#they were just critiquing her

[they-them-pussy]

new metric for media literacy for film bros is if they understand the barbie movie.

the kens are first presented as accessories to their barbies and it's pointed out loud that they don't even have places to stay in barbieland. one of the barbies straight up asks "wait, where do the kens stay?". they're just arm candy made to look pretty and cool while the barbies run their world.

but that's fucked up!!! the film presents it as fucked up! that's why ken screams "YOU FAILED ME!" and why he is insecure in the first place because he wanted to be respected and seen as a person, not someone who only exists in relation to someone else. should he have done what he did? no!!! that's why it's part of the conflict! the root of both of their breakdowns was in their society in that the barbies are supposed to be perfect and the kens exist in relation to them! it's barbie and ken. he was a footnote. that's why barbie apologizes to him in the end and tells him he can be himself. she doesn't have to exist by some set of rules and neither does he! it's barbie and it's ken! sure, the resolution to the whole barbieland issue wasn't perfect, BUT KEN'S WHOLE ARC IS ABOUT HOW THEIR WORLD FAILED MEN. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS MOVIE WAS 'WOMEN GOOD MAN BAD'. WHAT ABOUT THE NUANCE

#barbie #headcanon he got her house by the end btw. it's the mojo dojo casa house but it's also the dreamhouse dhdgdhshsj #look im sick of seeing the takes that are like hurr durr it's just another anti man movie #okay explain why they portrayed ken in a sympathetic light. his actions were fucked up but you could see exactly why he did them. #and in the end he is berated for his wrongs but also told that he doesn't have to continue down that path. did you miss the critique #did the pink blind you so much you couldn't see past it. did you american psycho this shit again dhdgdgdhd #barbie spoilers

[babsaros]

this is my favorite author's note/comment from Worm so far it's the first time i've seen Wildbow use an emote at all and i love the placement here

#worm liveblog #<- block that tag if u dont care and dont want to see me continue going crazy about this #its v interesting to see the critiques ppl were leaving circa 2011 #i can't tell if i'm just personally biased #but there are so many ppl that dont seem to understand that taylor trying to be a 'good guy' while also being a 'bad guy' is like #the point. #its complex bro. its not black and white. taylor needs to learn that. and so do some of these commenters #personally i would like to see her get worse :)

[moonmarooned]

Seyka

#horizon forbidden west #yeah #hfw #horizon burning shores #seyka #There were ABSOLUTELY honest critiques about her and the dlc but I just find it interesting (and a little saddening) not many touch on her. #No thanks to not-so-good folks flocking to a pretty fine fandom concerning ships. #Thank GAIA the community managers swung in. #The wait for the next horizon game has been weird to say the least.

[cicadaknight]

more burning shores thoughts (seyka’s characterization)

tbh i don’t agree with the critique that seyka is a “carbon copy” of aloy. her quickness to anger, unyielding self-reliance, and cheeky arrogance are all things we’ve seen aloy grow out of because of her friends. and her humor, warmth, and skill are hardly unique to aloy.

i agree there’s not a ton that sets seyka apart from aloy or the other companions beyond circumstance. but what does stand out to me is how seyka questions and challenges aloy from the start. and she does it in a way where aloy can’t shrug it off or plow ahead with her own plans (a la the bulwark or leaving varl and erend behind). aloy is never in a true position of authority or power with seyka, and that’s in large part because of seyka’s personality and self-assurance.

if you’re gonna call seyka a mary sue, a flawless, overly positively portrayed character, don’t you kind of have to do that to almost all the sympathetic characters? the things that make the others interesting are the circumstances they’re in and how they react to them or grow. not necessarily their opposition to aloy or their own personal flaws (with the exception maybe of sylens, beta, nil, and tilda)

i get why some people don’t find her compelling, but if the only reason is that she’s too similar aloy or too perfect (??) i don’t think we played the same game?

#seyka #burning shores #hfw #horizon forbidden west #spoilers #burning shores spoilers #i swear i’m nearly done stewing on this #i just… still am not vibing with most of the critiques i’ve seen of seyka #it’s one thing to not ship her with aloy #or to not find her interesting #especially if you were hoping for a character that would betray aloy or something #but i really don’t think she’d be getting as much hate as she is if they hadn’t given the option for them to kiss #and i feel like most of the vitriol towards her isn’t because she and aloy have no chemistry #but because it was shocking for romance to be an option at all #my notes

[dennisboobs]

i think everyone on sunnytwt needs to be sat down so i can explain to them what basic human empathy is. and then maybe i put them in a blender until they agree to write meta about the characters instead of whether or not charlie day got facial reconstruction surgery.

#ada speaks #u do not exist in a vacuum and your words have the capability to harm others #celebrities may not see your tweets but your balding transmasc mutual and your follower who feels self conscious about her nose will #it is fucking bizarre the way these people conduct themselves online #really. really fucking weird man #and then you see them acting like ppl are 'defending rich white men' #instead of taking issue with the actual shit theyre saying #whether or not you think rcg has been 'under the knife' or not #a) how is this any of your business. you are not entitled to this info nor do you have a free pass to criticize someone's personal choice #b) ask yourself why you feel you need to critique alleged surgeries and how they stack up to imposed conventional beauty standards #c) you do not *own* them. you can have opinions on your own attraction to them but #a person getting plastic surgery or hair plugs or whatever is up to them. not you. if it helps to make them feel better then who cares. #just because it doesn't make them attractive to YOU doesn't mean its okay to point and laugh #if a trans guy got top surgery and it was 'botched' would you act like they were stupid for getting it in the first place? #if a trans woman decided she wanted to surgically shave her jaw would you shame her for that? #it's their body. it's not yours. #for the record i don't believe any of them have gotten work done but think its a stupid thing to speculate on regardless #ive watched family members go through plastic surgeries of varying success. ive seen them get botox and hair plugs and everything #normal everyday people do it and it's not always about vanity #it can be for gender reaffirming reasons (and yes this includes when cis people do it) to alleviate dysphoria #trying to point out alleged surgical alterations made is just. gross #not to mention that holy shit MOST of the shit ppl are saying is like. age. different hairstyles. different facial expressions. #maybe if these people actually watched the show theyd be able to see the gang in action instead of staring at pics like spot the difference

[fiapple]

Okay, you know that scene in Catwoman v.1 where Selina begs Maggie to scream, cry, lash out, & curse her rather than turn to a darker version of herself?

I need you to understand that, if it were written with any sense of integrity, that would be the attitude Bruce has towards Jason post-resurrection. At least after becoming privy to the fact that Jason does not personally blame Bruce for his death.

In my opinion, Bruce would sell his arm for a penny on a streetcorner providing it gave Jason non-homicidal means of coping, for Jason to view him as responsible, as a second murderer. For him to curse "hereoism", & vigilantes, & the whole fucking lifestyle- decry it as an unbelievable farce & leave it all behind to go back to being Jason Todd of Crime Alley, who only did what he had to do to survive. Bruce would be so far beyond willing to carry that weight if it meant his boy would be off the track of his homicidally self-destructive rampage. If it meant Jason realizing he is more than just a revenant, that he is alive, that he can have a life.

The only way it makes any sense to me is if Bruce would accept, even embrace a world in which Jason views him as a horrible dad, an irredeemable piece of shit who is directly responsible for his murder, if it just meant that Jason did not have to utterly sacrafice his sense of humanity & compassion to make it through the world. He'd give near anything for it or it makes no sense. That's his son. His son who was dead but is now alive, for all he does not seem to grasp that himself.

Also he should have let Jason pop the clown. Not even for ethical reasons, but in the chase of giving Jason a chance at the realization in the world they do live in where Jason will not allow himself to view Bruce that way. Because he refuses to harm his son, or let him be taken in another explosion. Not when he just got him back, not when his son has not even gotten the chance to truly come back to life.

(I also think it would be a far more interesting jumping-off point post-utrh for Jason, but that's somewhat besides the point.)

#like when it's said bruce should be continually grieving for jason it shouldn't just be for robin jay but a jay who sees his value as a #human being rather than near-nothing more than a symbol of violent retribution. #and i stand by that. #but yeah this is also why i think the idea of Leslie being majorly involved in Jason's immediate post utrh arc would have been genius. #like she is literally the epitome of “i am going to critique vigilantism both politically & as a coping mechansim” in the bat mythos & more #over she would be Jason's ideological diometric opposite at that point as a pacifist & they have a history together meaning it would not #only be some who witnessed the climate of Gotham in the aftermath of his death but also someone who knew HIM before it. & like positioning #them as not neccessarily opposing sides while still being in conflict at first only for that to lead to development over time as jason heal #& WITH HER CONNECTION TO THE GOTHAM WORKING CLASS TO TOP IT OFF... we were robbed. #it also fits with my personal heavy insistence that Jason's healing arc have nothing to do with Bruce for like... a solid couple in-univers #years. it's important for jason to heal with agency & his own ideological growth & emotional reconciling. #bruce wayne #bruce & jason #dc #dc comics #jason todd #dc meta #batman meta #red hood

[svtskneecaps]

it's still genuinely funny to me that the only eggs to use "she" pronouns decided their pronouns themselves lmfao

#qsmp #the og batch of eggs was all he/him at adoption day with the exception of i THINK dapper don't quote me #i did hear a VERY long time ago that bad was using they/them for dapper at the start but i didn't hop in until later #also don't quote me on empanada; i THINK she was asked but i actually don't recall #sunny pomme and tallulah i know decided their own #flippa transed her gender; leo wore pronouns like accessories; and i think tilin became she/her just for a sleepover with flippa #bc allegedly slime was like 'no BOYS are allowed to sleep over with my DAUGHTER' and tilin was like well i'm a girl!! :D or so i hear #didn't confirm this for myself either #but like ramon chayanne bobby trump leo flippa tilin were all definitely assigned male pronouns at adoption lmao #and richas let his parents decide his gender and they went with he/him #this post isn't a hit piece or a critique to be clear it is genuinely funny to me the op lmao #shut up vic #block game brainrot #oh and pepito is pepito i don't think pepito ever actually gave any pronouns so pepito is pepito :D #but everyone knows pepito is pepito lmao #please don't do critique on this post this is a funny haha lmao post

[clonerightsagenda]

my mom messaging me from the plane: I think Marissa's being controlled by Ezekiel??

me: tbh I still have no fucking clue what was going on with the Ezekiel thing

#speaking of toxic situationships #idk who was really in charge there or what they were disagreeing about #the obvious answer for her motivations was that she wanted lucy to be her next meatsuit but why were they at odds over it #how much to tell her in case she figures it out? idk #messaging her like I feel like this entire plot is pointed political commentary esp. given the publication dates #but until you have the context of like the last 50 pages that take is incomprehensible #lockwood and co// #I know bodysnatching is a standby for critiques of extractive exploitative capitalism bc it just makes sense #but i feel like we should sic all the bodysnatching ceos on each other #put them in one room. may the best (worst) one win

[miutonium]

Yesterday during Pre-FYP pitch:

#asuka speaks #im sorry guys but i just want to tell you guys the critique went well i just need to fix just a tiny little thing in my slides #anyway my lect is happy because it seems that I know very well about my topic and relieved that she doesnt need to worry about me #also im just really happy i get to tell her about some of the cool ads related to smoking like omg im cryingjrkrnem 😭😭😭 #like you guys dont get it this is the first time Im able to nerd out about it and tell her about the ads I stumbled on and have a really- #meaningful discussion about it wagsjshqkial 😭😭😭 #when i said I love psa and ads in general i actually mean I actively seeking out these things on a weekly to daily basis #and sometimes i put it on when i do work lol #yes there's actually compilation of it on youtube lol they even categorised it based on topics #i personally like the british/europeans one i just feel the message were so hard hitting sometimes #but i also love the old anti drug ads from the 80s-90s because of nostalgia lol #i know this seems probably weird but like lmao if anyone ever give me a chance to ask me which top 3 i like #i would give like 10 instead hsksksksk #anyway the fyp topic i picked were about smoking since my trip to the hospital and also my personal observation made me realised- #the initiative the moh are doing for anti smoking awareness is just so outdated lol #i dont despise smoking lol dont worry i just find that whatever the moh is doing isnt working for this era anymore #so i thought it would be neat to incorporate both art and psa because psas aren't suppose to be boring #and that's what consensus thought it is #sorry jdjidjslaoqlql im just nerding out here aldjdkalalql i just want to tell you guys what happened yesterday

[your--isgayrights]

another thing lsk does is consistently take away kdj's choice: declaring herself the murderer, writing the book, and then she literally locked him up and went off to kill the person that matters to him the most, like ma'am you had all that time in prison to reflect and you did jack with it. the nerve she had to not only be jealous of yjh but Hate him for?? being there for her son when she refused to??? i shudder to think what would've happened to kdj if she actually killed yjh

See this is what I'm saying though, LSK represents an aspect of narrative sense/reality that influences ORV as a work. The sense of "this is the way things have to be" which strips agency from the characters of a story. This aspect of fiction is then equated with "reality," LSK is both KDJ's real mother that connects him to his life before TWSA and a representation of Korean literature's ancien regime. It's significant that she's put opposite to YJH, whose story is one that appeals solely to Kim Dokja despite in all likelihood lacking any substantial literary merit. Webnovels that are unrealistic, too far out there, way too silly to be "real." Her need to assert "reality" over KDJ's affection for YJH stems from the fact that LSK has consistently used "reality" as the rationale behind the decisions she made that have hurt her son. But the thesis of ORV is then blurring the line between the real and the absurd, it's fanfiction about historical literature, it's a gritty apocalypse novel with an OP self-insert protagonist, it's a loser with no friends in real life being loved by fictional people as much as he loves fiction. Thus, I feel that in ORV's metanarrative the conflict between YJH and LSK represents the clashing literary worlds of time held classics and modern webnovels that may have each raised a reader in their own way.

#basically yjh vs lsk is a shoutout to that time your mom looked over your shoulder to ask what you were reading #or shook her head at your favorite cartoon and said i dont get it lmao #ask #anonymous #orv spoilers #becaus i think when you're a kid it really does feel like you have to choose sometimes when people you love dont accept your interests #just basically i think orv is saying that the most important part of a story is the way that a reader connects to it. like the things you #like dont have to be objectively good or up to literary critique. theyre an experience that is entirely dependent on the way a reader #relates to it

[elle-smells]

I blame the wave of #girlboss feminism (mostly adopted by white women) in the 2010s for erasing media literacy and like... just basic thinking and making everyone hate disney princesses with their "terrible messages" for little girls. like. were people even watching the movies?

#oh i fell for that too for a second #i mean sure there are obviously plenty of things that did not age well and we should critique about the princess movies #but come on #ariel did not give up her voice for a man were you listening to part of your world? #and cinderella was a fucking badass ok #the conversation surrounding the movies that came after 2010 #u guys remember how Elsa and anna were praised for being feminist icons #dont get me started on remakes #when they did beauty and the beast and they lowkey promoted belle as being better than the others bcs she reads books #i think ppl forgot that the remakes only emphasised these quote on quote girlboss empowering traits in the remakes #key word being emphasised not ADDED #bcs THOSE TRAITS WERE ALWAYS THERE PPL JUST FORGOT

[designernishiki]

You asked for a fic rec so I’ll toss this one at ya: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46767358?view_full_work=true Stick through the formatting for the characterization, tone, and really the whole vibe of this fic. I haven’t been able to get the bathroom call between Daigo and Majima out of my head for weeks since I read it with how naturally it all flows. My own little Daigo characterization booklet to review when I feel like I need a refresher on him.

so I may have stayed up until 6am reading this (would’ve slept earlier but I couldn’t stop reading it) and hgggahaghhhhaggahshhhhhhhh that was one of the most well-characterized fics I’ve ever read what the fuck. like the differences in how each character speaks (both tone-wise and in differing levels of authenticity) and how they speak to specific others (the daigo and majima dyanmic specifically- how they actually take into account how long they’ve been working really closely- SO good), the mental anguish and chaos vs the overwhelming emptiness of being daigo dojima but no longer The 6th Chairman Daigo Dojima……….I could keep going but I think you get it.

tbh I’d been wanting to write something exploring a similar set of dynamics/situation (post-kiryu’s fake death, interactions with haruka, daigo, and/or majima specifically, reflecting on his shortcomings while acknowledging the heavy Grief left behind) but now I’m like. well I still could but this was so well written in regards to daigo and haruka that, as far as something between those two goes, I don’t feel the need to.

thanks for the recommendation! my brain is broken now (affectionate)

#rambling #fics #fic rec #there’s a little bit of minedai in there via flashback but I don’t know if im gonna put this in my minedai tag cause it’s really #not tecccchnically a minedai fic. it’s just. a daigo-centric fic/study more than anything #my favorite more lighthearted moment in this story is daigo talking to haruka in Okinawa after like 3 years and hearing about her #‘situationship’ with yuta and how it’s just more convenient to tell people they’re a legit couple and daigo’s immediate response on impulse #is just. ‘that must be nice. I mean that you can do that. if it were two guys or two girls or something you wouldn’t be able to do that.’ #or something like that and simultaneously sweating because he has no fucking idea why he’s saying that and can’t find a way to abort #my only critique is that I was hoping he’d come out to her (probably on the scene after that where it’s just them sitting on the deck) #and it wouldn’t even have to be a Big Thing it’s just. it felt like it was leading up to that (whether coming out on purpose or on accident) #but ah well #don’t get me wrong I think she could probably figure it out on her own based on the fact that daigo’s never had a girlfriend to her #knowledge and is in his 40s + that weird little gay tangent he went on earlier out of the blue #if anyone could pick it up though context clues and hints it’d be haruka and akiyama The Investigators. and oh no. looks like that’s #exactly who he’s stuck with #id love to see an update cause of this oh mannnn #(if anyone could pick it up it’d be those two + also majima but I kinda figured at this point majima would almost certainly already know #they seem like they have a mutual (possibly unspoken) recognition of one another on that front. based a little on what daigo says about #‘when kiryu says jump you say how high’ and majima floundering a little before admitting ‘you know I can’t resist those big #brown puppydog eyes…’ like i know that’s not too on the nose but it’s enough of a casual acknowledgement to Me that it feels… idk it just #feels like they Know. it just makes sense. and I hope they do cause it’d feel a little less lonely and terrifying to be gay in that world if #that were the case. yet another thing making it feel like majima’s a way more viable parent figure to him than kiryu fr fr…… #anyway I could keep going forever so I should probably stop #I’ve never considered how daigo would interact with akiyama and now they’ve got me intrigued. I really hope they update this with something #daigo #I really think a chunk of this fanbase (particularly The Queers) understand daigo as a character better than rgg studio does. and cares more

[dapperrokyuu]

My PokeMiku rankings (not open to criticism /j).

If anyone wants to make their own tierlist, I used this one. And heres all the Project Voltage art.

I was tempted to rank the "Announcement Miku" (the art with Farfetch'd in Project Voltage) and the previously existing Snow Miku collab I discovered via Bulbapedia's Project Voltage page, but realized theyd be unfair comparisons, lol.

#dee does things #pokemon #vocaloid #project voltage #interesting evolution to this one I didnt think bug was all that great but then realized it was pretty clever and I thought water was #really good until I realized it was just kind of a swimsuit and not much else- serviceable but bland in comparison to other stuff!!! #a friend critiqued ghost miku because of her outfit but I think the glitch effect was just too clever I enjoy the talisman and #wisp details too. could they have done more? sure but at the same time I cant think of what they could do so I think it makes the thought #null for me lol. psychic is a perfectly cute outfit it just doesnt give...ANYTHING to me much less psychic if it was normal sure- Ive come #to appreciate its allusion to meloetta's design but I think if they were going the ''smarts'' route they shouldve made it more obvious and #made miku a professor/composer to show her mastery at it vs. a school kid lol. also thought she was a tennis player at first adkjnbdakjn- #I genuinely thought the people BEHIND project voltage thought it was bad and thats why they put it FIRST as opposed to the typical starter #types LOLLL

[lgbtlunaverse]

There's a few "league gets adopted by Rei / Rei takes care of the league" fics out there and I love them dearly even if i have to admit that they're all quite unrealistic, mainly because they tend to paint Rei as a better parent than she actually is. Sort of what happens to aizawa in fanon, too, completely accepting and eternally affectionate. The "comfort" in hurt/comfort personified. I get why this happens, it hits like a truck watching people who were denied parental affection finally get it.

But, as always, with fanon tropes, there is a part of me that's melancholic for all the potential that gets left behind. Because there's a kernel of truth in these fics that i'm sad isn't highlighted enough, there's something that could draw rei to the league outside of one of them being her literal thought-to-be-dead son or some nebulous perfect motherly instinct. And that truth is: Rei is not an amazing parent. Her faults are mostly of inaction, and the whole thing with Shouto was due to the abuse she suffers herself. But she has- and she knows this- failed her childen as a mother.

And what that gives you is a woman with a deep massive guilt over failing to be there for her kids when they needed her. She believes one of them died and it was, in part, her fault. Shouto she can reconcile with, but Touya, she thinks, will be a wound that never heals. And why wouldn't you, as a fic writer, use that?

What i'm saying is, if you were to- in the right circumstances- throw a traumatized child also failed by their parents her way. (Perhaps, say... a child rejected by her parents explicitly because of her quirk, wink wink?) And it reminded her just of how much she herself had failed as a mother, specifically because she was too scared to do anything, then she would absolutely want to take care of that child. She just wouldn't be all that good at it. Really, she'd be terrified to even try. But she'd want to try. And wouldn't that make for a story worth telling, one that could be just as cathartic in the end as the 'perfect mom takes care of her new murder children' fics?

#bnha #fandom #fanfiction #fanfic writing #of course as always with fanwork if you want to see something you'll have to do it yourself #what i'm saying is i'm writing a 'rei meets toga' fic #it is itself still very self indulgent because the premise kind of HAS to be #and it'll take a long while before it gets here #but i am trying hard to keep rei's character in the bounds of canon accuracy #and it sure is funny when dabi realizes who exactly the nice pretty lady toga has been talking about for weeks is #this isn't a critique of fanon and fix it fics as i said i understand why they exist #just need more rei character studies and deepdives into the guilt she feels for hurting her kids through inaction #and i'm just saying that a bunch of kids who were hurt by both parents and societal inaction are a pretty good narrative tool for that

[durchdenspiegel]

Whoops life lesson don’t finish a presentation ten minutes before you have to give it 😶

#also i‘m sleep deprived and pmsing hard. was i holding back tears during the discussion? perhaps #like the critice wasn’t even bad. my presentation was just messy and entirely too dense #there were good points in there. somewhere. #also on of the profs has this way of critiquing that makes me super defense and if i get defense i get angry #i wanted to argue with her so bad #thank god the semester is almost over #only have to write a term paper over the topic still hahahaha 😶 #studyblr #mine

[lesenbyan]

I'm not gonna say Yotsuyu was right bc like. she's not.

but the fact that her backstory is well known and it just makes people hate her more hurts me. it makes sense! it's hard to be sympathetic to the woman who is making your life a living hell, but also I cannot look at her and her story, and feel anything other than deep sympathy and rage towards everyone who made her this way.

esp bc like. in 4.x with Tsuyu we run into her whoremaster and we let him go for his sake and not hers? Like I know I would have found that mfer later and put the fear of the WoL in him like damn. the anti-sex worker sentiments are real and i hate that, esp since my main WoL has always been a sex worker.editing to say I also hate the anti sex worker sentiments bc Yotsuyu never chose to be a sex worker. She was forced into it and now she's being damned for it.

#personal; #critique: ffxiv 4.0/x; #stormblood spoilers; #there was gonna be a point here and it got away from me #I just hate that Yotsuyu never got the same chance Fordola's getting #and that even at release the 'redeption = death' calls were so much louder for her than Fordola #I have emotions about Yotsuyu