#and maybe it's the anti military in me but that sucks too

[menlove]

also ppl complain so much abt how moffat wrote the companions but tbh I prefer their endings so much like. amy and rory get stuck in time, yes, but they're stuck together and live happily and already wanted to stop traveling and settle down before that. clara is functionally immortal and essentially completes her arc of Becoming the doctor by stealing a tardis and traveling across time and space. bill gets to run off with her girlfriend and explore and be happy. they end Happily whereas so rtd era companions get so severely fucked over all the time. and it's tragic, yes, and tragedy is fun too, but personally I like that the companions in moffat's era get to find happiness on their own outside of the doctor.

[sailorspica]

HI KAT !! completely appro po of nothing,,, can i hear about 📝🏷️❤️👀 ?

we did it we hit every single question in this self-ship game!! ty for feeding the yap y'all. the others are one ; two ; three ; four ; five

oh CAT

📝: How would your story in canon go? How would you influence the events of the original story?

i got 0 influence. this is the canon compliant, nothing changes AU baybee. going off of scant worldbuilding where

there are stray arab and japanese names in the survey corps (rashad and keiji);

city boy jean has "never seen anyone who looks like" mikasa before;

the military police and wallists keep the walls scientifically/socially late medieval/early modern;

mikasa's maternal line was shunted to the mountains near shiganshina;

the AU imagines some mixed-race eldians like mr leonhart work in resource extraction and in the "industrial towns" that produce ODM gear mentioned in one Currently Available Public Information bit. a la the west virginia coal wars, the military police have been violently strikebreaking and unionbusting in these communities for decades. basically, kenny, other people have serious beef with the military police who aren't disgraced aristocrats (ackermans) or blond (erwin + armin + historia), e.g. racial minorities. so we meet because i hatched a sloppy plan to assassinate some MP instrumental in these conflicts that probably involved like. seduction but i'm a 20-year-old idiot virgin and i basically "get in kenny's way" and i don't think i'm sanitizing him in reading that he ONLY KILLED COPS, so he probably tells me to scamper off but instead i'm like "fuck YOU i had a plan" and he's like "a plan to get gutted maybe" et cetera. i lead him to the next guy on my arya stark-style kill list and we dispose of the bodies and he lives with me on-and-off for a couple years before disappearing, so i assume he either got arrested or killed, but in the interim i definitely managed some solo kills of my own of MPs who came dangerously close to tracking him down, and maybe my association with kenny the ripper has my neighbors run me out of town so i eventually settle in wall rose as a pathetic little blacksmith who only makes like, cookware at first. by 847 i'm in some position for the royal government to contract me with making some of the weirdly huge anti-personnel control squad's new ODM gear. come to find out kenny is not dead but a sellout, but i am, too, as an armorer. we probably hook up a few times before the uprising arc and then he is dead

🏷️: What is you and your f/o’s ship name?

well katken but if we're going with the four-syllable katakana tradition i think my (our) name can be chopped up to kya su ri n... so something's there. kenrin is kind of cute. rinken looks like a skate rink or abe lincoln

❤️: How popular is you x your f/o? Are you a rarepair?

kenuri is a rarepair in terms of like, ao3 totals but it's unequivocally both of their most popular ships. so yes

👀: How does your ship with your f/o influence both of your characterisations and the world? Would there be any interesting metas written about your dynamic?

i believe, not to suck my own dick here, the entire AU premise hinges on class and racial politics in the walls and basically invents the wall equivalent of appalachia, and doesn't let us forget the ackermans were a noble house. so yes. but specifically about katken's one-on-one dynamic, i think it's the ghoulcy thing of "i'm you, sweetie" which HONESTLY >>>> is a little sannes "break a leg, hange." whoa

[yoonyia]

writing sucks so much

what do you mean I have to become a 30 something year old college grad with a degree in astrophysics who happened to become a poet

like how am I supposed to know what he sounds like

this bitch also comes from a large family??? and everyone is known to be insanely talented and they're the second oldest??? and the youngest is 12??? how am I supposed to figure out by that

also they live in America? specifically Connecticut???? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WITH THESE FACTS ABOUT YOUR LIFE SALLY

I KNOW YOUR LIFE STORY AND I NEED YOU TO GO PICK UP YOUR FRIEND FROM THE AIRPORT

HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO WRITE THAT SALLY

YOU GAY ASS BITCH

YOU NAMED YOUR ROOMATE WINTER THATS GAY AS HELL DUDE

IT DOSENT MATTER WHAT WM IS THAT CONCEPT IS SO QUEER YOU BASTARD

BUT LIKE WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO WRITE YOU AS?????

ok great you're Italian American, but you do realize I know nothing about that culture right???

how should I sound like you???????

MY AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IS ALL THE WAY IN FUCKING DC NEW HAVEN

FOR FUCKS SAKES WHY DID I MAKE THIS TAKE PLACE IN NEWYORK I LITTERALLY ONLY WENT THERE ONCE IM GOING TO KILL MYSELF

ahdijfffejffjf

ALSO WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS BOOK ANTI CAPITALISTIC

LIKE YEA SURE THATS A GOOD POINT TO RAISE BUT LIKE WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME FROM?????

IM NOT STRONGLY ANTICAPITALISM (although maybe I should be, I am very aware of the horrors of the system)

LIKE I DONT KNOW HOW TO WRITE ANY OF YOU

YOURE REAL PEOPLE THAT ENTER MY HEAD AND THEN WHEN I TRY AND WRITE YOU SOME OF YALL COMPLAIN SAYING IM NOT DOING YOU JUSTICE OR THAT I SOUND TOO MUCH LIKE MYSELF AND TELL ME TO FIX IT

WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO GUYS

I MET YOU LIKE 3 MONTHS AGO

I DONT KNOW YOU THAT WELL

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PRETEND TO BE YALL

this might just be a pyschosis thing actually

I dont think you're supposed to hear the people you're writing about talk to you and complain or sit awkwardly next to you when you clearly did something wrong but they either don't want to offend you or don't know enough English to say whatever they want to justice and I don't know their home language

like how am I supposed to know Philippine traditions I never even visited that country

how am I supposed to talk like these people as if I've always been them

I've only been myself and my personas all my life

but all my personas (roughly) has had all the same experiences as me

IVE NEVER BEEN IN A HURRICANE

IVE NEVER BEEN ALONE IN THE DARK BORED LONGING FOR THE STARS AND BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY SEE THEM

IVE NEVER BEEN A GOLD DIGGER WHOS ACTUALLY LOVED

IVE NEVER EVEN BEEN A 15 YEAR OLD

I've never been in a fire, never been in Florida, never been in the military, never seen a child die by my own hands, never been to an ER watching people get wheeled in and thought "why are they all so suprised"

never have I been a business women in Singapore, never was I a presidential candidate.

never was a korean who suffered insomnia and sleep paralysis and was late to work, even tho I do suffer from insomnia and sleep paralysis and is a korean and was late for important things all the time because of it. ALL THE TIME BUT THERES A NUANCE, AN ELEMENT THAT I DONT KNOW ABOUT, THAT I DONT FEEL HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT IT IS?????

writing is so ubsurd, how do you expect anyone to do this

[darkcrowprincess]

What are some "problematic" ships you like?

do you really want to know because I have some really problematic ships? If so I'll tell you. A lot of them have age differences. Sometimes big ones. A lot of them are with evil people. And a lot of them aren't straight. And lot of them are just plain, well taboo. This will probably be long so stop reading if you don't want to read an essay.

My problematic ships:

Roy Mustang x Edward Elric Fullmetal Alchemist: ok really problematic straight out of the gate. Not only because of age difference but also because Roy Mustang is technically Ed's boss/superior officer in the military. Not that Ed fully listens to everything Roy says. And Roy constantly teases him about it. Roy is also snake but someone trying to change things for the better. He's also has done a lot of bad things. But so has Ed. They are both to messed up people trying to fix things they've done wrong and they are both intimately aware of that about each other. They both are incredibly brilliant and have in common the type of powers they use. You need to watch Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 to understand(not brotherhood. 2003 first) they are not canon but the canon ships bore me and lack any real romance so there you go.

Luz Noceda x Philip Wittebane: I know I know! This one is really fucked up. So fucked up. And Lunter is my otp. Believe me I know. But I have a dark fascination for this ship. Especially considering every interaction Luz and Philip had. And how much they have in common.. Like this my go to ship for when I want angst and trauma and just to see a dumpster fire. When I want Luz angst. I love Lunter. If Lunter is my happy ending, this ship is if I want tragedy and bad endings. This my depression ship!

Zuko x Happiness avatar the last airbender(anyone who is not Mai because she honestly sucked.) I am not a Mai fan. She is a horrible written character to me personally. And just horrible for Zuko. I mostly love any Zuko ship that has a water tribe sibling in it. But now a days that seems too toxic for people. You can look up the reasons in the anti zutara, anti zukka, anti zuko tag. But Zuko is my favorite character. Anything that gives him happiness makes me happy. Over all this mostly seems toxic because of Zukos past and family. But he had a redemption arc. One of the best. He deserves some happiness as he works hard to change things as fire lord.

Lunter/Luz x Hunter: You understand this needs no explanation. You know the owl house Fandom.

Dipper x Bill gravity falls: Yeah this one is really really bad. I think I have a really messed up taste for romance. Especially where age difference comes into play? Maybe I'm a masochist? Who knows. But I have a soft spot for adhd/autistic characters with older/immortal people. I have a soft spot for immortals/dangerous people protecting said autistic/adhd people.

Bakudeku my hero academia : I have a soft spot for redeemed bullies who actually put in the work to change. One of my favorite movies was a walk to remember.

Just in general a running theme I seem to have in a lot of my problematic ships:

age difference

Gay

power imbalance

In love with the Bully

In love with the villian

And sometimes its just plain taboo, toxic, or just un healthy. But I love it!

[medlabmech]

Edit: my sleepy brain relied too much on autocorrect and so this post didn't make a lick of sense. It used to say how I don't like armies fighting armies. Thankfully, y'all seem to have understood my point

Ya know what?

I'll say it

I hate the trope of fantastical/supernatural stuff being defeated by modern armies and tactics. Maybe it's my anti military views, but give me less "nukes solve everything" and more ragtag group of misfits with abilities that specifically counter the threat.

Give me less military jargon as everything is filled with lead and more heroes who clash blades until their very limit.

Stop preaching that every single fantasy would be solved with a gun and just let people be whimsical and imagine fights as they want them. And yes, if you enjoy HFY, I'm not the one to stop you. but this constant sucking of our nukes and guns cock is really, really disheartening to me.

[lostlotus-a]

OC thing (will probably be constantly edited for more context)

since tumblr doesn't have word limit I think I could talk about my OCs in a more 'better' way, without using outside links (for example evernote, etc) to provide more words haha (at least I thought it's way better than twitter) and my typing skills suck so I might have a lot of typos

And before reading you should keep in mind that everything is made up, not real etc and that the names of organizations and such are originally korean but translated into english for this. Also this is VERY long (at least for me) so uh... maybe you could take some time for this?

Main Universe

Major Groups

The People Living

The People Dead

Project EWHA

Project ARES

In a Nutshell (TLDR)

Main Universe

The location is mostly (South) Korea, since I'm korean and I just wanted to put korean stuff. (yes that's the only reason) The year is 2022~2024 but mostly 2023 when we talk about the 'main arc' or whatever that be. Nothing is different from us, and the current Korea right now, other than technology has improved more compared to us, thanks to the smart scientists. This (hopefully) explains things going on later. (Especially 3 and 4)

2. Major Groups

First I thought I had to introduce the groups (idk it's slowly getting weird now but anyways)

Snow Orchids, (설란파) they are kind of the 'main bad guys' of this world for short. They are a criminal syndicate of some sort, mainly active in China, Korea, and Japan, (mostly Eastern countries) supplying weapons/ammo and such to unauthorized people, getting a lot of money from it. From some intel, it says they are also supplying something unknown. Korea is having a hard time because of them, since weapon (especially guns) usage is prohibited/illegal without getting some sort of license. (it's kinda comlicated; tldr you can't use guns easily) How, or when the group was created is still unknown. The leader is only known as 'Hades' and is codenamed so by the millitary/police of Korea. And some people inside the group call him so too.

The second is Icarus Corp., (이카로스 사) them also being one the main bad guys. They're a PMC (Private Military Corporation) located in the Western countries mainly. They're trying to gain power through weapons, thus heavily related with the Snow Orchids. But still, they are strong, they are famous with creating their original-high-technology weapons. Their actions' motives are unknown at the moment, just that they want power. But there could be more than that, still hidden. They are working on a project related to controling people. (continued on 6) The vice leader is known as 'Opus', the leader unknown.

Third is Ewha Task Force, (idk how to spell that word in English, 이화) a hidden, unexposed task force of Korea. They work as some sort of anti-terrorism task force, (but not 100% exactly as that) only comprized of soldiers who got heavily related to the Snow Orchids during serving (they do not include civilians in their work unlike irl dramas and more; their job's way too dangerous and hard for them). All of the members lost their familes or got extremely injured, or maybe threatened by the Snow Orchids. The injured were saved by the task force. The primary reasons this task force was created are getting rid of 'Hades' aformentioned, destroying the Snow Orchids, and recently added, Icarus Corp.. It is known that there is a 'list' of people pre-selected for the task force, only to put the best of bests. So that means they... do not save the others, only the selected few. terrible but that's the point. (continued context for this 'list' at 5)

The fourth and last, Aegis Corp. (이지스) They are also a PMC like Icarus corp., yet they aren't that bad, formerly close to an inbetween position. The CEO is close friends with one of the members of Ewha, so that kind of made them involuntarily get into this criminal syndicate weird mess. They are currently actively trying to stop Icarus corp.

3. The People Living

First off, the people of the Snow Orchids will be covered.

Hades - The so called 'Hades' is the main bad guy for now. He's kind of tall but not that tall, has black short hair. He likes the color black I guess. His real name is not known. Age is also unknown, but is presumed to be in his early 20s. Presumed a Korean-American, may be only Korean. How he became the leader is also unknown. Hidden behind secrets. People say there's only one person alive who saw his face without being part of his group. The rest? Either part of the group or have died. Well, at least that's what people say. Has a rather warm... personality since as a person he isn't that 'evil'. Though he doesn't actively care about people nearby him, mostly regarding others as 'toys' looking down on them, he regards even Ewha like that. Surely he has some guts, huh.

Opus - Well, I talked about her at the Icarus corp. part shortly but Icarus works with the Snow Orchids so might as well as cover her here too. She's 20-ish years old. Has whiteish-gray long hair and green eyes. Kind of short. Done. (yes, I'm lazy haha) She always uses formal words (존댓말) whatever situation she's in. She has some sort of 'regal', 'royal' type of image.

Next being covered is Ewha (skipping Icarus) I think I gave them way too many characters but anyways I just will cover them all, nothing is going to stop me.

(The main character for the 'Main arc' or whatever that be) Choi Seolhwa (Major) - Choi is that 'main character'. She lost her husband due to the incident related to the Snow Orchids (will be described later). Then became a part of the task force because she was luckily on the list. She had gotten proper military education (idk how to describe it as, studied in a military school or something) and was known for being the top student there. She's kind of tall compared to other characters; approximately 6 ft. (182cm to be exact; I like tall women) 32 years old. Has a kind of cold-but not that cold personality. Her main goal is just revenge, nothing else, though she might be interested on other things too...?

5. Project EWHA

The hidden reason why Ewha was created. A science project secretly led by the Korean government and many scientists and doctors to reuse 'save' precious soldiers and possibly make them even more useful during combat, basically making enhanced soldiers through putting mechanical parts on their servered body part(s). Since Korea doesn't have a lot of people, the government decides to not abandon people who get injured during work. They test it on soldiers first, since those heavily injured dying would be easier to cover-up when they die because of the project failing... Anyways they thought the people (if they were saved) would be greatful for them. Later when the project kind of succeeds they write up a 'list' comprised of useful soldiers, and only focus on saving them, when the other soldiers get injured they do not care and let them die.

6. Project ARES (I'm just covering this first because I'm lazy and sleepy lol)

It's a micro-chip for controling humans project for short. Icarus corp. has been the main leading force but since the Snow Orchids started working with Icarus they got to know about the project, thus trying to get that project and earn some cash, or use it (for even more cash). The project is overseen by ARESTF (a smaller team inside Icarus) which is made of 12 people including the vice leader of Icarus.

5. (I'm lazy so much) In a Nutshell (TLDR)

So in a nutshell it's traumatized soldiers and police officers trying to get rid of PMCs and weird groups & make them pay for what they've done. Focus on revenge and things. period. (idk why it got very short lol)

[armandsdivorcelawyer]

I realized most of my Expats Subgroups are like women

Here’s some Very Specific Men who Live in South Korea:

The “I’m Black, you’re Black…”

This expat is probably military, but definitely a Black man. Because he’s Black, you should want to be with him if you’re a Black woman.

Oh, you don’t? He’s knows how it is. You just want a Korean boy. Must think you’re too good to be seen intermingling with your Melanated Brethren. Or maybe it’s internalized anti blackness. It’s whatever, you ugly and them Korean niggas don’t want you anyway.

You’re a lesbian? You’re just not interested? You can tell he sucks? You don’t gotta lie. He’s gonna go find a Black queen that’s gonna appreciate a high value Black man such as himself. He’s definitely not gonna make her miserable. Definitely.

The WM with a KW

She’s beauty, he’s the beast. You don’t know what he’s like, it’s just that he looks like roadkill and she’s beautiful. White privilege sure does turn a 3 into a 10, huh?

Has crossover with the LBH if he ever gets white privilege to work for him.

(I have a particular bone to pick with these dudes, bc once I got pushed by a white man with a Korean girlfriend in a bar. Like hands on my body, pushing my back so I’d move so they could move past.

With the power of Sapphic Misandry, Black female rage, and a bottle of soju, I cursed this man out and made them go around. He was American. I’m American. Just yell excuse me like a normal person. Just cause you’re white and you wanna show out for your little girl friend don’t mean you put your hands on me. What the fuck is wrong with you—)

The Male English Teacher

Rarity: Uncommon. Most expat English teachers are women, but there are men out there.

What do you want me to say? He’s a man. Think of a man, plop him in South Korea, and employ him at a hagwon or public school. That’s all I got 🤷🏽‍♀️.

Also has crossover with the LBH, but again it this expat is just a man. He does man things. Just a dude.

[shootingstar-scuderia]

🐑 alrighty i'm coming back at you with one and i'm going to try and make it equally chaotic haha

#there's only one bed #rooster #rivals to lovers #cherry cola and #apocalypse!au

ty ty for sending this in!!! i'm not typically an apocalypse girly, it's usually my hard stop, there's a lot of bits in there that makes me too existential and freaks me out but there also are some things that i find very compelling about it and ngl i like of the way this went...

anyways this got realllllly long so more under the cut!

fake fic ask game

okay so rooster makes me think of a top gun maverick sooo maybe a top gun type au where the world is on the verge of apocalypse and they're (max, charles, lando, oscar, george, alex) all training to be fighters pilots. some of the olders (danny, seb, carlos, lewis, etc) are their teachers.

and not to rip straight from top gun but maybe one of their call signs is rooster. idk who it'd be but there's probably some kind of big dick jokes related to it

it's typical boyish shenanigans, they're competitive and fit and young and the world is actively falling apart even though no one tires to think about it too hard so they're really trying to do a lot of fucking and sucking. there's an obligatory shirtless beach scene, they might have a barbecue, there's probably some cherry coke (more on that later)

and there's also a whole lot of haha let's not think about how we are most definitely fighting to our death and the fact that this war is meaningless because as time marches forward it's more and more obvious that we are going to be sent out to fight for nothing and there is no solution to this war.

i think when they first get to their training camp (or however it works in the military) there is some kind of mix up and lando and charles were assigned to the same bed cueing the there's only one bed situation. bc both of them are a little to prissy to be sleeping on the floor they end up sleeping top and tail and have a cow about it.

but this then sparks a rivals to lovers arc between max and charles bc charles hates lando like HE was supposed to be the doe-eyed tiny twinky one but lando is doing a pretty good job taking the title from him. and max and lando are friends from whatever little bootcamp you gotta go through to join the military so by extension charles hates max.

and really like max dgaf about the whole situation, he just finds it so funny that charles hates him. like charles is trying so hard to beat him at dogfights and preform better than him but max is just SO good. which makes charles annoyed to the point where even has he and lando start to get along charles is still on his anti-max agenda. the whole time max just gets more and more starry eyed bc this godddamn fool doesn't know when to quit and he likes that determination and persistence

anyways back to the whole cherry coke thing i think it's maybe max f and lando related bc sorry to all the cherry coke lovers it really feels like the most sticky gremlin coded thing. like i think the two of them fought about it a lot pre-apocalypse. maybe lando bought a case of it from the store one day because it was on sale and max was all liek "of course it's on sale you muppet, it's the worst one." anyways they have a lot of cherry coke during the apocalypse bc it is the worst one and even though the world is ending no one wants it. and maybe max is dead, maybe the two of them fought and have parted ways in a way that was really traumatic. anyways the whole cherry coke really makes lando spiral, there's lots of things to work through there.

bonus bit that's not related to any of the tags loll:

i think there'll be some kind of spy or mole or whatever who is on the side of the "anarchist resistance" (they're probably not really anarchist or anything like that but the boys are just a little too blinded by nationalistic loyalty to see past this. but also like it's literally the apocalypse the only side most people are their own). i'm thinking maybe alex mostly bc i think the galex dynamic would be the most fun to play with

like george feels so incredibly loyal, probably the most blindly loyal out of all of them. but he and alex are like brothers, teetering on the edge of something else, in any situation george would save alex first. but when it's revealed that alex is fighting for the oppositions i think george has a little bit of a breakdown. bc it turns out the one person he thought he knew like the back of his hand he didn't really know well at all. and that begins a whole identity crisis for george because alex is in many ways his twin he knows that alex would never deliberately do something bad, he was just mislead, or was he?

fake fic ask game

[hewholivesinhisname]

"Patriots"

I think the problem with me being a patriot is this:

On one hand conservatives will argue quite passionately for law enforcement and for "serving your country" in the military and the police forces.

On the other hand, they tend to be kind of dense in understanding that the government itself can easily be taken over by people who will twist the laws, empower law enforcement to take away their guns, maybe even ban their religion or whatever. In the extreme, which has happened many times in history, the government just get's taken over by one tyrant or another and slaughters millions of people. So, like, which is it? Do you want a powerful government which

Now, I suspect that most conservatives really want to recreate some sort of magical past which they imagine "the good old days" wherein everyone had a job and wherein everyone had a house, a tradcon wife, etc.

Conservative rhethoric and actions undermine this though because they defend the wealthy's right to do anything they want and they overtly defend women. Instead, they advocate for throwing lots of "bad men" in jail. So, how is throwing lots of "bad men" in jail going to help anything? Do they expect the rich and the women to give them a pat on the back? Of course not! The rich will use all these prisons and such to throw conservatives in jail and use them as free slave labor. This is why the international rich are rich, they work together to enslave while telling them whatever they want to hear.

The conservative fantasy is that someone else is going to see how patriotic and giving they are and in return that person is going to give them the lifestyle that they want which is just not how government works. government tends to be filled with the worst most powerful people imaginable and if you are stupid enough to contribute extra they will take it and leave and since you cannot.

There's a glimmer of course that since the conservatives love the military so much that they will understand incentive enough to make it more and more attractive (maybe the only option really) for young men to go into the military. I saw my father go into the military and boy did that fucking suck. I see veterans on the street all the time and there's always some scandal about how they ordered the troops to work with poison or something. yeah, more likely is that they will just institute a permanent draft or something thus making the lives of young men even more miserable. Leave it to the men to work hard to make the lives of men miserable.

In addition, of course, the police states that they advocate will go about taking away the rights of men in particular and breakup families. In order to have the tradcon family you need to have some sort of theocracy that is willing to punish and incentivize women to pick one man and stay with him her entire life. You need a government that will hire all the men or support the free market to create lots of new jobs and such. What conservative government would go against the will of the monopolists and the fascist class that supports them or would publicly endorse punishing women for breaking gender roles? I mean, the conservatives will make fun of feminists and such.

The overt anti-intellectualism of conservatives really makes it hard too, because policy is really complicated. Society is really complicated. So, you need the smartest, not the dumbest people in charge and you need to make sure that these people have good intentions which is another really difficult thing as smart people can work hard to appear as one thing while being another all the time. This is what goes on with Fauci, and pretty much every politician. All the conservatives in Q want to claim that somehow Trump is different but aside from saying wacky shit on twitter all the time I fail to see how electing Trump is going to save anything. during trump's first 4 years I didn't have a job and things kind of sucked and I don't see how electing him will change anything. I don't want to be too negative about him of course because everyone always just dumps on him, but really I don't want to fix the government, I want to get rid of it as the Bible advocates.

I think, mostly with "conservatives" it trends toward a sort of anti-intellectual position that supports any and all sorts of corruption except one which is that they will ban abortion. This tactic will work right up until the point wherein women who want abortions will figure out how to lie and say that a relative impregnated them or that they were raped. Within the conservative narrative stopping rape, especially of foreigners is important so all the women need to do is start alleging that one poor dude or another raped them and then they can send that guy to jail.

So, conservatives tend to mostly be men so it's a great example of men voting against their own interests, both economically and also against their own family interests. They will do this though because they like to engage in the fantasy of "the godly country" and also in the fantasy of being big strong men that will defend women and children. Men like to show off by killing and destroying other men so supporting overtly militaristic regimes is one way of doing this. What I don't think a lot of them understand which is that while in their own head tehy are always the "good guys" it is blissfully easy for them to drift into the category of "bad guy" in the eyes of society simply for being poor or perhaps for not being politically savvy enough.

The more men play the "good guy, bad guy" game the more all the men in society will fight and be warlike and the worse things will be for everyone. Instead the men should just work together to advance the interests of men, economically and politically especially making sure to create some sort of broad group that is inclusive of as many men as possible. This will ensure full employment, peace, prosperity and will provide the women with a lot of rich husbands. At least that's how it goes in my particular fantasy although there's a whole lot of particulars that don't seem to work out.

I'm kind of completely the opposite really. I think you need to put the screws in on the rich, you need the government to be the primary employer, you need to encourage lots of small businesses and really I kind of have anarchist tendencies. I don't even want an "institution" like a government existing. Instead I want to dismantle it and have people just follow one leader or another who can then negotiate with each other. I think landownership and ethnic solidarity based on landownership leads to endless violence which can often be genocidal and even if you had it, you would need some sort of international government which everyone supported making sure to support each ethnic groups claim to it's own land, space, culture etc.

I don't know about Trumps idea of a "space force" it seems like it might start out like Star Trek or something but it would end in Warhammer 40k, especially considering that I actually think we are under a dome of some kind. So, it's another con by yet another con man. This one led by the conman who tells you that if you support him he'll lead your nation into victory when really he's supporting some international regime of oppression.

The misandry bubble, that famous post, pointed out that the conservatives have actually been some of the biggest supporters of feminism and you can see why the feminists might see this as really useful in that you can just put a small percentage of the men "the winners" in charge of everything and then happily expect them to screw over the vast majority of the population in various ways, especially the male population because the guys identify with him. Who knows, if Bernie was elected maybe he would have done something similar, Biden certainly is an old white man that is happy to take away your rights with the patriot act and support a huge prison industrial complex that victimizes the poor.

Huge parts of the population right now are basically forced into the criminal classes which is where I'm probably headed since the "legitimate" section of the economy has totally and completely fucked me over. The banks won't allow me to open an account anymore (they don't want a relationship) and the police or lawyers or my family or anybody doesn't seem to want to help me at all either.

So, i'm automatically the "bad guy" that conservatives are talking about, but of course its' not because I don't want to contribute, it's just because I want world unity and also am pro-family which means being pro-male and pro-men, especially young men of the lower classes.

At least they aren't democrats, right?

[italwayshadtobeyou]

By all rights, WWII/Nazi occult shenanigans should be a gold mine for this show. The postwar period produced plenty of urban legends about Hitler's supposed interest in the occult. (In reality, that was more Himmler's deal, but they're called "urban legends" for a reason.) Literally millions of murdered people never got to finish their business with Hitler, the Nazi Party, the S.S., and/or the Gestapo. Throw in modern memorabilia collecting, and you've got a recipe for some creepy-ass ghosts.

Somehow, though, the WWII-related eps never quite work for me. Maybe part of it is that, when you take on such a well-researched and still-sensitive event, you need to do more research than any of the Carver-era writers ever thought about doing. (The real Thule Society wasn't a bunch of Hitler fanboys. In fact, he basically hijacked their political party out from under them, and the Nazis jailed their founder.) The bulk of it is probably that they go too big: The Winchesters don't just discover a golem who kills anti-Semites, they discover a golem who wrecked an entire military camp with the brass still there... and whom they've apparently never heard of before. Dean doesn't just need to get his hands on a long-lost artifact sunk during WWII; he needs to travel his whole self back into the past for it. (Remember when only angels could travel back in time?! Because I do!!! *Flings popcorn up to screen level.*)

In this episode, going to big turns into getting too small. It's a U-boat. Of course Dean can't hide there. Even if the space existed, he doesn't know how to stay hidden on a WWII spy sub. Then again, it isn't a normal U-boat, since it's tied into Spy Lady's life force. That's another puzzler; we've seen lives as sacrifices to a god, and we've seen souls siphoned for power (after Sera Gamble sharpened the distinction between soul and life), but the ability to tie a large metal object into a person's survival is new. It doesn't fit with the previous lore about spells, even from earlier in the Carver era, and it bugs me.

Then there's Sam's confrontation with Lucifer, which the show wastes by ripping off "Swan Song," AGAIN, to show Cass struggling against Lucifer's demand that he kill Sam. At least Cass and Dean had spent a year in Purgatory together before the writers tried to go there in "Goodbye Stranger." "Swan Song" earned its big moment through 5 years of focus on the two destiny-weighted human brothers and their intense relationship. The same trick doesn't work with Cass, who's never seemed as fond of Sam as Sam is of him. (Remember the time he broke Sam's wall?) Sam-- who, by this point, knows Lucifer far better than Cass-- gave Lucifer an emphatic and insistent no, so why did Cass give Lucifer a yes? Cass didn't even get the visions, and Lucifer didn't give Cass the hard sell like he did Sam. Did Cass think Lucifer was going to, like, be nice to Cass's friend that Lucifer had already spent centuries torturing? Does the soulfisting really come as that much of a surprise at this point?

In short, the new entry sucks. "Just My Imagination" isn't the first episode I'd recommend to get people hooked, nor is it the one I expect to them to rewatch the most. The whole zanna plot strikes me as dumb. But it isn't as dumb as trying to rewrite a MoL library's worth of recent lore that would be fresh in our minds even if most viewers didn't watch the episodes faster than their original airing.

Supernatural Battle of the Episodes!

Just My Imagination is on a good win streak! Is it enough to make it to the Hall of Fame? This next one shouldn't be any problem!

Who is it Chuck?

Chuck: Next up is The Vessel - Sam and Dean (unknowingly) employ Cassifer to take Dean back in time to a WWll submarine where a past Woman of Letters was transporting a "Hand of God" the boys needed to fight my dumb sister. When Cassifer can't get on the sub, he comes back to the bunker to try something else but decides to soul-fist Sam instead. 🤨

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My controversial Kdrama opinions

1. Ko Moon Young was just a psychologically messed up girl. She isn't the 'girlpower' or 'badass' that the Kdrama fandom likes to dub her into.

2. In 'Hotel del Luna', they could've just chucked the entire character of Gu Chansung out of the window and gave Chang Myung a rebirth/rebirths,make him go through various trials and tribulations to repent and earn Man Wol's forgiveness. Didn't have to make it unnecessarily tragic.

3. Unnecessarily tragic reminds me, the 'realistic' ending of 2521 was a JOKE. There was NO point of developing such a power couple if they were to break up for such a mundane reason.

4. Romance genre isn't Song Kang's 'thing'. He shines better as an actor in non-romance genres.

5. Had they focused on developing Ju Kyung as an individual character who finally learns how to completely take a stand for herself instead of dangling her between Suho and Seojun, 'True Beauty' would've become a more popular and appreciated drama.

6. The love line between Hwang InYeop and Seo Hyun Jin's character in 'Why her: Oh Soo Jae' was absolutely unnecessary and awkward.

7. Jo Bo Ah and Ahn Bo Hyun and an amazing chemistry in 'Military Prosecutor: Do Bae Man'. However, they could've developed a slowburn romance between them instead of abruptly putting a kiss sequence in the last episode out of nowhere.

8. In 'Snowdrop', Eun Young Ro forgiving Soo Ho later on didn't make sense. Their kiss sequence was purely fan service,nothing else.

9. Individual acting aside,Kim Hye Yoon had more chemistry with Lee Jae Wook(2nd lead) than Rowoon(main lead) in 'Extraordinary You'.

10. Writers are overusing 'Let's kill off the main character and make the show tragically memorable' trope wayyy too much.

11. As much as it physically hurts me given the chemistry of the actors,Choi Do Il and Oh In Joo not having any proper romantic sequence till the end of 'Little Women' makes sense to the storyline(the shipper me might've wanted a hug though).

12. Also the writers should stop doing the 'lets make the second lead better than the main lead'. Its annoying to see one person actually making sincere effort for the girl but the girl ends up totally ignoring their effort and like the ML. Not in just Kdramas but in all sorts of dramas. I actually saw a Chinese drama where the second lead finally turned into a villain. I LITERALLY commented 'good for him' lmao.

13. Sunho in 'Cheer Up' is problematic. Neither his sad backstory nor his sincere feelings for Haeyi changes that fact.

14. The Heirs(2013) drama wasted an opportunity to pair Young Do(Kim Woobin) with Yoo Rachel(Kim Jiwon). No, they didn't need to be 'siblings'. I'd have chosen the two heartbroken yet sassy and tough people romance over the sappy romance of the main couple in a heartbeat. And the actors would've NAILED it.

15. Jojo not ending up with Sunho in 'Love Alarm' finally broke the 'Cinderella and Prince Charming' fairytale trope of Kdramas. That girl was too messed up in the head . She didn't need the rich,fierce and impulsive lover, but the quite,patient and thoughtful one. So don't go ahead and say the ending sucked. Maybe they could've made things more coherent, but no the ending didn't suck.

16. Moon Dong Eun should have remained single, with the last episode ending with him crossing paths with Do Yeong, with Yeonjin & gang & all the revenge agenda gone, she could hv offered him a smile and a game of Go, keeping an open ending for them. Lee Do Hyun was fabulous in playing Yeojeong and their chemistry was amazing. But they could hv just been partners in crime with their teamwork without the romantic plot between them.

17. No. Ryu Shi Oh doesn't give second lead syndrome. Byun Woo Seok is a very good actor but he plays the villain in 'Strong Woman Kang Nam Soon' and not anti-hero. Lee Yoo Mi and him should be paired opposite to e/o in some other project in the future but Shi Oh and Nam Soon ain't the 'enemies to lovers' you think it is.

18. After Byun Woo Seok's popularity skyrocketed with 'Lovely Runner', many people dug up his previous works & lamented over not noticing him earlier. People even felt sad that he got his recognition late. But honestly, he wasn't very noticeable as an actor in his earlier stages imo. He kept working hard on his acting skills to get to where he is now. What I applaud about him is not giving up & putting the efforts in all right places but he didn't start from a 100.

19. I'm actually glad they brought back the fresh romcoms in 2024. Got tired of consistently watching crime thrillers,school violence,zombie apocalypse and stuff. I mean, of course they're good. But the key ingredient for Kdramas will always be those cringey classic slightly over-the-top romcoms.

20. Cha Eunwoo's acting in 'My ID is Gangnam Beauty' isn't as bad as people try to make it. His character actually demanded those stank cold expressions that he delivered. In fact, I'd say his character Do Kyeong Seok was one of the first Kdrama male leads that actually understood and empathised with the FL's situation and protected her in his own way without going over-the-top cliche "she is my yeoja and only I can bother her" about it.

21. In the 'No Gain, No Love' Kdrama, the romantic pairing of Ja Yeon and Gyu Hyun felt very forced to me. I was actually hoping for Hajun to shine instead of reducing him into just a 'former crush'. I'd rather have Hajun regretting looking down on an erotica novelist and leaving mean comment, sort things up with Ja Yeon and actually catch feelings for her respecting her as a person than this mishmash of 'Richman poor woman plus marrying my antifan' trope. The actors individually were great with their parts but I see them as in laws of the main couple ending on good terms rather than a romantic pairing itself. Ironically, this is the only second lead pairing that gets their own spinoff as leads.

[yikesharringrove]

Aight now we’ve got the dive

I’ve seen spoilers for this, of Steve diving into the underwater upside down gate and can u just say I CALLED IT.

Wow, it’s almost like an underwater gate is super cinematic and interesting ✌️🤪

Thots: had some great moments, but also had some of my least favorite moments of the season so far.

The California/Utah gang feels so fucking disconnected from everything else. They tried so so hard to shove Suzie into this season and made it a weird comic relief scene when the pen could’ve just had the coordinates hidden in it and they go right to the Nina project

The storylines are becoming so stretched that’s it’s hard for me to keep track of everything.

The whole satanic panic being spurred on by Jason is the worst thing stranger things has ever done. It feels like some cheap riverdale shit and that show sucks for a reason. I think it could’ve been mentioned like Eddie’s intro scene where he’s reading that article, but it’s taken such a focus that I can’t stand.

Steve Harrington is the light of my life but that’s not New information.

Anyway, this episode really lost me in a lot of ways but that ending with Steve being eaten alive was really tense

Notey note notes

Alright maybe now Jason can fucking CHILL

Ope. Nope. The opposite of chill

“How do you expect to stop the devil, if you don’t believe he’s real” maybe it’s my religious trauma talking, but the satanic panic shit needs to END I’m literally so so so over it

There’s just too much happening tbh. This military group looking for el and the team getting els powers back and the team in Hawkins helping max and the basketball boys hunting Eddie and the team going to Utah and the team in Russia and also hopper in Russia im Tired

The brenner redemption is the second to last thing I needed (the last thing I need is Steve/Nancy getting back together)

“You have demons in your past” AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR A LOT OF THEM

They are trying to redeem brenner and they couldn’t have been added to give billy a satisfying character arc???? What?????

“At least he can drink himself into feeling better” “that’s what my mom does” I’m WHEEZING nobody is pulling their punches today I see

Not even paying attention to what’s being said bc I’m so focused on Steve eating like a bear out of focus in the background

Steve in the yellow sweatshirt about to steal every scene (and also my heart)

Idk I just. They are constantly making sure Eddie knows they’re there for him and like. No one cared about billy.

THOSE MOUNTAINS HIT ME IN THE FACE LIKE A BRICK I FEEL SICK I KNOW THAT RANGE

Oh god oh Jesus Salt Lake City I’m. No. No.

Not them about to bring this Latinx man into the 80s mormons’ house.

Good shot, kid.

The way they are painting these kids as super weird kinda fucks actually but I just feel sick I’m so anti-Mormon it’s insane

MORTON SALT HELL YEAH

“Father’s kidneys!” Me except it’s my own fucked up kidneys

God this whole scene has but such a bad taste in my mouth

This ally sheedy bitch I hope she leaves the church and thrives

Joyce and Murray threatening yuri with these shitass Russian accents dream team I love them

Not me muting the scene of them eating bc of the chewing sounds ✌️🤢

Every time I see this plinko I think of the horse plinko from a few weeks ago lol

Not this stupid bitch using the royal we fuckin hate him

HES number one. Why is 1 get to be a special Pokémon trainer and the other kids are stuck??

Okay so NOW we get a Kali mention. So Kali did escape when she was like 3????? Bro what?????

“It wasn’t popular until I made it popular” everything Steve says is comedy just looking at him makes me smile a stupid fucking smile (also what is with his pants WHERE are the tight tight little jeans)

Okay but he’s RIGHT

WOW Patrick was targeted bc he’s been abused stranger things killing off ANOTHER abused kid just for the fun of it. Cool.

Goddamn thank god Lucas is getting back to his old self being THE MOST caring and thoughtful person I missed him

Robin SHUT UP do not talk about rekindling old flames NO ONE WANTS STEVE AND NANCY BACK TOGETHER STEVE HAS TOLD YOU THATS HES OVER HER PLS PLS PLS shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I do like robin and Nancy getting closer like this though I think it’s good for them both

“bada bing bada boom” Italian Steve #confirmed

“In your stupid cocky little face” “you just can’t admit that you’re wrong you little butthead” your honor hes everything to me

Not Steve’s hair all slicked back like that WHAT

He’s never looked better

CLAUDIA HENDERSON

Bro Jason literally GO AWAY I fucking can’t with this satanic panic shit I know this is like. How it was but. I hate it I hate it here

Bash Jason’s head in with a rock challenge

Claudia fucking crying while Jason is saying Dustin is in a cult

“Last night I was overcome with this feeling of hopelessness. Then I remembered Romans 12:21” GO AWAY

I hate this I hate this I hate this

Jason as some weird religious Archie Andrews is just nothing that I wanted

I played my sister this scene bc it was so beyond shitty and she was like bro wtf

Claudia and Karen and Mrs. Sinclair making pointed eye contact with one another

Suzie has TWO byu flag things in her room this girl sucks

(Pls find the Black Menaces on Instagram and tiktok to understand the scope of why byu is a fucking nightmare)

Suzie and this guilt thing it’s bc Mormons use guilt like a fucking weapon so they can’t deal when they do something Bad

“I was dating an agnostic” also mos aren’t supposed to date until 16 sooo

Oh shot the pta is here Claudia Henderson loml

“A stake is like a vamp-is he a vampire?” STEVE HARRINGTON CANON BUFFY FAN YES YES YES THIS IS WVERYTHING IVE EVER NEEDED PLEASE GOD OH SHIT OH SHIT wow the way Steve’s whole life revolves around the original movie omg he’s gonna be so excited when the tv show comes out

“Everything was like way easier. We had this girl. She had superpowers.” I’m just writing down literally everything he says

BACK TO THE COMPASS YES love that they’ve brought this back from season one so so happy with that call back

“Snack size gate”

Steve #1 drama queen award

“What’s say you Eddie the Banished” I love that they’ve never stopped making Dustin’s weirdness his #1 personality trait

“I say you’re asking me to follow you into Mordor” literally he’s billy from every single fic over written FUCK

Brenner teaching them to be emotionless fighting machines bitch disgusting

So does this mean Kali is the only one with different powers???

There’s so many plots happening that every I only remember who’s on screen at a time like the California gang and the Russia gang are not in my brain unless they’re on screen

But this Murray yuri parent trap princess switch FUCKS I love this idea so so much

This fight is gotta be staged to help them get out

CALLED IT

The way hopper s a fucking genius I can’t. Like, you want head?

Anyway in case you’re wondering how the Mormons are doing

Badly.

I was gonna make a joke earlier about how the names aren’t Mormon enough and I was gonna specifically say “where’s the tanner?” Bc I have 3 cousins named tanner BUT one of the kids IS named tanner there you go

“What’s the internet” “don’t worry about it”

Suzie is the og dataminer

“I think we just spooked a skunk” NOPE JUST YOUR SISTER HOTBOXING WITH ARGYLE amazing

The writers have watched to much fucking riverdake I hate it here

“Who put her in charge?” “I did.” GAY

“Bedtime at nine kiddos. Miss you already!” R O B I N

Bro what the FUCK is going on in here on this day

These older kids are wildin out “you shamed me today” ????

Yeah I really think Kali is the only one with unique powers good for her

“Unless one of you can top being a Hawkins high swim team co-captain and a certified lifeguard for three years it’s gotta be me. No complaints, alright?” SWIMMER STEVE CONFIRMED

YES CHEST HAIR YES YES YES HES SO HOT I AM LOOKING DISRESPECTFULLY I AM OBJECTIFYING

“I keep telling him he needs to take that jungle” no he does NOT

MAX HELL YES

I love her just shameless ogling Steve she deserves it. She totally always thought he was hit and billy would make fun of her for it and she’d be like ‘you think he’s hot too shut up’

Lucas just looking back and forth between the boat and max for twenty minutes this is a comedy show

God this Nancy/Steve shit I wish I was dead

Okay that dive did not say swim team co captain Steven

Omg Dustin’s tiny singular giggle after saying watergate king shit

Not Steve painlessly holding his breath for an hour and a half

Okay but the way his hand was shaking as he went to touch the gate membrane thing

Oh shit they’re doing a good job ramping up the tension here with the cops showing up and the vines reaching up for this group

“More of a snack sized gate than a mama gate but still” love u

That moment when he first gets yanked and then he looks at them, looks down, then looks back at them and then gets yanked harder. Amazing

Wow rip to Steve’s ankle

Oh SHIT Dustin and Lucas don’t realize the whole town is fucking hunting them FUCK

Oh god of course robin is a nose plugger

Eddie’s voice raising twelve octaves while he’s yelling and freaking out king shit

Steve first time in the upside down welcome 2 hell baby love

So in tremors 1 we have the graboids. Season 1 we have the demogorgons. The biggest, full size version of the creatures. Completely practical effects. Maintained anonymous until final reveal while attacking protagonist. Tremors 2: aftershocks brings shriekers and season 2 brings demodogs. Smaller creatures that have ability to run on land. Smarter but also dumber than the full size. Tremors 3: back to perfection has ass-blasters and season 4 has demobats. This ‘flying’ counterpart utilizes the most disappointing cgi of the 3 and feels a bit forced.

Steve getting choked 👀

Oh jesus christ these fuckers are really dining out on our Steven. He really though he was gonna die alone in the upside down being eaten alive by monsters oh god oh fuck

Wow good ending here

[lofi-tophat]

Let’s talk about the 70s punk scene and HWS England

I sometimes feel that the fandom doesn’t give England’s love for punk/rock music much justice. Some authors usually write about this human AU in which Arthur wants to be a rockstar and some others plainly avoid the topic whatsoever. Which is a pity because I actually believe the whole character has a deep punk reference, specially regarding appearence (might expand on this in another post but basically, for me, England seems like some random bushy browed anime 70s punk guy who suddenly has to put on a suit and attend world meetings, which is both fascinating and hilarious).

So I thought maybe we could dive a bit into very general punk history and then I’d like to share with you some hc regarding England’s involvement with punk culture in general (if you just want to read the hcs just scroll down to the last paragraph with the bullet ponts).

My experience in punk stuff is actually that I’m kind of a metalhead lol. Metalheads and punks had and probably still have a deeply-rooted rivalry. However, punk influenced metal a lot, and metal also influenced punk. So I stumbled upon many punk facts while browsing about my favorite metal bands. 

Take this as historical hetalia... but counterculture historical hetalia :D (which is something we need more in the fandom, btw, I know military history is cool but its also cool how humans expressed themselves through art, fashion and music when they felt the pressure of authority and the frustration of society).

Historical context

Let’s return a bit in time and remember the 60s. The 60s were this blessed time in which people tried to defeat the establishment with peace and love. The hippie movement is from this decade and it influenced a lot on how people thought and behaved. In terms of counterculture, I must say this is a fascinating time in history (I recently discovered psychodelic science and its so incredible what was being talked back then).

Anyways, although a lot of young people were into this discourse of love and peace, some weren’t really that happy about it. In Europe, the post-war situation was sad and a lot of young people either were jobless or had the shittiest jobs you could imagine. Politics were also depressing. This was the origin not only for punk but also for other genres of heavy music, such as metal: People who didn’t want to be all happy and peaceful and had the need to express their frustration and anger, shouting about how society was fucked up. They needed an outlet.

Origins of punk

The origins of punk music are actually not quite clear. In fact, the US and the UK both claim that punk music was born in their country. Funnily enough, my country also claims to be the origin of punk (I’ll leave this mini-doc for you. Sadly, I don’t think this is a correct claim, mainly because their music was in spanish and I doubt that major punk bands took them as reference. Its a cool band tho).

I have to side with americans on this: The arguments for the american origins of punk are quite solid. The Ramones were the first actual punk band out there. They were active since 1974. Their music had all the elements of punk and, chronologically, they were the first ones performing this type of sound.

However, they didn’t have the aesthetic. That actually was a british invention. American punk had still leather jackets, jeans and sneakers. British punk? Well, remember all those ripped pants and shirts you commonly associate with punk? Yes, those were the Sex Pistols all along. They were the ones introducing the attitude and the style. The Pistols had some insane performances and a huge shock-value that can’t be found in early american punk. So you can safely say that your image of what a punk is is based mainly on the Pistols (also, for singing anti-authoritarian lyrics, they actually were managed by some dude who had a fashion shop. So yeah...).

Punk attitude or philosophy or whatever

The reason why I addressed the rockstar thing at the start of the post is because I find it curious. Punk is characterized by the whole Do It Yourself attitude and breaking with the establishment. Anarchism in punk is scandalizing people since there is no authority whatsoever. There wasn’t really any deep philosophy behind all of this, nor any political movement. Punk has nothing to do with a formal anarchist philosophy (which actually exists and has nothing to do with disorder). However, punk is characterized by the anti-establihsment lyrics. Remember, this is all about scandalizing people (which sometimes took great lengths). Presentations from british punk bands were also quite wild those days. They involved a lot of insults, spitting and, of course, pogo.

So, it is obvious that there is this deep concern about turning into a sellout, a pretty common fear in any underground scene. Authenticity was encouraged. Aspiring rockstars really didn’t have much mercy in the community so to speak, at least in this specific period. 

I would also like to add how punk had other aspects beside the music. For example, fanzines were pretty popular in the punk scene in the 70s and a great way to engage with what was going on with bands and music. I remember also this interview of this band in which they remembered how a very high guy decided to recite his poem while the band was playing. So, yeah, literature, illustration, fashion and other stuff were involved in the punk scene too.

British punk was also characterized by a very nihilistic attitude and a total disregard for previous influences. 1977, a song by The Clash, stated:

No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones!

Now, for the important stuff: The music. Punk music is all about being simple. Punk musicians aren’t really known for their virtuosity in their instruments, something that actually inspired musicians from a lot of heavy bands later. In fact, the famous Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols never could learn how to play the bass. So the band disconnected his instrument from the amplifier and he only had to pretend to play. The guy actually tried to learn how to play bass but music wasn’t exactly his talent. He had tons of punk attitude though, and that was the reason why his band didn’t kick him out. 

Vocals are usually shouted, the rythm is fast and the riffs are quite simple. In fact, there is this famous publication on a 1976 british fanzine that stated:

This is a chord

This is another

This is a third

Now form a band

HWS England and the 70s punk scene and onwards 

Thanks to his immortality, it is obvious that England had to experience the 70s in all their glory (what a lucky bastard). Was he there? Hell yes. As I explained before in some of my hc posts, nations represent the population more than their Government, so I really believe that England felt the frustration from that post-wwii decade and he probably also felt pissed about this. Working for the Government must have felt really frustrating during those years. 

In the past, he probably would have tried to take his ship and sail the seas or whatever, but that was not possible in the modern era. I guess that’s how he discovered punk. 

Now, rock existed in England before punk. I mean, the Beatles, duh. So Arthur wouldn’t have been completely ignorant about rock music in general. Contrary to popular belief I don’t imagine him being that much of a beatlemaniac though. Sure he likes them, but the music didn’t resonated with him as much. But boy, that first time he heard the Pink Fairies in 1971 (Yes, this was an actual band, a proto-punk band)? Yeah, he could relate more to that.

More detailed stuff here:

Pubs were crucial for the development of punk music. They were these spaces in which bands could play, a venue to discover new music. Yes, Arthur must have been a regular in a lot of these pubs.

Fanzines probably fascinated Arthur as an outlet for his own writings and silly drawings. He probably created a cringey pseudonym and collaborated with a lot of them. 

Its canon that England likes to critic american movies, and, taking from there, I think he’s the type of guy that has an opinion for everything. So I can imagine him also writing about what bands he enjoyed and what bands sucked.

Yeah, I can also see him being drunk and just reciting a poem while some rock band played behind.

With some ability, and a lil bit of tricks, Arthur could escape normal Government activities and perform with punk bands at nights. People were so into the music that he had no problem passing by.

Some cover art in CDs show Enlgland with a guitar and a bass (yes, not many people remember the bass cover art). So he probably plays both guitar and bass. He also probably plays the drums. Of course, he’s no virtuoso and he only knows the most basic stuff in those three instruments. I can see him being into songwriting tho.

Music equipment:

Guitar: Definetely a Telecaster

Bass: Fender P-bass and I can also see him having a Rickenbacker 4001

All these instruments are full with stickers. Punk instruments look really cool btw. (I wish my bass could look like those I see in certain punk bands)

England’s probably the kind of guy that doesn’t cut his strings at the head of his guitar.

He can actually play guitar/bass and sing at the same time.

England plays bass with a pick (what an asshole, we bassists know picks are not allowed)

Contrary to popular belief, I can see England appreciating good rock music from other countries and supporting them. He probably insists that punk music was born in the UK though.

1977: The Queen was going to celebrate her silver jubilee. And England had no problem with this. He really had none... but he HAD to be in that boat trip with the Sex Pistols. There’s no way he was going to miss that. He later had to explain his abscence that day to his Government officials (Btw, my hc for England’s relationship with his monarchy is “It’s complicated”. I can explain this later. Just remember that he was really pissed those days)

I can see Arthur in general being really involved with the scene. A lot of the stuff they were making actually matches with his canon interests and even personality. So he probably enjoyed those days and felt quite at home. I can even say that, for a long time, he hadn’t felt that kind of connection with his own people.

Although I can see England being attracted by the nihilism in the scene, I think his romanticism protects him from embracing it fully.

England had to live a double-life during this era. Not that it was new for him.

Arthur was pierced several times by some random, drunk teenagers. He doesn’t remember who tho. He was also drunk. Obviously his piercings close really fast, unless he has a permanent jewel in there.

I can actually see England expanding his music taste. Although punk is in his heart, it wouldn’t be strange for me that he’s overall a rock nerd and enjoys other genres, specially those with fast drum beats and heavy riffs. So I can see him having some metal favorites too, having a certain taste for prog rock and even digging into hardcore.

I’m still unsure if England would have been a massive Pistols fan as fanfics usually portray him. I mean, maybe? I would say he is definetely into acts such as the Pink Fairies (I mean, c’mon, its perfect). The Clash and the Damned probably also have a place in his heart.

After the punk scene dried out (the 80s weren’t that great for punk music although it was the birth of even heavier forms of music based on punk), England also was eager about the new genres flourishing during these times based on punk. Acts like folk punk might have had an appeal for him. He’s also fond of the punk-ish bands from the 90s like Green Day.

“Punk will never die!” shouted England while stage diving in some random small concert. He likes to support new bands these days.

The most fascinating thing, maybe in a more poetic sense, is that England’s immortality probably also helps him to keep up a punk spirit as much as his nationhood allows him, instead of aging poorly and angry like a lot of punk musicians... I mean, he aged poorly, but for other reasons lmao.

[frasier-crane-style]

Season seven (uh, for real this time)

-I've been told that these seasons are where it's basically a different writing team. I don't hold the early seasons in such high regard that I'm going to consider it a huge downgrade, but it does feel like a different show, and if you were digging the old show, I can totally understand how this won't appeal to you.

-First off, some clumsy writing.

A. The Paladins discover they've done a time-skip of three years after fighting Lotor.

B. They're going to journey to Earth without (?) FTL, which will take over a year.

C. Actually, never mind, they find a portal to Earth and get there after maybe a few weeks?

So like, wow, firstly, don't most alien species have FTL? Can't the Paladins either commandeer an allied or neutral ship, or hijack a Galra ship, and then warp along to their heart's content? The way they resign themselves to the slow boat to Earth treatment is basically just an excuse for some filler episodes.

Second, couldn't they just make it so the Paladins immediately come back, but it takes them a long time to get to Earth, and when they finally do, they find it occupied by Sendak?

Feels like that was an earlier draft, but then they decided not to do it, so they rewrote it, but they didn't bother to rewrite all of it, ending up with this weird hodgepodge of "a lot of time passes and they get to Earth eventually."

-Two of the Lotor Ladies are into each other, as revealed in the same episode where they both get blown to pieces. Hope that's not setting a pattern or anything.

-Oh, Shiro's boyfriend died too. I can see how they didn't want to kill off any of the kids' family members to show the horrors of war, but geez, you really didn't see this would be an issue? In 2016?

-Speaking of, I assumed this was a simple case of the actors' ethnicities matching the characters, but instead they're doing something where a white guy is playing a Japanese and an Asian guy is playing a cracker... how'd they get away with that while having a Tumblr fanbase?

-That said, back to the 'a different show' matter.

-Voltron, as in the Lions, seem like they're barely in this 'new show.'

-Lots more emphasis on the Atlas and the jet fighters, which put up a good showing considering they should be very underpowered and primitive compared to Voltron. Really seems like we're being sold cool new toys more than anything else.

-The show seems much less lighthearted, darker, with the heroes suffering a lot more defeats and beatings. The Lions have usually been pretty overpowered in comparison to other enemies; this season they're getting kicked around on the regular.

-A load of new characters, most of whom aren't given much characterization or development. Go on. Tell me something about the personality of 'Kincaid.' I'll wait.

-One of them is Lance's sister, and isn't it pretty contrived that they're both sucked into this anti-Galra military program? They don't even interact that much. You could edit out them being related and you'd lose maybe twenty seconds and no one would notice.

-I swear, I don't want to be a dick about this. I know it's a genre convention that the protagonists do everything and it's a mech anime about teenagers. I'm not gonna talk shit about child soldiers. But there's a point--like with Space: Above And Beyond having the heroes be both highly trained pilots and expendable infantry--where I just have to say no. No, you've pushed it too far, this conceit you want me to buy into is just too dumb, go back to the drawing board. You need to start over.

Okay, so ah,

The Galactic Garrison's new Super-Duper Fighters are trained on by the most talented cadets instead of anyone in their twenties or thirties. Alright. I'm with you so far.

When the Galra show up, Admiral Douche refuses to send the Super-Duper Fighters out because the pilots are too young! Then... why'd you train them to fly the Super-Duper Fighters?

The insanely valuable pilots who are trained to fly the only effective weapons Earth has against the Galra are sent out on a fetch quest and nearly killed. They don't have a squad of Marines they can use for this?

Come on. No. No. Stupid.

-I know this is the 'Heroes Pull New Superpowers Out Of Their Asses To Win Every Fight' Show, but turning the Atlas into a mega-mech is just dumb. You haven't been lighthearted enough to earn this amount of silliness, show. If you want to be dark and depressing, stick to it. Shiro's one-man raid on the flagship was over the top enough.

-Lastly, it's dumb that they make a big deal about having reached Earth's solar system, but the visuals show the Milky Way Galaxy. There's kinda a big difference between a solar system and a galaxy, show.

ETA: So I guess we're not going to mention that millions of Earth people died because the Paladins couldn't just swallow their hurt fee-fees and ally with Lotor? Cuz you'd think someone would point that out. Oh, wait, no, they're doing a game show parody, never mind, we don't have time.

This is leaving Netflix, so I'm going to do a sorta watchalong thing before it goes, where I just post my thoughts on each episode as I watch 'em. I've never seen it before and I haven't really picked anything up from fandom osmosis except that there's big gay ship drama and people don't like the ending. I also don't know anything about the original Voltron or the Japanese stuff, so no opinion on it as an adaptation (although you'd think a modern adaptation would throw in a lot more girls, but I guess this is from the Before Times and they could just not do that).

1x01: Rise of Voltron.

-Kay, so Lance is Sokka but as the kinda-sorta lead? The big difference seems to be that Sokka was actually the smart one, but Lance is an idiot, which... yeah, is a difference, but seems to make the character flatter.

-Hunk and Pidge are both fine. I guess the subverted expectation thing is that Pidge isn't a scaredy-cat, but Hunk is, which seems so contrary to being the Big Guy that it's hard to get behind it?

-Does this make sense to anyone else? Keith and Shiro both have Sixth Ranger Energy to me and they kinda blend together with a lack of personality? I guess Keith is the angsty bad boy (flunked out of space explorer school) and Shiro is the leader guy, even though he's also the amnesiac untrustworthy guy with the mysterious backstory (he's Bucky and Captain America, basically, just like should've happened in the MCU). I don't know, the dynamic is just weird to me. It's like if Angel showed up in the first season of Buffy and went "I'm a friend... but I never said I was YOURS😈😈😈" and then he started leading the Scooby Gang and giving inspirational speeches?

-Not to Surf Dracula things, but it might've made for a better story if it took longer than three joined-together episodes to find ALL the Lions and we met them later on. Sorry, gut feeling.

-The bad guys are furries?

-I would've thought Alura (?) would be one of the pilots. I know Koran can't be because he's an adult, even though he'd seem ideally suited to pilot a Lion, since he's in the military or something and it's his technology and he's old enough to have a 401(k), but even in Anime Land (America), that just means he's old and washed-up, six steps away from the grave.

-Koran's grandfather was alive 600 years ago, but he and Alura are shocked that the Big Bad (I forget his name) is 10,000+ years old. I guess it makes sense, but still, I find it a little funny that there's a distinction between being Kinda Immortal and Super Immortal.

[dappersheep]

Food Fantasy: An Analysis on what killed a Golden Goose (3/3)

Ladies and gentlemen, we've arrived at our final destination.

Again before we start, we have our obligatory disclaimers. I do not own the game or its characters, nor do I claim to know the true history and likely fate of this game. I am entitled to the thoughts and opinions written within this post. Feel free to agree or disagree with the points being made.

This post also remains untagged from the main foofan tag. Only my followers will see this.

We are in the third and final stretch, and the checkpoint is past the cut.

Community

So... here we are, fellow Master Attendants.

As consumers of this piece of entertainment media, we are free to enjoy it however we wish. Appreciating what is there, creating something new from what exists, playing the game by the meta or however you want to play it (within your means and at your own risk of course). There's no one true and absolute way to experience the game.

However, just as you can enjoy something, doesn't mean you can't also point out flaws or shortcomings of the media in question. As an active veteran player, I've already pointed out the many gameplay design flaws  already. And I'd be pretty dumb to say that Food Fantasy's writing is perfect. Hell, it has a lot of holes from a worldbuilding consistency standpoint. 

And what of things from the community side? Yes, there will be times you'd see content you consider cringe, or something in fanon you don't agree with. Or there happens to be fan theories and fangirling posts you don't like the take of because of X or Y.

And that's fine. If we all happen to play the same way, like the same thing, agree on the same thing and produce the same thing, well, this would be one helluva boring community, wouldn't it?

But what if someone decides the way you're playing the game is wrong and harasses you over it? What happens if someone decides that their interpretation of the game's flavor text and lore is more important than what anyone else thought about it? What happens if someone decides that they're absolutely right, and you and everyone else who disagrees deserves to be bullied out of the fandom?

As much as I want to say we aren't part of the problem why the game is deteriorating, we are unfortunately, part of the reason why the game is as such even if most of the blame is directed towards Funtoy and Elex themselves.

⦁ Whale Authority. Whales will always be part of a gacha game's ecosystem. Without them, the game won't be able to maintain its upkeep costs, moreso  for one that services global regions instead of just one. But when a game decides to cater its decisions of what features should be prioritized and when it should be launched around only its most elite paying players' voices  -even if that influence has since tapered off-, you know there is something wrong with the publisher's management team and priorities.

⦁ Interguild drama. While I did not personally follow any of this, this has certainly been the peak of in-game tension back in the day. Poaching good players from both competitive and smaller guilds, guild mergers that often ended up making the annexed guild/s the equivalent of UK colonized India or Australia, suck-ups chummying up to guild leaders to keep a spot in an active, high ranking guild (for bragging rights!) despite never contributing much to overall damage, and just general dislike of certain players' attitudes. Actions like this have disillusioned many players about their playing experience and the reason why many eventually just lost the motivation to log into FooFan.

⦁ Cheaters. You know very well about the Hacker-teme I've mentioned before, but that was in context of Elex being incompetent with dealing with them. Here, I would like  to point out the players who are desperate to dominate  the playing field for whatever reason to the point that they would resort to cheating the ranks with forceful modifications of the APK. Whether it is to rank high in catacombs weekly, get a top spot in daily disaster damage, or weasel their way into the competitive whale ranks of a major ranking event, these are the people who have no qualms messing with the code to give themselves an easier time with the game. And if they're caught? Some pretend that they've made a mistake, some quickly sell the account to escape the blame, some others just scamper away into the dark and hide in the lower ranks where they can't be found. Others simply don't care and keep cheating until Elex decides to finally ban them... if Elex ever decides their rebates score isn't worth saving the account.

⦁ Ship wars. Ah yes, a staple of drama in any fandom. There doesn't need much explanation to this as we've all had our fair share of running into a battleground in whatever fandom we visit. Someone ships BB52 wholeheartedly? Nope, problematic 'age gaps'. Someone likes Napoleon with Pastel? Someone's bound to misinterpret their bios in order to justify that Napoleon was being abusive. Spaghetti and Borscht? Borscht is minor coded, ship her with Vodka instead. Whiskey and Pizza or Cassata? Cancelled! And I've never heard of the Foe Yay trope or pretend I don't know about it! Rarepairs? Disgusting! No fanon in my canon playground! Turkey and Eggnog? Gasp! How dare you, you pedo-shipper-even-though-you-never-said-you-shipped-them-romantically-but-that-isn't-my-point!

⦁ Character Obsession: Bias. On one hand, you love a character so much. Relate to a character so much. You have thus pulled this character into the folds of your bosom and coo at them like a mother dove and get so minutely triggered if someone so much as makes one disagreeable or joking comment about the character that you fly into an overreactive ballistic rage that would make a Canadian goose honk in fear. You don't care what they are in canon. You don't care about the possibility of mistranslation. What matters is the fanon space you carved out for them to exist in and that's all that matters. The problem with this is when this obsession takes over common sense and social etiquette and it steps into harassment territory. You begin to think: I'm the only one who 'understands' the character. I'm the only one who wishes better for the character, everyone else is out to defame them! Oh wait, you like them too? Do you like them the way *I* like them? No? Maybe if you're my 'friend', I'd let it slide. But to everyone else? No one else has the right to like them as much as I do. No one! Never mind that they're completely fictional- No one hurts my bias because in turn, they're hurting *me*!

⦁ Character Obsession: Anti. On the other hand, you hate a character so much. This character just makes you see so much red. Their smug little smirk just makes your blood boil. Their fictional backstory makes you recoil in disgust. You hate that someone else loves a character you hate so much.  You cannot *believe* that someone could be so daringly stupid to like a problematic character. They must be problematic too then. They must be hiding real life secrets that are problematic! Yes, yes. That's right. That person's a supporter of abuse. That person's into pedophilia. That person is into military lolita fashion that Japan started the trend of but clearly Japan was part of the Axis Powers! And that... that person... that person... is a roleplayer and a yaoi fangirl properly interacting with minors and adults. How dare they...!

⦁ Fan Translations.  Normally it wouldn't be a problem that a group or two or several are translating pieces of the game's lore ahead of the official. But with Elex's very delayed translations and extreme allergic reactions to translating Food Soul bios, people have become dependent on fan-translation groups to get their fix. The problem herein lies... is when the translators get drunk off the power that they are one of a handful in a small community who can magically transcribe the oriental moonrunes into English. The problem starts when the translator starts to have an inclination. The problem starts when the translator loses their professional detachment and start adding in details here and there into the fan translated product that ultimately changes the meaning and direction of the entire story. The problem is also escalated when that translator's embellished product is touted as the truth by their followers. If there was an upcoming character whose backstory is connected to a character they hated (either because of someone or they just don't like the character) and you were hoping to read the fan translation? How would you know that what you get isn't something doctored to the point it's basically fanfiction?

⦁ Social Justice Vigilantism. Sometimes someone does not have a character obsession or need it to be annoying. Sometimes, someone just wants to ring the alarm over something they find 'problematic' in order to police and sanitize the enjoyment of the media for 'everyone'. They no longer really take enjoyment out of a new Food Soul design being leaked, they no longer read the lore just to enjoy what it has to offer. Instead, they nitpick bits and pieces of the design and point it out repeatedly as a reason why the whole thing is bad. They point out bits of the story and inject their interpretations of it without really comprehending what they've read in full and react badly to it. What's worse is that they have no qualms publicly posting their reactions and eagerly and hungrily await those likes and echoes of agreement that they were right.

⦁ Circles of Influence. Everyone has a group they eventually gravitate to in a fandom. It comes with its own pros and cons. Sometimes you join a group because someone you admire is in there, sometimes you join a group because you just want to mingle and see more content. All valid reasons. Arguments can't be avoided in a group, it has to happen... But you have to take care. You have to take care to feel the change in the air of the group. When someone starts pushing people to agree with them. When your most admired people start to feel overly sensitive about certain characters or issues. When you start to feel obligated to spy on other groups outside of this one for 'nonbelievers', 'traitors' and 'heretics' who do not think the way this group does, and that bringing back bits and pieces of gossip as offerings would somehow make you more favored in the eyes of the inner clique or remain inside it. There is a gripping sense of annoyance when that person comes in to complain but you can't do anything about it but nod and agree. There is a pervading sense of fear and apprehension of overstepping an invisible boundary. There is fear that you might be next on the chopping block, after witnessing one of the others being ganged up on and thrown out without a second thought, their name spat upon like they're worth less than dirt. And so reluctant you are to give up what you have with them that when they push you to do something you are reluctant to do, all in the name of 'harmony and justice'... You do it. Even though it would mean offering yourself up to the mob with no salvation, and the stark realization that... [they] never cared about you as a friend.

And we've come to the end of this analysis trilogy. The writing got a little bit strange in this post, but honestly this is the best way I could put it. I'm aware things can and will be more complicated than the bullet points I've written but I'm just one person and I tried very hard to keep details of all the drama that happened in this fandom as vague as possible. Of course, that wouldn't work if you know what I am talking about.

The community is quiet now for the most part, the game is somewhere between limbo and the living plane. Things could be better for us, but I don't really count on it.

I wish I could leave a bit of a moral warning or something. But rather than do that, I just hope this was an entertaining read into one individual's eyes into Food Fantasy and everything that makes it up.

[reno2ndgun]

for the meta / hc ask-thing: i know when you write reno you mention he has warmer than average skin temp. so is there anything else unique or interesting to his character / his energy? for instance does he give off some kind of "electric" presence or maybe have an infectious spirit for those around him ( similar to his twin over here ).

Yup, Reno runs about as warm as a cat at his base temp. For him, a fever is anything over 103, while most folks would be in the hospital by then :D Mako shots for speed/stam ->increased metabolism-> more heat! ` While Reno is genuinely charismatic, he doesn't have any kind of special powers that endear people to him. So I don’t know if this is unique per say, but I took the Rags to Riches trope that’s fairly popular among Reno roleplayers/writers and spun it a bit so that instead of #Tragic Backstory it’s #Recovery From Tragedy. He got into music as a kid in favor of taking anxiety medications and antidepressants once the Turks found him. After having drugs used to abuse him for a solid 5 years he won’t even take a Tylenol much less look at them for more than a few seconds. Pills, chewables, inhalers, shots, patches, drink powders, liquids. He’s used to seeing street drugs in that form and at 15, it’s already panic-inducing to go to rehab and take weaning doses of the drugs he’s addicted to, and the panic attacks are EXHAUSTING. He has trouble even looking at them. so taking anti-depressants and anxiety meds? Not happening. Music class and therapy on the other hand, absolutely. Reno took up Choir and Piano at ShinRa Military Academy while he was there, and later self-taught himself harmonica. Any time his feelings were too complicated to put into words and he wasn’t comfortable talking to the company-assigned therapist about things, he’d get on the piano. The piano at the rehab clinic has small divots worn into some of the ivory keys and it’s from Reno playing hours on end for a year. When he finished Rehab, the owner of the clinic outright just gave Reno the piano because it was cheaper to buy a new one than to get the worn keys replaced despite the fact it was made of imported wood from Wutai. (This Headcanon was made partly because it was the story I wanted to write and partly because it was the story I needed to read. I got railroaded into clinical addiction by doctors who insisted giving me methamphetamines was my best option for my disorders and while I didn’t abuse the drugs, that didn’t make me less addicted, or things less difficult when I came out as queer and my family stopped paying $500 for the meds I needed to function, and then suddenly I had to quit cold turkey. I didn’t have any support through any of it and it sucked ass more than a gay man after a 7 year dry spell. That was more than I was paying in rent at the time. So Reno got support for the lot of it because it’s honestly therapeutic to write someone walking the same road as me in a slightly different pair of shoes and then overcoming it and succeeding. It’s helped me figure out a lot about self-comfort and growth from grief, which I didn’t expect. Like obviously Reno isn’t me, but the parallels are definitely there.)