#Opinions I Stand By

[kerrste]

I can’t beleive they just walked around like this for the whole movie

[r2tmit]

OISB Kamen Rider Franchise (pt 1 of ?)

I have been into Kamen Rider about since I found myself in college stumbling onto Den-O and Gekiranger at the same time and stuck very close to it ... uuuup until I tried to review it weekly on youtube.... Had tried to catch back up but, basically have been out of the loop since Reiwa era started... anyways, spoiler warnings for Ryuki, Ghost, and Zero One

I accept Precure Black as an honorary Kamen Rider, and anyone who has a problem with Precure anyone being included, or a woman can't be a Kamen Rider, you can talk to mister Black RX about that

I really... do not like Ryuki. I know it's a lotta people's fave, and it helped lead to Madoka and there are real good bits to it but I just... The first time the antagonist comes in to reset character development because characters were getting to friendly, to the ending that just, put a serial killer and arsonist back on the street I just did not like it.

Oh... I HATE Ghost. I don't think I'll ever hate a Kamen Rider series as much as I HATE Ghost. The writing bad enough that I can feel when different writers come on, or the lead disappears to work on the movie coming back only to introduce character details never a part of the story UNTIL they needed tie-in references to the movie. The editing even for a weekly low budget live action kid's show, glaringly obvious use of footed scrapped and redubbed over to give it the current story's context. The grating way that every time our hero died he came back stronger. How the first 'history fact' they introduce is literally wrong and it's documented Japanese history! How those two last points clash with the theme about 'the importance of inspiring people who light the future' as well as 'you only have one life to live'. The suits, due to having so much inner lighting going on just look bulky and the hoodies don't hide that. God and how they wrote the side characters- I need to move on, I literally spent over 40 minutes straight discussing my issues with Ghost before.

My favorite Kamen Riders, are not what I would recommend to people as their first, since Gaim, Faiz, and Fourze, are not structured written or directed like standard Kamen Riders and will not really help to familiarize people with the franchise

I am REALLY uncomfortable with the setting to 01. The 'happy to serve' slave android race, the main character being just an underdog president of a multi-billion dollar company going up against the evil rival who is evil because they are a multi-billion dollar company that is ALSO multi-national. The mangaka episodes x.x

Rider chip version of Kakusei is better than the base version, but the base version of Flashback is better than Rider Chip's

Full Force better than Lords of Speed

I'll never forgive parents groups for what Hibiki turned into at the halfway point

Folks keep swinging, and it's far from perfect, but Decade is still the best Kamen Rider anniversary series.

Toei are cowards for only putting up the first two episodes of near every Kamen Rider series on their global channel along with some rather low res versions of some movies and crossovers

Shout Factory, for the love of God, Buddha, and the Rider Kick, please work on expanding your Kamen Rider selection for streaming?!

[phoneduk]

[Dick, Jason, and Tim in a mall]

Random Tiktoker: "Hi, excuse me can I ask you guys some questions?"

Dick: "sure!"

Random TT: "what are your names?"

Dick: "Dick, Jason, Tim"

Random TT: "...excuse me?"

Jason: "it's the idiot's name"

Random TT: "oh, uhh, alright, who's your guy's favourite billionaire?"

Dick: "Ted Kord - total Dilf energy"

Jason: "Oliver Queen"

Tim: "Lex Luthor"

Random TT: "why are they your favourite?"

Jason: "He's a total Dick but his son's hot"

Tim: "what he said"

[greencheekconure27]

hey what's your beef with peta? if it's that they operate "kill shelters" you might want to read the newsweek fact check https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-peta-responsible-deaths-thousands-animals-1565532 (tldr: "Just as a hospice has a high mortality rate, so does a shelter that takes in those near end-of-life, feral, aggressive, dying and discarded animals." "Cherry-picking animals to only allow in the most adoptable at shelters with limited admission (otherwise known as 'no-kill') policies doesn't help and often leads to people dumping animals, or neglecting them in other ways,")

Oh no it's so much more than that.Constant spreading of pseudoscience and misinformation, ableist campaigns (such as "drinking milk causes autism", racist and antisemitic campaigns (comparing pig farming to the Holocaust for instance), sexist campaigns under the guise of feminism (veganism is feminist because cows have a womb they are women too) more misinformation and pseudoscience, financial scams, at least one instance of abducting someone's beloved and cared for pet to euthanize it, harassment, using emotional manipulation on children ("your mommy is a murderer because she eats meat" etc), harassing and breaking into zoos and research labs , frequently killing the wild animals they rescue, that one bullshit monkey photograph lawsuit, being against ALL animal agriculture and hunting EVERYWHERE, being opposed to pets (yes cats and dogs too), actually paying people to abuse farm animals for staged videos, cultish behavior,absolutely insane ideas, and oh, misinformation and pseudoscience.

As to kill shelters, it's the lies and the hypocrisy that bothers me, because these are the same fucking people who will insist they're doing good by keeping animals alive when they have no quality of life to speak of anymore. One moment they're gushing over some poor piglet born without trotters or blind legless bird being kept alive and miserable for months, the next they're all pro euthanizing healthy animals en masse, all while they collect donations for both.

I know a lot of people donate to them in good faith but don't. Even if you are vegan. They're not doing anything good with that money.

[obsob]

ive gotten rlly into ice hockey recently! i like goalies best. they are. friend shaped

ref images and process vid under cut! <3

[starry-bi-sky]

"Stillborn? No, no, still born." -- DPXDC AU

Based off a comment I saw where Bruce knew about Talia's pregnancy in the earlier comivs, and was ecstatic to be a father. So much so that Talia feared he'd give up being Batman for it, so when she gave birth she put the baby (Damian) on a doorstep and (seemingly) told Bruce that the baby was stillborn.

Instead of Damian, that baby was Danny! Meet Daniel Brown, the 14 year old foster kid whose been living with the Fenton family for the last two years. He's about two years older than Damian.

His last name, "Brown", was a generic surname given to him because the note he came with didn't have one on it. It just had the name "Danyal" on it, but albeit 'Daniel' was the one that had been put into the system for, I'll be totally frank here, racism reasons.

(I looked it up to make sure, and it's generally not permissible for foster parents to change the names of their foster kids even if it's a permanent residency, and for that reason Danny doesn't have the last name "Fenton".)

Danny's got ✨~issues!~✨ He's been through a handful of homes growing up, most of them terrible for a variety of reasons. Which has, as a result, left lasting scars. He's generally a very sweet kid, just very distrustful and jumpy. He's got the signs of a kid suffering from PTSD, and a handful of other issues including attachment and insomnia. His inferiority complex could rival Damian's, and that's going to make for an interesting mutual hatred for when they finally meet.

(something I'll get into later)

He still has the blanket he was found in. It's made of a very high quality material and is a beautiful emerald green with little golden thread accents, it's high quality as a result has Danny clinging onto a desperate hope that his bio family might be out there, and the only reason they gave him up was because of some outside factor. It's been taken a few times in old foster homes, and he's flipped out each time.

While he still calls Jack and Maddie by their names, he likes them well enough. The bar isn't that high though, and while they're some of the better foster parents he's had, "better" doesn't equal "safest". Their laboratory malpractice. Basically, C- Fenton Parents. They're negligent by virtue of being engrossed in their work, but they do care equally about Jazz and Danny. So he doesn't hold it against them that much.

He kinda prefers it that way, their loud affection is overwhelming and Danny doesn't know what to do with their attention, even if he craves it. It's a bit of a complicated situation.

They took in Danny because they genuinely wanted another child, but didn't want a big age gap between them and Jazz. It was actually Jack's idea to foster, and they discussed it with Jazz beforehand. She was all for the idea. Thus, a handful of weeks later, a ton of paperwork, and inspection later, and Daniel Brown entered their household with a trash bag in one hand and eyes like shards of stained glass.

His relationship with Jazz is kinda strained, but that's by virtue of her constant psychoanalyzing and helicoptering. Like with the parents, Danny's overwhelmed by the attention and also just, straight up doesn't like the fact that she's telling him that there's something wrong with him. He knows that, thank you. He pushes her away when she does this.

Other than that though? When Jazz isn't smothering him and is acting like an actual sibling and not a third parent, they're pretty close, and Danny really likes her. They've hung out a few times on their own volition, and Jazz showed him how to take better care of his long hair.

His school situation,, pretty similar to canon with the bullying, albeit with a few more instances of him blowing a fuse and lashing out against his attackers. He's a rather angry kid, but it's quiet. It builds up, piles on top of itself, until eventually, like a volcano, it erupts and burns everyone within radius.

Danny's got a fire core, not an ice core. Phantom's hair is made of white magma; thick and heavy, setting itself on fire when his anger runs hot. When he gets angry, his skin begins to char and split open to reveal pulsating lava underneath, and he crackles and pops like a raging forest fire.

I haven't decided yet on how he meets the batfam -- i've got two ideas but they're both in opposition to each other, and drastically alter how the rest of the plot goes. But I do know that him and Damian hate each other in the beginning. And it has nothing to do with inheritance or "being the blood son" -- although their blood relation absolutely plays the major role in their disdain for each other.

Simply put, they're jealous of each other for the same thing: thinking that the other was wanted.

Damian hates Danny because, unlike Damian, Bruce knew about Danny since conception and wanted him from the moment he heard about him. He had a whole nursery set up, and still does. He never took it down -- just locked the door. Damian was thrust upon Bruce without warning, and he feels like he forced himself into the family. And while on some level Damian knows and understands that Bruce wants him and loves him as much as his other children, that doubt and feeling of inferiority still remains. He looks at Danny and sees him with what Damian always feels he needs reaffirmed.

Meanwhile, Danny hates Damian because he looks at him and sees him with everything Danny's ever wanted. He hates him because Damian grew up knowing both of their parents, with one of them for most of his life, and then moved over to the other. There was never a moment where Damian was (seemingly) left to doubt his place within the family. Damian was raised with the very same woman who left Danny on a doorstep, with no clue to his identity beyond a little green blanket and a note with only a first name. Damian was wanted everywhere, and Danny was wanted nowhere. Damian is Danny's replacement in his eyes.

(It's the little revelation that Damian grew up with their mother that elevates Danny from being quietly envious of Damian to downright despising him. What did Damian do, that Danny didn't? He could live with Damian living with Bruce -- Bruce didn't know Danny was even alive. But him living with their mom? Are you fucking kidding him?)

Damian never outright attacks Danny physically, but it's not like he hides that he didn't like Danny. Meanwhile, Danny, in all his repressive anger, quietly despised him from a distance until finally one wrong snide side-comment has him blowing up and it becomes a screaming match. They're both just enough similar to each other that when they look at each other they really just see a mirror.

They'll work it out together, eventually. But it'll be ugly and cruel and explosive, and they'll start mending the bridge to become brothers in more than just blood relation in the end.

But yeah, stillborn Danny has... a lot going for him.

[soup-child]

Tony is the man that made Kelsey realize she didn't like men

[ankahikoibaat]

my two sentence pithy hopepunk post escaped containment - you never can predict what will! - and it was obviously never going to encompass the whole spectrum of story possibilities hopepunk obviously like, omg, people in the notes. but i reiterate!

Star Wars is hopepunk! not grimdark!

it doesn't mean there's not darkness or evil or bad in the stories or genre, but ultimately it's about the triumph of good or the possibility thereof!

personally, i find the focus on stories in the fascist government point of view loses that - and are honestly a drain - and I stand by that, but also, stop defining morally gray at me people! i do know the meaning even if i'm not writing out the damn definition!

also, morally gray does not automatically mean more interesting or more nuanced! (anyone saying that can fight me.) (i'm a wuss and too chronically ill for this so not really.)

choosing to be good, to do good in a world of increasing darkness and evil and selfishness is a fucking compelling story, and it can be handled with such complexity and delicacy if someone actually gives a shit and doesn't go "good vs evil is boring" automatically!

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[copdog1234]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but genuinely, if you think that these recent chapters of sxf have been "boring" or "disappointing" or "unnecessary because it has nothing to do with the main characters or major plot" you should stop reading sxf.

This manga, this anime, they are a slow burn. This flashback is part of necessary world-building and exposition. Not everything has to be plot-driven. Not everything has to focus entirely on the main characters. Sometimes to make a good and fleshed out story, to really emphasize the theme of a story, you need to focus on side characters, you need to focus on the world at large. Not everything will be big and bombastic. Not everything should be big and bombastic.

Opinions like yours are a big reason we have rushed 6-8-12 episode seasons of shows as the norm, where we don't get time to know the characters, where we don't get time to let the narrative breathe, where we rush through the main plot. And that format can work sometimes, but most of the time it doesn't.

If you want big and bombastic and action all the time that focuses pretty much on just the main characters and nothing else, go somewhere else. This manga and anime are not for you.

[guardian-angle22]

911: Lone Star | Tarlos Cheek Kisses (S1 -> S4)

[r2tmit]

I've never really liked using the terms 'hot take' or 'cold take' because even before the massive shift of decentralizing and globalizing access to and discussion of mass media that is the modern internet I've, never really knew what was or wasn't a well known series or opinion about it cause I'd just run into something like 'hot take, Naruto is blonde' and it not be done in an, ironic fashion? so I'll just stick with 'opinions I stand by'... so be warned when you see that as a title I might be saying some 'no shit Sherlock' level opinions

[mylight-png]

Hot take: "killing a lot of people" isn't genocide in and of itself. Genocide requires very specific circumstances and intent, not just "many people killed"

Also, having more casualties doesn't automatically make someone the "good guys" in a conflict. That's just not how things work.

(By "hot take" I mean "fact many people won't like because it counters their attempted justification for Jew-hatred" by the way)

[loserboyfriendrjl]

very and extremely unpopular opinion it seems but bellatrix&andromeda&narcissa had been closer than sirius&regulus could have ever imagined being

[curiositypolling]

okay I don't want too much discourse here, I'm just curious where the numbers are (re tumblr), considering how much there is about it

also apologies to the uhhh rest of the world I'm sure youre sick of hearing about this stuff

pls reblog for sample size etc

(before anyone makes any ‘no trump option’ jokes, I figured on the gay communism webbed site it would just get troll votes)