#when it should be individualized

[penguicorns-are-cool]

Also because it's pretty shitty that schools are ranking kids like this at all. The school shouldn't be ranking children it's very unhelpful and gives everyone a really toxic mindset about it all.

You're either told that you're the main character and above everyone else or you're told you're not good enough and either way you're gonna grow up and be told that it was all a lie and didn't really mean anything. Except by then it's a bit late for it cause it was a formative part of your childhood and shaped your whole mindset

Either way you're having an unhealthy amount of pressure put on you to either try to get into the gifted spot or to prove you deserve that gifted spot. Either way you don't get the resources you need because your school is more focused on trying to measure your potential for intelligence than on effectively teaching you and supporting you

It's an extremely fucked up system and we should talk about it and how it absolutely shouldn't exist

ohhhhh I get it now. the "gifted kid" discourse exists because people see it fundamentally as a sign of Privilege and not as a largely meaningless category that puffs up weird children before setting them up for the same unremarkable lives as everyone else; thus they interpret people going "the educational system gave me false expectations before ultimately abandoning me to the same heartless world as everyone else" as "why am I, The Main Character, not getting everything I ever wanted."

[scuddmudmuffin]

kramers apprentices :p

and adam!!!!!!! cutie patootie .

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

M'lady, doth this harlot bother thee?

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[in-tua-deep]

I’ve seen critique of the way show!murderbot said it felt good after killing leebeebee (thank goodness, I really disliked her - though at the same time I actually think that it’s interesting for the preservation team to have someone very blatantly objectify murderbot right in front of them and show them how other humans likely treated it)

but,, I didn’t really read it as it feeling good about killing someone so much as feeling good that it has made the team realize that it isn’t some little robot that wants to be human, and it doesn’t want to be assimilated into their group because it isn’t human. It’s a construct. They cannot and should not assume that it wants to be like them - it shouldn’t have to change or be human to be accepted

So I thought it was more of a “it feels good that this is making them rethink their little uwu poor little meow meow narrative when that’s kind of condescending and I am way more familiar with how fucked up my situation is than they are?”

Idk, any thoughts?

[starleska]

well. that height difference sure is fun 👀👀

[utilitycaster]

this may seem needlessly finicky but I do actually believe it's important: calling Verin a himbo is just one of many examples where like, one of the cast says something off the cuff and it's not exactly the right word or it is highly contextual, and that is fine because no one is perfect especially in improv, but then it gets repeated ad infinitum within the fandom when it never really fit in the first place. We have Verin's stats and he's decently more intelligent than average with a 13 (smarter than most of Bells Hells for one; as smart as Pike); it's just he's the guy with a bachelor's degree with good grades followed by military service in a family where everyone has two PhDs - Matt said "himbo of the family" the way in a family where most people are exceptionally tall you'd call the 5'11" child the short one. In Call of the Netherdeep he appears as thoughtful and competent and promoted to a difficult position at a very young age, and in the campaign his appearance is simultaneously as a leader of troops in a dangerous mission, and someone who cares enough about poetry from a completely foreign and distant culture to have tried to learn more about it. I'm sorry, but if you're using the word "himbo" I don't think you're processing a thing about the character yourself; you're just the latest repetition in a game of telephone that's been going on since mid-2021.

And that's not deeply bad on the surface, and I'm using Verin not because he is the character most wronged by this sort of thing but because he's recent and it's really clear where the word came from and that it's not a good assessment, but something I happen to have a decent knack for is pattern recognition in language. I usually find it really easy to pick up on when someone's plagiarized because of the language and pattern shifts. I tend to remember urls and out of place words well. So I do tend to notice when everyone suddenly starts using a single turn of phrase and I tend to flag it. Sometimes that's not bad; sometimes it means everyone came to a similar conclusion and that's the best way to express that conclusion. But like, when Taliesin called the Yios episode a gas-leak episode and the entire fandom started parroting it? The line "bone-dry takes"? The fact that a lot of ship defenses I see were phrased precisely as "I have eyes"? without actually talking about the ship itself? the fact that I've seen a spike in the use of the term "ontologically evil" including in myself and not all uses are actually correct? And extending this beyond strictly language but consider any headcanon with minimal textual support that catches like wildfire (sidebar: remember how we make, or made fun of the SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE tendency on Tumblr a decade ago? same concept of repetition of a specific turn of phrase without internalizing) all sort of ping this.

And it's fine, truly, to come to fandom and turn off your brain. I know this will sound sarcastic from me, and that's because I don't personally agree, but I do strongly agree that you can do what you want in fandom and you don't have to listen to my opinions so in the end, yeah, it's fine because I am not the arbiter of "fine". But I think critical thought is a vital exercise and I think precision with language is part of it and so if you find yourself using the same exact words and thoughts as everyone else, that should, ideally, trigger a process of "but are these the right words? what do I see when I see this character and how would I describe them? do I agree with this assessment?" Fandom is an interesting and easier microcosm than reality in which to start doing that.

[aure-entuluva-2407]

king of fools

original

[mothiepixie]

Motti and Vio (Lust Sans) are going to learn to navigate their feelings and relationship while Motti is demisexual and Vio deals with hypersexuality, but they both have feelings of inadequacy from their respective struggles

It's gonna be so fun and delicious story telling

More of my ramblings below

I'm legit researching hypersexuality because i dont want to depict Vio as sex crazed maniac that you often see highly sexual characters shown as for a laugh or a pervert trope.

I legit want him to have a thriving life but showcasing how dealing with hypersexuality actually impacts him daily and the struggle he faces.

And I want Motti to be there to help him navigate through his therapy and struggles. Because she understands what it feels like to feel "broken" and "too much" just on the opposite spectrum.

But with Motti, even though she is demisexual, she does have bouts of times where she wants to have that kind of connection with him. But society norms of sex culture take affect on her insecurities to the point where she'll see Vio, living large and unafraid, able to partake in escapades that Motti only has an inkling of understanding from movies- She'll worry that she won't be enough for Vio, not in just a sexual sense, but just a full filling partner in general.

Where as Vio will feel inadequate and will pull away from Motti sometimes because he knows she's on the opposite spectrum and he cares and respects her deeply that he doesnt want to scare her away. He longs for the domestic moments with her and vice versa, but they're afraid of messing it up.

But they'll fail to realize despite their deep seeded insecurities, they have a fully healthy and communicative relationship.

[ecoterrorist-katara]

I’m so tired of wlw background ships in mlm fandoms.

mlm shippers almost never develop wlw ships to the degree that the audience feels invested in them. The conflict and character development and love story rely on tropes rather than actual narratives, yet fandoms act like they’re doing wlws a favour by shoehorning in this shitty “representation” when it’s just golden retriever x black cat over and over and over again in different fonts.

To be clear I don’t blame anyone for not having big wlw ships, because most major media out there do not have two fully fledged female characters you can ship together. If you want to write mlm ships, good for you! If you want a lazy wlw ship in the background, that’s fine! But don’t act as if the fandom actually cares about them, or that anyone did the legwork to make them characters that you can care about. Most of these female characters are never properly developed in the canon source material, and they’re almost never properly developed in the fanon material either. You can always tell by how these women are like, one archetype + gay (sporty gay, feisty gay, slutty gay etc, like some kind of gay Spice Girls). Yet fandoms just love to act like these background wlws mean so much & have the best love stories & everyone just should ship them. It’s all so performative.

wlws are not an aesthetic. wlws are not 2D happy couples to round out your queer utopia, a queer utopia that somehow still manages to foreground men. Women are always treated as 2D characters in narratives, except now there’s a subgenre where these 2D women are gay. Groundbreaking.

[un-pearable]

Nintendo is not small. Pokemon is the highest grossing franchise on this planet. They are not threatened by indie studios they just want a monopoly on creature games.

compared to disney? yes it is. compared to the other AAA game studios? it’s middle of the pack at most. nintendo only has around 7,000 employees worldwide . that is small for an international company. disney is over 200,000. sony’s entertainment division is over 12,000, xbox’s game division was around 5,000 before vicious cuts, and they’re both subsidiaries that can rely on their fucking humongous parent companies to handle a lot of overhead. other (mostly) independent studios in a closer situation to nintendo are around 10,000-15,000 employees. on the international scale nintendo is a small company, we’re just in internet video game territory where it seems like the big bad.

selling a lot of video games does not make you financially powerful to the degree that companies like Disney, Sony, and Microsoft are. my point was that this group has the power to reshape copyright law itself to serve their own purposes, and have done so several times. nintendo does not, and treating it as part of that group just bc it is particularly prominent in the gaming industry is ridiculous to me.

nintendo legally has to protect their trademarks in order to maintain them - palworld made a stupid move aping one of the most recognizable features of a pokémon game. it’s practically a slam dunk for nintendo if they actually pursued legal action beyond just a C&D. i agree copyright is very stupid very often. but the dev team for palworld very intentionally relied on recreating a lot of recognizable aspects of the pokémon franchise specifically to hype their game up and fucked around and found out.

there are plenty of creature collector games that nintendo does not go after because they are smart about this. Cassette Beasts is incredible. Beastie Ball is shaping up to be another great one. you can do new and unique things with the creature collector genre without pissing off the folks who did it first. getting pissed that Nintendo went after the indie game that directly copied the mechanic that is the main iconography of the franchise (you thought you could ‘legally distinct’ the Pokéball???) is just baffling and shows how little people who regularly violate copyright law know about the rules they’re breaking.

[qoldenskies]

i feel like out of everyone april would be the worst with self-deprecating humor. the boys have self-esteem issues but they're literally all the types to play up confidence or double down instead of addressing them (raph the least, but he can be pretty stubborn at times), but april's momentum only takes her so far and she is pretty willing to admit defeat if her usual methods dont work. the speed at which she falls back into the idea that she cant do anything right,,, there's probably a point where she jokes about it before it even happens to prepare herself for disappointment, right?

[lynxfrost13]

LSTR-S2301 and the maintenance tunnel ARAR are best friends to me even though that Elster was only on sierpinski for a seemingly brief time, they’re bros who fuck around on the clock during work. I think Elster was probably more willing to put extra time in however she’s also very “okay you’ve given me a list of tasks I did them. They’re done and done well. That’s it, my time now.” Whereas I see Ara being more of a slacker (very valid of her) or at the very least just a bare minimum type of gal when it comes to work.

Idk I tend to imagine them fucking off in the middle of shifts to go find weird lonely corners of sierpinski to hang out in. They don’t even talk half the time but they love it.

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[kagoutiss]

crossposting stuff again but i’m having a Wind Waker emotions attack and did you know that WW ganon actually took the time to wrap tetra in the blanket she was sleeping under before hovering up to the top of the tower with her under his arm like a soccer ball. it’s such a tiny thing but the fact that he thought to do that at all. i cant i cant

hewas really like ‘Get Bundled Idiot!!!’ like he had adoption papers ready to go. he was dead from the moment he decided he’d rather take care of her than kill her

[bishy437]

💚💜

[ros-sauce]

Y'know the longer I think about it, the more I think "To me, Mizuki is just Mizuki" or whatever it is that Ena said was Also a thinly veiled way of her saying "Ok well you're still a girl". Like I think the most glaringly obvious, not-behind-a-curtain-in-the-slightest line was when she pointed directly at "So are you like a guy too?" and correctly described that statement as an insult, but surprisingly, that line that pissed me off so bad, that line that really annoying people with limited ability to read have been parroting since the game dropped, might... actually be goated? A little?

Like. I don't know. Ena spent her whole friendship with Mizuki up to this point correctly assuming she was a girl, all she had wrong was the "cis" modifier. (And Cis Modifier isn't necessarily something she consciously thought of, because of the whole cis privilege makes you assume cis as the default and thus that modifier fades into the background thing.) Additionally, a hot fucking minute passed between Mizu5 and Ena5, long enough for Ena to ruin her skin with tears for her dead wife... And during that hot fuckin minute, the Ena5 4koma took place, where she straight up drew a lost girl while stressing about Mizuki. That whole gap between the events and what took place in the gap is very special to me... because the Girl Drawing combined with the Accurately Recognizing The Transmisogynistic Bullying As Exactly That really helps to make clear that Ena was confronting her "cis as default" way of thinking, and not anything else. I don't think she questioned Mizuki's girlhood even once, aside from maybe thinking "what the fuck are they on about" during her run-in with the bullies in Mizu5