#but I'm doing some fun stuff with her character

[dracophile]

We've had two soulless adaptations of animated masterpieces in the last month, and they suck for near completely opposite reasons.

Lilo and Stitch changed A LOT of stuff, all for the worse. The white washing, the propaganda to make Hawaii tourist "friendly", leaving out important characters, nerfing Stitch's chaos, THE ENDING. Every decision feels like it spit in the face of the original movie's message and everything that made people love it.

HTTYD changed nothing...so what is the point of remaking it in live action? Like, at least it feels like the cast and crew were fans of the movie, which I can't say for Lilo and Stitch because of how they mangled it, but why would I see this when I love the animated one so, so much and it changes nothing? There's nothing drawing me into it. It doesn't even have anyone I want to see in it (No offense to the kids, may they go on to better things, in both movies cases.) Live action is never going to let you push things as hard as animation--It has a style, and live action is live action.

I feel like there's a balance to his. Change enough that it feels fresh and intriguing, but not so much it feels like a betrayal.*

An example? As loathe as I am to say it, Beautify and the Beast (2017). Now I'm not wild about some of the cast (Sorry, Emma and Ewin...) or the visuals and certain story choices. But I give the rewrites credit for making sense, exploring the characters and lore, and filling in plotholes (and maybe even listening to fans talking about it for years?) without making it a completely different movie. No one liked the prince was a kid when he was cursed? Boom, prince was of age to marry and a jerk. Tweak a few lines and lyrics, we're good. Why? His mother died when he was a child and his father was cold and distant, making Belle's love and devotion for her father part of what intrigues him. Why did no one question where the prince and his staff went? The Enchantress' spell also erased other people's memories. Where's Belle's mom? She died, but now she and the Prince have more common ground. More magic! More time together! And the new songs were GOOD. (Cinderella 2015 kind of did all this, it wasn't bad, but there was a lot I wish they hadn't changed or pushed harder. Plus it's hard to beat Ever After imo)

And then...Disney proceeded to never do that again. Aladdin came close! Very close. There's a lot I liked, but it didn't quite scratch that itch (and I don't like Jasmine's song at all, sorry, it sounds like something from a kelly clarkson album not a Disney movie). I didn't bother after that though because Mulan had none of the beloved songs and was a nearly completely different story from what I heard. Lion King looked visually boring, none of the fun colors and movement of the original despite an awesome cast. And I just gave up hoping for anything good...

*I don't really count Maleficent or Cruella as remakes because they're not--they're reimaginings with the villains as protagonists or redeemable. TBH, I kind of wish we had more of these and less of the remakes--they're at least more interesting. I also don't count Alice in Wonderland because...that's just Tim Burton doing Alice in Wonderland, it's not anything like the animated one and wasn't meant to be. Same with Dumbo tbh

How to Train Your Dragon live action makes me irrationally angry. Everyone is screaming about how good it is. Yeah because it's a shot for shot remake. The original was good. They just made the same movie with worse visuals. I hate it here.

[roxannarambles]

My thoughts on Toriel and the end of Ch 4

I think generally Deltarune Toriel seems like a very good mom. She's loving, nurturing, accepting, spends time with her kids, etc. There's a scene at school where she's talking with Kris' teacher, just checking in and seeing how Kris is doing in class. She mentions being a bit worried lately. Which implies she does know something is a bit off with Kris and she is worried but isn't quite sure what to do about it. If you call Toriel on the phone, she'll offer to help with Kris' homework. And is pleasantly surprised when Kris says they have a partner to work with. She also thanks Kris for letting her know they're going to the library when they don't normally bother (teenagers, ya know how they are)

She's involved, she generally does her best imo. Tries to stay involved in Kris' life without being too stifling (it's a tough balance act, no doubt), tries to be supportive and loving, to be a good parent.

She's only human though. Figuratively speaking.

The thing at the end of Ch 4 was kinda played for laughs on a surface level but also felt really uncomfortable. Like, Toriel deserves to be happy and if she wants to seek friendship or romance or go have some fun she SHOULD, but obviously the way she went about it wasn't ideal. Imagine being a teen and coming home to your mom, late at night, drunk with some stranger from town. In your house. Doesn't feel great. Not just super awkward, feels worse than that. You're a kid, you wanna feel safe in your own home. The fact Toriel wasn't worried at all about where Kris and Susie had been ('cause she was, y'know, drunk) also felt not great. Like, yeah, teens will stay out and tend to not let their parents know what they're off doing, but it's not like Toriel to not worry and not try to check in. So obviously it felt really weird and kinda neglectful . . . especially considering how Dess went missing in the past. This feeling is especially harsh when compared to how worried about Toriel the kids had been.

Again. I don't think this means Toriel is a horrible person. It just means she can make mistakes too, like anyone. If she wants to hang out with/date Sans that's fine (I'm actually a Soriel shipper from way back lmao) but ya know, should be in a way that doesn't make Kris feel totally alienated from their own home and mom.

Sidebar, Susie's reaction really broke my heart. Obviously Susie was about to ask Kris if it would be OK of she stayed over again. She does not want to go home, she is dreading going home. And Toriel has obviously become an important person to Susie, a maternal figure, somebody she feels safe and comfortable with. So I really hurt for her maybe even more than Kris in that scene. Especially since-- and this is pure speculation on this point-- I suspect alcohol may be a sensitive topic for Susie. I suspect one of her parents may be alcoholic. Just a headcanon of mine.

If it turns out to be true, then that scene just makes me want to throw up.

Still. With how fandoms love to just . . . vilify characters, I hope they don't do that with Toriel. Toby writes characters that are very 'human,' they have lots of flaws and strengths. But fandom tends to ignore that stuff. I beg for people to see nuance and complexity and not just vilify Toriel, because MAN I have no doubt people are already saying 'Toriel is abusive and horrible' Especially with flashy YouTube videos that are doing it for clicks and drama 🙃

[batfam1]

Time travel would be almost every single batfamily member's worst nightmare, IMO.

The waking up as your younger self kind.

Bruce: may save his parents if sent back enough, but he'd be in crisis after that. He's too used to being batman and parental love is unfamiliar to him. Also while he can adopt everyone, damian will not be born unless he is batman and trains at the LoA. Which is... how is he going to explain doing a probably dangerous world tour to his parents? Also how would he be able to keep batman secret from them...?

Dick: he couldn't have prevented his parents deaths even if he went far back enough. Nobody would have taken a child seriously. And then what? He could stay with bruce longer, but the teen titans? What happens to them if he's not there to found the group? What if his interference isn't enough to save jason? What if Jason's death is needed for tim to join the family and for Talia to send over damian?

Barbara: honestly idk. I don't know much about her. But joker targeting her father, paralyzing her, then her brother, then Jason dying, we'll, definitely not easy for her either.

Jason: he could end up not stealing Bruce's tires. But he probably would. He's on the streets and desperate enough to steal tires. I don't think he's staying on the streets. But he makes sure to not fall into joker's trap. Maybe he decides to not be robin. Takes up his own vigilante name. But I think the resentment post death Jason had would be bad for overall relationships. I'm not sure what else to write here because I'm not that good with Jason.

Tim: would try to prevent Jason's death, his parent's deaths and many other things, actually the only one I could see somewhat being fine with time travel thing

Damian: might end back up on the LoA any younger than 10, not a fun time. Even is it's at 10, he needs to attempt to gain trust all over again.

Steph: ending up with cluemaster if she's too young. Not good. Then black mask. She could probably avoid it, I haven't read that comic and I don't know what happens there except that her death is faked in some convoluted way to test tim.

Cass: again, ending up with David cain. Having to relearn speaking and sign language. Not well versed with her timeline

Duke:not familiar enough with his character

In general : a lot of denial, stress over fucking the timeline up and making life worse for the others compared to the prev timeline, guilt over seeing them be happy in the new timeline because "was it my fault last time that they were unhappy" and stuff, general trust issues and can't being themselves to tell the other people that they're from the future. People you've known from your perspective reverting back to strangers and your relationship with them will be forever different due to the fact that they will never know you as anything other than what you are currently. Stress over mind reading. What if the info falls into someone else' hands. Like a villan. There's just a lot of stuff.

[sabrondabrainrot]

I miss Kat's writing I really liked her writing style and just the overall vibes she brings and that her characters bring.

I do notice Davis characters are the one behind the different really bad attitude about misogyny. I'm not sure if that's actually Davis or just the fact the characters are toxic. It's like just because he writes and acts a murderer doesn't make him one. It's always hard to separate actors from their roles especially in the case of Reed and Davis because they, from what I understand is, write a lot for the characters they play and a lot is ad-libbing.

It's like does Davis say this stuff because he secretly actually thinks all this or is it more like he's just saying this because he thinks the characters he portrays would? Is it what he thinks everyone expects from them?

I mean over by Reed's side he's literally made a whole post just to say HE IS NOT MOON and sometimes I forget that. What Moon does isn't what he does etc.

I completely disapprove of making fun of the fans, at the end of the day the fans are why they make money. It's similar to Chapel Roan making fun of her fans and complaining how she's so tired about being famous and being asked for photos when it's the same ppl that ask for those photos that pay for her big mansion.

I can't at all say what the VAs day to day is but they live and breathe this job and work very hard at it. I respect them a lot because It's my understanding that content creator jobs are basically 24/7. It's at what point do they get to take a break and be themselves and not this big brand that's under immense scrutiny.

I can't really say much on the lgbtqa+ ep because I'm not really in the community much and actually know next to nothing about the flags and stuff (I just learned and alloromantic this pride lol).

I didn't get a vibe like they were making fun of pride and they aren't exactly an education channel so they're bound to get some stuff wrong and if that's the case then I think it's better to either be researched about such a sensitive topic or just not teach about something you don't fully understand.

To me, it would feel far more in Canon for the gender fluid animatronic to know more about flags so having done that research would have just made for a better character acted segment. Or even have Earth be included in the ep because she's still a part of the world and family and maybe she can be used to teach the other shamrocks since I feel like Earth would also canonly know more about pride and the community

I completely erased the twink jokes from my brain because like... They to me don't even use that term right like come on...solar isn't a Twink.... He's a dilf- jkjk unless?

I think a lot of the major issues can be solved if they were allowed a break from acting or writing or both. I think they might want to explore hiring anonymous outside writers that way no one can be personally attacked like how they might be for decisions fans don't like. I think they're maybe getting some resentment towards fans because well they probably get scrutiny 24/7 over stuff that maybe doesn't need to be critiqued.

They're not just actors, but writers and artists and often times I can't help but wonder where the lines between character and their own egos are drawn.

Because while Reed isn't Moon and Davis isn't Sun and Kat isn't Earth they've all been playing these characters and writing for them so long they all must have pieces of themselves in these characters.

So of course they'd be annoyed or hurt by critique because like that's their hard work constantly under a microscope.

So while I do get disappointed by their problematic moments I don't think it's them

Sorry for rambles lol I think I just went in a bunch of nonsense circles

Still not caught up on any of the shows aaaggh

I'm still kind of just thinking on the podcast humor. I sometimes wonder if the VAs of the show forget where the lines of satire and parody stop and turn into just being the thing they're making fun of?

I know all the VAs are extremely over worked and churn out content at an insane rate. It's their job and I hope they're paid well! It's just.. Is a job too. And with that I kind of hope to see more professionalism?

The podcast, from my understanding, is a more free form ad libbed segment to be a bit out of character and just add more lore and let the VAs relax and not have to follow a script, but it's because of that unscripted nature I feel like things that should not be said end up in the podcasts?

The Nexus fan bashing aside...I just think sometimes the humor leans into being extremely mean to marginalized groups???

Like in the gaming stuff, I've been listening to them at work! I've noticed things like there's just more insults hurled at the female gamers in the crossovers? I still can't get over how Clipsy popped into EAPs (yes I'm still a month behind in EAPs) and Eclipse immediately called her the C**t and B***h. Even referred to femme world as the bimbo dimension.

So the thing is Eclipse is a grown character and he's rather mean, real rough character, but then we saw in the same episode Charlie blew up because she was stressed and didn't like seeing a possible new friend be demeaned. Etc etc I didn't like it

But I've noticed other characters are doing that now too in the others shows. In the femme show, there was an episode where a character's entire purpose was to just sexually harass the animatronics and then one of the new main characters just screamed at them to leave over and over again. It's just not clever? It depicts this bad behavior but there's no real purpose to it. It actually kind of teaches it's ok to be like that because at least it's funny?

It's like.. Is misogyny actually that funny?? Does it genuinely get more views? It's sexually harassing a female character on screen really that worth it?

I feel like a lot of the things they do are for the sake of the bit. The writers of these channels funny bones have always been too mean spirited for my tastes.

I sometimes worry about how kids are. They hear something to them that sounds or seems funny and imitate it. Even if the show is ultimately kind of not really saying it's wrong I can absolutely see kids emulating this behavior. It's why most kids content IS heavily sanitized.

Do I think they made the Nexus fans are sick joke because there genuinely meant it? No. I think they left it in because it seems funny and it will stir the pot or something like that. It's the same with insulting Sun fans. It's like, Sun is a great character of course he has fans (ME I'm that fan) do they stop to think of the type of character Sun is?

He's an underdog. The sort of morally right character. He's the most rootable character in the show next to like Solar and Terra. Of course he's got fans.

He's someone we want to see win.

But he's also kind, gentle, sensitive, a pushover, anxious, and many other vulnerable things so yeah a lot of the humor is about how Sun is gay, he's a femboy, let's just make him uncomfortable.

Sun only bullied Moon over one thing, jokingly calling him bald and it became like every characters mission to take an actually innocent gag and turn it around on Sun.

It's like, they really try so hard to funny and say inflammatory stuff because it's ironic funny to be kind of mean that means the kids will relate kind of mind set.

Which is exactly what's happening. A bunch of very impressionably young minded individuals are looking at these shows and other ones on YouTube or whatever and with their developing minds and social skills see these bad behaviors and don't understand it's meant to be a really bad joke. So yeah I'm worried there's going to be a lot of harassment. The VAs said Nexus fans are cringe so I'm going to prove how cringe they are by genuinely being a terrible human being because it's funny!

I also can't get over the current setting in Tsams... Sun, Moon, Solar, and Monty are all complacent in how they treat their animatronics. Casually threatening to weld someone's mouth shut, even if they're saying terrible stuff, is not funny. Threats of dismantling aren't funny. Looking at being just as sentient as yourself and saying they're ugly and you want to turn them off forever isn't funny.

I saw someone point out it's like slavery and yeah .. They own these sentient beings and expect them to just work for them and don't treat them with any common decency. There's no pay. Even fazbear canonly paid Sun and Moon. They even put Lunar and Terra on their payroll...

Sun, Moon, and especially Monty all know exactly how it feels to be in the shoes of these animatronics. I'm just chalking this up to learned behavior. This is how their bosses treated them... But still. A little disappointing. Aren't they supposed to be role models?

Like...I just expect better from the writing and VAs. The unscripted stuff really needs some form of filtering. Because they place a lot of trust in the fandom to not go and make a mountain out of a molehill.

I still grieve at the loss of Kat's writing. 😔

And before someone goes "it's a kids show it's not that deep"

the tsbs continuity as a whole has subjects that should not be lightly presented to kids. We have peer pressure, alcohol drinking, sexual content, sexism, misogyny, accurate depictions of minorities being marginalized, literal racism, stalking, hate crimes, depictions of domestic violence, sexual violence, crass language, PTSD, mental illness, real crimes, police violence, body horror, the loss of autonomy and agency, lobotomy, mind control, terrorism, slavery , implied r**e, murder, child murder, mass murder, mass genocide, crimes against humanity, and like... More things I'm probably forgetting.

So yeah....I wish they'd just filter stuff better...

[insociometry]

ron!skz reacting to MC getting a small injury? (i’m talking like paper cut, stubbed toe, accidentally cutting her finger while chopping veggies, little stuff that i’m sure at least one member is freaking out abt) ((cough cough hyunjin and hanji cough cough))

Wait this is cute 🥺🥺🥺

Chan: plays it off, joking around, watching you closely

"You're like a baby deer," Chan laughs, grip firm and expression watchful as he pulls you up, eyes skimming down your body. "You're not hurt, yeah?" Pouting, you rub your sore ass; you're going to kill whoever left a puddle of water on the kitchen floor for you to slip on like a cartoon character. "Just my pride." He hovers a little in the hours that follow, always working within eyesight, always watching over his laptop when you sneak a peek. When you start to climb onto the counter to get something, you find Chan suddenly at your back, holding you by the waist to steady you. "Easy, now," he says, voice gentle, grip a little tight, "I've got you."

Lino: making fun or scolding you while fretting over the wound

"Should we get your eyes checked, too?" Minho asks dryly. "Or did you mean to turn dinner into finger stew?" With his head bent to stare at your finger where it's wrapped tight in his hands and a towel, you can't see his expression, but his voice is tense. He'd whirled around fast enough to startle you when you'd first dropped the knife with a hiss, a tiny cut already blooming -- and that franticness hasn't left him, even now. You'd objected when he'd pulled the towel out, not wanting to stain it, but he'd fixed you with such a wild look that your argument died on your lips. But he doesn't say anything about it, so neither do you. Instead, you shrug. "I don't know. I think my finger would be kind of tasty."

Changbin: panic first, ask questions later

"Should we go to the hospital?" he asks, scrambling for the door with you in his arms. "Should I call hyung?" In the hotel gym, you dropped a very light beginner weight on your foot, and yelped. You feel like it might bruise at most, but -- the hospital? "What is Channie-oppa going to do?" you ask incredulously, breathless and embarrassed from struggling in the fireman's carry he has you in. "Oppa, I'm fine; put me down--" "You're fine?" he repeats incredulously, and then, slowing to a stop, "Actually, what even happened?"

Hyunjin: laughs at your clumsiness until he realizes you're hurt; then panics

Hyunjin is about three cackling hyena laughs in when you start pouting in earnest. "Jinnie," you complain, quiet and wronged, fingers wrapped loose around your ankle. Forget about laughing; Hyunjin stops breathing. It's such a minor twist of the ankle that you're 100 percent sure you could make the walk home and be fine. Hyunjin insists on giving you a piggyback ride anyway. "Are you sure you're okay?" he asks, voice raspy and thin. "Should we go to the doctor?" You snort a laugh, butting your forehead into his shoulder. "I'm more worried about the sound your knees made when you hit the ground," you tease. "You're such a drama queen, you know that?" "I didn't know you were actually hurt! I panicked!" "And it brought you to your knees?" Hyunjin falls quiet at the ribbing; you can practically feel his pout. You laugh again, tightening your legs around his waist. "Just get us both some ice when we get home, you big baby."

Han: fretting and hovering and babying, nervously joking

"There we go," he's saying again, kneeling on the floor in front of you, staring up at you with eyes a little too big and a little too shiny, brows drawn together. "All fixed for my girl, right? Does it hurt?" Indeed, the Pokemon bandaid does help -- though you didn't need much for just a skinned knee. You pout anyway, fighting down a smile at Jisung's hovering hands. "Kiss it better?" His lips are on your knee before you can finish speaking, just east of the bandaid, so as not to hurt you. "One kiss from your Jisungie, coming right up," he says like he hasn't already done it, before kissing an entire perimeter around the bandaid just for good measure.

Felix: big sad puppy eyes; gets mad at the thing you hurt yourself on

"Lix," you laugh, "it's not the dresser's fault I stubbed my toe on it; you can't just replace it for no reason--" "There is a reason," he objects, staring at the piece of furniture in question like he just watched it eat a baby. "It hurt the love of my life; how could I sleep in the same room--" "Lixie, no!" "Lixie, yes!"

Seungmin: genuine panic, followed by scolding and threats

"That never happened," he mutters into your shoulder, prickly like he isn't preventing you from leaving his arms, curled up behind you like a blanket. 'That', of course, being when you'd dropped a glass and shrieked, more from surprise than from the tiny resulting cut on your foot -- and Seungmin had skidded into the room a split second later, panting and panicked, before literally swinging you over his shoulder and sprinting to his room. He wrapped your foot in gauze when a bandaid would do and lectured you about glass safety for what felt like hours. Then he'd held you so close you could feel the too-fast beat of his heart. It's sweet. Still, you just shrug in answer to his question, unwilling to give up a future opportunity to poke fun. "We'll see."

I.N: also injured, somehow; you laugh it off together

Jeongin actually cushions your fall. Unfortunately, his elbow isn't very comfortable to land on, either. You don't even know who tumbled first; it doesn't even matter. Staring up at the ceiling, Jeongin groaning behind you, your ribs aching where they'd whammed Jeongin's funny bone -- you laugh. "How did we even," you snort, unable to even finish the sentence, rolling sideways until you're on the floor just like him. "What even happened?" But Jeongin doesn't have answers either: just an embarrassed, boyish grin that quickly fades into his own hiccuping laugh when you only crack up harder.

[tacoma-narrows]

Art Fight 2025 - Round 9!

We're up to attack 24 through 27 now! Yesterday was a batch of revenges on some people who'd gotten me, so I came swinging back hehe >:3

"Goopy Little Thing!" of Somber for @spottysnail!

I don't usually draw characters with such a limited palette, so this was a fun exercise in something new! Somber is such a cute character concept as well, despite being a spirit of mourning haha.

"Chill as the Snow!" of Everest for my sister, Creative_Lass [AF/Insta]!

Continuing to build on our revenge chain hehe. Everest is another one of her characters I've had my eye on for awhile. He's just a chill dude like that and he's got a nice vibe abt him, not too much else to say really lol

"Sizzling in the Sun!" of Heat Haze for BuggyForge [AF/Insta]!

I absolutely LOVE this guy's design omg <33 I love their concept as well as a trickster-y desert spirit who taunts people lost in the desert with illusions of water and stuff hehe >:3 Since Heat Haze is sort of a tiger based design and they drew Sitka for me, I decided to go tiger for tiger :3c

So that's what I've got from yesterday! I don't have a ton of spare time today, so we'll see how much I'm able to get done, but I'll do my best!

[galactic-rhea]

Thoughts on Padmé x Anakin x Rex?

Padmé and Anakin are so mutually obssesed they would first have to check into that before trying to bring another person to their carefully-balanced-kind-of-damage or something it's going to explode.

Honestly it's a fun ship! But I don't have too many thoughts about them because when I consider them is usually in very low-stakes-fun-AU-scenarios.

And I'm actually a bit of a fan of Rexwalker myself! Athough I tend to like them more as very good buddies, the covering-for-you-dynamic it's so funny for them, lol It's also angsty and complicated because, y'know, the power-imbalance and unchecked trauma? Is funny that the clone that's actually a slave for the republic is the most normal if you bring him into the anidala romance circus.

Also shout out to @phoenixyfriend , she has a lot of rexanidala fics and recs for anyone interested reading this!

[mensahbots]

one last gif for the pin-lee iconic moments collection

they didn't get to do very much on the show, sadly. there were some good moments. i thought the actor was very good and i loved some additions/changes, but it's a shame so much of their screentime was squandered with ratthi seemingly never-endingly pushing their boundaries and their tv wife being bizarrely uncaring and unattuned to them. is that fun for mainstream audiences to see?

i have a friend who is watching the show without having read the books and told me they dislike pin-lee, and i was bummed but at least could reassure them that the character feels very different in the books. this is fully on the tv script, too. i think the actor 100% could have portrayed something close to how i interpreted book pin-lee's personality and interpersonal stuff in such a fun way, and i'm sad we didn't get to see that. i wanted to see them more abrasive, perpetually taut, crude/cursing all the time and making vulgar jokes, so stressed they're throwing things in private, competent and knowledgable about so much, devastated by bharadwaj's mauling, comforting bharadwaj, flirting with her, having an "old comfortable" dynamic with her whatever adorable thing that means.. whatever... i usually don't get anything i want.

so all the stuff with mensah was a delight to see and so perfectly executed and also totally surprised me, since the mensah crush being a deep yearning is something i've headcanoned since my first exit strategy read, but i assumed the show would just cut the crush entirely or only passingly hint at it via pin-lee's admiration of mensah. i thought the dynamic with mensah was incredibly well written and acted, even though it was different from what i expected. it worked really well for me, and there were so many genuinely beautiful moments there. i also thought pin-lee's dynamic with gurathin was fun and well executed, again different from what i imagined, but definitely some of my favorite pin-lee acting moments/emotions in the show.

the emotional beats with the character were very good, especially the emotional extremes. but seeing their boundaries get crossed and that being played lightly/for laughs and never get even marginally resolved/addressed was disturbing and makes a lot of the show unwatchable for me. i am not at all rooting for tv ratthi's happiness, and every scene with him and pin-lee i need to skip because seeing that is legitimately triggering to me (#just csa/rape survivor things). i also get no joy from seeing them interact with arada, which is too bad because i think if their relationship had evolved just a little more i would have been more invested in the pairing and felt more positively towards tv arada (who i do think has some interesting depth, i just find her largely unsympathetic (shoutout to that little moment in episode 4 that i'm obsessed with, though)).

finally, i think it sucks that pin-lee basically didn't interact with bharadwaj at all. no, i'm not biased (i am a little, obviously). listen i do ship them, but when i write their book stuff, i'm obviously inventing so much. so the tv show could have painted their dynamic literally any way and i would have found it plausible, and it likely would have looked nothing like my fanfics. i write bharadwaj stone! you think apple tv even knows that non-butch stone tops exist? okay i'm getting derailed. anyway, what i'm trying to say is that their tv personalities would have been fun to see work off of each other, even if the show painted the dynamic as strictly professional and/or platonic and/or onesided pining.

we hardly see their interactions written out in the book, so the live action medium could have shown some really fun rapport between them and expanded it in all kinds of ways. it could have looked like pretty much anything, and i feel like we really missed out, since i think it would have been fun, possibly even cute, and the show needed more of that kind of energy/vibe imo. the glimpses that we did get of their dynamic honestly made my chest ache— they're so respectful and kind and caring with each other compared to most dynamics on the show. i could see them being a thing.. a situationshippy flirty mutually emotionally gratifying thing perhaps... but not enough to write tv universe bharadwaj/pin-lee.. maybe one day when i'm less emo about how the writers undermined the mensah-murderbot dynamic.

anyway.... tldr, i would say pin-lee is the easily best character in the show after mensah and deserved better from the narrative or at least more screentime. there were more than a couple pin-lee moments i was hoping to see which were cut but would have worked really well in this medium. if the show gets to es and ft, i hope pin-lee gets to shine like the book character did instead of being overshadowed by .. let's say sociopolitically and economically motivated changes about who takes up time and space in the narrative.

[fatespaw]

when i was in 3rd grade i was obsessed with jerboas and i tied a shoelace to the back of my pants every day as my jerboa tail... ahead of my time

i don't think this is me but she is pretty cute and she's borrowing my favorite clothes

i thought maybe drawing a humanoid character might feel fun if it was furry but drawing this was still sheer torture. goin back to drawin cats and weird creatures exclusively i think

[midnightrings]

Siena and her opera performances - a short character study

So, I thought I might share a short little analysis of the operas Siena performed, as I’ve not seen anything like this on here before and I’ve spent some time digging into those operas for my fanfics.

I want to post a whole character analysis of Siena at some point, but the operas play an important part in highlighting Siena’s character and her relationship with Anthony, so I thought it might be interesting to dig a bit deeper into those performances. Especially when it comes to a character like her (who barely got any screentime), those few seconds of her performing make a nice addition and add some depth to her character and storyline.

I won't focus much on the opera Siena performs in episode 1 – Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride – as it's not as interesting as the other two, because there doesn’t seem to be much of a connection to Siena’s character or her relationship with Anthony per se. Unlike the other operas, the focus in this scene is clearly not on her – she’s mostly just in the background, with two very short closeups, so we see that it’s her that is performing on stage. There is a deleted scene between her and Anthony according to the published script of that episode:

However, while I think that deleted scenes and such can make for interesting footnotes during an analysis/interpretation, I don’t like taking them too much into consideration – after all, there might be a good reason why this was deleted.

So the actual scene we see doesn’t really highlight anything in regards to Siena’s characters besides the fact that she’s an opera singer and that this is one of the only times we see her wear some brighter colors – while she’s on stage, playing a character. The other two operas she performs in episode 3 and 4 are much more focused on her character and storyline, especially her performance of I Capuleti e i Montecchi in 1.03 – this is the only time we see her perform without any of the other cast members present.

However, that’s not the only difference between Iphigénie en Tauride and the other operas. I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Les contes d'Hoffmann are also anachronistic. Iphigénie en Tauride premiered 1779, while I Capuleti e i Montecchi premiered in 1830 and Les contes d'Hoffmann in 1881.

People tend to make fun of historical inaccuracies or dismiss them as mistakes, but most times, anachronism is on purpose. I think it’s safe to assume that everyone working on this has been aware that those operas would not premiere until decades after season 1. The operas were clearly chosen for a reason.

Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach (1881)

Les contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) tells the story of Hoffmann, who choses to give up on love and devotes his life to art and poetry instead. It's based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, and some are probably familiar with the movie, but just to roughly summarize (also because there’s some important differences): At the beginning of the story, a prima donna named Stella invites Hoffmann to a meeting in her dressing room after her performance. Before the meeting, Hoffmann recounts his past great loves to his students. The opera consists of three acts, each telling the story of one of Hoffmann’s previous loves. After recollecting his stories of heartbreak, The Muse can convince Hoffmann to give his love to her (poetry) instead of visiting Stella.

There are many parallels to Siena and her relationship with Anthony here. The most obvious one is the prima donna part – Stella represents Siena. While there might not be direct similarities within the story or between Anthony and Hoffmann, the ending to Hoffmann’s story is still in some parts similar to Anthony’s. The opera ends with Hoffmann declaring that he doesn’t want to love anymore – which sounds quite similar to what Anthony says at the end of season 1.

Siena is obviously not performing the entire opera – we only see her sing “Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour” as the courtesan Giulietta – who tries to fool Hoffmann into falling in love with her.

Storytelling-wise, it obviously does not fit Siena’s story at this point – she is not trying to fool Anthony into falling in love with her, quite the opposite. Though it does work well as a juxtaposition, especially when we see Siena noticing Anthony’s stares and she slips out of her role. There’s a clear contrast here between her performing as a devious courtesan and looking almost flustered as a result of Anthony’s gaze.

And although Siena at that point doesn’t want to seduce Anthony in any way, the piece still beautifully represents the actual scene that takes places here: Anthony longingly staring at her the very moment he recognizes her voice – almost as if under a spell (a very horny spell). Even when Violet tries to distract him, he cannot help but look in Siena’s direction. He’s completely enthralled by her here – similarly to how Hoffmann was enthralled by Giulietta. And similarly, both relationships are doomed to end unhappily.

Adding onto that, this is also the only time that we see Siena on stage where she represents exactly who she is: a courtesan. During the other two performances, she’s wearing bright, pastel gowns – very different from her usual style. The costume she wears here is also different from her usual style, which is fairly plain otherwise – but it does highlight the role she plays within society.

I find it quite interesting that this is the only time we see Anthony and Siena interact with one another during one of her performances – and one of the only times we see them interact in public altogether. This scene clearly shows the class difference between them: Anthony attending a ball as the lord he is, while Siena performs for everyone else’s entertainment, playing a seductive courtesan. They are present at the same place, yet they can’t talk to one another – there is an invisible wall between them which is highlighted by the positions they take within that scene as well as the clothes they wear. Had Siena performed any other part of that opera, she would probably have worn a pretty gown and those differences would not nearly be as noticeable. But she’s performing as a courtesan and as a result, this might be the most visible representation of her and Anthony’s differences and main conflict.

Returning to the actual story of the opera: At the end, Hoffmann explains how his three previous loves – Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta – all represent Stella. They show different aspects of the prima donna: the musician, the young girl and the courtesan. As I said, Stella represents Siena, and so do all of the other characters. In this scene, we see her visually represented as the courtesan. The show highlights this several times, especially during episode 3 when she talks to Genevieve and then later visits the gentlemen’s club and is inviting Simon to join her the next evening. Her need to find a keeper that can protect her and provide for her plays an essential role within her storyline.

Then, she’s obviously also a musician – a good amount of her scenes consist of her performances, and her character is defined by those performances. And, in the end, she’s also a young girl – and the show ensures to highlight that part as well. Through showcasing her vulnerability and emotions, we can see that she is not that different from the other young women in the show, like Daphne and Marina. They are all young, dealing with heartbreak and making decisions to secure their future. And this is in my opinion what sets Bridgerton apart from other stories of its genre. Usually, a character like Siena would only be the musician and courtesan – either sidelined or vilified. The show humanizes her, however, by granting her screentime to show her pain and struggles and even, to some extent, her innocence – which is especially well done during her performance in 1.03.

I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini (1830)

As you can probably guess by the title, I Capuleti e i Montecchi tells the story of Romeo and Juliet. I don’t think there’s a need to summarize the story, and I also think it’s pretty clear why this particular opera was chosen: Romeo and Juliet originated the star-crossed lovers trope – which is the exact trope Siena and Anthony would fall under.

There are many things I love about that scene – it’s just all around a brilliant scene, not just in relation to Siena’s character. Though I will obviously only focus on how it relates to her character here.

The aria Siena performs is “Oh! quante volte” – Juliet waiting for Romeo, begging for him to come for her. It’s quite emotional and allows for Siena’s character to express her own emotions throughout her performance.

First, I adore how beautifully this ties in with the next scene. For one, because it sets up the atmosphere and essence of Siena and Anthony’s relationship – the tragedy of it all. The scene with Anthony in Siena’s dressing room underlines how this is not meant to be a love story with a happy ending, and the performance right before that amplifies this. Their story is doomed to end unhappily. And, similar to Romeo and Juliet, it is not merely a tragic story about love – it’s a story about the dangers of defying societal norms and duties and your own identities within that society.

But the dressing room scene also shows the clear differences between both stories. When Anthony visits her, Siena choses to reject him. She might have been emotional during her performance, but when Anthony showed his face, Siena did not act based on emotions but was very much rational in her words and actions. Because Anthony is not Romeo, and Siena is also not Juliet.

I also love how this performance builds a beautiful contrast to Les contes d'Hoffmann. Instead of a courtesan, Siena is playing an ingenue, wearing a pretty gown and looking all around sweet and innocent.

As the opera is in Italian, Juliet is obviously called Giulietta – just like the courtesan from Les contes d'Hoffmann. I have no idea whether this has been an accident or was done on purpose, but it’s a wonderful parallel. In both operas, she’s playing two very different women who happen to share the same name.

It underlines the differences between both roles but also draws a connection – which is Siena’s character.

By society, Siena is seen as the Giulietta from Les contes d'Hoffmann: the courtesan whose intentions are dubious and malicious. When Siena performs as I Capuleti e i Montecchi’s Giulietta, we can see a more vulnerable side of her as she openly cries on stage. We see her heartbroken and emotional, letting her guard down completely for a moment. In the end, it’s merely a performance. But Siena uses this performance to allow herself vulnerability – a vulnerability she is not usually allowed.

Those different performances do an excellent job at showcasing Siena’s character and also her main conflict and the different roles she plays. The chosen operas add some wonderful depth and insight into her character and I absolutely love how the shows has implemented them.

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Appreciation post for 'girly girl' characters and/or shows that celebrate traditionally feminine things that girls and women are shamed for.

Characters on this list that love makeup, fashion, hair, etc. Characters that are still written as strong, intelligent, brave, etc. That told young girls that these interests are valid, they are not lesser interests. Being feminine and liking traditionally feminine things does not make them weak.

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So... Ch 423 spoilers huh...?

Just read them... since, yeah, they just appeared and stuff

I... don't really have much to say other than.... I guess this is over? The battle, the arc... basically everything?

I'm... glad that it is, since it was really slow from all of the breaks, but at the same time it's... a little sad, or, actually, just... nothing

I think it's time to... reflect on... whatever happened in this arc or just in general, so... a personal story tie ig

I've been following mha for almost 5 years since I first watched and read it as my first "real" anime and have been following stuff ever since ch 240-241 came out and I caught up with manga, so it was pretty obvious what characters were the most interesting ones

Ever since the volumes became available to buy in 2019 I've been collecting them all up to the very recent ones and it was fun to do even if calculating how to buy them was a challenge for 'I just graduated high school' kind of person. But it was worth it every time with how LoV appeared basically in every single volume since they used 2-in-1 way of publishing so since LoV appears ever so briefly sometimes every 2 volumes it was a win-win situation

I took a break from buying them last year after the exams and stuff and after chapters of Toga's death came out I just took a break from mha in general, focusing more on other stuff like hsr, genshin or just my life while helping with stuff

I still followed the spoilers every week they came out just to see how Horikoshi wants to end the LoV story or at least how would Izuku fight Tomura in the end

And... it's the last chapter of that. After 2 years since the Final arc started and a year since Tomura actually started fighting Izuku inst

It feels right in a way, even if I'm a bit sad how... this is it? AFO just dropped info in ch 419 for it to be irrelevant in the end just for AFO to have control for 4 chapters and Tomura yelling to say that he's still alive in there

It was odd to actually read the spoilers one by one this time since I sometimes wake up too late so I just go through them quickly and that's it

I wondered halfway into the chapter that Tomura would just die soon but I didn't expect it to happen this chapter even more so at the end of it

It's... really is over now?

Defeating LoV was literally just finding a way for them to self-destruct instead of making Class 1-A be the ones who kill them showing that they're still good in the end. It's not like I'm complaining - it's the way I wanted them to be defeated because them staying alive in the end felt unfair, especially when fans were the ones who wanted it. Just leaving them in Tartarus for a way to say that Izuku can't save villains or changing the story so the LoV is left alone is not the way this manga would deal with it, I thought

And I was right in a way, even if it took Toga's monologue to actually be more sure that this is where it's going

It felt too much like how Twice's death was done - without any regret from him

Maybe it made me a bit... off from how other people wanted it to end with heroes "getting what they deserve" or something, but it would've stopped being MHA after something like that happened, especially in a final arc when all of the LoV (except maybe Compress who is not on the battlefield) is literally wearing death signs with Dabi being the most loud one with it - and we still haven't seen him have this "alright, goodbye" moment like Twice, Toga and Tomura now had

And I don't believe that Dabi will survive this arc - he's literally too far gone with his body less alive than before and with him living only to be angry at Endeavor I guess it's a matter of time we get a goodbye from him too

With how this chapter handled it it seems that Spinner might survive this arc after all, but again - it makes it all the more sad since Horikoshi did remind us that Tomura befriended Spinner, in a way making it... a bit sad that it means that Tomura didn't expect others to make it or at least since they were more focused on their own goals Spinner was caring more for Tomura's goal than for himself.

Which is... even more sad considering that Tomura literally tells Izuku to say that he was destroying until the end instead of telling how Tomura lost everything and couldn't do anything anymore even before dying from basically decaying from the quirk that AFO gave him

And that's... Not dissapointing, no. It just makes me sad that his arc ended like that after all those chapters ever since he debuted 10 years ago.

Is you want it to be correct, since Horikoshi based Tomura off his oneshot about Tenko - it's been 17 years since the concept of his character first gained form and only now he's gone

Like... really gone. Nothing else left.

You can probably tell that I didn't take it well even if I wanted this ending to be this way not the "everyone survives way", but it still hurts to see the character that clicked ever since first watching and reading MHA and the character who is basically responsible for me even trying to check first the anime then wiki and then manga just... dying like that

Granted Kurogiri was the one who showed up in the end and I'm just glad for this because ever since ch 419 came out and even before that I just hoped for it to matter in some way and it did

I remember reading some fics that dealt with this arc in a way that was satisfying for me, but I still crried a lot and I still am crying now from thinking that Horikoshi did in fact give LoV a break instead of leaving them in jail.

I do need a break tho. Not in a "I leave and no more sketches or anything from me", no

I need a break from this manga, thankfully next volume isn't close so I'm free to not buy it right after that, especially since it's Toga's volume and I'm not ready to read it again but this time as "read every volume" way

I also can't leave Ultra Impact since I suddenly became a leader for a club I was in alone after everyone left, it's now full with 30 people appearing from s7 starting ig, but it gave me some responsibility to support the new players who decided that a weird club which name I can't even change from what last leader called it, so I might continue playing just to, at least, have all or the LoV characters fully leveled up just for fun

But in a way a need a break from Tomura. I had one or two when it was becoming unberable with how manga was going and with how things are... yeah

I have some sketches ideas but other than that... it's a bit hard to touch something LoV related right now.

I also don't think that doing something like this again is a way I want to cope with what happened - it happened and I already have two different posts about both how depressing and hopeful ch 419 is, and in the end both were true.

Nothing changed what happened in ch 419, Tomura just decided to destroy AFO when the plot wanted with Izuku and OFA together which is definetely something that people made theories of

He didn't get time to get at least something before he's gone and whatever happened with Nana was happened off-screen so we might as well see it as Tomura dying with his life never meaning anything, never actually having any purpose and only by helping to destroy AFO did he do at least something that helped others and was his own choice, but was it? Did he ever have a choice at all?

As it is now and will be for the end for MHA Tenko Shimura or Tomura Shigaraki never really had a choice in anything he did, not in a "I didn't have a choice!!!" dramatic way of how Nana Shimura left Kotaro. No. He didn't have any choices to choose from to begin with.

But with how Kurogiri still wanted to protect Tomura and reminded him of his friends at least it's not just the first part of the post that was right, in the end last words that Tomura said were connected to LoV and what he wanted to do for them, not that AFO was to blame for everything which is true still, but that LoV, even as broken as it is, is still a priority in Tomura's head after all this time of having AFO's quirk twist his mind and anything Tomura said outside of that headspace should've been carefully checked since it could've been AFO who's talking

It's not the ending for Tomura that people were hoping he'll get nor is it something that everyone will agree on, I can feel people arguing from here even if I didn't check Twitter or tags here on Tumblr to be sure. I don't need to.

So... those are my thoughts, a bit emotional in some places a bit chaotic in other, since my head is a mess right now and this was a way to say "this is it... are you happy?" to myself and answering it.

And the answer is no. I'm not happy. This arc, Tomura's personal arc and the way Izuku "helped" Tomura is still some of the worst things, even if I'm glad that this is over and I'm not obligated by myself to wait every week nervous that Tomura would suffer, and he did suffer, a lot.

From how his only way of getting his memory back was to suffer again to the fact that he had to suffer to get rid of his hate that AFO so carefully nurtured for 16 years. It wasn't great, especially since I joined after MVA was over and nothing after that was good to LoV getting worse every chapter from Twice dying and Toga learning that she'll probably die too, to Tomura never actually meeting LoV again as himself after he got AFO's quirk basically making him oblivious to the fact that Dabi is Toya or that Spinner followed what AFO wanted just to be useful, that Toga gave away her blood to save Ochako or that Dabi burned himself to death probably and Mr. Compress compressing parts of his own body. And the only person he saw before talking to Izuku was Kurogiri who was literally melting away at that very moment.

It's... a bit unfair.

Yes, villains lose at the end since we're reading a manga even if the manga itself isn't sure if it wants to go "no this is REAL" or go the way every shonen goes with the main character getting what they want. LoV lost at the end just because the manga needed them to lose, even if the way it was shown wasn't disrespectful to their character arcs, all of them making sense in the end.

It's still unfair that their only choice was to die and in a way bring everyone with them if they can, it was the way Dabi almost did it, it was the way both Toga and Tomura did, only for their respective Heroes - Shouto (and Todoroki family as whole), Ochako and Izuku being saved from dying from something that would've worked ONLY there and then. While the villains are not in the My Villain Academia version of manga anymore, so they don't have a way to survive anything like they did in MVA. For Toga, Twice and Tomura it was the only way to survive, if they weren't the main characters of that arc they would've died.

So, in the end it's miracle that we even had that arc in the first place with how Horikoshi wasn't planning for the villains to become the sympathetic characters for the fans - they were supposed to be just scary, and it's clear when you read stuff before volume 23 comes with MVA - they were always just evil and scary without any hope for us to get something out of it. You may say that the chapter with Toga helping Twice and having Tomura talk to them after the conversation with Overhaul was the first sign of Horikoshi not just showing them as those evil villains, and in a way it's true.

Nothing from before that arc actually helped LoV aside from showing some poins of "Dabi might me Toya" or first points of AFO and Tomura talking face to face. In the end everything important was in Overhaul arc and MVA tightly connected to each other.

I'm glad that for the 5 years of my life I've been analysing LoV and took my time getting every volume, I'll still hold them dearly. But aside from couple of chapters at the end showing us what happened to others... it's really the end of it.

With how long this post is I don't expect for people to read everything, since it was mostly just me talking about the new chapter for an hour and a half, sharing my thoughts, feelings and... whatever else there might be.

Because it was important thing in my life for a long enough time that I would miss it.

I can talk for hours more and just loop around this topic, but this is long enough post and I'm tired, but thanks for reading

I'm happy that this is over

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Shakes and cries I wanna make Jackie parent hc designs but I can't because potentially one of them is a prevalent character now and her ass has not spoken a single line yet so I both know nothing and can't just start making shit up yet </3333

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Fuck it we Moll(y)

Decided to break out my old DS and replay Drawn to Life, a game I haven't touched in literally over a decade (mostly just to see how it holds up). And since I used my OC Molly Majacqueline for the role of the hero when I last played it, I decided to keep her as the star for this go-around.

Of course, I pretty much completely overhauled Molly's character since then, so it's somewhat funny to imagine this bratty and self-absorbed little witch reluctantly fighting for the greater good just so she can go home faster (I'm sure she'd warm up to villagers eventually tho 😉).

Also it turns out I still have my old completed save file on the cartridge, so here's the old, not-rude Molly just for comparison's sake:

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Hello I am alive. I haven't really drawn much since August due to BG3 brainrot (and this month I've been learning how to mod the game) but this morning my brain decided I wasn't allowed to look at computer screens so I did a little sketch of Shel. She was originally supposed to be like a miniboss for a friend's campaign but it never happened so I ended up making her in BG3.