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scintillyyy · 3 months

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can you really talk about tim's tendency to idolize and place dick on a pedestal and his semi-entitlement to understanding dick without also talking about dick's tendency to project his own feelings and insecurities onto tim and also his semi-entitlement to his right to try and micromanage how tim should feel and react about things. i, personally, cannot.

#dick and tim #anyways trust me when i say that none of this is meant in a negative way because this is what i Like about them lmao #forever thinking of the M/F fight where dick expects that tim will go alone with his line of thinking just because he says so #and is shocked when tim doesn't and instead has his own thoughts and feelings abt the matter #and babs has to tell him that tim isn't him & had a fundamentally different experience to him #it's like hmmm very realistic to me #the way they do this to each other in a way that almost is depersonalizing but like isn't actually #it's more just that they understand each other so well most of the time that it's easy to forget that they're their own person #with their own thoughts and feelings #like hm. there is something very realistically siblings about it in that #older siblings do tend to try and dominate the relationship with their thoughts and feelings because #their first memories are of being expected to lead their sibling and the sibling usually comes at a time when the older sib is v possessive #so the older sibling conceives the younger sibling as belonging to them and being kind of a hm extension of them vs their own person #meanwhile the younger sibling has no knowledge of a life where the older sibling doesn't exist #and the younger sibling's experience is that of observation of the older sibling from basically the very first day of life #so the younger sibling will often see and perceive the older sibling in very interesting ways #they're always learning something with thay observation good or bad #and thus probably develop more instrinsic understanding than even the parents do #and conflict comes because each is their own person but it's hard to see them that way sometimes #anyways there's also another thread where for dick it's hard to conceptualize tim's family of origin as real compared to them #but that's like mainly headcanon just know i'm right and it's interesting

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mirefireflies · 1 year

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happily devastated by the season finale only to come on the killing and maiming website and discover that people are upset with the killing and cannibalism show for killing someone

#lowkey shocked that liking the finale is apparently an unpopular opinion #and yes i KNOW people are upset for other reasons like pacing and character development but it’s funnier to say it this way #yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers

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aroacehanzawa · 2 months

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whats ur beef?

My favourite manga lost the plot so now i cope by being a hater 👍

#long answer is i have beef with the direction that the bsd manga has taken #it only superficially resembles the beloved mystery and character-driven detective agency story with atsushi as the main character #i'm dissatisfied with major developments like killing off fyodor and reviving him and pulling this #PSYCH his ability wasn't what you thought it was. with zero foreshadowing or buildup #because the manga has become full of marvel-movie type plot twists that serve little to no coherent narrative purpose except shock factor #it cheapens the story and it cheapens the development of characters and it cheapens the reader's experience #because we can't speculate and we can't draw connections and parallels and engage with the story on a deeper level #what connections there exist (for example between manga and anime) are shoehorned in after the popularity of the anime and #specific characters (e.g. fyodor who was shoehorned into untold origins in the anime) and mostly the characters who bring in money #i.e. fyodor and dazai and chuuya and their relationships especially soukoku. all this at the expense of characters like atsushi or #the majority of the female cast. who have been MIA for god knows how long and who were barely given frame each in the anime's finale #bsd treatment of its female characters has been subpar shounen level at best and now they're completely sidelined #as with most of the original cast and the original themes of the story. in fact i struggle to identify a coherent overarching theme #for the current arc. other than military action scifi movie go brrrr #compared to early arcs where each chapter had a meaningful message to say about the importance of living and what it means to stay alive and #keep going and why we are fighting to keep important people in our lives and to keep ourselves alive #and what it means to belong somewhere and what it means to be good or bad and how your place of belonging affects that #as a long term reader i just feel betrayed and disappointed. by how a story with complex and vibrant characters has become another #generic cashgrab shounen. and i mourn for the lost potential it had and everything the series has build up #only to have plot points abandoned at a whim.#so that's why i'm a hater now 👍#i know a lot of my bsd mutuals are still big fans of bsd so i try not to be obnoxious about it and mainly keep it comedic #like i don't actually hate the manga. because it's so important to me. and i respect the creators of the manga and anime #but it's frustrating to watch a train wreck in real time. and it's my blog i can hate what i want 😔#sorry if there are typos i wrote all this on mobile and can't edit the tags. i didn't wanna put any of this in the main post

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sweaters-and-vertigo · 2 months

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i have a teeny, tiny superiority complex because i didn’t watch the atla live action.

#but i appreciate the ones who sacrificed their mind to watch the show and report back #y’all are so brave. thank you for examining the danger and relying the information back to me so i wouldn’t have to.#i have read so much about this show and i will literally never watch it #i actually intended to but got locked out of netflix when it premiered #then i heard all the shitty things about it and said “fuck that noise”#they took everything from me #they took away zuko’s character development for the sake of “time” not even gonna touch that it makes me so angry #they took away sokka’s character development for the sake of being “woke”#which was actually very very un-woke of them #they took away katara’s passion & anger and made her a flat boring person #i loved her anger so much????#they took away our shock at the OG southern air temple ep #seeing monk gyatso in a room full of firebenders he had been forced to kill >>> seeing the actual genocide as if we didn’t already know #they took away aang’s sweet childishness and made him way too mature #it sounds like the only people who enjoyed it were zutara fans because of the scarf scene #y’all can keep it. it’s yours. i don’t want it.#atla original #avatar the last airbender #atla aang #atla zuko #atla katara #atla sokka #avatar the last airbender aang #avatar the last airbender katara #avatar the last airbender zuko #avatar the last airbender sokka #aang #katara #sokka #zuko

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lithiumache · 1 year

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people being like “oh i hope they also make trent crimm canonically queer” my friend blessed are those who have eyes and see. just look at him

#it would be shocking if they made him straight!#not everything needs to explicity stated to be ‘canon’#trent crimm #ted lasso #also will he out colin? i don’t think so but then again #he has been KNOWN to be a snake and a ruthless journalist #and he’s had a bit of character development sure #but who knows?

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puppyeared · 3 months

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Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐#to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys'#and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

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kikizoshi · 4 months

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can we form a coup against asagiri and make you the writer instead? genuinely... I am not taking the Fyodor immortal information well.. please help............................ ( ´，_ゝ` )

Oh, I would absolutely not do BSD well either. I just wish Asagiri had stuck to his roots more. He was a great comedy writer, and the beginning of the story was great for it. It's the action and Death Note stuff he can't seem to get mastery of. But for the immortal part: I'm not entirely sold that Fyodor's immortal, yet. It seems like yet another twists that will twist to reveal oh, shocker, he faked his memories to confuse Sigma/the ADA... or something. Could very well be immortal, but not 100% guaranteed.

#bsd #anon #I still support his right to write his story however he wants #and a lot of people seem to enjoy this sort of shock-value shounen writing he's doing now #I just happen to hate that sort of story #so when BSD pivoted to that I was dragged along into it because of Fyodor and Nikolai #and get salty whenever characters who own a part of my heart and soul are subjected to bad shock writing #and yes I know the version of them that I love the most exist within my own perception #and are a product of the years I've spent working on and developing them for my own stories #but I still love and adore the originals too #and so it's painful and irritating #because the characters are no longer the main focus of the story #it's all about the shock... the next biggest thing #Nikolai's doesn't have a motive to be the ferryman I need to get all the characters in the same place/start the next arc? No problem!#he just wants to kill Fyodor now. problem solved.#how did he use his Ability to get Sigma to France when his Ability only travels 30m at a time?#eh don't worry about it. I made an omake about it so you know I know it's an absolute joke #Nikolai's whole character and Ability practically changed just for convenience... for the story and shock #so as a fan of character-based stories it hurts that sometimes characters just aren't respected at all #with Fyodor I know it's more a case of Asagiri's vision of him seems to have changed as the story progressed #in that realm I'm so happy that BSD is serialised because it means I still have the initial version of Fyodor that I loved with all my hear #when I really can't stand Meursault!Fyodor at all and wish he would just die already so I could be fully free

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piosplayhouse · 11 months

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The test prep curriculum I have to teach tomorrow is just straight us propaganda with a passage that's like "many experts are lamenting American cultural colonization in foreign countries, BUT it causes a lot of economic development and makes the countries modernized so :)". Would love to shake the article writer and ask them to say with their whole chest WHY countries in south america and southeast asia are economically suffering and how us culture specifically having a stronghold there is connected and significant .. would love to know...

#the us will fuck up a perfectly good country's development with imperialism and then swoop back in 20 yrs later when they're completely #destitute like wow look at us helping the poor people : )#sorry i am passionate about this #I KNOW its just practice standardized testing its all bullshit but this got me so mad because the first paragraph goes into this stuff #about 'tourists will be shocked to see indonesian street vendors selling american clothes! haha!!“ like wow .#i wonder why the us has a cultural foothold in asia. couldnt be because of something that happened in ww2 that starts with a c ends with n #rhymes with jolonization

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warp--space · 3 months

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I've never really had fully dedicated platonic/familial F/Os before without them being connected to a romantic F/O. I have all my MHA friends and family, but they come from a wide net with Toshinori at the center. The threads from them connecting to me only after first being connected to me by Toshi.

So since I found myself getting attached, I started going over parts of One Piece I had no context for due to the way I started it-- first seeing film Red, then watching the Netflix series which basically encapsulates all of what I saw of the 4kids version when I was a child, then reading a quick summary and handful of wiki pages sent to me by a friend, then doing what they recommended and jumping in at the beginning of fucking MARINEFORD-- I'm listening to a fully blind breakdown of the manga and things it includes that I've missed through the anime, I'm just here breaking down right along with the Straw Hat family for the 3rd time over the death of The Big Brother. I don't think I can deny anymore how fully invested I am. I haven't felt this strongly since I got into My Hero Academia and incorporated it into my personality. I don't feel overly romantically inclined towards anyone but one character I'm actively avoiding learning too much about, but my entire soul is invested in the journey all the same.

I think I'm one of the straw hats now.

#anyone who knows my type might be shocked to learn that my crush is on Shanks.#rian posting #antis dni #proship selfship #proselfship #i need a one piece tag now.#slowly developing inserts like Monarch.

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monster-noises · 1 month

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I'll put this under a cut and also don't read the tags if like... talk about what might be disordered eating habits or like.. struggling with food/eating are an issue for you.

I drink my tea and I try not to think about it, I eat my dinner and I try not to think about it, I worry that I've been trying not to think about it too much (despite calculating every meal and snack as carefully as I can with some exceptions for special occasions, which haunt me like regretful specters) and so I've Fucked myself, So I think about it, Everything in my brain starts to scream and, despite being hungry, I don't want to eat anymore or ever again, because clearly everything Bad and Dangerous, doubly so if it's Tasty and brings me Joy and if eating isn't Enjoyable then what's the fucking point? and I'm starting to think there Are no Good Foods Anyway, everything's going to add to the blazing pyre that Will kill me (It's a manageable disease that thousands if not millions of people live with, if it even develops, but it is still very dangerous and that frightens me) and I have no way of keeping track of what's happening inside my body or knowing if I'll ever not feel frayed and stressed and anxious (which affects my work and my art, which is the biggest most heartbreaking theft in all of this) or be able to enjoy a nice meal ever again and then I Spiral Spiral Spiral and Spiral, and then I realize I need to be up at 5am and I keep eating dinner and trying not to think about it.

#monster noises #I want to be clear this has nothing to do with any sort of self-induced diet or restriction or anything #and is very specifically a medically enforced change that I've just been... struggling with #I feel like I wasn't left with enough information or resources or an open line of communication #but when have I ever been?#i was too shell-shocked in the doctors office to say anything about it #I'm trying really hard not to develop disordered eating patterns of thought or behaviour #but it's so scary #and some of it I can't seem to help.#I have an notepad that I keep Food Math on #knowing what I know that feels like a Thing That Is A Bad Sign If You Have #the mental gymnastics I have to do and the Time I waste trying to get myself to eat a piece of Bread is astounding

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jonathanbyersphd · 4 months

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Is Nancy back in pink because she's in her forced conformity era again or because they're going back to the vibe of s1?

#overthinking #but ALSO #her character development is shown through her wardrobe we know this #and i would NOT be shocked if she was in a little conformity moment in the beginning of s5 #(bc I'm like half convinced they're going to be broken up bc they want to write the tension which stupid af)#ANYWAYS #much to think about

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hollowflight-propaganda · 2 months

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Ngl, I'm pretty excited to revisit arc 3 + Dragonslayer for my series reread because book 11 is the only one of those I've done a proper reread of, and that was 4 years ago

I'm also excited about that because then I can imagine my own complex rewrite for it all :)

#I'll get back on the reread soon I've just gotta survive my finals first #anyway I'm actually looking forward to dragonslayer the most in all honesty #shocking. I know. but I didn't think it was all too bad the first time around #ALSO. I will admit that I'm a bit of a leaf stan #yes I actually really liked him. I just think he's underdeveloped #but he had a good start I think! finding out your sister was sacrificed and developing this hatred for the creatures you think killed her-#is a compelling premise! also the fact that he literally had hallucinations of her still being around to cope was glossed over WAY too-#quickly. wtf dude you are not okay #wof #wings of fire #phoenix rereads wof #leaf wof

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cartoonrival · 10 months

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i need to watch dragon ball not even because i want to watch it just because i have to for research purposes

#txt157 #the concept of rivals in shounen anime endlessly fascinates me and i need to know everything about its development #shocking revelation from someone who named himself after the fucking thing #i wont do this btw so we're clear #h1veswap is still next muppet

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fictionadventurer · 6 months

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#i'm getting a little bit afraid of how well i can identify writing styles on pbs kids shows #the niece was watching curious george #and i could tell it was one of the later episodes because of the animation #but i was like 'you know what? this one isn't so bad'#they were actually doing things instead of just being told about them #there were some genuinely amusing lines and moments #and lo and behold the credits come up #and peter hirsch is listed as head writer #but you know who else is listed?#ken scarborough #the other best arthur writer #and the one who came back in some later arthur seasons #and left me shocked at how good some episodes suddenly were #so apparently the wgbh formula is to let joe and ken start a show #let pete ruin it #and then bring back ken to have some level of quality again #in terms of useless skills to have #'identification of skilled children's show writers' is pretty darn useless #so i'm a little baffled by how well-developed this sense is

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writtenin-blood · 10 months

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During the writers and actors strikes going on rn it's been making me think of Newsies (fucking love the musical, 100/10) and I just wanna know one thing. It's a VERY popular musical that Disney has produced TWICE (movie music, 1990s I believe, Broadway recording, 2016 ish). So I believe I can safely assume that at least some of the higher ups in some of these companies have seen it, or at least know the plot.

And if they do, DID THEY LEARN NOTHING? THE ENTIRE SHOW IS ABOUT THE NEWSPAPER DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND GUESS WHAT? THEY GIVE INTO THE DEMANDS AND COMPROMISE

and here's the fun bit, it's based on a true story. So if some poor kids were tired of getting taken advantage of in the late 1800s and got the big old rich guys to listen to them. What makes you even PONDER that these writers and actors (some of which were PART of productions of these kinds of stories) are going to give up and continue to be taken advantage of? Get a fucking grip AND PAY YOUR FUCKING WRITERS AND ACTORS

You guys would be NOTHING without them. Disney wouldn't have made it these last 100 years without everyone working their damn hardest to make a movie everyone can love. Netflix, Hulu, Prime, and everyone else would be distant memories without the hard fucking work people put into their jobs. SO PAY YOUR FUCKING WORKERS

Those workers add HUMANITY and emotion and care into everything they do and that's not something you can replace with a fucking robot either

#writers strike #actors strike #heres an idea #PAY YOUR WORKERS #i love you Newsies for letting me develop this lovely thought #waiting for the day that ceos take their heads out of their self abeorbed asses #like is really that fucking hard #they say that they cant give into demands bc then itll show their week or some shit #but in all honesty showing you care for your workers and giving them what they deserve is a good thing and will make people like you more #i know its shocking but its true #im quitting my job today bc im not treated fairly and dont get paid enough #these people dont want to quit their jobs bc they love what they do and what it brings to people and they have the opportunity to fight #should they need to fight hell no but THEY CAN #so maybe these fucking dumbasses should LISTEN TO THEM #bc i sincerely believe they are horrendously underestimating how long people will fight for what they deserve #ok im going to bed now

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scarletfasinera · 12 hours

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My sister got bit by a spider and the first thing she did was come tell me. I'm the spider guy

#txt #I gave her an icepack and told her to monitor symptoms #tell me if she starts to feel any stomach cramping or nausea or gets feverish #but aside from “watchful waiting” she's probably fine. The fact that dhe wasn't going into anaphylactic shock as she was telling me means #that she's not allergic.#She couldn't find the spider so she can't go to a hospital unless symptoms develop. a hospital can only react if they KNOW the spider she #was bitten by. and she doesn't so #my guess is grass spider #So probably nothing.#It isn't a large bite. She just said the area of the bite HURTS and itches but she isn't having any other symptoms #Our mother helped her clean the bite with soap & water & antibiotic

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