#unsolicited thoughts

[graysonshmayson]

u ever think about how bruce took jay in to keep him from a life of crime but like it honestly would have been better to leave him where he was? or help him out in any other way? even if he ended up a criminal he would have experienced so much less pain than he does because of bruce.

idk it’s one of my favorite things about jason’s character, it’s so so interesting because to me he’s the only one that didn’t really NEED to be a hero. now he’s sort of trapped in it and it’s all he knows, but he didn’t need to be there. but he is. i always see it as a big source of anger for him: it’s not just about the joker stuff or the moral failings of bruce’s identity, it’s about how he stole a life from him and he was too young to know it.

like i love jason todd. so much. but i really think one of bruces biggest mistakes was making him robin. jason is not a mistake and their love maybe isn’t but him being ROBIN cost too much and resulted in almost nothing but loss, that spirals to this day. it’s a super cool reflection of bruce’s flaws too bc i think he knew jason didn’t have to be robin, but he was lonely and he needed some light in his life and they were both lost and angry people and that could lean on each other.

the problem is that bruce needs them more than they need him- they can grow into independence but bruce falls without the crutch of an emotional support child. he has been using them as supplements for actual growth. i think jason being angry at the fact that there are more robins has been too heavily focused on the idea of people replacing him vs how he has realized this about bruce and wants him to stop before he “destroys” more lives.

anyway they’re both so flawed and terrible and heroic they can’t help but hurt each other while they try to save each other wow

#if this is way off give me a comic rec and prove me wrong >:) #jason todd #batman #bruce wayne #red hood #unsolicited thoughts

[knxfesck]

tumblr since when did my for you page turn into an endless scroll of pro-eating disorder suggestions. I'm literally trying to gain weight rn cus my adderall got upped i think this has something to do with the fact that its all tagged tiktok-style

#i'm getting a bad feeling about this #all the posts had ''some replies were removed'' notifs #feels like these people want to make sure you cant avoid seeing their bullshit #tw eating disorder mention #unsolicited thoughts

[ramyeonpng]

Croissant sandwiches are SO MUCH BETTER than regular sandwiches???

TIME CAPSULE: unsolicited thoughts

#time capsule #unsolicited thoughts #august 2023 #croissants #croissant sandwiches #lucy dot txt

[artbyblastweave]

I think about Star Wars a lot more than I post about Star Wars, and I've had some free time recently to type up some thoughts on Episode 7 that've been swirling around in my head for a couple of years. There were a few ideas and plot beats, and moments of apparent self-examination in Episode 7 which I thought were fairly compelling, even though they ultimately paid no dividends:

First was Finn’s character concept. “Star Wars as experienced from the perspective of a Stormtrooper undergoing a crisis of faith” is a rich hook; humanizing and giving a face to what's basically the platonic implementation of the faceless mook. Unfortunately, the potency of the arc was undercut by the pre-existing textual ambiguity as to what stormtroopers actually are. Star Wars extended canon has settled on the idea that each trilogy features an entirely novel cohort of white-clad mooks, each with a fundamentally different underlying dynamic. The clones and the First-Order forces are different flavors of slave army; in contrast, the stormtroopers are more frequently portrayed in the expanded universe as military careerists, stormtrooper being a thing you work up to rather than a gig for a fresh conscript. A slave-soldier who defects is a very different character from a military careerist who defects, and they invite different analysis. There's a bait-and-switch going on here, in that Finn gestures in the direction of the familiar OT stormtroopers but can't comment on or examine them because he's actually part of a novel dynamic invented for the new movies. And there's one final nail in the coffin here, signaled by the number of times I've had to invoke the expanded universe so far. When Finn debuted, the racists were of course, legion, but I also ran into a number of people who were sincerely confused as to why they'd recast Temuera Morrison. Going off the seven films that existed at the time, it wasn't unreasonable to read the prequel trilogy as an origin story for where the OT stormtroopers came from. Going only off the nine films that exist now, it still isn't unreasonable! It's muddied from so many different directions by their failure to establish the ground rules in the mainline films before they tried to put on subversive airs about it. I am still irritated by this.

Next up is how Han Solo was written. I actually liked the tack they took with him quite a bit. Because initially, right, his role in the movie is just to be Han Solo. He's back, and he hasn't changed! He's still kicking ass and taking names, he's still the lovable scoundrel you knew and loved from your childhood- and the principle cast members react to his presence with the same reverence the film's trying to invoke in the audience, they've grown up hearing the same stories about him. Except that episode 7, at least, is also very aware of the fact that if Han Solo is still recognizably the same guy thirty years on, it indicates that things have gone totally off the rails for him. We find out that the lovable rogue routine is the result of him backsliding, his happy ending blown up by massive personal tragedy rooted in communicative failures and (implicitly) his parental shortcomings. It feels deliberately in conversation with the nostalgic impulse driving the entire film- here's your childhood hero back just as you remember, here's what that stagnation costs. And it also feels like it's in conversation with what was a fairly common strain of Han Solo Take- the idea that Ep. 6 cuts off at a very convenient point, and that Han and Leia's fly-by-night wartime relationship wouldn't survive the rigors of domesticity. Obviously, that's not the only direction you can take with the character; the old EU basically threaded the needle of keeping Han recognizable without rolling back his character development gains. But it felt like they were actually committing to a direction, a direction that was aware of the space, and not a reflexively deferential and flattering one, which at the time I appreciated! The problem, of course, is that for it to really land, you need to have a really, really strong idea of what actually went down-of what Han's specific shortcomings and failures were. And given the game of ping-pong they proceeded to play with Kylo Ren's characterization, this turned out to be. Less than doable.

Kylo Ren is the third thing about Episode 7 that I liked. His character concept is basically an extended admission by the filmmakers that there's no way to top Vader as an antagonist. Instead, they lean into the opposite direction- they make him underwhelming on purpose. Someone who's chasing Vader's legacy in the same way any post-OT Star Wars villain is going to, pursuing Vader's aesthetic and the associated power without really understanding or undergoing the convoluted web of suffering and dysfunction that produced Vader. It's framed as a genuine twist that there's nothing particularly wrong with his face under that helmet. Whatever it takes to be Vader, he doesn't have it, and he knows that he doesn't have it, and the pursuit of it drives him to greater and greater acts of cartoonish villainy. The failure to one-up Vader is offloaded to the character instead of the writers, and it was genuinely interesting to watch. For one movie. The problem, of course, is that if the entire character archetype is "Vader, but less compelling," you can't try to give the bastard Vader's exact character arc. You can't retroactively bolt on a Vader-tier tragic backstory when you spent a whole movie signaling that whatever happened to him wasn't as compelling as what happened to Vader. You can't milk his angst for two more movies when it's the kind of angst on display in "Rocking the Suburbs" by Ben Folds!

There's a level on which I feel like Moff Gideon was a semi-successful implementation of Vader-Wannabe concept; he's the same kind of middling operator courting the Vader Aesthetic for clout, but he's doing it in the context of the imperial warlord era, where there's a lot of practical power available to anyone who can paint themselves to the Imperial Remnants as a plausible successor to Vader. Hand in Hand with this obvious politicking, Gideon is loathsome, which relieves the writers of the burden of having to plausibly redeem the guy; he's doing exactly what he needs to do and there'll never be a mandate to expand him beyond what his characterization can support. Unfortunately, the calculated and cynical nature of how he's emulating Vader precludes the immaturity and hero-worship elements on display with Kylo, which is unfortunate; the sincerity on display in Kylo's pursuit of authenticity is an important part of why he worked, to the extent that he worked at all, and it'd be worth unpacking in a better trilogy. As he stands Kylo is a clever idea, and that's all he is- he lacks the scaffolding to go from merely clever to actively good.

#and these are my unsolicited star wars thoughts #thoughts #meta #star wars #star wars sequel trilogy #kylo ren #moff gideon #han solo #star wars finn #star wars meta #sw sequels #the force awakens #analysis

[overtake]

#really thinking so many thoughts about max and scotty today lmao #sorry to rand who received a whole essay of unsolicited max and scotty thoughts

[zillychu]

Finding out the Danny Phantom pitch bible originally included more creatures other than ghosts really makes me want to just (DUMPS TRANSCENDENCE AU ALL OVER IT)

#Danny Phantom #tau #transcendence au #zilly squeaks #Danny would still be a ghost and not a demon. i think. brainworms pending #oh no here come the crossover thoughts #portal accident happens just years after The Transcendence #hear me out #Danny and Dipper bonding over becoming immortal nonhumans feared by the general public #'i rolled out of bed today and fell into the basement' 'that's rough buddy. i threw up glitter today' 'shit dude' #'you getting unsolicited summoning rituals too' 'yeah i found out how to make an answering machine for that' 'oh no WAY you gotta show me' #no but fr Danny Sam and Tucker deserve to have wacky adventures involving all sorts of creatures #PLEASE everlasting trio + mystery twins being very new and very bad at this and helping each other #are they the same age? canon ages?? i don't know what would be funnier

[xjustakay]

y’all know that saying “writers are people, treat them like people!!” means you shouldn’t put them on a pedestal they didn’t ask to be put on, too, right……

#like… y’all know…… saying [insert writer here] is a big writer so automatically they’re *supposedly* more liked is also…… #how you say… impersonal and dehumanizing… #bc 9/10 times “big” writers are shooting in the dark just as much as anyone else #and just trying to vibe and have fun and share their work #very much NOT asking for people to put them on a pedestal and be weird about it #i promise it’s just not that deep #we’re all doing the same things like we’re all writing and reading and yelling about the same stuff #trying to have a good time however we can #all being PEOPLE not just the fics we write and share on our respective accounts #so yeah it’s not just about “when’s the next update” or “why did you write your own fic this way” comments #it’s also about weird unsolicited fan behavior that doesn’t belong and makes people uncomfortable + feel less like a person #just. food for thought. #shut up kay

[graysonshmayson]

by far the funniest comic trope is characters naming their kids names that rhyme with their own or like have a similar theme. like what do you mean that vandal savage’s daughters’s name is scandal savage. that’s insane.

#gotham war #comics #vandal savage #batman #unsolicited thoughts

[gaycey-sketchit]

There are many Things that can be said on the subject of unsolicited criticism of fanfic, but honestly? I want to talk about the bold assumption that everyone writing fanfic cares about improving, or needs to. Like, maybe I just want to write my silly little stories about my favorite cartoon characters kissing and if my writing improves with time and practice, great, but it doesn't actually matter that much because I'm just doing this for fun. It's a hobby I do because it makes me happy, and share so it can maybe make other people happy. Just because I like jogging doesn't mean I want advice on how to train for a marathon, you know?

#I'm disabled in ways that would prevent me from running a marathon regardless but that's beside the point #I promise I'm not mad I'm just talking #I actually haven't gotten much unsolicited criticism myself but I've seen it happen to others so you know. I have Thoughts #respectfully me

[knxfesck]

Not and expert at all but one thing I've noticed about how people talk about economically recovering countries, or post-soviet states, etc etc is that almost every average person has shit to deal with on some level. You can't pretend that there isn't an issue because there's no way to not be aware. People will quickly point out how awful it is/was and how they're so glad they don't live there or hated living there. But in states like america, nobody (generalization) says that. They all point to the ''land of the free'' bullshit and ignore issues. Especially people from the places mentioned, and even more especially people who just don't have it in them to care. The american population is much more detached from the issues with their country because everyone who doesn't personally have to deal with problems caused by these issues or can still live a relatively nice life doesn't see anything wrong, or bother to mention it if they do. Thats the insidious thing about fascism and conservative ideology to me. Theres always people who aren't affected that think everything's fine, or working well for them, who refuse to believe anyone who's affected by it. And many of them are influential to the government.

#This post isn't really going anywhere #i was trying to explore why people can universally acknowledge certain countries were/are bad to live in and condemn the government but not #do the same for here #its worse if the people doing it have never lived there as well #like bro shut up abt russia youve never even lived there and here youre read as a white man bc you grew up speaking english #i can understand more if ppl have actually dealt with both #like hey youre not going to experience any of the huge issues other than the ones very specific to you if you arent a minority #thats affected. its not a lne size fits all type of opression #this is still not rly going anywhere idk if this is making sens3 #its why i have trouble talking abt issues in america with my grandparents bc ik mentally theyre taking in their current life and going #''this is better than what mexico was like when i left i'm not gonna jinx it'' #there actually are bigger issues than gas prices here (and they know it but just dont want to confront it) #long tags #sorry #tag rant #need my meds back now i swear to fucking god #unsolicited thoughts

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

also why did a faceless empty account dm me a bunch of callout-style discord screenshots at 5am being like "just thought you'd want to know" and its literally between two people ive never fucking heard of in my life lmao i have my own shit to deal w rn this is why i wish u could turn off tumblr dms 💀

#thought i had em turned off for accounts im not mutuals with guess i gota fix rhat #embarrassing sending that to ppl unsolicited assuming they know what its about like shut the fuck up

[elfpen]

I, an uncultured American who did not have the chance to actually keep up with Eurovision this year, have just spent several hours attempting to educate myself on the current state of the contest exclusively through tumblr’s “Eurovision” and “esc” tags.

Here is what I have learned:

Pussy

And salads, it’s part of a balanced diet

Norwegian wolves like bananas or something

You’ve heard of hot girl summer now get ready for ballad song spring

Are you actually in Eurovision if there isn’t some choreographed bumping and grinding

Okay but like are their costumes supposed to be wolves? Bananas with teeth? Did a wolf get knocked up by a banana? I have so many questions

I am not 100% certain of the name of the mad lad from Ukraine who was dancing like that but my god he can get it

Italy and Spain are upset with each other? I think? Unclear. I saw a lot of mentions of Italy and very little elaboration.

The final is apparently going to be boring because the censors are all cowards

There is a not-insignificant push to get the crowd to scream “pussy” during the final to protest Latvia’s ouster, they’re right and they should all say it very loudly

Okay but I’m hung up on this wolf banana thing. Like it’s sexual, right? Is it? Am I just too deep in the internet? I literally cannot tell, I just see these dudes in yellow lycra with little foam teeth pasted on what the hell am I suppose to do with that

Wait shit if it’s not supposed to be sexual I sound like a pervert MOVING ON

Turquoise carpet is the girl they tell Met Gala not to worry about

I do not know what the juries look like but I’m imagining a panel just. A supervillain-scale conference room table full of balding old white men with identically depressing briefcases

Obligatory dragging Britain through the mud

Interestingly most of the UK roasting posts I saw were written by Brits, further reinforcing my theory that you all have a humiliation kink

Okay but like, regardless of whether or not it’s meant to be inherently sexual, are the banana wolves furries? They have no fur. But like not all furies are actually furry, you know?

There is a full on “avenge Latvia” movement to establish their right to say “pussy” on international television and honestly it’s one of the more unifying and inspiring moments I’ve seen in Eurovision in a few years

Still not sure what the deal with Italy or Spain is, help

I have not been able to determine who this dude is with the plants all in his beard but I want to see his Pinterest board

Okay but seriously though, is this what happens when you give furries acid?? Acid, Adobe aftereffects and lycra????

The “cat with salad meme” sequel exceeds expectations

Like a good reality tv programme, the Eurovision-through-the-eyes-of-tumblr binging experience makes me feel like I’ve wasted several hours of my lifespan but leaves me hungry for more

#eurovison song contest #eurovison 2022 #esc22 #unsolicited thoughts from an American #y’all aren’t doing great per se but carry on sweetie you do you #pour one out for Latvia #esc #eurovision

[just-gay-thoughts]

Would you like to see a picture of my cat

Oh hell yeah!

#gay thoughts #gay asks #yall dont even have tl ask i gladly welcome unsolicited pet pictures