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I just realized the B-1 battle droids in Star Wars being idiots, might be the most accurate depiction of AI we have.

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if you make a webcomic you will meet many kinds of commenters

THE ONE WHO TYPES IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!1!

Car/Gun/Plane guy who will critique your car/gun/plane

Carl, the cool boomer/gen-Xer who reads it with his kid/grandkid

"how long until the story is finished" or "I'll come back when there's more to read"

the ones who are always normal and good and polite and have nice conversations with each other

"actually I am a [rare profession] and [thing adjacent to my rare profession] doesn't work this way and you should have known that"

the one who only comments in gifs and memes but you understand them so it's okay

"I don't like how this character is developing so slowly on a comic that updates 1 page a week for 20 years"

the one who will always tell you exactly what you drew wrong or inconsistently between pages

the one who only ever leaves one comment but it's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to you

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I absolutely loved LONG STORY SHORT, which is on Netflix today. Takes an episode to get going (the pilot is VERY piloty), but once it does, it balances Raphael Bob-Waksberg's humor from BoJack with an emotionally palpable story of a Jewish family perfectly. Made me cry multiple times by the end.

Versus many other shows that purport to have Jewish representation and miss the mark completely with cringey stereotypes, LONG STORY SHORT felt real and lived in, packed with authentic details to the point where I was wondering how much they spied on my family to make the show. Everybody wants this!

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wait i never posted the young tom and sabine designs what da hel

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Reading a story you wrote when you were 13 is something that makes you realise that there was always something weird and lonely about you. Mostly weird.

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fanfic writers will go "anyone gonna explore the kinda fucked up or emotionally impactful implications of this minor canon detail?" and then not wait for an answer.

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status symbols

(the marks on felix are cigar burn marks, not hickies)

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hey hey hey can we talk about he fact adrien probably dealt with his mothers disappearance by himself. like he didnt really have much of a support system

his father immediately became closed off when it happened (because he himself was dealing with her death/along with nathalie) and nathalie and him weren't that close really

and SURE there's chloe, but how often did he really see her? did she even help at all?

did he see felix at that time? because based on the timeframe while there was a search for his mother sometime during that felix father died, and since we can go off of the quote "im really sorry i didnt come to your dads funeral" meaning adrien hasnt had a chance to apologize between then and before.

so. adrien just. dealt with emilies disappearance essentially by himself with little to no support system. and the way they talk in the show, he kind of assumes shes dead due to her illness right before and the fact she never came back

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same vibes

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It happened on Ao3 now too!!!

The fic I was reading was for a show not related to D.C. at all and I made the stupid mistake of not reading the tags, so in chapter 2 I was suddenly hit with:

“Him? Oh, Bruce...Bruce Wayne...he never got my letter, did he?”

I did a legit double take, I re-read it like three times, I didn’t even realize the fic I was reading was a crossover.

I was like:

The moral of the story kids, is always read the tags.

So I get a ton of DC posts on my fyp, and don’t get me wrong I like DC, just not as much as the algorithm thinks I do. I really get flooded with ‘em and the funny thing is sometimes I won’t even realize it’s a DC post until halfway through reading it cause there is no warning or tags. So I’ll just be reading about like a random guy complaining about how high his rent is…so he moved to Gotham. And it’s like a jump scare. Does this just happen to me.

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Controversial Miraculous Opinion: Alya having the fox is great actually

and also, i suspect a lot of the fandom doesnt actually understand her character like... at all.

I get that some of the powers dont tie back to their characters properly (seriously, what about Chloe screams 'subjugation', Max with Transportation or Alix with evolution?)

but Alya is not actually someone that has a problem there. Only if you flanderise her into 'just the journalist' does the complaint make any sense.

Because yes, Alya has a storyline about journalism... but that is not a core charactertrait, its merely one of many maniphestations of her core traits. Alya's core concept is that she's a storyteller and a mythweaver.

From her constant sticking her nose into Mari's crush and other people's lives (gossip), the bedtime stories she invented from scratch in Stormy Weather, to her starting a blog about the superheroes, those all come from her desire to witness, partake in and shape the narrative of her world. And her amateur journalism is merely one offshoot thereof.

And the power of illusions? makes a lot of sense through the lense of a storyteller and myth-weaver, a person who wants to make, partake in and shape the narrative.

Learning importance of actual pursuit of truth and proper due diligence is her larger characterarc. Thats why her failure to check her sources in S1's Volpina never bothered me, that was season 1.

Thats Alya pre-arc. the slow transition from Tabloid Fanblog to Proper Investigative Journalist is supposed to be her story, but she needs that foundation in lies and myth-weaving for that story to make sense in the first place.

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when you’re reading fanfiction and you get so involved in the story you start imagining different scenarios in that same universe and then it’s fanfiction fanfiction

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Maybe I should make this into a series idk, anyway

More Miraculous hot takes

I’ve seen a lot of redesigns of the characters that are more fashionable and with more current trends.

But I’d like to remind you that:

a) The show is technically set in 2015/2016. So even if we haven’t seen say, shorts over leggings in like 10 years it’s still very much the style for when this is set.

b) These are kids in the French equivalent of middle school and early high school. Did you have your style worked out by then? I know I certainly didn’t. When I think of the fuckass fits I wore when I was 14 *shudder*. And now seeing the outfits worn by little sister of about that age, I mean certainly the style has been changed with social media, and young teens trying to emulate trends they see online. But I still see gloriously ugly outfits on my little sister and her friends. And that’s great, incredible their young and still finding their personal style, I’m so glad that even with social media, and “cringe-culture” kids still find ways to express themselves in weird and wacky ways.

Children’s style and I will remind you again, these are children. should not be the same as adults, it should be weird and wacky and more colorful. And I pity the kids forced by beige-parents to follow some trendy aesthetic.

Hell at (according to my younger siblings) my old age of my early 20s. I still don’t have my style completely figured out either.

So that’s why I kind of love the awkwardness of some of the designs, like Juleka’s green lipstick (I remember I had a friend in high school who wore exclusively black lipstick) and Sabrina’s ugly sweater-vest, or Mylene’s overalls, or whatever Rose has going on.

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How I love unnatural stillness in Adrien and Félix.

One's a mannequin, the other's a statue. One is plastic, the other is stone. One can become so still during camera flashes you'd think he's not breathing, and he hates it, while the other has spent so long without air in his lungs, he would often forget how to breathe. One burns, the other erodes.

One is love, one is love, one loves, and loves, and loves. One is hate, so he hates, and he hates, hates, hates.

One stands on a pedestal, the other stands behind a glass display. One is made to be an image that will never change. One is made to bear new ideas. One is made to be a monument. One is made to be a decoration. One is made to be presented. One is made to be hidden. One is made to be broken. One is made to be preserved.

One is loved. One is hated.

Their smiles are archaic. Their eyes are still. If you blink, they might move.

If you ask me which one am I talking about right now, your guess is as good as mine.

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Now this is free speech

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time