#ranis rants

[sunohws]

I HATE IT WHEN MY ROOMMATE WATCHES ANIME OR ANY DRAMA IN ENGLISH... like dawg. if u need a translator I'm right here. I KNOW JAPANESE... ALSO THERES LITERALLY SUBTITLES.

I walked in on her watching demon slayer (bleh), and it was in English... I heard tanjiro talk and I nearly cried when I heard the voice.

ALSO, WHO WATCHEs SQUID GAME IN ENGLISH. LORD THE ENGLISH VOICE OVERS R SO GOOFY SOUNDING. ITS LIKE WATCHING BLUEY IN JAPANESE.

[a-dragons-journal]

Forgive me for showing my fangs a little here instead of being as delicate in phrasing as I usually am, but. Periodic reminder:

sweeping "humans suck, humans are evil, the world would be better off if humans disappeared/had never evolved" statements may be cathartic but they're thoroughly inaccurate (ie, the vast majority of uniquely bad effects of humans on the planet are a) extremely recent, like within the last couple centuries, b) the fault of an extremely small minority not the entire fucking species, and c) fixable)

hating being human isn't the same as hating humans. I get species dysphoria is a thing. I get that it's often hard to fit in as a nonhuman in human social groups and that can make it easy to slip into hating everyone around you. Please fight that instinct

villainizing people for traits they didn't choose, such as the species they were born into, is neither cute nor fair. No species is inherently good or bad

misanthropy is cathartic in short term vents or whatever but genuinely embracing it wholesale as a philosophy is liable to lead to you hating humans, human society, and being in a human body more and more over time and thus make your life worse by constantly reinforcing a thought pattern that makes you angry and upset

you are not immune to being part of human society (translation: just because you're nonhuman doesn't mean you're not included in statements about the effects of the human population on the world, ie "humans are killing the planet")

related, you are not better than humans for being nonhuman. looking at my fellow dragons in particular on this one. I get it, draconic pride is a thing, dragon brain probably says you're the supreme being and all else is beneath you especially anyone who annoys you. Mine does too. Please recognize that is an instinct you are supposed to FIGHT, not something that's TRUE AND THAT YOU SHOULD EMBRACE. Good fucking gods.

some nonhumans are also human (it's me, I'm some nonhumans) and you are making sweeping "humans suck, why would I ever want to be human, all humans do is kill the planet" statements in the presence of people included in those statements, which is insanely rude (and no, you don't get to "but you're different because you're nonhuman" me! you do not get to decide to ignore half of who I am because you don't like it, you do not get to decide I'm not "really" human, and also see the previous bullet point). this goes doubly if you're in a space like a DIscord server where people have expressly stated they're not comfortable being tacitly included in statements like that

saying "but I don't REALLY mean all humans, I just mean the specific ones at fault!" after the fact does not actually change anything if every other thing you say is constantly "humans humans humans" and not the group you're actually referring to, or at the very least doesn't change how it reads to everyone around you

[shinkaishoujo103]

be me, its 1am, you are downstairs, and then fucking big spider jumpscare on the stairs.

(drew how i look in headspace except i dont know how to draw my hair, ignore that)

and by big spider we're talking around this kind of big (no actual spider image dw)

(its dark i know sorry as i said its 1am)

what am i supposed to do now, send help

[kaythefloppa]

Lion Guard Finale Praise + Rant

There is a lot I hate about The Lion Guard's final episode but the one thing that will always hold a special place in my heart is the return montage:

You can't tell in screenshots, but in the background, the LG chorus sings a reprise of the Departure Theme from the premiere episode, with this montage being a book-end to the goodbyes that the Guard said to their friends and families in that episode.

It's really sweet and powerful because it's a beautiful example of "Show, don't tell" (a rule which this show, particularly in Season 3, and the LK sequels in general are not the best at following). We see what the Lion Guard had left behind when they went on their journey to the Tree of Life, how much they had missed their home and how glad they are to be back and how that feeling was reciporicated by their friends and families.

Keep in mind that earlier that morning they were under the belief that Zira invaded the Pride Lands and had possibly killed the royal family and subjugated the Pride Lands' non-lion subjects if not giving them a same gruesome fate (since Kion knows that Zira is a lion supremacist, god-forbid what would happen if she ever got near Mtoto, Thurston, or Ajabu), and on the Pride Landers' end, the Lion Guard had been gone for such a long time with no one having any way of knowing they'd return or if they died. So this reunion was likely also a huge relief for everyone in the Pride Lands, especially Simba, Basi, and Timon and Pumbaa (who no doubt would've been scared shitless at the idea that their kid could be missing forever or dead and have no way to confirm or deny that possibility). It's just all around amazing to see. When watching the episode for the first time when it came out I thought something was wrong with my computer because despite there being 14 minutes left, I wholeheartedly thought the series was going to end there....

...which is why I'm very mad that it didn't and forever disappointed at the route they went with for the actual ending.

In the span of less than a full day since the Lion Guard returned from the Tree of Life, all of them instantly want to head back there on a whim after losing the Lion Guard contest, which would wind up in them completely uprooting their lives and leaving their home and families again for the sake of this one kingdom that we've only seen for seven to eight out of 74 episodes plus a TV movie! The reunion showed us that the Guard was strongly attached to their home and families, but now the ending forces us to ignore that to logistify the Guard willingly going to the Tree of Life without any on-screen goodbyes or send-offs. No scene of doubt, no goodbye songs, no parting ways between characters, nothing, it just jump cuts from "Hey, let's go back to the Tree of Life even though we've only been back here for a day" straight to them at the Tree of Life for Kion and Rani's wedding. Isn't the episode's title supposed to be "Return to the Pride Lands?" Yet the "return" plot stops mattering after the first 11 minutes.

The whole Guard leaving with Kion doesn't even make sense: Bunga has Timon and Pumbaa at Hakuna Matata Falls, Beshte has to co-lead the hippo pod with his father, Ono has his flock and possibly even Ona (you could argue that he would want to return to the Tree of Life because they healed him, but that's not the reason they went with - Also the poor dude lost his Mark of the Guard twice, the first being after he lost his eyesight to protect the Pride Lands from Scar, like, what the fuck?), Fuli had been the most admant about returning to the Pride Lands, and Anga showed no interest in staying at the Tree of Life and seemed perfectly ok in the Pride Lands.

Even back in the days where people were theorizing what would happen to the Lion Guard that caused them to be absent in TLK 2, I never saw reason for the whole Guard to leave if Kion ever left, and even then, I never expected any departure to be permanent because it would go against their whole life-style. It feels like they only had them leave like this for the sake of some "twist" that didn't need to be there. And even if they were going to go with this route, they could've had the Guard separate, with some staying and some going to at least make sense.

Much like Makini, Season 3 ignores crucial story elements of the main characters from the first two seasons to both justify their "plot-twist" by the end and to wrap up any “plot-holes” with the Lion King 2 and forces the audience to suspend an inappropriate amount of their disbelief. So while I like the reunion in the final episode and whilst my love for the show remains un-matched, knowing how it all ends and that (according to some writers) it was planned from the start to end like this makes me feel cheated in a way. One of the most disappointing endings I've seen from a show which I've been willing to follow from start to finish and this is coming from someone who's watched both Jake and the Never Land Pirates and Bunk'd.

[hidingoutbackstage]

Claire + kneeling down for young kids

[amxrany]

Man's majestic, that's it

[mityas-red-glasses]

bronzefield updates + general mityas-red-glasses thoughts

bronzefield writers have gone fucking insane we got so many new characters that practically have their own side plot and honestly I'm here for it. jasper is really good representation for people who struggle with addiction and I think the way his friends handle it is really similar to how it goes down irl (coming from someone who has had people close to me struggle with addiction) idk I just love the Goopchat friend group.

also dude that rani piece they dropped??? I fucking love cloud I hope theh know that everytime I see smth about them I squeal and kick my legs and make such big heart eyes at her rani monroe you are my guy I adore you. also thunderstorm (haha rani -> rain + speed silly name) I love them look at my unstable insecure but trying to get kind if better girlies they're so cute

ALSO KEIKO IS SO CUTIE!??!?! not much to say but I love xem so so much they're so cute

tyler and ozzie.... rook and holden..... thank you brnzfld team for giving us some cutie little guys to balance out the overwhelming cloud of darkness that are tyler and ozzie tysm I cannot handle them without taking a lap they make me so sad. one author leaked a line from an unreleased bit and like. WHAT DO YOU MEAN "One day I'll be better. One day I'll be better and I'll lay on a bed of white lilies and we can be happy." TYLER

[avoidednullspace]

if youre one of those mfs like "uHm?,, oMoRi is ProFIitng OfF oF dEpBreSion!!!!" SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT U YOU DONT EFEN KNOW SHIT ABOUR THE GAME HOE!!!! LIKE IM NOT AN OMORI FAN BUT IK GOOD AND DAMN WELL THAT OMORI AINT PROFFITINH OFF DEPRESSION AND BASIL IS NOT A FEMBOY PLEJAS IM TIRED OF MFS SATING THIA

[astrummorte]

-pats my own brain- this bad boy can house so many doubts

[sleepy-bi666]

Am I the only one who thought the lion guard finale was very unsatisfying?

like why would Simba even let Vitani lead a guard in the first place??

did he think Kion was dead or something??

also I personally hate Rani and she feels like a bad rushed romance interest; I also don’t acknowledge the ship in any of my fanfics I’ve made for the franchise, at least in a good way

[thewingedwolf]

aw, i had stagnated around like 800 followers for a long time but apparently a whole bunch of you really like my 911 liveblogging and my badly worded opinions on asoiaf bc i reached 900 followers after like a decade on this hellsite

[sunohws]

I'm in the middle of writing smth for yeonjun amd good lord. WHY AM I HAVING TROUBLE.. I had so much motivation and now its all gone.

for future reference, don't EVER stop writing to play pjsk 💀 especially when you have so many ideas or get the right motivation

[a-dragons-journal]

I don't want to invade the community, but I genuinely can't tell if my kin feelings are voluntary or involuntary. Does that mean I'm a KFF?

Tl;dr: No. Also heads-up that I get very emphatic in this post; that's not because I'm mad at you or anything, it's because people in general keep either misunderstanding or intentionally twisting what "KFF" is supposed to mean to make it sound way more exclusionist and gatekeepery than it actually is and I'm getting frustrated with that.

You're only "KFF" if you are knowingly, actively, intentionally using the word "kinning" to mean relating to, projecting onto, etc. a character while not actually at all identifying as them. That is, if you are "kinning for fun," "kinning" for the purpose of having fun, and it's not at all a genuine identity thing for you. It's in the phrase they use for themselves from which the acronym "KFF" came from.

If you identify as them in some way (voluntary or involuntary imo - the words copinglinker/otherlinker exist specifically for voluntary identity, but as I've said in a recent post, I find hardline enforcing that distinction less and less useful as time goes on, though certainly having the words available is useful, and anyway 'linkers aren't KFF either), you're not KFF.

If you aren't sure whether it's an identify-as thing or something else, and you're figuring that out, you're not KFF.

If you're not sure whether it's an identify-as thing or something else, and have given up on figuring it out because that line isn't clear for you and just want to settle somewhere and talk about your experiences genuinely, you're not KFF.

If you enjoy being 'kin and like to joke around and have fun with it, but it is still a genuine identity thing for you at its core, you're not KFF.

If you have a "weird" identity (in literally whatever way you can think of), that does not make you KFF.

KFF has a very specific meaning and "my experiences are weird and/or blurry in one aspect or another and I'm not quite sure what to make of them" is not it. (Nor is "having fun with being 'kin" and I really wish people would stop confusing those two.) It specifically (again, as is in the literal name) means people who are intentionally misusing "kinning" for something they KNOW isn't an identity thing.

[kaythefloppa]

The people who try and defuse criticism towards Kion x Rani, by saying that "Well the other ships were rushed" lowkey annoy me because I feel like people ignore the fact that none of the other ships ended with a child-marriage between the two.

[cale-nyam]

GOING INSANE CUZ WHY IS IT SO DAMN HARD TO UPDATE UR LAYOUT ON IOS??? TUMBLR FIX UR SHIT💔

[amxrany]

To those people who keeps saying SilSeb is incest, I hope life finds a way to mildly inconvenience you at the worst time possible ❤.

Okay number one: it's not wrong to see them as brothers. The way you interpret one's character is completely subjective, and I will admit I'm not against seeing them as brothers especially that they are childhood friends.

Which brings me to number two: Them as brothers is a headcanon. In canon, Silver and Sebek are childhood friends (which they kinda became rivals? whatever the hell you like to call them) who both trained under Lilia's wing. Now this is the part I will most likely get shitted on, but hear me out. I know at least one of you is going to hit me with Silver's Union SSR story, where Silver refers to Sebek as a brother.

Now tell me, if you refer a close friend of yours as a brother/sister, does that immediately make you related to one another?

No, it doesn't.

And if you said yes, you might as well apply that logic to Riddle, Trey and Chenya as well. Alongside, Kalim and Jamil.

It's very a common thing that happens under the childhood friends to lovers trope (or just simply being friends in general) that you see the other person as a sibling, that means you are very close to that person, and once again for the love of god that doesn't mean they are blood related in any way, shape or form.

And another thing I will get hit with is the "Diasomnia is literally found family why tf are you shipping that". Sebek has a separate family that takes care of him, Lilia only adopted Sebek AS A PUPIL. In which once again, Lilia seeing Sebek as the third son is not bad, but simply a headcanon.

Moving onto number three: If you like seeing them as brothers, it's fine. Just don't try to force that headcanon onto others saying that it's canon. In fact apply that last sentence to not only this headcanon, but to every single headcanon you have. Not everyone will agree to the headcanons you have so stop trying to force it down someone's throat.

Please, just let me enjoy my ships in peace