#I really don't get it

[girl-drink-drunk]

still nutty to me how people's legit trauma from things that main characters do are just swept under the rug or mocked. william kaplan, a thirteen year-old boy who didn't do anything, is killed in a car accident and no one even knows because billy/teen took over his body (i'm not blaming him at all i doubt it was on purpose, but a boy did die and no one knows). sharon davis was roped along to the road, mocked the entire time, killed, and then mocked some more. ralph bohner is the closest we get to someone actually saying "what happened was a nightmare and it fucked me up," but even his story is full of jokes that are only made tragic because evan peters is delivering them in such a way that it's clear that it's because he's that mentally unhinged from what happened. the mcu is a place where people get hurt and are made fun of because they couldn't stop it

[timeflow]

really fascinated by people who reblog a post and immediately after reblog it again but with a tag. what's the point

[hoarding-stories]

The West End Hadestown release listening experience really is-

Loving the singers and the new breadths they're bringing to the songs

Getting angry at the jarring listening experience when I *really* want to hear every song in the musical sung by these people

[notbroadwaybound]

well, this has been a depressing night so far

[thegirlwholivesin-delusion]

I really need some best friends and friends who are activists like me.

The lack of interest of people in changing the world around them pains me.

If you are a teen activist/do care about the world we live in and want to change it even if it's a little bit please interact with this post ;-;

[thesmilingfish]

Why hasn't this man had movie or TV work in five years?!?

Is there some scandal I haven't heard about?

I don't get it.

Oh.

X

[mingot-studios]

why do people hate hazbin hotel so much?? It's fucking TAME compared to shows like South Park or modern Family Guy and I don't see yall bitching about the former

[fallloverfic]

I am legitimately confused by repeated comments that ORV's opening is slow or boring or uninteresting, especially people who say you need to read [insert some very large number of pages/chapters] to get to the "good" parts. I've seen this on multiple socials at this point and I originally wrote this post months ago, but recent potential news has brought back people saying this again, particularly in recommending it to other people/trying to get other people into it.

I would personally argue that ORV has a good opening. A very good opening. And the early part of it is very good, too.

ORV opens with a literal train of angst, attempted friendship, workplace harassment (Sangah getting harassed by her boss), some neat Korean folklore (dokkaebis hello), graphic violence (remember when Bihyeong just kills the president on TV?), a group of people in a subway attempting to beat an old woman to death, Dokja winning a pissing contest with a teenage edgelord, a bunch of people getting murdered, bonding in times in despair over a really unique form of problem solving, a man breaking open subway doors with his bare arms, young love, and magic, fleeing onto a bridge that gets exploded to bits by an evil gremlin, a horde of zombies appearing, the protagonist getting new magic powers, and then his getting held by the neck over said broken bridge in a complex back and forth with the "true" story protagonist before getting dropped into the mouth of a giant sea monster.

It covers topics like the limits of human compassion in times of strife, the complicated presence of the military (Dokja hated his time being drafted v Hyeonseong's military leadership doesn't save anyone), international relations (Sangah is learning Spanish), trope subversion (I mean it is and isn't the entire book and Dokja's character, but he's constantly trying to be 5-10 steps ahead of what's going on, including literally fleeing Junghyeok until Junghyeok grabs him by the collar), workplace harassment, bullying, and it's all taking place during multiple apocalypse scenarios.

This is the like first 11 chapters of the book. And it never stops. There are "slower" moments, moments where characters take a breather (like it takes a while for Dokja to negotiate his contract with Bihyeong, which is slow if you ignore the fact Dokja is arguing with an interdimensional being/alien for the limits of his own life and autonomy in the most dangerous streaming event imaginable, knowing he may still die if he gambles wrong on his personal wikipedia brain), but it's still frequently confrontational, whether that confrontation is about what characters mean to each other, what lives are at stake, finding your purpose in life, adaptability to complex circumstances, overcoming trauma and self-doubt...

And it's more intense in a way in the manhwa adaptation because you can clearly see most of it visualized (e.g., how visually wrecked the characters get, how young the kids are, how terrifying the monsters are, how scary the odds are, and how dangerous Dokja's gambles can really get with a fickle streaming audience), and Sleepy-C's art is gorgeous.

I just have to wonder (though this is more of a rhetorical question), what on earth do people consider fast? Because I am quite honestly terrified of what the answer is.

Like I get that ORV is long. It can be hard to recommend very long books to folks (and as the manhwa keeps going, long comics). To each their own, everyone is different, what appeals to me won't appeal to others. But there's a difference between "it's hard to recommend a very long work to someone" and "it's hard to recommend something that's long and takes a while to get into", and maybe folks are just writing the former a bit weirdly. I completely understand having trouble recommending long series to people. Also ORV has a very complex plot and I don't blame folks having trouble recommending that. I'm writing fic for later parts of orv and other manhwa and I dread explaining all the context for all that to someone who hasn't read them.

That being said, ORV has a very good introduction. Both chapter 1 of the novel and episode 1 of the manhwa are very good. They're not perfect, I can't say I was hooked from the immediate moment I started reading the page, but both of them have good introductions and it doesn't stop, and there's stuff to love in just about every chapter/episode, and I was definitely hooked enough by the time I finished to keep going to chapter/episode 2. Chapter 1 of the novel has great angst and character building, and it's funny and sweet and tragic. When I first read Dokja trying, earnestly, to recommend TWSA and getting harassed about it and worrying it will hurt this art and artist he cares about, but not being able to do much else to give thanks for this experience because of his circumstances, I cried. The first page/episode of the manhwa has them delicious boys love vibes and gorgeous art (and cute baby Dokja, I die for him), and the promise of a fascinating story ahead, and then the following page/episode has more gorgeous art and angst and great characters (combining them cause the first page feels sort of more like a teaser than a first page, though Episode 0 ends with a spread of Kimcom that makes me tear up). We'll unfortunately never know if I'd have loved ORV as much if I'd read the novel first, but I like to think I would cause ORV's opening is just that good.

I just truly, truly do not understand the sentiment that idk the opening and the first [insert large number of pages/chapters] aren't good or interesting or engaging enough. Maybe I'm out of touch. To each their own on what appeals, maybe I'm built different (doubt it though) but it just feels kind of dismissive of ORV's opening, in both the novel and the manhwa, which are both really good. Will it win over everyone? No. It's fine if you weren't grabbed by the opening or the first [insert however many pages/chapters/arcs]. It's fine if you took a while, even a long while to get into it, or never really did, and maybe don't like the manhwa, which is a great gateway into the story, or don't like the novel for whatever reason and prefer the manhwa. And at the end of the day it's just random opinions online, we all have different ones. Make the posts that appeal to you on your blog, complain on your socmed, whatever. But the opening is good, it keeps you very engaged with a lot of difficult scenarios, the characters are great and fun and funny, in those parts especially, and idk why I'm supposed to pretend that's not the case.

Anyway I don't like writing complaint posts. The opening and general start are excellent and Imma go back and cry over Dokja again ty singNsong for my tears.

[can-of-pringles]

*me seeing people cry after watching the ghovie, confused because it relatively had a good ending*

[mightierthanthecanon]

brb creating a Rook that looks exactly like me so I can understand the solrook hype

[iglowlilac]

i don't know what's soooo aggravating about we viewers doing what viewers ought to be doing with the tv shows we consume??? why can't we get invested in the show the way it speaks to us??? what's wrong about that??? now the directors and actors want us to passively consume everything because if we have OPINIONS about their show and it's not what they "intended to create" then we're like, idk, criminals??? i hate that i'm ANGRY

[sometimes-men-need-help-too]

I really don't understand the people demanding that others state their age or age range

....people can lie? Just because their bio or pinned post says they're an adult or a minor doesn't mean they are one

[racingliners]

Don't get me wrong I totally get why the host nation goes last in the athletes parade, but I don't get why the future hosts also go last? Like besties wait your turn your time to shine will come!

[celestiachan]

good Lord he is actually fighting numbers

[im-not-okaye]

Does anyone else feel like they don't work hard enough. I only work seasonally (because so far, that's all the work I can find, and honestly all the work I can muster up to do right now) and sometimes it feels like I'm not doing enough to... Like...

Earn my existence... If that makes sense.

[magicinverse]

I don't understand some people's relationship with the eggs, I truly truly don't

They go "that's our kid" no it's not, it's not even the cc's kid IT'S A MINECRAFT CHARACTER KID but some people really take it seriously when they say that

I especially don't get it when they compared irl kids with MINECRAFT KIDS like I've seen so many people compare some people say "if they treat the eggs like that I don't want to know how they treat real kids" how can you compare a life with a pixel?

Also don't get the obsession over the admins, they act like they know the admin and go "awww that's our baby" when the admin of some egg is acting like a federation worker, THE ADMIN COULD BE LIKE 67!!!! AND ALSO!!! THEY ARE JUST PLAYING CHARACTERS!! I get having emotional attachment for some admins but some people take it to a whole other level, it also sometimes ruins the effort an admin puts in playing other character

They treat the eggs like real life people to justify getting mad over any no positive egg opinion or action, one thing is an admin who YOU DON'T KNOW but it's a real life person and another is an egg

Maybe it's harder since we don't see who manages them so we just have the image of a child? They are adorable for sure, and I love how important they are to the story and some characters but again, they are just characters