#somethings always felt off..

[twilight-zoned-out]

Learning about the Doctor Who specials' expanded budget: oh no, what if they overuse CGI to look more 'professional' and high-budget?

The first scene of the Doctor Who Special:

[azurefaire]

You can block me/or don't care from what you are tagging this but I wanted to add a "both" opinon... Because I don't get where you are coming from in some points about Rapunzel being self serving, or where these discussions have been going on but you do make valid points about Anna and Elsa and Rapunzel fans who just aren't making good points about Frozen.

I feel like you are right that Anna is totally mischaracterized but I feel like you mischaracterized Rapunzel a teeny bit even if you have good reasons to think she is boring and flat and not as interesting as Anna. I think both of them have flaws, but Anna's flaws are written better. I also feel like Rapunzel has good reason to behave the way she does in this movie, similar to Elsa.

Anna is selfless and brave... and was abused because she was emotionally neglected and left to fend to herself like Elsa. I agree that Rapunzel fans can project on to her and give her attributes that aren't seen in the movie. But I'm not sure what you mean that "she protects her own self interest". The whole movie is spent on the conflict on her realizing she was kidnapped as a child, and reacting like a scared and paranoid teenager. Thus, the things that make her relatable, or are intended to, are her hobbies like her art, quirks/behavior, and the source of conflict. She is a self insert of Claire Keane who is also an artist. I feel like a lot of people see themselves in these attributes, but the thing is that we do not learn anything else about Rapunzel and her larger defined personality until the TV show 7 years later imo. I feel like the story being so focused on the conflict and the events and moving the story along hindered Rapunzel from being more interesting. I feel like sure there are "pauses" in the movie but they don't always feel significant. Where as every story beat feels important to the characters and resonated with me in Frozen, the characters and plot felt connected but still could stand seperately. I feel like the original story treatment by Glenn Keane would have been better in some aspects, but the story went through many problems and I feel like the Shrek inspired stuff they added to that movie during it's development made it not as good as it could be, that's part of the reason why Rapunzel is a self insert and why it messes with her character. It's from the Shrek/Rapunzel Unbraided draft. It was conceived very early on, Claire was a character in the modern world and Rapunzel was one and there was a role swap. If it came out I can imagine it having similar problems to Enchanted. If Rapunzel from Tangled came out of a fusion of parody character of a teenager and a "cliche fairytale", of course people don't like her for maybe the same reasons they might not like Giselle. There's nothing wrong about using your own personal or other inspirational influence, but the thing is it can make a character static... or certain things just carry over especially with longer developed movies like Tangled or Frozen that can make the character boring in some aspects. Earlier I found out that Roxanne from A Goofy Movie was inspired by Ariel, even the hair- but she never felt to me like a clone of Ariel especially from what I've seen of her. Where as Rapunzel and Ariel do feel similar, and honestly feel like they have the same problems and, to me, are better in their TV shows than they are in their movies because we don't see much of them, just some attributes of them (hobbies, roles, behavior) and then we are just moving through the story and focusing on specific beats, so we don't get to learn as much or get that many "little moments" of them in a similar way to Anna or Elsa. Many of Rapunzel's on screen moments are with other characters, and sometimes I think they rely too much on "show don't tell" with her. I understand why you think she is boring especially when compared to Anna, but for the same reason people like Anna (and Elsa) people like Rapunzel. It's for what there is shown of her outside of the current story... and there can be a lot of emotional projecting, the good bad and ugly of it, and personal taste when it comes to that. And there is a lot of good taste with Anna and Elsa, who are pretty well written and many don't want to discuss what worked with them for the better.

I also think Frozen and Frozen 2 are so over hated it's not even funny. I don't think the Hans twist is bad, because of how Hans acted "nice" (of course he did)... or that it would be better if Elsa was the villain. Frozen 2 doesn't seem that bad considering how fast they had to finish it. Anna, honestly, fits many aspects of a sheltered person and it's in bad taste to say that just because they gave her a sense of humor in her songs that it's a writing flaw. No one cared about this before Wish, like with Lilo from Lilo and Stitch... her tropes are similar. Anna is also an animated and expressive character, and I like how she acts, her body language and nervous tics, sometimes compared to Rapunzel. They tie her dynamic with Elsa into her own personality seamlessly as well, showing how it has affected her so much. That's why Anna is such an interesting character to me, she has an established dynamic with Elsa that makes her personality interesting as well as the dynamic. It's something I really like about them, because Rapunzel doesn't have this facet where we get to really see a "genuine" her, like less traumatized/plot related and more authentic- play off the other characters until after her movie, or only for a few scenes. I feel like nobody cared about the quirky thing until Wish came out, and people seem to forget that Ariel is really the first "quirky" character and the archetype for most of these characters. People will say that they hate how Disney doesn't give characters real personality or flaws anymore and then in the same sentence they say that Rapunzel and Anna have the same "quirky" personality archetype, yet it makes sense for both their stories and their "quirkiness" is given story reasons- differing story reasons... so how are they the same type. Explain how does Rapunzel does it better without mentioning Anna and the other characters that follow her doing it worse. For the same reason it makes sense for characters like Lilo (sheltered, traumatized etc), to be quirky it makes sense for these modern characters like Mirabel, Luisa, Anna, Elsa etc for reasons in their respective stories. How it is executed is another thing. It's not a modern audience thing 100%- if it can be justified in the story.

I wish people would say something like "I hate how Disney writes this trope." instead of like "Why are all the characters the same. Modern Disney makes all of the characters quirky nowadays" when they have always been writing the "quirky teen" trope since the 90s, in different ways and it evolved since then. Like you don't like the execution of it, and there isn't any discussion of the execution of the writing, just the writing itself, or neglecting that something can have poor execution in one aspect and none in another, making total sense story wise and nonsense tone wise. So people respect animated movies and want to dive deep into them.... actually do it instead of parroting everybody else's talking points. And I feel like for some reason Frozen as a movie is hated for the characters having actual flaws... like how maybe Ariel is hated for being 16 and having actual flaws and making mistakes, not being perfect. Let characters have actual flaws that make sense until the movie feels too corporate for you for some reason? That inherently makes them bland... because? They need "likable" flaws? Not going to say people don't like Frozen because they think it's overrated... but it's true. There's no nuance to the criticisms and a lot of criticisms made straight up about Frozen being better than Tangled straight up make no sense. Or straight up criticizing a movie's tropes for "being marketable" of course it is, and maybe that's sometimes a problem with the movie's other writing and not the character writing. Or both. Or the corporate aspects. But just saying so lacks nuance, it's just "this is poor writing for characters because recurring overused trope"... How do you hate it, I want more from the argument, how is a unpopular trope the same as poor writing...Wish the comparisons would make sense but instead these really weird criticisms are made and people don't stop and think.

Something can also make sense and be criticized, like how you pointed out how flat Rapunzel is in her movie compared to Anna. If people point out that she's traumatized and Rapunzel being quirky makes sense but not with Anna, that makes no sense as a rebuttal because Anna is also traumatized too but it is overlooked in her own movie. They don't even have the same life events, similar but not the same. And yes, trauma on it's own can be justified but how much weight is it lifting for the character, exactly. Just how much work is one aspect of a character doing for the rest, and how much given the story should it? How much is there to look at, that isn't related to the plot or trauma, and could more have been realistically added? You made plenty of good points, and it's weird that people just get defensive sometimes with Tangled. By ironically, not defending her character and going after another character in the guise of "comparing" and saying Tangled did it better... because she's not "cringe" like Anna, and she's not "fake and marketable", yet how does that worsen Anna and better Rapunzel from a character perspective, the actual plot...?

People also make the interesting choice to read these art books like the Art of Wish or maybe even the Art of Frozen and they say "ah ha! this should have happened, if this happened it would be good" without adding anything else to it, - it's nice considering why something wasn't added, even if the concepts were better. Wish could still be a bad movie if Star was different, it all has to do with other aspects of the writing to hold the movie up, and the execution of his character. I can see why Let it go had them rewrite Elsa from a creative perspective, too, and how Frozen could be a bad movie if they didn't change that and still kept it in. Even with a "more creative" plot a movie can be bad. Or considering why something that was good can also be a detriment (in Tangled's case), but nuance isn't even considered especially with arguments considering Frozen's popularity. I don't care if "The people like Tangled better", tell me why you like it and provide good reasons. Like if the only reason you prefer Tangled to Frozen is because you prefer it to Frozen personally and don't have anything else with the story you want to discuss, just say that. If a character is is boring and weak to you as a character, explain why and provide good reasons (as you did). Like I always get these posts on explore from the Frozen fandom despite not being in it myself, but... props to the Frozen fandom for knowing what nuance is...

Maybe because Anna has flaws, makes mistakes in her movie and she wasn’t meant to be a self insert like rapunzel was? Who’s surprised that the bland character that people heavily project to and have no flaws is more liked than a real character?

Not only do rapunzel stans cry over Elsa and trash her character because she’s way more popular than their fav, they also do the same thing to Anna as well. Won’t change the fact that they are both iconic characters with a beloved movie that is in the top ten on streaming platforms. Can’t say the same for their favs movie. Also, you can tell that they are salty about Anna being more popular of the two here because she says that Anna isn’t a beloved character lol. Rapunzel stans love to lie to themselves.

Edit: I just read the rest of this dumbass thread because people are jumping her saying that she watched frozen with her eyes closed (they were right. After all, tangled stans do it with their own fav movie). Outside of the typical “dollar store Ariel is the best because I can project random things onto and she has no flaws while I can’t with the rest of the princesses” shit rapunzel stans like to use, this dummy said something else that pissed me and others off. She said that Anna wasn’t abused while Elsa was! Are you fucking kidding me? Anna was! She was neglected by her parents, wasn’t allowed to go anywhere outside the palace and she had no one to talk to! This is abuse. Also, this is exactly why Anna acts the way she does! She ready to get married to the first guy who treats her nicely because she’s so desperate to be loved and have a friend. It’s obvious going by the movie but hey, what do I expect from a girl who thinks that a bland self interest that isn’t at all affected by her upbringing is a good character.

[beatsheetromanroy]

it is very important to me that dean and cas were NOT sleeping together during gamble and carver eras. S4-5 crazy new chemistry i dont know you/ i’m in awe of you/ i’m terrified of you/ i hate you/i wonder why i want to spend time with you so badly backseat handjobs yes! then 6-10 it’s crickets. no sexual contact whatsoever (which doesn’t mean there’s no pining or attraction.) there’s just too much going on, one problem to solve after another, the new butterflies have been replaced by solid friendship and they never see each other enough. they don’t talk about it, they wonder if the other even remembers. maybe. maybe! there is a kiss or two in s11 but that’s it!!! then BAM! season 12. Immediately domestic boyfriendhusbands keeping a normal sex schedule of several times a week. it’s so routine it’s not exciting which is exciting in and of itself. and they even have sides of the bed.

[tiedsh0es]

OJ is vegetarian to me. Meat just doesn't sit right with him, and makes him feel sick. He's a much bigger fan of the taste of fruits and veggies anyways.

He's an alright cook, his stuff actually looks presentable. He just butchers the taste. Everything has to be sour with him.

Drenched in lemon juice, sliced or grilled oranges mixed into everything. Alright on occasion but only he could enjoy it every. single. day.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

[al-luviec]

I got so insanely mad while drawing this

+ closeup and normalness

[darealsaltysam]

okay but why is this season of the boys such a mess. like. episodes 1 - 5 were actually pretty good (especially 4 and 5, specifically the homelander + hughie and his dad plotlines respectively in those were SO good), then ep 6 was a clusterfuck outside of butcher's stuff, and i kinda thought we were on track for something pretty okay when annie took hughie's assault seriously at the end of the episode only for it to just be brushed off this episode AND hughie gets SA'd AGAIN?????? HELLO?????

[somewhereincairparavel]

Jason and Reyna are so "Best friends to strangers" coded it's tragic.

that one scene in boo where Jason and Piper arrive at the camp half blood battle, and Reyna just doesn't spare a glance at Jason, and he was shocked to realize that Reyna was addressing Piper like they'd known eachother forever, but not Jason.

Like. Omg. I wish Rick expanded more on how Jason was feeling at that particular moment. Because it definitely hurts not getting acknowledged by your old friend whom you thought you were on good terms with.

IDK about y'all but that just HURT like hell :( Reyna was initially upset that Piper and him were dating but she even ended up making peace with Piper, but not Jason.

gosh the tragedy of Jeyna's friendship just gives me all the feels.

[sukirichi]

PLEASE STOP COPYING FICS ‼️

I am by no means gatekeeping concepts or tropes. We all know that it’s normal to see the same tropes or AUs be used differently, and that is not plagiarism. However, I recently found a fic that was oddly similar to my old (and discontinued) Gojo x Reader series, Reckless. The CEO! Gojo is nothing new, and neither is an accidental pregnancy trope. The only reason I am concerned is because this Gojo series I found has the exact same themes as Reckless that consists of: a playboy CEO Gojo with a very notorious reputation, a poor reader who is an employee and asset to the company (someone who works closely with Gojo), reader getting knocked up from a one night stand with Gojo, reader with a seemingly dead/absent mother yet still in contact with her father, Gojo with a very traditional family who does not like reader, and Gojo with an ex he struggles to let go of - which are all elements of Reckless.

The first chapter of that Gojo fic is also eerily similar to my first chapter with the same flow of: YN finding out she’s pregnant and her friend being there for her, Gojo saying he’ll take responsibility because ‘they both made the baby’, YN having to move in with Gojo to take care of the baby, and both of them coming to a mutual agreement that their ‘relationship’ will be purely for the baby’s benefit. The flow of events and specific details about the characters’ backgrounds are too similar to mine.

Again, I am not gatekeeping concepts, just as how I’ve had other writers ask me if they could write their own stories or takes based off of the NAOYA’S TROPHY WIFE COLLECTION or the BONTEN HUSBANDS EXCLUSIVE, and I’m fine with that. I’m even happy people are inspired by what I write. But being inspired is completely different from taking someone’s story and posting it as yours. Please trust your own creativity and skills in writing. You can write amazing stories and have people love them without having to steal from others.

It’s sad to say this is not the first time I, and other writers, have been plagiarized. It’s even more upsetting to know that a friend of mine who has also written a Gojo series (that I’m sure you all know and dearly love) experiences the same issues with the same person. The fact that this is happening to many writers out there is disheartening. We work hard and pour a lot of love in the stories we create. None of us are getting paid for this, and we simply want to share our passions with others. So please, let us be kinder with one another and show love and support the right way. If you love a fic, you give feedback and rb/comment + show support to the writer. You don’t steal their ideas and play it off as your own because you liked it.

[maximura]

[fatedroses]

Reaper's Bounty.

[moliathh]

I do think what most people bothers is the possible 'grooming' aspect, since Alucard met Integra as a child before forming a romantic connection with her. Seras was already 20 when they met.

I was about to make a post about the grooming situation too. Firstly I want to address how both Alucard/Integra and Alucard/Seras was largely perceived as a father and daughter relationship. I disagree with both cases. And secondly, Alucard groomed both Integra and Seras. He is a very clear case of victim becoming abuser. I could at least say this in his defense, that whatever he have done to Integra and Seras, was not out of hatred nor intentional malice for them.

We were barely shown his time with Integra when she was underaged. But grooming is a manipulation tactic imposed on any people of any age. Alucard treatment towards Integra and Seras are non-sexual grooming: Isolation, coercion, provocation and (mental) violence abuse to exploit and/or manipulate them. It was graphically shown, not implied. By definition, Integra was also groomed into becoming Hellsing leader (and into a religion that deemed a woman's value lies in her virginity too since we are on the topic) and every adult around her is complicit in that. So are the Iscariot kids, groomed by the church's system.

I understand why people feels "icky" with Alucard/Integra because of that aspect. Of course many relationships in Hellsing are abusive but people might felt less repelled by abusive relationships between adults than between a child and an adult. It's fair. Even Alucard/Integra shippers are discomforted by it, I have seen several headcanons and reinterpretations avoiding that aspect. Also I do believe a fictional depiction of an act doesn't equal the act itself. People should be prioritize over fiction and shouldn't receive harm because of fictions. Hellsing is a controversial work, liking the work doesn't inherently means your moral is deranged.

And on that note, even if you removed or changed how Alucard met Integra when she was at a young age, their relationship is still extremely abusive. Alucard displayed behaviours of an age regressor, he is emotionally stunted. Integra used it to her advantage. Alucard mentally abused Integra. They formed an unhealthy codependency. Both of them are placed in a situation where they're groomed into. THEY KILL AND EAT PEOPLE. There is no "ethical" way to perceive their relationship, platonic or not. Shipping doesn't always mean you think the situation is desirable. To me it is to explore fictional imaginary situations within the scope of fiction and doesnt bring harm to anyone. If anyone is discomforted by Alucard/Integra as a ship, either a platonic or not, they are rightful to feel so, A/I relationship is EXTREMELY nuanced. But it would be unfair to assume all of the shippers are morally deviant jusf for shipping them. I could say the same about any Hellsing/Hellsing ship fans too.

[prismatic-ink]

what if Lizzie didn't die?

nobody's ever fallen out of the void before, so no participant has ever come back to tell the tale of what that's like. the communicator says she's eliminated, and everyone shrugs and carries on, because for all they know, she is. Maybe there is a ground to hit down there, or some monster that swoops in and kills in a single blow.

but the thing is - there's no end in a void. it just continues forever. and ever. and ever. it's simple physics; a void/vacuum is a blank space, a complete and total absence of anything at all. there's nothing there that could have killed Lizzie because, by definition, nothing is in the void at all. not even time could have gotten her.

now imagine being condemned to a place (or as close to a place as the void can get) where you will never see anything again, hear anything again, falling falling falling, towards a ground that will never appear. a place where you can never look into anyone's eyes ever again. eventually, a green streak in brown hair is the only memory you have of another human existing that hasn't been lost to the millennia you've spent falling. this place where you will be the only thing that exists, the only thing that will exist, and the only thing that has ever existed, slipping through the cracks of time, eternally in solitude.

wouldn't that be a fitting place for a woman who spent all her time on solid ground alone, with almost nobody to care for her? falling so far out of the bounds of reality even the watchers don't know she's still alive? so beyond the reach of anybody that nobody will ever hear her calls for them to come to her, let alone heed them? and let's be honest, if they could hear her, would they even come?

and who knows, maybe when the next season rolls around, for some strange, inexplicable reason, the watchers can't find Lizzie. It's no trouble, they can construct a new Lizzie from her memory, even if it's one season behind. and maybe this time, Lizzie has better luck and lots of friends. she doesn't really get why Scar is so apologetic, or Joel so clingy, or even why she constantly feels like she's teetering on the edge of a precipice, about to fall. but that's just her being silly, right?

all the while the original Lizzie falls forever. forgotten again.

[kacievvbbbb]

I know this isn’t a particularly common characterization of them (at least not what I’ve seen) but I personally think of the two;

Shanks rarely gets restless, he’s the one more content to just bask in a moment, it may not be in silence but he’s comfortable just doing nothing with his crew. As long as there’s alcohol, a hammock and the people he loves, Shanks is straight.

Contrary to that Mihawk is always itching to do something, entertain himself in some way. If he’s not dueling/training, he’s gardening if it’s not that then he’s cooking or he’s reading and if nothing else will do then he naps. but he’s always trying to occupy his time with something.

I think a lot of people don’t notice it because it’s not the jittery hyperactivity that people associate with it. But Mihawk is restless, endlessly so. He’s in a never ending fight with his boredom but it’s all internal.(except when he decides to make it someone else’s problem ala Don Krieg)

Mihawk’s the type of dude to implode instead of explode so it makes sense that things like restlessness don’t really show themselves in an outwardly physical way. Instead it’s more of an internal pressure and incessant need to stave off boredom. But because of his preference for being alone and the fact that the activities he chooses aren’t ones usually associated with restlessness. It goes unnoticed.

Except by Shanks who’s always going out of his way to make the life of a pretty little birdie a litte more interesting.

[meteor-moon]

there was a boy with stars in his eyes

[bubbytheliverstealingskeleton]

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