#AGAIN i wanna clarify

[rayvern-sheep]

God i wish arcane had got 3 seasons

That second season couldve been SO much better if they were allowed to spread it out more. Build suspense. Let the watcher fucking breathe for one second and take stuff in.

I’ve finished my rewatch of season 1 and HOLY FUCK i forgot how amazing it was???

I dont hate season 2, far from it. Its still got fantastic animation and character designs, which is what i signed up for when i first watched those first three episodes of the show back in, what, 2022(?). I was not let down in that regard. And it wasnt a disappointment of a season… unlike a certain pirate show im not getting into rn. But it couldve rlly been SO much fucking better.

And I have a strong suspicion Netflix’s obsession w/ cancelling every show after two seasons had smthn to do w/ Arcane season 2 being paced the way it was. The impact couldve hit so much better. We couldve got so much more characters development, so much more wonderful animation. But instead the crew had to sprint through everything so they could get a satisfying ending to the main things they set up.

It reminds me of Sense8’s final season… How messy and rushed that was. And that show was far from perfect, but it didn’t deserve the disrespect Netflix gave it.

Fuck capitalism man. It’s the bane of art.

[forgettable-au]

In the cooking ask, you said Wing Dings has a hard time cooking if instructions aren't clear enough, and as an autistic person who feels that TM every time I'm given instructions, is your Wing Dings supposed to be autistic? (I'm also going off the head canon for most of the fandom that canon papyrus is autistic, as he certainly does act like myself) (There are way more things that canon paps does that make him seem autistic, if you havent heard of it you should check it out)

OHH! Yeah I've heard of it and I totally see Papyrus as autistic!

And so Wingdings is also autistic!

At least I'm trying, it's implied

It's not really relevant to the plot, but it's something I find relevant for his characterization personally fjefnekfjef

See it like this:

Wingdings is autistic but he's VERY high masking (dude, that's bad for your health)

And Papyrus is also autistic, not as high masking, but he does try, he's just not that good at it

It's a detail I personally like c: because yes, so many autistic people relate to Papyrus (me) and I want to keep that...even if it's not a canonical aspect but it's canon to me

[housederiva]

I’m going to the game awards tonight and I’m gonna shake my head disapprovingly at JohnEpler for the tumblr girlies (I must say that while I am going to the game awards I have no intention of interacting with anyone related to dragon age in any way whatsoever if they’re even there)

[casually-salad]

How long did she spend wandering those halls, aimlessly hopping from dream to dream, why did she have to see this? Is... Is ponykind riding the cusp of extinction? She has to continue her hunt, she needs to get rid of the infected. every, last, one.

[emin-folly]

Imagine that there's this person whose whole thing is being without fear and the fandom decides he's afraid of a dude in a fursuit.

Fandom Logic (tm)

I think it comes down to primarily two reasons, one being because people think it's funny

They think it's funny that this character without fear can suddenly be afraid of this human Bat guy. If it was just a few people in the fandom doing this, it wouldn't be nearly as bad; people are after all allowed to do whatever they want, even if we don't like it. The problem lies in where the actual comic writers start adapting this as canon as it's a huge disservice to Hal's character

The second reason is just basically these people legitimately think Hal should be afraid of Bruce because he's ~The Batman~ (which, again, you're allowed to think that, just know that's not really in character for Hal....like at all)

The whole deal with Bruce is that, both in universe and in real life, he's designed to terrify low level criminals: thugs, crooks, any unsavory person who wanders the Gotham alleyways. That's the environment Bruce works the best in. Where he can easily slip into the shadows, where he can become the night and make himself out to be a monster he wants to be. The only people who should be afraid of Batman are the ordinary hoods and criminals that infest cities

But when you suddenly stick him in a brightly lit room like the Hall of Justice next to all these colorful superheroes, that's where his effectiveness pretty much stops. All his tactics and methods to scare people don't really work here. Suddenly, he's just some guy in a bat getup with a scowly mask on. And these are seasoned superheroes, they don't scare easily, especially the ones with powers like speedsters or Kryptonians. Bruce is out of his element. Everything he does to try to act scary should look comical and silly at best

And as for Hal, I think we can all agree that Hal has definitely seen some shit. He goes off into deep space, for months up to a year or so. Who knows what kind of unimaginable horrors he's had to deal with?? Going a bit into headcanon area, but I think that if Hal wasn't desensitized before, he definitely is now. He's not afraid of space Cthulhu and he is not gonna be afraid of a bat furry who furrows his eyebrows really hard. Hal isn't scared of anything--physical, that is. And I feel like Hal is definitely the kind of person who sees straight through Bruce's BS posturing, Bruce's whole act just doesn't work on Hal.

Unfortunately, just like a tornado, any character who comes close to a Bat gets dealt major damage and we're still picking up the pieces and trying to set things straight again OTL

[skruttet]

What are your thoughts on s4? Personally I was actually kind of disappointed, a lot of the characters felt... off?? Not like themselves. Snufkin really didn't appear much and the Comet Episode was confusing and wasn't really all that Book-Accurate... And Snufkin got the 90s Movie treatment :(

Like there were definitely scenes and a few episodes I liked, but overall I feel weird about the season. And I'm curious what your thoughts are.

I will say that overall, I was disappointed.

To be fair to the series though, it arguably largely stems from my personal expectations and hopes? The two biggest disappointments for me were Joxter and Snufkin not meeting, and snufmin's relationship.

The Joxter stuff on the whole I adored, and really could never have dreamed of happening. Just seeing him - or any of the Oshun Oxtra crew, really! - interacting with the characters in "modern day" is great. And then he reunited with Mymble and it was so exciting, and then Little My started wondering about him and Snufkin, and then-! ...They didn't meet. Honestly baffles me why they'd give us so much fanservice but not include probably the main thing most fans would want to see with Joxter. Also interesting that they're afraid to even touch Snufkin's issues with family but they KEEP bringing up Little My's.

The snufmin thing surprised me because my expectations were LOW; during the wait I kept telling people not to get their hopes up, that snufmin would never be explicitly "canon", etc. And I still say they would never do anything explicit with them, however, I was expecting at least for the relationship to be on the same level as it was in season 3, but it seemed to take a step down unfortunately. I wanted more romantic subtext, more hints that something was up between them, and for about the first 4 episodes I thought Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden were finally just interacting as friends and I was hopeful, but unfortunately it was soon clear that they were still supposed to be romantically linked. To their credit, Moomintroll and Snufkin's relationship does maintain some of the development it grew throughout the series, and it funnily ends up presenting it almost as one-sided on Snufkin's side; he's now so much more openly affectionate and patient with Moomintroll, and their communication is a whole lot better, but the latter continues to pursue Snorkmaiden instead. I think Snufkin himself feels so mellowed out in this season, like he's no longer fighting against his own feelings or pulling away from others as much, which is nice to see (though I can see others complaining he's too out-of-character compared to his original counterpart, which is understandable, but I'm personally fine with the characters being "different versions" of themselves in adaptations).

Another disappointment for me was, like you mentioned, the Comet finale... it just wasn't as epic as I thought it'd be, and the stakes weren't high from the start, and after the journey was over the rest of the episode taking place in the valley was a bit dull and directionless. And inaccuracies from the book I expect by this point, but I'm personally not a fan of the ending change with them all just waiting outside to die but the Groke sacrificing herself but actually this is a family show so she's actually alive yaay 😂 Just a bit strange and not the send-off I was quite hoping for.

On the positive side, I LOVED Mamma and Pappa this season. Moominpappa kinda stole the show, and whilst the creators clearly favoured him in past seasons, in this one he finally lost that meanness he sometimes had in s1-3, so he was just a delight to watch.

The guest stars and characters were fabulous, which is a bittersweet thing as it makes it all the more sad that this is the final season and it's all we'll see of them.

The animation and music and sound and acting were all as wonderful as they always are. The crew did such a great job and it's a shame the story decisions dampened the experience for me.

[multi-lefaiye]

is something wrong, darling?

cannot believe i never posted this--this is a commission i finished back in april for my friend joey, of his oc azrael!!! i love this fucking guy. he's such a bastard. campy fun villain and also just such a bastard man. twice's new bestie who's encouraging them to think for themself and ditch the cult <3

(as a note, i am not accepting new commissions rn, because that doesn't feel fair at all to the people still waiting on me to finish theirs lmao)

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[megaawkwardhuman]

ya know it could be the whole season 6 premiere is tomorrow thing but ever since laszlo went mad scientist for the 1st time (and especially now since he's literally pulling a frankenstein next season) I've always wanted to put him and herbert west in the same room as each other

ya know just to see what would happen

[mellotronmkll]

I know this is really rich coming from me as an autistic person with extreme social difficulties but because of those difficulties I think a lot about this kind of thing and have spent a lot of time like. Testing different things out and I have to say in case someone really takes this advice like genuinely the bottom thing is sweet but really not a good way to start a conversation. my advice to you as someone who struggles to start conversations and wants to talk to / get more friendly with people is to message them about something specific ! Like if you want to have conversations about a fictional character you both like: message them a specific question about that character! Or if you notice oh they seem to like talking about xyz themes in this piece of media or like. they're really passionate about this specific thing I also like. Just ask them a question about it! Or If they post art you like message them directly about a specific piece of art etc ... you should start with something small and specific rather than being like Hey we are similar let's talk about this thing it's best to be like Hey your take on this specific thing you posted is super interesting, I totally agree and I was also thinking about how ...etc you know what I mean. I find a really good way if you want to start talking to someone but are nervous about messaging first to kind of make it seem less scary/out of the blue is rather than reblogging one of their posts and adding commentary in the tags, if it's something you know you can both get excited about..just send them the post and tell them what you were gonna say in the tags directly. But like you're gonna have a way better time if you find something really specific you know you both are excited about to talk to them about rather than just sending a vague "hey I think you're really cool and wanna be friends" type message. I understand that that it feels like a lot easier but I know from experience being on both ends it's not really gonna go anywhere. You just have to start a little conversation about something small and specific. And maybe it will fizzle out after a few exchanges but then you can keep doing that. That's how that starts and it just takes time. Like just sending someone a post and being like this reminded me of you because its something you know they like is a way better start. Also like I think that post that was going around the other day shows that a lot of people on this site (myself included) feel a lot of anxiety about like . Noticing things about people and then talking to them about those things but. It's okay to do that and if you remember things about people and bring them up to them its actually like. How you form connections

[swordfright]

I also think the dsmp kinda talks about empathy. The characther rarely put themself in others shoes to see the things through their airs. Actual empathy it's undertanding why someone thinks the way they thing and putting youself in their shoes. A lot of the characthers dont do that. With c!dream no one ever put themself in his shoes, they all see him and go "well I'd have do this in your place and so you should do the way I think it should happen" showing a lack of empathy and more a attempt to justified their view on this person and hear their opinions of him repeated back. And the ones who do are "good" and the ones who dont "bad". The prison arc it's the extreme point of this I think, while exile shows cdream's own lack of empathy for ctommy I think prison arc shows this in a more extreme level in how csam and cquackity talk about cdream.

That's why for me it's not a coincidence that ctommy, someone who wanted to undertand cdream before but more to support his vision of him, is forced to literally put himself in cdream shoes. That's the first time he could actually feel empathy for him. He undertood that cdream it's not him and the reasons for why he did what did might not have been good but that's not the thing, the thing it's that they were good for him and he thought that's the solution and ctommy undertanding that's how cdream saw the world and trying to talk him about it and make him see his methods werent good. In that moment, true empathy was showed and that's a thing that lacked on the characthers of that server bc everyone was so focused on themselfs and never tried to think in how others think and feel until it was too late.

Sorry for the long paragraph, I really like to talk about this thing with the lore

God yeah the empathy stuff is so so interesting, especially considering that cc!Dream stopped streaming from his character's POV, which kind of like...forcibly cuts c!Dream off from the audience. Which makes his character harder to empathize with, I'd argue, because you're no longer able to see the story from his perspective the way you can with other characters. Super fascinating move. IIRC cc!Dream said he did that because he was already a big creator and wanted to give smaller creators the spotlight (i could be wrong, feel free to fact-check this as you see fit) but like...regardless of what his intent was, he cuts c!Dream's POV out of the narrative more or less right as c!Dream starts pivoting to a more antagonistic (or i guess antagonist-adjacent, in some ppl's view) role in the story.

[jjba-smash-or-pass]

[ace-turned-confused]

wip wednesday thursday

ty @604to647 @sizzlingcloudmentality & @milla-frenchy for tagging me today, and everyone for the tags the past three weeks ❤️

remember when i said this fic was almost done… yeah. see it’s done in my mind, and rn my mind doesn’t wanna put it into words, so… that’s great.

Joel unpacks when you arrive home and leaves Whiskey to rest, heading back into town on foot to catch up on missed work. You figure Mrs. Wilson can make do without you for one more day, so you spend the afternoon stewing, pacing around the house then flopping down on the couch when your legs get tired.

Joel still doesn’t talk about much when he returns in the evening. He stares at his glass, then out the window — it’s too cloudy to stargaze tonight, so he heads off to bed with a sigh. No goodnight sweetheart, no sleep well, no join me in my bed.

Maybe that last one is a stretch, but it would still be a nice gesture. And, naturally, you wouldn’t say no.

You toss and turn that night, confused by Joel’s feelings and your future here, hoping that after a few hours of sleep you’ll wake up with a clearer mind — only you don’t.

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[no1ryomafan]

I’m debating if I’ll just use tumblr for proper analysis rather then me just typing up shit at 1 am-like I did last night lol-that I rotate because I’ve been thinking of multiple subjects that could either be video essays or long posts but I do think to test it out I should try writing up a post about Vent from ZX because I feel me making a tumblr post about why he’s not as bad of a character as people think he is I will get less flames then if I made it into a video 💀

(Also I said I’d do Grey but imma be real: love the boy but I feel it’s redundant to go in depth about him when the whole point people don’t like him is because he’s not like Ashe, where as I feel Vent suffers from “he’s just a worse Aile”. Grey deserves better though but I’ve seen more people like him than Vent being fully honest)

[arsenicflame]

possessed by the urge to make a gentlebeard edit who am I??

[existennialmemes]

Listen Kids, you think you're sick of a meme because you've seen it a dozen times?

Back in My Day™

you couldn't go five minutes without seeing or hearing a reference to the Dick in a Box video. And not just online. It was everywhere.

You'd walk into a store and you'd hear it playing over the speakers. You'd get on a bus and the driver would start singing it.

You'd approach your computer and BAM there was the box, and we all know what's inside.

[peppermint-whiskers]

Lmao I love ironic characters uwu