#can’t stop ranting

[saphic-with-t]

I saw people talking about Jawbone being a bad school counselor for how he treated the situation with Kipperlilly, and while I agree that from what we heard, it was definitely not good, I’d like to use this to point something out.

This single situation highlights two major things I think we forget or overlook when looking at the more serious, intense stuff within the storytelling genre of dnd/actual-play. Both boil down to things not being perfect.

First, this feels like the situation where we should remember that Brennan isn’t a school counselor, and never has been, or gotten training. He doesn’t know the proper procedures for stuff.

Second, this is improvised. It’s off the cuff and can’t be changed. If it was a traditional style of writing like a book or script, maybe an editor would have picked up on the inaccuracies or problems of the character and brought it up to Brennan for revisions in the next draft. But that can’t happen, and it’s pretty much set in stone as soon as it’s put out.

There is also the possibility (though I don’t personally believe this) that Brennan was intentional with Jawbone handling the situation poorly.

Jawbone’s mistake adds to and reinforces his character. I have met with school counselors before and they are usually far from perfect. In fact, Jawbone is still definitely one of the better examples of a school counselor in fiction and irl. We know that a lot of students (and staff) do really enjoy him. He was able to diagnose Adaine’s problem and has helped a few of the bad kids quite a lot and gives good advice. But he’s still new. He doesn’t have official education on child psychology and is pretty much completely self taught. It makes sense that at the very least he would let some kids slip through the cracks or make some bad calls. Especially since Kipperlilly’s situation and Jawbone’s secondary relationship to them is a unique thing that he would definitely not be prepared for.

Also, you can just add your head cannons into the mix. I saw one saying they believed Jawbone recommended to KlCk’s parents that they find her a therapist outside of the school and they declined it, but since it wouldn’t be part of her file, Riz and the rest wouldn’t see or know about it. Things like that are the whole point of head-cannons, to help explain stuff that goes unexplained.

Anyways, if you read this far thank you, I just needed to rant about it because people were getting really nasty about it (especially on Twitter) and I wanted to drop my two cents into the void.

[saphic-with-t]

It’s also perfect for the dynamics they both played in the abuse they faced. Catra took the actual brute force of Shadow Weaver being awful and was constantly being humiliated, threatened, and tortured. She had to recognize that every move she made mattered and that even small slip ups and mistakes would lead to huge loss and pain, so she didn’t have time to consider if something was ethically or morally sound. She just needed to worry about if it was going to get her in trouble or not.

Meanwhile Adora was the golden child. She had to watch awful things happen to Catra and do her absolute best to calm Shadow Weaver down and please her, as to stop Catra from more pain. A literal savior. She also got a ton of survivors guilt, shown in the show with lots of flashback scenes where she is spared from the hate and pain that Catra is forced through.

I just love how well the development and thought processes are done in this show for the two, and how it allows for us to understand their reasoning while still being a step away from it and knowing it isn’t reasonable.

i think it’s interesting how adora and catra’s different forms of abuse affect their outlook on humanity; catra doesn’t really believe that there’s good in the world as a whole and is in constant state of self-preservation so she doesn’t care to fight for what’s seen as morally right most of the show, adora has complete faith in world but none in herself when it’s not tied to other people & values pretty much any good civilian/person’s life over her own. she’s always willing to die for a good cause and puts what other people want above her own wants. they’re both very extreme but only grow from that as they come back together. catra remembers the positives in her relationship with adora and realizes that she always cared about her, then begins to do the right thing because while there’s bad in the world, there’s also good. she doesn’t have to shut herself off from everyone and align herself with an oppressive regime to be safe as there’s safety in connection and humanity. her relationship with adora isn’t perfect and bad things still happen but she continues to do the right thing and protect her + other rebellion members out of love and knowing that despite her own extensive pain, good still exists in people and etheria can and Deserves to be salvaged. after adora allows herself to fight for catra again and express her love she breaks fully the confines of her controlled destiny as she-ra. for the first time in the show she allows herself to consistently want things that aren’t related to her duty. and once she hears that catra loves her there’s a push to believing in herself once again as she doesn’t need to martyr herself to matter to other people, she can just exist as herself in order to be loved and that can co-exist with her love for the world and it’s inhabitants neither one coming before the other.

[potato-lord-but-not]

saw this gem today and had to sketch out these guys because omgod. this movie

[marshmallowcat666]

I’m currently hyperfixated rereading Ftfo and can barely do any drawing but I’m trying!!! ‘^’ Designs are easier to draw for some reason so might see only those for a bit T-T

anyways have my version of Lord Lunar’s Gemini! They get fun new outfits!!!

[comatosebunny09]

“He would never say that.”

It’s fanfiction.

“He would never do that.”

It’s fanfiction.

“I can’t stand when people write him as—”

Fanfiction.

“Can y’all please stop mischaracterizing—”

Altogether, now: fanfiction.

[luckthebard]

I don’t know why this is something we apparently need to re-explain to parts of the CR fandom every few years, but if I see one more post that implies that the way Samuel Oscar Riegel is approaching his character’s faith journey is “culturally Christian” I’m gonna McFucking lose it.

[shhhsoftnwet]

Who are you harassing this time, team leader Shin?

[computeriiworld]

THIS TOOK EIGHT HOURS

LIKE AND FUCKING SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON FOR MORE SHITTY ANIMATIONS🔥🔥🔥

[exulzae]

Pre-zero requiem. A plea for—

Pose by hireath_21 on twit.

[lancerthatisntfree]

the mind YEARNS for another gavin audio.. i need more gavin.. i can’t live without this man i can only listen to his audios so many times..

dear diary it’s been 2 weeks without a gavin audio, i’m starting to lose hearing in my left eye and taste in my right.

[strawbbfluff]

Maybe the single life is for me

[demigodofhoolemere]

Trying to find nice stuff for Wish but everywhere you go people are being painfully wrong in their interpretations of the movie

[runningoncaffeine]

ORV webtoon’s doing a great job with how Kim Dokja’s drawn. Even with the art style improvements over the years.

Sure, everyone’s getting prettier but Kim Dokja’s like pretty pretty ykwim? Like he’s supposed to be average-looking but my guy’s basically an idol/model in the webtoon

Which is great! Because—first of all PrettyKDJ agenda!!!—And! It makes his different from the other action fantasy manhwa protagonists

I was reading the most recent chapter and as someone who reads just about all kinds of action manhwas I come across, I could tell, that if Kim Dokja’s character design was a bit more the manhwa-black haired-protagonist-in-an-isekai-loser-to-hero story, then he wouldn’t stand out at all

He’d just be another random protagonist going through the same clothes cliche plot line.

But that’s not Kim Dokja. Like literally

In the webtoon when he says throws out some cool one-liner followed by smooth action scenes, I don’t feel the way I do when other action manhwa protagonists do the same.

I usually go—‘hmm.okay’

But with Kim dokja I’m—‘ooohhh, look at my pretty baby he’s sooo cuteeee!’ (Uriel probably does the same but that’s besides the point)

Plus he’d hate it if someone suggested that he was like a protagonist from an action manhwa like SSSSS-grade Regressor or some crap. That’s practically an insult to him (his whole personality is TWSA which is an acquired taste really. Like he was the only one. The plot was so ass that all kinds of jobless people out of millions who probably used the webnovel platform gave up on it after chap50)

[queen-of-hawkins-why-ler]

Idk who needs to hear this, but calling media something that “only straight teenage girls like” is oftentimes straight up misogyny (and usually homophobia) disguised as the most basic, safe level of pseudo-feminist allyship there is. The AUDACITY to play that card and pretend to care about women and the LGBTQ community all the while actively shutting down queer people’s experiences and the lens through which queer people view media, basically calling us “delusional” and shitting on the idea that a mainstream show like ST could offer actually fleshed out, accurate representation of a queer experience. As though those Redditors aren’t themselves cishet grown adult men who project their own masculinity complexes onto Mike.

If anyone pulls the “it’s for straight teenage girls” card to justify shitting on something, all the while hailing and having no issue with something that primarily caters to cishet white men, it’s not allyship, it’s just misogyny and queerphobia lmao. Like, not them deluding themselves into thinking that Byler isn’t something incredibly beautiful and important to hundreds of thousands of queer people, just so they can justify hating on it and actively silencing queer peoples’ experiences. “Byler is for straight teenage girls” mmkay but are you not a straight white adult man??? Why is that better??? Lmao.

[rollercoasterwords]

ok top 5 least favorite parts of that article lol:

1. taylor sings on her tour even when she’s stressed!! (she did have to reschedule one night after a girl died bc of unsafe conditions. taylor was so sad 💔)

2. girls have been told that our natural feminine interests, like love and glitter, are silly. but if we monetize those things, then more “female art” gets made! #feminism

3. horcruxes, infinity stones, gandalf

4. i thought about bringing up the fact that taylor’s career never actually died or even suffered that greatly, but then i decided not to, because what matters is that she felt canceled

5. “female rage”

[angelxcainn]

Curly is not innocent by any means, stop treating him like he is.