#sorry for the long rant tldr: the origin of this? there is no origin. I was (am) just like this hfkfh I Be Questioning Shit

[potatoes-tomatoes]

this a bit late but I saw ur tags on that sp easter episode gifset "not my ass pulling a stan at the tender age of six" - I'm so curious what ur easter questioning origins were 👀

i was (…am?) a lil insane growing up, like ok, I have memories of telling everyone in my kindergarten class that santa wasn’t real and wouldn’t care if they cried, bc they HAD to know the truth like, how could santa deliver those gifts in one night? why does he only give gifts to kids in america/ with enough wealth? You can still love the specials, and the holiday, the characters of the santa mythos, but believing a lie told by adults just didn’t sit right with me. also bc my parents told me he wasn’t real lol. (listen. my mom grew up very very poor. My grandma told my tias and tio that Santa wasn’t real, and only existed for the gringos with money jfkfkfjf) so. yeah my religiously zealous ass is the preface for even more religiously zealous stuff

so I grew up as a conservative christian girl that read the bible like a storybook every night, but I also have memories of questioning everything, it drove everyone crazy. I would hound my pastors after service with new questions someone my age wouldn’t usually have? I knew they thought it was kinda annoying if not mildly cute but I needed answers for every goddamn thing. Easter traditions bein one of them 😅 Now, I was raised very traditionally, as in, we examined good friday and went to a long Easter service and then, that’s it. Eggs, Rabbits were worldly, and had nothing to do with Christ, and tbh the most my fam enjoyed was the after church carne asada and the trip to walmart the coming monday to get discounted candy to munch on thru summer lolol. But I asked my classmates and teachers at school like at what point did easter become abt eggs? so if you’re not christian then, what exactly are you celebrating? You’re just doing elaborate stuff to eat candy. what’s the true purpose of the bunny? where did this originate? and everyone was like, just paint ur damn plastic egg for class Cel, you’re 6. 😂😅

Well that’s done and over with and I’m completely sane now. Also I did not paint and properly prep my first easter egg and participate in an egg hunt until last year with some friends and it was cute lol.

#cel speaks #when i say i was crazy i mean that at 9 i almost tried learning hebrew bc i could not stand knowing that there was knowledge in the bible #that was untranslatable and therefore inaccessible to english readers #i was like. I would Simply Not Know things? I cannot find the source of it myself?? NO!! #but also I was nine and got fixated on sonic and barbie and shit so that faded very quickly lol #I get why at first I seem like an ennea 5 or a 6 lol the panic that comes not fully mastering one’s craft is a key #5w6/6w5 bit i’ll admit #cel answers #sorry for the long rant tldr: the origin of this? there is no origin. I was (am) just like this hfkfh I Be Questioning Shit #but also i would play devils advocate (if h could call it that?) and tell my pastors like #‘​well if we put up trees #and wrap presents for christmas #yet somehow turn a fucking candy cane into a christian symbol #can we not do the same for the eggs??’ #and my pastors were like no christmas is different #and i never rly got a straight answer for that tbh…. #i was very much an all or nothing gal like. so the church acknowledged the ‘pagan’ origins of trees but we can reclaim them and make it #christian or just a simple american Thing #but my church drew the line at putting candy crosses or verses inside the eggs alongside candy #to tie it in to jesus?

[sofoulandfairaday]

do you think the blacks had sexist beliefs? Do you think Sirius and Regulus did?

This is a very interesting question, especially because purebloods are often portrayed with very Victorian beliefs in fanfiction, which can only be partly inferred from the original books. I think that it was in the author's intentions to create a more equal society: there have been several female Ministers for Magic, for example, and in general magic would naturally be an equalizer, since it does not manifest differently in men and women in the books. However, the single female characters portrayed in the books, especially the adult ones, do not lend themselves well to this interpretation. Most of them exist inside very domestic settings - be it a school or a household - and the books promote Being A Mother as the pinnacle of womanhood.

(Which is coincidentally one of the reasons why I don't really love the existence of Delphi outside fanfiction. Bellatrix's sort of love is portrayed - in most literal, on-the-nose way possible - as the antithesis to maternal love. Making her yet another mother in the story undermines her character to me. But this is a whole other post.)

On top of that, the Blacks are very obviously conservative and aristocratic. So. As for the older Blacks (Walburga, Orion, and that whole generation), yes. Definitely yes. Perhaps in different ways, I think the wizarding world's brand on sexism would very much be interwoven with blood supremacy and seeing witches as the keepers of the blood, and the morals of a household, and that it is their very duty to marry and especially to produce heirs (pureblood babies! especially since those families seem to be fairly infertile). A woman who tries to escape that would be seen very badly, in my opinion.

As for Sirius and Regulus. Regulus' politics - sorry Reggie girlies - were very much conservative. And I refuse to believe that he didn't have mommy issues. I hc him as gay, honestly, and it is for the best because he would realistically be a bad boyfriend/husband. I cannot imagine him ever standing up to defend a possible wife to Walburga (or even Bellatrix) in a family dinner setting or the like - and any wife of his would suffer hell. Imagine marrying into the Black family as a woman and having them as in-laws. You would never be good enough. His wife would be chosen for him - pure of blood, someone worthy of producing heirs, and he probably wanted someone to take care of him in the way mommy never did. This poor hypothetical girl would have an additional child. In general, I think his views on women wouldn't be incredibly backwards but not even progressive. He'd be okay with you as long as you were the right kind of woman.

As for Sirius. He was a man born to an aristocratic british family in 1959. Make of that what you will. Sexism was just another of the prejudices he tried to unlearn during his lifetime - and meeting women like Lily, or his other non-pureblood female friends in Gryffindor, that would have definitely heard of the Women's Rights Movement and would have probably been feminists themselves - would have definitely helped. But it's hard for anyone (women included) to let go of all internal biases. He'd definitely still be the type to call a woman he dislikes a bitch, for example. Did he stand up of the common room table and give feminist rants on reproductive rights? Probably not. Did he fundamentally believe in equality and appreciated/supported strong women? Definitely.

TLDR: yes, in an appropriate way for age & setting. They were complex characters and their views on women probably reflected their overall politics. Regulus is part of a group of people who see society as divided into classes, where everyone gets assigned a role. Sirius was the opposite. Also, most people hold some sexist beliefs nowadays, in 2023, and I don't like imposing that sort of morality on fictional characters living in the 1990s.

#asks #answered #hp meta #sirius black #regulus black #bellatrix black #bellatrix lestrange #walburga black #the noble and most ancient house of black #hp fandom

[gracetheadrienettefan]

ok wait wait wait wait wait

we all hate on master fu for choosing literal children, right

but what if they HAVE to be children.

think about it. Ladybug's power is creation. She basically runs off love. She's crazy, and unorganized, and the fact that she feels so much for everything is what makes her the perfect creation holder. She falls in love way too easily. She makes crazy plans. Her and her friends think they can save the world with a hijacked commercial, and they DO it. Because they believe they can. You can't tell me an adult would be able to pull off any of the crazy plans the Miracugang pulls off. (Honestly Miraculous Ladybug reawakened my inner child cuz I used to be just like Marinette and she's literally the reason I picked up sewing again but that's another rant for another time)

And then there's Adrien. His power is destruction. Freedom. (Go read drowning (in plain sight) by buggachat there's a whole character study on Plagg in there and it's beautiful.) Anyways. Imagine if Fu had waited another year or two, not to mention until Adrien was an adult with a 'fully functioning brain'. You can't tell me Adrien could've held out that long. He wouldn't have been chosen for the Chat miraculous, because he wouldn't have been trying to run away. He would have either been broken, or his father would have used his amok to force him into complete obedience by then. But in Origins, it's close enough to his mother's death that he still remembers her. He's still feeling. He's still rebelling. And then Plagg gives him the strength to keep doing that, and the outlet (as Chat Noir) to express himself so he doesn't lose himself.

And then there's the Lucky Charms. The plans that they come up with are frankly frickin bonkers. I mean, Rena's first mission (if I remember correctly) involved Chat Noir jumping off a roof on a unicycle. I honestly think Ladybug's lessened amount of life experience helps in those situations, because I'm only a couple years older than her and I would have never thought up any of those ideas. My brain is too fixed by the system at this point to think that much out of the box, although I'm working on fixing that. I can't imagine my mom, for example, coming up with any of that stuff, let alone finding a random pair of earrings and putting them on in the first place. Literally no one else would do that except for a super trusting teenager who's also into fashion. Not to mention the fact that they

TL;DR: The emotional capacity and limited life experience of the superheroes in ML are the only reason they even consented to being superheroes in the first place, and although I don't like it, Fu was working god mode when he picked them. Basically, you have to have the vision to see the possibilities without putting limits on yourself (because the holder sets the limits) and it's far easier for teenagers/younger people to imagine stuff like that. Also they're such dorks.

wow that's a long tldr sorry about that

#miraculous ladybug #ml #mlb #ladynoir #rant #headcannons #adrien agreste #marinette dupain-cheng #ml writers

[starii-galaxii]

A (Not So) Quick Rant

My opinion on the situation for those who want to read:

FNF is my first fandom and the one I find the most comfort in, it's also the fandom I've been in for the longest, and while I think I've started to find other fandoms that I might be able to get to stick in my brain, FNF will still have the biggest place in my heart.

But I can also admit that this fandom can be absolutely insane at times, and while I'm glad I've never been part of any of that drama since I stay in the non-toxic groups, it's a fucking problem when, someone else seems to be outed as a pedo.

And don't even get me started on how people seem to have questionable priorities. Like, the Miku stuff is bad... but where were these people when there was NSFW of characters like Sky or Skid and Pump being made? I'll tell you where, getting mad at Retrospecter for making a the incartantion of Lust a horny moth lady! Because we must cancel this man for making a grown moth lady with big tits but not those people for making porn of minors!

And don't get me started on how apparently him joking about a fucking genocide is somehow less important than him liking NSFW of a fictional minor. Once again, that is still bad, there is a such thing as recognizing that both things are bad. But is it seriously worse than a fucking genocide???? Please! get your priorities straight people!

But this isn't on the entire fandom, this is directed at that toxic side of the fandom that drives the good people away from it. I've witnessed it happen so many times, and this toxic part is so loud that it looks like it's the entire fandom. I don't know how a simple rhythm game even cultivates this type of toxicity in the first place. I just wanted to have fun.

And that's the thing, because people can just tell me to leave the fandom and move on. But I can't, I don't think people realize how hard it is to simply move on from something you've been sinking your every thought into for the past 3 years. Or how hard it is to just simply leave something that had positively impacted your life! FNF was the catalyst in me getting back into art and writing, in me imporving both, in me getting social media and making friends, and it was just there for me during quarentine. All of this, and you expect me to just abandon it in a drop of the hat? Even if I wanted to, I couldn't! At least not as quickly as some may like.

Plus, this isn't even the case of seperating art from the artists since NinjaMuffin was the main coder, not the artist. That's like moving out of a house because the leading dude that built it was bad. We can seperate FNF from NinjaMuffin, because there isn't any of his art within the game, because a lot of the characters don't even originate from the game, and because playing a free game doesn't financially support people.

In fact, the Kickstarter had been closed for a long while, there is no finanically supporting him. And there defintely isn't any emotionally supporting him either. We can still enjoy what we love while acknowledging that NinjaMuffin is a bad person.

That is all for this rant, I'm sorry if it is a bit unorganized, I just needed to get my feelings about this situation out.

TLDR: I like FNF, NinjaMuffin is bad, some of fandom is bad, It's hard to move on from FNF, and we can still enjoy the game without supporting NinjaMuffin financially or emotionally.

#friday night funkin #fnf #rant

[saline-coelacanth]

Speaking of which I want to ask what did you think of Garmadon and how he's come along way?

Alright Garmadon is a pretty important character that I (along with many fans) have a lot of thoughts about so I'm just gonna apologize ahead of time if this gets long. Also, I haven't rewatched a lot of the seasons in a while so if I miss some things, I apologize.

So before we can talk about the Garmadon we have now, we gotta talk about how Garmadon was originally. In the early seasons, Garmadon was such an interesting villain and it all boiled down to his love for his son. He was bit by the Great Devourer and turned evil, but the thing that got him to fight the evil inside of him was always Lloyd. That's what made him so interesting.

And then he gets resurrected in season 8. And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't entirely hate how the did Garmadon in the Oni Trilogy. They make a point to establish that only the evil side of Garmadon was resurrected which is why he shows zero care for Lloyd, and I'm relatively ok with this specifically because they acknowledge the fact that this Garmadon is different and that he originally DID care for his son. The only thing that upsets me is that I do feel like this version of Garmadon is a much less interesting villain than he was originally.

Then, we get March of the Oni where we see tiny specks of character development from Garmadon. We start to see him question himself and his need to put survival over everything else. We don't really get too much resolution to this in March of the Oni since Garmadon just sort of... leaves at the end, but that's where Crystallized comes in.

Now I know A LOT of people have problems with Crystallized, and trust me, I have issues with it too. But Garmadon is not one of those issues. I think they did a great job with his character and showing that he is actively trying to better himself and learn more about life. As funny as everything with Christofern is, it is also extremely heartwarming to see Garmadon care so much about a living thing, even if it is just a plant. My issue with this whole arc with Garmadon, is NOT with Garmadon, it's with Lloyd.

Now I'm gonna try not to talk too much about Lloyd since this is about Garmadon, but I feel like I need to mention it. I absolutely HATE how they wrote Lloyd's feelings towards his father. The fact that he acts like Garmadon NEVER cared for him and was NEVER a good father just ruins so much for me because in the early seasons, we saw how much Lloyd cared about his dad and vice versa. And they basically threw it all away because they needed Lloyd to have daddy issues.

Alright, sorry for that rant. the TLDR is that I actually really like a lot of the development they did with Garmadon. I may not be a huge fan of him as the villain during seasons 8 and 9, but the development they gave him afterwards sort of makes up for it in my book.

#ninjago #lego ninjago #asks #lord garmadon

[my-castles-crumbling]

hey, cas

so, i kind of wanted to rant a bit, but theres a few things in here i know could get people riled up so honestly im a little nervous sharing this. i also want to preface it by saying that i am NOT hating on any fics i name here, they are just well-known examples and fics that the fandom hold close

as a fic writer myself, i love adding my own little headcanons to characters. sometimes theyre hcs ive seen from someone else and loved, and other times ive thought of them myself. in the latter case, ill often then see that someone else thought of it too, which is really cool!

but then there comes the hcs that people see and think "oh! thats from x fic!" for example, if you bring up dyslexic remus to most marauders fans, theyre gonna talk about atyd. ive never read the fic myself, its not my taste, but ive heard a lot of things about it and it does honestly sound like a great fic so genuinely no hate towards it. but i hc remus as dyslexic and i did so before learning that atyd has dyslexic remus, and any time i consider putting that hc into one of my fics all i can think about is that people will see it and talk about atyd. maybe theyll say i was copying or stole the idea. maybe theyll compare the two and decide the way i depict it isnt as good. maybe ill end up accidentally using a similar or the same thing for remus to have aiding him, for example a spell or something one of his friends do, and ill be told im plagiarising, and i absolutely hate that.

another example is best friends brother. its such a well known fic in the fandom that anyone who writes anything similar is going to be compared to it. or crimson rivers; anyone who writes a hunger games au (even if its not even remotely similar to cr) is going to be told theyre trying to copy. i love both bfb and cr but i wish people could accept that two writers can have the same idea without copying or trying to recreate/steal it

one of my current ongoing fics has the same central trope as another big fic in the fandom (i dont want to reveal which, because i dont want to risk being de-anoned) and i went out of my way to avoid reading the big fandom fic until ive finished writing my own because im so terrified that if theres even a single vague similarity i might get called out and told im copying

i want to say im just being paranoid, but i cant. i hate that the fandom has come to the point where authors have to bring something out that absolutely noone has ever done before ever just so that they dont get told theyve taken the idea from someone else. even if they had, its perfectly normal and fine to be inspired by an idea to make it your own! obviously actual plagiarism is not okay and should be called out, but theres a difference between plagiarism and just having a similar idea or hc

going back to my original point (because this was where my frustrations with this started) i hate that dyslexic remus will always be seen as an atyd thing, when it isnt. again, no hate to the fic or the author, this isnt an attack on them at all, its just unfortunate that the fandom has kind of taken it so much as canon that anything will always be compared to it, if that makes sense?

tldr: let me have dyslexic remus without telling me im copying atyd! let me have him use magic or have his friends do little things to help him without telling me i stole it from atyd!

sorry about that cas haha, i realise its a bit long. it just really really frustrates me to no end, yknow?

Hi!

Yes, I can definitely see what you're saying. I think if something is inspired by another fic (i.e. you read CR and then you're like...oh, I wanna write a Hunger Games AU) it's good to give credit where it's due by saying "inspired by x." But in a fandom with thousands of fics, the same ideas are bound to come up even without having read other fics. If people accuse you of copying and you genuinely haven't, I would just let them yell. People are always going to have negative things to say, you know?

#ask #asks #ask cas

[darkcanid19]

Regarding the last reblog I just wanna clarify a few things for those curious about what the fuck is going on/what i was referring to:

Yes, sonic.exe is bad and always has been - the original at least. It’s perfectly okay and we all laugh about it constantly. The thing is that it’s getting sidewinded by all these people that are assuming things based on “previous events” (ie: sans aus, let’s be honest) and the fact that sonic.exe made a resurgance because of FNF. TLDR: don’t make fun of people who actually enjoy it and make content out of it. We’re just having fun! I’ll keep the long version under the cut.

CONTROVERSY is real and always is with any fandom. I think the biggest ones are regarding r/vie and the hate centered around Curse, a perfectly harmless exe OC.

- Redarding r/vie: They were the original director of the FNF sonic.exe mod and owned Faker, another exe OC. Unfortunately, she was outed to be a groomer and all around asshole and manipulator. More info on that can probably be found if you simply Google it. R/vie was removed from the staff team, thankfully, and Faker’s segment in the mod was also taken down. Because of the situation, however, tons of people are attacking OC creators over the fact that their OC has a “faker” form and is either replacing or just flat out copying a controversal character. This is mostly not the case and is the source of a lot of heat within the fandom.

-Regarding Curse: As stated above, Curse is an OC that gets their creator a lot of harassment over them being, quote, “not scary”, “delibertely cute”, “lgbt”, etc. This sucks a lot because Curse is, in fact, a very harmless OC that was just the creator having fun and doing what they want. A lot of the hate comes from “fans” that only take joy from bland characters that follow the basic exe formula of being scary. Their comments are in no way justified and half of them are just extremely homophobic/transphobic.

SHIPPING is also a thing and is NOT afraid to hide itself, but that’s perfectly okay. The most popular one circulating around the internet is EndlessCycles, a ship between Lord X and Majin and brought forth by @/Little_Geecko on Twitter (whose AUs and art is absolutely fantastic and adorable). Many fans are claiming this is ruining sonic.exe, but in all honesty, again, we’re just having fun and minding our own business. Hell, even I ship my own exe (Xalderax) with Xenophanes and I have the time of my life with it. 

The main issues surrounding this fandom are just assholes who like to make everything about them and harrass harmless people. If you don’t like what we have to offer, kindly turn around and focus on something you somehow enjoy. No one deserves to be sent death threats or any hurtful comments over something as simple as their OC being trans, LGBT in general, or “not scary”. Just come out and say you’re homophobic already.

Sorry for the rant, I’ve just been seeing so many things around in all spaces and I needed to get a few things off my chest. Take this as you will; a rant, an infopost, whatever. I’m just tired of seeing people getting hurt over something this stupid.

#canid.txt #long post #sonic the hedgehog #sonic.exe #putting this in the main tags for people wondering about what the hell's happening

[anti-cosmofangirl]

How are you liking the portrayal of The Grand Inquisitor? Do you think his design is better?

KENOBI SPOILERS

Let me start this by saying I'm an incredibly biased fan because Jason Isaac's portrayal of the GI is my favorite Star Wars character, and is also one of my favorite characters ever.

I don't hate Friend's version even though I thought I would. He's not a bad actor, he just doesn't portray the GI well. I'll break it down into my two main issues:

A) His appearance

The makeup and prosthetics chosen do not flatter Rupert Friend's features at all. There's something really funky going on with his chin (that I guess is a prosthetic???) that makes his face very squishy and awkward. Like look at him laying here:

There's so much extra flesh????

The appeal of the original GI was that he looked cadaverous and terrifying with those sharp cheekbones and dark eyes. There's even a examples of his species that capture that alien sort of terrifying that he is;

And I know that people are saying there's diversity in species but you have to keep in mind that these creative decisions with his features just make him look goofy at the end of the day. It's really hard to take him seriously. If this was a random Pau'an citizen or a good guy character I'd be more comfortable with it, but not as the face of the ruthless Grand Inquisitor. That combined with--

B) His voice

Man, I was devistated when I read that Friend didn't watch Rebels. It shows. If he was portraying a historical figure or something I would understand his desire to not imitate someone else but Isaacs is what made the GI a fan favorite. His Rebels appearance is the foundation of the character.

Friend plays the voice and mannerisms of the GI as an arrogant ass that has nothing to back up his brashness. He lets a random Jedi get away in the opening scene of the show vs. Isaacs GI opening up with the captured corpse of a very skilled Jedi, and then identifying Kanan's fighting style in like ten seconds. It really sets two different tones of villain. (And I think this is all to let Reva shine, and it's ridiculous to have to alter his character to make her arc happen, but that's a rant for another time.)

Honestly Friend's voice reminds me of like a Captain Jack Sparrow sort of character. It's nasily, goofy posh. I could see it fitting a quirky anti hero much better. I'm bitter because I feel like he thought he could do better than Isaacs by remaining ignorant about Rebels when he should have been trying to imitate what the Grand Inquisitor should act and sound like.

Jason Fry captures Quizzy's tone very well in one of the Rebels novelizations:

That is not Friend's Inquisitor at all. I miss that sauve aspect of the character so much. There was something so cool about a creature that was so deadly but so refined.

I want to close this by saying that all this could also be direction and writing faults. The complexity of his character might have been shoved aside just so he could fill the role of asshole boss.

This is a long rant, I'm sorry. The Grand Inquisitor is just a character I really love and was so hyped to see in live action, only to be disappointed. I hope that future project with him, if there are any, chose to explore his character more faithfully.

TLDR: I miss Jason Isaac's deep sexy voice so much.

#star wars #kenobi #rant #i am a toxic star wars fan now i guess #fans can have valid criticism #if you loved Kenobi I'm genuinely glad for you #i just feel like Disney star wars has so many issues #the creative direction is all over the place #grand inquisitor #rupert friend #jason isaacs

[theangelshavethephonebox]

Hey who's ready for Doccyfication series part two, The Doccyfication Of Martha Jones?

The one that started this all? Ayyyyyy let's go!!!

Martha Jones, med student (turned Doctor turned soldier), one season, in unrequited love with 10, left after the Year That Never Was (when the Master invaded Earth and took her family prisoner). Please note that although 10 was such a jerk during her time and she absolutely deserved better, I will not be talking too much about that because I will talk about that for a very long time.

Okay so let's do this! My original point was that Martha's doctorification arc was like in opposition to- actually let's just copy what I wrote originally and then explain more about it:

She wanted to be a doctor since she was a kid and she was studying to be a doctor when she met The Doctor. She wanted to help people, and she did, she saved the world- but turned into a soldier. The Doctor turned her from someone who wants to help people to a literal soldier who is also a doctor.

There's something so poetic in the idea of this almost reverse Doctorification whilst the literal doctorification was going on. It fucks me up thinking about it. I've always been kind of "eh" about Martha's arc and everything but now I've had this thought I'm rotating the idea in my head like a fork in a microwave and it's making me insane

So adding on to this: we had the whole thing about how Rose helped undo all that soldier mentality we saw in 9 that was installed during the Time War. And then Rose left. It's like he started falling back into his old patterns - not caring about people's feelings, seeing humans as below him, trivial, not worth his time, etc. "Not her, she'd slow us down". He was not mentally stable enough to have a companion. And then he got Martha.

She taught him why he couldn't be a soldier, and he taught her why she had to be one. He un-doctorified her. She was going to be a doctor, and be kind, and he undid that and turned her into someone who had to fight to protect the people she loved.

You know what you've done? You took a perfectly good, potentially doctorifiable (basically perfect for a proper doctorification arc), strong, brave woman, and turned her into a soldier. You ruined a perfectly good doctor, that's what you've done!

I don't actually think he 'ruined' her, but he did fuck her up. Usually companions overcome past trauma when with the Doctor, but this time? This time she got the trauma when she was travelling with him, and then she had to leave him, so she could recover. This is the opposite to how it usually is and I cannot stress this enough. Look at the opposites!!! The complementary arcs!!! So fucked up!!!

I swear I never used to think about her like this and now she's fucking me up. Fuck yes. This is a reverse Doctorification arc Whilst a traditional doctorification arc is going on. I still can't put this in the words I'm intending but fuck I love her arc. She's amazing. And she's even more amazing for surviving Ten.

Tldr; now that's how you fuck me up! Look at that!!! She's being doctorified and un-doctorified at the same time!!! Friggin hell yes yes yes

okay this wasn't a proper tldr I'm sorry but this basically was just an emotional rant so not well thought through so actually maybe it is a good Tldr idk

#nuwho doccyfication series #the doccyfication of martha jones #doctorification #the doctorification of martha jones #dr who #doctor who #the doctor #tenth doctor #she deserved better #martha jones #the year that never was #the master #dw

[thedumestflower]

Boyfreinds webcomic criticism/rant

TLDR; boyfriends webtoon is lame and mid because its kinda icky and the writing sucks

Okay so yall hae heard about the boyfriends webtoon comic, and imma talk about why i personally dislike it

(DISCLAIMER: I MEAN NO HATE TO THIS WEBCOMIC OF ITS FANS, IF YOU LIKE IT , THAT VALID, IF YOU DONT LIKE IT, THATS ALSO VALID)

okay so the first main reason to why i dont like this webcomic is that, its well... icky,, niot exactly cringe (i mean yeah it is a little bit "cringe" but i think it just aged poorly, with it being made in early 2020) , but just, a little gross to me. Like the whole thing where the character nerd acts innocent but is actually a pervert, also the fact that hes 19 with the others are like, 20 and older, idk man just feels kind gross. also the fact that the charater goth keeps getting s3xualized even though hes asexual, with things like suggestive scenes to an actual fucking nsfw comic with him and nerd with, holy shit dude, the creator has stated hes a huge flirt but dosent like the s3x, but like, bro??????thats kinda gross to me to see a asexual character that keeps getting sexualized, and yeah asexual ppl can have the s3x but , it still rubs me the wrong way.

and the second reason i dont like this is because its fucking boring as sin to me. OK , ok , hear me out, webcomic being simply not my cup of tea isnt the only reason i think its mid, i also think the writing could be alot better, let me explain.

So the comic, the very beginning of the comic , it just starts out , literally with prep saying (im gonna be paraphrasing here for comedy but you get the pitcure) "omg im so over being single i want boyfren" and goth being like " haha, im gonna get boyfren befor you with my epic gamer rizz" and the nerd just fucking trips and falls, right infront of them, goth helps him up and they talk and make plans for shit. Now, notice how we get no fucking introduction? i mean, we get character cards for them but i think if you can do basic writing, and a simple, "oh im prep and im goth and we go 2 collage , and prep is singl and pathetic , but incredibly oblivious to goth crushing on him for like fuckn whatever years hes been doing this shit" ,like bro its that fucking simple, without setting up a basic background , we have no clue who these characters are and why we should care about them, we jut know that goth get bitches and prep doesn't(at the beginning of the series).

I also feel like more time should have been spent on the boys individual relationships BEFORE they become a official couple and not after , and to the comics credit, they kind do, but they fail to make me care because , again, no character introductions except for those character cards, witch don't really do much for the reader expect give us there name, age, and majors, witch also could have been told to us, along with more infromation about the character like, basic backstory and scene with a simple character introduction at the beginning.

Another problem within this problem is the characters themselves, you see, my problem is that they're stereotypes, witch, isn't bad, as long as its done well. But the creator doesn't do anything really interesting with them, no subversions of expectations , hell, its hard to even call them true to their original stereotypes, yeah prep is enough like a prep and sure i guess jock is enough like a jock, but goth isnt really even,, goth like, i mean character design wise, (im not a big fan of the gothy character stereotype where their just , edgey and shit) , i mean , if you go on Pinterest and type in "gothic aesthetic" you'd get somthing alot more like fancy suits and dresses and abandoned churches, not my immortal draco malfoy.(im sorry ill never make that joke ever again) . also the fact the nerd isnt even that much of a nerd, where the epic gamer shit, where the dnd handbooks, where the info dumping about your favorite obscure pieces of media? the most nerd shit that hes into is problem k-pop, or animal crossing, which, honestly to me, isnt really nerdy , . fucking hell, i mean jock isnt even a fucking himbo, like THE DUMB JOCK STERYOTYPE IS RIGHT FUCKING THERE THATS SUCH A MISSED OPPERTUNITY. So for me, either go big or go home

haha so yeah, thats why i dont like this webcomic, and my criticisms, if you agree with me, thats fine, if you dont agree with me and just want your silly brainrot pastel gays, thats also fine, i dont realy care if you like the webcomic or not.

But if you wish the boyfriends webcomic did something more interesting and cool with theyre characters and wish for a more "dramatic" story, with cool character designs and interesting and dynamics and also was made by someone who shouldn't really be making romance media and is not qualified to do this because they are aro ace but is really into shipping culture, well i do have an idea for a remake of it with all the things listed above, i might make a askblog for it teehee,

well thanks for reading and wasting your fuckn time on this earth

#boyfriends webtoon #boyfriends webcomic #boyfriends webtoon slander #boyfriends webtoon criticism #criticism #rant #gay #lgbtq media

[lostmykeysie]

Hellooo Keysie!!!

I am a massive fan of absolutely everything that you do (You could probably commit a felony and I'd be delighted.) I would not be exaggerating if I said you were my favorite author on Ao3 (It's true, you are.) I take so much pleasure in the way you write. It's hilarious and entertaining, but so painfully honest when it needs to be. I cannot even begin to express how incredible THH and TML are. Genuinely my favorite fic/series on the platform. I get unbelievably happy when I see you've updated with a new chapter and I get so excited when I read them. Your characterizations are wonderful! I'm especially a fan of Remus and Regulus (Wonder what that means for me as a person). The way you portray their friendship dynamic is just *chef's kiss*. Okay, this is getting a bit long now but TLDR; you are absolutely amazing and your fics are amazing and I love everything that you do!

PS: Keep being awesome

no i am a crier you're making my eyes wet :(((((((((((((( i feel really embarrassed and lame you do not have to be so lovely and sweet to me what if i collapse???? what then???

not to be Open & Honest With You but (i'm going on a lame rant on my lunch break so i'll stick this bollocks beneath the cut i'm so sorry you did not ask for this you should probably just ignore me you poor poor chicken)

i enjoy writing this shit so much and i can't imagine going about my life not writing??

which is absolutely insane as a thought because i only started writing fic just over a year ago. prior to that i had never even contemplated writing a story in any form, 0 original thought 0 idea how i would even go about that...

when i was a kid i used to write poems (i can't believe i'm saying this out loud) and even worse when i was a teen i used to write songs (again. shoot me. i do not miss the band days what was i doing i can't believe i did that) but STORIES??? not even in the realm of possibility.

now i have 325k words published on ao3 (i just checked. wtf) and if we ignore everything prior to chimaera & the wolf because i had NO IDEA what i was doing (and you can tell. big yikes. if i cared about being an embarrassment i think i would have cleansed my ao3 by now) that's like 250k words on this silly not-so-little story that i love so much and think about all the time and am having the greatest time ever writing. like it's genuinely a lovely experience. sometimes i write a line or a paragraph and i'm like oh.... i am.. proud??? of that??? i wrote that and it's actually kinda... something???? and as someone with literal 0 talents and skills and interests and hobbies i had no idea how rewarding making something would be? and then being proud of making it?? it's mad

and then on top of that hearing that yeah i'm having a good time but so are other people?? that are reading it? that want to continue reading it???? that tell me their favourite lines and plot twists and get excited when i post?????? and say lovely wonderful nice things to me about my writing?????? what the actual fuck lol. i can't explain how weird that is to comprehend honestly

anyway. i'm sorry for this it was so lame. but thank you for being so nice to me it makes me feel all wonky and embarrassed but in a lovely way and it means a lot and christ alive what is wrong with me i am putting an end to this right now

#someone asked me a q #lovely wonderful babe #yet another stream of consciousness i am so sorry #i took my meds properly today #i don't know if this whole thing is a good or a bad sign #anyway #this is so embarrassing i am sorry genuinely #brb jumping off a cliff

[askamnesiamoonjumper]

Hey guys! Gonna give a lil update (both a mini life update and a update for the au stuff):

Tumblr is still messed up for me (currently posting this from pc) so I’m guessing it has to do with the bells they added to the dash considering that’s when it happened, so I’m assuming it’ll be back once they take them away, but if not I might have to go to staff or something we’ll see 

Anyway I got hat game on my pc for Christmas! but it sets my laptop on fire and runs very badly lmao so I’m probably gonna see if I can get a gaming computer for my birthday so I can play it properly 

Also sorry for not being very active lately, we went on vacation but I got sick afterwards and then a big snow storm hit, so just got a bit overwhelmed from all that happening one after another lol, I’m not sick anymore thankfully but the snow is still around 

In au related news as y’all know I’ve hit some art/writing block lately, so I’ve not started on the next prologue chapter just yet but thankfully I did get the plot of it figured out in a discord call, as I had been struggling to think of how it would play out bc it’s gonna be a A B plot situation, but I finally got a way for it to work out nicely ^^ so I got a little outline of the events jotted down, just haven’t started on the actual thing yet 

So after that chapter the prologue will be finished and so things can flow into the main fic, speaking of the main fic you’d assume I’d start working on chapter 2 after finishing the prologue and you WOULD be right, but I recently decided I want to go back and edit/rewrite chapter 1 just bc my writing improved so I wanna add extra scenes or better descriptions etc etc so it’s getting a revamp but not an outright rewrite just bc that thing is way too long to redo it entirely 💀

Also on the topic of writing i kept having the issue of thinking all the chapters outside of snatchers prologue chapter (heartburn) where all not the best writing, especially compared to aforementioned snatcher chapter that had way higher writing quality, I originally just chalked it up to being in the zone™️ when writing that one, but I realized I think it MIGHT be because it’s the only one not being adapted from a comic, all the others had comic or tumblr related things tied to them, but the snatcher fic was all it had going for itself, thus it had more descriptive words or spent longer on events etc because it didn’t have anything to go off of, where as the other fics ended up accidentally feeling more akin to scripts to me in how they did descriptions, ESPECIALLY forget me not because it’s literally just word for word event for event the same as it’s comic form, not sure if I’m making sense but what I’m getting at is that I’m glad that after this next chapter we are in completely new territory! No comics or ask blog stuff is tied to any of the chapters to come, so perhaps this will mean their writing will improve because they’ll only have the words to rely on, like I said idk if this little rant was necessary I just enjoy talking about my writing process is all 

But uh yeah tldr: next fic chapter will happen eventually, after that I’m going back to redo the first main fic chapter, and sorry I didn’t get to do any holiday art but maybe I will last minute do some doodles I dunno lol, OH, and I still gotta figure out a follower milestone event bc I’m super excited about it!^^ like I said of anyone has suggestions I’d love any ideas! 

Happy holidays! :3

#long post #grace post

[whentheynameyoujoy]

So I ran across your posts about purity discourse in the ASOIAF fandom and I could not agree more with. Sorry to rant, but it's really frustrating to come across a meta/theorycrafting post where the writer assumes Martin wrote this series with the sensibilities of a 20-something millennial who has spent years brainrotted off of tumblr sjw discourse and not a 50-something year old man who's formative years were in the free love 60s/70s lmao. The amount of times I see people say, 'No, he's consistently writing about incest and large age gaps as a critique of Society and Patriarchy and Grooming' and I just have to laugh. Martin is an old school liberal who writes about things for the hell of it and imo is a bit of a freak lol and uses his writing to explore taboo topics that are titilating. This is the same man who described Dr*go and D*ny's (who was 13 at the time) wedding night as a seduction. People thinking it's some dark psychological exploration of an abusive relationship but it's basically just a typical 80s fantasy trope of beautiful nubile princess sold to hunky barbarian and then they go on to fall in love after having round after round of hot sex lol. I'm not defending him for this take, I think it's deeply weird he couldn't even bear to depict her as at least 16/17, but I've long made peace with the fact he's a bit of freak lmao. This man had his original outline have the plot point of J*n and Ar*a falling in love, two people raised as siblings, with J*n having known Ar*a since she was literally in utero, but fandom thinks he's some ethics professor trying to teach lessons with his series. His protagonist being the result of a adulterous consensual affair between a 14 year old and a married man with two children who run off together being depicted as some star crossed Romeo and Juliet romance is weird as hell, but it's Martin lol. Instead of accepting this, we have people in fandom feeling the need to rationalize and frame every plot point into some woke moral lesson they are SO SURE he is giving his audience because they refuse to accept Martin is just a bit of Freak and writes about a lot of shit he wrote about to be Edgy lol. The amount of times I see metas about how J*n and Yg*itte was an abusive relationship/was sexual coercion and that's how Martin wants readers to see it SENDS me on another level. Martin wanted to write about J*n having his first sexual relationship and feeling conflicted about it because of his duty to the NW. The point of that relationship was Martin saying 'They fucked and it was hot and know J*n knows what he's missing out on in terms of pussy v. duty and his vows. The End.' LOL. TLDR - This fandom needing to headcanon moralize every fucking plot point instead of analyzing the text for what it is because they are embarrassed to like a series that is considered 'problematic' me crazy. It's just deeply intellectually dishonest.

All of this. If anyone wants to see just how in touch Martin is with the contemporary version of the social justice crowd, they're welcome to re-visit the 2020 Hugo Awards debacle. I mean, the man clearly didn't come up with the idea to do Beauty & Beast starring an 11 and 27 year old because he was years ahead of the grooming discourse, ffs. The ASOIAF basement is dank and stinky; you can either accept this as fact and analyze the stench, or gtfo. Sadly it seems like we're stuck with this "Martin so uwu" fandom since it's unlikely the series will ever get finished and the wool pulled off the audience's eyes.

#asoiaf #anti asoiaf fandom #ask

[princemick-archive]

jay shetty tldr is that he’s essentially a marketeer who’s claim to fame is that he failed at being a monk and is now a self help guru

long story:

he joined an ashram in india to be a monk but was kicked out by the monks (from what i remember it was cause of behavioural issues, drugs, etc.)

he then made that his entire brand, sold millions of copies of his book which is a amalgamation of derivative “life lessons” that are highly unoriginal

his social media content has been accused of being plagiarised and all he does on tiktok/IG reels is use fake deep quotes and stories to get views and engagement

none of what he says is interesting or thought provoking or original but it’s just “deep” enough to keep people watching and then to sell his “services” at obscene prices ($1000+ from what I’ve read)

sorry for the rant I find him infuriating and seeing lewis legitimising him is frustrating

oh rip, yeah thats the exact vibe I felt coming from him to, very much pretentious fake guru up his own ass type.

#kyle.answers #anon

[bunny-lou]

Hello!! Im the anon with the ask from 2 weeks ago about how much i love your fics and how autophobia kicked my ass into hyperfocus so bad i ended up napping on the floor in the hallway and almost missing class after reading it

I just want you to know that i really appreciate you taking the time to answer said ask because i was massively anxious about having sent it as it was all pretty much nothing but an absolute ramble and since i was exhausted as shit (hadnt slept for more than 40 hours at that point in time) i didnt even remember what exactly i had said in it until reading it again just now after seeing it answered on my dash (didnt even figure it out it was my fucking ask until halfway through) so i was kinda worried about having come across differently than intended and sounding idk entitled or some shit by talking about wanting to read more from you whenever and only of possible (id fucking hate to sound like one of those "next chapter right now!!!! I dont care that you have a life!!! Write the fucking chapter now!!!" readers) and i was more anxious ab it after time passed without getting an answer (ngl i was p much straight up stalking your blog every few hours the first few days then i saw a post from you about how tumblr eats your asks and calmed down quite a bit) but yeah anyway i just really wanted to tell you how much i loved ypur stuff and how strongly i feel about autophobia and your writing in general hopefully without making you uncomfy or coming across as rude or anything i hope i succeed in doing that at least kinda

But yeah jsyk youre the first desc account i started interacting with properly after randomly becoming hyperfixated as fuck on descendants and your stuff is responsible fpr getting me more into the fandom and into desc itself so yeah thank you

And also i just wanna say that when i first started autophobia i REALLY didnt think my autistic aroace ass would like it since i never was into abo in the traditional form of the trope but goddamn did i fucking love ypur fic despite any initial assumptions i had made about it i loved carlos' characterization so much and i loved everyones characterization so much amd the whole plot and everything i felt it was So well executed i often daydream of like alternate events for my favourite fics but for yours i can conceive no alternate plot development that id like more than yours its absolutely chefs kiss

Anyway sorry for thia absolutely fucking gigantic rant feel free to ignore me apologies if its too much and (tldr:) thank you for everything!!

(Original ask)

I'm the actual worst at responding on Tumblr, I'm so sorry.

Your asks, both the previous one and this one, are so sweet! I never mind long asks, though it does take me longer to respond to them. Seriously, if it takes me a while to answer, it's because most of my work days are 10-12 hours and I do not have energy to reply, it's a busy life!! My mobile Tumblr (which is what I normally use) does not give me any alert that I get an ask, but if I check my mobile tumblr, my desktop tumblr will not show that I have an ask because it thinks I saw the notification on mobile (which I don't). So also blame the wonky app lol.

There are months of effort that go into all my pieces on AO3, especially Autophobia, so messages like these that show that people know how much effort I put into my work are so rewarding. And I love Descendants, it brought my such entertainment and joy during harsh periods of my life, I am in awe if my writing helped you to love a fandom as much as I do!

And I've had a lot of people tell me that Autophobia is their favorite ABO fic or the fic that got them invested in that trope, which also means so much to me because ABO is my favorite AU!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to send me such a lovely letter, it makes me smile so much!!

#asks #anonymous #autophobia fic #people being sweet

[omglisalithium]

This is going to be a random rant about the live action One Piece series on Netflix, as well as Disney. They're not related, but this will make sense later. This review will not contain spoilers. Full disclosure: I'm vaguely familiar with the original manga and anime, and my husband helped me write this because his knowledge of the OG series is far superior than mine.

Let's start with the bad:

It's VERY important in any series or movie, regardless of whether or not it's a remake, to properly set the stage so that your viewers understand the goal and know what's going on. My husband called it out immediately at the very start of the first episode that a major line explaining the goal of the show hadn't been stated right, which I feel will cause confusion among new viewers who might not be familiar with the original series.

And now the good:

It was crystal clear that a lot of love and care went into the casting, costuming, the musical score, and the writing. There are parts that are a bit awkward, but I feel like that's just something that happens with nearly every live action remake. The special effects consistently had me floored, and I didn't watch a single episode without saying some version of "that was fucking incredible and I want to know what program they used" with nearly each effect.

Here is where Disney comes in.

What brought me to write a review about One Piece in the first place was that I found that Tomorrow Studios and Netflix only started principal photography for the show in January 2022, and started actually filming in AUGUST 2022. Excuse me??? How is it that Disney has all of the money, manpower, and resources available to them at the drop of a hat and they can't get out a decent show or movie in less than 2 years, and yet a fairly small film company teamed up with Netflix got all their filming done in a few months AND had the best special effects I've seen in years?

And yes, I am fully aware that covid was a thing that pushed a lot of projects back, and also that the live action One Piece had been worked on since 2017, but people, they got amazing filming and editing done on an 8 episode show with each episode being about an hour long in less than a year. How long have we been talking about the Ahsoka show before Disney confirmed a release date? Over 3 years. Even before covid, it still took Disney 2 years to crank out each of the Star Wars sequels. Like hello??? This isn't the 70s anymore. With all the film industry's technological advancements, it's no longer acceptable for a company as big as Disney to take more than a year to get the next show/movie out, only for said show/movie to be very disappointing. It took them a decade to get out sequels for movies like The Incredibles and Finding Nemo. I'm sorry, but it's just not acceptable anymore and we shouldn't be putting up with it.

TLDR:

Live action One Piece: 10/10

Disney's ability to get quality movies/shows out in less than 2 years even though they have the resources to do it in 1 year: -10/10