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tessatechaitea · 5 years ago

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Black Canary: New Wings #3

I'm suddenly hungry for cheesecake.

A friend of mine on Twitter has been retweeting #PitMad tweets and I'm losing my mind. If you don't know what Pitch Wars is, it's a thing that takes place on Twitter. Specific days are set aside for up and coming writers to Tweet out short synopsis of their novel idea in the hopes that an agent will love their unique vision and turn them into the next...well, I don't know anybody that ever became a famous writer thanks to Pitch Wars. I'm sure it's happened because there's no way agents could pass up some of these terrific pitches! Especially the ones that begin with two pop culture media hits, implying a wacky mash-up of the two ideas! "PULP FICTION X 101 DALMATIANS! Can Jules convince Vinnie that dog's have personality before he decimates the local Dalmatian population? 'What do I look like, motherfucker? Dead motherfucking dog motherfucking storage?!'" How come the agents are knocking down my door after that pitch?! It seems the majority of pitches my friend has retweeted have been of the "Teenager discovers magic secret about their family!" variety. "Bartlett doesn't find themselves fitting in at school so they go online to discover a magic tumble blog where everybody's wishes come true. But when porn is banned from the site, are the granted wishes even worth bothering with?!" Here's my other young adult novel pitch: "Randall, a syphilitic werewolf, doesn't believe in science. But when an asteroid heading toward Earth threatens to destroy everything, he teams up with eleven year old science fair winner, Bethany Hateswolves, and a box of raccoons to save humanity." I know that was a joke pitch but I kind of want to write it now. I probably shouldn't be tweeting joke pitches with the #PitMad hashtag because how will prospective agents be able to tell the real ones from my totally awesome ones? I wonder what this Black Canary pitch might have looked like? "Black Canary ditches Ollie to fight side-by-side with Vietnamese radio jock Gan Nguyen against white supremacists infiltrating the U.S. government. If that's too on the nose, maybe make the white supremacists werewolves!"

This is some absolutely beautiful and insightful writing. I can't wait to read the letters of butthurt 90s readers!

These panels finally got me to Google Sarah Byam and it turns out she wrote some stories for Elfquest and, at the moment I read that, I thought, "Oh! I felt like the name was familiar." Even though before that moment, I hadn't really thought that the name was that familiar! I think my brain is gaslighting me. She also wrote something called Billi 99 (the tag line for the 4 issue series: "It's 1999... Do You Know Where Your Civil Rights Are?") which I'm almost certainly going to have to dig up, even if Tim Sale was the artist on it. I don't have anything bad to say about Tim Sale! It's just his style (which he has in abundance and which is a good thing to have!) isn't up my back alley. Last issue, I said the guy running the crack house was the Senator's son. That was my mistake. It looks like he's just some renegade dealer whose going to fuck up the Senator's plan to destroy minorities with crack cocaine. Somehow. I'm not sure how. You'd realize I'm too dumb to understand the plot if you'd remember that thing I said earlier about not comprehending what I was reading last issue. I blame all the acid I took in my twenties even though I don't mean that. I can't be mad at you, acid trips in my twenties. You were the best! Also, I think the guy I've been calling Senator Garrenger is actually Senator Garrenger's son. Now it makes sense why he looks like a child in a man's suit! That was probably a clue as were the narration and dialogue use to explain the plot which I'm fairly certain I read but who knows? Maybe I was having a flashback. Black Canary explains the plot to the Seattle Chief of Police which helps my brain go, "Oh! Okay! I'm following this now!" Maybe my complaint that it's hard to follow comic books when there's a full month between each chapter has been wrong this entire time. Because I've just read two issues of a comic book in two days and I'm still confused by the third issue! Has it been my stupid brain all this time? Fucking idiot. You're making me look like a jerk, brain! If only you were as smart as I tell people you are! I want to make clear: my inability to follow the plot is not a fault with the writing. It's totally me and whatever distractions and inherent biases kept me from comprehending the story. Maybe I shouldn't be reading political twitter posts between every page of the comic book. Hell, sometimes I even put the book down for an hour or so while I play a little bit of the super cheap computer role playing game, The Quest, that I bought on GOG. It's so terrible in so many ways but not in any way that makes playing it not enjoyable. Do you understand what I mean?! A lot of superhero books purport to be about how you don't have to have super powers to be a hero. They inspire us and we inspire them. But few have ever done it as well as this scene from Black Canary:

How much has been written about super heroes as gatekeepers? Maybe all the Green Lanterns where Hal Jordan is all, "Fuck you, Guy Gardner! You're my shitty back-up!"

All these reviews on this series aren't my usual style. I feel like I'm edging into actual reviewer territory.

With that ass, she can keep my gate any time!

Ah, I feel much better now! Welcome back to the front, acid-brain-damaged me! I would have only scanned her ass so y'all could get a nice, close-up view of it but then I thought I'd be doing this panel a disservice. Notice how Black Canary's entire body is drawn, exploding outside of the panel lines? It's like this panel is declaring, "Black Canary is more than just her ass! I know! That's quite a claim to make but look! She is also a head and feet, you sexist pigs!" Man, I'm really getting political! Here's another take about the panel above that proves I'm an actual reviewer and not just a dumb online jerk who doesn't mind people thinking he jerks off to comic book pictures: Black Canary's ass looks like it was drawn by Chris Ware. Black Canary hunts down the drug dealer, Drake, whom I thought was the Senator's son while also thinking the Senator's son was the Senator! He almost kills both Black Canary and Gan but his gun runs out of ammunition due to shooting rats in the sewers. That was a scene from earlier that I didn't think was important and now I know why it was important! To show that Drake is a fool who doesn't do the smart gun owner thing: always reload! While Drake is being taken to the police chief by Black Canary, he gets shot in the head by the white supremacist assassin. He escapes but Black Canary and Gan find clues that link the drug operation to a Neo-Nazi camp outside of Seattle. They go to investigate in hopes of finding a link to the Senator. But before Black Canary can find one, she and Gan are caught by the racists! And no Green Arrow in sight (or on site!) to save the day! Black Canary: New Wings #3 Rating: A. For a comic book that I could barely get excited about reading because the covers are so uninspiring, it's really surprised me! Hopefully there will be some letters from a bunch of "I'm not a racist but" racists soon!

Not the exact letter I was looking for but good enough! "Too much talk about things that matter!"

#Black Canary #Sarah Byam #Trevor Von Eeden #Dick Giordano #DC #DC Comics

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encyclopika · 6 years ago

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How to write a fight scene

Or at least how I do it.

Been getting quite a few people saying I write pretty good fight scenes, and honestly? I didn’t know that. I’m mostly self-taught and just out here writing fic. Hearing you all enjoy my fight scenes is just awesome. Missing has been one hell of an adventure personally, and I’m glad everyone who has come along for the ride has had an experience.

But I also see people saying they can’t write a fight scene for one reason or another. That’s not true! You can totally write a fight/battle scene and the first step to doing so is recognizing that it’s a scene like any other in your fic. A fight is a dialogue between characters - not only will the audience learn something about the characters, but so, too, will the characters learn something about each other and maybe even about themselves. In BNHA, that’s especially true.

The next step is deciding what you want to happen and what you want out of it. For example, in Missing's first fight, (spoilers ahead):

I wanted to accentuate the severity of the downed building situation

I wanted to show you all what Krow could and could not do

I wanted the villains to be formidable, but easily defeated

I wanted Uravity and Deku to reconnect on the battlefield

I wanted izuocha uwu

and ya know what? I wanted zombies.

So, just like that, make yourself a wishlist of points, scenes, and interactions you want to include.

Then, know your characters. If the above is your crazy wishlist, your characters, their dreams, wants, quirks, knowledge, weaknesses, and personalities are the boundaries of what you can write and what will “make sense”. This will also dictate when villains appear - if they are gung-ho like Pyromancer, they might reveal themselves confidently. Consider relationships. Do your characters know each other? How will they react if so-and-so does this? Study your canon characters closely - look at how they react to things in canon, who they cling to, how their quirks REALLY work, and the types of strategies they think of, then apply it to your story. I can’t tell you how insanely LIMITED I felt during both fights making Ochako’s quirk work for me. But that’s just it.

Make it work for you. Place characters where they need to be and explain how they got there later. Don’t let your characters give you the run around or get lost. You are in charge of the story and where everyone is. No one moves unless you say so.

And you explain it. How come Pyromancer isn’t moving around much? Well, he doesn’t have to. Keeping him in one spot lets me show you how much he really doesn’t take Uravity seriously and is confident he’s going to win. He doesn’t feel like he needs to fight so hard. Backstage, I can focus on other parts of the fight. But even when Echo the bat was flying around in the first big fight, we never really knew where he was, and no one but Krow ended up caring. Necromancer was the only villain moving about and his movements meant something. In that case, if you feel like you may forget where everyone is in relation to each other, there’s no shame in drawing it out. But remember - no one moves without your direction, and if they are put on auto-pilot, they can really reappear where ever the heck you want. They can be as far away or as close as you need them, within the confines of the setting and their abilities. Place your characters.

Setting is so important. It will limit you as well. If it’s a tight space, flying characters may have trouble, etc. Again, make it work for you. I made my downed buildings into coliseums. Why? Because I wanted to limit how many fighters were in the ring. I like a closed system. If you have an open system. like a street, you may have more freedom to have, I don’t know, All Might swoop in from no where to save the day (and you can explain it later). What happens in your fight is only limited by the setting and the characters.

Then there’s stringing everything above together into a narrative you can be proud of. Pacing is tough. I get it. Pacing is something I feel comes with your style, though - what kinds of punctuation, words, and spacing you want to use is on you and it all depends on how you want people to feel. In Missing, I like to use words and empty space for my pacing. If an action happens quickly, it happens all in one sentence. If the action is slow and drawn out, then I’ll get into the nitty gritty details. I may also follow a character’s train of thought and have them notice things about their opponent - whatever the hell will make this moment drag on. I literally fill space so that real world time moves at a pace congruent with what I’m talking about. I’m spinning the same sentiment a bunch of ways to make you feel something but to also literally spend your time.

And I’ll drop to a new line if I want to impart a literal quiet in your mind.

Those single sentences surrounded by white space make an impact.

Single words do, too.

See?

You can even raise suspense a bit by just talking about how quiet it is and visibility is low because of xyz. Insert some dread, some suspense as you follow the character’s worries about where the villain will show next. Then! Short, quick sentences raise fear. Little information makes you wonder. The anxiety is building. The adrenaline is pumping. Is it becoming dire? Am I dragging you down this rabbit hole by inserting a question into the narrative, in turn, making YOU ask it?

Kill the mood, if you must. Keep the reader abreast of the situation. M’kay?

Punctuation can also help a ton. Using em-dashes to interrupt thoughts with actions, inserting questions, using commas and semicolons right, and what not will make your writing interesting. Structure means a lot in all writing, and for fight scenes, using these tools correctly can make or break your scene.

Words themselves are super important, too. In a fight, you want to use colorful words that SHOW what is going on (leave Dictionary.com open - check definitions early and often, look for better words with the thesaurus, rinse and repeat). I love the word “whip”, like “he whipped his head around” - I personally feel like that word is fast and shows how fast my character turned around. You can feel the surprise. I also really love all those “heavy hitting” words - smash, slam, crack, bang - that inform your reader of the severity of a hit. Reactions to said hits are also good follow up to drive it home and continue a good sequence - coughed up blood, doubled over, air racing out of lungs, gasping, stinging, ringing in ears - however it happens, let your reader know. Get your metaphors and similes cranking. How can you explain what it feels like to get burned really badly or get sliced deeply by a knife? Let your audience feel that pain with your character. Reading should be a trip.

And for the love of broccoli, if you don’t know how something would realistically go down, do some research! That’s a rant for another day... Anyway!

I also let my audience assume a lot. When Deku and Uravity are fighting Necromancer, their back and forth against the monster isn’t really detailed. I explained to you how it looks once and then I tell you to imagine that a bunch as I go off on a tangent about how Ochako is feeling and what she’s thinking during it because Deku’s in the room. In chapter 6, Flashlight, Krow, Current, and Uravity are fighting this small-time villain, and instead of really talking about how the heroes are punching the villain and what not, I have Krow talking the whole time and Current is busy getting butthurt and we learn a little bit more how Uravity’s been doing since leaving school. Not every fight is epic. Not every hit is important or deserves attention. How details ebb and flow is another part of writing that will depend a lot upon your style.

To help with pacing over the course of the whole fight, break down your fight into phases. A phase can be thought of as a “scene” in the fight, where things are noticeably different than before, either in character assemblage, setting, or feeling. Breaking it down into smaller pieces will help you bring it all together.

And last, but not least, if it helps, treat your fight like it’s own story. It has a beginning, rising action, climax, turning point, a twist maybe, declining actions, and an end, whatever that may be. How your fight is set up is all on your ability to tell the story, and for that, I can’t help too much more. In the end, it’s all about knowing what your goals are and what the parameters are before starting.

This isn’t to say that once you make your plans you have to stick with it. I changed so much and cut a lot out and did things differently than planned while actually writing. There are other outside forces that affect a fight scene, like the themes in your fic so far, and what you have and haven’t revealed about the characters. Like any scene, there’s a lot to keep in mind.

How do you really write a good fight scene? Practice, practice, practice!

#fanfiction #my hero academia fanfiction #writing advice #encyclopika art #writing

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sofie-the-witch · 3 years ago

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I've been asked multiple times irl what I personally think about trans athletes competing in sports, and it's such a stupid fucking thing to ask me because I don't give a flying fuck about sports so the only angle I have on it is the humanitarian one. But now Ive had to become some sort of fucking expert because cis people keep being sore looseres. Like first of all I know that I've lost a shit ton of strength seince transitioning. I've always been naturally stronger than the ones around me. Because I'm build short and stout with big thigh muscles and big forarms. I'm just about as weak and any other naturally strong woman BECAUSE I STARTED OUT NATUALLY STRONG.

This isn't about unfair advantage, or every sport would be categorised by weight class. There are plenty of natually stronger women than me out there and I build muscle at the same rate at the same intensity as any other woman. I know this because I am this, and I know this BECAUSE EVERY EXPERT IN THE FEILD SAYS SO. They also say that you have to be on hormones for a long period of time in order to avoid unfair advantage, and you have to be monitored closely as to make sure your not producing to much testosterone.

Im talking about this because I was recommended a video on YouTube about a cis skater who placed second behind a trans woman who was butthurt because of this, and a bunch of smucks talking about it being perfectly qualified by being cis male non athletes and non experts. Makes me think of that pic of all the female runners 99% of which were African with the white lady being like "disgusting lack of diversity".

So to quote a great fucking woman. Run faster then 💅

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ninjakitty15 · 4 years ago

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Chapter 20: The Masks We Wear (Loki x OFC Pairing)

"If this doesn't work, I'm so tattling on him to Tony, house arrest be damned," I muttered as we teleported to a good spot away from the city and its people but not exactly empty of bodies. "Put way too much faith in the kid, I hate kids, what makes him so special?"

"Getting cold feet, love?" teased Loki beside me as he surveyed his surroundings to see if we were in the clear.

"I think we've had cold feet long before now, you being a Frost Giant and me not having blood circulation and all that stuff with the heart and breathing and stuff," I mused.

"You don't give up, do you?"

I snorted. "Tried that, didn't work for me, something about not staying down even when buried."

"You think Parker and I are so alike which means that if you don't have faith in him, you might as well not in me."

"He's just really strong and smart, you've got a bit more going on for you that I'd be ok placing all my bets on."

"Then trust in me to ensure our safety if things go sideways for us," he offered.

"Safety isn't exactly what I'm worried about, neither of us are that easy to kill and they don't exactly want us dead last I checked."

"Then what troubles you?"

I chewed on my bottom lip worriedly. "I don't like running, even if I had the legs for it. I also don't like being shot at and having my lover constantly be used against me."

"I recall you saying that's not the first time something like that happened."

"It shouldn't have, it's why I always try to surround myself with powerful people, so I don't have to worry about that happening when I'm suddenly a target again. I don't like that they took something I actually kind of enjoyed from you and used it to take me down, that was our thing and they essentially ruined it and weaponized it." My hands curled into white knuckled fists, power sliding down my arms from my chest and gathering into my fingers. "Up till now they were a nuisance, a loose end that just bugged the shit out of me but still manageable. Now they're prey by making it personal and I'm gonna gut them like a fish and hang them by their small intestines while I boil their eyes and rip out their lungs...or maybe I'll just make em blood eagles, in your honor."

"Why that method for me?"

"It's a favored method of the people that first worshipped you, or rather your adoptive people I should say."

"I'd say just leave that to the ones that turned on you, seems a bit much to do that to all of them, and time consuming at that as there are a lot of Hydra agents but only a handful of bad people from your end."

"Valid point, will do."

"They took something from us and made it our weakness, so together we must take it back and make it our strength."

I nodded in agreement. "And then we make them our bitch."

"We make them kneel and then we break them."

"Crush our enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of their bitches, the three most important things in life."

"Let's show them what happens when you anger the gods, shall we?"

"Don't have to ask twice." I raised my hands to my chest and held them apart facing each other so death magic could gather between them. From between my hands, a ball of black lightning and white smoke began to form until it was about the size of a big plump award winning pumpkin then slammed it into the ground. "Cover your ears, I'm gonna make a call." I waited for Loki to do so before waking the dead in a war cry that to the human ears sounded like a cross between a death rattle, a banshee cry, and the angry shriek of the Nazgul in Lord of the Rings. "If this works, can I just wear this for Halloween, see how many people I can fool with it? None of my own costumes can even compare."

Loki chuckled and shrugged. "Let's just see how it works here for now, Halloween later."

It didn't take long for them to come to us and I was glad the Avengers didn't show up either as they would've blown the whole plan to bits before we could get started. "Ready for the fight scene," I muttered.

"Fancy meeting you here," George, the first traitor I had seen in their base building, mused.

"This is your idea of fancy? Do you even own a suit?" asked Loki. "You seem more of a fedora and sword replica kind of guy."

I smirked at this but decided it might be better if he did in fact to most of the talking if this was gonna work. "If that's the case then he forgot to address you as m'lady, so rude of him."

"They say manners maketh men, so what does that make you?" he asked George.

George glared at Loki. "It makes me really glad we figured out how to take you down thanks to your little Norse god there."

"Little? Someone's in need of glasses if they think a Frost Giant that's a full foot taller than you is little," Loki shot back. "And who really figured it out, cuz last I checked you're just a scared little boy hiding behind a bunch of agents."

He glared at the god before pulling out a fancy tech gun I could only assume was the same kind that shot me and turned me mortal temporarily. "Tell me who's scared now, eh?"

"I'd say the one holding a modified gun because he couldn't take down his intended target like a man, cowards tend to favor guns. It takes a real man to fight someone close range, armed or not," I replied smoothly.

The other agents surrounding us all had their similar fashioned guns aimed at us but made no move, most likely believing we would come quietly. Joke's on them, Loki especially knows I never come quietly, I'm a real animal then, dead or alive. George of course, being the easily offended, butthurt little boy he really was, did however make a move and fired his Loki magicked gun angrily with what he probably thought was his grrrr face but just made him look like a kid that was told he couldn't have cookies before dinner. Loki was thrown back by the energy blast emitted from the gun and landed on his side a few feet away from me while I stepped forward, a dagger in each hand and put myself between Loki and George.

"Try me, mortal," I sneered.

That was when one of the agents took aim at me and I felt something sharp and metal attach itself to my neck, for a split second my skin felt hot and burning before it went back to cold and calm again. One dagger went back up my sleeve as I reached up and yanked off a tiny metal electro disk thing that had been used on Loki not too long ago. I held it between my index finger and thumb curiously before crushing it in one hand and glaring at the agent that shot me.

"You missed," I told them dryly.

More agents and George as well surrounded Loki while only a few surrounded me. Loki however waited till they were closer to him before slowly getting to his feet and brushing himself off with an eyebrow arched in challenge.

"Was that supposed to scare me? You know I own a screampark, right? Jumpscares won't work on me."

George shot at Loki again and then fired a normal revolver gun at him right after, the bullet or whatever was being used as a bullet bounced off him as did the energy gun. Loki then lunged forward, grabbed George by the throat with one hand and broke the wrist of the hand holding the energy gun, the revolver dropping the first time he was grabbed. While he was doing that, I turned my attention to my own little group of agents that were using all kinds of different means to electrocute me, even one of those wire tazers cops use to detain without killing people, even though it can kill people if the voltage is high enough or you have one of those heart monitor things. I simply tore the wires attached to me off myself before slashing my way through the little crowd I had with the hidden daggers until I was the last one standing. I then looked over to see how Loki was doing again to find most of his agents were down and out and it was just George left standing.

"That's all you came with? Really? I'm very disappointed in you, Georgie, I thought you knew it takes an army to take down the leader of one," Loki told him.

"That should've worked, you are each other's weaknesses."

"I've got a question, I thought if I cut off enough heads, more would take it's place, isn't that their motto? Why are there no more heads?" Loki asked.

George glared at him and pulled out his ceremonial dagger with his one good hand just as I silently was walking up behind him, his attention on Loki just as I needed it to be. Green magic then enveloped Loki for a moment which caused George to freeze as he wasn't looking at who he thought he was then.

"Hiya Georgie," I murmured behind George just as magic danced along my body as well thanks to Loki and Peter's plan. George spun around just as my battle outfit changed and right as he saw what I really was, before he could use his dagger, my hand was in his chest, clutching his soul and this time I wasn't leaving it in. My entire arm shifted into a skeleton's as I pulled it out of him, he barely had time to scream in unimaginable agony before he crumbled just a shell, his soul still in my skeletal hand. Any lingering Hydra agents that somehow survived being broken or slashed between the two of us were then destroyed as I used the power of the soul in my hands to incinerate them from the inside out before scattering what was left of the soul.

Loki stared at me in a mixture of awe and something else I couldn't quite place before walking over to me. "Your arm..."

I held it up and wiggled the finger bones tauntingly. "I couldn't resist." I knelt down and shoved the bony bits into the earth, drawing power from the dead within it to help me heal and when I pulled my arm back out, it had all the needed parts of flesh, blood, muscle and tendon again. "Tis but a scratch."

"What about that whole display of power before they got here though?"

"That was me making sure I had ground coverage so they didn't have backup after we were done with them and then a little something special after that."

"Why do I get the feeling we'll see what you did on the news or be sought after by the Avengers for it?"

"Because when are my methods ever orthodox?" I retorted.

"I knew there was a reason I like you."

"Pretty sure it was the mindblowing sex, be honest, when was the last time you even got laid?"

"I don't have to answer that or to you for that matter."

"When someone openly dismisses a simple question, that usually means the answer is the obvious one you don't want to admit. No further questions, your honor, the defense rests."

"Come here." He grabbed me by my hoodie and pulled me flush against him for a kiss. "Would've done this sooner but I don't love myself that much."

I snickered at this. "If you don't love yourself, you're not fit to love others. So can we switch bodies for halloween? Seems only fair I should have more fun being in you for once when it's always been the other way around in the bedroom."

"We're not switching bodies in the bedroom," Loki stated quickly.

"No no, even I wouldn't do me."

"We'll see when the holiday draws nearer. Should we tell the spider child his plan worked?"

"Do you have a phone? Hydra stole mine."

He held out a hand and produced one with magic, even going as far as putting Peter's number in it for me out of sheer memory as Peter had offered it to us despite me telling him I didn't possess that technology currently. I then entered Peter's number and waited for it to ring and him to pick up which he did with a hesitant hello.

"Bitch, we lived," I stated smugly.

"It worked? I mean, of course it worked or I wouldn't have thought it up...it did work right?" Peter asked.

"It worked like one of Rihanna's hit singles."

"What will you do now....also did you hear there's been hordes of zombies storming random buildings?"

"Trust me, Pete, they ain't random."

"That's you doing it?"

"That's me hunting down Hydra from afar."

"How will the zombies know it's Hydra?"

"I asked the victims of the organization if they wanna get revenge on them, judging by your report their answer was yes. Remember, Avengers might have a Hulk but I have an army."

"Does that mean you won't return to the Avengers compound?"

"I'm not a team player and I don't expect others to fight my battles for me and I still have to sort out the remaining traitors but yeah I'm not going back, I'm just gonna lay low and wait for those bastards to come to me like an ant-lion. You take care, kid, don't get killed, I'm not bringing you back."

"I'll try not to, good luck, Nell."

I ended the call and looked up at Loki.

"Where shall we go now?" he mused.

"Take me down to paradise city, where the magic's strong and the girls are witches, oh won't you please take me home?" I sang.

He grinned, wrapping both arms around me as green magic swirled around us. Hydra-0, Gods-2.

#loki fanfiction #loki fanfic #avengers #peter parker #loki romance #necromancy #necromancer #zombies #hydra #nell the necromancer #loki x ofc #loki x original female character #loki x nell

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yellow-saber-blog · 7 years ago

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The Star Wars Fan Wars or why some fans hated The Last Jedi.

If you are into StarWars or into films in general you are probably aware that the SW fandom is currently divided into two groups - those who hated the TLJ and those who loved it. Or so it would seem....I am pretty sure there are many people, like me, who stand in between: people who acknowledge the film’s flaws but who still find things they enjoy in it. But one thing is certain - those who stand at the extreme lines are very vocal about their opinions and are often pretty rude towards each other.

I am writing this post here on Tumblr because I want to address a particular issue that is bothering me a lot and that is: how people who liked the TLJ are labeling those who didn’t like the film as “butthurt fanboys” and discredit their opinions and feelings as being simply “broken expectations”.

I want to defend those angry “fanboys/girls” a bit, because it seems that some fans miss the point of why others hated TLJ. Lots of the complains people have, even though often expressed with anger and harsh words, are legit.

Now, before we go further, I want to address another issue that people neglect - personal oppinion vs facts.

Now imagine you are going to buy a shirt in the store with your friend. You both like clothes from the StarWars brand. They now have a new collection of shirts. You absolutely love that new blue shirt but your friend doesn’t like it at all. This shows your different taste and leads to your opposite opinions on something that is subjective. No one can convince the other that their opinion is right or wrong because that is the nature of subjective opinions and personal taste.

The same is with movies - someone will enjoy a film that another will hate and both are free to express their joy or frustration as much as they want without trying to discredit the other.

Now there is another aspect to things - the facts. As much as you like that new shirt’s design if you look at it closely, you might notice that it’s not sewed properly or that there are some other defects on it. You can still like it or buy it but you cannot deny the fact that there are defects on that shirt and that is not made as good as it could have been done.

The same thing can be said about the TLJ - that film is not stitched up together as good as it might have been. You can still enjoy it immensely but you will be lying to yourself if you insist that this is a good movie because it isn’t. The script, the pacing and the inconsistent tone of the movie are some of it’s bigger problems. When audiences go to see a StarWars film made with billions of dollars from some of the best in Hollywood, they naturally expect to see a decent, competent movie. You can’t blame people for complaining when they are given something far less professional than promised.

I think we can all acknowledge that TLJ has weak points in terms of storytelling, consistency and basic logic. That being said, we should also all acknowledge that visually this film is magnificent and one of the best looking StarWars films. Those aspects we can consider facts about the film. You will be insulting a lot of classic movies if you insist these things aren’t true.You can still love or hate the movie all you want but you should at least acknowledge those basic truths about it. So objectively this film deserve probably around 6/10. Definitely not the best of StarWars. But it can still be your favourite SW film, nonetheless.

Now lets get to the point - why some fans hate this movie? The main reasons are simple and I will list them in no particular order:

- Silly side story - the dump and illogical things that happen with the Resistance and all the subplots revolving around Poe, Finn and Rose. The movie just doesn’t know what to do with them. The plan about going to Canto Bight gets stupider the more you think about it. General Holdo’s motivations and character in general are simply weird for a Resistance leader. Everything there feels like a filler episode of a TV show. Is that all they could come up with? You might at least understand why such a silly plot makes some people angry or irritates them. StarWars never had any super complex plot points - but no matter how simple those stories might have been, they were at least bound by a basic logic and overall narrative purpose. ( and they were much more fun to watch)

- The First Order start to feel like a joke. Snoke is killed without explaining anything about him at all, Hux is more like a comic relief and not like a serious bad guy. The whole First Order feels underwhelming. The Dark Side has always been very cool and a bit frightening. Now is more like a bunch of idiots with cool looking ships.

- The bad treatment of the original characters - Luke is misused and his character is completely changed without proper explanation or motivation. I won’t even go into details about Luke because it will take me ages. Leia, in turn, is given close to nothing to do and her “force flying” appears to be more laughable than impressive. Yes, there are some good scenes with Luke and Mark Hamill is amazing in the part but the negative things are just overshadowing the good ones.

To those reasons you can add other complains that people still have about Rey being a Mary Sue, about Snoke being useless, about Kylo Ren’s still unclear motivations and so on.

But let me condense it all in it’s basic essence - Disney/Ryan/Kathleen Kennedy and whoever else was involved - they all tried to be original in the wrong places and changed things they shouldn’t have changed AND at the same time they were unoriginal and silly in story points they should have changed or be creative with. Let me elaborate:

Luke won’t train Rey the way you think. Luke is not the hero you might expect to see. He is actually responsible for the fall of Kylo Ren and he did things against his character because you won’t expect that. And when Luke finally decides to do something he just Force project himself to have a “surprise” at the end. And dies. Basically Luke is written to be nothing you expect him to be, so you will be surprised. But the truth is: no one wants to be surprised by Luke or see him as a broken old man, no one wants to see their beloved characters killed off in such ways as Han and Luke. Give the audience the Luke they love and know. Surprise the fans with new characters and plots points without ruining the things fans already love. That is what will make people happy, why is it so hard to understand?

The "This is not going to go the way you think” theme goes on - Rey parents will be nobodies because you won’t expect that. Snoke will die, because you won’t expect that, Holdo has a secret plan all along because you won’t expect that. These choices are not about being original or creative, they are just doing the opposite because they want people to get something “they don’t expect”.

JJ and the marketing team created all that mystery around Rey and Snoke, it’s not just the fans’ imagination going wild. Still they didn’t deliver anything intriguing about those “mystery boxes”. I am personally ok with Rey’s parents being nobodies - I actually expected that to be the case. But you can’t blame people for wanting to know more about Snoke. When the first Star Wars films were out it was enough to say “this is the Emperor” and he is the bad guy. Now we have 6 movies and even more canon books and tv series. You have all that existing history there. The context of the story is different. It’s normal for people to want to know where those new powerful characters are placed in the history of the story. If you give them no answers about Snoke, you make the character pointless to the fans. So he is just a tool for Kylo to rise to power? But it’s Star Wars - people want to have something more to the story than just unexplained and undeveloped characters.

Still with the new characters, people are more perceptive to changes therefore one can do something really bold with them and change them upside down and get away with it. But the characters we grew up with - they need to be consistent with what we know about them. There is the balance between things you can twist/change and things you should respect and honer.

Now despite all the “ this is not what you expect” ideas, the creators of the film have the same story points as the Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - we have a space chase, a white planet battle with walkers, an exotic world where we meet someone who will betray our characters, Rey will face Snoke as Luke faced the Emperor and so on. Those story similarities are the things they could have made completely different and be as creative as they want with those. Yet, they chose the similar plot points and visual elements to echo the OT but changed the characters from the OT. Why??? That is a very dump decision if you know anything about StarWars fans or if you know anything about people expectations and behaviour in general. Disney are not trying to win Oscars with this, they are trying to please the audience. But something in their research tables and marketing graphics went totally wrong.

There are at least 100 ways to write that same story both pushing forward the new characters and honouring the OT characters. They killed Han in an idiotic way, Luke is now gone in a poetic but useless manner. All those misplaced creative choices make the new films out of balance. They talk about balance so much in the story but they cannot achieve it. The balance between new and old, between the old generation and the new, between creativity and honouring the established lore. This imbalance it the real problem of the new trilogy. And this is a REAL PROBLEM no matter if it personally bothers you or not. If it doesn’t - good for you. But don’t disregard the opinions of those who are bothered by the unbalanced new trilogy and don’t call their complains “whining” or “lack of vision”.

You can enjoy the characters and the movie despite those problems but to deny that those ARE problems is a bit naive and short-sighted.

At this point it seems that Disney have no real idea of what they are doing with this franchise. At times it’s apparent that they are more concern with marketing and money rather than making a good film product. But is that really true? I am sure no one at Disney wanted to make a bad movie on purpose. But it turned out to be a rather messy one. One can make huge mistakes with the best of intentions.

They are nuances to things - nothing is black and white. Neither “playing safe” nor its opposite “disregard the film legacy” are good choices.

I just want to conclude this post by saying that people who grew up with StarWars don’t take this universe lightly. Life might suck big time but when you go to your StarWars corner of the galaxy, things should be better there. When someone hurts a character you love from your childhood you have the right to be angry, you have the right to complain, you have the right to demand a better treatment of that character.

We should all demand to be given better movies, better treatment in general as audience. I am sure there are many new, original and great stories that are not given green light so we can have more Marvel, more DC, more Star Wars. Therefore Star Wars movies should be made worthy of their title, of their popularity and of the resources poured into them. The hardest thing in all aspects of life is to get the balance right.

I really hope that Lucasfilm are making something better for the final movie, something that will bring fans back together.

I personally consider everything from TFA until now to be alternative universe and this is how I am fine with it. But still I would prefer to see a movie with a more intelligent script and not a filler subplots.

How many times per day we say to each other the same thing - do not disregard people’s feelings and opinions just because they differ from yours, don’t attack or insult those people because what they say makes you feel uncomfortable.

We all love the same thing lets be more civilised about it.

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sentinelkelly · 7 years ago

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Destiny 2: Curse of the Butthurt Man-Children Review

Destiny 2 has been in trouble for awhile now and despite what the crying man-children on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, the Bungie forums and the hack of journalists from Kotaku, Forbes (lol did I really include them?), IGN, and Polygon, I strongly believe Destiny 2 is getting better in some aspects and worse in others. I still believe this game have great potential in the future, but for Destiny 2 to be great, Bungie needs to be less reactive and beat the community to the punch, sort of speak. More on that a little later. Let’s get on to my blasphemous opinions.

The Story

The Curse of Osiris story reminds me of Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s story. Let me explain before you get triggered: The Call of Duty, in my opinion, always had a great story despite how you felt about the multiplayer and it’s community. When I played Black Ops III’s campaign, I couldn’t help but to be lost in the plot and be almost put to sleep. The plot was convoluted and had too much filler content that further added to my confusion. This is exactly how I felt playing Curse of Osiris’s story. Although people think the story was pretty fast, I beg to differ. It took me about 4 hours to complete, excluding getting distracted by Public Events and in real life stuff. Then again, I wasn’t speed-running. Maybe that’s why, but it was definitely longer than the Dark Below which a lot of people forget about. Bungie squandered a perfect opportunity to effectively use the Osiris lore.

At the same token, Bungie opened the door to expanding the Osiris lore (besides a webcomic) and revealing some Saint-14 lore. I would also love some Dredgen Yor lore at some point too. Time well tell how much more lore we’ll get and of whom.

Eververse

Dear Lord... I hate the fact that the loot pool is so large and RNG is still what you expect from a Destiny game. If I had to pick which is worse between Treasures of Ages and Illuminated Engrams, I wouldn’t answer because there is no lesser of the two evils. Although, at least I get the armor in Destiny 2 while I still haven’t get a single piece of AoT armor for any character on Destiny 1... on Xbox and PS4.

At the end of the day, her wares are still optional, cosmetic to a certain extent, and not game breaking. That’s all I truly ask for in microtransacions. You can make the argument that the Ghost Shells increase xp gains, points out nearby chests and all that jazz. Then, I’ll rebuttal by calling you a retard and ask a simple question: “How does differ from other Ghost Shells and how does it give you an unfair advantage in the Crucible?” Basically, the only people who still hates Eververse are unlucky like me, poor/cheap people and conspiracy theorists that think Bungie is intentionally making her stuff look better than the non-microtransaction gear. Stop being poor. Taste is subjective.

Mercury

It’s a very small area that I would’ve forgiven if you could freely explore the Infinite Forest, Past Mercury, and Dark Future Mercury. However, you can’t. You can only replay the story missions and adventures to go to those places. Not to mention there’s only one Lost Sector. There’s enough space for at least three. Mercury was over-hyped. The Infinite Forest was filler. More could’ve been done.

Despite that, the visuals are beautiful as always. Past Mercury gives you a sense of peace and serenity while Dark Future Mercury makes the atmosphere more grim and dire. Also, doing Flashpoints on Mercury doesn’t require to actually do a single Public Event. You just have to kill majors that are running around the map.

The Leviathan Raid Lair

I have not played it yet, but I heard great things about it. It’s a shame that Bungie advertised it as just a shorter version of the current raid with different bosses and mechanics because I had low expectations and now I think I might be in for a great time.

I’ll update more when I can finally play it.

#TwoTokensAndABlue: Public Events were Nerfed

So much with being rewarding. Less xp gains, lower probability getting exotics, and quite frankly more of a reason not drop everything to go do one.

The Current State of Crucible

Crucible is still like listening to music on Spotify without premium: You gotta play until you get the gametype you want or keep backing out until you get the match you want. There are also no signs of old Destiny 1 game modes returning and the current ones being separated.

At least, we get to tell future Kinderguardians that for a weekend, the Destiny Community was able to play a large game of laser tag and then there’s the return of Mayhem Clash. MC is the only thing making PvP worth play to me.

Armor Ornaments

I’mma just say it: Most of the ornaments makes the armor look ugly and/or are uninspired. Above all, I’m extremely disappointed with Future War Cult’s. All it does is change the color scheme to white and blue. That’s it.

I do like the fact that you can unlock ornaments account wide. For example, unlocking the Crucible Titan Mark ornament unlocks the Crucible Hunter Cloak and Warlock Bond even if you never played on the other characters.

“Heroic” Strikes

Oh boy... Where do I begin? I was very excited about this. A good percentage of my Destiny 1 playtime was shutting my brain off after a long day and running Heroic Strikes if I liked the modifiers. Destiny 2 said, “Why don’t I just take Vanguard Strikes, raise the power level and call it Heroic Strikes? That’s it!” Bungie did say that they will add modifiers, but two things: 1) Why didn’t you just wait? If it’s incomplete why release it now when you could do so later complete? 2) I hope the modifiers aren’t the Destiny 2 Nightfall modifiers. Please God no.

The Vault System is Still a Mess

Imagine every single file on your computer was on your desktop. No folders. Just right there in front of your face. On top of all that, you can only have 200 of those files on your computer before you have to start deleting stuff. That’s where we’re still at. Not to mention you can hold up to 50 different shaders on your person, yet Bungie decides to make more than 50 unique shaders. It gets better: Duplicate Dawning shaders will sort into separate stacks depending on where they were received from. Dawning shaders received through Eververse will fall into one stack, and shaders earned through activity rewards will be sorted into another. This is not a bug and was intentional. On top of all this: no increased vault space, shader kiosk, or mass deletion option.

Prestige Mode Locked by CoO-Paywall

It seems like the less you invest in Destiny 2 (monetary-wise and in playtime), the more your opinion matters somehow in comparison to actual dedicated fans of the game. The whole issue was that people who didn’t owe the DLC, can’t play the 330 version of the Nightfall & Leviathan Raid due to vanilla players not being able to reach the new level cap. Trials of the Nine was also blocked. Note: Normal Mode was bumped up for both the Nightfall and Raid so you can still reach 305 playing those. Trials ALWAYS required people to have the latest DLC and patches. Hell, Nightfalls got the same treatment in Destiny 1, and mind you, there was only one difficulty. The only people that were angry were the disgruntled Destiny 2 players who stopped playing a long time ago and/or already owns the DLC. Trust me, if you’re a hardcore fan of Destiny or remotely likes it, you would’ve made arrangements to get the DLC. Don’t come at me with that “I love the game, but have no money” bullshit. This was all a case of “What if my friend buys Destiny 2 and I can’t play with him/her?!” Um... tell them to buy the game used/on sale and the DLC? Maybe you could buy it for them so you can play with them? Gee, this is a difficult situation I’ve never been in.

Trust me, no one who hasn’t bought Destiny 2 at this point won’t buy it because of all of the ruckus this community is making. Due to Bungie getting cuck’d by a bunch of poor people who don’t even play their game anymore that complained about a theoretical situation, the first Faction Rally of Season 2 was postponed to I assume (I hope) at the beginning of 2018.

Quality of Life Updates Frequency

I remember a time Bungie was constantly adjusting things like the economy and user interface on top of tuning weapons and subclasses, squashing bugs and things of that nature. Destiny 2 received its first Quality of Life update in December on the day of this DLC’s release. Yeah, Bungie fixed stuff here and there between vanilla Destiny 2 and Curse of Osiris releases, but there was the over abundance of legendary shards some people had to deal with, shitty RNG not giving people what they want, etc. that was just improved. The difference between patches and QoL updates to me is one fix problems and the other improves on what was working fine but can be frustrating. There is less of the latter.

The State of the Destiny Community

Everything that I’ve stated thus far is forgivable. However, Destiny 2′s state of being the target of hit pieces of gaming media and butthurt “fan” backlash is 10% Bungie being reactive, 10% Bungie making dumbass decisions, 80% self-proclaimed fans having buyer’s remorse. Destiny 1 was considered an abomination of game around this time last year for whatever dumb reason people came up with. Destiny 1 was shitted on repeatedly. Now all of a sudden, people love and miss Destiny 1 so much. It was the community’s constant bitching that made Destiny 2 the way it is. Bungie had to find a way to not repeat Destiny 1, but guess what... people flipped flopped. Ask any Destiny fan how they felt about Destiny 1, I guarantee all will praise it, but half of them were singing a different tune last year. Destiny 2 and Curse of Osiris is the community’s fault. Bungie had some part in the blame, but: 1) Me and every other non-Bungie employee don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors at the studio in Redmond, WA. 2) If anything, blame the leadership at Bungie. Why are you getting mad some artist or sound engineer. They don’t program the game or have authority to do whatever they want to the final product if it’s outside of their department.

We are the point where people constantly complaining about bullshit like optional microtransactions and plays other games are considered “concerned fans.” Meanwhile, people like me who are objective, still actively plays the game despite it’s current state, and can compliment game when something is done right gets accused of being on Bungie’s payroll. The toxicity of this community reached heights I never thought possible and it makes me cringe to be an actual fan sometimes. Not to say I’m an angel, which I’m not, but at least I provide constructive criticism to Bungie and lash out at little Jimmy who claims to hate the game so much. I’m against people who insist upon passing on their misery onto other people who are actually enjoying the game. I’ve looked on GameStop’s app and Destiny 2 is worth between $12-18. I can recommend better games for that price. If you have Destiny 2 on disc and are that dissatisfied with it, I challenge you to sell it. If you have it digitally, I’m sure you can get a full refund somehow. I challenge you to get that refund. A reasonable adult, tries to get their money back and move on. If you don’t at least try, you’re full shit.

Bungie’s only unforgivable sin is giving birth to a community of entitled ingrates.

Final Verdict: 7.75/10

This could’ve been better and it could get better in 2018. However, out of the gate... it does not live up to the hype.

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny 2: curse of osiris #curse of osiris #review #bungie #activision #fanboy alert #mercury #eververse #leviathan #raid

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nekoladyproductions · 8 years ago

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Do I seriously have to defend this fucker? Yeah, I do. Shit. (Lady's Thoughts)

Don’t read if you get easily offended, butthurt, or unable to comprehend another human being’s opinions.

Apparently, nobody is allowed to make offensive jokes because it’s “normalizing” and “just as bad” as actually doing the offensive thing!

Okay then. Let’s play this game.

No more murder jokes. No more suicide jokes. No more man jokes. No more Trump jokes. No more patriarchy jokes. No more conservative jokes. No more Christian jokes. No more jokes that reference your mental illnesses. No more Republican jokes. No more penis jokes. No more any offensive jokes–ever.

Why? Because it might hurt someone’s feelings and it will normalize hatred against white men or people who’s family has been murdered.

Only puns and good old fashioned humour, like Leave It to Beaver.

Oh, and while we’re at it: No more plane jokes. No more sex jokes. No more America jokes. No more jokes with coarse language, like shit, tits, cock, cunt, cum, fuck, etc. No more jokes that could offend anyone at any given time ever.

That means no more jokes about any tragedy or bad things. Even if those things are personal, because it could trigger son or make them feel bad.

How about no humour at all? Even chickens crossing roads could offend someone whose pet chicken died when it got loose onto the highway.

Tumblr wouldn’t last a week.

Now, do I dislike certain jokes? Do I think some are garbage and tasteless? Of course I do. I hated that “All Jews must die” joke. But did you know what I did? I rolled my eyes and moved right along. That’s what adults do. They go on about their lives when they see something or hear something that they do not like. A joke won’t kill a Jewish person. A bullet does. And guess what? All of this attention on Felix for a bad joke is turning your backs on REAL crimes against Jews RIGHT. NOW. I bet your ass right now some little Jewish girl just got shot in the fucking face over Bast knows where while y'all are harping on ONE ignorant fuckface for making a 4chan joke. (Let’s also not forget that the man is known for making offensive jokes.)

Do you have any idea how many fat jokes I hear? How many gay jokes and witch jokes? Do you see me shitting myself and saying that their preferred brand of humour is encouraging witch hunts? Fuck. No.

It’s like saying South Park or Family Guy promotes domestic violence because of their abuse jokes.

This is a Swedish dumbass who’s job is to sit his ass in front of a telly all day, not fucking Hitler or a Grand Wizard of the goddamn KKK.

Should he be condemned? Yes. To this extent? Take your meds if you think so.

Bad humour and bad things will always exist, and no matter how much you want those things to disappear, they won’t. It has been proven to us time and time again that the more that you suppress an ideology and try to censor it, the worse it becomes. Look at how Trump got to office. (Also, because of all of this hubbub, a shit storm of actual antisemites have come out of the woodwork. If you would have left him alone, this shit wouldn’t have happened. Woopsies, right? Fuck you.)

No wonder people hate fucking liberals. Bunch of whiny ass pussies that need to have their coffee taken away from them and actually show them what REAL antisemitism is. They’d think that Pewds is the funniest bastard in the world after they’re done witnessing the horror of what other countries think of Jews and what they do to them.

I’m taking a shower. Fuck this. If you disagree with me, I’m not sorry. If you feel the need to unfollow me, then you aren’t a very strong person. At all.

#markiplier #pewdiepie #dumbass #lady's thoughts #antisemitism #butthurt alert #im a liberal btw

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chickensmooshit · 6 years ago

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I've got a few.

As Zet mentioned before, the whole Graham thing.

The horse Line thing is another stupid thing, but for a different reason than you think. The whole issue is that Eq was kind of certain that the original horse lines were tracings of photos from when she was learning anatomy. Tess pretty much said this wasn't okay as it went against the rules so she had plans to change it. The stupid part is that they made a poll asking what CS Users wantrd, keep or change the lines. The lines broke the fucking rules, they would have had to change them regardless. So the poll was just fucking dumb. Would have been worse if more people wanted the lines to be kept, because then they would have had to come out and give a half ass apology explanation like "Well, this poll was ultimately pointless, so fuck it, we're changing it."

This one I can't say if it's true or not. I saw a weird screenshot of it before, but it could have been a joke. So don't take my word for it. But Tess's best friend Diane (I think that's her name, not sure) attempted to correct a user about following rules, and that person blew up and went off on Diane about how she can't do shit because she's not even a mod and to basically sit her unauthorized ass down.

When drawing animals, some people wanted to be anatomically correct so they gave dogs and other animals 'lumps' on their bellys to signify genitals. Bunch of people got butthurt and complained saying seeing dog dicks made them uncomfortable. But, it's not like they were detailed or in a certain position. Of there was just a curved line, people freaked. Grow the fuck up.

The No Anti shit is dumb to me. While I understand they're not trying to make it a place of hate, they also took away the ability to say things like Anti-Pollution, or even AntiBullying. But you know, it's probably okay to say you're Pro-Terrorist. Or you support some other ridiculous thing. Just as long as you're not Anti, you can support whatever. Its just a dumb rule. Just stright up say not to say "offensive shit" like Anti-gay or whatever, if not it just provokes people to say they're pro-non-something.

People claiming CS Artists stole their fursonas. Haven't seen this in a while but I remember seeing tons of long threads about people whining over a pet design and asking if they should file a lawsuit or something. Basically what would happen is CS would release a pet, for example, a yellow dog with a white belly and brown legs, and blue eyes. Someone would say their fursona was stolen because their fursona has the same features, though maybe green eyes instead of blue and with a black tail. They would ask people if they should send in a help ticket to get it removed because it's stolen, when in reality, they just have a very plain and common design that people have probably created over and over.

People getting heated over thread ownership. Big in the Forum Games. If you haven't noticed, some people with game threads will have in big bold letters not to remake as they will do it and no one else is allowed to despite them not "owning" the thread or creating it originally. If someone went against their wishes, you bet there were public arguements and reports sent in.

As for ones that happened to me specifically:

When I was much younger, I was friends with a girl on the site. We used to talk often and share stories ideas about our characters. She disappeared for a while afterwards, and then reappared again, but she was much different, and just not really herself. And she asked a lot of questions about me. Like a fucking lot of questions, some even got beyond personal. She went silent for a a few days until I got a long message. Turns out she mentioned me to her dad who was cop, and he was worried I was some dude posing to be a kid for bad intentions. He realized this wasn't the case, and apologized, but he felt like she shouldn't be talking to strangers online anyway, whether kid or adult, and with that I shouldn't expect to hear from her again. And I never did. Was really weird, and I didn't understand it at the time. But I think about it a lot, especially that I was telling some 40 year old cop about my ideas of dogs running an entire planet. I was a kid, so, you know.

Kids telling me I was attractive or hot. I mentioned a while back I actually conducted a sort of experiment to see if there was a system of mods looking more after people who were warned before versus those who were not.., anyway, I put a photo of myself in my signature as my rule breaking action. I probably should have done something else, because I used to get a lot of messages from people telling me they thought I was cute or hot or sexy. Just not really what I was going for. And getting that from a (probably) 13 year old when I was 17 wasn't cool at all and made me more uncomfortable than happy for a compliment. (I only did the photo of me, because it was the only thing I knew I wouldn't be banned for while having other warnings on me initially).

I made someone have a temper tantrum because I said they were probably younger than 13 on the Guess The Age of the User Above you game thing. First time I said it was just from how they typed. They didn't like that. Second time, I said the same thing, simply because I knew they didn't like it and they tried to get smart with me. Did it a third time and a mod had to intervene, because the person tried cussing me out on a public post. I messaged them saying it was just a game and to chill the fuck out and they went on for her about how rude it was to imply that they were younger than an adult, and then they told me they were 13, so saying they were younger than that was rude. So I went back to the thread and said they were younger than 13. I reported them to the mods for revealing personal information, which they got 2 warnings and had 1 more before a ban which they messaged and told me about, and I reported it, to which I got a warning for starting shit and I was told to stop teasing them about being banned soon when I didn't ever do that. Reported that to the mods again and a different mod told me to not worry about it, but they weren't going to remove my warning because it was only fair because they gave the other person two.I don't see how this 2 for 1 works, but whatever.

If I think of or come across anymore, I'll make another post about them for you.

Question for you guys

What’s the most stupid thing you’ve saw on chickensmoothie? It can be from stuff you saw or even based on experiences you’ve had, or just weird ass stuff you’ve seen.

You know the drill, send em’ in and post them! Either be an ask or a submission. c:

#chicken smoothie #chickensmoothie #cs

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todorokicourse-archive · 7 years ago

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Just in case dandymeowth deletes the old posts they had on their blog (Part One)

9/10/16: bizarropurugly

list of things anti-sj have told/believed about me, this list is not exhaustive

tw for animal death/cruelty, nsfw, ableism, pregnancy, rape mention, drugs, pedophilia, etc

I personally created the Butthurt Brigade and did it to stalk and harass autistic kids on deviantART.

Also, I was kicked out of the BHB because I was “psychotic” about stalking and harassing autistics and the other members became afraid of me. Or wait, no, it was because I was obsessed with rape and murder and the other members became afraid of me. Or wait, no, it was because I kept harassing people sexually and the other members became afraid of me. Or wait, no, it was because I wouldn’t stop posting NSFW in the group’s private chatroom and etc etc etc

I deny I was ever a part of the BHB.

I ran multiple accounts posing as the BHB/members of the BHB across multiple websites just to prove that all anti-sj content is a conspiracy to kill me. (???)

I got pregnant on purpose to just to have an abortion, multiple times.

I kill cats. I harassed staff and admins on various websites for pity while killing cats. Refusing to take cats to the vet, to fix them, or to let them be inside cats. I started a fundraiser for a cat who I won’t neuter and whose kittens I put in trees to scam people.

I consider myself a “shitposter extraordinaire”.

I’m anti-kink, anti-nsfw, and anti-porn.

I call people anti-choice if they keep a pregnancy. I want all pregnancies everywhere forever aborted and I think anyone who disagrees with that is a misogynist.

I use my depression as a defence when people criticize me, or as an excuse to not improve. I threaten suicide over this.

I write fanfics for rape and have been banned from multiple websites for it. I also draw rape art of people I don’t like.

I’m always smoking weed, constantly, nonstop. But also, I claim to hate marijuana.

I’m always masturbating, constantly, nonstop. I consider myself crazy, quirky, and random for having sex toys or naming my sex toys, and regularly post pictures of them. I spam my followers asking what I should do with my sex toys next.

I haven’t had a job for several years.

I believe / I said austistics are being raped and beaten in the streets in broad daylight.

I love spamming people with and generally being into hardcore guro.

I’ve been in / I am currently in groups that have the intention to give people seizures on purpose. I hate epileptics and think they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere but particularly the Internet.

I chased down and harassed, threatened, spammed multiple people for genderbend art. And for liking Uncle Grandpa, in fact I specifically followed the show’s tag to find victims.

I claim to be triggered by Uncle Grandpa existing and that Uncle Grandpa is child abuse.

I run WNSE posing as a medical expert / a medical professional.

I am intersex, or that I stated having a mole made me intersex.

I created Ham Ham Kingdom and left it in shitty code disarray. I did this with several websites and refused to let anyone else be administrators.

I lost my virginity for shits and giggles and did it with a coworker sexually harassing me. Also, I did it to prove sex was bad and so I could post all over my Tumblr how wrong and oppressive sex is.

I have a phobia of Middle Eastern men and it keeps me from sleeping well.

I lie about hating alcohol and get drunk regularly.

I groom children for pedophilia by posting instructions on how to masturbate.

I made a chatroom on dA for posting nsfw, guro, rape, etc and it was banned.

Scrapping a character and story about a single father because it wasn’t about rape or gayness.

I think age of consent laws are stupid and meaningless. I am sexually attracted to minors.

9/10/16:bizarropurugly

And now for the truth of these lies (if there is any)

same warnings as before

I didn’t create the BHB or come anywhere close to doing that. By the time I joined the BHB it had already been restarted several times, with each time having less of the original crew (and consequently having more mortal enemies from that original crew). I was briefly an admin after it had been restarted again after the dA deactivation fiasco, and then was removed as an admin as part of a fake fight, but I never asked to be reinstated, so I wasn’t. Yes, all I had to do was ask, there was no amazing revolution or conspiracy involved at all. What happened was that, in one of the few times I was ever in the BHB chatroom (which was rarely ever populated if I could remember right), we got to talking about reverse racism and how awful it was (yes, really), and that dA admins were being shit about it (which was a frequent focus). So the idea came up to make “secret” white pride groups to bait dAdmins to deleting it so that we could prove the reverse racism. Revolting as it was, they weren’t deleted, but Fuhrer Glasses and I came up with separate groups, had a “fight” about it, and when I wouldn’t say that his was funnier, he removed me as an admin until I would or until I asked. (This is different from what I had said before, I know; I had said that he edited a picture of me and I didn’t find it funny so he removed me in the same manner, but I actually remembered that that particular event happened afterwards and what he was threatening me with was actually a temporary ban from the chat, but that he didn’t go through with, and which he threatened because I wouldn’t tell him why I was asking him not to post it. At the time I didn’t want to admit I had really bad body image and dysphoria because, well, does the BHB sound like a safe place to admit to those things? Especially since I had seen members and admins alike misgender trans people they deemed “lulcows”, which is a tradition these types of groups continue now.) After that, I gradually stopped being active as I grew apathetic with dA and became less active in general on it, finding Tumblr to somehow be more preferable (maybe ‘cause all my friends had left dA too? lol). Yes, it was a troll group, and yes, it did involve harassing others like any and all other troll and anti-sj groups that have since spawned in its place. And that’s literally all it was - the same shit you’ll find on places like Tumblr, Kiwi Farms, Encyclopaedia Dramatica, and etc. It was never a specific group against any particular persons or identities, although like these places definitely featured ableists, eugenicists, Nazis, and somesuch. It’s not a proud time in my Internet history by no means, but no, I wasn’t leading a secret war against autistics, I didn’t send or threaten anybody with sexual content (the only people I talked to on messengers were Fuhrer Glasses on MSN and former-admins-now-enemies years later on Skype), I wasn’t kicked out because everyone got scared of me (honestly that’s a really laughable thing to claim if you remember who the admins were), and honestly the only place I’ve ever publically gotten into details about my kinks has been Tumblr (later FurAffinity and Weasyl), and only in recent years have I ever really openly discussed kinky stuff with people in private conversation or through messages. The only place I could think this claim would come from was when I was in the chat of the enemy group (ie, the anti-BHB) and kept talking about milk machines, which got me temporarily banned because I wouldn’t shut up and was making the chat too nsfw for everyone’s likings (generally jokes were the only OK things). I admit to making people uncomfortable here because I was an excitable shit who kept infodumping at random and I want to send out an especial apology to toonlink about that shit in particular. But no, this wasn’t the BHB and this was after I had already been removed as an admin from the BHB. The BHB wasn’t allowed to be talked about there, really. And I’ve never denied that I was a part of the BHB, ever. Denied that the BHB was all the scary made-up bullshit people who weren’t even admins claim? Yeah, and I’m really surprised at the amount of people who remember BHB and being in it, and even praise its existence and/or mourn it, but yet simultaneously think the admins ever cared about who got harassed or that the BHB was some eugenics agent group.

The “multiple accounts posing as BHB” thing came from a single person’s post that was 100% a bunch of lies and bullshit they never answered for. Other BHB members/ex-members along with myself have even denounced it. This came from the same person claiming I created the BHB, created it to stalk autistics, and was kicked out (despite being the founder? lol) because the BHB grew a conscience somehow and started caring about autism. That’s all bullshit, so is the claim that I’ve made accounts on Reddit, LJ, and side accounts on Tumblr to pretend to be the BHB to give it a bad name or to create evidence that anti-sj people are trying to kill me or some weird ass bullshit that made 0 sense. This person claimed to have been a BHB admin (they weren’t, at least not while I was ever part of it, and nobody else has heard of them) and also to have been a Skype buddy of mine during a time I didn’t use Skype but instead MSN, and as I’ve said the only BHB people I’ve talked to on Skype were original-now-ex-members, which all have attested to this being bullshit. And what’s funny is that this out-of-nowhere post appeared during a dispute with user noyka about whether ableism is real and whether the disabled are oppressed, and has subsequently been used by said user as proof that I’m The Real Ableist. This was also the same user claiming I said autistics were being beaten and raped in the streets, which has never been anything I’ve said, not literally and not in spirit. This claim came from our argument after I linked various articles of autistic children being killed by their parents and receiving sympathy for it as part of evidence of ableism being real. In other words, not just a strawman of what I said but a complete lie. That and the frequent use of autistic as an insult and casually suggesting euthanasia as a treatment for “autists” being constantly brayed by the people who’ve created and perpetuated these lies should really be all the proof anyone needs as to their veracity.

The claim I kill cats comes from intentional misreading and outright lies about pasts posts I have made regarding the death of my animals. The posts gathered have spanned at least 3 or 4 years and are often presented out of order or under the impression that they’ve all happened within the same span of months. Another thing to understand: these posts were made while I was living with my parents still and didn’t have a job. The posts presented do talk about cats dying, but “in horrible, avoidable ways” can be a stretch, considering some of them are just that the cats disappeared, and others died as a result of illnesses and issues that either came suddenly or that we’d been trying to fight for a long time. For example, a post taken as proof of me killing my cats and “feeling nothing about it” was a post I had written after we had put Crookie down about how upset I was that she had died and that this had happened. This was taken as me trying to garner pity for an animal I purposely and cruelly murdered and put all the focus on how hard it was to be me. We had Crookie for several years, and while she was young she was hit by a car and suffered spinal damage, and this ended up being why she had to be euthanized; I don’t quite remember what it was that was specifically wrong, but the vet told us that frequently it is missed and while the cat seems to improve, it will eventually begin to decline up to and including total pelvic shutdown, which Crookie was getting near to. It was horrible to witness her climbing trees but then in a few months unable to support her hind end, because we had been fooled into thinking she was going to be okay. It’s such a specific condition that it is rarely seen or checked for; there was no plausible way for us to have seen it coming. That’s why she died. It wasn’t instant, she wasn’t a baby, it wasn’t a decision made on the fly, and you bet your ass I fucking cared about it and bawled for days on end about it. Crookie was incredibly special and a fucking gift to this earth, I didn’t want her to die and I damned well wasn’t fucking ready for it. Could she have not been hit by a car? Yeah. Yeah she should have been inside. But it wasn’t in my fucking power; it wasn’t my house. I had no control over that shit. That’s your answer to every “why weren’t they inside” and “why didn’t you bring them in” - because I wasn’t allowed to! And no, I also didn’t have the personal finances at the time to take anyone to a vet, not even to be fixed. My parents are fucking awful about this and ever since I have moved out I have been the one taking these animals to the vet even though I don’t live with them anymore, and I’m frequently berated by them about how much money I “waste” while doing this. And that’s how a lot of the “evidence” for this claim is. They take posts out of context of their time and my place, line them up together, and say I personally and intentionally killed a million cats in a month. They said I killed a kitten, because it crawled under my brother’s jeep hood and got its neck broken. Because he kept driving into the yard after we had repeatedly told him not to, and never checked his vehicle before starting it, because he quite fucking frankly doesn’t and never cared. They said I murdered it, and that I was abusive and evil because I made a post about it - about the horror of fucking witnessing a literal fucking baby struggling and dying in fear and panic right before your fucking eyes and not knowing what to do and how awfully it fucks with your head, with your life, to be in that position. They said I killed a kitten I raced to the emergency room because my parents called at midnight saying he couldn’t breathe, that I dropped 600 dollars down without question for the surgery that could save him, that he fucking died in anyway, that they called me at 3 in the morning and told me he didn’t fucking survive. My parents said I wasted my money, that I should have told them not to even try. And they said I purposely put kittens in a tree - intentionally stripping the context of how that’s where they were born, and that we stopped trying to take them down because the mother kept taking them back up there and we were afraid she’d fucking drop them. They also claimed that this cat from posts 3 years prior, that I had while living with my parents and that had been adopted to another family, was the cat I was raising funds for and thus I was scamming people. The cat I raised funds for was a black “male”, she was an orange mother cat, and again there’s 3 years and two locations between those posts - there’s no way to confuse the two, but there is if you’re desperate to smear someone as psychotic animal murderer because you know they’re sensitive to cat death! Basically, they twist my posts of me mourning my beloved pets as being “woe is me give me money” posts, and spread the rumour that I just let these things happen.

When I posted the “shitty artist” list, like every time this kind of post is made, it was reduced and watered down to make out like the OP is a radical hater who wants everything censored, and so I was called anti-kink, anti-porn, and anti-nsfw because of my pointing out the problems with these artists that of which some were porn artists. Which when it came to those it was generally the issue of pedophilia, zoophilia/bestiality, rape, fetishization especially of trans people, the usage of transphobic/intersexist slurs (like f*ta), and other really nasty shit. As a result a lot of my nsfw work is used as an “aha!” for why I’m stupid, a hypocrite, and a disgusting creep. It’s really hilarious to try to drag me for being openly sexual, while also calling me these things. So am I a slut or a prude? Whichever works to whip up the crowd, I guess. And of course, dragging me for the same things they praise and defend in others. But no, I’m not anti any of those things. I have had “kink positive” as a descriptor for a long, long while. I think the peak of funny when it comes to these claims is when anonymous people tried to warn one of my friends and fave kink artists about me, about how I was a kink-shamer and swerf/radfem and they should be careful. But yeah basically these kinds of claims are from people who think “you can draw porn just don’t use slurs” and “this person is a pedophile/rapist/animal rapist” are kink-shaming.

The anti-choice thing is from a particular shitty little brat who is fucking furiously obsessed with me because I told them they’re not my friend and I don’t like them or want anything to do with because they are anti-choice. I kept explaining how and why they are anti-choice, but they prefer to lie and say I called them anti-choice because I don’t think people should have babies. They’ve taken this lie and ran with it, including posting about it on the submissions/pages of other anti-choicers and linking me so that they’ll attack me. If I even still used the word, I’d say they’re the definition of butthurt. They may also be the reason for the idea that I get pregnant just to have abortions, or at least spread it themself.

The “rape fanfics” crap started over To Violate. To Violate was a story I was writing about Candler’s background (spoiler alert? haha) and, yes, it involved rape. Because the story was about how he became a the person he is, which included that he was sexually abused and later sexually abusive himself. Actually the main idea behind it was that he and Zed have both been sexually abused, but each reacted radically differently to it, and I guess the ultimate goal was to write this and Zed’s history down and basically show how we can react in our own unique ways to the trauma we experience. I’ve removed it myself (it has never been deleted from anywhere else otherwise) from the places I had it posted due to the fact it was way, way too ambitious of a project for me (for now) and was just downright written badly. Like, really badly. And I’ve since significantly changed Candler’s backstory… But it wasn’t a “fanfic” for rape - detailing sexual abuse and pedophilia and how it screws you up isn’t exactly what I would call a “fanfic”.

I haven’t smoked weed in a long, long time, and at no point did I ever say I hated it. What I DID say was that it was exhausting - because I’m very intolerant of smoke, so a hacking fit to the point of seeing stars or going temporarily blind was always guaranteed. As for not getting a job, that was when I lived with my parents, and never have I asked for money while living with them; my asking for financial help is relatively new (within the last 2 years at most?). I don’t like alcohol. I can drink here and there, but only wine coolers or Mike’s Hard and other lightweight stuff. Something in particular about alcohol is incredibly vile and wretched to my taste buds. The posts brought up of me drinking/being drunk are several years old, and most of them aren’t even of me being drunk. I think I’ve only legitimately been drunk maybe twice in my life. The posts in context with them also frequently talked about how I was harassed into drinking most times, because people don’t like to hear “no” about this, but of course that was omitted when bringing this terrible sin up. Like marijuana, I haven’t had alcohol in a very long time.

So my sexuality frequently becomes a subject, as mentioned. For whatever reason, a bunch of redditors chose to read the post I made about my first sexual encounter as me being a nasty radfem tricking a poor boy into sex just to destroy him and spread that sex was bad. I really don’t have to explain why this is bullshit because if you know me you know I’m not anti-sex at all. (WNSE? lol?) This same post is often brought up to mock me for no reason because I guess the very thought of a “sjw” having sex and posting personal posts on a personal blog is laughable? I didn’t have sex “just to lose my virginity”. I have never expressed anything like that in my life. If anything, most of my life I bought into the bullshit of coveted virginity. My early sexuality is a real complicated topic, but at no point did this ever become a thing. And when I did have that first encounter, I don’t think I even had a job? So no, I wasn’t going to sleep with my sexually-harassing-coworker. I actually met him online at FetLife (wouldn’t recommend that!), I don’t remember exactly how it started but we wound up exchanging numbers and chatting and talking on the phone frequently. This shit might have been pulled out of the asses of the anti-feminists who attacked me for making a post for the former “why I need feminism” trend; the post I had made was about how I was being harassed and creeped on by a coworker, and I complained about it to my mother because this was the guy I had bummed rides off of. She was all with me about how creepy and stalkerish he was being, up until she realized I was talking about someone my age rather than someone her age, and then she did a complete 180 and started yelling at me for “being so antisocial” for thinking this was shitty behaviour. The reason I said I needed feminism was because my mother and family thought this behaviour is acceptable as long as it’s from someone my age, and anti-feminists leaped on the post saying I was calling all men rapists, lying about my sexual harassment, lying about my sexual abuse and the way my parents treated it (like a joke), saying sex is bad, and etc. The rest of the shit about my sexuality is generally just for some reason finding it vile and creepy for me to even post about it on my personal blog, regardless of whether the claims are true - such as, no, I’ve never spammed anyone about my toys nor posted a million pictures of them? but even if I did so?? what?? Which again is hilarious when these are the same people decrying me for supposedly being anti-porn and anti-kink. And for the record, no, I’m not into hardcore guro. If we’re talking about gore at all I’m a real lightweight and I don’t really find it sexually exciting. I don’t find murder sexually exciting in itself either.

“Seizure Terrorists” is the only group I’ve ever known that would come anywhere close to fitting the description of a group made to give people seizures. And that’s not at all what they do - the group is just a place for flashing images and icons. During my time on dA around the same era as the BHB, rapid flashing images were incredibly popular. Some kind of meta level offensive shit. I’ve never been a member of Seizure Terrorists and the cap that was presented as proof (well, the one I saw) is cropped and snipped so badly I don’t know why people believe it. It also only made its appearance after I asked if ST was what they were referring to (because, again, I have no idea about anything else that comes close). The only affiliation I’ve had with them is that they’ve requested some of my stamps in their group. Idk if this is still true, but on dA when you’ve got images in a group, you’ll show up on their front page regardless if you’re a member, and it will say something like contributor or something?? Anyway, that’s how they got that cap, mate. Not a single person has responded to me about that.

Oh boy, the SU/UG thing. So it began a while ago before this thing in which some little truscum shit jumped on my post about how I was tired of seeing objectifying shitty genderbend art in the tag for the character Mephisto Pheles. Mind you, my personal is always set not to show up in search and I didn’t tag this post with anything relevant. In other words, this person showed up out of nowhere and started screaming at me for criticizing genderbending. They stopped replying after I asked for proof of me harassing anyone. This same person then went on to claim I had attacked and threatened their friend(s) (they kept changing the number) and several other artists over genderbend art. They were just thatmad about it. And when it came to my post about how I didn’t like the Steven Universe/Uncle Grandpa crossover, they couldn’t wait to spam tags and inboxes about how I had done this and was also now doing it to Uncle Grandpa fans and the fandom tag. Again, they stopped replying to me when I demanded they post the proof. At no point had I ever ventured into a tag. I avoid tags as much as possible. All the things I had posted were replies to reblogs of my post, or replies to messages I was being sent. I also never said anything about being triggered, or that Uncle Grandpa is child abuse. What I did say was that cartoons are important especially for children’s developing selves, as a response to people saying that cartoons don’t matter so we should just ignore the problems they present or feed into. This person and another screencapped a few of my posts which people love to run wild with as proof of this harassment, but, again, the caps are of me replying to my messages and reblogs of my posts. And also, for context: that person who posted the screencaps I’m pretty sure was one of the blogs that popped up solely to attack SU fans over this episode. In other words, was dedicated to that harassment they claimed I was committing. Both these users misgendered me multiple times, intentionally. You don’t have to just take my word for it since archive.is has it all. You know, a lot of these anti-sj types nearly piss their pants about people who lack reading comprehension, or take things out of context to vilify, including by digging up old and irrelevant “evidence”, and yet that’s what I’m constantly seeing them doing. In fact…

I have never claimed to be intersex and the “evidence” that has been used about that is the description of a stamp I made against genital cutting, talking about the fact that my mother 1. told me I should have my genitals altered because they’re “not right” and 2. told me she believes intersex children should have their genitals altered, going along with that same logic. You can even read that yourself in the links people provide about that. Again, it seems the people who explode the worst about reading comprehension and context are the people who commit this folly the most.

HHK brings back fond memories of me being a teenager. I’m 26 now. HHK was my place about 10 years ago. And no, none of us acted really well; we were all in some way definitely some pretty crappy kids. This was years before I even went with BHB, people are surprised about it? I’ve been an admin on it off and on, sure, but Heru was the creator and destroyer of HHK. Not really sure how that managed to get fucked around since it’s always been Heru. We tried a revival that wound up being deleted for unknown reasons, which was made by Wolfeinheim, not me, although I was an admin off and on with this version too. I tried to remake the third incarnation but by then we’d all gone our separate ways. As for multiple websites and forums dying, yeah, like most teens I tried to make a free forum over anything. Is that really a crime? Silver Fang Fanhouse was the only one that got anywhere, and I’d left it to the rest of the staff before I got on Tumblr. They have access to my account to make any changes they couldn’t otherwise and have had this access for a while, and of course at any time before were able to come tell me to do something. While I have left I didn’t just drop off the edge of the earth without a word or any way to contact me. This is a really reaching and weak receipt.

I am not phobic of any race and never have I lost sleep about that kind of thing? I did once make a racist post about “Arabs”, probably soon after watching Taken or some other shitty movie about kidnapping women into sex slavery. That was bad, absolutely, and I have apologized for that (which if you don’t accept that’s fine, that’s not a problem), but getting “phobia and can’t sleep” out of a single post about sex trafficking is a fucking stretch. For the record, I have always had insomnia issues up to and including night terrors, paranoia, and fear of sleeping in the dark / sleeping alone. That has shit all to do with a racist post I made and reducing my lifelong sleep problems to that is pretty fucking shitty.

I’ve made a couple posts about and answered minors about masturbation. Teaching how to masturbate or getting into details about what masturbation entails, and about sexual development in general, may be a controversial subject. In fact I would say it’s so controversial I was told my sex education project for highschoolers that featured simple pink circles showing how hymens can form and details about the myths surrounding hymens was given a lower grade for being “inappropriate”. But I’m pretty sure talking to teens about their bodies, especially how they can do things themselves and don’t need someone else to, and that there’s nothing immoral or wrong with that, isn’t grooming. But maybe that’s just me. I guess if you disagree with that you’re free to unfollow but I’m not going to feel bad about not posting purity myth level “education”.

I made a chatroom on dA but it pretty much died within 2 months. I realized I didn’t care that much. It was never banned or deleted as a punishment; if deviantART chatrooms do not have participants for a certain amount of time they’re automatically removed to save on webspace. I really don’t know where this rumour came from since I think maybe 4 people including myself ever attended that chatroom?

The single father story still exists. I just haven’t written it yet. If you read the post referenced, that’s exactly what I said - I didn’t write it, kind of lost the details, but I will some day when I remember them better. If you don’t believe me, his name is Frederik Botip and he is Zed’s best friend, he owns the organic grocery store that Zed shops at.

The age of consent claims relate to an incident with a user that stated that I and two other users had banded together as friends and sexually abused them/their friends and that one of us was using their sj blog(s) as a way to meet and subsequently abuse minors. There’s a lot of reasons why that was a bunch of crap but the post I’ve made about it is long gone thanks to my account being deleted. I’ll need to make a new post on it… But as a part of that one of their friends reblogged a post I had made about age of consent being tricky, because some places have it set ridiculously low, and the number of years between partners not exactly being the only thing to determine abuse, etc. It’s a subject I’ve covered a million times on WNSE. What happened is that person reblogged the post but took out everything but the opening sentence “Age of consent can be a tricky thing” and claiming I was making a case for child sexual abuse/pedophilia as a part of saying I tried to rape their friend. (This was also a person who said that it could never be possible for someone to rape/abuse someone older than them hence the context of my reply.) (For the record because I know the above is potential worrying content, if you don’t feel comfortable with me that’s fine. I don’t expect you to buy everything I say especially now that the evidence is gone.)

#dandymeowth #dandymeowth is shit masterposts

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tessatechaitea · 8 years ago

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The Hellblazer #9

Is this a crystal ball that shows what's happening around it or just a reflection?

I'm not the only person beginning my composition by alienating a hefty percentage of potential readers.

Constantine has no real thematic reason to take a dump on comic book collectors on the first page but he sort of ties it up at the end by comparing collecting things to keeping a journal of experiences. And he's after a journal so there's the way into the story! Also he's following a flying, glowing trainer across the skies of Paris. You can tell it's Paris because the Eiffel Tower is big as life right there on the first page. You can kind of see a tiny piece of it on the stage-right-hand side of the above scan. John has tracked down the kid who stole the journal that might have the secret to killing Djinn in it with the help of a sexy woman named Sexy Sexytime. Did that sound like convincing French? I would use her real name but that would involve remembering it or actually looking at the comic book which would take less time than explaining why I called her Sexy Sexytime. I think her name was actually Misabel Lefuvque or something. She offers John some advice as she ditches him.

I'm sure there are some readers who know John is bisexual and don't know what fags are whose heads just exploded.

It seems John wants the journal because it has the location of the Djinn's home magic lamp. Was that racist? That was probably racist. I hope I didn't offend any Djinn-kin out there. If I were having sex with a Djinn-kin and they asked me to rub something vigorously, I'd walk out due to their lack of imagination. I would be all, "I will grant you three wishes if all of those wishes are to swallow a huge load of cum!" Do you like how in my fantasy, I deliver huge loads of cum? In reality, it would probably be a slight trickle due to all the masturbating I get up to. My friend Sony Tilva (no relation to the equipment manager for the Phoenix Coyotes, wink, wink!) once told a story about how he hadn't nutted for a long time before masturbating on his back so when he came, he gave himself an inadvertent facial. I hope his hockey buddies don't read this and judge him! Although knowing Tony ... I mean Sony! ... he's probably already told them all that story. Meanwhile in London, some political intrigue or something is happening. I think some guy insinuates Theresa May is a lizard person and that everybody who voted for Brexit might as well be living in the colonies.

Here's a bit for the nerds and also for the people who are halfway intelligent enough to score reasonably well on Jeopardy.

John and Mercury eventually get an address leading them to the journal. What they don't realize is that Misabel made sure they received that address. So I'm guessing the journal isn't actually there. Unless the French translation of "journal" is "trap." The Ranking! No change! This is a monthly and I don't always write detailed commentaries about it, so I might be a little confused by some of the story. And it's not helping that I didn't really write much of anything about the part that I'm a bit confused about! The Djinni at the Tate Club had some guy high up in May's cabinet (or her personal assistant (or the person in charge of telling her what the real powers want done)) is forced to face the truth of his life: the "real power" behind it all is just a guy pretending to be Jesus Christ. So the Djinni has him kill Pseudo Jesus to prove his loyalty to the Djinn. No the Djinn control London! Or something. But they still need to stop Constantine before he finds Abby and completely fucks up their plans. I don't know why they need Abby but I guess The Rot is essential to their plans of world domination.

#The Hellblazer #John Constantine #DC Comics #Simon Oliver #Davide Fabbri #Jose Marzan Jr.#Karl Kesel #Carrie Strachan

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bitterdrake · 8 years ago

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Big Boy Rant

guilty pleasures shouldn't exist. u should be able to love whatever u want without feeling guilty about it. however that doesnt mean u shouldnt call out the bullshit that comes along with it. for example i LOVE the vampire diaries. yet i can still acknowledge its unoriginality, mary/gary sue characters, repetitive plots, and how it jumped the shark by like the third episode without getting all butthurt. i know it has little to no real quality. i hardly gain anything from watching it. but bitch i still like it! YET IM AWARE! what i'm really sick of is the glorification of all these mediocre and bland shows that get off the charts ratings just because people are so obsessive with so obnoxiously fake characters. i'm talking about shows like pretty little liars (great plot at the beginning but do not try to tell me it didnt go downhill after the second season), riverdale (i love this show but there is not one even slightly original thing about it), thirteen reasons why (great actors, horrible everything else), orange is the new black (amazing characters, amazing plot, but the writers absolutely slaughtered everything that was good about it by the end of the third season), etc. etc. etc. then you have, like, second tier shows that are written brilliantly like shameless (hyper realistic dialogue, imperfect, relatable, original characters, representation of a ton of communities, call-outs on gentrification and aristocracy), SKAM (realistic representation of modern youth, somewhat typical yet interesting characters, pretty good representation of the gay community also im norwegian so im biased), game of thrones (aint even gonna explain its very well done) that are new and classic but with primarily white characters (before u come at me: shameless has two black main characters, one of which has like two lines total in seven seasons. skam has one muslim actress. everybody is white in game of thrones except for the tribe of people known to be savages and the other kingdom of people made out to be "middle eastern"). while thats pretty typical of western television, it lacks the ambition and fails to demand critical thought from its massive audience. all of the shows mentioned above flourish because of plot twists and like able characters. not strictly unworthy of watching, but not incredibly impressive nor thought-provoking, either. but they're super successful so they don't need to worry about shit that won't make them money. then you have god-tier shows that are cancelled after the second season. lemme just talk up the get down real fast. it's directed by baz fucking lurhmann. love him or hate him, he's super artistic and completely revolutionizes the way certain scenes are filmed. you have actors like jaden smith, justice smith (up and coming actor who was in paper towns and is hot ASF), herizen guardiola (first time actress who is just as amazing acting as she is at singing), jimmy smits (from the west wing, sons of anarchy, and dexter), and giancarlo esposito (gustavo from breaking bad!!). all of the main characters are refreshingly people of color representing both the ghetto and the middle class of the bronx in the 1970s. the plot line is super complex yet easy to follow. the dialogue is equally hilarious as it is heartbreaking. BROTHER U GOT FUCKING MUSIC! this show centers around disco and the very start of rap and hip hop. jaden smith is a closeted gay poet/artist whose story line does not revolve around being gay(!!!!). justice smith plays a young teen named zeke who is a mf good will hunting genius in the making who unapologetically writes honest poetry. the love interest mylene cruz is gorgeous, talented, yet painfully imperfect. her story does not revolved around zeke at all- she focuses on her career as an up and coming disco star and the struggle between fulfilling her dreams and pleasing her abusive, uber christian father. the "mentor", shaolin fantastic, is a drug dealing DJ and graffiti poet who recruits a bunch of high school sophomores (zeke and company) to be word smiths (rappers) for his spinning (DJing, otherwise know as The Get Down!!!). shaolin, peppered in hilariously cheesy bruce lee references, struggles with living authentically and obtaining money via coke dealers. the writing is fresh. its funny. its heart wrenching. its relevant, even though the show takes place in the 70s. just from watching this show i know who tf edward koch is who was actually a huge part of the history of new york and a big reason why racism is pressed into the art of graffiti, thus emphasizing the importance of expression within the black community. that being said, this show isn't anti-white or whatever the fuck u "reverse racists" try to pin it as. there are white graffiti artists, white businessmen who play a huge part in zeke's life, and white helpers of the puerto rican uncle trying to make a difference in the bronx. the issues of classism, racism, censorship, and familial struggles are addressed without being one-sided. this show educates you. it makes you laugh, cry, and most importantly makes you think. and it got cancelled cause yall motherfuckers are too busy losing ur shit over stupid drama and okay looking white actors (cole sprouse aint got shit on justice smith and thats the mf tea on that!) don't get me wrong: like whatever u wanna like. but u simply cannot deny the blandness of popular television when there are a variety of amazing, less popular shows that you can actually get something out of. with great power comes great responsibility !! when your audience is that huge, you have the opportunity to spread deep and worthwhile messages to the masses. i'm not saying make all shows political or whatever. i feel like the main message (that is often took for the opposite due to its romanticization of gossip) of pretty little liars is to not be a fake bitch!! idk what the FUCK riverdale is trying to say, and dont u dare come to me saying 13 reasons why is trying to bring awareness to depression bc that is some neurotypical bullshit, and yes not all shows need to have some higher meaning but isnt that the appeal of story telling? the bible? cant stop yall from having bad taste and like you do you but i want you to know that im fucking pissed the get down got cancelled and thirteen fuckers why is getting a second season that is all goodbye

#sorry this is hella long #im pissed tho #rambly and pissed

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