#Just sort of comparing stories

[ladyaster]

After Isa's redemption in KH3, I'll never find it not funny as a huge fan of FFVIII that the fanon consensus is that the new "nemesis" of the Seasalt Trio or at least Roxas and Xion is Seifer.

I dunno how much of the KH fandom has played FFVIII, and in-universe it makes sense given Seifer is the "neighborhood bully" of Twilight Town. However, given what VIII players know about him, it's hilarious and cathartic to see these two kids either bonk him with copied claymores in response to him trying to intimidate them into giving him their ice cream money, curbstomp him at Struggle right after calling them "lamers" or "chicken wusses", or accidentally drop half-eaten popsicles on his face when, in his universe of origin, Seifer was a major war criminal who, among other things, dropped all sorts of horrible endgame monsters including actual malboros onto a hugely populated city (which like any VIII fan can tell you, malboros are already nope on a stick in general, but in VIII in particular they're excessively brutal).

Roxas and Xion are just delivering Seifer some belated karma from 1999 is all and I'm loving every second of it.

[oifaaa]

I like how when you draw characters they look like they have meat on their bones.

I try i dont like overally skinny characters tho I fear I still lean heavily on the one type of body shape unfortunately I'm trying to work on it

[hellishgayliath]

a bit in love with @cokowiii 's spirits reborn au *v* (cali belongs to them, he's so cute n smol)

[molliemoo3]

Looked at the autosport driving ranking thing knowing it would piss me off, and now I'm pissed off. Because how are you as a supposedly serious organisation gonna look me in the eye and tell me Lando and Charles had better years/were better drivers than Alex Palou and Pascal Wehrlein.

[menlove]

from what I've read, the Beatles were confined most of the time on tours and not allowed to go out, especially after the beatlemania hit full force. ofc, Mal would let some girls in (after they went through him), but sounds like it didn't happen all the time.

so the only natural conclusion is that John and Paul were too busy fucking to fuck other women. hoping the same for George and Ringo ofc, but I just know John and Paul were doing the nasty

see, and it's soooo interesting bc then you also have accounts on the opposite end of the spectrum of all 4 of them taking turns with a girl or them running around with a different girl every night in australia and fucking like rabbits. and john's comment about it being like the satyricon.

and that makes me WONDER if a lot of it is truly just exaggeration or sort of an in joke like it would make sense if they were confined more than they make it out when they talk about their wild touring days and shit. bc like if we take them at their word on that (& they've literally all like independently proved that they love lying to the media and think it's hilarious) then i truly just think it's HIGHLY improbable that there's this much weird silence around claims of illegitimate beatle children. in which case that's just a mystery to me.

(also john and paul were absolutely fucking, yeah. i mean what are you gonna do with all that tension!)

[applepixls]

theres something to be said about the accidental symbolism of the horns in double life

grian got ponder originally which is a doo doo dudooooo kinda pattern and then got seek which is the same pattern but with a scratchier sound and offered it to scott

their stories then mirror in both having previously done a series with their partner and this time (somewhat) rejecting them (and later being tortured by them) only scott fully rejected pearl to live across from cleo while grian still kept scar around but tried to be secret soulmates with bigb. and ultimately scott and pearl did the whole sacrifice for the other person to win thing, reprising grian and scar's 3rd life ending same pattern, different sound.

(theres also something to be said here about how they are similar people, you can see it in the quiet agreement to stand around and get butted at by goats and in the bit where scott punches scar, sees grian take damage and "*he knows" and he knows he knows he knows and scott realizes what grian realized, that grian is once again trailing reluctantly after scar to keep him safe but also knows he shouldn't tell scar cause grian hasn't. they're both very intelligent in similar ways and it shows)

later on grian got another ponder (which he offered to scar instead of the seek he initially gave him) and mentioned how there was a reply to it (sing, du dudoooo) that he really wanted (and later jimmy and tango got)

so more narrative comparisons. the two soulmate pairs at that point have matching horns, grian and scar are ponder and jimmy and tango are sing. notoriously jimmy and scar are the two that everyone was scared of being partnered with because they die and take damage a lot. the thing i find interesting is how different their narratives are grian and scar had already been partnered and worked together previously, meanwhile, jimmy and tango had barely spoken prior. you'd expect that the two who were already friends and found out they were partnered (or at least grian found out) in a more or less positive way would choose to be friends, no? and you'd think that the two who didn't know each other and met by dying would have an awkward stumbling dynamic and possibly resent (in character) each other, right? but turned out it was the opposite way around (because of personalities blah blah blah). its not super related to the horn patterns I'll admit but something about the way.. its almost as if grian's horn says this is how it is (this being like rejecting scar because of their past) and the ranchers horn being like what if it doesn't have to be (something about clean slates, seeing people in new light, reintroducing yourself, taking all the best of a person despite a bad circumstance like yknow. killing them when you first meet. don't know anyone else whos accidentally blown up someone when they first met cough cough 3rd life cough)

please feel free to add your thoughts

[puppyeared]

who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

[cologona]

Starlin may dislike Robin in general rather than Jason personally, but when he writes shit like this where Jason is made to look like a bad student who Bruce struggles to teach, and Dick is the True hero who has to set him straight and clean up after him… it sure feels personal!

And look at the way Jason’s dialogue is written/ how he’s drawn in this issue and the issue prior:

He’s kind of… a huge dweeb. He’s obviously anxious, but in a way that fails to be endearing because he’s simultaneously shown to be careless.

He stumbles over his words in a way that indicates he’s struggling to face the situation at hand, and it’s made worse by the fact that Jason apparently finds getting reprimanded by Bruce or defying Nightwing to be a situation more difficult- more worthy of anxiety- than any of the other dangerous stuff he was doing. Like he really is written as someone who does not take the vigilante game seriously here.

Idk. This is a flashback issue which ends with Jason sort of redeemed by virtue of getting on good terms with Dick, and if this characterization had been allowed to stay in the past it would’ve been ok I guess. But Jason dies a little while later and instead of this little arc where Jason went from a shitty kid to a decent hero who made good on the legacy Dick left him, he is just Entirely defined as this shitty reckless kid.

Thanks I hate it!

[michameinmicha]

Me: can we have The Raven Boys?

Mom: we have raven boys at home

The Raven Boys at home:

[misscalming]

POV: you try to write a Star Trek story but you have ADHD AND autism so u can’t write a single paragraph that doesn’t contain either a) a funny joke or b) ur own random thoughts so u end up with shit like this

[fucknugg3t]

screaming about people making bad art that they enjoyed

[gu6chan]

maybe its sample bias but i think it's kinda funny how most people I've seen who've played drakengard because of nier are making ending e THE endgoal and more often than not the main if not only reason they're playing the game at all and when they finally get it they're like "this is it the single most impactful, greatest moment of all gaming. im wiping tears from my eyes this is it" and then you see the drakengard fans who've played drakengard because they like drakengard and you ask them about ending e and they're like "eh. it was okay, i guess"

[dhurrbyang]

some of y'all will literally say that you hate the booktok videos that lumps books by tropes and then turn around and judge said books by those said tropes because *checks notes* you trust the recommendation style of the people who you criticize of having bad media literacy.

[imminent-danger-came]

how would you rank the ninja from worst to best based on the ninjago seasons youve seen?

Nya and Wu are the best, everyone else is the same to me

[heirbane]

Considering the concept that if golbez had truly been one of the 13th's warriors of light, had turned into the dark inside of himself to cope with his losses, and still - countless years later - has dug himself out of his despair to repent for what he's done. That there is still goodness in there. That he did what he thought was right for his people - and that he realized his errors and wants to get back on a better path...

Gaius could be a warrior of light, too.