#but good lord can it be frustrating

[antirepurp]

one more knuckles post but the warrior thing is wild to me when there are characters who would carry that title much better. like silver. i am coming from my biased view of silver of course but to me if you had to assign the role of a warrior to someone he'd be a better fit for it. instead of fixing his home he leaves it to find solutions elsewhere, fixated on a rather senseless killing mission he only gives up on when more convenient methods are pointed out to him, So Down For Murder with little moral issues with it. compare that to knuckles who has always worked to help angel island thrive and keep it peaceful, leaving it only if he must, attacking others only if they come to disturb that peace, perhaps a bit gullible but his heart is in the right place. but no silver has to be a goof-ass cinnamon roll and knuckles has to be assigned war ties because ooh descendant of an violent ancient civilization and he punch hard

small addition: this isn't to say silver should have military/war ties i don't think any sonic character should have those unless they're hand-crafted for the purpose somehow (or are shadow whose whole character is anti-militaristic) it's more that if we must give an existing important character the role of a warrior which they then perform to fulfill in some fashion silver might be the best pick for the cause, though much less from the kind of militaristic point that has been assigned to knuckles in recent memory

[equalperson]

reasons to eavesdrop as a narcissist: secret compliments, drama that makes you feel superior about yourself.

reasons not to eavesdrop as a narcissist: secret insults.

[doedipus]

Guilty gear fandom misogyny is so incredibly frustrating

Like you can pick any boy out of the roster and the entire fanbase is probably falling over themselves to hype them up; people pop off for their associated players' gameplay, they construct elaborate fan media that brings out the intricacies of the characters and shows off their best points, and won't take no for an answer if someone claims to not find them maddeningly attractive

But then with the girls, at best nobody cares about them besides the dedicated superfans, and at worst literally every other player only speaks the character's name to complain. They'll get nothing but vapid pinup fanart with no regard for character, if they're even on the radar at all. Whenever one of the female characters gets a buff or a player makes a good tournament run, everyone stops what they're doing to complain for a month, until they go back to largely ignoring them again. And then whenever a patch brings a new boy people convince themselves is cool, or gives an existing one significant buffs, half the players on a female character drop her to switch. It's like clockwork.

Also for some reason every male character has people headcanoning them as trans in both directions, regardless of anything about their actual characterization, but none of the not-canonically-transfem girls really get that kind of fan attention, which is disappointing. Except that one artist who thinks elphelt should be transmasc.

I think the only guilty gear girl to escape this is Bridget, by dint of being a little sweetie pie. But she's still like a purely auxiliary character to the canon, so there's not a ton to talk about besides decade old discourse, and she's underdeveloped at a top level, with the only notable reps being players who use her to try and scam opponents out of a few games before switching to their real mains once they drop one themselves. Like despite her popularity among casual fans there's still no daru for Bridget

And honorable mention to season 2 baiken, who attracted a lot of upper level players who were unsatisfied with their mains at the time, who then nearly unanimously dropped her for John or sin in S3 when it became apparent that it wasn't as easy to win with her as they initially thought

[galadriel-blue]

Things that could have been avoided if people listened to Galadriel in S2:

Elrond didn't listen to Galadriel due to his fear of her ring, so one of their company members died

Celebrimbor didn't listen to Galadriel and interacts with Halbrand again after he promised not to, unknowingly inviting Sauron into his home which will subsequently lead to his death

Adar didn't listen to Galadriel, even after all that talk about "sharing a common enemy," and now he's falling right into a trap

I don't know, maybe we should consider what she says next time. Just a thought.

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

[crossbackpoke-check]

yOu'Re gOiNg fOr a LiTeR? | "Habs react to Quebec Maple facts", 10.22.24

[lemonhemlock]

not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall

[tobiasrieper]

wo long: fallen dynasty ► hidden village of mt. tianzhushan

[ravenclawfromdistrictfour]

its 2024 and i'm still so amazed by hweseung's voice

[littledragonkana]

CG: *makes questionable choices*

Everyone: *angy noises*

Me, vibing with my fave characters and being happy about a new side story:

[gayalanwake]

beavis and butt-head need to get that bag bc their “vintage band shirts” would go for like a solid three hundred dollars on ebay rn

[mestos]

from a chara standpoint i think ppl can and are allowed to enjoy the vampire ascendant ending and direction if they want to. i mean, we all kno of power fantasies and villainious routes being extremely hot and sexy. i just find it incredibly grating ppl love to enforce the "he doesn't know love anymore bc dnd lore state that vampires don't feel emotion" like maybe for you jan but not me! my man is infatuated and adores my tav as the ascendant. sorry!

[leijonzzz]

I LOVE SUIKODEN SOOOO FUCKING MUCH

[topflights]

dick riders of any promotions r so annoying. always acting like a promotion can’t do shitty things. this is abt aew only having one womens match for all in and everyone going “not everyone can be on the card!!!”

[tigersorange]

gender is stupid and i hate it. societal views on gender are actually cartoon supervillain levels of evil. why cant i look “masculine” and be seen as not a man still. i dont want people to think im a man but i want to be masculine its so hard GRAHHHHHHHHHH

[lucyhasnoidea]

tbh i just feel like nothing in my life sparks joy right now