#not to be a downer of course..

[monster-noises]

I'm still doing good!! I hope your days have been beautiful and happy recently 💛🎃

I am glad to hear you're well!!

I wish I could say they have been but i've been in a bit of a ~just keep your head above water~ bend since the beginning of december (_=<=)_ hoping things level out soon.. they seem to be taking a turn for the better so that's good!!

💛

[insertsomthinawesome]

Goodbye, Roberto. Thank you for being here, even if your time here was short. -NO ROMANCE INCLUDED-

[aroaceleovaldez]

they cast a 28 year old for Tyson 💀

[relevant rants: here and here]

yeah, i saw - i wasn't holding onto hope of them casting a disabled actor for Tyson (still disappointed, just not surprised) but casting a 28 year old for a middle schooler is really out of left field. It's just an odd choice? Particularly given how much they've been emphasizing age-accurate casting so far.

It makes me really wonder what major rewrites they have planned for Tyson's character. Because as things stand currently there's no way to make Tyson's existing character work with this casting. Tyson is supposed to be in Percy's grade, but Daniel Diemer sticks out like a sore thumb against the child actors. Tyson being in Percy's grade is pretty important for the entire arc of Sea of Monsters with the main character arc being Percy combating internalized ableism and establishing him as a character who stands up for other marginalized kids. If they remove that, what's Percy's arc going to be for that entire season? At what point are they going to establish that about his character? Or are they just going to exposition it at us like usual with nothing backing it up and no actual character progression? And in later seasons the age gap is only going to be more prominent - like how is Tyson going to work in BoTL or TLO? Are they planning on removing his character entirely for those scenes? Are they going to remove him as a recurring character in general? It'd be really weird if they killed him off or something.

I'm also afraid for if they do try to keep Tyson's disability coding in some form - cause there's kind of no good way it can go at this point. Either they completely erase Tyson's coding because they cast an abled actor for him and that messes up the entire arc of the book and his character particularly in relation to Percy, or they have an abled actor attempt to portray a character heavily coded as having down syndrome (and i believe they're already doing similar with iirc Chiron's actor is abled but they're doubling-down in the show on Chiron being disabled) and given how they've written the neurodivergence themes (or absence there of) in the show so far there's just no way that'd end well. Like, Tyson's characterization is a little questionable to begin with in the books, but given the show's writing so far it just feels like we're very rapidly ramping up for an extremely ableist characterization of Tyson. Like i'm sure Daniel Diemer is a great actor, but... i'm just getting real tired of the show erasing the entire premise of the series :T

anyways as per my initial post about pjo tv tyson casting theories i guess it's time for me to start tearing stuff apart with my teeth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[problemswithbooks]

The 6 chapter epilogue moves to 'end' the Tododrama this chapter leaving a divided fandom...

For me I think that given the story the Todorokis have had up to this point it both makes sense and is the best we could have hoped for. I'm not one hundred percent happy with it, but I defiantly don't view as negatively as a lot of people seem to.

First off Touya dying makes sense and this is perhaps harsh but I hope he does. People theorizing that the mysterious Tenko like figure is Shigaraki and he will heal him and the rest of the LoV with his restored Overhaul powers is insane to me. With only four chapters left idk how that would even be covered or concluded, since even if they were healed they would all still be put in prison--it wouldn't erase the fact Touya killed 30 innocent people by his own omission. So, how Hori would cover that kind of plot in a cohesive way in four chapters is beyond me. It's pretty much people wanting a worse story because they want their favorite character to live.

Also, I'm a bit frustrated that yet again people are acting like Enji should die instead and making wild accusations based on nothing. Namely that Touya dying supposedly soonish negates Enji saying he'll watch him and his death will let him off the hook so to speak.

Enji has shown that he really loves Touya and feels immense guilt and rightful responsibility for how he treated him and his the rest of the family. Touya dying doesn't suddenly heal his permanently crippled body or give him back his Hero job. It will only make him feel worse. Also it's not as if once Touya is gone he'll ignore the rest of his family either. He still owes them as well, and will probably try to help them in whatever way he possibly can.

People acting as if Touya's death will free him or that afterwards he'll go on with his life completely happy and forgetting about him is just not in any way accurate to what we've seen of his character.

The other thing I've seen floating around is the idea that if Enji had been killed off during the first PLF War, Shoto would have saved Touya and the family would have been happy in the end. I don't think that's true. I will admit I'm bias because I like Enji and I'm not a fan of Touya, but given how Hori seems to have delt with the LoV and villains in general (unless he pulls a 180 and heals them last min) I think Touya was always meant to end up dying slowly in a hospital or get some other bittersweet ending.

BNHA is not grimdark by any means but it is not the idealistic manga of the past like Naruto. Hori punishes characters that make bad choices no matter how understandable or even shitty the choices they had were. Aoyama, despite helping defeat Afo, being a child and under the threat of death to him and his family, still drops out of UA because he feels he still has to earn his place there. Bakugou dies and his heart and hand will never be the same, while also having to deal with the guilt of Izuku loosing his Quirk (if that sticks). Enji, even though trying to change and atone for most of the Manga's run is still left permanently crippled, the job that meant everything to him, lost, his legacy gone.

For Touya who killed so many people without care, only to get back and his father. Who plotted to kill his little brother despite knowing he was abused. Not caring if his plans got his other innocent family members killed. After everything we've seen with other characters who did far less wrong and tried hard to amend those mistakes getting harsh consequences, I doubt it was ever the plan to have Touya sitting at the table with his family eating his favorite food with a smile, regardless of Enji being alive or not. To suggest that Hori only had Shoto fail because Hori needed Enji to be involved just isn't true. If Hori wanted to give Touya a happy ending he would have--many fans have already come up with how that could have happened even with Enji still alive.

The only criticism I agree with is Rei's ending. You can defiantly read how she wheels Enji around and answers his phone as them being back together or in the very least her becoming his caretaker. Now, That might not be the case--she could just doing those things because they were both going to see Touya and she's just helping him out that day, while they actually live separately, with Enji having a paid home assistant that couldn't or wouldn't go with him to see Touya (because of the stigma or visiting regulations). The issue is that we just don't know for sure and Rei has been shafted pretty badly.

That said, I wasn't expecting much from/for her anyway. I think getting a little blurb about what she was doing like Natsuo and Fuyumi did would have helped, but I sort of doubt Hori had any idea what to do with her character outside being Enji's abused wife and Shoto's mom. With him rushing to get these last chapters out I'm not shocked he just stuck her in the background, especially when Enji and Shoto as secondary characters needed the screen time.

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

Is calling shanks important part of buggy arc and he’s closest connection a reach? Are those shipping googles or am I correct? You have more objective way of thinking

mm, i don’t know how objective i really am. i try to take the shipping goggles off when i meta, but they’re very obviously still perched up on the top of my head, you know? my bias is my bias.

that said, i really don’t see how this particular claim can be called a reach when it seems like such a straightforward read of the text to me. like, think about it…

the first bit of personal insight we get into buggy (ch 19) is about his history with shanks. the most recent bit of personal insight we’ve gotten from buggy (ch 1082) is about his history with shanks. oden’s flashback constantly shows the two of them together. whitebeard suggests that if buggy isn’t at shanks’ side, he must be dead.

who else is there in buggy’s life that he has that kind of connection with?

it may not be a positive connection at this point, but it’s undeniably present. for good or ill, buggy hasn’t ever stopped thinking of shanks, or comparing himself to shanks.

i just can’t see a satisfying conclusion to his character arc that doesn’t involve shanks—even if it’s just in (permanent) absentia.

[notweirdjustrandom]

I promised myself that after I’m done, I would post this odd selection of fruits to rot here on the internet forever, so here it is.

(PS: These are completely free to use. No need for credit if anyone use it for whatever reason. Just wanted to say good riddance goodbye to them fruits💔)

[f1zzlest1ckzz]

tada🎉

him by himself under the cut :p

yippeee

[celadonlonghorn]

running my drawings through glaze to repost them on twitter and wondering if this shit is even worth it anymore

[acesammy]

I’m just so fucking tired man

[nights-nonsensical-ramblings]

I'm really nervous for the third sonic movie. not for anything about the movie itself but for the fact that every single Scu thing (with the exception of drone home maybe?) Has been shortly preceded and/or followed by some kind of personal social tragedy.

And it's really weird cuz it started me writing and without that I wouldn't have met most of my current friends. But at the same time im associating it with the loss of multiple relationships.

Am I an overly anxious person that catastrophises every little thing? Yes. Am I superstitious? not really. But the fact that this keeps happening, And i keep ending up upset near an scu release due to social issues is getting really really freaky and almost makes it seem like there is something weird going on. The storyteller in me wants to call it like a deal, it got me into the sonic franchise and so many good things, but the trade off is ill feel hurt and loose something each time something in that universe comes out.

[yujeong]

Somehow, I now have 200 followers. I didn't expect this to make me emotional, but it does. Thank you to every single person who follows me. It means a lot ❤️

[neon-glowing-rainbow-stims]

Posts here will likely be on hiatus for a couple weeks as I finish up the semester <3 I'll be back soon enough!

[frobby]

i love madoka magica however i dont think we as a fandom talk enough about how tragic madoka herself is. probably because the narrative itself steers you away from thinking about her personally. shes not a character shes a desire that homura has, shes a force of good, shes homura's foil. but those are all madoka's narrative roles but madoka herself as a person is not really looked at because we are viewing this world from an unreliable narrator(homura) who only sees madoka as those things. The best thing homura could have done for madoka was give up on her, to let her go. because every time we go back in time the image of madoka is distorted, she loses more of herself every regression of homura's as she tries harder and harder to save her. We don't even know what madoka originally wished for to become a magical girl in the original timeline. and she actually acts quite differently than the madoka we meet. shes a lot more honest and caring and bold. by the time homura's has reached the actual anime madoka has been reduced by the sands of time to a figment of herself. she has no wants or desires of her own beyond wanting to do good and help her friends and when all her humanity is stripped away is when she finally acends to godhood because thats all thats left of her. an ideal and a faith in her. madoka kaname died a long time ago and all that is left is her ghost.

[braintapes]

my conceit for a hotelpod game would effectively be scp containment breach but with hotel skin n flavoring - first person horror where you play as a guest walking thru the hotel having to avoid creatures and staff in an attempt to find a way out. instead of containment chambers or whatnot you'd have rooms w/ specific kinds of death traps or monsters that will follow you thru the halls. + procedural generation so the layout is different each time

[miharuhebinata]

um. so i finally made a folder for all my screenshots from echo, and. well

AND THIS IS JUST TJ'S ROUTE??? 😭😭

[gamebunny-advance]

Projection

I've never really talked about it too much, but I think the reason I view Neon J. and his relationship w/1010 though such a negative lens is due to my own negative experiences with an ex-vet father.

That isn't to say that the traits I've given to either of them are necessarily reflective of either my dad or me except in broad strokes, but I do think it's affected how I don't really entertain the idea of their relationship ever really improving.

There were some early drafts of Desynchronized where White & NJ see the errors of their ways, usually after Green has already reached the point of despair, but even afterward, it never really gets "fixed."

In some drafts, NJ "solved" the problem by wiping both their memories, believing that if he'd just "erased" the abuse from ever happening that things would go back to normal, but the way that their memory system works meant that White was still registered as a "fear" in Green's memory, so he would still be subconsciously fearful of White and avoid him without being able to explain why. Meanwhile, White would be unable to reconcile the discrepancy in his memory with how the rest were treating him (since after the abuse came to light, all other 1010s also became uneasy around him), so he would seek out the truth for himself (a similar idea was considered for "Heartaches," the sequel to "Heart and Soul" that I never finished).

In other drafts, instead of just having their memory wiped, White and Green were set for total destruction while they were replaced with "factory fresh" versions. In this version, the two were thrown into a trash compactor, but it wasn't activated immediately, so they had some time to talk. In this version, White learned how badly his abuse had affected Green and also fell into despair, resolving himself to his fate. However, Green frustrated that he was just going to die without closure on his shitty relationship with White tried to escape. In some versions, they both perished (with or without making up). In some versions, both got out. In one version, only Green escaped, but I stopped thinking about Desynchronized that heavily before I could fully think about what a third Green would even do in the story. In any case, the memory situation still played out about the same with the new 1010s, it's just that we might have been left with the discarded 1010s too.

While part of why I never conceived a particularly happy ending to "Desynchronized" is just that I didn't finish it (and I lack the forethought to plan out my endings in advance), I also think I just couldn't imagine a situation where things naturally got better. The ones that needed to change the most didn't or couldn't, the ones that were suffering the most continued to suffer, and even in the best case scenario with Kerinting, he just learned to cope with their situation more than actually getting a true happy ending (the furthest I ever got for his "best" ending was finally repaying his debt to Kliff and joining Yiruk's band). But even so, I still kinda hoped that one day I would be able to think of a way that it could end nicely. I just needed to experience it myself first.

But now it is no longer possible for me to conceive an ending where reconciliation is an option, because it will now never be an option for me.