#none of you can compete

[l-just-want-to-see]

still amazes me that Jason Todd took over the criminal underworld of the most dangerous city in America as a teenager right under the nose of the planet’s greatest detective and some people still run with “Jason is the dumbest Robin”

#jason todd #enoughhhhh #none of them are the “dumbest” Robin btw #They’re all incredibly smart and competent and I don’t think you can fairly measure it #Batfamily

[sugar-bi-scuit]

Mu Qing: I hate you sometimes.

Feng Xin: Well according to this picture our followers drew of us holding hands that's not true.

Mu Qing:

Mu Qing: Feng Xin, you drew that.

Feng Xin: It doesn't matter.

Also the picture in question:

#as you can see i decided to showcase my artistic talents🎨 #picasso and davinci who? #none of them could compete with this masterpiece 🤌 #heaven official's blessing #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #incorrect quotes #incorrect tgcf quotes #tgcf incorrect quotes #incorrect tgcf #mu qing #feng xin #fengqing

[marklikely]

on further reflection maybe it isn't out of character that i liked the kens over the barbies when a lot of the joke is how the barbies are all blandly nice and hypercompetent which as you may know is like my single most uninterested gender dynamic for fictional characters

#i shouldn't be saying any new opinions without rewatching the movie maybe fan response & hindsight is biasing me but it's like #oh you have men that are allowed to be silly and cringe but the women are all nice and have only minor surface level flaws? cool im bored #and the human characters honestly fall into a similar trope. the human women have *more* personality but still very little. #margot barbie as i remember her didn't really. have any flaws or do anything really wrong but she at least had desires #so she's *better* than the others. none of the other barbies except weird barbie are even distinguishable smh #i mean issa rae had the funniest jokes when she was allowed to speak but that's about it. #avpost #there's a reason the main barbies sequence i can remember is when they pretend to be stupid to get the kens to like mansplain to them #bc it was the one time the female characters were allowed to be like. silly. and not boring or trying to force an unearned serious beat. #unfortunately the idea of bad and/or cringefail women is antithetical to a movie like this but idk that's the characters i actually enjoy . #weird barbie could have at least been cringefail but she's still. hypercompetent too. :-/ #idk maybe on repeated viewings ill catch more Subtle Flaw Nuance that makes the female characters less boring to me but #it just feels like based on what the movie was going for they were targeting all my personal least fave female character tropes #well meaning liberal babys first feminism media can fall into this trope of goofy men with competent nice women and its soooo dull. #like not always i have enjoyed my fair share of well meaning liberal baby's first feminism media. i have a soft spot 4 it. #but its usually things where the women have conflict *with each other*. or its horror media. so the women aren't all perfect/nice.

[totopopopo]

frankly i think everyone’s take on poor things is atrocious

#and by everyone i mean a lot of the people talking about it on tumblr #both the people who hated it and are calling it like immoral lol but also the people who loved it uncritically #like all of you are wrong about it and that is because none of you are familiar with what is known as ‘fucking nuance’ #when i say you’re wrong. i don’t mean your opinions are wrong. you’re opinions aren’t wrong but your lack of ability to comprehend #complexities and competing critiques and analyses is wrong #multiple things can be true at once!!!! you morons !!!!!

[sparring-spirals]

What are your thoughts about Laudna coming back, I’m curious because this seems different from the Molly situation, the group seems incredibly determined

Oh boy, what a question.

Okay to set up for the first bit, I'm gonna address the second part of the q first:

Yeah, I think this is different. I think this is very different. I think its different in all the ways that the Bells and the M9 are so drastically different and the ways that they are two very distinct camapigns. But also in the more obvious ways- when the M9 lost Molly, they were lower leveled. They didn't have a cleric with revivify, they didn't have half their party. They didn't have anyone to turn to.

I'm trying to avoid this turning into a meta about the M9 but I think that last detail is just- so important. The Bell's have Eshteross, they have random shop owners to ask, they have distant but powerful figures who might help. The M9- did not. It was part of how they operated. More than once in early campaign they went from being mistrusted to marginally trusted and they would just- leave. Authorities were so rarely friendly. They were accusing people more than they weren't.

When Molly went down, on a snowy hill at the sword of someone who wanted to send a message- there was so, so little they could do.

And so we look at the Bells and- they've got more options. They had half their party killed but they got two of them back up and, in theory, left the battle on their own terms.

They're also, like you said. Incredibly determined.

readmore bc this got long im so sorry

Its both incredible and a little sad, honestly. I said this somewhere already, but by the end of the episode- they aren't quite grieving yet. They're hurt, they're aching from the loss, they're sad, but they haven't started grieving yet and part of that is because they are still acting. There are still things to do, avenues to exhaust. They aren't grieving Laudna yet. They can still get her back. They will, they have to. They're taking the time to sit and check in with each other and ask questions and comfort, where they can, but. Very little of that comfort has even entertained the notion of this loss being permanent. About Laudna being gone, not just lost.

(Except maybe for Orym, who is looking at Imogen and thinking of losing a loved one, having that absence be a fixture instead of an aberration. Thinking of a warm embrace, and "Not yet.")

And Imogen-

Imogen, more than the others, is probably painfully aware of Laudna's absence. A silence in her mind, an empty space at her side.

i'm not sure she can even consider the possibility of that absence becoming permanent, right now.

Im not sure any of them really can.

So... uh. on Laudna coming back: I don't know, right now. I don't think it will be too easy, but I think the Bells are going to be fighting for it, hard, for the foreseeable future. And whether it fails or succeeds in the longer term, i think (I'd hope?) itll have pretty long lasting effects.

I've deleted like an additional five paragraphs of my ~thoughts~ on it for the purposes of length and keeping it as 1 meta instead of two tacked together but:

- Some of my thoughts on Laudna's death can be found here.

- Story wise, narratively, campaign-as-a-whole/ externally, is a whole separate conversation, and one that plays a lot into personal preferences and wants and likes and... probably shouldn't go into this post.

- I think there's a lot of the ways this can go and still be done "well", by a subjective metric.

- I'd like for Laudna to come back. I also can see a world where she doesn't, and narratively thats juicy as hell, and also devastating. (edit: like full honesty, devastating and also chock full of potential, yknow?)

- No matter the specifics- Laudna mattered, and will continue to matter, and I think that's the main thoroughline I'm looking for.

- edit: and- alongside that- id want her death to matter too- whatever that might look like.

#oh god im so sorry. listen im going through asks VERY slowly rn and its because my meta braincell is actively fighting me #you can tell when its happening bc all my metas become 3x length and way more winding. so uh. sorry. #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e34 #spar speaks #ask away! #bell's hells #the mighty nein #ive got like So Many competing thoughts about narrative and fairness and m9 and the bells and their brittle optimism and imogen and LAUDNA- #that none of them are coming out right. alas. #character meta #i realize this. maybe doesnt answer your question. so uh. feel free to ask it again if so. and ill get to it.... someday. hopefully. #my meta #?

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

#science #transphobia #cass review #less 'cass review' generally more 'zucker specifically' because this same problem exists outside cass #have lost count of the number of times i've seen 'well THAT study may have said most trans kids persist but it MUST be wrong' #'there's another study says the exact opposite. that one's right. obviously.' #but cass is why i'm annoyed by it now #normally i don't have a problem with critical observations and questions. yeah check your science! that's good! #there have been some bullshit studies and some bullshit interpretations of good studies! scientific literacy is important! #and normally also am willing to pretend the people pulling reaction 1 on some studies and reaction 2 on others are. not the same group. #but now there's a ton of cass supporters tryna say 'oh the cass review didn't reject or downplay anything for being pro-trans!' #'some studies just weren't given much weight for being poor evidence! not our fault those were all studies with results trans people like!' #…….………….aight explain why zucker's findings are used for the 'percentage of trans kids who don't stay trans' stat instead of anyone else's. #would've been more scientifically accurate to say 'yeah we just don't know.' #'studies have been done but none of them fit our crack criteria sooooo *shrug*' #like COME ON at least PRETEND you're genuinely checking scientific correctness and not looking for excuses to weed out undesirable results #am also mad about zucker in particular because his is possibly the most famous bullshit study #quite bluntly if you're doing trans research and think 'yeah this one seems reasonable' you. are maybe not well-informed enough for the job #there's just no way you genuinely look at the research with an eye toward accurate science regardless of personal bias #and walk away thinking 'hm that zucker fellow seems reasonable. competent scientists will respect that citation.' #that's one or two steps above doing a review of vaccine science and seriously citing wakefield's mmr-causes-autism study #it doesn't matter what the rest of your review says people are gonna have OPINIONS on that bit #and outside anti-vaxxers most of those opinions will be 'are you actually the most qualified for this because ummmm.' #people who agree with everything else will still think someone more competent could've done a much better job #people who disagree with everything else will point to that as proof you don't know shit and why should we listen to you #anyway i'd love a hugeass trans science review with actual fucking standards hmu if you know of one cause this ain't it #……does tumblr still put a limit on how many tags you can include guess me and my tag essay are about to find out.

[end-orfino]

droners might have some flaws but i really think that if someone wants to write a proper rivals to lovers dynamic then they should study whatever hannah and corto have as a reference

#like just. i have heard a bunch of people complain about enemies to lovers dynamics sometimes accidentally turning out to just be toxic #because of the writers not nailing down the jackpot of the hostility from both parties being balanced #and also other reasons. and i myself have my own too. bcs its just not an easy dynamic to write #but genuiely so far? so far these two have none of these issues #their relationship goes from hating each other to considering each other a more respected rival to genuine friends in a great way that- #-doesnt feel rushed or unnatural #and they're unified by having far more similarities than you'd think they'd have at first glance. which was both why they hated each other #and why they work so great now that they're friends #AND their haterism towards each other back when they werent friends was very balanced and equal. they both hated each others guts lmao #and now that they're friends they still bicker but it was said directly that now its just how they act when racing is involved & theyre- #competing against each other. like that one 'best friends off court sworn enemies on it. athletes understand' meme #and outside of it they're genuiely friends and like each other #and EVEN DURING RACING. HAVE YOU SEEN THE MECHANIX RACE #their bickering during the race is pure fun for them they're LAUGHING TOGETHER it's so great #PLUS THE SHOW WENT OUT OF ITS WAY MORE THAN ONCE TO SHOW HOW WELL THEY CAN SYNCHRONIZE. #HOW WELL THEY CAN WORK TOGETHER. #i could say more. i could say more about them. but just know that the droners yuri is real #for the record though they're not. canon. i dont want to queerbait anyone on accident. #but i havent seen a single fan that wouldnt agree that they have something going on there #which even with a fandom this small is saying something

[whatudottu]

*Fornite dances with Annie* Hey fuckos I have designed human ID mask versions of the Andromeda 5 based entirely on what shapes they are and what human equivalent proportions can best suit their natural shape. When thinking about shapes, I accidentally put Ra’ad in a niqab and thought ‘hey yo this actually kinda works’ and just went the fuck off.

So, ID masks- do you think the plumbers provide them to aliens that choose to live on Earth (before OV got Earth aware of them being real) so that they can blend in? Do you think that there’s a customisation option to ‘fit’ the shape of someone and match it with an accurate size to human proportion ID? Do you think that folks without a face can just choose to go ‘so there are cultures that hide your face’ or ‘i’m gonna make myself look like my prison’ and just go off?

I think about that a little bit.

#andromeda 5 #ra'ad #bivalvan #galapagus #andreas #andreas ben 10 #p'andor #annie andromeda #ben 10 #ben 10 oc #human #technically they're not human they're aliens with a human diguise #this was fun- nice way to say 'screw you' to same face syndrome #that and i just think human designs are neat because you can just go off #technically galapagus and bivalvan are the only ones with enough of a face to emote in ways a human can understand #(p'andor doesn't count even with canon p'andor because his vibes are terminal) #none of them can do human range of expression (galapagus has the most but is limited by reptilian physiology) #ra'ad at least has something - his eyes - which p'andor in 'i am totally safe' mode cannot even compete with #mr easy-bake-oven looking ass

[amarimeta]

i’ve said this a million times before but truly no matter how crazy you think the crazy woman from your tv show is. she can never be nora durst.

#no one can outdo nora’s levels of instability. #nora durst is a once in a lifetime character. they could never write her again. the planets will never align. #kim roofied (accidentally killed) her boss and marisa experimented on and (purposefully) killed children and yet. #i’m not making the argument for asoiaf characters because game of thrones wasn’t real and can’t hurt me #(although logically this means i shouldn’t really have included marisa but. hbo marisa had so much monkey in her. she was crazier. AND YET. #trying to think of other mentally ill fictional characters i love. #none of them can compete!!!!! #gilded age nation hear my cry: no matter how bonkers you think bertha is… she’s rather tame!!!! #woman who sold her daughter for an opera house has nothing on nora cursed !!!!!!!! #sorry for yapping i just. nora. character of all time. #ace.txt #the leftovers #nora durst

[klqdraws]

Hey look it’s Henry the *squints at hand* angel of Chastity… uh *checks notes* yea angel of Chastity.

He only got the job cause no one else was available and he’s notoriously bad at it, but he hits his minimum quotas (usually by knocking the people out cause they can’t have sex if they’re unconscious 👀) so they can’t exactly remove him from his position until someone volunteers or he Falls whichever comes first 🤷

#klq dorian gray #sins n virtues au #this is why my friend and i are having so much fun with this au lol #henry could be more competent but he doesn’t exactly see the point #as you can tell none of this is exactly based on anything other than haha funnee lmao

[hiddenbeks]

hrmm. i wish u could do actually bad/evil/stupid decisions with bad consequences in dai. yknow. like an actual rpg

#im just thinking abt celyn and the fact that shes licherally the least qualified of my dragon age heroes for the position of inquisitor #which is hilarious but also interesting and i wish i could explore that in the game. yknow #ch: celyn #like shes a blood mage n part of the mage rebellion she hates the chantry she would blow one up à la anders if she could #she was raised in a tower with no contact with the outside world n didnt get out until the age of 19 when andrale conscripted her #she is full of pent up anger she has no skill in diplomacy no idea how to lead n represent some holy army or manage foreign relations #and the only reason anyone listens to her is bc she has the anchor n bc shes kinda terrifying. #obviously the game cant accommodate every possible backstory n personality the player cooks up in their head for their inky #and i Guess not being able to roleplay properly is purely my fault for making a character with a homebrewn backstory in the first place lol #but like...... it would have been so interesting if they'd shown the inquisitor struggling with their position #and given them opportunities to make mistakes that are objectively bad #bc like none of the origins is qualified for that shit lmao. except maybe non-mage trevelyan #so in fact its also bw's fault for giving such vague backstories for the origins #like they could've given us a character who is qualified and whose competence is believable. like shepard or whatev #or. they could've kept the vague backstories n let players come up with the rest and given more room for roleplaying #and presented opportunities for the inky to struggle leading a fantasy catholic army #when they've never been in a leadership position before and/or are not fantasy catholic themselves #god i just!!!!! the lack of Thought put into dai's writing still frustrates me in the year of our lord 2023!!!!!! #they dont even let you shank an npc for looking at you wrong like in dao!!!!! #at least you can have vivienne kill that one noble guy for insulting inky's honor. celyn totally does that btw

[lavenderyulu]

‘‘Fire? What fire?’‘

rich people can’t cook.

#i love swapping between my 3 different art styles #anyways half of the sycamore household is banned from the kitchen #which includes steven #actually steven is banned from every single kitchen in existance #do not eat anything he has made you will get food poisoning #speaking of which #i grinded out this art piece in spite of having a stomach virus #i suffer #also i constantly swap between ''alain is the only one out of the tsme trio who knows how to cook'' and ''none of the tsme trio can cook'' #depending on which one is funnier in said situation #but that said alain is still the most competent at making food out of the three of them #even if the bar isnt all that high #pokemon #pokeani #incombustibleshipping #pokemon steven #pokemon alain #trainer alain #the fact htat i end every post with ''im going to bed'' says something about my sleep schedule

[hauntedfalcon]

@nonhoration right?! every time I think about how much a meatspace nonprofit could accomplish with the money AO3 is doing nothing with, steam comes out of my ears. flames! on the side of my face!

#AO3 discourse for ts #remember when that anon accused me of just being jealous because I wanted AO3’s money for myself #bro I’m not out here asking for donations and the only reason I was able to run a nonprofit without pay is that I was financially stable #bro I once got up at 6:30 in the morning to try to claim a Gates Foundation grant because they were giving away a total of $250mil #only to find they’d all been claimed in the first ten minutes #bro I accepted a grant for $300 one year because the grantmaking organization didn’t want to say no to anyone who applied #so every organization got less than what they were applying for. we couldn’t complete the project we pitched! the grant didn’t cover it. #bro I competed for my organization to be the beneficiary of an annual philanthropic event up against a foster agency #and an organization that arranged housing and employment opportunities for people with disabilities #among several others! ​we were all in it for the same fourteen grand because none of us could afford to pass up any funding opportunity! #that’s the kind of work you do when you are passionate about your cause! #so sorry not sorry but when I see AO3 firmly invested in their inertia? and every answer they give is a defense of inertia? #it really does make me sick!! #one person who gives a shit *can* pull off the sort of work I am talking about! I wouldn’t say so if I hadn’t done it myself!

[warlordfelwinter]

i think that life is about being best friends with a big dog and having them use you as a pillow

#once again i apologize to all my human friends but laika is my best friend #none of you can compete with her #anyway there's just something about having a large beast around that you have a bond of mutual trust with #this is nothing against small dogs or cats or what have you #it just has a level i think when the dog is big enough to kill you if it really wanted to #and instead it loves you #every time my dog snuggles with me i start getting philisophical about the bond between dog and man #personal

[gyooza]

istg this splatfest has me heated as fuck. everytime im against a bigfoot team my only thought is "your cryptid is ugly and you should feel bad"

#im team nessie for the record #none of you can compete with the raw elegance of my mesozoic wife #splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatfest #ted.txt

[bobzora]

the thing about gamedev that they dont want you to know is that you have to actually dev your game @.@ crazy ! ! !

#bobtalk #slowlyyy making progress on customizing my vn thru the depression funk lol... #i much much prefer working with things that i only kind of understand because i think struggling is fun but also it takes a lot of time tha #t way.... #im at a level where i Can code right. i Can code. but im not very good at it. im a jack of all trades master of none kind of guy #(that is to say that i am pretty good at coding to a certain level but i dont have much experience at larger scales.) #and its fun. its thrilling. #its like how i never learned long division so i would always have to do 9000 workarounds to get to answers without calculator. #its like life or death fighting. delectable. #of course if i fail too horribly it just makes me want to blow everything up but theres a delicious middle ground of competency. #you know how it is. #so uh. yeah. im figuring out ren/py screens. LOL #i think if someone who really knows what theyre doing looked at my project theyd want to murder me but thats half the fun <3 #not like i have to worry about performance issues on my. uh. visual n0vel. #at any rate its so much better than visualnovelmaker i have so much beef with that program its actually unreal #anyway i kind of sort of have a vision. and its maybe not quite coherent bc im not a very coherent person. but thats okay i think. <3 #sorry for talking i feel slightly insane and i needed to let some of that out before Total Brain Annihilation #heart emoji. uh. bye