#like such a weak argument

[sapphosweirdkid]

Goddamnit I already made a post about it and I don't like to hate on m*levens too much but istg, it's a show!! The characters aren't real, it's not about what would realistically happen. The goal of the show is to create an engaging plot and a good narrative. "I just can't see Mike leaving El for Will after all they've been through" but would that be an interesting story? Poor gay boy gets rejected by the love of his life? He thinks he can't find love because he's gay, and what, he's proven right?

That's not even mentioning how much of what people say about Byler is just feeding into heteronormativity and homophobia. People just assume Mike is straight, despite him having never affirmed that. That's the definition of heteronormativity.

[da-janela-lateral]

I'll never get people who don't watch MP100 exclusively for the artstyle because what do you mean? Do you think he is ugly? Do you have an adverse reaction by looking at him? Would you rather have Generic Anime Prettyboy #368637 blessing your eyes with conveniently handsome dullness for 37 episodes? Never speak such things. He is perfect the way he is.

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

the boy in the spotlight versus the girl in the mirror

edit: made a part 2

unshaded version

[dropofsoup]

If Dream was given the BIGGEST. LARGEST. benefit of a doubt of all time, then the truth is:

He isn’t careful with his words or actions.

He CANNOT fathom the consequences of his carelessness.

He can’t be bothered to consider the responsibility of his position before making decisions that inadvertently hurt other people because his fanbase is large, has negative actors, and speak on his behalf. DESPITE whatever he actually intended.

This leads to speculation from those outside of his fan base on his intention, insight to his unconscious motives and exposes his ignorance.

He is impulsive (in his words), prideful, and entitled. It prevents him from understanding the above points.

He is somewhat narrowminded and shortsighted when having to deal with said consequences.

It alludes him why certain topics need to be treated with the seriousness and severity it deserves.

It immensely upsets him that he cannot control his image to the wider public.

For some reason he cannot see that context doesn’t matter as much as the impact does. He focuses SO MUCH on explaining WHY something happened instead of acknowledging YES, it happened. He downplays those consequences in order to emphasize his “rationality”.

Perhaps creators should be taught how to handle an audience before being thrusted into having a sphere of influence.

As Tubbo said, being sexist/racist/etc is technically subjective. I do believe Dream isn’t purposefully racist, sexist, homophobic etc. That is my BOD for him. That’s what he believes for himself also. This is NOT, HOWEVER, how his words and actions come off. It can be interpreted as sexist, racist, transphobic, sinophobic etc to the wider audience. Not to mention the manipulative tactics and weaponized incompetence. He doesn’t realize this, which is why he’s so confused and trying so hard to control the perception of himself.

[utilitycaster]

I have a post from about four years ago getting notes again, and when you go back to look at an old post on your phone it takes you back to that era of your posting, and there really is something to be said about how the discussions I was having at the time re: Critical Role were like, involved ones about the nature of different character arcs within Campaign 2 and how they integrated into the story. Like I said this in the tags but on some level it's wild to consider I branched out into an entirely new medium to me because I felt sufficiently starved of a longform heroic fantasy work with a variety of character arcs that achieved this in the present; and that the nature of C3 discourse feels like "have you considered that the people who almost broke magic and set off a war are, perhaps, the villains."

[t1oui]

seen some sotr hate lately like "burdock and asterid and otho are all just there for clout" and more stuff about name dropping and all that and people saying those who enjoyed sotr are "reading too much into things" and now, even as someone who really liked sotr and who agrees with all those people analyzing it, im not going to say why im right, im just gonna tell yall something i learned in english class: there is no such thing as "reading too much into" or "over-analyzing" a book.

if you can find deeper meaning in a line, or a metaphor somewhere, it doesn't matter if the author meant for you to find that or feel that way bc you found it anyway. you had that thought or that feeling anyway. as long as you gain a deeper meaning of the text and/or your life and the world around you, whatever you found is valid. so, really, who cares if all those characters were just there for clout? people got something out of it anyway. people are finding deeper messages and symbols and lessons anyway. that's what matters.

[fiona-fififi]

"Buck stated clearly he wasn't in love with Eddie without even spiraling about it."

Can someone please explain to me how Buck obsessing over what Tommy said about Eddie so much that he had to rant about it to Maddie hours later is NOT Buck spiraling?? That conversation literally displayed the spiraling that was happening. The fact that he was able to say he's not in love with Eddie so "confidently" in that scene is precisely because he spent the time in between convincing himself that Tommy couldn't possibly be right. Hence how he got from so much anger he slipped up and admitted to his feelings for Eddie to ranting annoyance in which he loudly proclaimed too vehemently he could not possibly be in love with his straight best friend.

Like, come on now. They literally showed us the spiraling.

[orerhea]

‘i love platonic prongsfoot!’ …they are kissing. on the mouth. right in front of your salad. there are pants coming off.

[ocielot]

Wasn't Otacons whole thing that he was in love with sniper wolf?

[llycaons]

I get what this post is saying I just don't think people would be rping with chatbots if they had friends or convenient 'bisexual internet women' on hand who would do that with them

[angelsdean]

people will say stupid things abt dean winchester everyday. the good thing is we can just say "that's dumb" and keep on being so good and sexy at media literacy. and loving dean winchester.

[paging-possum]

I need to speak my truth society if arcane s2 act 3 spent more time focusing on jinx and vi's relationship and jinx and vi and Vander and honestly vi and Caitlyn's instead of being 50% mid action sequences and 50% giving Jayce and Mel special powers >>>>>>>

[luckyashes-art]

How did Shiho and Shizuku get turned exactly?

I honestly haven't thought about it too much 💀 but

Shiho probably got turned some time before main story, bitten by some random dog while heading to wherever she practices. She absolutely did not care to get it properly checked out and probably disinfected/took care of the wound herself so she wouldn't "waste time." Unfortunately regret soon came after the night of a full moon 😭

Shizuku also got turned before main story but mmmaybe after Shiho? Dunno if she'd be done during her time with Cheerful*Days uhhh . But ! Anyway I'd probably imagine she woke up one morning with lil bite marks and was like "a mosquito :( ?" or whatever and also just. Put band-aids over it and didn't think much of it until her ears & fangs came in (vampire bites are more subtle which is why it takes like 3 days before one is turned permanently).

[orphiicheartd]

Self-indulgent notion, but I love the idea of Jamil and Kalim choosing to just. Duke it out whenever they have a more serious fight, as of Book 7

[thecrabbybarista]

"just so you know you aren't welcome in the self ship community" I'm losing my shitttt man

[hiimawarish]

Apparently, people are hating on Nanami??? For the years he decided to step away from the Jujutsu world???

And some are saying that he is weakest first grade????

Did we watch the same episode???? Did we read the same manga???? Anyone else would've collapsed with his injuries and yet he kept going because he knew his kids were waiting for him. He was terribly injured and all he could think was that Maki, Megumi, and Yuuji needed him...

AND YOU'RE TELLING ME HE'S THE WEAKEST?