#I wish I could tell stories like they do

[severalrodentsdrinkingtea]

It makes my heart feel really soft to see how clearly Brennan LOVES and understands Evan.

In this episode especially, when he had his heart to heart with Jammer, you can see his face screw up and hear his voice get hollow trying not to cry while he was talking, and it was just such an earnest and vulnerable discussion of his love for Jammer and his need for belonging and it was beautiful; I think it was one of my favorite character moments this season. As an actor, that honesty and depth is what we’re always trying to capture, and seeing that made me admire Bleem on a new level. Obviously the man is funny and sharp as a tack—that’s clear in everything he does—but I haven’t seen this skill set in play a lot.

[spitedemon]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

waiting for marvel to take you up as their comic artist so that we can have amazing art with cherik official storyline

marvel hire me to draw professor x and magneto making out sloppy style for forty issues straight you will get a BAJILLION dollars i promise

[wikitpowers]

i want to see kit going to everyday high school, making friends at lunchtime, talking a walk around the devon countryside with mina, training with jem and tessa, learning how to control his powers, finding his own style, exploring his sexuality, going to pride with his school friends and waving the bi flag around like a maniac, taking selfies and using tumblr to look at percy jackson fanart (he's definitely a tumblr user let's face it), i want him making cookies and sharing them with tessa while they have deep chats and do face masks, i need him training how to become a shadowhunter but also just going to the cinema with his friends and being a regular ass teenager, i want to see him just existing, growing and doing ordinary things

i just miss kit herondale like mad

[puhpandas]

steel wool has the hugest opportunity in the world for a sb 2 like. vanny cassie plotline of her having been manipulated by mimic to be its new minion by framing Gregory during the elevator scene to cut off her one support system. gregory vanessa and freddy protags fleshing them out with dialogue as characters but also their motivations and what theyve been doing for years. have their long absence in games period but also in universe from helping the glamrocks/setting up mxes be explained by showcasing their fear and trauma by them just wanting to get away and they thought they were safe but they werent. have cassie be the reason they have to jump back into the fray and realize no matter what they do theyll have to kill mimic for good to be truly free even if they're afraid. plot of the game is Gregory trying to convince cassie he didnt do it and that shes being tricked and it takes all campaign to get through to her, probably after an intense dramatic climax. have Roxy be there by Cassies side to show how Freddy abandoning them at the Plex affected her and the 2 sides of the same coin the 2 of them have going on regarding sentience and their relationship with the characters they were designed to be with Freddy who got to be free and roxy who didnt. the actual vanny comes back as a big betrayal towards mimic after killing glitchtrap in hw2, either to become an antihero or to try and take over as mastermind. superstar duo reunite and names cleared. throughout the campaign Gregory finds out about ggy and its revealed in a room with documents about patient 46 and tapes where a final tape is found and Gregory speaks in it or is addressed by name. he grapples with it and not remembering it. btw setting is a modern day fallfest which is like amusement park size instead of small festival. boom peak game

[callsign-relic]

another comfort media. crash bandicoot cutscenes

[moeblob]

Deacon loves two things: Ymber and digging himself a grave.

Fulj hates one thing: Deacon.

[vaguely-concerned]

just going about my day idly contemplating how some of the ways hawke can interact with a romanced anders are not at all unlike how they interact with leandra (and a bit of carver too, especially with a purple hawke), and then thought about my hawke in the timeline where he romances anders and was hit straight in the face with 'was he ever actually in love, or was he just desperately trying to renegotiate with his mother's ghost in any way he could' and now i need to lie down. this is the power of dragon age 2

[mbat]

yknow, ralph breaks the internet has been rightfully criticised to death for years because its one of the worst mainstream animated movies to have ever been released, and honestly is one of the worst sequels ive ever seen or heard of, which is really funny when sequels are famously not very good in most cases

all this to say that i think my biggest issues with it aside from the abysmal writing and the product placement up the ass, is that first off, its not even about video games. the original wreck it ralph is basically a love letter to video games, the references and the care put into those aspects of the movie are so delightful, but the sequel is practically not about video games at all, not really.

also moreso, you literally couldve just replaced any of the characters in ralph breaks the internet with brand new original characters and it wouldve been the same tbh. it just didnt feel like a story unique to those characters and their setting, and they were so out of character that it wasnt even them anyway.

if the sequel had been them discovering the world of online and modern video games, it wouldve been cool. theres so much potential there because of the evolution of video games, and how limited arcade machines are compared to online games, and the things these characters couldve discovered about themselves and eachother couldve been cool (not to mention any new characters introduced and the plots those could have), but instead we got product placement self advertising emoji movie out of character hell

[yzas-oc-blog]

The thing about the way TMNT 2012 kept trying to add in romantic b-plots is that if it was actually done with care and intent, it actually could have been thematically resonant. Because at the center of the show is the whole Splinter-Tang Shen-Shredder thing. Shredder's twisted obsession, the obvious tension in the time travel episode Splinter and Tang Shen never got the chance to resolve, the different Splinter and Shredder have incorporated the events of that night into their world views - romance is haunting the narrative! It's there!

With Donnie most obviously you could have more explicitly paralleled some of his obsessive behavior towards April with Shredder's rhetoric, showing how to grow and change and let go of that kind of thing.

Leo and Karai - eh, okay, I know there are a Lot Of Opinions on that front (did they think that through at all?) but if they're going to do it anyways, they could have enhanced the arc of that relationship to really dig into - okay you have an attraction, you have chemistry, you have these things in common - but what about the parts that don't? When your fundamental beliefs clash? Are you actually good for each other? How do you know? What do you do if you aren't? How do you let go?

Raph and Mikey's love interests are less present due to being non-natives, but I bet you could do something there, too! I'm just! You see??? Put the relationships in parallel or contrast to the one at the heart of your show! Use it to expand your themes!

But instead you can kind of see the cracks in the writing that makes me really believe that it was a corporate mandate to add more romance, and the writers didn't want to bother with it. So they went to the big-box store and picked up the cheapest stock-standard romantic b-plots and went through the motions. And it's so boring.

[bannedaid]

thinking about my gw2 fellas because i can’t play right now. thinking about all of them and shaking them around in my head and thinking about how i havent rped them in months and they’re starving and wasting away. sorry varus eros sobb agar keer plato and the sylvari i impulsively made one day. scratches head. kind of want to yap here but also in tags because i think tumblr works that way. people yap in the tags right

[todayisafridaynight]

mine's done a lot of sexy things in my opinion but top five to me still is asking daigo if he wanted to prioritize The Family or one man Not In The Family

[dreamsy990]

my laptops like super fucking dead and its gonna be a couple days before i can get a new one so uh. have a ghost roxas au doodle from procreate instead. returning to my roots i suppose. do not ask me to explain the story context for this or whats going on because i will not explain ok. you can figure it out yourself <-( theres absolutely not enough information for you to figure it out for yourself )

[piplupod]

feels like the isolation is a gushing wound and going to the centre is just a small bandage. i think perhaps i am not really ever going to feel okay unless something miraculous happens. i am retaining some semblance of sanity now that I'm leaving the house and socializing with non-family more than once a week, but i am still hurting more than I can really tolerate and I don't know what to do about it. there doesn't seem to be a fix for this that I can enact.

[no1ryomafan]

I swear I’m not a hater for modern and/or digital anime, especially not with the many times I’ve defended new getters art style but MAAAAN why is casshern sins visually so much better looking then most recent digital animes? Like the art style probably isn’t for everyone given it’s still kinda bug eye/same face syndrome-y but even the faces are still different from how most of them do it. And the colors and the line art… they blend beautifully together that even if it’s clear it’s digital it has this painted feel to it.

Why can’t more new animes try to be this unique with its art style 😭

[queer-reader-07]

queer characters are allowed to die in media. and it isn’t inherently A Problem or homophobic when they do.

i understand that it hurts seeing queer people die in shows and books and movies, especially if you’re queer and you saw yourself in those characters.

but the thing is, if you want better queer rep in media you have to be ok with queer characters being treated the same way cishet characters are treated. and that means letting them die sometimes.

Bury Your Gays is a problem, I’m not going to pretend like it’s not. but Bury Your Gays isn’t synonymous with every death of a queer character that happens. you’re allowed to be hurt and devastated by a character death, but i don’t think it’s fair to act like that character death is part of some wider issue just because that character is part of a minority group.

not every queer story is sunshine and rainbows with a happily ever after. some queer stories are violent, some are devastating, and people die in some of them. and that is OK.

if we act like queer people can’t die in media we’re contributing to the othering of our community. it’s saying “queer people are this special group you can’t ever do a bad thing to in media because if you do it’s homophobic.” which is not a true statement.

we can’t act like every death of a queer character is homophobic or has capital I Implications about the writer’s opinions on queer people. if we keep pushing that specific narrative queer stories are going to be stifled. writers need to be able to tell the stories they want, even if that includes a queer person dying. and acting like they can’t is doing more harm than good.

you can dislike a writer’s decision, you can stop watching a show because of that decision. that is OK. but you don’t get to go around saying the writer is homophobic because they did something you didn’t like to a character you loved.