#But she is not really mainstream

[artheresy]

I decided to try the general public sale today instead of immediately going to the resale tickets for Miku expo and literally... within three minutes of it opening, SOLD OUT and with the way the count was going down, it was so clear that so many of the "buyers" were just bots and I'm so... I'm so tired

I hate ticketmaster so goddamn much

[radfem-polls]

because of the poll that's going around about if someone is more likely to have blocked JKR on Tumblr vs. if she blocked them... I had this idea:

Is JKR on Tumblr?

Option a: No (boo....)

Option b: Yes, and she runs a JKR fan blog

Option c: Yes, and she's one of the really big radblr blogs

Option d: Yes, but it's a blank blog (lurker)

Option e: Yes, but it's literary criticism

Option f: Yes, and she's trolling

- 🐈

[teafiend]

[msommers]

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[knight-intraining]

You know one of the major flaws in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is the idea that Elizabeth Swann-Turner, Pirate King would retire to an island and be just a mom.

Where's the TV series of her getting into shenanigans, Murder She Wrote style?

Like, she knows better than the governor. She can't just sit by and watch him put his ridiculous naval policies into place.

With her upper class upbringing (and father's inheritance no doubt), she's not going to at least think about hiring a nanny instead of not just hand raising, but homeschooling her child?

After a taste of adventure, she's going to just sit on her laurels and wait till she can see her man again in 10 years?? I think not

[rayatii]

The main reason seeing videos of little kids singing Puccini arias (and usually only O mio babbino caro or Nessun dorma, which are the most overplayed shit that the man ever composed) really pisses me off is: I’m 22 years old, I have been training in classical/opera singing for nearly 4 years (tho I admit I haven’t always been extremely diligent with it), and my teacher doesn’t let me sing Puccini arias because my voice isn’t mature enough yet, which is a choice that I absolutely respect. And here, we have literal children actively destroying their still-developing vocal cords on Some-Shit’s-Got-Talent type shows for the sake of sheer spectacle.

[inkyself]

Honestly I wasn’t expecting anything good out of a marvel series after the shit show in the last few tvseries but Jac Shaffer. Sir. A well rounded female protagonist? No make up look that slays? A feminist view on motherhood? A first episode that totally subverts the expectations of MAGIC but nicely ties in with the wandavision premise? End titles that slay??? I mean I’m sat I really am

[weedle-testaburger]

there's this kind of youtuber i lowkey really hate who aren't overt bigots or anything but just do this thing where they seem to try stupidly hard to look for reasons to hate media that just so happens to have a lot of marginalised rep in it. especially if it has a thematic point that would involve acknowledging politics

[specterthief]

The "just not the dub" in your tags, thanks 🙏. (I do think the dub has its place and it's got some stuff but it's not necessarily the same show. And the original is just superior when it comes to the emotional beats. The dub I think tried too hard to be "funny" and it kinda took away some of the characters' good qualities (esp Reki imo).)

tbh ironically reki is the one character who i think suffers least from the dub because when the script is good his performance is generally really good on a technical level and pretty fitting to the character's original tone, and he seems to have suffered from the least like... active material changes to his characterization, i guess because no one really had any problems with reki lol

but saying "when the script is good" is kind of fraught in the first place, because untangling the absolute mess of the general scriptwriting from the intentional character changes from the actors improvising with no oversight is such an overwhelming task i've tried to break it down and given up multiple times already, so even generally feeling like reki was the character who had the best transition to dub he's still held down by being in this dub

i do think it can have some entertainment value just to watch a bit here and there to hear the characters speaking english but the fact that they self-admittedly completely rewrote characters and altered the script to the point of changing the actual plot and themes of the show just kind of supersedes the few praiseworthy things it's got, because it's treated as an equal and equivalent way of enjoying the story and it's just... really functionally not the same story. and now the fandom is full of people going solely off the dub and thinking it's the same story and projecting that back on the original text or gleefully praising the dub's (again, admitted) efforts to "improve" the source material and "make it gayer" by adding fanservice while censoring the actual text. it doesn't even hold up for a theoretical accessibility use case, before you even get to the story changes, because important information in the visuals that's conveyed in characters' dialog and tone in japanese gets completely cut or lost in english.

i can't stop people from enjoying it obviously but i wish there could at least be an understanding that it's not the same show and shouldn't be discussed as if they're interchangeable, and i'm always going to put disclaimers like that on any kind of recommendation because the original story is what i'm recommending and the dub isn't that. i love the original show and i want people to experience that as nearly as they possibly can, not someone's smug fanfiction pasted over the original animation.

[nonbinary-sticks-the-badger]

haaate how my two favourite ships (surgamy + espilver) typically involve the less popular character losing their edge and acting really out of character (but in an in character way?) because when i go through periods of not drawing/writing/whatever much when it comes to surge or espio as standalone characters (or at least outside the context of shipping) i get scared im gonna forget who they are and that theyre actually so cool

[subunit-a]

Taking a stab at drawing what I think Bella Lester could look like as I think she seems pretty cool

With and without makeup

[seaweedstarshine]

Okay so The Star Beast was fun and I'm hyped for Wild Blue Yonder and everything but I am shattered over the new episode of Eleventh Doctor Chronicles.

Broken Hearts is some of the best dark!Doctor Expanded Universe exploration I ever consumed, and that includes The Eleventh Doctor Year Two comics. I am sobbing. I am in tears. I am broken as thoroughly as the Doctor broke Valerie Lockwood.

Me when I can't find any Broken Hearts/Curiosity Shop stan posts to reblog or fic to read to get out the angsty energy...

(fic. I'm writing fic. and yes this is an open request for reading recs)

[entamewitchlulu]

there's a couple things i've been watching recently that really makes me think about how we were so mean to kids about their """mary sues""" for being "too competent" when there are whole genres of stories where the main appeal is that the character is hypercompetent and beloved by most characters....well-received and well-reviewed stories even. but when little girls do it to have fun it was cringe i guess

[bybdolan]

so much of gaylor analysis is like a rich tapestry woven out of connections to obscure queer imagery and code and then you look at the media Taylor actually claims to be inspired by and it is American Classics Everybody Knows or Netflix Movie.

[eosphorusss]

the thing that really annoys me abt sabrina carpenter is that her lyrics and rhythm are decidedly modern but she uses old-timey visuals in an attempt to woo the public eye, which are in no way related to the essence of her music. to me, this all feels like a very outlandish and dishonest trick to garner attention, which ofc works like a charm

[evilmagician430]

"the new clawdeen just isnt as fierce as she used to be-" to YOU. to me he's butch but you guys arent ready for that conversation