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I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.
Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.
#eleanor shellstrop#you know i was thinking about how we hold female characters to such high standards#and severely criticize bitchy female characters while praising asshole male characters#and then i remembered eleanor and realized that she is the perfect example of how to write an asshole woman that the audience likes#the worse she is the more i'm drawn to her (and honestly same for tahani)#we need more cringe-fail women who nobody likes (for good reason)#the good place#female characters#writing women#girl failure#girl loser#she's so mean#i love her#my favorite#fucking asshole#iconic#the good place eleanor#tgp#tgp eleanor#kristen bell
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six excerpts from a wangxian fic told entirely through ratemyprofessors reviews
#the historic beef of two physics professors#there’s lore but we’ll never know what it is#because all the narrators are unreliable and underinformed#outsider pov from the most unhelpful outsiders#so much wwx and lwj slander in this fic but also fair criticism but also praise!#love those guys#mdzs#cql#mo dao zu shi#lan wangji#wei wuxian#mdzs fic#the untamed#chen qing ling#wangxian#wangxian fic#untamed fanfiction#wangxian fanfic#mdzs fanfiction
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The people praising Arcane seem to always only focus on specific stuff so I want to ask anyone to praise this:
1. Sevika's story, please go on. Praise it. Tell me how good she was after episode 4, I am waiting?
2. The firelights. Go ahead tell me how much we saw them and how the Tree came back and was tied into the story, tell me how they got screen time and how their story got told?
3. Ekko. Tell me how good it was to make him ignore his home after he went to Jayce to get it fixed. Tell me how great his character arc was after they got rid of everything else he liked.
4. Mel. I want you to praise how much screen time she had and how the black rose didn't come out of no where. I want you to tell me it didn't feel like they wrote her out of the story and I want you to look me in the eyes and praise how well they treated her in the last act. You know, with Jayce apparently only seeing her as a sex object. Women really won.
5. Praise the Robots.
6. Go ahead tell me how good it was to kill off all the suicidal characters.
7. I need to hear people praise the time loop/travel. It was so good and made so much sense and time travel isn't mostly a weird way to not resolve anything.
8. Talk nice about the side characters, please. Maddie, Loris, Isha, Steb, Lest. You know all of them were so necessary and weren't only there for one thing and then got killed or just never to be seen again. Praise how good their writing was, go on.
9. Go ahead and tell me how well they handled Vi's character. How they didn't just completely ignore her. Praise how they made her an alcoholic for 3 seconds and then she was just able to stop, isn't she an inspiration?
10. Go ahead, tell me how well they resolved anything that happened in the first 3 episodes. The Grey is just never mentioned again outside of it being used in the last war. Tell me how the people of Zaun just supporting Piltover is worthy of Praise.
11. Vi and Ekko never interacting was so good, wasn't it? So perfectly in character for Vi to rush right past him in the finale. That was perfect.
12. Praise it how good it was that Caitlyn just completely forgets her mother in the end, you know the reason the first 3 episodes happened. Praise it how her father is off hand mentioned in episode 8, never to be seen again. You know... the parents, her reason to go nuts like this. Damn that was good
13. Jinx getting to apologize in prison to Caitlyn. What a scene am I right?
go ahead, there is so much to praise, it must be tiring only focusing on one or two things
#should I go ahead?#there is so much more#but people only praise either one thing (i know who you are) or just other weird side stuff that didn't matter#arcane#arcane season 2#arcane spoilers#media critical#character study#vi#jinx#sevika#mel medarda#caitlyn kiramman#jayce talis#viktor#isha#vander#ekko#loris arcane#steb#maddie#lest#COME ON#PRAISE IT.#firelights#that fucking tree#satire
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Taylor Swift's interview on CBS Sunday Morning; 25/08/2019
#taylor swift#taylor swift gifs#ts gifs#tswiftgif#gifset#taylor swift edit#ts edit#tswiftedit#*mine#*mine: misc#lover#i've seen people say that this was “dumb” and “shallow” but i don't think it was at all...!#up to this day we see women being criticized hated on for the same behavior men are praised for#i've seen it a a lot more in my country's media where they have called us swifties crazy and deranged for dressing up in glitter#while football men who throw trash shout engage in fights destroy public goods and are aggressive towards everyone are never shamed for it.#imo just because it's a basic concept of feminism does not mean it's dumb or any less true ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#100#500
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sjm writing the dance scene between eris and nesta, fake or not fake, is proof that she had it in her to write a good, soft romance for nesta where her and her partner have pure unparalleled chemistry that isn't based on the foundation of lust. after hofas, I hold out hope that the distasteful nature of nessians relationship was written intentionally. we give sjm a lot of shit, rightfully so, but I don't think she's entirely blind, ignorant or idiotic in what she writes.
#this is not a sarah j maas praise post heaven forbid#sjm critical#nesta archeron#eris vanserra#cassian acotar#anti nessian#acotar critical
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"Stop projecting your America-centric view of cops onto the enforcers in Arcane!" as if the very first shot in season 1 isn't a bloodbath with Vi and Powder's parents having been murdered by enforcers, as if we don't witness multiple violations of their power in season 2 and as if police brutality isn't a global issue.
#i swear it's always praise for the show for its mature and relevant themes until it's something it handles badly#then suddenly it's fans “looking too deeply into everything” and it really isn't that serious#arcane critical#anti caitlyn kiramman#arcane spoilers
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just got the most delicious interview on sky germany of this guy waxing poetry about lewis hamilton for five minutes & even going into their personal relationship (spoiler: there is none)
#istg he always manages to psychoanalyse criticize and then praise him like crazy in the span of two minutes#i‘ll translate that later#unless someone else is faster#i‘m still on the first video about his opinion on gax divorce#f1#formula one#formula 1#sky germany#lewis hamilton#nico rosberg#brocedes#mercedes amg petronas#abu dhabi gp 2024
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Travis Willingham, everybody
C1: Refuses to rp romance.
C2: Gives it a try and is like a blushing virgin.
C3: An absolute FREAK.
#probably been done before#i wonder if matt is suddenly regretting the praise he gave travis for trying new things#travis willingham#critical role#grog strongjaw#fjord stone#chetney pock o'pea
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A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023) dir. Kenneth Branagh ↳ I know only that we cannot hide from our ghosts. Whether they are real or not, we must make our peace with them. And live life, somehow.
#filmedit#filmgifs#moviegifs#a haunting in venice#cinematv#userbbelcher#chewieblog#filmtvcentral#userstream#useroptional#mgifs#mdiary#6 out of 10#this was a movie.#it's not bad. but it's also not great? i can't really criticize it nor praise it. the paul rudd of movies i guess.
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The evil, power hungry Queen- agrees to set aside her political aims and give all her strength and focus to defeating the White Walkers while being promised nothing in return.
The good, selfless Queen- argues against getting the resources they desperately need to even stand a chance against the White Walkers because it threatens her political aims.
#pro daenerys targaryen#anti sansa stark#to be clear though this is less about Sansa herself and more about the insanely bias framing of the narrative#everything Daenerys does is relentlessly scrutinized while the Starks can do literally anything without any criticism by the narrative#to the point where prioritizing the white walkers over political scheming is set up as a indication of a characters’ decency#yet Daenerys is demonized despite doing exactly that while Sansa is praised for doing the exact opposite#daenerys targaryen#anti got season 7#anti got season 8#anti game of thrones
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i think it is very silly to react to dropout's response like "why were people mad, you know the cast and crew are pro palestine" yeah exactly and if they weren't i don't think attempting to push a petition/boycott to them about this would do anything. the result of them acknowledging this was a net good. twenty thousand dollars
#dropout#this happened with critical role also#where people pushed the company from silence (apart from a few cast members liking ceasefire posts)#to making a 50k donation from the cr foundation#like yes online activism isn't everything but you can't deny the material good that you can achieve#by holding companies that pride themselves as being progressive to their standard that they set#do i think there were people in that crowd who were being overly cynical abt dropout's views. sure#like idt they deleted their discord so it would be harder to get feedback to them for one.#idt the time they took to make the statement was out of maliciousness#but having concerns abt people being on their shows who have expressed harmful views b4#is like. a perfectly valid thing to be concerned about.#dropout is a COMPANY it is not your FRIEND if you want to praise them for being progressive then hold them to that#because you are the audience it is catering to!
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Here’s Aquarius!!!
She changed like, just barely. To be honest I don’t have much of a problem with her og design so this is mostly just personal preference. The vase is totally oc tho :->)
Im aware that Aquarius is an air sign but having the water bearer not use water feels silly to me. And to be honest I like the mermaid idea personally.
#fairy tail#redesign#undescribed#celestial spirits#concept art#aquarius fairy tail#very honoured to have had my art and designs praised by so many people#it means a lot!#and all the criticism has been really nice and respectful which im thankful for#edit: did i forget to mention she's huge now
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“Ohh Bidoof has a Journal!” “Sunflora has a Diary if you go into her room”— WHAT ABOUT PARTNER???
#IDEA IVE HAD FOR BIT. ITS RLLY SILLY YET ODDLY IN-CHARACTER???.??.?#man i would’ve loved to see more of Partner’s thoughts on Hero#<<<AND I MEAN UNIVERSALLY/IN-GENERAL. IK MINES IS MORE HxP-ISH BUT I MEAN ALL DYNAMICS#(also these are just some of my more sillier/lighthearted ideas. I’ll draw the other stuff later)#(maybe relating to certain journal entries of a certain ghost being praised and looked up too)#ANYWAYS PARTNER WOULD BE DORKY ENOUGH TO OWN ONE I TAKE NO CRITICISMS HERE. I COOKED.#pmd Art Tag#Riolu/Aimilios#dadnoir#Dusknoir#Eevee/Ribbons#Eevee#Riolu#pmd eos#pmd 2
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"Vi was the real Jinx" "No Hextech was the real Jinx" "No Jayce and Viktor were the Jinx for creating Hextech"
Arcane fans are all so fucking stupid and y'all deserve this stupid ass show. If this show had even a modicum of intelligence its thesis statement would have been that institutional oppression enacted by Piltover against Zaun was the real jinx and rot of show, finally giving rise to a monster coming to Jinx them back and be the reckoning for all their sins. Instead they give us that fuckass idiotic episode 7 that attempts to pin all the blame on Hextech and pretends like the horrible conditions of Zaun and cruelty of Piltover didn't already exist long before Jayce and Viktor cranked that damn crystal. Not only that, they go and martyr Vi which just gave the lowest bottom of the barrel members of this fandom a chance to accuse her of being the "real" jinx. This show is unserious garbage and its moronic fans deserve it.
#i thought i was done ranting about episode 7 but i'm not#it's so fucking stupid and it's maddening to see it get praised as the best episode#it was garbage. utter garbage. take off the timebomb shipping goggles and see how they brushed aside all the themes of class oppression#and pinned the entire tragedy of season 1 ON HEXTECH. because of fucking course magic was the fault of everything. magic is the Big Bad.#nothing else. definitely not the council or the enforcers. magic needs to go. not piltover.#vi isn't even my favourite character but if you accuse either her or jinx for being at fault for everything you're a fucking cretin#enjoy your garbage show. god i wish i knew how ass this series was going to be so i never would have gotten into s1#vi#jinx#ekko#jayce#viktor#arcane s2#arcane#arcane league of legends#arcane critical#arcane season 2#arcane netflix#piltover#zaun#league of legends
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with the obligatory precursor statement of "the gods are not based on any earthen pantheon and thus cannot be drawn directly to any of our dieties, but downfall is heavily intentionally pulling from religious imagery": it is insane (in the best way) of nick marini to show up to critical role for his very first time and play pelor as the messiah shepherd giving food & shelter to poor refugees. whilst boarding a ship of regufees. to nuke the city that harbors them
#pelor#ayden#it's so interesting to me that while the gods ARENT ours pelor is so often placed in the one christian god position#but when this is utilized by the dms/players it is what colonialist christians praise god for and see him as#their hypocrisy and imperialism and seeing others as lesser even in good intention made manifest#nick playing ayden as a functional jesus figure but he is using his messiah actions as excuse for genocide#that feels very relevant#aeor#nick marini#religion#critical role#critical role meta#campaign 3#exandria unlimited: downfall#downfall#cr spoilers
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Good news! You aren't required to make your hobbies and passions "marketable." In fact, your crafts, hobbies, and passions don't even need to be public if you so choose. You don't have to spend all of your energy becoming perfect if you aren't enjoying the process. You are not a product, you are a person, a creative, and your work also does not need to be a product.
#positivity#yet another post that's like... thinnly-veiled as being for myself#i find myself freezing with anxiety when i think about the things i used to do (writing especially) because...#...i had felt this force to make it ~content~ and ~marketable to an audience~ and it was so fucking daunting...#...it felt like being a gladiator in a coliseum#even now i fight the urge to equate being marketable to being acceptable and worthy of admiration and praise#i wish i hadn't burnt myself out of writing by doing this because i'm simultaneously grieving my writing and hating it#and it sucks the life out of what makes you feel like a person and it takes the art out of art#so be free! pist your art or don't! you are beholden to nobody!!!#(obviously this is not the case for professional artists who rely on their art to keep them alive)#(and i criticize heavily the idea that audiences are entitled to an artists labour)#(i understand that this isn't universal and if it doesn't apply to you then you don't have to take me seriously)#(if you are a professional artist or what have you i hope you are able to feed and house yourself off of that career!)#(i hope you are able to live a happy life and be able to keep loving what you're doing)
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