#kk rambles

[its-kks-world]

Made the mistake of looking up the Oh Hellos on TikTok.

It's all basically...

Imaginary person: “Aren't the Oh Hellos just some Christian Band? Why do you listen to them?”

Response: The person singing along to song with enthusiasm. (As if to say, it doesn't matter because they make actual good music or sometimes “It doesn't matter, music is what you make of it!”

And like listen, generally that's not really a problem, I think. The thing rubbing me the wrong is that... The Oh Hellos are not a "Christian Band". They are christian, they do use religious allegory, but like it is more multifaceted than that. On the religious side they often explore faith and deconstruct ideas they learned in church.

But also their use of Christianity is often for framing and comparison. Bitter Water is a song about a toxic relationship using wormwood (a healing, but potentially deadly herb) from the bible as a comparison. Constellations uses the Tower of Babylon as a metaphor for being stuck in your ways and causing damage because of it. Like it's so multifaceted.

(Not to mention that Christianity isn't all they reference at least in their most recent albums. They also reference greek mythology quite a bit. But that might be because they're using the four winds.)

Anyway, just they're so good at writing lyrics that bring together so many ideas and I just want the take on them to be less “Who cares if they make Christian Music, they're still good lol” and more about like how the lyrics become more and more meaningful as you listen to and pick them apart.

#or maybe i'm just annoying #kk rambles #the oh hellos #they're so good

[alwaysamor]

💥

#Y’ALL #HE’S SO #I’m so normal abt him #if he looked at me like that i’d fold like a mcdonald’s napkin #cutely dropping everything to wait so i can edit//color it #or redraw it if i’m impatient #lance worship should be a thing #i need to be sedated #i think #kk rambles

[trickster-archangel]

I made the mistake of letting Kiki watch a video of birbs eating crumbs on a bench, some cat-specific video made to entertain them.

Now she cannot understand where the fuck all the birbs who have flown out of screen have gone, and she's looking for them on the bed, sniffing and digging as if they had burrowed under the quilt 🤦🏽

#genius cats and where to find them #kk rambles #personal

[monstersummongenre]

You know as a person that has been watching five Pokemon Seasons in rotation (OS, BW, XY, SM, and JN), I really feel the need to push back on the idea that Ash is "dumbest" in Unova. Like I do understand how it could be frustrating to watch him make rookie mistakes and, of course take this with a grain of salt since I have not watched DP in a minute, but I genuinely think that while he makes rookie mistakes in Unova it's due to lack of knowledge about Pokemon in Unova and lack of flexibility.

Like every mistake he's made so far is because of one of those two things . It's not that he "forgot everything" and reverted back to OS Ash. Like OS Ash genuinely had very little knowledge about Pokemon and battling, and he's not like that in BW. I think it really is just that after coming to his own in Sinnoh, he was so secure in his way of doing things that he stumbles over himself.

#pokeani #pokemon #ash ketchum #pokemon indigo league #pokemon best wishes #kk rambles #pokemon bw #pokemon os

[travalerray]

choose your horror denier: Alice "it has nothing to do with us" Dyer or Jonathan "it's all nonsense unless it's about two very specific people I hate very much" Sims

#I am talking about S1! Jon specifically #but it's still funny to me. Because I know she's going to get into incredible trouble later #alice dyer #jonathan sims #the magnus protocol #the magnus archives #tma #tmagp #kk's rambles tag

[piratespencil]

I’m obsessed with the way Laudna says, “Here Ashton, I made you a doll, because you’re a child.” The way those words are so cutting, so derisive.

But then Ashton says, “Thank you. I love it. I’ve never had a doll.” Completely genuine.

And Laudna smiles, and Laudna says, “I love children.”

And even though she was angry, so angry, so angry she thought she might kill Ashton when she saw him. She still made him a doll. And he loves it. And they have such a beautiful conversation.

There’s just something about how that conversation could have been so cold, so angry, but it wasn’t, and I’m obsessed with it.

#i’m just rambling but!! that whole conversation gave me chills honestly #critical role #cr3 #c3e78 #cr spoilers #kk talks about stuff #kk watches cr3 #ashton greymoore #laudna

[kyouka-supremacy]

Okay I'm going to be honest for two seconds. I miss Akutagawa

#Update: getting invested in s/kk isn't working if I don't get new ss/kk content now I will explode 😔 Which isn't optimal #The thing is I don't even think we're going to see them soon because a change of pov isn't really on sight. #Not when the action in all other circumstances is over. Fukuzawa will be crying over Fukuchi for the next ten hours or so #I just :((( God what am I going to do in the next five months... #random rambles #I just don't care about s/kk... Let's get this done with........

[diniidjarin]

love language of posting something that deeply caters to a specific mutual and waiting like a schoolgirl kicking her legs on her bed to click like on their reblog when u see it. is that anything.

#mutual enrichment babey! #tumblr #you would be like this too if your mutuals' tags never missed. yes i AM here for the rambles y'all mutter into the hashtags. #salt of the earth lifeblood of the dashboard etc etc #kk #goblin noises.

[its-kks-world]

Lol just had another long discussion about how the Miraculous Fandom's reaction to Lila is absolutely over the top, but also realized that it's full of double standards. Felix and Chloe are not better people than Lila Rossi.

Like Felix stole Adrien's identity twice. The first time he tried to ruin Adrien's life and then gave all of the Miraculous to Hawkmoth.

Chloe bullied all of her classmates, uses her status as the Mayor's daughter to not get in trouble at school, and then worked with Hawkmoth when the Miraculous wasn't given to her.

Lila lied to all her classmates about being like rich and famous, helped Gabriel Agreste try to get Marinette expelled, and worked with Hawkmoth willingly.

And I'd argue that Lila's villainy is actually a direct consequence of Marinette's actions.

"But Lila held a grudge" Why shouldn't she? Marinette hasn't shown her an ounce of kindness.

Marinette used her super hero form to embarrass Lila in front of Adrien. Then she apologized for it, but continued on to harass Lila in front of all their entire class. And she still does.

Lila has every reason not to like Ladybug or Marinette.

The thing about Lila is that she's a liar, yes, but it's not Marinette's job to be the Lila Rossi Lie Patrol. Lila's lies are going to fall apart already, like maybe not immediately, but they would. Marinette wronged Lila first, she didn't target her for fun (unlike Chloe) and her original goal wasn't to ruin anyone's life (unlike Felix). All she was doing was lying so people would like her and from my understanding, she does at the very least help her classmates. She babysits their siblings and junk!

How is she irredeemably evil, but everyone else can just be redeemed in y'all fanfiction? It's bogus.

#kk rambles #ladybug show #miraculous ladybug #kk rants #I don't watch this show anymore #but I do be seeing the fandom sometimes

[retros-artandstuff]

homestuck doodle dump

#eugh theyre so silly #omg i just found out that theres a tag limit of 30 per post. like wow i did not know that. so yeah i gotta stop pausing for effect in my #tags and instead start putting everything in these big fucking paragraphs. 😭😭 either that or stop tag rambling but like lets be realistic #here lmao #eugh it looks like so much more now that its in big chunks why do i talk so much 😭😭 what the hell. ok anyways this is my first time #drawing feferi like ever i thinks. pretty cool shes very fun i likes her. i might change my design for her a bit tho. that can be said for #like any hs character tho like just in general. still getting a feel for them dhgsjabaja. but yeah anyways moving onto the actually tags no #my art #doodles #traditional art #fanart #homestuck fanart #homestuck #dave strider #kanaya fanart #gamzee fanart #karkat fanart #feferi fanart #sollux fanart #alpha dave strider #bro strider #omg this is my first time posting my latest kk design. look at that little guy hes so funny.

[trickster-archangel]

Life has been extenuating me so hard, that the thought of actually crashing down on the floor and laying there, unconscious, it's like a dream, because at least I'd be resting.

#personal #kk rambles #don't mind me I'm old but actually feel twice my age #life is heavy

[shrimpwithglasses]

God take all of literally everyone else’s suffering and give it to Jane cause everyone else just wants to live a normal life. At least seeing a classic duo like John & Karkat put a smile on my face… at least until the end of this conversation… love this art style tho-

#johnkat u will always hold a special place in my heart <3 #also the way KK pats his head he’s so sweet #John must be so tired tho my poor guy :( #john egbert #karkat vantas #homestuck #homestuck^2 #kyd react to hs^2 #kyd rambles

[monstersummongenre]

Pokemon XY is kind of a mess actually: A longer than I wanted to write analysis of my impression of Pokemon XY so far

Okay, so this week our 20 in Review for Pokemon XY comes out and next week is our favorites list. So I decided I wanted to talk a bit about XY and the reasons I think it's not sparking joy for me. The reasons I've been able to pinpoint are the tone, the pacing, and the group dynamic.

The tone of XY from the first episode onward is fairly melodramatic. Dictionary.com defines Melodrama as "a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization." And for me that encapsulates the style of XY as a series, at least so far. So many situations feel exaggerated in their seriousness in such a way that it's off-putting or laughable. I believe it was episode 3 in which Ash, Bonnie, and Clemont chase down Fletchling for stealing a berry meant for Dedenne. We learn more about Froakie and Ash catches a new Pokemon, but for all the fuss they made about the initial problem, they completely forgot about Dedenne. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but is off-putting when the show made it feel like a serious slight instead of the minor annoyance it was.

The tone also makes the jokes fall flat most of the time. This season has a pretty downbeat tone, so Pokemon's usual sense of humor, which is often over the top and exaggerated, feels out of place. The other major humor of the Pokemon series comes from the dialogue. And that often falls flat here too, probably because the humor of it is usually the characters reacting to a ridiculous situation. And because of XY's tone it's hard to be so silly. Honestly, they might have been better off going for a different type of humor altogether for XY.

The second issue in XY is an issue of pacing and, I'm going to be honest, wasting my time. The pacing of XY is just not very effective. For example, Serena and Rhyhorn racing. We're introduced to her being agitated with the sport her mother is trying to push on her. Then until she joins the party, we see her start up her journey. She finds Ash, as was her goal, and joins the party. The very next episode she comes to terms with the idea that she just misunderstood her mother and the Rhyhorn all of this time. Just like that without her having really faced any challenges, the issue is seemingly resolved. The same thing happens with Clemont and his gym.

And to be clear the issue isn't the way these issues were handled, but the complete lack of build up before just resolving them. These are both episodes we could have seen further down the line as a way of showing how our heroes have grown since the beginning of the show. So both fell flat in their execution because neither of the problems existed long enough to impact the characters's behavior. Well, I suppose Clemont's did, but that was more of a failure of exploration than anything.

And brings me to my final point, group dynamic and the characters in the group. To be completely transparent about my media preferences, for me, media is all about the characters. I care about their journeys, their relationships to each other, and how their actions affect the world around them. And this group just doesn't do any of that for me. In fact if I've gotten any details wrong in this post it's likely because I was bored to tears watching this show. The thing is I really want to like XY, I really want to like the characters, but I find it hard to be invested in them at all. And it took me a while to wrap my brain around the reason for that. I didn't quite know how to describe the blandness and lack of grit the characters have in a meaningful way.

First I wondered "are they too nice"? But that didn't make much sense. See I've been watching lots of Pokemon recently (the Original Series, Best Wishes, XY, Sun and Moon, and Journeys) and I can say that playful banter aside the series after the original aren't particularly mean, especially Sun and Moon, which has some of the nicest, good spirited kids to ever exist. If niceness was the problem then I'd feel a similar detachment.

So what was the problem?

The problem of XY lies in the group dynamic. I saw someone say recently that Ash as a character was written relatively the same from DP to XY with just minor adjustments. I found this thought a little jarring because I enjoy Ash in BW, but his vibe in XY is not nearly as entertaining. But if I look at him I do see that he's still the exact same person, he still mostly does Ash things except for the way he interacts with his companions. In the words of my younger sister who only watches Pokemon when we put it on while she's in the room "Ash doesn't seem like he even wants to be there. There's no reason he and I should feel the same way."

That is to say, far from the way he usually bounces off the energy of his companions, Ash barely interacts with the XY gang in meaningful ways at all. There are moments that happen in XY where you expect Ash to say something, anything, in response to his companions or their current situation and it's crickets. One example that really sticks in my brain is the episode where Meowth comes to the group for help. Clemont, Serena, and Bonnie all have things to say about the situation, but Ash… silence. Not even Pikachu expresses any opinion on the matter. Odd. When they have to get their faces scratched to stop themselves from being mind controlled and Serena's like "I don't want my face scratched up!" Silence. He doesn't try to encourage her, he doesn't get annoyed with her. He simply does not respond. 

Ash Ketchum in any other season would have had some sort of reaction here. I could hear him going "Seriously?!" or insisting "It's not that bad" or even just having a facial expression of some sort.

And it isn't just him. The characters don't interact like a group of friends in general. They don't bounce off each other and react in ways that feel natural. There's no clash of personality traits. There's just flat comedy gags and conversations that just sort of move forward.

And I'd say that while the tone, pacing, and group dynamic brew a perfect mess, that the group dynamic is the part that really fails the series. A good set of characters that actually click is so important for a series like Pokemon. Pokemon spends a good chunk of screen time with the characters just wandering around and interacting with one off strangers on the way to their goals. The cast of characters has to be interesting enough to make that work. And maybe XY will pick up at some point and be more interesting, but having to wait more than twenty episodes for that is torture. I really do want to like XY, but for now it is my least favorite rendition of Pokemon.

#pokemon #pokemon xy #analysis #pokemon analysis #a little annoyed to be talking extensively about xy before other series but Spark says it's xy week #pokeani #kk rambles

[travalerray]

I can't help but think of a certain lady who would cut out eyes from the faces in a magazine to avoid feeding the entity that spied on everyone....

#Gertrude robinson I knew you are in there somewhere (delusional) #colin becher #tmagp #the magnus protocol #kk's rambles tag #the magnus archives #tma

[demonstars]

he wanted to marry him and he didn't even know he needed the visa tostay

#k Kk kkk #star rambles

[kyouka-supremacy]

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#I've received anon hate from a ss/kk shipper for my unrequited ss/kk beliefs on the basis that ss/kk is canon according to anon and like #You ever in a fandom where it's like. Yeah I guess that might as well happen #“You are clearly wrong about ss/kk” I mean? Okay? I'm not here to be right I'm here to have fun ahah #People are crazy #Besides yesterday's post was written last December but like. It's not like I don't still stand by that. #I would still stand by unrequited ss/kk if they kissed in the manga. BECAUSE IT'S FUN #I kinda want to answer the ask but I have this strict policy of not answering anything mean- #so I need to resort to rant in the tags instead 😔 #I don't know what's about me that attracts so much anon hate tbh. I really wish I'd know #Maybe it's what you get after you hit a certain number of following. Idk. Or maybe it's divine punishment for the crimes I've committed #Anyway. Sorry for delying answering to the other (nicer) asks I've had a raging fever the entire weekend #I'll get answering rn so I'll probably post the answers tomorrow. Sorry for the wait!! #random rambles