filler, these are just episodes to help develop the world or characters without having to rush with the plot and also episodes that help with the pacing of the story, thus showing the passage of time or great distances being crossed without having the characters spawn at the next plot point. And we do need it specially for shows that are intended for binging, such as most shows now. What determines good filler from bad filler here is good writing

#atla #avatar the last airbender #x men 97 #hazbin hotel #invincible #animation discussion #on writing #pls feel free to add to this id love to see other ppls opinions on this #moss thoughts #just had to get this out #i do think in my friend group im the most annoying one when it comes to analyzing the script and how things are executed #im also the only comics nerd so i dont have anyone to talk to so to here it all goes

[https-hunter]

messy little painting of olivia's announcement of guts (spilled) i did in class today

#IM SO HYPE #anyway pretend the hair isn't as bad as it is #just had to get this out #olivia rodrigo #guts olivia rodrigo #guts (spilled) #music #art #my art

[pinanolada]

Trailblazer: “Girls are hot. Guys are hot. Why is everyone so hot?”

Welt: “Hm, considering the distance to the nearest star, which is quite close relatively speaking, and the current atmosphere stability - [read more]

#hsr #honkai star rail #joachim welt #trailblazer #stelle #caelus #just had to get this out #it's probably been done already though >.< #hang in there trailblazer

[snowy-bones]

if you are the type of person to tell someone to hurt themselves because they like something you don't, you can get TF off my blog and stay TF away from me and my system. this is a safe space!! we love you! unless you cause harm to others, then you need to leave hhhhh GOOD BEANS ONLY!

#admin snow #snowy rambles #slight vent #just had to get this out #telling people to hurt themselves or go d*e in your tags is just awful #its not cute #it makes you very ugly #any way #vent over #back to our normal poff activities!

[comatosebunny09]

In the bathroom mirror, fogged from the steam of your shower and lovemaking, he murmurs, “look how pretty you are,” with a hand wrapped around your throat and another molding the fat off your ass, which still stings from the spanking—your punishment for doubting how positively stunning you are.

#sorry for the run-on sentence but #hnnnnngh #just had to get this out #kyojuro #or #tengen #they both can get it #kyojuro x reader #tengen x reader

[blissfullyabsurd]

ATSV SPOILERS AHEAD !!!

ok listen. i love miguel. his character is absolutely phenomenal. but he is so incredibly wrong with his theory.

there are like… so many things that just don’t make sense going after his logic. IF we assumed that miles was the ‚original anomaly‘ then:

wouldn’t the whole universe of earth-42 be collapsing as we speak??? because aside from the fact that there is no spiderman, it seems to be fine. no holes. no glitching. no nothing. the spider was supposed to bite someone there. but it didn’t. canon disrupted right? NOTHING HAPPENED.

mayday wouldn’t be allowed to exist. which like… this makes so much sense why miguel is trying so hard to ignore her here:

according to his theory, she would disappear just like his daughter (i bet the fact that shes alive and well is eating him up inside) and i really doubt he has told any of this to peter b. bc he would definitely lose his support then.

miles universe wouldn’t be unaffected right? like all of the universal disturbances happening (including what’s happening in pav‘s universe) are caused by spot. or more generally: by people messing around with this stuff in the first place. WHAT CAUSED ALL THIS MESS WAS KINGPIN TRYING TO BRING BACK HIS FAMILY. HE WAS TRYING TO PERMANENTLY BRING THEM INTO HIS UNIVERSE. now correct me if i’m wrong but that is VASTLY different from just… saving someone that was „supposed to die“. AND MIGUEL DID SOMETHING EXTREMELY SIMILAR BY TRYING TO PERMANENTLY PLACE HIMSELF IN A UNIVERSE THAT WASNT HIS.

THAT is what made the universe collapse. THAT is what miles and the others prevented from happening when they stopped kingpin. SPEAKING OF: wasn’t penny losing her robot like a canon event? now how could a canon event be triggered in a fight that, considering that miles is an ‚anomaly‘ in the first place, shouldn’t have happened that way?

it’s such incredibly flawed logic and i can’t wait to see miguel realise that in btsv. it hurts sm knowing that he’ll have to come to terms with the fact that… what he is doing won’t prevent any of this from happening again. this whole ‚protecting the multiverse‘ thing is him trying to repent in a way for what happened to his family. but he’ll have to face the fact at some point: he simply fucked up. it is in fact his fault. it’s so tragic that he insists on being the good guys, but it blinds him to reality.

what i think makes way more sense is the original notion of parallel universes miles learns about in the first movie. the whole point of the existence of parallel universes is that they are NON-LINEAR. they’re this web of possible events. POSSIBLE. NOT NON-NEGOTIABLE!!!!! with the existence of parallel universes there’s agency. there’s freedom. because you aren’t disrupting any set future. ITS YOUR CHOICE. THERE ARE A MILLION POSSIBILITIES.

and here we’ve arrived at the whole core message in these movies: DO IT LIKE YOU. NO EXPECTATIONS. JUST KEEP GOING. what both uncle aaron and peter b. tell miles in itsv and what miles repeats before absolutely obliterating miguel. everyone telling him how his story in supposed to go. as spiderman and as miles. him wanting to spread his wings. FREEDOM TO DO THINGS YOUR WAY. YOU GUYS I LOVE THIS MOVIE SM.

#atsv #spider man: across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #into the spiderverse #spiderman #atsv spoilers #across the spider verse spoilers #miguel o'hara #miles morales #penni parker #peter b. parker #absurd rambles #just had to get this out

[ribbonfix]

Fireside Bowl, Chicago, IL

#my gif #first gif ever #just had to get this out #my chemical romance #mcr #mikey way #fireside bowl #mykie

[divinelovers]

i’m joe kerry’s slut btw

#just had to get this out #joe keery #alexa play willow by taylor swift because that’s my man #gold rush was written about joe kerry

[jackmerrideeznuts]

Ralph whenever Jack opens his mouth in any given scenario

this is by far the worst thing i have ever drawn but i think the shittiness adds to the charm. if i hadve fully shaded and rendered this it wouldve looked off

#my art #lotf #lord of the flies #shitpost #i cant believe i drew this #lord of the flies ralph #lotf ralph #jeez #also to those wondering i am making the intro post to the traumatized ralph ask blog #just had to get this out

[thescarsilivewith-if]

Kinda getting 'yikes' from the anons myself, I get that some people are monogamous but you dont have to 'yikes' -it. Sometimes characters will have different view of romance, relationships, sex and they don't have to change themselves according to what your MC wants

Also, there is a bit component here of the setting itself. It is very common for people to have more than one lover at a time, and if we have to be frank Valaahr needed to climb up the clergy hierarchy and thrive in it so they are making use of everything they get.

It may be pragmatic, but you'll discover that the other ROs as well had to go through their own trials to get where they are, and in this difficult setting the monarch themselves will have to face difficult situations and come up with ways to overcome them.

One last thing, the ROs are not puppets for the MC to manipulate and play with, they are their own person with their own views who might differ from the ones of the player or of the MC. This is fine, just respect that Val and Kaela will not suppress certain sides of themselves once in a relationship.

#anon ask #ro: valaahr #just had to get this out

[jadenightmaresans]

Had to draw my hubby- Hfgdffayhdn I love him so much- 0/////0

#digital drawing #nightmare sans #undertale au #king nightmare sans #the man the myth the legend #okokok i gotta go to class now #just had to get this out #lmao

[cosmicbeancat]

why I left my old account

that situation revolving around a user that I’m not mentioning here stressed me out so much I decided to quit my old account

that Oddballs controversy got too much for me

it made my depression worse, which I am trying to recover from…

#Cosmo is having a bad day #rant #the Oddballs controversy #vent #oddballs #let’s hope another situation like this #never happens again #just had to get this out #be safe in the oddballs community! #warning to new artists in the oddballs community #Your imagination and creativity are valid #you can do it I believe in you! #don’t give up new artists!

[pinanolada]

Outside the Express...

Arlan (walking Peppy and seeing Jing Yuan): “Oh is that a Diting? A fine security contraption.”

Jing Yuan (walking with a Diting): “Oh? What about you? That looks like a ball of fluff.”

...

Arlan and Jing Yuan: “”May I pet it?””

#honkai star rail #hsr #arlan #jing yuan #peppy #don't expect more from me post wise #just had to get this out #from Gokushufudou: The Way of the House Husband Ch50

[cricketsintheaudience]

they make my job so easy

#sorry guys I don’t know where this panel is from exactly #just had to get this out #OH my GOD guys. in public …. #worlds finest

[stinkman007]

lol rant abt this coming weekend

hey guys so today i was not only notified that this weekend is fathers day (which i mean,.my family has been plotting it for like a few days, whatever great) but do you know WHERE that fathers day celebration is happening? do you know where at least three or more groups of people related to me are gonna show up this weekend? (i mean there's one specific group i don't want in my house, i think the othr two might be okay.)

MY FUCKING HOUSE. (okay well. i still live w/ my parents cos i'm still a minor, i don't own the house i just live there,just to clear that up)

okay my house is only like. 1500 square feet. literally the whole thing is built around like. one hallway. i can see the kitchen from the back of the house. why the fresh flying fucking fuck would they pick my house for this. my grandparents live in a massive log cabin. is there a bomb in there or something that makes it impossible to have a barbeque in there suddenly. (events like this usually happen there) anyway maybe i'm just being a petty fussy mess cos i just woke up but still it sucks ass that i have to deal with that + my parents wanting everyone around the house(me n my brother) to help clean the whole week. ugh. just ugh. thats the mood today droogies. hope you guys' week/day is going better. 🫡

#shut up stinkman #rant #this was longer than i thought it was gonna be #oops #just had to get this out #hhaha (goes insane)

[munvermaniac]

Anyone else find themselves kind of… disliking chat fics because they keep clogging up the ao3 feed? Because I was scrolling through a smaller ship earlier and I came across one with a discontinued note in the summary and all I could think was “good”.

It’s not that I don’t like chat fics, but I definitely won’t go out of my way to read them unless I’m really interested. Like, they’re never really tagged properly, so I can’t filter out specifically Chat Fics, and they update so often that I have trouble sorting by most recent because they’re always there.

#not munver #just had to get this out