#crititcism

[silver-horse]

constantly switching between "It's my blog and I am allowed to bitch about what I want" vs "scared that a whole bunch of mutuals will block me"

[buwheal]

it is that one yeah </33 I /will/ be using that as my excuse from now on for that one so it makes more sense in regards to the ""story"" loll, thanks im stealing that ^_^ In hindsight it doesnt really make sense but for our sake ill chalk it up to him being kinda weird sometimes, "weird" in this case being paranoid.

[peta-official]

So with Palworld being the hot, new thing, I got to see some of what it had to offer, but mostly the discourse and the like following it. Ignoring accusations against the company, yes, they were parodying Pokèmon, and that especially includes the design.

This leads into my main point of this post. Most of the Pals are perfectly servicable designs. They are usually similar to Pokèmon designs, but they at least put a bit of a spin on them, or at the very least they look interesting. However, one rather popular one right now actually upsets me with its design. I don't like Lovander's design at all.

Now, I'd like to show a back image to accompany it and help show my critiques, but this is the single image I can find of it at all.

In terms of furbait, it succeeds. I conceed the point that they made it a very furry design. But the problem I have is that it fails at being a lizard design; I would not call this scalie or scale-bait.

So Lovander appears to be a take on Salazzle, the poison/fire scale-bait Pokèmon. In particular, it appears to resemble its shiny. it might also be inspired by shiny Lopunny, what with the hair and arm pieces.

They've nearly the same palette, while also being sexy lizards. As an aside, the reason why Salazzle is Like That may be inspired by mo`o, lizards of Hawaiian myth would would eat men at night.

Anyways, Salazzle is a design I can appreciate as it at least looks like a lizard; it has a long tail, slim body, claws, you get the point. When you see it, you think, "wow, that's a sexy lizard", and "wow, that's in a kid's game." On the contrary, Lovander has a design that doesn't immediately scream reptile. When I first saw it, my thoughts were, "Lopunny II", and "this is gonna happen in every Pokèmon-like game, huh".

It took a bit of close inspection to make the connection to Salazzle, and an even longer time to learn that it is a reptile, not a mammal.

So first and foremost, a big reason why this didn't click as a lizard Pal, is the biology of it.

Look at these salamanders. lizards are usually slim, because they scuttle and also because they hide in small spaces. Salazzle is indeed slender, which helps it look right. Lizards also don't have protruding ears, fur, or mammory glands. Yet again, neither does Salazzle.

With Lovander, they go for a more typically attractive humanoid design. They gave it breasts, hips, and what appears to be hair. Together, these design features make it less and less similar to actual, ya know, salamanders. To be clear, I'm not saying that the Video Game Animal Girl has to be a biological mirror of its source material, but it helps a design look nice if it at least tries to be similar. Despite the game saying its a reptile, nothing in its design would imply that. I can at least forgive the hair though, as it may have been designed to be like the Frilled Lizard. In that case, yeah, that is a rather cool trait.

They also got rid of its tail, which does not help its case.

Now, its design is not the only reason I dislike Lovander. It's name doesn't make sense. it took me 22 days, (days since Palworld was released, as of writing) to realize it was supposed to be a combination of the words "love" and "salamander." When you say it, it sounds far more similar to "love" and "lavender". One of the points I was going to make if I'dn't procrastinate on writing this post, was the lack of lavender in its colour palette. Lavender is a light purple, but Lovander has a dark and bold purple instead. It would have been That Easy to make it a 3-in-1 name with a minor colour change, but that is not the case.

Overall, I say this not as a jab at Palworld or anything, I just like complaining. Palworld is a game that sure does exist. I do not care for or against it. This one design has been peeving me, and I just wanted to say something about it.

In other news, welcome to Peta-official! Side blog of @teeth-collector64. Not sure what this'll be for, but it made sense for the subject of Palworld.

[ravendruid]

TAL AND LAURA TRADING NOTES?? ABOUT WHAT?

[bardicindignation]

Chapters: 3/21 Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series) Rating: Mature Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Cassandra de Rolo & Vax'ildan, Delilah Briarwood/Sylas Briarwood/Vax'ildan, Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III & Vex'ahlia, Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III/Vex'ahlia, Trinket & Vex'ahlia (Critical Role), Shaun Gilmore & Vax'ildan, Shaun Gilmore/Vax'ildan, Vex'ahlia & Vox Machina Characters: Vax'ildan (Critical Role), Vex'ahlia (Critical Role), Cassandra de Rolo, Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III, Delilah Briarwood, Sylas Briarwood, Shaun Gilmore, Vox Machina, various OCs, Trinket (Critical Role), Syldor Vessar, Velora Vessar Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, still nothing explicit, and not between Vex and Percy or Vax and Gilmore, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Hopeful Ending, Hurt Vax'ildan (Critical Role), The Twins Need Hugs, they'll both get one, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fake Character Death, Mind Control, Mind Manipulation, Geas Spell (Dungeons & Dragons), Timeline Shenanigans, Trans Vex'ahlia (Critical Role), to be clear I adore Keyleth and love her and Vax that's just not where this one's going, Slow Burn, Grief/Mourning Series: Part 2 of To What do We All Commit? Summary:

Vex's twin is dead, and so are the people who killed him. Vax's twin is dead, and he's the one who killed her. The Briarwoods are content in the knowledge that everything's going their way. Only one of those things is actually true, and it won't stay that way forever.

The tapestry of fate has some strings being pulled around. It's funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Aaaaaaand we’re back in business people!

[bowsers-keep]

Chetney is such a menace

[tinypixelcat]

someone draw that trippy beetle with a person face

[darhak]

More art of Valentin, my gnome bard, with his new outfit because he deserves it

A sketch with the wizard's familiar, a fat racoon

The last image shows his permanent scar caused by a nasty crititcal hit of a necrotic ghost attack that put him unconscious. Anyway I love D&D so much

More drawings of my lil guy here

[foraredfuture]

Dazibaos (big character posters) in the early days of the Cultural Revolution, 1966.

Dazibaos were a means for the masses to bring misdeeds of their bosses or local piliticians to the public attention. Papers would often write pieces based on the dazibaos. This way they could excert pressure on those crititcized, who would then yield and get rid of the problems. In other words, dazibaos were an important means of proletarian democracy.

[ami-ron]

«i don't need friends, because if i make friends, my strength as a human decreases.» as araragi rejects people around him, self-crititcism becomes his only friend.

[colorful-white-ideas]

The director and producers were interviewed about the VO switch. They said Bill's performance was fantastic, but the overall tone of the movie became more serious and dramatic than their original vision. The Archer VO brought back the absurdist contrast they wanted. Who knows why they didn't ask Bill to re-record. Maybe he wasn't available. Maybe the Archer VO was cheaper. Maybe they couldn't financially risk Bill not getting the timing or tone they wanted. It's not a slam on Bill. It happens.

Interesting thing is that not even with the change of voice the crititcs were happy. Some still labeled the movie as a "try hard", they find it too absurd now that it doesn't show more depth of the story or charcter , that both premises: drama and comedy in the film are in constant conflict... some said that is a very fun movie , praising Bill's work and not talking much about the voice.

MY friends said that everything is just perfect, voice and acting ... so each will decide. ME? , well I´ll go see it this weekend, in english and also in spanish (dub) to see how much of a difference " a voice" and its interpretation can make over the whole movie.

[dragonkeyblade]

Vs The Titans kh3 project embrace mod crititcal #kingdomhearts #kh3 #khkairi

[renee561]

Okay i know it's stalled, but is Tea With Friends as wholesome as it sounds or is it sad tea time? (or literally no tea at all figuratively and literally)

Tea with friends is a Pro Snape and Pro Hogwarts Staff fic. Semi-Crititcal Lupin tho.

For @random-emerald-thoughts <3.

So it takes place in Harry's third year because of Lupin and damn did Severus need to have a good time.

So he gets a note from his two Friends Walt Strickler (trollhunters) and Loki, the God of Mischief himself (Marvel version) to have tea.

Severus is delighted as only Snape can be, which is full of sarcasm.

When the Hogwarts Staff invites Severus during a Hogsmede Weekend, he blows them off thinking they are only inviting him because they pity him. So when he says he already has plans with his friends, they are upset because you do not work 9 months a year for 12/13 years without being friends with someone even someone as anti-social as Snape.

Severus believes they don't actually like him, when they do (i will die on the hill that Dumbledore was shortsighted in his plan in book 6 and I'm ok with that because he may have solidified his position with voldemort but cost him the safety and protection of the staff..HIS FRIENDS).

Lupin doesn't get why Filius is put out when Severus refuses a chess match in the staff room only citing he is meeting with his friend in hogsemde since he does not have to chaperone this week.

Lupin doesn't get why Pomona is upset when she asks Severus to help her in her greenhouse and he declines stating he was busy with Odinson, that to ask Filus this time.

Like its a series of severus not realizing his coworkers are his friends and lupin being confused and kind of lupin about the whole thing until minerva says that they liked him and worry about him genuinely because again they are friends.

Lupin isn't bad, he's just dismissive of severus and thinking like he does that the only reason that the staff invite him is because they have to.

They don't. They never invite Sybill to anything.

WIP folder asks

[pcrfectstorms]

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OOF lets talk BILLY HARGROVE so i will never understand why people on this hellsite lack critial thinking skills to be the point that they will actively and enthusiatsically HATE a character just because they don't fit into the perfect victim narrative. Am i talking about Billy Hargrove? yes, yes i am. i find it wildly and deeply concerning that people would actively be pleased that an eighteen year old abuse victim died horrifically and deserved too bc he was 'irredemible' like what? he was literally a child, that grew up in an abusive household from as far as it looked to me very early childhood, who's mother left him, while his father continued to abuse and physically hurt him on the regular.

it makes me laugh when people get all HE WAS TERRIBLE TO MAX, i'm just like, okay bestie i know you don't have siblings bc while yeah, he wasn't nice to her, he was a prick, but like... older sibings are literally like that all the damn time and we don't run aound wishing death on them (i mean maybe we do, you'd have to ask my little brother LMAO) but like, from what we saw in canon he was a shitty brother yeah, but he wasn’t any shitter than any of mine or my friends have ever been with our siblings, and i LOVE my brother, i will bully tf outta him sure, but if anyone else did i would fucking go to war for that kid, ya know?

anyway, yeah, this blog is and always will be a billy hargrove safe space, bc i have the ability to think crititcally about his situation, some abuse victims internalise their anger and take it out on themselves or turn in inwards, for billy his anger came outward, at school, outside his home, because he didn't have the capacity to do that at home, at who his anger really was directed at, his fucking abusive piece of shit father. it was the one small semblance of control he could cling too, it doesn't make it okay, i'm not saying that, but people need to realise that abuse victims aren't always going to be nice, sweet wallflowers, sometimes they can be vicius and cruel because they are fucking traumatized and haven't been given the grace, space or tools to work through that trauma and anger and recover and get better.

[kitty999]

idk if any of my miutuals care at all abt rwby but what ive heard from the new episode is the funniest shit ever ruby fucking KILLS HERSELF???????? moist crititcal or howeever its spelt made some comments abt the show on his stream and the fanbase is sooooo mad at him lol one of them called him the r slur?????? mfs keep jumpin on the point of insulting montys memory as if monty was somehow involved in the writing of the show like 6 years after his fucking death god i miss that guy i legit remember the news breaking cuz i was an rt fan at the time. genuinely so fucked

[retrokid616]

crititcal role campaign 3 episode 61 pre-game

so there might have been zombies last time

god i can't wait for RE dead island to have matt and everyone sign the blu ray cause there coming back to nycc baby!

look when am i ever gonna be this homestate hyped

24 hours earlier

wtf did my state go through our own apogee solstice anyway last up candela's first episode finally dropped on youtube.

so with all that said is the bells gonna get away fucking aroun and making them find out (liam's words but gods damn that was fire) tonight on critical role.

not what i was think of but hey good call tumblr (for once) so yeah see y'all in the live blogs.