#not trying to rain on anyone’s parade

[bellarkeandclintashaandsuch]

I don’t know why, but I’m becoming very against actors in BL pairing up multiple times, and specifically against this in gmmtv actors and shows (not for like sequels but for new things). Before I loved seeing the same actors playing new dynamics (not just in BL).

And I still think that’s fun. But maybe the more I know about the BL industry, I just feel like it’s intentionally fanning the flames of obsessed (in a bad way) fans who think these actors are dating. Not to say that that would be impossible. People who work together do sometimes date. But certainly not every onscreen couple is dating off screen. And I don’t like the idea of the actors having to pretend or not have to hide if they are dating someone else. And it just seems insidious that management companies stop actors from dating whoever they want, at least in public, but want fans to think they’re dating their coworker. And that’s totally fine if you want to ship real people or if you wonder if or think they are dating irl. That’s not just a BL thing. That’s basically all of celebrity. As long as you’re not trying tear down real people for not believing the same or harassing the actors if they show that they aren’t dating the person you want them to or making it weird for the actors.

And not to completely change my line of thinking, but maybe I’m just greedy for new on screen pairs? I don’t know. I just know that I wasn’t planning to watch Moonlight Chicken because I’ve learned that I can’t handle stories that mostly revolve around cheating. But the idea of that show throwing First and Khao’s characters together because they were a couple in The Eclipse and have another upcoming project together irks me. I just really don’t like the idea of First’s character getting cheated on and then throwing him with the character who’s in love with someone else. That just feels like a betrayal of their hurt. (Check me making up this whole story based on the pilot trailer from like a year ago 👀 oops. I haven’t even seen the official trailer). Anyway. They should throw everyone for a loop and have Mix’s and First’s characters reconcile and stay together. Or give First and Mix a show. And for the love of God, when will Khao and Earth get to play a couple? And not to be hypocritical within a single post, but I would also would love Earth and White to have another show together 🥺 Or have a spin off of Theory of Love. (And for that matter, when will White get to be the main character again?) Maybe I just like time between when actors work together. Then it feels like a bonus reunion instead of like, these two can only work together now. Would also love Neo and Phuwin to play a couple again (or a spin off for their characters in Cause You’re My Boy).

Or maybe it’s because I’m quickly becoming more of a multishipper. Like that flowers for whatever show. Not BL and I didn’t watch because of the love triangles, but through tumblr osmosis I liked Dew and Tu in that and wish they had their own show now (their beverage commercial mini show notwithstanding). Also Nanon and Jimmy would be great. Or Jimmy and Ohm. Or the actors who played the two guys who hated each other in Enchanté that i thought were in love. Or Jimmy and Drake. Or Nanon and Chimon. Chimon and Phuwin. Perth and Pond? Or maybe I just subconsciously like to be mad about ships. I don’t know. Would love to see Gun with Mond (although did he leave gmmtv? I didn’t see any new shows for him. Doesn’t matter. I still want it). Not gmmtv, but also Apo and Bible anyone? Oh, another hypocrite moment, but Tong with his costar from Second Chance the Series (I think his name is Fluke). That’s mostly because that show was so short and I want more. Or the bully in that show that’s now a bully in Never Let Me Go and the guy he bullied. I think they could play an on screen couple well. Anyway. The possibilities are endless, so why limit ourselves, is what I’m saying. Unless I personally want those actors to work together again. Then let’s go ahead and limit ourselves. It’s okay.

Also, I’m over here like, hmm I just don’t want to ship real people. While at the same time going, I hope these people are actually friends irl and chat sometimes and also maybe do a BL together 😂😂😂

#thai bl #I don’t know #this is all just incoherent rambling #maybe I just don’t like the idea of actors feeling like they can only succeed if they work with one specific person #hmm #that’s probably it #and yet I would watch anything max and tul do together #maybe that’s because I don’t know anything about whatever studio they work for #if they do have a specific studio #whereas I hear about gmmtv all the time #in my mind max and tul are just out in the wild making decisions for themselves 😂 #or maybe if I’m not satisfied with the story I want them to work together too #like toru and first #y destiny was too short #and I didn’t like the end of their story in war of y #so I want them to have a full show together #anyway maybe I’ll wait until moonlight #chicken is out #and then binge it so I can skip what I don’t want to see #not trying to rain on anyone’s parade #just tossing thoughts around

[mistressemmedi]

Why do all the american races have to be a spectacle?

Can't speak for the other two 🇺🇸🦅 races but I think we're all approaching the Las Vegas GP with the wrong mentality.

It's not a race weekend. It's a 3-day long Las Vegas show, with a side of racing.

#anon #q&a #not to rain on anyone's parade but like #im over it? #at first i was like ''ok this is stupid'' #moved on to ''alright. at least theyre trying something different'' #and now we're at the ''just let the damn thing be over already'' stage #f1 #las vegas gp 2023

[radialtrail000]

Never in a million years could I have imagined this guy being cast as Murderbot.

Apologies to all fans of the actor, I'm sure he's very talented, however I have smashed the nearest window and escaped into the night.

#happy for all u fellas excited about this #not trying to rain on anyones parade #but GOD PLS #I AM DEVASTATED #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot show #alexander skarsgard

[seagreenstardust]

I’m gonna say something that’s probably not going to be well received in certain circles so let me start by saying this: I believe, with only a few rare exceptions, that you should be able to ship whatever speaks to you the most. And just because I don’t ship something doesn’t mean it’s wrong for anyone else to ship it, and the same for things I do ship, no one else has to ship it too. Who you do or don’t ship will never be a reason I pass judgment on you, ever. Live your best life.

That being said, I want to talk about Horikoshi and straight ships.

(And bakudeku.)

Here’s the thing: Hori has written straight ships into MHA and he’s done it so masterfully that it’s made me ship them without even realizing it. I don’t know if we can call them canon because as far as I know no ship is actually canon yet, but what is canon is the care Hori put into building these relationships.

Kirimina. Hori wrote in a backstory that parallels bkdk that I just adore. There is something about Kiri looking up to Mina and being so inspired by her bravery that it shapes the hero he becomes that is such good content. They’ve had multiple mid-battle moments of protecting and helping each other. I ship Kirimina so hard because of the canon Hori gave us.

I am a low key Denki/Hitoshi shipper but season six kinda hit me in the face with whatever we’re calling Kyouka/Denki these days and now I guess I’m a multi-shipper???? That is how hard Hori hit me with the Kyouka/Denki feels. And he did it the same way as Kirimina, because we have years of content of Kyouka teasing Denki mercilessly, plus the cultural festival band, so when they’re separated in Season 6 and Denki has this intense moment of realization that she’s who he needs to be brave for and it actually works??? I’m a goner.

Heck, I ship todomomo too you guys though I can’t blame Hori for that one, that’s just me being me. The point is that I ship it because the characters Hori gave me struck a chord inside.

But there is one straight ship Hori never once made me ship.

Every time izu*cha showed up I just kinda endured it? It just wasn’t for me. I didn’t see two kids with chemistry, I saw two kids who didn’t know who they were or what they wanted fumbling their way through a will they/won’t they without either of them seeming all that invested in it.

In six seasons and nearly 400 chapters and multiple times revisiting the story I have never once felt any inclination to ship izu*cha

Hori can write straight ships. Hori made me ship his secondary straight ships nearly effortlessly. So if izu*cha was meant to be canon why have I never once felt the chemistry?

You know who has the chemistry? Bakudeku. But here’s the thing: I wasn’t thinking about Katsuki as a possible love interest for Izuku the first time I watched the entire story. I honestly wasn’t paying much attention to him at all, he was everything I didn’t like on the surface so I more or less ignored him despite Izuku holding onto him for dear life. Katsuki never once colored my opinion of izu*cha, they did that all on their own.

It wasn’t until after my first watch through, when I was hungry for more and trolling around tumblr, that I realized people shipped Katsuki and Izuku and it was literally like something out of alignment popped into place in my head.

Oh. Duh. That’s the ship.

I went from zero to a million in a handful of seconds because the chemistry was there, the backstory was there, and boy are Izuku and Katsuki loud about how obsessed they are with each other. Just like Kirimina, just like Denki and Kyouka, Hori planted the seeds throughout the entire series so that when it was brought to my attention everything about the narrative and character development supported it.

And I have to take a moment to explain my dislike of Katsuki at first: I honestly fell for the surface-level interpretation of his character and then kinda wrote him off without much more thought. Which is insane to think about because you can’t really understand MHA without Katsuki, he is so integral to the story as a whole that any version of it without him is skewed so far out of alignment that it’s not even the same story anymore. But I just saw angry boy who yells for no reason and put Katsuki in a box and left it at that.

It wasn’t until I was willing to give his character a second look that I started understanding him, and more importantly, his relationship with Izuku. And it helped that when bkdk was presented to me as a ship that my brain understood immediately why it worked. The canon source material supports bkdk at every possible moment.

I really don’t think it does the same for izu*cha.

#bkdk #bakudeku #I’m being very deliberate about not including actual ship names for the one ship I’m arguing against here #because the shippers for that ship deserve to have their tag filled with positivity and I am not trying to rain on anyone’s parade #mainly I’m just word vomiting something I’ve been thinking a lot about while tumblr lurking #and I guess you could say that Hori doesn’t actually know how to write a solid romance and mistakes his way into it three separate times #but izu*cha reads to me like the token het ship for the main character that Hori doesn’t want to write but has to #there’s no care being put into it except how it highlights the other ships for the two characters #anyway #good for you if you made it this far in to my rambling #or maybe I’m sorry is the better thing to say 😂

[woodsorrel00]

I don’t even have a phobia of needles but was I the only one actually horrified by this episode? The implied gore, the torture (and having to hear the victim beg for help), the horror movie serial killer vibes? This was pretty intense for episode 6, TMA didn’t escalate like this until season 5. I do not for one stan Needles but y’all have fun I guess

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp ep 6 #genuinely not trying to rain on anyone’s parade but this episode shook me and it feels hard to make light of it #my posts

[aeroplaneblues]

“When a thing doesn’t spark joy anymore go back that old thing you threw away for not sparking joy”

So who’s watching windbreaker and kaiju n8? whats up with jjk and bnha manga? I’m going to catch up with those again. Guess im a shounen girlie again😌

#anne txt #trying not to be a downer and a doomposter #so i dont rain on anyone’s parade #did it with shounen not im tossing my jrpgs #i should finish pkm

[kylejsugarman]

so american girl doll veryyyyyy slowlyyyyyy rolled out a few more accessories for claudie and kavi's book right before they're going to cut her year short to launch the next goty and gave the twins a huge boost to their collection but look!! its all OLD american girl stuff!! outfits and accessories that already existed!! isn't that SO cute and not self-indulgent and nostalgia-baiting at all?? this has certainly been. A Year for ag

#syd squeaks #im not trying to a hater or rain on anyone's parade with this but its really frustrating tbh #the twins are already so lifeless and boring and nostalgia-based but literally giving them a collection of old ag stuff?? come on #ag #american girl #american girl doll

[strqyr]

yang does something similar with the help of her teammates that raven does on her own with the maiden powers and somehow this is proof that yang is going to become the spring maiden so that, what, she can do it alone too???

fellas we're not ditching teamwork after showing how amazing it looks. c'mon now.

#rwby #rwby9 #rwby spoilers #yang xiao long #raven branwen #not to rain on anyone's parade but like #i'm trying to understand but i don't think it's translating very well

[tenmillionpoundsofsludge]

Can never understand the autistics/ADHD havers who can sit through an entire podcast episode of critical role.

Godspeed my friends but that is 4 business hours of the day. And every week? Id kill myself

#critical role #i stopped being into it because i violently hate a ship in the first...season? so much #that it physically makes me angry to think about #will not be disclosing here in case theres people who like it im not trying to rain on anyones parade

[anwn]

would it be insane for me to say people only like prime shadow because he has a more heroic role despite having the same characteristics they dislike in his other depictions... would it be insane to say shadow feels kind of mellowed down as a result.... like hes not allowed to completely embody his character because he also has to play substitute to sonic's heroic presence because the sonic we have can't totally deliver on that aspect. would it be insane for me to say its kinda like a domino effect where downplaying sonic inevitably leads to their dynamic shifting to accommodate this change which leads into having to downplay shadow as well. can i say that

#im. not sure if this makes sense but whatevs right #bit hesitant to tag this bc i dont want ot to feel like im trying to rain on anyone's parade #but. but. #blingee.txt #sonic #shadow #sonic prime

[ramshacklefey]

Ok, it is almost 2024, and I'm just gonna say it:

The movie version of Howl's Moving Castle kinda sucks.

I just rewatched it for the first time in a long while, and I've finally confirmed that it isn't just that I've been in love with the book since long before the film existed. The plot of the film actually kinda sucks.

My argument for this is that describing the plot of the film is nearly impossible, because it's largely incoherent. The events don't hang together or follow from each other in any way that makes sense. There's just too much going on at once, character motivations aren't properly explained, and many events just seem to happen for no reason at all.

Why is Howl going out into the war zones? Why does he turn into a bird to do that? Why does Madame Suliman decide to end the war? Who is Makl (why did they leave his name that way in the English dub?) and where did he come from? Why did Howl make his bargain with Calcifer in the first place? Why is Sophie able to break Howl and Calcifer's bargain without killing Calcifer? Why does Howl have different personas in different places? Why would Howl, who spends every night flying around in a war zone, need Sophie to be in danger in order to summon up the courage to face Madame Suliman, and what was he trying to achieve by going to see her in the first place? Does using magic at all turn Howl into a monster, and if so, why?

There's just too many unanswered questions about everything that's going on, and too many scenes in the film that leave you going, "What, what?"

And why did Miyazaki feel the need to make the story this convoluted and weird? The original story is a pretty simple Beauty and the Beast retelling, and it's not like Miyazaki has any trouble telling simple, straightforward stories.

The whole thing is just kind of a mess, and I am no longer going to let it's popularity trick me into thinking that I'm just wrong.

#ramshackle rants #not going to tag this with the movie because I'm not really trying to rain on anyone's parade #it's just something that I've been bothered by for YEARS

[shutupthepunx111]

I Hated The Nimona Movie and You All Will Hate Me After You Read This :D

ok im going to be real with all of you here. i could barely get through the nimona movie. i found it dull, uninteresting, and infuriating (and this is just gonna be me rageposting about it so buckle up guys :D im not that passionate about it but i saw a post that got me in a Mood so)

HERE ARE SOME REASONS WHY:

starting with the most subjective and trivial part, i hate the art. it makes me wanna froth at the mouth and die. the big eyes? HATE em. comic art better 100%

second and last petty thing ambrosius' hair . what did they do to you babygirl. like actually whose idea was it to take away his glorius luscious locks in favor of the Stereotypical Animated Movie f*g haircut like seriously>>>?????

but the biggest thing that im upset about is ballister and ambrosius' relationship. WHERE IS THE FUCKING BANTER? WHERE ARE THE SCENES WHERE THEY BEAT EACH OTHER UP? in the comic, they were interesting, they were dark, they were fucked up, and all of that was sacrificed so that they could be "canon" and kiss one time onscreen at the end!!! to be honest i would rather have an interesting and compelling gay relationship left to subtext than a flat, boring, and disinteresting gay relationship that is canon. my opinion but im right so.

AMBROSIUS IN GENERAL? he's just? not even a character? they turned him from a complex and interesting character full of flaws – i mean he was pompous, full of himself, elitist, you name it! he was dumb as rocks! and he was real! in the movie he's just a bland bowl of slop whose only purpose is to feel regret !!!! in the movie he's this everyman good guy, and in the comic – i mean. the whole thing with the comic is that ambrosius, despite caring deeply for ballister, is sort of the bad guy!!! he shot ballister's arm off NOT because he was "disarming a weapon" but because HE LOST A CONTEST. just because he's a Fucked Up interesting dude.

The setting also fucked me up – by setting the story directly after ballister becomes a villain, the movie takes away a lot of the key elements of ballister's character. they took away his deep-rooted anger with ambrosius, with the institution, they took away his villainous principles and competency, and they TOOK AWAY HIS GODDAMN LOVE OF SCIENCE FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK!! JUST TO MAKE HIM INTO THE EMBODIMENT OF THE PLEADING FACE EMOJI WITH ZERO AGENCY IN HIS OWN GODDAMN STORY!

that's just to name a few. the movie was fine, but it was bland, and even though ND worked very closely with the team, i felt it wasn't faithful in the right ways. but hey, two men kiss onscreen and they painfully spell out the trans allegory to the point of nausea, so it HAS to be good, right?

#not trying to offend anyone i just feel very passionately that the comic is better #if you enjoy the movie thats your thing! genuinely dont wanna rain on anyones parade #i just feel that if theres anywhere i can rant about like. this stuff. its here so. #nimona #nimona 2023 #ballister blackheart #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius

[sparkysxi]

bro someone needs to show neuvillette watertok. he’d be so excited to see people enjoying their water and discussing it up until he sees that it is Not That. how it’s practically just juice at this point. he’d be revolted and i think furina would give you a high five for being the funniest person in the court

#modern aus are missing out #bonus points for if people think he’s being like ‘just some guy trying to rain on the girls parade’ #(because to be fair watertok isn’t hurting anyone) #but no as someone who pulled for him and has heard his voice lines he is just That passionate about water #neuvillette #genshin impact #genshin neuvillette

[toastsnaffler]

how the fuck did we make it over 6 months without a rice cooker...... no wonder its been such a rough year 💀

#im such a classic grumpyass i keep getting annoyed at ppl for being so excited at how sunny it is #i actually dont like this weather bc its miserably warm and humid in the lab and on my commute which is 10 hours a day #10 hours combined i mean not a 10 hour commute id kill myself #and also i have year round depression so the change in seasons doesnt rly affect my mood at all. saaaad #but good for everyone else i dont wanna rain on anyones parade so im trying to keep it to myself #yeuuuurgyhh #god im so tired of ppl lying to me all the time. but i dont rly wanna think abt that rn so eating my rice and then im gonna draw or smth #.diaries

[daisywords]

I think D&D is good and fun but it bugs me a little bit how people sometimes seem to generalize D&D rules and aesthetics and archetypes across the fantasy genre in general. Like that's just one thing. stop saying all of fantasy when you just mean D&D-adjacent.

#and yeah yeah I get that D&D is built from previously existing fantasy tropes and aesthetics and archetypes #but I think some of those ideas get mixed together with stuff that's more D&D specific in people's heads #not trying to rain on anyone's parade I'm just being an annoying little pedant #as is my wont

[binkywinky]

did the deleted scene with valkyrie and kamala move you towards being a valcarol shipper?

I mean... she was annoyed because she thought Carol got married without telling her again, and her irritation was with not being invited to the wedding as opposed to the wedding itself. So yeah, if anything, that more firmly puts them in the friends (who probably used to date) category for me, not current lovers.

That being said, I am intrigued by their friendship. I'd like to see that play out onscreen. And the strap on joke... hilarious. How it even made it to the deleted scenes is a miracle.

#binky answers anons #carol danvers #valkyrie #the marvels #not trying to rain on anyone's parade #ship who you wanna ship #just didn't really do anything for me in that regard #i think i'd be into it more of carolmaria wasn't such a superior alternative