#this is also why i wish people will give this suspension of disbelief to a certain future character 😌

[4giorno]

neuvillettes demo almost made me cry

[yugiohz]

i do agree with you, and i’m still delusionally hoping shigaraki still has something left to help that conclusion even though it’s not looking likely, but do you not think these endings are more “realistic”? like obviously it’s a superhero world and we are already stretching reality in every way possible but do you think it would’ve been too “and they all lived happily ever after and everything was okay yayy” if all the villains just turned out good? (in the most basic way to say that lmfao). i’m not saying that i fully think this because i do agree with you, that this ending is giving bad writing. i think hori had the guts to set up this beautifully complex world with flaws and wrongs and made some amazing villains and anti-heros with valid mindsets and then didn’t have the guts or maybe the artistic ability to fix it all.

so yeah my only “reprieving” thought i guess is the idea of like… i guess that’s real life? like the wronged people are wronged to the end, and bad people are forgiven, and life is unfair. but idk i just think hori is a coward too lol. i will say i’m at least surprised that he had natsu actually cut contact, maybe the best handled part of it all imo (or maybe it just hits home for me lol)

sorry for dumping all this i guess i just have a lot of thoughts too you don’t have to post this dhdhdhd

re: realism: yes i think everyone suffering from irreversible consequences is realistic and that's sth i expected. As i said in my previous ask, I never expected or wanted dabi to magically survive and heal from this by any means, but I think there are better ways to handle a character like him because the narrative frame of bnha allows for that.

re: happily ever after: I don't think that giving one of the biggest victims in a story some sort of good ending is necessarily a corny, wish-fulfillment type of bad writing, especially when the protagonist postulates that the other big villain is worth saving. I also find it fascinating that bakugo can survive an open-heart surgery on the battlefield & that deku's arms get disintegrated and grow back while that level of suspension of disbelief doesn't seem to apply to the villains. bnha has always been kind of corny, so I don't think it would have been weird for shoto to be able to somewhat save his brother when that has been his goal within that dynamic all along. So far, neither deku nor shoto could save their foil, so what's up with that??

happily ever after: while it has always been obvious that bnha is not a radical, anti-establishment story, to me, deku's conflict with grand torino & the vestige has allways been representative the "everyone deserves to be saved, everyone deserved to have their hero who's gonna save them". why set up characters as foils within the context of a hero story with saving as one of its core themes when 2 of these 3 villains won't get saved in the end? why do deku and shoto fail at such a point in the story? "saving" is a very tangible thing in the case of bnha, I think ep. 1 basically sums up the overall narrative paradigm of the good guy indiscriminately saving someone out of a bad situation, so to me, it just feels like there is a glaring narrative incongruence in this final arc & epilogue

re: i guess that's just real life: i think that premise is a bit misplaced here because bnha is not a story that is meant to reflect our reality, like ofc it's all a big allegory that tackles a lot of real issues, but it also is a genre-typical hero comics that is borderline fantastical, so i wouldn't say "that's real life" is a valid premise, like the established diegesis & themes of bnha would have allowed for sb like shigaraki or dabi to be granted a kinder conclusions

i'm not forcing anyone to agree with me and i'm not saying that i dislike this closure because i don't want anyone to die, i just think horikoshi's choices for the villains of his story are rooted in pragmatic reasons; shigaraki & dabi die so he won't have to think too much about how to handle the abjects of society, so he won't have to consolidate that with his decision to cling to the establishment

like i don't think it's too much to expect a victim of abuse to survive in a story that's about a boy who constantly risks his life to save random people, esp victims of grooming & abuse like i don't think it would be corny for dabi to end up in a better state, esp when we've seen deku grow his arms back and bakugo dying and coming back to live and

[the-monkey-ruler]

There is so much Wukong x OC or Wukong x Reader I’m actually flabbergasted. Six Eared Macaque I understand but not the asexual, super Buddhist monkey.

I answered something like this nearly a year ago but I'm still going to have the same answer a few times.

Wukong is a very charming and compelling character so it's not insane to think how people can fall in love with the character romantic or not. Narratively wise there has to be some suspension of disbelief but that is why it is fiction itself, and romance is another genre used to explore character depth. Wukong is a well-written interesting characteristic and I am not surprised that people are drawn to him again whether platonically or romantically, both imply a level of affection they have for Sun Wukong. There has been other media that asks for that 'suspicion for belief' as well.

I've also spoken about how Wukong with a significant other isn't that strange either. For the past twenty years, Wukong has been the object of desire in dozens of xiyouji romance plays and moves ever since the hit film Chinse Odessey, which cemented that Sun Wukong isn't just a hero, but a human being that has his own wants and flaws, and capturing the hearts of millions cause they saw themselves in him and his struggles. I talked about how impactful this movie was in changing Wukong from a fighter to a human here and here. Nowadays with more modern films, the use of romance isn't the only trope to use to explore characters and have them relate with audiences when it comes to love and lost but in the 2000s there were dozens of Wukong romances trying to capture that magic again of Wukong experiencing love and losing it because not matter how strong he is, he is just like anyone else and have heartache.

And it doesn't have to be Wukong from the original book. While Wu Cheng'en was able to provide that Wukong himself is a complex, charming, intelligent, and fascinating individual, there are hundreds of movies and shows that also wish to explore such a transformative character. I still see how popular Hero is Back 2015 Sun Wukong was and still is as one of the most fan-favorite Wukongs. There are many different Wukongs in different media that can be fan-favorites and really stick with audiences but that doesn't necessarily mean these are meant to be Wukong from the book as movies/shows could add or subtract certain elements from the Book Wukong in these adaptations. It would be unfair to both the book and the artists to say they are the same as the novel was created 400 years ago with heavy themes and saturated in symbolism, while movies and shows are created by artists for a generation, each media a time capsule for their audience and a reflection of the directors that wish to still be unique in their designs. While I have no doubt that many people adore Wukong from the novels I can't say that anyone hasn't been influenced by other media in how they interpret Wukong as well.

That rambling aside, what I'm trying to say is that Wukong and romance are nothing new, and seeing people ship themselves with Wukong is also nothing new. Six Ears only has two chapters and only really shines when movies or shows give him screen time, which is highly skewed due to the SHEER amount of Xiyouji media with just Wukong there is making that statically Wukong of course is going to have more fans, both back then and now.

[jjba-smash-or-pass]

Least Favorite Main Villain?

Favorite Song Reference?

Favorite Jobro?

Least Favorite Jobro?

Favorite Minor Villain?

Character you wished had more screentime?

I think my least favorite major villain is Diavolo. He's a good character in theory, but he just kinda falls flat to me. He's another example of part 5's missed potential to me, but I haven't really done any character analysis on why, unlike I have with Giorno.

I'm not really huge into the type of music that Araki references in his works (I mostly listen to soundtracks from stuff I like), but I do really vibe with Killer Queen (the song and the Stand)

Favorite Jobro is probably Ermes. Just like Foo Fighters is the upgraded version of Kakyoin, Ermes is the upgraded version of Polnareff to me. Ermes's character takes the Princess Bride-inspired backstory of Polnareff and adds some (much-needed) depth to it, although it lost a bit of its impact because her past was only given to the reader right before the fight where it was resolved.

My least favorite jobro is Kakyoin, which is surprising to me now that I think about it. Just like Josuke, huge crush on him in the past, and just like Foo Fighters, I can relate to his feeling of being othered. And this isn't to say I don't like his character, I just so happen to like how the other jobros were handled. All this to say I will still fight people who say his character is bad.

Favorite minor villain has to be Steely Dan, because he's the epitome of part 3 villain writing. He's a dick for the sake of it, he's fairly attractive, he's working for Dio for vain reasons, the way his Stand was defeated was just bullshit (affectionate) enough to teeter on that suspension of disbelief, and he rightfully got the everloving shit beaten out of him by Jotaro. Truly, what more could you ask for from a part 3 villain.

I honestly think the entirety of Jojo would be better if Enyaba had more screen time, or at least if her Stand fight was given more importance. I'm sure Araki didn't know it at the time, but she becomes an insanely important character for the lore of Jojo as a whole. She's the one who tells Diavolo about the importance of the Stand arrows, and also gives those arrows to many different important people. And the way she was defeated was... because Star Platinum sucked in her Stand. When I say bullshit here I mean it in a half-affectionate half-derogatory way. And that's not even what killed her, which was Steely Dan! Jotaro should've been allowed to finish her off once and for all, considering her importance later.

[asexualbookbird]

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon ⭐⭐

I followed this book from it's conception, through it's editing, and hyped it's publishing date on twitter. I was genuinely excited to read it, and really thought and hoped I'd enjoy it. I wasn't a huge fan of what I read of The Bone Season, but everyone assured me this was different! And to be fair, it was! I think in my heart, though, I knew the truth because I waited so long to read this and I'm sorry to say I did not have a great time.

My problem with Samantha Shannon seems to be she creates these wonderful worlds full of interesting magic systems and characters that are fun to follow, but there's too much crammed into the book as a whole. In The Bone Season, I felt the Rephaim were unnecessary. In Priory there are too many points of view. There were things I liked, this wasn't a complete waste of time, but wow they were hard to come by in the end.

What did I like?

-Ead! Ead was clearly the main character and I think it would have worked better if it was just Her Book (I'd also settle for her and Tané, please Tané deserved more page time than she got) -Sabran. I'm surprised, but not really, that people didn't like her. She's complicated! She's mean! She loves deeply! She's a person! People just hate women who are mean lol -MAGIC! Magic comes from fruit that comes from the stars? It's fire and water and ice and air? NEAT! COOL! Cool magic systems seem to be SShannons strong point! -High fantasy with no sexual assault or threats of sexual assault. There was a little misogyny with the way Sabran and her line is treated for their ability to give birth (and no, one throw away line of "This is bad actually!" doesn't fix it lol) but it fit in context and considering no one was mean to women for being women I'll let it slide!

What didn't I like?

-LACK. OF. DRAGONS. yall there are dragons on the COVER, every time someone talked about this online, they added dragon emojis. So why, in the more than 800 pages, did dragons show up for maybe five pages TOTAL. Like if we went line by line and pieced all those lines together, it would maybe take up five pages. Ten if I'm being generous and include the dragons that are The Enemies. Which, by the way, -Dragons are Mean. I've discovered that I prefer dragons to be neutral to allies, I don't like dragon books where we are slaying dragons. It's nice that we have both here, no group of people? Creatures? Are a monolith, but I want more of the eastern dragons! They were pushed aside and we hardly saw them! We hardly saw any of them! If you promise me dragons, then deliver! The! Dragons!!!! -Writing style. I'm thinking maybe SShannon's writing style and I do not vibe at all. I'm not sure what it is about it, I know she doesn't like writing action scenes and so avoids them, and I love reading action scenes, but that didn't feel like the entire problem here? But something about this writing detached me from the characters. Yes I liked Ead, but I felt nothing about Tané, other tha wanting MORE of her. SShannon spent a lot of time saying not much at all, it's really rather impressive. -Tané in general. Part of the writing problem is the way the POVs were split. It was most obvious in Tané's storyline. She has everything stripped away from her, but the emotional impact wasn't there because we hardly spent any time with her. -The Priory. The book is named after it, but we're hardly there at all. I spent a good chunk of the first half wishing Ead would go back to the Priory, but once she was there, I wanted her to leave. The Prioress' motives also seemed iffy to me? Ead was right, why spend nearly ten years trying to keep Inys afloat and then go "actually! Nevermind! Let it burn!' -Plot....holes? Not so much holes but Convenient Plot. I was ready to ignore some of it, suspension of disbelief and all that, but nah I"m going to be picky now! The scene that stuck out the most was Ead being chased and hunted down and CONVENIENTLY wyrms attacked her pursuers and she was the one who got away. Or how about Niclays at the LITERAL LAST MOMENT deciding to have a change of heart because......plot has to move forward? Also. What the fuck happened to Ishari lol Tané noted Ishari was disappointed to be sent to Feather island, but said she hoped their paths would cross again one day! And then! Tané goes to Feather Island! And NO MENTION OF HER AT ALL! Or how abut Loth learning a VERY BIG VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE NEIGHBORING KINGDOM AND THEN NO ONE MENTIONS IT UNTIL NEARLY THE END LIKE "OH YEAH BTW THE PRINCESS THERE IS COOL LOTH SAID SO" -Wrap Up. I didn't really mind the final Big Fight. I know even fans of the book have been disappointed, but honestly it's one of the strongest stretches of the book, even if it was a little hard to follow at times. What bothered me was after. I know I tend to be impatient when reading the final chapters of a book, the What Happened Next bits, but never have I been so annoyed as to have to read a wrap up from the POV of someone who WASN'T EVEN CONSCIOUS. I suppose it's better than a book where a single first person POV character is knocked unconscious mid battle and then the next scene is "and then everything was over" but come ON.

I know she had to edit this book down a LOT, which. Girl. It's 800 pages how was there MORE. So maybe my questions were answered in things that were cut, but I could not physically handle any more of this book. I got fatigue from her writing, I cannot handle more of it at once, but considering how long it takes her to finish a book (not a complaint! Everyone has a different pace!) I also would not have wanted to wait that long for a conclusion. There's no winning for me here. We were simply not meant to be. It's just that if I'm going to read a book that takes hundreds of pages to say nothing at all by an author that puts out a book once every few years at best, I'd read VE Schwab or Patrick Rothfuss.

[backinmyphase]

Cupid

Summary: Once you feel the overwhelming sadness of lonlyness, you will do anything to escape it. Even turning to cupid for advise for love. But maybe cupid's arrow didn't hit anyone else. Only the one you least expected. Or How Kuroo begann to play matchmaker for you and did a too good job.

Pairing: Kuroo x reader

Prologue Wc:0.6k

Pls tell me if someone would like to see more of this because I am not sure.

"And you seriously want to tell me that you still don't have a boyfriend? You???" Maya looked at me with disbelief. I shrugged and tried to play it cool, but we all know how that goes. 'I just want to focus on school.'

Bullshit.

I want to have those butterflies in my stomach too. I want to be held like that too. I want, I want, I want. But life is not a wish concert, and I had a significant disadvantage.

I'm not good with people. Often, I don't know what to say and I'm too quiet. I often feel like I'm giving the wrong reaction, which is why I don't give any.

"But seriously, you look great and have the personality! I think you just need the right push…" Maya suddenly smiled strangely. It gave me a strange feeling in my stomach.

"What do you mean by that?"

She looked at me with a sly smile, and it made me feel excited too. "Do you want a boyfriend? Or a girlfriend? A relationship? If you don't want one right now, that's fine, but if…"

"Then what?" She was killing me with this suspense!!

"First, you have to answer. Do you want to?"

"Well, yeah, but that doesn't happen overnight, and you have to meet someone special for that. I just don't have that."

"But that's not impossible. You just need more people around you." Her smile grew even bigger. She played with her necklace and looked like she had been waiting for this conversation for years.

"What do you have in mind?"

The smile on her lips mixed fear and excitement in me.

"You know my boyfriend Kai, right?"

"Yes?"

"Do you remember how I got together with him?"

"You don't mean to…"

"Yes, exactly!"

"No, Maya, no. Stop looking at me like that. You know as well as I do that he would never agree, no, never. I won't ask him for help, no. He doesn't even know me! And he would surely tease me about it! No. My final answer is 'No.' And that won't change, no matter how much I want a boyfriend – I won't ask someone like…"

~ "And now I'm supposed to play matchmaker for you?"

'-Kuroo Tetsurou for help.'

"Well, you don't have to, I mean, it would be nice, but I'm not so desperate that I would force you…"

Laughter. He laughed at that. "So, asking someone you barely know to play matchmaker is not pretty desperate?" He grinned at me, way too knowingly, and I couldn't stop the blush from rising to my face.

"You know what? This was a bad idea, and by the way, forget about it, Maya's!! Just forget it really quickly." I turned to leave when he raised his hands.

"Hey, hey, I'm just joking. I mean, I do find it nice that you trust me to be a good matchmaker since I got Kai and Maya together, but don't overestimate me, okay?"

I looked at him with wide eyes. "Wait, you really want to do it??"

There was his smug smirk again. Oh no. "But only for one thing…"

I swallowed. "And what would that be?"

"Become the manager of our volleyball club. Then I'll try."

It took me a while to understand what he was saying. Volleyball? I barely knew anything about volleyball. "Why?"

Suddenly, he didn't look so smug anymore as he scratched the back of his neck and looked away, embarrassed. If he weren't so tall, you'd think he was a little kid who didn't want to say what he wanted.

"Well, we have this rival school, and they have 2 managers. And there's Yamamoto, a teammate, he also wants a manager, but he's too shy to talk to girls. And, well, it would be nice to have someone." He looked at me expectantly. "Will you do it?"

I laughed. "I'll try, but I hardly know anything about volleyball."

He laughed too. "I think Yamamoto won't mind."

And he wouldn't be the only one.

[thegeminisage]

STAR TREK UPDATE TIME. saturday we did voy's "basics part ii" and "flashback," and last night we did voy's "the chute" and "the swarm." not really last night changed bc i am writing this at fuck o clock its going up tmrw w/o me but w/e

basics part ii:

this one was fine. or rather the a-plot of this was boring, the b-plot fucking ruled

like, what do i care about the surface of this planet? ik there's a whole season that happens after this, nobody important is gonna die. even the critter was no that interesting

also, FUCK the baby not really being chakotay's. i was so fucking devastated. i wanted him to have a little guy sooo bad. they gave it to me and then snatched it away. imagine how he must feel...the whole ship in danger to save the kid that wasn't really his, and two people DIED in the process. the a-plot was terrible.

but ohhh the doctor and lon suder taking on the kazons alone. mwah.

first of all, what a match-up. the doctor can't be killed or harmed, not really, not the way suder used to enjoy hurting people. so that puts them on totally even terms

secondly, the fact that suder FINALLY almost overcame his violent impulses and now he has no choice BUT to give into them for a cause greater than his own needs (to have peace with himself)...that's juicy stuff. his struggle when he came back after killing that one guy was absolutely incredible.

finally, i love that out of any two people who could be stuck on voyager, you get the idea that these two people had the best chance of doing what they did. like the doctor is quite literally PART of the computer that runs the ship, and suder has all the violent impulses of his former life now combined with tuvok's methodical nature and his own hard-earned patience. truly a force to be reckoned with. it doesn't really push your suspension of disbelief when he takes out all those guys at once because part of him has been waiting to do that for a looong time

genuinely i'm only disappointed they killed him...a character like this could have EASILY been a regular. i'll miss him so much

flashback:

I LOVED THIS ONE.......

the undiscovered country was not my favorite tos movie by far (it ranks near the bottom actually) but i wish i had skimmed it at least before watching this. the movie footage being there was so so fun, and JANICE RAND! i'm always so happy to see her turn up, she deserved so much better, even if most of her tos scenes did annoy me to death

anyway, imagine being in a show and 30 years later they are calling you on the phone asking if you would like to do another episode of the show. star trek really is so unique in that regard, very few franchises have that same kind of staying power. m*rvel who? get the fuck out of here.

i looooooved getting more of tuvok's backstory. i think it's really hilarious that spock's parents almost disowned him when he joined starfleet but after that vulcan parents are like pressuring their kids to join to be more like him. poor spock and poor tuvok i wish they could have met onscreen just once

janeway in the old uniform!!!!!!!! she looked amazing

mixed feelings about janeway's speech about how things were different in the tos era and that's why sometimes they didn't do the prime directive. actually, it's funny because i got a little huffy at her "they were quicker to reach for their phasers" comment like GIRL NO THEY WEREN'T and then like the very next day i watched "taste of armageddon" where kirk did immediately start blasting because the disintegration chambers triggered his tarsus iv trauma and had to reluctantly forgive her

that said. spock mention.

the chute:

something lgbt happened on star trek voyager...i don't ship this couple because i'm still kirby with a gun re: tom paris, but i'm incredibly happy for people who do. i think about how i would have been if this had been chakotay and janeway instead (besdie myself) and i just KNOW the harry/tom shippers were eating

i wish harry kim got more to do...he had a little more this time but his solo scenes didn't have much meat to them, it was his scenes w tom paris that really stood out

and like i didn't hate those scenes, but the "shitty hellhole prison" plot itself also kind of bored me, because we just saw a far superior version of this happen to o'brien on ds9 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and to me one half of tom/harry is kinda boring and never gets his chance to shine, and the other is eternally on probation for being too annoying in season 1. so i had a hard time staying invested

that said it was very fun when janeway came down through the hole guns blasting. now who's playing cowboy, captain?

the swarm:

this was another one where the a-plot sucked and the b-plot ruled

i know janeway doesn't wanna add another 15 months, but man, come ON...it was very dumb not to go around. it was even dumber to not go around WHILE YOUR DOCTOR WAS BROKEN. take a few days to fix him and THEN go. also WHAT HAPPENED TO HER IDEALS? the showrunner really needed to keep this shit straight this was wildly out of character for her. that plus constantly brushing off kes...not her finest episode tbqh

the doc losing his memory was great though. kes is SO kind to advocate for him as she does and she and b'elanna were just great in general. kes even gave him a little kissy!! treat him really niceys: the episode

the other doctor hologram was really funny too although his usage of the "it" pronoun made me flash back to my rage when people did that to data during tng

it was actually so true to life how people with dementia act...kes did a great job of keeping him calm until the end :(

and the humming!!! i can't believe they left it there, but i suppose the implication is he gets it all back. and what a breath-taking spot to end it, honestly

TONIGHT: ds9's "apocalypse rising" and voy's "false profits" (i read the summary and good god someone HELP me)

[brionysea]

listen i don't wanna be that person who nitpicks fanfiction that people write and put online for free but i've noticed a trend in stranger things fics and i have thoughts

mike's dad being homophobic and physically abusive is free angst and i guess there's a certain level of separation from canon but it's so weird and breaks my suspension of disbelief because that man has never lifted a hand to his children in a positive way or even spoken to them on screen as much as he does in those fics. mike especially might as well not even exist to him most days. it's not just a matter of limited screen time either because karen always gets annoyed at him for never intervening

and even if the wheelers (because nancy and karen put the nuclear in nuclear family too, arguably more than ted because he's just consistently apathetic towards mike while they keep giving him false hope that blows up in his face) were homophobic about mike they wouldn't be hitting him because their kid being bruised would damage their precious reputation and they're all about image and making everyone think they're perfect (also i'm confident nancy just wouldn't let that happen, which is probably why she's never in the fics lol). the damage is invisible. that's the point. that's why it's so dangerous

mike's family and relationship with his dad isn't like will's (or really jonathan's because we saw him getting pushed around and i doubt he would've let lonnie touch will, who doesn't really seem to care about their dad in any capacity while jonathan keeps bringing him up). it feels like people think there's only one way to be gay in the 80s and if it looks even slightly different then it doesn't count. i just can't wrap my head around that because what the wheelers actually have going on is so much more interesting to me

idk i wish there were more fics focusing on their canonical problems instead of transplanting jonathan's backstory onto mike like what happens with every character, but that's usually because those characters just aren't interesting enough on their own to make angsty sad boy fics work, while mike is and it's just written over anyway

[mdhwrites]

🦝 hey I'm back 👋

And wanted to ask about your thoughts on Luz's trauma that you mentioned in another post. Also I think the writers exaggerate the whole "accidentally helping Philip" thing. Didn't seem that big of a deal to me as the fandom and the show make it out to be

So while I get, since it's a teaching blog (that reading back I don't like how long I spent on the example), I've technically answered this before when talking about trauma in fantasy media in general because... it's tricky. To put it mildly. But I will reiterate at least some of it here to become more concise. I... Hate it. I don't think it's well done, I don't think it makes sense, it doesn't match the past, etc. It is something the writers clearly wanted in the show but didn't put the time into. Let me show partially why for Philip's trauma specifically (and I'll actually talk about Luz's bullying here but later). So we have an episode where Luz is finding frustrations with a personal goal of hers. She finds something that will allow her to achieve this goal and promptly sets out to take care of it. In the process, she meets obstacles and an ally that, despite red flags, she accepts immediately to continue on her quest. Once she gets to her goal though, she finds out that she had unwittingly helped someone who wished ill intent on her and those close to her. She escapes death and saves those she cares about before getting back to her normal life, her goal unfulfilled. And besides scale, there's actually very little embellishment I just did in describing Witches before Wizards... But you thought I was describing Elsewhere Elsewhen. Because the two are very similar in structure and the mistake Luz makes. Luz even effectively lives a fantasy in Elsewhere Elsewhen with the lie she makes and the fact that she is so implicitly trusting of Philip for no reason than he can help her and gives her compliments. Much like the wizard. HOWEVER... The wizard is funnily enough done BETTER. The only paradox, true paradox, in Elsewhere Elsewhen is that if Luz didn't show up, the journal would have been burned (and there are ways to explain that actually, like him remaking some early entries or only the introduction at all). This is because Philip was already actively working on this goal, gotten one person killed for it and was actively seeking for others to get him to the Collector. Luz was not necessary here. Luz WAS necessary in Wizards because of her connection to Eda so she is genuinely to blame for putting Eda and King at risk.

Now no, trauma is not rational... In the real world. This is a fucking narrative. Consistency and reason is what allows readers to understand what the fuck is going on. When you break those, you get into threatening suspension of disbelief where... There better be something your audience is getting back for their suspension. So what do we get for Luz? Well... We lose our cheerful protaganist for a while... Kind of. Her mood shift is entirely S3 and I'll actually get back to that. We lose it... And never get a proper resolution. It's apparently really short in Thanks to Them everyone going "We don't care, we still love you," which thank god the rest of the cast is sane and they didn't do that trope but... There's a real fun thing in episode 2 of Season 3. Camila's speech that leads to Stringbean being made doesn't address the problem in Luz's head. It addresses perhaps one of them but not the one that has been consuming our protaganist and stopping her from interacting with people. It doesn't properly stay targeted on the problem we've been having to watch Luz whine and be overdramatic about: Making mistakes. BUT IT STARTS THERE. But literally none of Camila's words reach Luz until she reveals that she's a secret nerd. It's part of what I consider to be really bad about that scene honestly. Actually addressing the plot? Actually talking about the specific event? No. None of that mattered. None of that is what is addressed and yet the speech still appears to have gotten Luz finally out of her funk. And that's frustrating. But let's actually talk for a moment also about what this sort of trauma normally does. So you make a choice. That choice leads to horrible consequences. As such, you may reasonably flashback to it and the like anytime you have to make a choice that feels mildly important. For Luz's especially: Anything that might affect another person. Luz after Hollow Mind still, you know, tries to convince King to not trust and leave the Titan Hunters, decides to swap places with Hunter and abandon everyone else there who could make a decision instead, tries to stay in the Isles, leaving her friends without a human guide in the human realm and nowhere to stay without her, etc. like that. She doesn't act based on the trauma. She just gets whiny and overdramatic. It's actually the same problem I have with the trauma in Reaching Out. The trauma is "Death of father mixed with potentially lost of her mother". Logically, these would be used to make a character more cautious. Scared of any little thing that could hurt those they care about. Or, they become more disconnected from others so that they cannot be hurt like this again.

In Reaching Out, Luz watches her girlfriend doing underground, unregulated combat and finds this BORING. Finds it entirely unengaging. When her girlfriend is hurt, rather than talking about the injury itself or harassing the healer to do a good job, she tries to chat about the past. These actions do not match what you're trying to have be the source of her problems. You're treating it as generalized anxiety (if even that) when trauma hits different, especially in a narrative where you cannot just go "It's trauma, I don't have to explain it." I appreciate that mocking phrase for fantasy being versatile. And I know I said I would get to Luz's bullying when talking about Luz's trauma but someone recently made me realize that a lot of the characters exhibit similar issues to Luz with their past trauma aspect and... And that's another blog. This has gotten long enough. To sum up though: I don't think the Owl House does trauma well in almost any regard and the fandom makes this worse by calling literally anything bad that happened in the last fourth of S2 trauma. Probably to try and make the show sound more serious than it honestly was interested in being up until that point.

[arkon-z]

Once again - okay, but WHY Tulin?

He was a set piece in BOTW. Just sort of there to give Teba some depth of character. I only found out about him when he started showing up in fanworks. In AOC, he's not even in the main game, just the DLC, where I asked the same question of: why Tulin? (BTW, if you think AOC felt like a wish-fulfillment fanfic, then the DLC is 'hold my beer') All the other missions made sense in the established setting of AOC, but Tulin showing up was the one that really broke my suspension of disbelief. But that's another post.

Which brings us back to TOTK. Why have Tulin be the Rito companion? We already know the New Champions (or at least, Champion Hopefuls) from BOTW. They're bringing Sidon and Riju back, why not bring back Teba too? (I presume Yunobo will show up too, and I'll tell you why in a second) Why remove a popular character and replace him with his son?

Because TOTK seems to be about the new era of Hyrule. It's being rebuilt, it's setting aside the past it had been trapped in while Calamity Ganon was still a problem. It's the new generation of Hyrule, starring the descendants (or relatives) of the previous generation of heroes. In short, young people.

Tulin is young. Teba is not. That's why Tulin is here. And that's also why I think Yunobo will show up. Because he's young. It's a choice on the part of the writers/director to establish a new generation. But here's hoping Teba will at least make an appearance.

That all in mind, let us ask once again, why Tulin? He was a mere named NPC in BOTW. He does run a mini-game for Link at the flight range, but aside from that, he's not a plot character. And yet, he's in the TOTK trailer as a main character. What I'm asking is this:

Would they still have used Tulin as the young Rito champ if the AOC DLC had never been published?

Because if Nintendo wanted to make a point of this 'new generation' setup with a young cast, I'll betcha they might have picked some young Rito rando instead. Teba, being a father, is no longer 'young'. And they could easily still have done that and we'd just have to learn about this rando, but no! They picked someone we know and someone who was now an established character. It's just unusual that a mainline game wasn't the one to establish him.

Look, I could be way off base here. They may very well have planned to pick Tulin all along, especially once they realized how popular he was with the fandom even before AOC. This is all pure speculation. We won't know why until the game actually comes out, or until we start getting interviews with the devs. We may never know. But it really does make me wonder how much of an influence AOC had on the development of TOTK.

[unnursvanablog]

Thanks to my insomnia I have checked out more dramas than I would normally take on at a time these days… but it's also just about a week until I go on summer vacation so it's okay. I didn't want to bother making a post about all of them indevidually so I am just going to be compiling them all together here.

Time can only tell if I will drop any of these or not during or before my summer vacation because juggling all four of these might just be too much for my brain who has a hard time focusing on things atm.

But with Junho in King the Land, Shinee making a comeback, Myungsoo in Numbers and Taec in Heartbeat I am truly living my beast 2nd gen stan life at the moment. I wish both Infinite and 2pm will do something musically as well this year... but if not I can't at least enjoy these men in their dramas.

Numbers wasn't a drama that I had initially thought about picking up because a drama about accountants does not sound fun. But you know what, I can't seem to resist that pretty pretty face Myungsoo has and if I could sit through all of his god awful cat drama (I am scarred for life) I can at least check it out.

And you know what… it wasn't hald bad. Sure it throws some basic kdrama plot clichés at you for some added tragedy and stuff, like the main character is an orphan who apparently has no memory of his past… because trauma and dark backstories make up a good character and the motivations and the buildup to the main conflict does feel week at this point, but it's also just there for setup and so forth.

Aside from the pacing and the accountant terminology and some company/rich people drama (which I don't mind that much) it is quite entertaining and the hours flew by while watching it. And I do feel for the main character and his quiest to make something out of his anger.

Revenant is a horror kdrama… which I wish was airing in the fall/winter because that's the time you should be watching horror dramas. It's good tho. It's fast paced, it has familiar kdrama horror beats but it does it very well and the characters are very easy to root for.

I don't find it overally scary - but then again this type of horror doesn't scare me in the slightest. If anything I could do with a bit more of it. I am more enthralled by the folklore and the mystiscism. And this is a good thriller. I can't wait to see how this story progresses and what more secrets, more darkness is there to find as we go deeper. It's quite alluring.

Heartbeat is a light and fluffy fantasy rom-com drama which is on paper totally my cup of tea, but it does feel like the genre is a bit tired. But only just a bit. It's a fun show, but it sometimes tries a bit too much imho to be funny and idk if it's totally adding anything new or a fresher take on the fantastical-roommate trope or the sort of fish out of water magical being that has to figure out this new world he has found itself in.

The leads characters are both kinda grumpy and sort of play 'the straight man' in this comedy which is interesting and fun. I do enjoy a more grumpy heroine a lot of the time.

It's just a bit too nonsensical at times. It's like this drama was written on pure vibes and nothing else. And I get suspension of disbelief in fantasy. I love suspension of disbelief but you also need it to be grounded in something for it to work. And that's hard to find here it seems. It just all feels a bit random if that's the word to describe it.

The drama didn't hook me that much during my watch of the first two episodes despite how entertaining it was. I feel like I have seen this before, which sure does add to the light and brainless fluff watch of it all… but I already just finished another fantasy comedy brainless fun aka Tale of the Nine Tailed and my cliché rom-com choice atm is King the Land (why are Junho and Taec so often doing dramas around the same time) so maybe that's the case. This isn't scratching any itch for me when it comes to drama viewing… but I will be giving it just a few more episodes.

And Tale of the Nine Tailed and King the Land did or are doing the brainless fun just a bit better. Both felt… less dumb? like there was a bit more thought behind it? I can't put my fingure on it. There just isn't that much of a hook in Heartbeat.

[soul-wanderer]

Bones and All - book review (and movie comparison)

Let me preface this by saying that I watched the movie first, and I am somewhat glad I did, because if it had been the other way around, I might not have enjoyed the movie as much.

Reading the book, I actually did not expect a lot of surprises, but in the end, the plot twists that didn’t make it into the movie and the overall differences still managed to catch me off-guard, but not in an unpleasant way. I still slightly prefer the constellation of Maren living with her mum and her dad living, even though it seems like a more typical scenario at first. Still, the dynamic between Maren and her mum in the book is a lot more emotionally loaded and paints an almost tragic picture of a mother who feels obliged to care for her daughter, but who still doesn’t think twice when eventually abandoning her the night after her birthday, which is reinforced through the fact that she is hardly mentioned again, once Maren has found her, and that it is clear that she also made no attempts to see her daughter again, after moving in with her parents.

One of the most obvious changes from book to movie is the lack of diversity, which is not surprising, but it did make the movie slightly more enjoyable, but the book isn’t any “worse” just because the author wasn’t very creative about writing the characters. 

(spoilers ahead in the following paragraph)

The fact that Sully turned out to be Maren’s grandfather did catch me off-guard, but I am still not sure if this twist actually added to the storyline, or if them leaving it out in the movie was a good idea. Because yes, it does add some meaning to why he is following Maren around, but I actually did get annoyed towards the end of the book, mainly because of the chaotic writing, which left me feeling unable to decipher his motives and felt like the author was desperately trying to attach meaning to his actions. In the movies, he is just portrayed as a lonely man, an outcast, who attaches himself to Maren, and for me that worked as an explanation. Sometimes it’s as simple as that.

Both the movie and the book require the suspension of disbelief, otherwise you will spend the entirety of the storyline wondering why some people are born as eaters, why society hasn’t caught onto them and how they could possibly eat entire human beings, especially in such a short amount of time. In short: It doesn’t make sense, but it isn’t supposed to make sense. It’s a metaphor, if you will, one that might be plain, but that still works, if you give it a chance.

What did bother me about the book a bit, was the sometimes almost jarring vocabulary, which, even though it seems impossible, at points felt more unsettling (not in a horror way) than the contents of this storyline. It’s always a bit annoying when different characters use a) the same vocabulary and b) the vocabulary does not match the mood. You can see that certain words were used in an attempt to evoke certain reactions, but it just didn’t work out. If anything, it felt like a teenager trying to describe too big of a concept, but failing in the process. On the other hand, the very reduced descriptions worked very, very well in other situations, meaning the author is in no way incapable of conveying certain emotions. In the end, it is not top-notch writing, but there’s still beautifully curated moments, which make reading this book worth it.

My main issue with the book: The final chapter. I read the chapter before that and half skipped past the last sentence, only to realize on the next page that I had missed something fundamental. The final chapter feels useless and takes away from how beautifully the chapter before that ends. Had the book ended on this final sentence, it would have been perfect, but we somehow still get this epilogue, that neither gives us hope, nor paints a terrible picture of Maren’s future. It doesn’t add to the story, really, and I wish someone had ripped out those pages before I had the chance to read them.

In the end, both the movie and the book, though the book a little more, raise questions about life and love and what makes us human and what keeps us going, without sensationalising the instrument the story uses to get its point across, and it’s exactly what it takes to keep the balance between typical young adult novel and pushing the limits of what we think is right and wrong.

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

s2ep16 captain hardrock

the unfortunate thing about this title is that my brain, for some inextricable reason, likes to make a penis typo and it always become captain hardcock

anyway it was a fine episode. the pacing actually seemed okay. chat noir's cataclysm was actually useful.

i think the only thing that annoyed me was the fact that marinette shouts "tikki, spots on" in a room that shares a wall to the room where all the captors are held??? like okay, i can suspect my disbelief a little, maybe assume with a family like the couffaines, they'd have soundproofed their walls or some shit. but it still breaks my suspension a little when they're in rooms next to each other. at least in sailor moon, they were always somewhere remote or a place where there weren't people around to see them transform.

actually, i just remembered the other thing and it's the fact that ladybug and chat noir's powers don't get upgrades like sailor moon's silver crystal and brooch do, so it gets old after a while hearing her shout, "time to de-evilize." her miraculous ladybug is fine, but the de-evilize is starting to wear its welcome on me.

and this is also the problem with not resolving hawkmoth sooner. and not, like, coming up with unique villains and antagonists and threats each season like sailor moon did. bc, again, new threat, new power-up, new powers. it keeps things interesting and raises the stakes.

and while i will give them that they are raising the stakes in this series by introducing new supers and thus incentivizing hawkmoth to also raise the stakes, it's moving as a snail's speed. you can't just keep throwing things at hawkmoth and hoping it sticks (i.e., spoiler, i know that he, at some point, obtains possession of the other miraculous in the miracle box and wears them). like that's just silly. could they really not think of another threat ladybug, chat noir, and other miraculous users could face?

it feels false. like they're telling us the stakes are raised bc look! a new super! and look! we're revealing more about hawkmoth's motives and goals! when really, we're just watching the same old, same old.

now that's not necessarily a bad thing, esp if this show was intended for kids younger than 12, but i'm sure kids younger than 12 would get tired of seeing the same thing over and over again at some point.

i really wish the creator had just taken more time and care and thought more about what he wanted to do with this show. he could've created his own zodiac, totally unique to this universe, but obviously based off the chinese zodiac. and he could've constructed their powers based on what he sees in those creatures. and, even though they may not all be in use in the first few seasons, he could've thought about how they'd get power-ups and change over the course of, say, 5 seasons.

and for each season, there's a new villain/threat. and in each new season, a new super or two is introduced to fight the growing threat. and they have more than one superpower (like sailor moon) that they can "unlock" in each new season to further help the new threat.

the bare bones are actually not that difficult, esp if he was inspired by magical girl anime like sailor moon. obviously coming up with multiple unique powers for each miraculous would be difficult, but, that's the fun part, too.

tho, with that, i do think you'd need to scale something like that back. having at least 12 in the zodiac is a lot. but i'm pretty sure there are more than 12 in this zodiac. bc there's the standard zodiac (i assume, i haven't gotten very far and they have revealed very little to us about them at this point), plus the ladybug and black cat miraculous, plus the butterfly and peakcock miraculous, plus the fox and turtle. that's a lot, and it feels like they bit off more than they could chew making so many.

now that i'm thinking about it now, though, why add 6 new animals to the zodiac? it just feels clumsy. like they thought more about those miraculous than the others because they knew they were going to use them.

and like, there's six unique ones already! why were they so dead-set on also using the animals in the chinese zodiac??? just make your own, man!! did he do it bc he knew he wouldn't be able to use oriental mysticism without it looking racist if he didn't have animals from the chinese zodiac? bc i hate to break it to him, but it still feels very racist. this is not to mention that so many cultures have zodiacs, most famously the greeks!! so there's no reason he couldn't have just made his own and then designed master fu in, perhaps, a more ambiguous way.

i mean he could've also coded master fu as chinese or even just still made him chinese, just with a different zodiac. but if everything else stayed the same, they'd still fall into oriental mysticism, so idk.

anyway i'm thinking too hard about this. i'm not going to rewrite this. i just think they could've put a lot more time and are into their overall story.

ah i did want to mention luka. love him. love the english va they got form him. he does not sound like a teen boy. i am very excited to see him akumatized (i'm pretty sure i have, it's just been so long, i don't remember it exactly). he is a little bit cringe, a little bit like 1960s hippie vibe. i think at some point he needs to learn to use his words lol. his awkwardness with conversation is very funny tho. i should use that in fic if i ever decide to write more ml fic

[the-monkey-ruler]

You’re kidding, there’s no happy ending romantic wukong?

I mean there are few where he reincarnates as a human and falls in love. Those aren’t really “Wukong” but they are still Xiyouji media. And in 1960 Saiyuki he got with Rinrin… though in the 2001 version she does die sadly.

There is another more low-quality version where like Wukong knocks up Bone Demon or thinks he does and while he isn't certain the kid if his, still wants to marry her. Another movie actually did a switcharoo to let Six Ears take Wukong's place so Wukong can be human and marry his love but that also wasn't.... quality storytelling per se...

But I mean it shouldn't be too surprising. Most popular Xiyouji media is retellings or continuations so things either go back to the status quo by the end of the movie or accept that Wukong is the Victorious Fighting Buddha. Wukong isn't interested in partners in the novel and while that does give directors a lot of free reign for OCs or humanizing minor characters in the novel to be his SO, it stands to reason that Wukong isn't inherently a romantic figure. It's only recently that this change in the past 20 years that Wukong is seen in more "romance" movies and while there are some good movies that really dive into Wukong's character and humanize him, none try to take away from who Wukong is either.

I talked a bit more about it here but what I'm trying to say is that while directors do have that suspension of disbelief to allow Wukong to struggle with romance, it would be asking a lot of the audience to accept that he would just take on a spouse of any kind in a movie or tv show. Artists have the freedom to express themselves and how they interpret characters as they wish but for movies and series there is an expectation not only for profit but also for audience satisfaction. Most of these movies are about Wukong more accepting his feelings so he can let them go rather than his accepting these feelings so that he can act on them. That isn't really the point of Wukong having a 'romance', it's about exploring him as a character and seeing how these experiences affect him and thus grow from them, having him relate to the audience while still being the Wukong that people are familiar with. These genres are never JUST romance and if anything, a lot of these movies have the romance as a sub-plot for the real plot. It's rare that I see one being taken seriously as... Wukong and romance is just not something that is to be seen as 'lasting' investment for movie or tv media.

I've only seen about two dozen romance movies/shows so that is the attitude I have gotten from what I have seen but what I'm trying to say is that Wukong not getting the SO, in the end, isn't meant to be "sad," in the way that people are leaving upset, but more that they leave knowing that Wukong has experienced heartbreak, and like most audiences who might be teens to young adults, he can relate to them as well. And there are other layers of romance like self-identity, personal aspirations, or even just empathizing with another person that these genres explore. Wukong doesn't HAVE to end up with an SO in the end to be happy and a lot of these romance movies show that as the story ends on a note of hope.

So I guess that being said Wukong romance movies are not really romance movies but more just comedy/tragedy that we know how it is going to end but enjoy the ride while it lasts. Hence why more romance fans would be better off enjoying Bajie movies/shows as they do take the time and effort to establish relationships and flesh out characters more often than not. Bajie has experienced love before and has shown to never shy away from his own emotions. Rather than spending most of the movie having him deny his feelings, it does okay out as more of a romantic genre of him trying to impress or win the heart of the other. Whether successful or not is up there but he is to be seen as a more hopeless romantic that is willing to wait or work for his love as is ties closely to his character growth in the novel of him willing to work harder and be a more understanding person. Wukong is to grow as a person to look more at his own humanity and Bajie is to grow as a person to be more than he is. They are different kind of plot narratives and while both good, one is more prone to romance movies than the other.

So I can't say that they aren't any "happy" romance movies because Wukong is happy with himself at the end of most romance movies without an SO but... he doesn't get an SO often in these movies/shows.

[some-other-number]

ok so decided to do it and watch the cinemasins original star wars video. which is it. a new hope. anyway I watched this when it first got posted because I was really into star wars. so. I said in my tags that I wondered if the older videos were originally satire and this got dropped in favour for more views so I'm gonna go through and comment on every single sin on whether I think it is a valid criticism or not and whether this thing has any form of satire in it or not

it's just reading. how does this constitute a 'sin' (I'll be saying this a lot won't I)

sounds like terrible short term memory to me. also the opening crawl is a unique way of giving the audience context without lots of exposition and allows for the iconic opening action scene

suspension of disbelief.

again, suspension of disbelief

either it's to reveal the force later on in the film so that the focus of the audience is on the plans, or it's a goof. I think it's the former though

there are a multitude of reasons why the stormtroopers would fire on the ship that would likely not result in fatalities, because this is a world with spaceships and you would figure with space warfare there would be a way in which to do that. also the passengers would likely not be the ones firing at a hostile boarding party. again. suspension of disbelief and a total lack of critical thinking.

admittedly, what leia does is fairly stupid. but there needs to be a reason why she gets captured!

they are robots their data can be recovered whether the robot is fully functional or not especially at this technological level

they need a way to escape the ship. suspension of disbelief

whilst I think it is a valid criticism and question to bring up, it's a case of the plot needs to move forward. if this moment wasn't there the cinemasins people would still complain about the lack of a scene saying why they didn't shoot it down

OR there are many cases of accidental escape pod jettisons during docking to a larger ship, or that the wiring got damaged due to the skirmish, or that a power surge went through from the larger ship to the smaller ship, and these are all far more common explanations. what a total lack of creative thinking or critical thinking, use your imagination

goof. I can see how this constitutes a 'sin'

they're on a planet and the empire does not have unlimited resources in which to station a trooper every five feet! lack of critical thinking

again suspension of disbelief. the plot requires them to be together later, so naturally they would end up in the same place

yes??? how does this constitute a 'sin'

I'm going to refrain from commenting on whether the 'updated' effects were a good idea or not. this is a pointless nitpick that really only holds weight if you have the same opinion as cinemasins

goof.

suspension of disbelief!

how does this constitute a 'sin'

not only is it exposition for what c3po is, but even in-universe it would give uncle owen an idea about how well c3po performs his function. lack of critical thinking

first off, that's subjective. second off, yeah that's actually a reading you could do of that line. half marks for that

suspension of disbelief

of course, worldbuilding gets marked as a 'sin'. why

hm! I wonder why uncle owen goes for the droid he dismissed previously! maybe the one he originally went for broke and he had to make a second choice that maybe wasn't up to his original wishes! hm!

ok valid metatextual criticism

that's an assumption. it's not even a good assumption because you're going for the boring option for the sake of being ~ironic~. not even anything about the character and worldbuilding of the line itself. the sex joke is kinda funny though

suspension of disbelief. limitations of practical effects do not necessarily have to be what exists in-universe

lack of critical thinking on display yet again... just because luke's aware of the war does not necessarily translate to knowing who leia is. especially considering that it's not just interplanetary warfare, it's war across entire star systems. use your brain

whilst I have to agree with the nitpick, I am gonna tell you it's something that requires suspension of disbelief! for the millionth time already

not a 'sin' that's something GOOD you dolts

I'm not gonna do a whole dive on astronomy and star brightness levels and heat but it's entirely possible the suns have a combined brightness level similar to our sun. but anyway that's something best left to - say it with me - suspension of disbelief!

not only is that not a 'sin', but circumbinary systems are a search away

not a 'sin'. ever heard of cinematography. ambience. quiet moments

can of worms I'm not the person to touch but I think this is a failure to think critically about what that might mean worldbuilding wise

suspension of disbelief

either a goof or a lack of critical thinking

kinda funny joke, not a 'sin'

suspension of disbelief

not a 'sin'

y'know what this gets a pass. don't like how he's using it for a joke, and it's a fairly obvious observation, but it's fine

don't think this quite counts as suspension of disbelief mostly because I am already sick of saying those words but the joke is kinda funny

on one hand, kinda funny joke about the phantom menace. on the other hand, don't know if that's strictly necessary to bring up in this film. not a 'sin'

unfunny joke not a 'sin'

time and a place man

I feel like this is missing the point of the scene, which comes right after obi-wan telling luke about the force. it shows how vader uses it and what the opinions of it are held in the wider world. this is neither a lack of critical thinking or a failure to suspend disbelief, but it's still not great

hm! it's almost as if it's a big planet where the troopers have a general idea of where to go and what to look for but can't find the proverbial needle in the haystack!

I can't exactly say that it's wrong, but that criticism feels like it was made in bad faith. wow wonder why

neither a 'sin' nor a joke. I'll get to the aim thing later but good god

firstly; needed to happen for the plot to move on. secondly, we don't know what went down between the troopers and luke's aunt and uncle! they might've told them luke had left for good! do I need to say it again? suspension of disbelief!

suspension of disbelief but this time for theming and unified aesthetics to create a sense of identity for the empire

I begrudgingly have to agree with the criticism, but again that's a suspension of disbelief thing. I admit it's one of those times where it's stretched

lack of critical thinking. it assumes a burial custom that isn't actually shown and cannot be confirmed nor denied

the plot needs to happen

not a valid criticism and another assumption. luke mightn't have fully processed what happened yet or maybe yeah! he did cry earlier! what even is that comment

not a 'sin' nor a joke

ah back when the prequels were the worst part of the franchise. not a 'sin'

probably but was that worth dedicating a whole 'sin' to?

not a 'sin'

not a 'sin' but a funny enough joke if it wasn't being told by what is rapidly becoming the most punchable insufferable voice on the internet

not a 'sin' nor funny

again was that worth dedicating a whole 'sin' to?

not touching the 'updated' effects discussion because that is subjective

I'll give this one to them. who shoots first is actually a reflection on the way in which han solo is depicted and the changing attitudes around what a character of his type should do, or even what sort of character he's meant to be

continuing in a part two

[homenecromancer]

a combination of light mean-girlism + oversharing

here’s a screenshot of a post i saw the other day

there are a bunch of posts like this, or in this sort of vein, and there is nothing wrong with any of them. this is a fine and okay opinion to have and i left OP’s URL out of this bc of that.

but well this is my blog and im gonna give my opinion / hyperspecific point of view

1. i’ve spent more time with / words on the character than the original author ever did — am i way AU from canon in some ways? naturally. i am playing with paper dolls for fun and sometimes i share the results. the point is in the personal joy of play; choosing which parts of canon i respect is a way of setting the rules of the game, and going far afield from canon into really wild AUs is simply a change of rules

2. i am, though functional in daily life, completely bonkers. like, you’re just gonna have to trust me: there is stuff about this that’s relevant to my mental health in weird ways i don’t really wish to elaborate on. i have a very idiosyncratic relationship to my favorite characters, and i am too fucking old to pay attention to anyone hitting me with the “he would not fucking say that”. reading my posts is voluntary, and if you come to this circus (my blog) anyway you are going to see clowns (weird posts about blorbo)

i mean i also know damn well that all these posts are not actually vagueing about the specific sort of weird stuff i do (because it’s not like i even really talk about the weird parts)

when people say this they really mean something like, “hey i don’t get why people would write a Marvel AU where: no one is superheroes, and; two people can be psychically linked in such a way where one is super-psychic and the other guy has to help calm him down — what the fuck this is just weird original fiction with specific names”. and to that i have to answer: like i mentioned earlier, fandom can be a game, and sometimes the game is about how far you can go, how much you can stretch, from canon before suspension of disbelief snaps; these are just a different set of “rules” from what a given person’s preferences may be. i don’t care for readerfic, and other people don’t have to enjoy weird AUs, but each of those kinds of fan content aren’t as disorderly as posts like this often assume — they are each governed by actual rulesets. it’s just nobody writes them down.

also that specific example of an AU is a Sentinel AU (with a dash of the much-more-common Mundane AU). btw.