#AND! Be respectful with your answers and opinions

[lavenderspence]

here's a controversial opinion from my long ass list because I haven't yapped about anything today

Emily and Penelope were better friends to Spencer than JJ was

There, I said it😬

[lotrlorien]

S8 GoT is much better than the horrible s2 hotd. How can anyone even like this stupid show? It's so bad.

Game of Thrones is a legendary and phenomenal show and nothing will ever come close to it, even though many think so.

Thank you for your message. Oh no got s8 was the worst ever. No one talks about GoT anymore because of it. Its not WHERE the characters ended up with but HOW. You can see how RUSHED the season were. There were supposed to be more seasons to tell the story and you can see that. The so hyped LONG night lasted only one night lol. I loved Game of Thrones so much and now I hate every GoT merch I have. I hate all the quotes even "Who here has better story than Bran the Broken". Bronn master of coin and he cant even read like. Ughh.

S2 of HOTD was a slugfest but it wasnt AS bad as GOT s8 which was supposed to be the great ending of one of the greatest shows ever. D&D really outdid themselves with the rushing. The first seasons were amazing it is true. But the ending was sooo bad.

[louisisalarrie]

Surely you don't think Harry looks better with his patchy facial hair than he does clean shaven? His mustache ruins his looks.

ok no bc surely you aren’t being real!????? gurl lemme take you on a facial hair Harry or whatever tf we call this journey

Mans can only truly grow a moustache and goatee but the rest is stilll just as sexy have you seen him? 70’s pornstache/half grown teenager facial hair kills me

[ask-sentient-vehicles]

Have you ever considered rewriting the terrible BWBA characters or making your own original characters?

My main issue with Big World Big Adventures isn't the characters. Nothing wrong with diversity and representation.

Except Ace. Screw that guy. Put him in the Worthless musical number from TBLT then I'll cry tears of joy :')

If Nia was introduced in the same light as, say, Hiro and Victor, I'd love her!

The problem was how everything was executed. The movie was terrible. Thomas was so OOC I can't even >:(

And the fantasy sequences are cringe. I don't like to use that word but it is. It's cringe.

Patrick: Me

The Computer: BWBA

I don't have the time and energy to rewrite BWBA? But if I did:

put Duck in place of Thomas. (Remember All at Sea?) Percy was the main in Day of the Diesels so give Duck a chance!

Make it more realistic. Maybe some fantasy sequences but don't make it cringe.

DON'T write off Edward and Henry in favor of Nia and Rebecca. Have them coexist.

I never thought of making my own TTTE OC's? I'd love to but I don't have ideas. But I do have train OC's that are irl locomotives and my sona, if that counts.

Strasburg Railway

Mount Washington Cog Railway

[dirtytransmasc]

Are yyou team green or black? And why?

team green, though I'm not in support of every green character (namely Otto though my opinion of him is complicated. I also have opinions on Aegon and his characterization that makes it even more complicated)

[I have only read bits and pieces of the book, so my opinion is based almost solely on the show. keep this in mind]

I'm team green for 3 big reasons. they're more complex, thought not perfect by any means, more morally "right", and are simply more my vibe when it comes to characters. now this is very simplified and not at all nuanced, so stick with me for a minute.

Firstly, they're more complex. the greens have very deep, detailed, and nuanced lives and stories that lead to them being very complex characters that can't be put into a box. Alicent was a child bride who had lost her mother young became a mother young and suffered at the hands of power and men all her life. her children were affected by this and the world they were forced to grow up in throughout their lives. even individually her kids are drastically different; aegon the child who was forced into a life he did not want and suffered due to his father neglect and mother pain. Helaena who was never understood and grew up treated like an oddity. Aemond who was never seen to his full potential, always ignored or looked over, angry throughout his life. each of them has strengths and weaknesses, flaws and benefits, they're imperfect but never completely horrid. they're also never simplified (not entirely, even when the plot and writers seek to simplify them) to the point that they put on a moral pedestal or made straight evil (i'd even argue that the attempts of the writer to oversimplify them as evil and in the wrong makes them 10x more fascinating). I find TB characters tended to miss the mark on that, always put in the moral light, not even allowed a moment to reflect on their actions, lives, or positions in any nuanced or meaningful way, so they always just feel dull. they're also out on a moral highground that they can never be budged from, which makes them harder to like and honestly, really boring. they get away with everything instead of being emotionally and morally nuanced.

secondly, they're more morally "right". I will never say that any of the greens are perfect, they are far from it (with the exception of Helaena and her kids, who have done literally nothing to anyone, but I digress). what I will say, 9/10 times there is some level of reasoning that has some level of reasoning. Alicent always tries to do whats best for everyone, all throughout the series she tried to do best by the court, the king, her children, the realm, and Rhaenyra. did she always succeed? no, but she always tried and her mistakes were almost always honest. I will say she held resentment towards Rhaenya, but honestly, I can't blame her. Rhaenyra's lies and behavior hurt Alicent over and over again so for her to be angry is expected.when it came to succession, Alicent backed Rhaenyra until it was made clear she and Daemon would be a threat to her children's lives and even than she held mercy for Rhaenyra. Aegon's drinking can be blamed on the abuse and neglect he suffered at Viserys, Otto, and Alicent's (though the abuse and neglect from his mother is insanely different and nuanced. she perpetuated her pain onto him because she couldn't heal herself. so I hesitate to call it abuse, cause its so much more complicated than that) hands. though nothing will justify his rape of Dyana, I personally think it was a bad add in on the writers part, and leave it at that. Aemonds rage after years of being ignored doesn't entirely justify what he did to luke, but he had reason for his cruelty after years of Luke (and jace tbh) being cruel just because they could. TB characters tend to do terrible things in response to either A. nothing B. their own terrible things. Daemon kills who he wants when he feels like it, even for stating facts. Rhaneyra will lie and hurt those around her to protect her bastard children. both of them conspire to protect themselves and allow themselves to be wed, really just cause. while there are times they have their reasons, its a lot less of the time, and typically the backing to their actions, is they were trying to unbury themselves from within their own graves. (to preface, I don't care about rhaenyra sleeping around, it doesn't bother me, but its the fact that she will hurt everyone around her to protect her lies, allowing a child to be maimed and people to be murdered)

thirdly, they're my vibe. I like morally complex character, who are, to be frank, pathetic. I like characters with complex trauma's and issues, who aren't perfect people but its not entirely their fault. I would much rather watch a whole show about alicent, a child bride who tries so hard to be a good wife, queen, and mother while not prepared for any such role. Aegon who is a boy with severe mommy and daddy issues, a drinking problem, a flawed past, and constantly wet eyes. Helaena an ignored girl who has suffered for no better reason then her family. and Aemond, a boy who was tormented, bullied, maimed, and made stronger by it at the cost of his compassion and emotional stability - over a nepo baby who was coddled by her father, her murderous husband with a knack for unneeded violence, and her similarly coddled children (the show boiled them down to this, in my opinion). one is simply more up my alley than the other. I want character that need to be dissected, who have suffered, who hurt me to look at.

also, team black created almost all of their own problems. seeing as the main source of contention had to do with Rhaenyra's kids being bastards, which was Rhaenyra's problem, which she caused, and kept digging and digging that grave (faking Laenors death just so she could marry daemon, turning the blame on aemond when luke maimed him furthering the divide amongst the house, trying to wed Helaena to Jace putting her in danger, trying to take the driftmark throne and killing Vaemond for a claim her sons did not have, etc,) till viserys's death, earns her a lot less pity from me. at the end of the day, her being a woman was only a needle in a haystack worth of problems she caused herself that hurt her claim. if she had just strived to create to connection with ancient and her kids, and didn't make herself look like a threat to everyone who lessened her claim (which alicents kids would be the first people to be taken out) alicent would have backed like she had all season and there would have been no war, maybe conflict, but no war.

theres also the effect of the fans on my opinion. I have faced more cruelty, terrible media analysis, and outright ableism/misogny/(blood and sexual based) purist ideology/etc. from the TB fans then I have ever witness by TG fans. TB fans have ruined almost all of the TB characters for me in more ways than I can count, so I will say I am very biased.

thats why I'm team green. as a whole they are simply more appealing, their stories are more interesting, demand more attention to detail and emotional understanding, and from my point of view were the "right" side to be on in the war (the war was wrong on both sides, but my chips lie in the favour of the greens).

[cloudly-moonlight]

Can you write Mama Mirabel raising Antonio as her son.

I don't think I will write Mirabel raising Antonio but I can write Mirabel singing one of her fav nursery songs to her little cousin.

[tennessoui]

new to the fandom and apparently theres anakins hair color discourse ??? this seems like an old fandom, so whats the general consensus there so far

hahahahaha let’s leave some stuff in 2021 it’s more fun that way to pretend there’s been growth here

[nikkiruncks]

"Jackie is married to Hyde and they have two twins, Reggie and Kat. And Kelso and Brooke are married, happily raising Betsy and Jay together." LOL! I so envy your ability to replace reality with whatever you wish :) I too can see Kelso happy with Brooke, though I don't think Hyde would ever be a warm, affectionate, supportive partner to Jackie even if he didn't cheat or sleep with strippers lol.

That’s fair. I do feel that there are several moments where Hyde is shown to be warm and nurturing in his own way (I.e. shaving his beard to cheer Jackie up, going to the Christmas party in s6, giving Jackie a place to sleep after her dad got stuck in jail, etc.)

I’m not saying he was a perfect boyfriend or anything, but I don’t really blame him for having trouble with that kind of affection given his upbringing. It isn’t even until he moves in with the Formans that he actually gets a good level of love and respect.

@tht70sblog feel free to add on. Love hearing your thoughts.

[todayisafridaynight]

I have a question is Kiryu’s father a bad father?

i think he's a handsome father

[lordadmiralfarsight]

I hate to be positioned even vaguely near the “let’s end all religion” guy so know I’m asking this out of general curiosity abd as respectfully as I can but, like, what makes religious practices and beliefs inherently more valuable then non religious ones? Is it their age? There are tons of beliefs older then any known religion that we have abandoned and ridiculed constantly like the belief the earth is flat,

Nothing makes religious beliefs more valuable than non-religious ones, in my opinion. But in turn, nothing makes religious belief LESS valuable than non-religious ones. And just to pre-empt any possible misunderstanding : that doesn't make religious belief equal to or superior to scientific facts. But nonetheless, religious beliefs can play a big role in the lives of some people, and that is something to respect, just as non-religious beliefs that play a big role in the lives of people are also something to respect. It doesn't mean they are untouchable, of course, but if we're going to criticize beliefs, religious or not, we should do it on their content, not on their nature or age or presentation.

Apologies if this is ramble-y, I am a teacher crawling closer to the winter holyday, and I am bone tired.

[drifloonz]

The multiple miki thing might be because Miki could've been based on Charizard M and that thing is known for cloning itself.

Tbh i cant fault shadowmalerenamon for completely changing doors open when rewriting it. Having missingno be the main antagonist was miles better than how Steve was in the original.

( mention of suicide ig )

i respectfully disagree . i see where you're coming from but i think all of the rewritten strangled... duology i guess bc strangled red itself never got one

( thank fucking god to be honest. it needs No change. although at the same time its kind of funny it never got one bc its the most popular one and going more into him as a Person if smr didnt fuck it up would be nice ... but im too attached to my own interp based off of his canon implications to care about what smr kind of has to give. and he already did that in og strangled red, to a degree, although it focuses on the tragedy there is character stuff to be extrapolated from the implications of the story if youre very deeply ill. like me. )

- is a lot less character-focused, at least on steven specifically, and is focused on explaining or rewriting shit that never needed to be explained or rewritten. it is a revisit and reinterpretation of the story, that to me, is just purely kind of . Not good or fun to read. and the new shit it introduces is fucking stupid imo. steven being banished by the town instead of... fucking. killing himself ( especially specifically by cop. that's lame and way more boring + FUCK THE POLICE !!! + It feels out of character for steven he would just do it himself like actually. Also yk. hanging yourself is narratively thematic and ironic. ) or whatever goes so much harder .

guy who loves his town and home region and wanting to be a role model and wanting to be cool so badly being driven mad and then the entirety of kanto, his homeland, forsaking him and walling him off goes crazy . Also because it implies they're scared of him to some degree which also makes me go crazy as an implication.

[ more put below bc i love to fucking yap about strangled red and how much i dont like the rewrites ]

i Will not step down from 'the rewrites arent good' . Doors open is mostly bad because stevens characterization is garbage. even though its random and from left field ( why the fuck is he in sprout tower ) it couldve been handled well if it was written better characterization-wise.

also i supposed the 'M charizard makes sense. not. not really i don't actually think smr thought that through. if he did, which he couldve because she is named #'M# in Strangled Red, cool, but i still think it's just to make the "miki" name thing with 4 party members he has. which is cool admittedly. it's just that i hope it is never explained why he has 4. and it never has since, doors open rewrite didnt do anything with that thank god.

and bc he wouldnt have any other mon other than miki post-incident and afaik that thing only replaces existing partymembers, and steven canonically releases all his team in SR + pokemon avoid him. but yea. Doors open i treat as a 'spinoff' in a sense bc nothing from it really makes sense when properly thought through, and its basically there to make the lost silver crossover i feel. also, yk, he literally says "Never." in strangled red when you press switch on 'M / missingno/revived/whatever you want to call miki post revival. its kind of out of character for canon-compliant steven to have anything other than miki post-incident for these 3 reasons - i only made a team for him post incident bc im autistic about pokemon and pokemon teams so that was for fun.

basically it makes more plotholes and questions than not the more strangled reds plot stuff tries to be explained or added upon esp in the remakes which i think are not fun reads if you like steven as a character anyways. and also bc strangled and doors open in the ogs are easter eggs. trying to explain what is supposed to be an in universe easter egg in pokemon would obviously be kind of a lesson in futility. not. not exactly but at least in the way smr does it.

strangled makes sense, you just go to his fucking house and hes there. yea. doors open is like. Yea hes in johto now. dont ask. but its also easily explainable as... He just fucked off to johto. For what reason? idk. hates kanto bc theyve forsaken him and banished him to the Woods, just wanted fresh air i guess, or just for fun. these are all more plausible reasons.

iirc the rewrite doesnt even say why hes there and if it does the reason is convoluted and not needed. i think its just 'hes a ghost hallucination... thing??? following the mc which is the most boring route to go for with steven and the most uninspired thing ever, and missingno was not the antagonist just a plot device in the og story Why are we focusing on it so much.' and its still a plot device in the rewrites! it isnt explained ( good the explanation would be kind of awful ) and i cant see any good way to explain missingno other than the way i do as a fun idea. which is biased but the 'failed clone of mew number 3' is a fun idea.

this is an insane ramble from a deranged person. if you can't tell i fucking love steven as a character and smr does him dirty except in strangled red, really. strangled... is fine but bc he barely talks in that one and when he does its like. yea. that checks out.

no hate to you btw none of it was directed at you specifically just smr and strangled reds various canons. you just gave me an excuse to ramble about how much i dislike the remakes tbh. I fucking LOVE analyzing why i hate things esp involving steven bc hes not greatly written by his og creator and not often greatly written by the fandom either .

[chippuyon]

i really don’t mean to be rude but rei is asexual and kaz is not, they still made the decision to be life partners they are committed to each other but should we force rei to put out or kaz to become celibate when it’s not their preference? should they separate because their sexuality is incompatible? i don’t get why kazuki going out on dates could be seen as a sign of him being troubled and coping when he’s simply fulfilling a physiological need, they never mentioned he was an addict just that the day before he went out. besides he could legit be just hanging out every now and then bc he’s an extrovert and his partner isn’t

In a general sense I agree with you but I'm seeing this in a thematic sense. Kazuki from the beginning was shown to be at a bad place gambling, getting drunk, etc and the sleeping was included in that. You can have your personal opinion but my hc is that Kazuki used casual sex as a coping mechanism. He said himself he was scared he would find something that could replace his wife. So to wrap up his arc it just makes sense to me for him to stay in a committed and mostly closed relationship(not to replace his wife but to find a new happiness). And I'm not saying it's wrong for Kaz to want to hang out with women but sneaking that line in there just made it feel like it was in bad faith from the writers' part. There was no reason to include it other than for the writers to say "oh he's still not gay!"

[motoroil-recs]

I suppose this counts as a kinfession. I just wanted to state how sometimes it gets really frustrating to see sentients who are kin with a not binary character that uses they/them (see Kris from Deltarune) and them then using he/him. I get that it is their own memories and literally them, but I suppose after a while it feels like some sort of erasure to me? I hope that makes sense, and if anybody could explain more to make me more comfortable with this specific thing, that would be lovely as well. I always want to keep an open mind.

🏎️‼️

[cwarscars-a]

//you posting about scars made me curious; how did Heid's opinions on my tseng change when he saw him with less clothes on and realised the 'perfect untouchable' look was a lie, and he has plenty of scars

honestly? (and somewhat predictably), I’d imagine for heidegger – he found it very impressive and admirable. like, he’d openly admit his own mistake of assuming tseng to be this untouched / unblemished / never seen war before sorta guy. heidegger would see those scars and he’d have that sudden realisation that tseng HAS been through it, he HAS struggled and bares the scars of war (much like heid).

he’d admire him – not openly, not outwardly – but he would.

there would be a new found, unspoken sort of respect. you know that whole, like, manly nod of the head – a silent appreciation? it’d be like that. heidegger wont ask questions, he wont trace scars with fingers or say ‘WOW THAT’S COOL’ out loud.

he would just silently find himself with a new found appreciation of the other. heidegger’s serious silence in response to tseng baring all would speak words enough of the director’s admiration for tseng’s sacrifices / scars.

[leafyztar]

Honestly i hate you and i always think on all the ways of torture for you. But sometimes i feel kinda bad for you after imaginating you in the most ridiculous tortures and i just inaginate you being finally happy. Honestly it feels kinda crazy sending asks to the character i kinda hate.

[xenoshadow13]

you really should take the matter over fictional content more seriously because one day you could actually really someone out there over what you think is just harmless fun

you might laugh right now but you won't find it so funny when you're dropped by a former friend over it :/

As I've once said to another anon, I rather not be pulled into this nonsense over fucking fiction. It's nothing but a very stupid shitstorm that should have NEVER gotten this bad in the first place.

And because I know there will be folks out there who will get on my case for this, no, just kindly fuck off and leave me alone. I refuse to be dragged into a shitstorm all because some folks out there want to throw a hissy fit at others enjoying ANY sort of fictional content that THEY find uncomfortable.

I said these before in another post and I shall say it again because I feel it's needed. Putting this under readmore tho cuz post getting rather long here.

It's okay to feel upset over certain fictional content & interests, but that does not mean it's okay for you to act as if those who enjoy said stuff are horrible people. You're allowed to feel however you want over certain content, but for fuck's sake please just use that block/mute/whatever and move on with your fucking life. No need to announce to the world how much this or that makes you uncomfortable okay.

It's YOUR job to curate your own internet experience, NOT US STRANGERS. Most of us will do our best to tag certain shit to make it easier for others to avoid content but the system here isn't perfect so stuff is bound to slip by regardless. But even then, it's still YOUR job to curate your own internet experience. Again, a lot of us fellow online folks will do our best to tag certain content to make this a little easier for you, but that doesn't mean it's our job to cater to you.

News flash people, everyone has trauma and everyone deals with it differently. You're allowed to feel however you want over with anything regarding your trauma but that does not give you the fucking right to act as if only YOUR experiences and how YOU deal with YOUR trauma is "right". What's that? Do you find how this or that person deals with their trauma to be really weird? Alright. That's okay. You think so-and-so doesn't count and that gives you the right to treat them however you want for it? Yeah no. You can fuck off with that mindset there.

Everyone is bound to unwittingly do something that will make you and others uncomfortable but that doesn't make them some horrible person. So please take a chill pill and not jump the gun so soon on others solely because of that. Not to say that you're not allowed to feel however you do but for fuck's sake 1) a lot of us are socially awkward folks who struggle with recognizing social cues and such and 2) it's not easy to read tone and such over text. :|

Alrighty. This is getting long enough as it is and uhm starting to get a bit tough to not go off completely here so just gonna stop.

But yeah. If you have a problem with any of this then go right ahead and hit that unfollow button there. You will not be missed. :)