#Rating 7/10

[cactus-cactus]

I just watched the electric state and even though it's not a very faithful adaptation I liked it. my favorite part was when crisp rat confessed his love for his robot partner. I also liked that the robot could change sizes I though that was a cool concept

[frownyalfred]

“Hmm, what did I miss on ao3 while I was gone?” It was fic rating. In the public bookmarks of my fics. Again.

[wheelchairbatgirl]

Can anyone identify this for me? Another submission, from someone who says it came to them via Facebook.

Edit: thanks to everyone in the replies who identified it as Convergence: Nightwing/Oracle

But like. What the fuck are those casters?

I have two concerns here. One is that they appear to be the size of a dime, so good luck rolling over raw earth. If I was going to try to wheel across dramatically scorched earth in my 5" casters, I would probably pop a wheelie and just not use the casters at all. There are products called trike wheels or free wheels, which are large removable wheels to use instead of your front casters, for situations like this, bevause doing it this way is impossible.

My second concern is that the casters do not appear to swivel, so steering that thing is going to be a bitch. Imagine a shopping cart where the front wheels don't turn.

I'm gonna be honest, reviewing shit like this makes me kind of tired. We exist in a world where Bruce Wayne can do pretty much anything because he's smart and has money. So, given enough money, we could make a wheelchair that could solve any non-important problem (think the rules governing the Sonic Screwdriver: it can do anything except be the solution for the main plot problems). And instead of focusing on giving a wheelchair power to pop an additional wheel out of nowhere to go over rough terrain, authors keep trying to write ways to cure the disability. Disabled readers don't want to escape into a world where their disability is magically cured, because there's usually no hope of that happening to us, and therefore very little ability to imagine ourselves as the character. But I could imagine having a wheelchair with a magical pop-out trike wheel. A trike wheel is a thing that exists, and giving a wheelchair the power to have it when I need it would be very fun.

Anyway, no one thinks of those things because wheelchair users usually aren't writing or illustrating these works. Still nice to see a mostly-decent chair.

7/10, it wouldn't work as illustrated, but at least someone tried. Don't give me a magic cure, give me a magic wheelchair.

[colorful-horses]

greatest line delivery ever

[minecraft-sideblog-tm]

Okay so it's been about a week since I made the Hermit Permit Request Form uquiz and it's kind of stalled now at just over 100 attempts so I feel obligated to show you that it has a 9.09%* acceptance rate!

*Of those 10 that were accepted, one was me when I tested the quiz to make sure it was possible to get. Then 2 of them were the same person who succeeded and then retook the quiz shortly after to read the accepted screen I think.

(if that was you, hi you were also the first person to get accepted and I loved the dedication lol)

So technically only 8 people got the Request Accepted! screen, since my attempt and their second attempt were both by someone an advantage, i.e.: knowing the right combination of answers to get there.

And therefore REALLY it's a 7.27% acceptance rate, assuming those 8 were all individuals who weren't retaking it after getting accepted. Of course this quiz has a very small sample size, but a quick Google search tells me that the Julliard School of music has a higher acceptance rate than my little uquiz Hermit Permit Office

I am so proud lol

[orange-content-rater]

Hello there! This is a blog where i rate the content of orange in an image. The more orange and better use of orange will net you a higher rating. I have mostly rated images, sometimes videos or text.

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7/10

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[dragonwysper]

Just finished Mouthwashing, after hearing all sorts of snippets of fandom drama about it. I'd stayed away from all that because I didn't have the context, but now I do! So I'm blasting you all with my thoughts.

Long post. Be prepared. Spoilers for Mouthwashing and CW for in-depth discussion of SA below.

So the biggest aspect of the drama side of the fandom that I've been seeing is how the game handled Anya's rape. Some people think it was devastating and properly showed the awfulness of Jimmy, and feel Anya's trauma was portrayed accurately and handled well. Others think Anya was somewhat one-dimensional; she was given a stereotypically female-specific trauma to match the different pain/traumas of the other crew members, and feel the subject wasn't given enough weight and respect.

After having played the game (while also going into it with the knowledge and expectation that it would be about SA), I can see both sides. Though I think my thoughts on everything come from some core details.

Firstly, the core theme of the game is not SA. It's karma. Jimmy is a terrible person who doesn't care about the pain he inflicts on others, as long as he gains something from it. The game follows him as he destroys the people around him, and treats them like fodder to fuel his own goals. We see all of this catch up to him in the end, and he's sortof divinely punished, or overcome with guilt, or whatever it is, because of it. Each person's harm is unique and everybody has their own micro-themes, but the core theme of the game is overwhelmingly karma.

Essentially, this is not a game about SA. This is a game about a terrible person getting what's coming to him.

Secondly, rape as shock content is a common gripe regarding mostly horror movies. It's a quick and easy way to create motivation, so much so that it's turned into its own subgenre of 'rape and revenge' plots. Think I Spit On Your Grave style movies. The other side of the same coin is objectifying the victim, which creates an exploitative feel. The act of the rape itself, and furthermore the shock of it, is more important than the victim and their feelings and trauma. Rape is detached from the lasting harm it causes, and is more something to justify getting up in arms about something/someone rather than a trauma.

And while we do see some of Anya's trauma from SA, Mouthwashing by and large is not meant to be a commentary on SA specifically. Again, it's about how terrible of a person Jimmy is, which makes the SA, at least in part, a tool to make the player hate him.

Ultimately, if Mouthwashing was changed to where Anya faced a different form of harm from Jimmy, instead of SA, it would still be just about the same game. You could still make a convincing game with karma and bad people getting their comeuppance as the core theme. And that I think is the most important realization to have about the subject.

Anya's SA was the first trauma, and the details of the aftermath are what kickstarted the plot, but it was, intentionally or not, a tool to make you hate Jimmy. Because the game isn't about Anya and her trauma. It's about Jimmy and his karma.

I think Mouthwashing is fascinating, and that theme of karma is not something I see done well very often. I think the style of the plot and all the little details that expound upon the micro-themes of the game are extremely well done. And I think it did handle its themes of SA better than a lot of content that discusses it. But it's not perfect, and it falls short of really digging into the true weight of it. It's not a game that makes any real progress on the portrayal of sexual trauma in media. It's cleaner and less graphic than 'rape and revenge' stories, but it ultimately still relies on exploiting the shock of rape to serve a 'bigger' plot.

It's late, I'm tired, and I'm struggling to properly word what I'm feeling, but hopefully my interpretation of nuance comes through.

[c-kiddo]

for people who asked about tmn comic reviews, i put some vry basic vry casual text ones on my storygraph account. just for the cad and beau ones. kind of would like to do more in depth reviews and talk abt all of them and the art etc etc but i know people are a bit touchy about art critique so . i just remembered the beau one is negative about the art so theres your warning

[cowbot-lumberjane]

you know, I don't really agree with Stephanie Sterling's review of Avowed. I'm not done with the game just yet, but idk. It felt kind of disingenuous. Like, idk the right words for it, expecting too much? It kind of just felt like she decided very early on it was bad and didn't really do much to try and gather anything to put up a counter point. One woman's opinion about another woman's opinion though.

[plaidos]

i guess this is me doing the ask game. I've been thinking about getting into blacksmithing recently. does the idea of someone making a sword for you do anything for you?

yes, it does a lot for me. back in my early 20s i told my then-partner-now-ex that if they were to propose to me i wanted a custom forged sword instead of a ring. now i actually am engaged (and i got a ring. though she did ask me if i wanted a sword) but being given a weapon has never ceased to get me wet. i’ve been given display swords before, and an ornate knife once. and it’s fucking hot.

[yugiohcardsdaily]

lets hear it for the Bladesman Fur Hire!!!

6/10

[wheelchairbatgirl]

Friend submission from X-men First Class.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good fantasy wheelchair, but I have concerns about the mechanics. How does this, uh, work? Why does it look like a 3d printed wheelchair for a doll? Why do the push handles look so tacked on? Why does an electric chair have push handles? That said, I'd rather have a fantasy wheelchair that I cannot comprehend than to have a character in a wheelchair that clearly is inappropriate to their need.

7/10, looks uncomfortable and awkward and I don't think it would go over any ground without being bumpy as fuck, but you can't deny that the x on the wheels is pretty cool.

[gimmick-blog-reviewer]

Review requested by @hydra-collector did not specify if vae owned the gimmick blog or not.

Gimmick blog: @theresatmgsongforthat

Gimmick: Providing a song by the band The Mountain Goats that is related to posts, situations, emotions, and/or characters (maybe even blog reviews?).

Gimmick rating: 6/10, interesting and requires genuine effort and familiarity with the subject matter to do. It's a rarer kind of gimmick, I don't think I've seen anything like this before but I wouldn't be surprised if it existed. However, it's niche, it's really niche. The bit wore through for me pretty fast and I found the account just kind of boring. Indie rock isn't for everyone, and I imagine this account does more for the people it reblogs than the people for follow it. People who enjoy the mountain goats are going to know all these songs already, people who don't enjoy them aren't going to be interested.

Blog rating: 8/10, very dedicated to the gimmick. Only occasionally does things other than provide TMG songs, and those other things are typically related to TMG.

Overall rating: 7/10, a respectable gimmick blog. Held back by its niche but nonetheless thriving in it.

Sidenote: When blogs are requested to be reviewed, they will be reviewed slightly harsher. I'm just not going to pull punches when someone asks me to hit them.

[skunkes]

I honestly consider Arcane S1 and Arcane S2 entirely different pieces of media. Arcane S1 could have fully stood on it's own, sure its a bit of a cliffhanger but I think that's part of the point. It's uncertain, like the state of PiltZaun at the moment. Chaotic, unpredictable, without the stability that S2 brings and Jinx revels in. S2 exists just so people wouldn't get mad about linear ensemble plot big bad boss fight not happening. Not to say S2 is entirely useless, it could be way, way worse. S1 is a 10/10 and S2 is a like. 7/10. Maybe.

YEAP. i fully agree about S1 being able to stand on its own. and truly i miss it because everything everyone came up with in excitement for s2 was better than what it was 😭 i understand it was rushed but it did not live up. at all...

[orange-content-rater]

I dont need it

Oramge!!

Orange is main focus!

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7/10

I dont need it

[eternalera]

"you're lucky that you entertain me"