#and beyond does not seem to have retconned ANYTHING but people will opt to me mean on main to Kizuna and 02TB i guess

[digitalgate02]

i think whoever wrote this wikimon page had into something i was thinking about by myself now that i watched it again and carefully.

and yeah, really, i don't think ANYTHING was "retconned", please remember Kakudou *never* "retconned" the events of the first two Advverse movies either. 02 also uses Miyako's backstory featured in OWG, mentions Omegamon vs Diablomon from the same movie and also *shows* Omegamon in ep 27.

so really, can this fandom stop trying to invalidate this or that once again. it's ok to dislike and disown things if you want, but please don't imply it was "officially" ignored/"retconned" this pisses me off.

[elizabethrobertajones]

Hey Lizzy I want to apologize. I really respect you, but unfortunately in the past that lead to me thinking you could be asked about any SPN opinion and were obligated to answer, no matter if it was wanky or not your ballpark, because you 'obviously knew everything'. That wasn't cool of me. You being a smart person who chooses to share your insights doesn't mean we're entitled to your time and I'm sorry. I hope fandom starts remembering we're all just people soon and you get the chance to relax.

Thank you, sincerely. 

At least for me, though, it’s not been a problem… I have a very quiet inbox compared to some friends here, and I barely get wanky stuff. And so I’m happy to answer a lot of things, basically anything non-wanky, and serious questions about the wanky stuff rather than just people coming to spew their misery at me. Which I rarely get, tbh, since I often don’t answer it, or also I think because I consistently avoid the initial post-episode rush when everyone’s most panicked and urgently needs to yell about everything, I’m more under the radar as a panic response blog because in the 18 hours between the episode and me returning to my dash, people get it out their systems. :P 

I think the problem with anons, though, is waaay more with a mob mentality that once someone is answering a lot of asks they beget more asks either tangential or just because they seem like a blog that answers a lot of asks quickly and efficiently (I think “efficiently” is another reason I don’t get a lot of anons :P), and often the anons start to get very impatient just to ask, rather than to check and see if it’s been asked before. Which is no one individual person’s problem but an issue with the entire system they’re just not helping with. I’m glad people are starting to check themselves because a volley of anons, meant well or not, is a great way to exhaust a blogger and get them defensive or despairing or just feeling like they have no time left to do the stuff they actually enjoy about fandom. (At which point I have wished I COULD take some of that burden off since I have a bunch of free time while I’m in exile from my kingdom or whatever this is) But the emotional burden is waaay worse for others so I absolutely can’t complain about getting the few odd anons. 

Like… I didn’t mind answering 2 asks about where the longing retcon came from in the same week because they were fairly widely spaced, but if I made that post with a link to the tag that would explain everything, and then got 3 anons demanding to know and then there were 5 more by the time i was done answering one, my inbox would feel way worse than it currently does, and as a bonus, answering one would still leave 7 people feeling like I never answered them even when answering stuff that’s literally their question - by not giving their specific ask the attention it feels like they’ve been ignored. 

If you give someone a little while and they still haven’t answered or explained, and there’s no easy to find explanation on their blog, then yeah it’s fine to ask just about anything about their content. Going away and remembering to come back and ask also will clarify to the asker if they actually care enough to do it >.> I have asked one (1) anon question to a meta blog in the entire time I’ve been on tumblr because it was something they kept alluding to and I could not for the life of me find the reason why they did and their tag didn’t have an explanation, just more allusions to it and it was such a specific thing I didn’t know any other blog that would care about it. And I asked after seeing them allude to it about 3 times so I was getting desperate but didn’t want to look silly so I asked on anon :P Anything else I cared enough to ask, I just snooped their blog and saw what else they had to say about the subject, or if it was a fresh hot subject, scrolled my dash and inevitably found someone else talking about it. Or just asked a friend if they knew what was up.

Anyways, anon, I’m glad you’re questioning how asks affect people, and I hope more people at least take some time to remember that this isn’t an instant question and answer service all the meta writers automatically opt into, because people are getting hurt and burned out, but you don’t have to worry about me specifically :) 

I’m still happy to answer most messages. At the moment most of the unanswered stuff I have is actually stuff I just don’t have a clue how to answer except the anons were sharing some idea with me and I’m a terrible person, but I don’t know how to do one line replies where I don’t engage with it beyond like “cool” and “you do you” rather than actually wanky stuff :P Other people here are much better at that than me >.> Maybe I should clear some of that out of my inbox right now tbh. It’s mostly stuff that arrived in the middle of busy inbox days and I just put off answering in favour of stuff that was real questions… THAT’s the burden that weighs me down, not the wank :P 

I really hope that others are starting to at least think about the specific emotional burden they’re asking people for when they bring wank to their inboxes though, because it’s great you’ve started to think about it but as I said it’s a systematic problem of people not thinking about the blogger behind the inbox, and fandoms are wanky places. Choosing not to answer and spread the negativity, or to reply and try and smooth it down a bit, are the only options we have for managing things and I don’t think anyone starts writing meta thinking oh goodie I can’t wait to be responsible for the mood of the fandom. While accidentally putting ourselves in the place of seeming like we know what’s going on. It’s completely unmanageable and I’m looking at it as someone whose entire adolescence was spent as a top of the ladder moderator on a fairly large forum, but it’s completely untranslatable experience. Every single one of us is just another random person in fandom and we ALL have to be responsible for our own behaviour and how we affect others. And even among people you care about or bloggers you admire, you can hurt them just by having a bad day or asking too many anon questions or whatever. 

Anyway I’m gratified you’d send this, and please don’t be scared to send more anons, just read your audience :P If someone seems stressed, try another inbox.

[thesinglesjukebox]

EMINEM FT. JOYNER LUCAS - LUCKY YOU

[3.70]

The king of rude, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics...

Will Rivitz: You ever hear a radio ad's narrator motor through the fine print of whatever buying a used car from Randall's Chevy Emporium entails and think, "This bangs, but what it could really use is some complaints about the Kids These Days and their face tattoos"? Yeah, me neither. Anyway, Joyner Lucas is the best part of this song, and if there's a more damning sentence in hip-hop I haven't heard it. [1]

Taylor Alatorre: In a perfect world this would have been a two-minute Joyner Lucas track, like how "Buried Alive Interlude" was billed as Drake ft. Kendrick Lamar but only featured the latter. That would have required Eminem to be more magnanimous than he's been in his entire career, and Kamikaze is the opposite of magnanimity. Still, his verse here, in all its fidgety, crotchety paranoia, makes a better case for Eminem's continued relevance than any Trump or MGK diss ever could. A baldfaced admission of his last album's failure is followed immediately by the expected complaints about lean and face tats, all as a wiry Boi-1da trap beat rumbles below, letting us know this is taking place on away turf. A whirling mess of contradictions like that is just too interesting to discard. [6]

Thomas Inskeep: First off: Joyner Lucas, who I've not heard before, fuck you for following in Em's footsteps and dropping the word "maricón" in your verse. Beyond that, Lucas has a flow, I'll give him that. And I appreciate that Eminem gives him the entire first half of the song. Em's verse, meanwhile, is a reminder of what made (past tense, intentional) him great in the first place: few rappers have ever had tongues as nimble as his, especially when he starts spitting double-time. In the early 2000s, listening to Marshall Mathers was a guaranteed rush, and "Lucky You," by and large, provides that. And yeah, I'm in my 40s, and I appreciate and largely agree with his thoughts about today's "face tat" rappers; I miss the sound of old school as much as he does. The beat here is old school (spare, with a booming bass), as is his delivery. It's easy for me to hate Eminem in 2018, but I can't hate "Lucky You," because frankly, it's kinda fire. [7]

Nortey Dowuona: Dribbling marimbas slide through while Hans Zimmer strings lie flat above, then get stepped on by Joyner as he repeatedly tries to outrun the thudding papier mâché and limestone drums, then Em jumps on his back and tries to ride him off into the sunset before the drums drop and trap them both behind gaping fangs. [4]

Maxwell Cavaseno: For the past few years, the internet has worked aggressively hard at the act of retconning themselves to be absolved of Eminem. That's right, in the recorded history of music, nobody ever enjoyed "My Name Is" or "Without Me"; this was an Illuminati psy-op performed by Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, XXL magazine, Mountain Dew, the United States Army, Activision, and numerous other organizations seeking to hoodwink us all, as conspired by another misogynistic rap prodigy obsessed with hating his parents, abusing drugs and internal rhyme schemes, making unlistenable albums with terrible self-made beats, and screaming about his insecure masculinity named Earl Sweatshirt (a former fan). Unfortunately, one of the biggest victims of this dynamic is Eminem, a man who is constantly obsessed with fighting his perceptions and aggressively veering from album to album with new self-images that his audience do not recognize such as: rap virtuoso, political anti-hero and now scorned genius fighting against the unjust nature of critics/fans/time. "Lucky You" has Em and one of the most Em-like modern rappers in Joyner Lucas attacking the world around them, sounding deft and very showmanlike but mutually aggrandizing to unflattering degrees. A song like "Lucky You" isn't bad because Eminem is inherently lame, but a reminder that ever since Relapse started the beginning of his "comeback" narratives, Eminem is incapable of doing anything but thrashing in a quicksand-like belief that he opted out of King of Rap status by retiring. To think that in his post-retirement he's actually released two widely-panned albums within a year of each other and shows no signs of stopping, in spite of any last bits of well-regard his audience could find in an absence they sorely need. [2]

Jonathan Bradley: "Lucky You" gears up from a guest rapper who isn't Eminem, to Eminem doing ad-libs and triplets that sound like the rappers Eminem does not want to sound like, to Eminem sounding exactly like what Eminem wants to sound like. It sketches with remarkable precision exactly how, in 2018, the more Eminem a song gets, the worse it becomes. [3]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Two tedious motherfuckers join together to show that no matter your age you can still rap fast and say nothing. [2]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: Little is as emblematic of Eminem's juvenile rancor as the cover art for Kamikaze. It pays homage to Licensed to Ill but features a speeding jet emblazoned with the phrases "FU-2" and "Suck It." It's a reminder that he's a living legend, but it's also a warning to everyone that he's about to respond to 1) a new generation of rappers, and 2) others' criticisms of his recent work. Unsurprising -- yet still completely embarrassing -- is how the album opens up: "I feel like I wanna punch the world in the fucking face right now." Anyone hoping that Eminem would pepper his acerbic language with the humor and capable storytelling of his earliest albums is quickly shot down. "Lucky You" is one of the better tracks on Kamikaze because it finds Eminem taking aim at these people while coming from a place of vulnerability. He concedes that he "took an L" with his last album, "sold his soul" to win Grammys, and wonders where the old Eminem is -- the one that would "take that feedback and aim back." He interpolates Kendrick when he says he has "spite inside [his] DNA," and ends the couplet with an "ayy." Eminem spends part of Kamikaze adopting newer rap trends whilst decrying them, ostensibly suggesting that he's ready to embrace them: "I don't hate trap," he admits here. More realistically, he's showing everyone else that he can do all this better than them. Those moments, however, mostly point to how he's unable to adapt, and they pale in comparison to what Joyner Lucas offers here. (It should be noted that Lucas's contemporary-sounding delivery is done through a very Eminem-specific lens; Eminem devotees would never complain about Lucas's presence here) Eminem's performance on "Lucky You" is more of the same shtick, and the moments that are technically impressive sound as tired as ever. More interesting is how it actually sounds sad in light of the lyrics. Eminem fans would laugh at such an accusation, but the double-time rapping he employs here really sounds like a crutch: a shield to hide behind as he becomes increasingly anxious about his irrelevancy. Seeing him dab in the music video and calling artists like Hopsin the "culture" on "Fall" is a reminder that this 45-year-old is just another man going through a midlife crisis. For a brief moment, the Rap God seems human, in a good way. [2]

Juan F. Carruyo: Eminem's got some things to get off from his chest: one, he's still hurt about losing to Steely Dan. Two, he very much hates trap and mumble rap despite claiming in song he doesn't, and third, the ghost of his past addictions still carries a lot of emotional weight for him. So while it might seem he's entering his crotchety-old-man phase -- and he might be! -- he actually talks a lot of sense and his performance, along with Joyner Lucas, is MVP caliber. [7]

Alfred Soto: (1) Shut up, both of you, about the Grammys. (2) Eminem should not say "Lick my prick," no matter the context. (3) Motormouthing in 2018 is the hip-hop equivalent of hair metal solos. (4) Watch them sweat the technique. [3]

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