#could rant about this for days actually

[gunsatthaphan]

Yes yes yes to the trending shit. I saw pluto has 5M posts and that’s bizarre somehow LOL i saw all these popular fan clubs with tricks and games. I’m just tired

you're probably referring to this post but yeah I know. not that Pluto doesn't deserve it, on the contrary, I'm happy that they made #1 so many times but 5M is clearly a result of tag spamming, much like with every show that somehow has >1-2M tweets. it sucks bc it kinda falsifies the outcome of a show and the fact that this ultimately leads to unequal and unproportional treatment of shows by the company is frustrating. I will never understand why they're so fixated on twitter and don't gaf about the actual view count and ratings on their streaming platforms, including iqiyi, viu and the rest, when that's what actually reflects the success of a show and not how many ppl can post the most bs within 24 hrs but ok.

xxx

[quijotine]

friends i am deep in the dandadan brainrot and it just occurred to me (i have not read the manga yet so idk but ok):

so. Okarun doesn't actually know why Momo calls him Okarun, right?

And I was thinking about this whole thing about the names. How the names they choose to call each other is the reflection of how much they accept the love they have for each other, which is all nice and cute but.

What if Okarun thinks the reason Momo doesn't call him Ken/Ken Takakura is that she thinks it's SO INCREDIBLY EMBARASSING that he is named after an old famous actor?

and it would be so true to form that they hold onto this misconception and that they get confused by it once they get to talk about the love confession (yes THAT love confession)

like imagine Momo grills him for never calling her by her name and Okarun argues back like "well you're no one to talk! MISS AYASE. you're so embarrassed of my name being the same as some dumb actor that you had to give me a nickname!"

"come again??? :D ..."

"You're embarrassed that my name is like that one actor Ken Takakura! >:( why else would you never want me to say my name! >:'((("

and then momo is stuck with the mortifying ordeal of explaining that she has this HUGE crush on beloved 20th century actor ken takakura like "nonono you got it all wrong okar—sorry hnnggg k e n. i. had a crush. on ken takakura :l "

"????? I'm Ken Takakura."

"i know :l so is Ken Takakura."

"so. you. you have a crush. on Ken Takakura. the actor. You couldn’t say my name because you had the hots for Ken Takakura."

"I do. I do have the hots for Ken Takakura."

"the actor."

"no. The real one."

"so the actor? "

"no :l Ken Takakura. the other one"

"ah. I see, the other one."

WAIT. DBDHWSHDBDBDB I'M THE OTHER ONE?!?!!?!?!?!!!@@!!!!!!!

and once okarun's brain restarts and momo asks him why he'd never call her by her name either, he just goes like "i have a crush on momo ayase. 💀 i am an awkward fellow after all 💀"

[mini-golden]

I really enjoy the way the archetypes of characters in inky mystery are expanded. A lot of characters end up fiting into multiple archetypes and the way they contrast and compliment each other, it's so interesting. I'm just gonna put some quick rants about the questers here.

Bendy, the main character, the chosen one, the big brother. I love how being an older brother shapes his character especially early on in the series. While there are quite a handful of YA main characters that are older siblings, I feel like with Bendy it's just organically baked into his character which as an older sibling myself really resonate with.

Boris, the second lead, the young boy, the naive child, the younger brother. I love Boris' character development so much. Similar to Bendy I think Tap captures their ages really well, Boris very much acts like a 14 year old. He often feels unheard by the adults around him and doesn't truly grasp the scale of why he has the restrictions he does as a child until it's too late essentially. In the beginning he is quite naive but he's so surprisingly one of the more observant characters so he's very much not stupid.

Cuphead, the antagonist, the tough guy that's really a softie inside, the older brother. Omg seeing how different and similar Bendy and Cuphead are under the same archetype as the protective and skeptical older brother as well as Boris and Mugman with the younger brother archetype is so fun. He's very provoking but also very calm under pressure while still being quite a hot-headed character. Despite closing himself off from people he is an extremely emotional and sensitive character.

Mugman, the reluctant antagonist, the bubbly joe, the younger brother. I love that we are seeing more of actual Mugman and not the very bubbly, silly persona he often puts on. It's so interesting to see his strong sense of justice clash with what he has needed to do throughout his life.

Felix, the fearless adventurer, the fatherly guide, the deadly warrior. Felix is my favourite character so I have the most to say about him, also he's a very interesting character to me due to his contrasting personality traits that clash giving him a lot of internal conflict. We are first introduced to Felix has the adventurer but parts his personality is very much not what you expect when tying him to this archetype. He very much embodies the adventurer archetype with his boyish peter pan like wonder on the world, very motivated and pretty approachable and friendly but there are also traits that are very much not part of this archetype. He's very soft, he can have a very gentle approach to people, he is often seen as a fatherly figure to the younger people around him like Bendy and Holly being the biggest example and we even see this care extended to the cupbros mostly Pre-Labyrinth. He's also surprisingly prown to fleeing emotional situations that make him uncomfortable.

[randomness-is-my-order]

love how jin guangshan’s manipulation of jiang cheng actually shows what jc’s priorities were and what were his weaknesses. if it really were so that jc was so concerned about his newly-built sect and “protecting the disciples” and that was his top priority, so much so that it would clash against him supporting wei wuxian, jin guangshan would have went, “oh, don’t you see? wei wuxian will bring harm to your sect by attracting the ill-will of cultivators who hate the wens?” or some such fake sympathizing bullshit about jin guangshan completely understanding jc’s earnestness and how wei wuxian is putting the jiang sect in peril. but... no. that is far from jin guangshan’s strategy. because he knows jiang cheng has a much easier to access fuse, a much lower hanging weakness. he goes and attacks jiang cheng’s pride and ego, paints wei wuxian as someone who disrespects jc’s authority and makes him question whether his sect’s disciples will also not hold him in high regard. jin guangshan isn’t targetting jiang cheng’s very much hypothetical fierce protectiveness over his sect—no, he is targetting jiang cheng’s self-image and using his prideful nature and inferiority mixed with superiority complex to turn him against wei wuxian.

[vaguely-concerned]

powerful mental image of lucanis expounding passionately about any given one of his limited but extremely deep areas of interest (the wyvern/knives/coffee/cooking/murder continuum of lucanis dellamorte special interests if you will) while rye lounges around and Beholds him with palpable twink boutta pounce energy

[girlrandomstuff]

Anakin Skywalker: as your husband I demand for you to step down from your duty if I feel treaten by it.

Han Solo: “Hey, don’t apologize to me for taking this seriously, okay? You put duty first. Drives me crazy sometimes, but that’s who you are. It’s also probably why the New Republic is still in one piece.”

[mikayuumouse]

I have a hunch that Asagiri and Harukawa replay Akutagawa's death a lot in flashbacks as of late in the manga to justify for Bones' very very horrible adaptation of his death

[shitty-skyblings-doodles-daily]

today, it’s pearl’s turn to yap! grian and jimmy just got to know a lot more moth facts!

[distantkairi]

Link would never sleep around with all these different women. It needs to be said that Link (all versions) is a young hero with a big heart, not some uberChad his fans wish he was.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT ANON. Omg. Even my partner hates this and it has actually lowkey ruined Link for him. He doesn't even want to cosplay as him anymore with me because of how Link's fans are and how they see him this way.

It's just such an out of character, disgusting and misogynistic way to characterize Link. Especially when they ship him with someone like Riju. Like what? Link first formed a relationship with Riju when she was 12 years old, and according to the code of the game she is still a teenager while Link and Zelda are adults:

According to the code of the game, Riju is closer in age to Tulin. She has nothing in her diary that even remotely suggests she herself even sees Link that way

I'm sorry but what part of this is "oh she must be in love with Link!" ???

it explicitly says Link is just her friend

and if you are naked during the gibdo fight, not only does she not react to it in a shippy way whatsoever, she tells you it's a bad idea to go into battle like that.

She is, also, canonically uninterested in romance.

"Unlike the other gerudo who love love talk and fashion"

It is insane to me that people are actually arguing someone like me "doesn't see Zelda beyond Link", weaponizing the idea that Zelda being in love with/in a relationship with Link is sexist in some form, meanwhile at the very same time the exact same people want to act like Link can't ever have a single platonic female friend and Purah and Riju, who have never once been interested in Link that way, simply must want to ride his master sword, just because they, as a player, got horny off the character designs. People love to slander zelink as "heteronormative", but they're oddly quiet about the heteronormativity in crap like this. It serves no purpose but for insecure men to feel validation from the thought of having multiple women on their arm at once.

It grinds my gears like nothing else, especially when comes people who say they like zelink. So like ok what, in their headcanon universe Zelda is supposed to just be the "cool reddit wife" who happily accepts being cheated on and betrayed by Link and her friends with a smile? And with a minor no less? Yeah nah, sorry but Zelda deserves way better than that. I would rather she not end up with Link at all in that scenario.

It's just so dreadful on so many levels. Two adults the same age is "heteronormative" and "toxic" somehow, something something therapy speak, but Link coming onto a child or waiting for a child to be legal is fine? Calling it "cute", "wholesome" even? Why did you all hate those two creepy male botw npcs, again? Because it seems you want Link to be just like them...

It is genuinely so trashy and like a scenario you would read an incel cook up on 4chan that I can't believe this is some people's take away from the story of totk. That it should be like a garbage harem anime or something and not a story about community, True Love and friendship saving the day. Nothing has disappointed me and my partner more about this fandom than realizing that people not only don't appreciate this game and it's story or touching moments at all, they are only able to see it as porn with their self insert gigachad pedophile Link who runs across hyrule sleeping with every man, woman and child with a pulse.

Oh but remember, women aren't allowed to be with another man though, that's an ego threat *cough* Tauro *cough*

Remember kids, women must be pure and loyal, but a man can do whatever he wants!

This is also unironically why some people are mad about Zelda being the protagonist of Age of Imprisonment and arguing for it to not actually be the canon story of totk, despite all of the marketing so far and despite complaints Age of Calamity faced for changing the story of botw. They're pretty much just mad about the prospect that their uberchad insert, and (what they see as) their harem avengers won't be in it if it's the canon pov of Zelda during TotK.

And all of that is why my Link actually has a heart that is good and true, actually devoted and loyal to Zelda, only has eyes for her and missed her desperately all throughout totk from the moment he missed her hand, was crushed by the revelation but refused to give up. Because clearly, this fandom hates that idea more than anything else.

[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[roseworth]

the really interesting thing about the trinity of musicals in 2016 (hamilton, dear evan hansen, be more chill) is that the only thing that they really have in common is the potential for yaoi. which you would think makes sense but this is broadway we’re talking about so there is yaoi everywhere. there are so many musicals about gay men and there are even more musicals with queerbait. so what the hell was it about those three that made people on tumblr obsessed with them

[fear-no-mort]

thinkign about how alone and unloved morty was for all his life and rick was the first time anyobdy ever put such an amount of intense attention and dependency onto him . and rick had a whole new family and losing them made him stop seeing the value in other people as a whole and morty was the one and first thing that woke him up

[rhaenin-time]

No, House Targaryen is not inherently "doomed" by the very same flaws (and themes) that doomed the civilization that they left.

No, they're not fated to succumb to the Doom that they survived specifically because of the foresight that set them apart from everyone else who perished. Not only would it be terrible, simplistic writing, it would also endorse a terrible, simplistic worldview.

People choosing to make House Targaryen a representation of and thematic successor to not just the civilization that they differentiated themselves from, but the power structure that they chose to leave, literally divested from, and actively worked to prevent from rising again in another form... really rubs me the wrong way.

Why isn't this projection and generalization done for any of the families that come from the cultures that are not coded as other? Why is it only the family that's been separated from their cultural context? Why do the other families each get to be unique, complex manifestations not just of different aspects of their cultures, but of their own specific histories?

Why is the foreign degenerate family both a representation of everything wrong with the culture they come from, and a scapegoat for everything wrong with the system they assimilated into? How is it they represent everything bad about what they left behind, and also everything bad about the land they came to? Even though all those flaws are not only shared by the system as a whole, but are flaws that predate their arrival, that they were punished for resisting, and that they are demonstrated to be incompatible with. Why is it always both?

It just rings so familiar to the way so many people view the other in real life. Because the Targaryens are overtly, and intentionally written as the other. It's the reason so many people identify with them, and it's the very same reason that other people vilify them. They're not just the in-universe other to the 'default' culture established in the text, but they're also given characteristics that we, the reader and audience, can recognize as other and even sometimes anathema to Western Christian culture.

Perhaps the old tales were true, and Dragonstone was built with the stones of hell

A Storm of Swords, Chapter 25, Davos III

I want you to ask yourself: Why is the idea of "fire and brimstone" evil?

To paraphrase the annoying people that love to cite Ramsay when they feel like it: If you look at a morally complex family surrounded by other morally complex families in a morally complex world in a story that's famed for seeking to challenge your underlying assumptions, and think that their association with fire and brimstone is meant to signify their singular satanic evilness, rather than say... challenge that very Eurocentric assumption, you haven't been paying attention.

This vilification mindset where the Targaryens are the singular evil of Westeros is so common to people who seem to want to consume ASoIaF without engaging with the criticisms of the Eurocentric worldview of history at the heart of it. And they end up using the convenient “others” to project all the wrongs of that world onto so they don't need to examine it any deeper.

This is the part where I so often get crucified!

This is the take that so often gets me crucified for "trivializing real world bigotry" in an attempt to "moralize interpretations of fiction" by an onslaught of people with troubling ideologies who then ironically steer the onslaught to moralizing their interpretations of fiction in a way that seeks to either mask or justify their troubling ideologies.

The worldbuilding of ASoIaF is an almost unparalleled projection of the Eurocentric worldview. That's what makes the world feel so rich. That's why GRRM and even the readers and audience are able to craft so many details that feel intuitive. But that also means that how you choose to interpret that world is often driven by underlying biases and ideologies that relate to that worldview — especially if you're not willing to challenge them the way George RR Martin does and encourages you to do.

It means that certain potential biases and ideologies people might balk at outwardly expressing in the real world are recontextualized in a way that feels more comfortable to indulge in.

There are countless examples from countless parts of the narrative. Honestly, you could fill books on the matter. But the one I'll point to right now is how the vilification I pointed out earlier is so emblematic of how the Eurocentric worldview often seeks to project their own flaws onto the other or choose scapegoats for systemic issues.

It comes from the same place with how someone pointed out that the baffling bastardphobia that would have medieval peasants giving the side eye is so often people jumping at the chance to “cosplay” as bigots who base their arguments in misogyny and bio-essentialism. Because it's an acceptable channel to indulge in that mindset in a way that they'd often otherwise question, or at least hold back from expressing out of caution.

And there I go again. "Moralizing fandom" for pointing out that fandom is so often used as a 'safe space' to build communities that share and spread troubling ideologies that you're not allowed to criticize because those ideologies have been 'appropriately' decontextualized from their real-world parallels, even though those parallels are still very much there.

But the problem is that it's impossible to simply 'channel' bigotry and leave it in an 'acceptable' space, because bigotry doesn't work like that. It's not a static object you can carry around in your pocket to play with when you think it's safe to do so. It's a blight. A living poison that feeds and grows and spreads. And if you give it a 'safe space' and continue to feed it with 'acceptable' fuel, it will always find its way out.

[looney-mooney]

I’m making an animatic for the Summerstuck AU (AU where Phineas and Ferb are Alternian Trolls from Homestuck) and I’ve gotten to the part where their former lusii (fantastical white animal guardians who raise the Troll Children of Alternia, since all the adults are off doing space adventures) are thrown into the Kernel Sprites (colorful floating ghost-like game constructs that base their forms mostly off the player’s deceased loved ones, who act as guides for the players as they play the game that ends the universe and gives birth to the next one) and I’ve decided that Ferb’s former Lusus should be Steve (a kaiju chameleon in the show who Ferb is very emotionally attached to). When deciding how to portray Steve’s remains, I sort of naturally gravitated towards having him be taxidermied in Ferb’s shed.

The unintentional ramifications of this is that I have inadvertently implied that, on some cosmic level, Ferb Fletcher is a Harley.

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

Grojband, but as a band from an early 2000s shoujo manga

[dollypopup]

Not a question per say but I thought this was an interesting Reddit post and I know you've said similar stuff in the past (https://www.reddit.com/r/BridgertonRants/comments/1ibjy0z/do_some_polins_even_like_colin_bridgerton/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

Oh man, I was sick of the 'make Colin grovel/beg/suffer' nonsense all the way back in SEASON 2!!!!! It's a shame it continues to be all too prominent of a theme in Polin in general. (honestly, this is why I stopped reading and writing fics) but whoever the person who made that rant is, I wanna be friends with them! I feel like a lot of Colin fans have been outspoken about how unfairly he's treated in what should be his fandom, but because we're a minority in the fandom, we get pushed out by polin fans who just. . .don't like him? (Why they gravitate to this ship I will NEVER know) And the people talking about how 'Oh, they're not *really* Polin fans, they're Pen stans!' like. . .they're still the ones that went on Polin fics (including my own?) and talked about how Colin didn't deserve her? They still wrote so called 'Polin' fics with no pushback at all of Penelope abusing him and it being totally fine? They were all too happy to see Colin pushed to the wayside time and time again? Can't lay down with dogs and be surprised you have fleas in the morning, you know?

Like it's genuinely no surprise to me that Pen stans who hated Colin but still shipped Polin for the sake of Pen getting her prize became Nicola stans who hate Luke because they're mad that they didn't get together.

I miss the Polin that were *both* ride or die for each other in fandom. Since S2 I feel like it's just Pen being an OOC girlboss queen and Colin being her footstool in way too much of this fanbase. God forbid he have any emotion other than full fawning over her. smh

I think we go through cycles in the fandom. Maybe we're in a new era of people recognizing how toxic Polin is/was/can be and people are calling out how weird it is that the fanbase seemingly hates half the ship. But idk, I feel like this is just another person who will be pushed off to the side because though what they said was true, people just don't wanna hear it. I will always ALWAYS stand by the fact that people can write whatever they want and deserve respect in fandom. I avoid any of those fics because I try not to say negative things to or about creators. But sometimes I so badly want to be like 'if you read this from his perspective, is it a love story, or is it a tragedy?' and like. . .most of the time, from his POV in these stories, it's a tragedy. And there's really not a lot of variety (most of the stories that countered the typical 'colin begs and suffers and grovels and is called an idiot' narrative have left) so it's all there is. And you just can't help but come to the conclusion that this fandom just. . .doesn't like him.

Which sucks, he's fantastic. Polin deserves love stories where they're both treated well.