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Also I've said this before but advertising is an industry that should be considered as pointless and harmful as fossil fuels.

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EVIL KNIGHT WRAPPED 2024

You were:

FORSAKEN 20 times!

COMPELLED BY DARK FORCES 8 times!

DIVORCED 1 time!

FELLED ONLY TO RISE ONCE MORE 112 times!

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I think it’s really important to talk about how different people have different power fantasies.

For example:

For some people, the idea of someone redeeming a villain is a power fantasy.

For other people, the idea of a villain being defeated is a power fantasy.

And for other people, the idea of a character owning their villainy is a power fantasy.

I would argue a lot of fandom conflicts re: villains come from people being unable to see that their fantasies, which put them in control of a narrative (and all three of these are designed to give the author or reader control of the narrative in different ways) are someone else’s horror stories.

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One of the things that hurts the most about luffy and usopp’s argument before their fight is how they were very clearly having two different arguments.

Luffy was arguing from the position of captain about the ability of the ship and safety of the crew. He’d made the decision to leave the merry after seeing how hurt usopp was and knew they had to leave her behind specifically for the sake of the crew— for the sake of usopp. He tried to explain his decision. One of the hardest decisions he’d had to make. But he couldn’t get Usopp to understand. And when he realized that the argument had gone too far (thanks to sanji resetting his brain with a kick) he stopped and apologized cus he knew the crew was the most important thing to him.

Usopp was arguing from the position of a man on his last leg about his own usefulness. He and the merry joined the crew at the same time. He’d been her primary caretaker. In his mind, if the merry could be left behind, so could he. His pride was hurt, his self worth whittled down to nothing, and his time with his friends coming to an end. He shot down luffy’s apology and left because, to him, the argument wasn’t an argument. It was judgement on his own usefulness coming from his best friend.

It just hurts to realize the arguments luffy and usopp had were so fundamentally different there wasn’t any way for a peaceful resolution to be reached. Not when luffy needed his crew and usopp needed a purpose.

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So I've been watching Water 7

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youtube is pulling this bullshit again

praying for the firefox gods to save me once more...

[darkandstormyranger]

throwing up, crying, screaming…

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[ID: a screenshot of the “Almost Christmas” Ace Attorney meme behind a slightly transparent stock image of an ice cube. End ID.]

it’s defrosting

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yeah well. I'll jump off that bridge when I come to it.

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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

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I can't believe I made a new tumblr after all these years just so this damn site would let me read Arcane posts without reloading every five seconds, and I already feel the need to wade in with my two cents.

There comes a point where 'trusting your audience' simply becomes 'forcing your audience to do the work of making it make sense for you'.

If your show requires viewers to come up with elaborate red-string conspiracy boards explaining how a character was actually playing 5D chess the whole time, just to justify a choice or action that doesn't feel earned or organic? You are past that point.

If your show requires viewers to insert a bunch of personal 'okay, but what if...?' headcanons about how characters' relationships might have developed, or not developed, or fallen apart, or not fallen apart, or how their opinions might have changed over time, or maybe they never held those opinions after all, and maybe their motivations have changed, even though we never saw the thing that changed their motivations, because it happened during a timeskip, or like, idk they just kinda got over it, etc. etc. etc., just to connect the dots between a character's Point A and Point B in a way that makes sense? You are past that point.

If your show requires viewers to freeze-frame and zoom in on micro-expressions and write entire theses about them on social media, because your animators are god's strongest soldiers and are doing their level best to hard carry the season and provide the missing emotional connective tissue between characters and plot beats? You are past that point.

Arcane S2 is simply not very good. Stop doing the writers' work for them.

Thank you, and goodnight.

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jeez i love this man and his perfect logic

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he did nothing wrong

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