#Franky rant

[strawberryraviegutz]

Aaand we already have someone who made art that is making fun of others who simp for Frankie in the Finding Frankie tags… from what I can tell it’s pretty clear that all 3 frankies are obviously adults so what is yall’s problem???

Ppl like you are the reason why cringe culture will never go away and why selfshippers are continuously bullied/harassed to all hell. For goodness sake we’re not hurting anyone by simping for and or falling in love with fictional characters PLEASE LEAVE US ALONE.

[raconabhorrent]

been fascinated with Finding Frankie today and while I definitely think there's a lot to praise about the game and the story and the characters,, i'm also hella confused as to WHY (not what) things in the story were happening...

not saying it needs like HELLA lore like Poppy Playtime or an ARG like Amanda the Adventurer or smth but even if u think about the story of the game as completely self-contained (as in, it has no effect on the universe it resides within),, some of the things that happen happen for no reason other than they were written that way??? which, again,, isn't a bad thing,, but i'd def like to see some of the plot threads introduced in the game developed more if they do end up making sequels...

!!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!!

things like,, why are there two frankies??? why is one evil (capitalism) and the other one just tries to stomp on you?? why are the mascots sentient or whatever??? were they built like that??? do they have human something inside them (human organs, human soul, etc.) or are they just inanimate objects that have their own consciousnesses of some kind????

who started the game show? who's running it? who created the mascots? who are the people watching the streams? does the government know or is this like squid games? how have they not gone bankrupt previously? how have the police not been notified BEFORE of hundreds of people dying before you arrive?

what is the player's motivation for being a contestant? it seems like your character tried really hard to get that vhs tape... why does frankie get mad at you for "ruining his fucking gameshow" and then turn around when you somehow survive falling into the incinerator (which,, what??? did you use the grindrails?? is that even the player???) and be like "omg let's be business partners buddy"???

how parkour physics work?? (i can suspend my disbelief on this one the most, honestly),, HOW IS THIS FACILITY RUNNING??? IS FRANKIE RUNNING THE WHOLE THING??? are there humans behind the whole operation that you're not seeing?? who called the polices???? why do they never bring that up again??? WHAT IS A NOOB NOOB?!?!??!1 why do they explode why do they do a little dance when ur chasing them why do they have blood inside them i'm assuming its blood cus all the supposed blood in this game is black is it dried?? is it old blood??? is it stylized?? is it ichor of some kind??? what??

maybe my tendency to overthink is getting carried away here,, probably,, but i def want to understand more about this setting bc there's so much that can be done with it, even if it's explained away with silly cartoon logic or something.

[kathyrealmstales]

Okay, it's late where I am, and I should be asleep, but instead, I'm posting this, with a tired brain, because my brain won't let me sleep, til I make this, so I'm sorry, I'm warning it's a long post.... Read if you want to go insane.

Anyways-

WHY THE HECK, DID I THINK OTHER FRANKIE COULD BREAK HIS CHAIR???

I was like, "oh haha! He is too big for his chair! Just look at him vs the baby chair!"

But then I realized-

I HAVE THE CHAIR AND I KNOW ITS WRONG!!!

Proof, this is my chair:

For the reasoning why I have it, the answer is, this was my chair from when I was 5 years old. I'm a kleptomaniac and so I kept it for I think 16 to 17 year, maybe more? (I can't do math right now-) either or, I have kept it... BECAUSE IT CANT BREAK!!!

I swear, this chair is so indestructible, I have used it as a stool, I have had really heavy stuff on it cuz I needed a surface, I have thrown stuff at it and it at things and both ways, the item was more damaged, then this bloody chair.

These chairs are so just-

There is no way, Other Frankie could break this chair, he could throw it into the incinerator and it would probs come out fine!!!

SO! For anyone else who thought like me, and was like, oh yeah, that chair would break because its so small and he is a giant robot, no he wouldn't, that chair would kill him before he destroyed it.

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So now art idea for me later.... Lucky beating Other Frankie up with one of these chairs.

Yay....

[humaneevee2874]

i shouldn't have looked this up.

so... in the 2d animator of finding frankie post. A comment said there was rule34 of finding frankie already created. So i looked it up just to see it was real, and now my eyes are scared for life. Like understand, I like simp for cartoon frankie but i don't make rule34 of him because I think the 2d animator is not comfortable having her character that she animated for a horror game being rule34.(so im going to show a cropped picture of it because I don't want to show the whole thing)

(So my opinion on this. He is mighty fine and the contestant would be me rn in a nutshell, it just feels wrong liking a rule34 of a character, that it's creator didn't want this to happen.) F in the chat for the 2D animator and the creator of finding frankie. I feel bad for them.

(Also im 18 so i can look up 18+ like stuff. Sometimes when i feel like it)

[moowithmidnight]

Wow I love how Paget Brewster plays all her characters (hot) (autistic) (lesbian)

[somnas-writes]

Imagine how relived the straw hats must be once they’re on the crew.

Each straw hat struggled before joining (Nami with arlong, Franky with Tom’s death, Robin with … everything). They didn’t have enough of the necessities (love, food, money, safety) but then they become a straw hat and they don’t have to ration anything.

Nami is free to save and spend money as she pleases. Robin is finally able to relax and enjoy life. Franky is wholly welcomed somewhere.

something that stuck out to me during several straw hats backstories was that they didn’t have enough to eat. They’re likely malnourished and underweight.

So imagine how reliving it is to have a cook who not only makes feasts everyday, but goes out of his way to make sure everything is suited to personal taste. Robin and Nami get deserts and coffee and tea whenever they want it.

They have a surplus, and that must be so fucking comforting.

[poolboyservice]

really don't know why endos are trying to take syspunk/systempunk/etc. and then losing their shit when they find anti endo content like

you guys have pluralpunk, GO THERE!!!!

you say you're plural, but you don't have DID/OSDD? great!!! SO YOU'RE NOT A SYSTEM, and therefore, you need to STOP TAKING TERMS FROM SYSTEMS AND TRANS PEOPLE!!!!!! MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS AND STOP STEALING FROM PROGRAMMED SYSTEMS!!!

"but anti endos are invading their spaces!!" tags like #did system and #osddid? oh, totally. how dare we steal the spaces that were originally ours in the first place! I am so so so sorry, I'll give everything to you my dear royal ruler (can you feel my sarcasm. I feel like it's oozing from my pores atp)

"hating on endos is not punk" stop stealing terms from a minority that's actively being targeted by law by methods such as murder (trans people), stop telling systems they're lucky to have been abused/trafficked/etc., stop appropriating a ritual from a culture that isn't yours, stop invading spaces that have never been yours, stop telling people to kill themselves for existing, and THEN we'll talk

I'll be aware, I know some anti endos genuinely go out to attack endos, but that is a very small %. The only reason there's so much accounts that express they're anti endo and multiple tags that are basically "endos fuck off" is because you keep invading OUR spaces and attacking US, you big fucking baby

If you don't want to get mauled to death, then don't tread on wolf territory, easy as that.

I'm definitely making this too long and rant-y but holy shit, y'all, come on.

[eilinelsghost]

I've not posted much when it comes to my feelings/critique of Rings of Power (because the discourse there is a toxic hellscape that I have not wanted to touch with a 10 foot pole), but I've come away from the final episode so frustrated that I can't help saying one thing.

In trying to be clever with their "references," what the showrunners have ended up doing instead is taking the narrative power away from several of LoTR's key moments so that when those instances show up in the "later" trilogy, they are shorn of their meaning and arrive instead as hollow echoes of what RoP is putting forward as their original instances.

This is most clearly seen in Season 1 when Galadriel's pivotal moment in Fellowship of the Ring is taken from her, placed in a man's mouth first, and consequently shifts the entirety of her narrative arc/test to be about her relationship/temptation by this specific person instead of being the full fruition of what brought her to Middle-earth in the First Age. Her test (as noted in the Shibboleth of Fëanor, found in HoME volume 12: The Peoples of Middle-earth) is the rejection of "all that she had desired in her youth," which is specifically tied to her involvement in the rebellion of the Noldor and subsequent rejection of the Valar's pardon.

If Galadriel's test is thus reframed to be primarily about refusing the power Sauron offers, then she does that here in the Second Age (per their depiction) and this scene thereby makes her choice at the Mirror irrelevant because it turns it into a test she had already passed. (The irony here is that so many bad faith critiques were that the show made Galadriel too independent & fighter-y when in fact they took all of her independence and cut the knees right out from under it by making her entire story about Sauron instead of its own complicated arc. But I digress.)

In Season 2, we receive an additional host of these attempted referential echoes, but I will focus on one in particular because it operates in exactly the same way that Galadriel's Season 1 scene does. It is once again the final episode, once again a character whose journey we have followed through the whole season (throughout both seasons, in fact), and once again it is taking a key moment in the LoTR narrative and shifting it to be instead something that has already happened in the Second Age - specifically, the scene with the Stranger (now disappointingly officially identified as Gandalf) and "the Dark Wizard". This effectively lifts Gandalf's refusal of Saruman's offer in FoTR and places that exact temptation (join me and together we can weild the power that Sauron has) centuries earlier so that when he is faced with it at Isengard in the Third Age, Gandalf is merely repeating his earlier decision and facing nothing but an echo of a temptation he has already mastered.

These characters are now caught in a Groundhog's Day of their defining moments, repeated ad nauseam till it is reflex and not conviction.

In attempting to construct resonance and connection between the two narratives, what RoP has done instead is shore up a hall of empty mirrors, each reflecting back upon itself to the point where the origin becomes meaningless and the beauty of its narrative power is lost.

[franki-lew-yo]

ALL my feelings towards Friendship is Magic could be so easily summed up as:

" -Twilight Sparkle should never have become an alicorn princess in season 3 of a series with 9 seasons - ''

She should have always had it in the books to eventually become an alicorn, but her becoming one in season 3 is where literally all (my own) problems with the show stem from and almost all of those problems are about the show in execution, NOT in theory. 

Everything about later seasons Friendship is Magic’s writing reeks of the writers trying to make their ideas, fan ideas, and Hasbro’s ideas work all at the same time with so little time. They were told to make Equestria Girls, Princess Twilight, Flurry Heart and the movie “work” while also juggling writing in Starlight and her whole arc (and the characters attached, like Sunburst), the CMC getting their cutie marks, the reformed changelings, griffons and dragons, their Starswirl the Bearded stuff; WHILE ALSO making sure Discord and the Princesses (mostly Luna) and the ‘fan fav’ characters worked on their own and come together.

In my opinion, it just didn’t.

There was always too much going on with little to no time to breathe or appreciate the characters -how far they’ve come, how much further they have to go- at all. And it made later bit of lore and characters feel frustrating. It made potentially great characters deeply unlikable. Starlight and Discord are the biggest victims.

I want to like them. I really do. I can’t though because Starlight is not only a ‘madeawittlemistake’(aka ran a cult)-villain redemption, BUT she has to share her stories with the main six. They underdeveloped her while also trying to make her important and it just made me dislike Starlight and Twilight so much. It made me get mad at Starlight for being in the way of a Twilight episode, it made me wanna scream at Twilight for getting in the way of what should be Starlight’s time to shine!

Discord now had to share his ‘redeemed baddie’ spotlight with Starlight and others meant he had no time for his development which, when it was done* (ALL of Season 4) was abysmally fast, badly paced and in my view insulting. It made Discord, even in episodes where he had a point to be there, feel useless because fundamentally was overall. Season 4 assassinated Discord’s character to me and I didn’t remotely like him. For years I thought I just didn’t like FiM simply because the show and the fandom clearly preferred Fluttercord to Dislestia and I was just butthurt. Which, to be clear, I am. My mega revelation regarding this show was realizing that, no- what I hated wasn’t Fluttercord, it was Discord himself. How he was being handled, how he was written from s4 onward (ALL THE EPISODES WHERE HE’S YANDRE TO FLUTTERSHY SHOULD HAVE BEEN BEFORE HIS BETRAYAL. ALL OF THEM. NO YOU WILL NOT CHANGE MY MIND IT’S FINAL) pissed me off so much as a person who really loved his potential character in season 2 and 3. Discord and Fluttershy being besties and possibly more could and should have been adorable...but it wasn't because the Discord we got was a horrid character. Fluttershy deserves better.

I know you guys don’t wanna hear this same old worn-out critique about FiM, but I’m sorry I have to agree: when they weren’t being crowbarred into stuff that didn’t need their stories, Starlight and Discord were both forgiven -by the show- WAAY too soon. The problem wasn’t that they had redemption arcs and/or that other characters didn’t. The problem was their redemptions were badly done. The show didn’t treat them like they had been redeemed from something hurtful, it acted like they had never done anything wrong. And that was bad because it made it so, when the three baddies at the end of the series were officially crowned "irredeemable", the show felt biased. It felt mean spirited towards Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy when their end should have actually felt fitting and funny. It’s not about ‘morals’ or ‘punishing’ fictional cartoon horses voiced by John DeLancie for warcrimes or whatever tf Lily Orchard goes on about-- it’s about how the show FELT LIKE IT FAVORED some characters more than others. That was a thing that I loved Friendship is Magic for not doing in seasons 1-3, what made it and it’s character’s endearing and wholesome to me, and it’s why the handling of the main cast in later seasons felt so mean.

But to get back to the alicorn in the room; Twilight could have graduated or something for season 3 and then the whole show could build up to her actually outdoing Starswirl’s wrongs as she does in the pony of shadows plot. THAT could have been her ‘upgraded to alicorn princess moment’; but it didn’t. As much as I wish it were that way, it isn’t and that’s not what the writer’s did because they didn’t have the time or foresight for that. Sadly, even though lots of flaws and problems were always baked into the loaf from the start (Celestia being useless or 'sinister', ponies being racist towards everything else, bad and/or basic friendship lessons) Twilight becoming an alicorn princess, which DID ultimately change her character, her role and her presence even amongst her friends and the rest of Ponyville, was the start of all the problems.

We’re stuck with what we got and what we got was a series that -to me- only ever kept adding more and MORE until it felt overstuffed, hectic, and unfortunately mean spirited when it wasn’t trying to be. There’s nothing we can do now. Personally, I highkey am annoyed at other adult bronies saying I “didn’t get” the show and its decisions which is why I didn’t like it. No. Trust me I get “it”; the problem is that “it” wasn’t well done which is why I didn’t like “it”. “It” deserved better.

Of course, I also get some of why those bronies are so defensive. After all I was there when the whole 'Twilight becoming a Princess'-controversy happened. I remember how ugly it got and how annoying and entitled you guys were about it and Equestria Girls' existence (don't even get me started on ur #savederpy).

Something I want to make especially clear whenever I criticize writers, especially of kids shows, is that a criticism IS NOT an attack. Ever. Boycotts and callouts should be reserved for stuff that's actually morally wrong and yes they also count for stuff I like, not just stuff I want to be mad at. Lookin at you, Didney.

There was never and still is never a reason to bother, hurt or ask the writers for MLP gen 4 why they did what they did. No, not even if you're being 'friendly' about it. Leave M.A. Larson alone.

Granted, fans being entitled to creator's attention and creator's being entitled to fans' affection is it's own rabbit hole, but I truly think that FiM set an ugly standard for that with animated shows today.

Besides still being too thin skinned and not liking that a thing they've divested so much real life time into could be bad, a thing about cartoon commentary and criticism in the 2010s-2020s is they're really parasocial and demanding of writers and artists behind a show. The was always the biggest, ugliest, most uncomfortable aspect of Friendship is Magic to me: because it's creators were online and fans knew they were listening, could approve of fan's creations, and especially because they felt 'responsible' for a show's success, they were really into @ing writers about everything. When critics would call something out for being badly written it somehow always made it's way into becoming a personal accusatory thing. People were blaming writers for being human and working within time constraints and network decisions. You didn't have to be like that TinyToons guy who stalked Tress MacNeille about sexualizing Fifi in the 90s to be a harasser. You could just be an aggressively oversupporting 'stan' or angry nitpicking critic to make a writer who's just doing their job, uncomfortable

tl;dr: I disliked the writing of the later Friendship is Magic. I think it was bad because it was bad. None of that is meant as an attack on the writers who were trying their best and don't need to be roped into any fandom nonsense, positive or negative, and never should have been in the first place.

Hopefully, that's one deadhorse finally beaten.

[ghoulish-skullects]

late post but…kinda rant…sorry in advance

With the now fully confirmed news that Monster High G3 season 3 cartoon and 3rd live action movie are cancelled, the cmnt section of those post have mainly been full of praise that its getting cancelled...like huh???🙁 they are acting like its the worst thing ever made in existence.(and yes ik everyone is entitled to their own opinion but still.)

The cartoon was actually entertaining and you got to know these new versions of the characters sm better because of it. can agree the live-action movies could have been better but i don't blame the actors they brought the characters even more to life.

i can also admit i was hesitant when the reboot and the dolls first came out but after some time + actually watching it and getting these dolls with a new lens i love it so much. And knowing that now multiple generations are loving monster high too thats even more awesome.

Theres like so many characters and things we’ve yet to see in show yet and character depth yet to be revealed and explored!

sorry, but it just makes me upset that so many ppl are just so hateful towards MH-G3 even after all this time that it has been out now. I would’ve loved a show like this as a kid but now as a adult i can say this has helped heal some of my inner child like fr.

[zimulacrum]

LISTEN I take back everything I ever said about g3 in the past two years I’m dumb and stupid and I love it BUT I will say the one thing that’s been bugging me about it is…. Why did they give all the main characters both biological parents (minus Deuce as I’m not sure whether Lyra has any bio relation)???

Most of the main characters in g1 had either one living parent or divorced parents or adopted and to be honest that was good rep (as minor as it was, as most rep was actually in the diaries) the p much the only big showing of divorced parents even AROUND that time was Phineas and Ferb (hehe mentioning my two big special interests)

Draculaura was adopted after her mom died, Lagoona/Clawdeen/Cleo only showed one parent, Frankie was created by one man, and YES I know that g3 wants to avoid talking about death but you can have different types of families without saying a parent is dead!! All we really have is everyone with a mom and a dad, then deuce with two moms, and spectra with her ghoulma. And to be honest!! It’s fine!! Not everything HAS to be represented everywhere!! And I know that g3 is an alternate universe!! But it’s still a bit disappointing that pretty much everyone has two parents now

[strawberryraviegutz]

Ngl getting rlly annoyed at ppl using “tumblr sexyman” and “hazbin hotel character design” as insults when referring to the character designs, along with seeing someone getting genuinely upset at ppl for drawing Henry how he is depicted in the cartoony versions of him we see throughout the game instead of his irl self(even tho I’ve seen art of both versions)…

Yall really aren’t against cringe culture despite claiming to be when you’re acting like this.

[steam-beasts]

Small JBS rant/hot take;

I'm sorry but there's NO WAY Thomas wasn't traumatised from what Frankie and Hurricane did to him.

I like Frankie and Hurricane as villians or even redeemed villians, but I hate that they got away scot-free with what they did to Thomas because they were "lonely". They literally took advantage of him and took away his freedom. What's worse is that I think the steelworks employees were in on it too, so probably not even Thomas's crew could do anything.

[perhats]

ik this is kinda late but I love the fan letter so fucking much

Its us, it's just us

The people powerscaling in the bar

The people who like it but not outwardly

And most of all

The people who look up to the straw hats

The people who's lives will never be the same

Because that's what one peice is

Its a group of people looking up at others

And smiling because you can try to be like them

[coconutcows]

Remember when Skullector dolls were supposed to be aimed at older monster high fans????

An Ellisabat doll dressed up as her movie character in the old gown and powdered wig would be a really great skullector doll imo.

Instead of grabbing up as many ips as they can to focus on selling to non monster high fans. Also where’s the news on the third wave of Creepros???? We don’t even have a guarantee on who’s in the third wave, just rumours and guesses on Operetta, Torelei, Nefera and/or Purrsephone and Meowlody.

[kaityeliza]

yk who pisses me off every time I see her on screen? frankie stien like girl. a new man EVERY SINGLE MOVIE like you don’t need one for each person your made of and like not to mention she was dating two guys (one? jackson and holt are separate people to me) AT THE SAME TIME like this girl such a pick me “I’m only sixteen days old” so???you need a man for every day of your life?? EVERY SINGLE ONE