#<— or idk. but im making more of it im compelled

[feketeribizli]

me and the bad bitch i pulled by being um. ummm. erm. uh oh

[opens-up-4-nobody]

The 1st time I watched all of tos Turnabout Intruder was my favorite episode. Despite the pretty intense sexism and crazy shatner acting, I just find the idea really compelling.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

caps from comic Im doing

[equalseleventhirds]

contemplating several posts i've seen abt how the characters in mbtv are sort of 'on their way' to becoming the characters we see in the murderbot books--eg mb itself is younger and less aware of itself as a person, mensah is less confident and capable as a leader, preservation itself is a younger political entity and more susceptible to the lure of capitalism, etc.

and the idea that this makes them more compelling/more rounded as characters for tv

and that's....... well, to an extent true? like yeah that's sort of the more normal and easier to make/comprehend arc for tv.

but also it makes me..... sad that this is seen as more compelling. that these sort of simplified flaws are supposed to make them more rounded as characters.

bcos part of what compels me about the characters in the books is that even where they are competent and confident, even where they have established themselves already, still they run into things they do not expect. things that throw them. and they then have to deal with that.

like, mb hacked its governor module ages ago and has watched a ton of media and been on many jobs! but still presaux throws it off, have a very different dynamic, show it new things about the goddamn universe it did not know before.

mensah is extremely established as a political leader and so incredibly capable at her job, but the whole graycris situation throws her so badly she lies to people about going to therapy, even when therapy is both free and not socially stigmatized, because she herself can't handle confronting her emotions about this unprecedented (for life on preservation) horror she went through.

preservation as a planet is sort of a socialist utopia, yeah--they're all shown as plenty happy to be away from the corporations and show no dissent within their society regarding that, but there are other conflicts--the debate about mb's personhood especially re: bots being 'free' but requiring guardians, the willingness of journalists to invade personal secure spaces, the lack of preparation for certain situations, the political conflicts about things within their society (not about becoming capitalists! there are other problems!!); these all make for extremely compelling issues to be dealt with in the books.

and i fully understand that these are more complex to depict in a tv show. it's a visual medium, it's confined by episode counts and runtimes, it needs to be comprehensible to a wider audience. but that doesn't mean it would've been impossible. and, idk, it makes me sad that ppl seems so willing to dismiss the complexities of the books as not as, like, full or rounded or interesting as the... frankly less complex and more sorta very common tv arcs.

like, the tv arcs aren't inherently bad, but they fit into kinda simplified storylines u frequently see in tv shows? they're not like, revolutionary. i mean neither are the arcs in the books necessarily, but we dont need to talk abt the tv arcs like they're a huge improvement on very unfleshed-out characters from the books. etc.

[the-golden-mango-of-discord]

if i could maybe get on my soapbox here for a moment i think what ppl get fundamentally wrong abt wulian is that it is built on unequal grounds and it can never reconcile that by nature of where both of them are at in their respective narrative arcs. any story about xie lian recognizing wuming’s devotion and trying to do better by it is explicitly rejecting xie lian’s actual character at that point in his life and projecting his future self onto the narrative, when that xie lian doesn’t exist yet and can never exist at this point in the story bc he hasn’t experienced that outside act of kindness. he can only see wuming’s devotion as trivial and misguided at best, repugnant and mocking at worst. wuming means nothing to xie lian until his sacrifice, and ironically enough it took a random stranger’s secondhand kindness to even awaken that realization in xie lian. wuming’s devotion is just not what xie lian needed at that point in his life and was actively spurring on his self-hatred and jaded apathy toward the world. the huge chasm between xie lian’s utter disregard for himself and wuming’s devotion, which is entirely dedicated to the exact person xie lian despises. thus the more wuming devotes himself to xie lian, the less he thinks of him. of course that’s very unromantic and not conducive to fluffy fanfiction, so ppl make up a xie lian who actually has the capacity to care about wuming and by extension himself

[codacheetah]

Betraying my character allegiances and declaring that The House (Trapped) is 100% my favorite song in ISAT's OST. My second favorite is "It's Finally Over" even though I never want to listen to it literally ever because I just think it's a good piece of music

[your-local-granny]

my silly little zine/ manga haul ehehe

[no1ryomafan]

The thing I realized the most about Omniverse that had effect on me past the art style that was so abundantly clear was everything with Malware and Feedback.

How despite the rough edges OV has, it handle the subject of trauma beautifully, what it means to lose apart of yourself, that still holds up to this day whilst also having a compelling and threatening villain to accompany that, but Ben is able to overcome that by forgiving himself and that’s how he gets Feedback again, how is able to heal.

And I just go “yeah no fucking wonder I’m a angsty fiend obsessed with hurt/comfort and characters facing their trauma”

[skitskatdacat63]

I feel weirdly compelled by this

[goatedgreen]

and if i start shipping mikorin and this glasses guy? what then huh. glasses guy come back. release mikorin from his comphet .

[deus-ex-mona]

ok yk what. now that i’ve had some time to process nghy canon, considering the current pacing of gen retcon, i think their next step is as ✨clear as day✨

i really like seeing them happy together, but i truly do think that they should divorce and either live the rest of their lives as single besties; partners in hero/heroine-isms, but better off as just friends, or go their separate ways for a bit and get back together when they’re a little older and wiser, staying together for good this time around, as each other’s first and last boyfriend/girlfriend

[skeletontherapist]

ok but genuinely i think that the big twist of deltarune is that the snowgrave/weird route is the actual “good” ending bc in the main line kris plays a slightly more villainous role which i think will result in an ending where the characters trust the soul more than kris, but in snowgrave with the soul doing wild shit and kris having a more defiant role, ei; receiving the call from carol instead of the knight and the entire noelle cutscene will probably end with kris being able to escape it or idk hit me with a bat if im wrong

[loud-whistling-yes]

pov after 2 days of revisiting your old obsessions you realize that dl!pearl's pov is just very painfully reenacting your preteens/early teens social life in 6 conveniently short episodes with disturbing accuracy

[geddy-leesbian]

I've got 2 long rants about how much I despise 99% of Umbrella Chronicles and CVX sitting in my drafts not sure if I want to post them bc it could be swinging a bat at a hornet nest for sure

[endtimers]

playing veilguard and it's okay but. i feel like i have been so spoiled with owlcat games dialogue and roleplay choices. why is like every nice dialogue option just therapy speaking all my companions.

[thebluebygracieabrams]

i was clearing out my notes app (because finally getting a new phone yay!) and this entry from 2022 is so heartbreaking