#I don't want to cause arguments

[viktheviking1]

Unpopular opinion: the new casting, at least for Alastor, is a good thing.

Yes. Edward Bosco is great. He clearly is a great voice actor and I hope he gets some really big roles in the future.

But can we all at least all agree that a white voice actor playing a mixed race Creole character is a bit problematic?

The original pilot was made with limited resources and contacts and such. The change was needed.

I mean at least now the voice actor is a minority. The wrong minority, but a minority.

Look, I don't know much about doing race right in movies and television, but so far, spindlehorse and amazon prime have been doing it wrong. And I say this as a fan of the show.

I have been informed that the reason he was chosen has to do with his role in the Broadway production of Annie. He plays the radio host whose voice Alastor's is based on.

Thanks @diamondkat

[fully-caulked-wagon]

Actually insane how many people like this woman, man.

[bernardellinewsagency]

short neuvifuri angst idea

"Oh, did you enjoy the script that she wrote? Did you like the role that you were cast as? I hope you were happy in those five hundred years, Neuvillette, because I never was!"

Furina storms off after pushing him, leaving him drenched to the bone and sitting awkwardly in the waters of the Fountain of Lucine with naught to do but contemplate his long lasting memories. Remembering the way she would smile is an easy endeavor. Furina always looked sincere when smiling; perhaps he wasn't looking hard enough, but surely even fleeting moments between just the two of them had to have brought her some amount of happiness, as small as it may be.

He thinks of one long ago night, during the third century of her reign. Actually, right on the cusp of the new milestone, he recalls the Palais had been eerily silent after wrapping up a week of festivities held in Furina's honor. The people of Fontaine were still celebrating, and would be doing so until the early hours of the morning, but all was still within the Palais. Except for them, that is. She had supposedly retired to her bedchambers, and him to his office, yet the two had bumped into each other within the kitchen.

"Let's go to the Opera," she had told him, in lieu of answering when he asked what she was doing. He supposes that the flecks of pastry crumbs on her clothes answered that, and he didn't ask other questions such as why she wanted to go to the Opera. He followed her as willingly as if she had simply asked for the time.

(Their whole relationship had been like that, hadn't it? A duty that extended beyond just an Archon and her Iudex. He once heard the Traveler mention a sea of flowers at the end of the world, and should Furina declare that she would like to see such a sight, he would tear down Celestia just to make it happen.)

Furina had packed a basket of food to bring, and two bottles of wine to go with. Then they partook perhaps more than they should've, and perhaps he should've questioned if Archons can get drunk, or if a Sovereign should be getting drunk with one. He definitely should have stopped her from going into the storerooms of the Epiclese and procuring even more for them. The memories start to get a little hazy after that, but he can vaguely recall a remark she made about the location not being the best choice, and that she wanted to get away from something. He can't recall who made the decision to go up, and have him help carry her as they climb to the roof, but suspects it was still her doing.

As clear as day, though, he can remember her smile, bathed in the light of the slowly rising sun as it crested over the waters of her dominion. Out of every beautiful sight in Fontaine, she is the one he gets to appreciate most often, but never before in a light like this. He could gaze at that moment for another hundred years and never tire of it. "Dragon of the waters," she had called him, "might you allow an Archon to call you theirs?"

Should she have asked him that at the start of her reign, should they have been in a similar situation, the answer would be clear. He might have even wondered, with the walls of the Court to block them from their peoples' sights, if an Archon so in love with her people would fall like one if he shoved her. But they were not in the past, and he already knew by then that he had come to love her, and thus his answer was "I was under the belief that I already was yours, Lady Furina, both within my capacity as your Chief Justice and without. The people of Fontaine adore you, yet it is my love for you that truly knows no bounds. Nothing would make me happier than to be yours."

"They do, don't they," she had whispered, a note he almost lost to time with how he just barely could hear her. "Promise me this, Neuvillette, if you wish to be mine- promise you will never stray from your duties to Fontaine, and you will always, always, do what is best for her people."

"I will."

"And promise that you will stay by my side forever, then, for another three centuries and beyond that, even if you grow tired of me!"

"Of course, Furina, is... is something the matter?"

It was the first time he had seen her come close to crying, droplets of tears clumping her eyelashes together yet disappearing as she blinked, "Oh, you silly dragon, only the fact that you make me ever so happy."

Leaving the warmth of the memory behind, Neuvillette returns to the cold of an overcast sky dripping with sleet, as a blue silhouette leaves him behind and disappears into the cloudy distance.

[decepti-geek]

tbh an important part of my take on the 'don't be like Sentinel' question is that hours earlier D16 had very decidedly assumed leadership of the High Guard, after which any attempt at resolving his very understandable personal trauma via murder was also, on a wider affects-everyone/your-new-power-means-something scale, inherently going to count as a military coup.

yknow. the thing Sentinel did to assume power/hand it over to the quintessons in the first place

[wolfbaitbf]

anyone else mentally encourage themselves by imagining their favorite characters to tell them to do stuff

[54625]

everyone always rants and raves about how good ao3s tagging system is but that tagging system is fully contingent on authors tagging their fucking works properly

[moonflower-pies]

I wish drama didn't exist.

I wish we could all be happy and not be assholes to each other.

But alas, such is the internet. It sucks, but we have to deal with it *sighs*

[cattyanon]

I don't think I've ever laughed in absurdity at something before today, much less something directed at me. The levels of irony were just so fucking absurd!!!

[shadow-redferne]

i went to planet comicon (a comic convention over here in kansas city) this weekend and i just wanna say the difference between fandoms online and fandoms irl couldn't be more different. at comicon, there were people smiling, having a good time. there were a bunch of furries being themselves (and I saw a couple of therian masks too!). there was funny banter. there was cosplayers complimenting one another. some people even took pictures with some of the cosplayers (with permission of course!). what I didn't see? not once did I see two people get into an argument over which ships were morally correct. not once did i see someone yell at an artist over 'problematic' art. not once did i see people threaten a cosplayer's family over the character they were cosplaying as.

my point is; despite what some whatevershippers think, the world actually isn't going to end because someone doesn't like hazbin hotel ior because someone drew softcore porn one time. because guess what? artists and writers and fans in the real world just want to have some fucking fun (and also make money, but that goes without saying). once yall go to a convention atleast once in your life (if you can travel and/or can afford it), you'll realize fandom is actually more fun once you stop caring about whatever controversial discourse take that was posted by patrickkanesdrenchedcunt and you start appreciating the hard work that cosplayers and artists and writers put into their stuff (especially during a time where politicians are trying to make fun illegal).

tl;dr: your life is going to be so much easier once you realize that nobody in real life cares if you like or dislike certain shows or pairings or art, all they care about is having fun,

[thelazybooknook]

oh the family's REALLY pushing my patience today

[holopossums]

I feel my brain slowly moving as i want to send a heavy amount of questions and comments in one ask but forget it then remember after few minutes.

About my ask: Did you read an analysis Rise post related to CJ? It's about him having a possibility of having a lost right hand!

What do you think of this idea?

Yeah I've seen the idea around! I have a lot to say about it.

It's, ehhh. Personally not my jam. Not the disability representation itself, that's all good and well. But the way people talk about it rubs me the wrong way because it feels like people focus more on the "what if he had MORE trauma" aspect than the actual disability aspect. I have yet to see anyone who has bothered to envision what Casey Jr.'s life might actually be like with that physical disability the same way people envision it for Leo, which is... sort of odd, tbh.

Besides, I think the flatness of Casey Jr.'s grappling hook wrist cuff thing and the small compartment that comes out of it can easily be explained by it being Donnie's futuristic tech, plus a dose of good ol' cartoon physics.

It's suspension of disbelief and all. People ask where Casey's arm is within the cuff if it's not a missing body part. Which, sure, valid question... if the show wasn't ROTTMNT. The easy counterpoint to this evidence is, where does Donnie procure every larger tool/gadget he could possibly ever need all within the fold-out mechanics of his tech-bō (which is non-mystical before the S2 finale)? We're not meant to question the Donnie Tech because it's cartoon physics at work, and that's always been the case. Since Casey Jr.'s grappling hook is Donnie Tech, it falls into that category.

But that's just how I see things.

Though more power to people who like the headcanon! I certainly won't ruin anyone's fun. I don't want to be a grumpy gus about harmless things. I'm just very particular about where I like to take a realistic approach vs. when I say "it's just a cartoon and I want to indulge in the magical fantasy side of it".

Ultimately, I'd love to see more disability headcanons for Casey Jr. that focus on how he lives with that disability than anything else, without necessarily needing a silly, weak reason in canon material to make him that way. Make him a cane user or something, give him a wheelchair, have him lose body parts and use prosthetics, whatever you please. That's common in war. Think about how that affects his life. The world is your oyster! I just don't buy the flimsy canon "evidence" that's a big stretch since we know Donnie Tech doesn't follow the laws of physics anyway.

[jilf]

how is saying (trans) men have male privilege "almost saying trans women have male privilege". the hoops you have to jump through to come to this conclusion is astonishing. people think that just because trans men don't have the same privilege and power cis men do that they don't have any at all, which is insane. trans men still hold power over trans women, as with all minority men over minority women

[leon-stupid-kennedy]

why do you hate krauser? :/

I hate him for the reasons the audience is supposed to hate him. He's an evil person. He's a villain. He's unkind to Leon. If we get any kind of Operation Javier remake, I may see him in a different light –obviously Krauser's backstory and almost everything about Operation Javier is very, very different in the remake timeline and he very well could have a more sympathetic story– but from DSC, the picture painted is that Krauser is a deeply messed up person and always has been. He's hostile and talks down to Leon, who is actually his superior in that version of events, from the very start while Leon is nothing but kind to him and treats him as an equal even though he has no obligation to. Krauser starts understanding Javier's motivations and admiration for viruses before his arm is injured. The injury is part of why he seeks out Wesker wanting to be infected, but it's clear he was pretty nuts and disturbed even before the only traumatic part of Operation Javier happened to him and trauma isn't the sole reason he became a villain. His whole motivation before even meeting Leon is that he's a mercenary because he hates society and being normal and wants to spend every day of his life in battle just for the sake of battle, not caring about the who or why. There's a pretty good chance that Krauser would have ended up working for Wesker and/or Saddler eventually even if Operation Javier never happened, he never met Leon who told him about Wesker, he never got permanently injured, etc. simply because he was a gun for hire with no morals and he didn't care who was paying him or the motivations behind hiring him. He just wanted to fight.

So I would say that I both hate and love Krauser as a character. I think he's quite interesting and I'm glad that he exists. He's a very good counterpart to Leon, they're great foils for each other. But it's because he is the opposite of Leon. He's not at all kindhearted or selfless. He's not a good person and I can't even imagine the original version of Krauser having a redemption arc. I think that an Operation Javier remake could soften my opinion on him if it shows more backstory and motivations, if we can see that his villain arc was actually the result of tragedy and trauma. (Since, as I said, he appeared to be heading down the villain path even before Operation Javier in DSC, and the DSC version of Operation Javier is also extremely different from what's implied in RE4R, Krauser got his arm hurt but overall the mission was a success and no one died, it definitely wasn't a makes thinking "go find a fucked up guy to shoot you up with a virus so you can turn into a monster to get revenge" seem like a reasonable course of action level of traumatic.)

But ultimately we don't know how good or evil he was on the inside prior to Operation Javier in the remake. Maybe it truly was Operation Javier that sent him down the villain path, but maybe it's similar to the original DSC canon where he was already a little villainous and Operation Javier was just the final straw that tipped him over the edge into full blown working for an evil cult. We just don't know. So currently I see his character as an interesting but not all that sympathetic (or tragic) villain.

All this said I mean absolutely no hate towards people that are huge fans of him and see him in a different light. I personally find him very compelling and write about him a lot (if I truly hated-hated him, I wouldn't make so many gifs of him and write about him as much as I do), but ultimately I do just see him as a villain primarily and will occasionally make hyperbolic statements about hating him, like the tag that I know inspired this ask. I post a lot of Krauser content so I'm of course aware that I have followers who like him and genuinely didn't intend it as anything particularly inflammatory, I figured with the meme phrasing it wouldn't be taken too seriously and as just a general acknowledgement that Krauser is a villain who killed a character I love but is still fun to make content for, not an aggressive indictment of him. I use the phrasing all the time in non-serious contexts, if I wanted to seriously hate on Krauser I promise I would have used stronger words and a full rant instead of an offhand phrase in a single tag :)

And because I've already been falsely accused of hating 𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚘 on this blog once, I'll also tack on that I've literally written plenty of 𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚘 fanfiction myself. I have nothing against the ship or people who ship it. It's an interesting dynamic, (or rather dynamics, since DSC and RE4R 𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚘 have very different dynamics) just not a healthy dynamic imo. If you feel differently, that's totally fine, agree to disagree! I have no interest in fighting over anything like this or trying to sway people into agreeing with me. I just want to explain my own opinions, not declare that I'm correct and everyone else is wrong :) It's all subjective. I myself have a soft spot for a different villain who is also objectively awful, debatably worse than Krauser is, but I'm not going to try to force anyone to like him and think he deserves redemption, I'm not going to try to force anyone to think Krauser is a villain beyond redemption, we can all have different opinions and still be cool with each other I promise 👍

[dirtytransmasc]

Are yyou team green or black? And why?

team green, though I'm not in support of every green character (namely Otto though my opinion of him is complicated. I also have opinions on Aegon and his characterization that makes it even more complicated)

[I have only read bits and pieces of the book, so my opinion is based almost solely on the show. keep this in mind]

I'm team green for 3 big reasons. they're more complex, thought not perfect by any means, more morally "right", and are simply more my vibe when it comes to characters. now this is very simplified and not at all nuanced, so stick with me for a minute.

Firstly, they're more complex. the greens have very deep, detailed, and nuanced lives and stories that lead to them being very complex characters that can't be put into a box. Alicent was a child bride who had lost her mother young became a mother young and suffered at the hands of power and men all her life. her children were affected by this and the world they were forced to grow up in throughout their lives. even individually her kids are drastically different; aegon the child who was forced into a life he did not want and suffered due to his father neglect and mother pain. Helaena who was never understood and grew up treated like an oddity. Aemond who was never seen to his full potential, always ignored or looked over, angry throughout his life. each of them has strengths and weaknesses, flaws and benefits, they're imperfect but never completely horrid. they're also never simplified (not entirely, even when the plot and writers seek to simplify them) to the point that they put on a moral pedestal or made straight evil (i'd even argue that the attempts of the writer to oversimplify them as evil and in the wrong makes them 10x more fascinating). I find TB characters tended to miss the mark on that, always put in the moral light, not even allowed a moment to reflect on their actions, lives, or positions in any nuanced or meaningful way, so they always just feel dull. they're also out on a moral highground that they can never be budged from, which makes them harder to like and honestly, really boring. they get away with everything instead of being emotionally and morally nuanced.

secondly, they're more morally "right". I will never say that any of the greens are perfect, they are far from it (with the exception of Helaena and her kids, who have done literally nothing to anyone, but I digress). what I will say, 9/10 times there is some level of reasoning that has some level of reasoning. Alicent always tries to do whats best for everyone, all throughout the series she tried to do best by the court, the king, her children, the realm, and Rhaenyra. did she always succeed? no, but she always tried and her mistakes were almost always honest. I will say she held resentment towards Rhaenya, but honestly, I can't blame her. Rhaenyra's lies and behavior hurt Alicent over and over again so for her to be angry is expected.when it came to succession, Alicent backed Rhaenyra until it was made clear she and Daemon would be a threat to her children's lives and even than she held mercy for Rhaenyra. Aegon's drinking can be blamed on the abuse and neglect he suffered at Viserys, Otto, and Alicent's (though the abuse and neglect from his mother is insanely different and nuanced. she perpetuated her pain onto him because she couldn't heal herself. so I hesitate to call it abuse, cause its so much more complicated than that) hands. though nothing will justify his rape of Dyana, I personally think it was a bad add in on the writers part, and leave it at that. Aemonds rage after years of being ignored doesn't entirely justify what he did to luke, but he had reason for his cruelty after years of Luke (and jace tbh) being cruel just because they could. TB characters tend to do terrible things in response to either A. nothing B. their own terrible things. Daemon kills who he wants when he feels like it, even for stating facts. Rhaneyra will lie and hurt those around her to protect her bastard children. both of them conspire to protect themselves and allow themselves to be wed, really just cause. while there are times they have their reasons, its a lot less of the time, and typically the backing to their actions, is they were trying to unbury themselves from within their own graves. (to preface, I don't care about rhaenyra sleeping around, it doesn't bother me, but its the fact that she will hurt everyone around her to protect her lies, allowing a child to be maimed and people to be murdered)

thirdly, they're my vibe. I like morally complex character, who are, to be frank, pathetic. I like characters with complex trauma's and issues, who aren't perfect people but its not entirely their fault. I would much rather watch a whole show about alicent, a child bride who tries so hard to be a good wife, queen, and mother while not prepared for any such role. Aegon who is a boy with severe mommy and daddy issues, a drinking problem, a flawed past, and constantly wet eyes. Helaena an ignored girl who has suffered for no better reason then her family. and Aemond, a boy who was tormented, bullied, maimed, and made stronger by it at the cost of his compassion and emotional stability - over a nepo baby who was coddled by her father, her murderous husband with a knack for unneeded violence, and her similarly coddled children (the show boiled them down to this, in my opinion). one is simply more up my alley than the other. I want character that need to be dissected, who have suffered, who hurt me to look at.

also, team black created almost all of their own problems. seeing as the main source of contention had to do with Rhaenyra's kids being bastards, which was Rhaenyra's problem, which she caused, and kept digging and digging that grave (faking Laenors death just so she could marry daemon, turning the blame on aemond when luke maimed him furthering the divide amongst the house, trying to wed Helaena to Jace putting her in danger, trying to take the driftmark throne and killing Vaemond for a claim her sons did not have, etc,) till viserys's death, earns her a lot less pity from me. at the end of the day, her being a woman was only a needle in a haystack worth of problems she caused herself that hurt her claim. if she had just strived to create to connection with ancient and her kids, and didn't make herself look like a threat to everyone who lessened her claim (which alicents kids would be the first people to be taken out) alicent would have backed like she had all season and there would have been no war, maybe conflict, but no war.

theres also the effect of the fans on my opinion. I have faced more cruelty, terrible media analysis, and outright ableism/misogny/(blood and sexual based) purist ideology/etc. from the TB fans then I have ever witness by TG fans. TB fans have ruined almost all of the TB characters for me in more ways than I can count, so I will say I am very biased.

thats why I'm team green. as a whole they are simply more appealing, their stories are more interesting, demand more attention to detail and emotional understanding, and from my point of view were the "right" side to be on in the war (the war was wrong on both sides, but my chips lie in the favour of the greens).

[long-claw]

⚠️this is anti jonsa and jonrya if you don't want to read please just don't i'm not interested in arguing⚠️

so i mostly just try and avoid jonsa and jonrya posts cause i'm not a fan but ultimately i agree with letting people ship what they want, and for the most part it's not harming anyone and i just hope that the shippers don't have siblings lmao

but i just need to rant for a sec because why do so many jonsa and jonrya shippers want it to be canon in the books?? and are convinced one or the other will be canon in the books? because, like, that would make jon (a character the shippers presumably like) a canon pedo!

setting aside the incest (which is hard but clearly a lost cause) i can understand aus and that by the end of the show sophie turner and maisie williams were adults but in the books sansa's 13 and arya's 11, whereas jon's 17! which, in my books, would make him a nonce 😭

like i get it's a different time and god knows how much of this fandom just don't care about adults being with literal children but i love jon and he's already canonically fucked his aunt in the show so i'd really also rather he doesn't fuck his literal child sisters/cousins, is that too much to ask people to not campaign for?

not to mention it's not just any 13 and 11 year olds but ones he watched grow up and as someone with a 14 year old sister i can't even wrap my head around her being a teenager, like she's fully still a baby to me, so it's just so weird to me.

anyway just a bit of a mean thing to wish upon a pretty morally sound character... at least in the context of asoiaf. grrm please don't move jon to the same category as the likes of tyrion, drogo and jorah 🙏

[vamptastic]

It takes less than five minutes to find, even from sources with a strong anti-Israel lean, that it is a matter of historical fact that the land that now is called Israel and Palestine used to be Roman Judea and was renamed to Syria Palestina after the Jewish exile occured roughly a century after Christ's death when it came under Ottoman control. Why the fuck do I still keep seeing people do a find and replace for Israel -> Palestine when talking about the time of Jesus, or claiming that Jesus was Palestinian? Who the hell goes around making confident assertions like that without so much as reading the Wikipedia article for Palestine? How am I seeing people who literally do not know that the Ottoman Empire existed devoting their time and energy into activism for a Middle Eastern country? I don't even want people to read a book, I want them to Google things!