I lost all hope or trust for the 2024 live action ATLA when I heard talk of things happening in like episode 2 that originally took place in like ep 5 of the og show.
Any and all plot and character changes aside. The og atla, although having the old 20 ep season standard, is a decently fast-paced show. They literally go from the south poll to the North poll + detours in those 20 episodes.
I can't find it in me to believe that anyone could do any sort of justice to a story previously comprised of 20 distinct episodes in only 8 episodes.
I don't care that those episodes are, for some reason, the length of an overachieving short film (52mins)
I lose faith in something as soon as you start compressing storylines just for the sake of compressing things.
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a frustrating fandom thing that’s really bothered me these last few years has definitely been this trend of “it guy” x reader fics that have infiltrated fandom.
like obviously i’m not against canon character x reader fics, i think they can be fun and engaging when written correctly— but what’s frustrating to me is how people will get into something on a surface level because they think a character/actor is attractive, but don’t bother learning about canon or actually consuming the source material, and don’t plan to. the end goal is just writing smut about some guy and a coquettish, small, delicate cisgender white girl.
so then you have this massive influx of fic with characters who are flanderized beyond recognition, completely out of character, or otherwise inserted into AUs that completely remove them of defining and important character traits (for example, maybe, “AU where eddie munson is a farmhand in the 1930s and your dad owns the farm”— which completely strips him of so much of his character. someone is not always their interests, but socially, eddie is very much defined by his love of D&D, nerdy fantasy stuff, and heavy metal, which i don’t have to tell you wasn’t much around during the great depression, and especially not available to a migrant farmer. and yes, this is based on a real example i’ve seen floating around in his tag).
in the end, it becomes such that in reading these fics, the only thing that defines one male character from another is physical description or some quirks of speech. the passion for the source material is completely lacking. this character could be any character, provided that you swap around the proper markers. he still behaves nearly the same from fic to fic, regardless of fandom, dominating and maybe cruel to everyone but the reader (who is nearly always a precious-yet-rebellious cis white girl, small, thin, delicate). there may be some plot to these fics, but the end goal is almost always exclusively sex-related.
it’s exhausting to see across fandom lines— especially with slashers, and especially with eddie munson specifically. i can understand wanting to write something smutty now and again, obviously! i love writing and reading a good spicy fix now and again. but i find myself missing the days where x reader fics were filled with edginess, because at least those were often filled with passion or creativity, something beyond this boring, beige blur of ostensibly “well written” fic full of flat characters and position and situation of the day that xyz character is going to fuck you in.
i’m tired
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self-care was literally a term related to fighting the system and fighting oppression and now capitalism has coopted the term to mean taking a bubble bath and lighting an expensive candle and it makes me so angry. it wasn't meant like that it was literally meant like taking care of yourself within an oppressive system in order to continue FIGHTING that system, not letting it numb and isolate you for it's own benefits, not to mention self-care used to be largely meant as COMMUNITY-care and don't ever doubt that the individualistic and isolating nature of modern self-care is specifically engineered to further consumption as well as prevent people from gathering and standing united against different types of oppression
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Guess who's learning the basics of mod making for yet another game? Me. Why? Cause some sims creators out there are apparently incapable of tagging their stuff in a sensible way. No your cluttered up table isn't a damn plant. I don't care why you put it there. I want to be able to find shit in game and you putting everything but plants in the plant category makes shit a mess. Don't even get me started on how many objects I've found that don't have the proper color tags for their swatches.
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My darlings, my loves, my fellow weirdos, I am begging you all to REST after you have covid.
I know it is very hard, and our society asks you to get back up and running at full speed as soon as possible, before you’re even done testing positive even.
But please my friends, please rest.
If you push too hard too fast you might be sicker for longer, you might be doing long lasting damage to yourself.
So please my beautiful nerds, take care of yourselves and REST.
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Lowkey grinds my gears when people tag me in pictures of gar
Like he is beautiful he is wonderful but he is not a sturgeon
He doesn’t even have denticles
he doesn’t even scutes
Come on guys let’s put on our thinking caps
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