#critics ain't wrong

[fuckedupsociety155]

Just watched the fnaf movie, and maybe it was the fact that I watched it at 10pm and had been awake since 5am and was just so fucking tired, but when I saw matpat's name tag said ness my mind just went "YOU NICKNAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER THE LOCH NESS MONSTER??!?!?!" Before I realized it was because of the sans is ness theory.

[ladyinthebluebox]

wE wAnT cOmPaNiOnS tO bE mEaN aGaIn!!!!!!!!!!

my siblings in the maker, you can't handle Taash calling Emmrich a death mage couple times or [checks notes] ...asking Neve about her clothes [?????????????]

[luna-drinker]

A lot of people on here are vocally anti-capitalist but will lick the boots of companies that engage in anti-consumer practices

[ndostairlyrium]

...I may have to check tiles after this q&a lmaoo

But here she is! La criatura! Almost critical in some parts but it's all in good fun <3

Original template by @mermianar

'splaining under the cut

About tile #1: he's KO or injured badly, and for me this prompts Harding to ask for help after Solas patches him momentarily << he later could become an advisor. Or! We go the Gandalf route and he's brought back somehow - Ankh in the back of my head chanting "necropolis necropolis"

About tile #2: Solas helps you to escape the situation, like, he stays behind. You'll find him afterwards and like, you help each other out

Tile #3: It's like, Varric is narrating Quisi's story, but we'll just check boxes

Tile #7: like, he shows up, but momentarily << he's working on his own. Will probably catch up later (if alive)?

Tile #8: can be something like the gauntlet in origins, the search for the first inquisitor, or the warden fortress in da2, like, echoes of the past? I would loooove to see something à la Javik mass effect in which you see the downfall of the prothean empire, but with arlathan instead

Tile #9, #10: HOF is deffo involved, but they're operating elsewhere. They'll send someone instead (hopefully from the Awakening crew)

Tile #12: Fenris vs Solas showdown. I need this.

Tile #14: We're gonna mediate it. I know it.

Tile #20: I'm gonna try to explain this lol You're gonna customize the style of the armor, like, no mismatched parts. Hope it's clear?

[uninformedartist]

While I was peacefully sleeping last night, Vivie went on yet another twitter rant this time inserting her opinions in a place haha she has no damn say on. Yeah the situation is not good using AI of passed on and living VAs is trash behavior. Honestly fok AI, until its more regulated and utilized correctly its no good. What the guy did was bad but Viv is a big time creator with a huge and influential platform with the most gremlin-foot fanbase. Everyone and their mother on twitter knows EXACTLY who you're talking about, yeah he did bad but to have your gremlin fanbase going after the guy too oh my soul rip to him. Also Viv before you go talking about other people and their wrongs focus on paying your artists, creating a safe and hospitable work environment and not throwing twitter tantrums evading responsibility for your actions every week tu Viv, have a clean reputation before bashing others.

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

[beautifulterriblequeen]

Who do you want telling your stories?

Anyone can write that first section - and several someones did, and got their words stripped and stitched into this AI response.

But if you want to reach someone's soul with your writing, you must bare your own.

[deviousdiesel]

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[giantkillerjack]

Your stance on the Dunmeshi queerbait stuff is a bit selfish. Wanting this one manga to go exactly the way you want is a dangerous path - the way you phrase it is so entitled, making it clear it's not about consuming media about lesbians, but making one specific work suit exactly what you want. So many yuri mangas are written by sapphic women. It's a shame your stance is how it is.

And bastardizing the term queerbaiting does no good, either. Neither does the japanese manga market. You should research more before making such hurtful posts.

Hope you have a great day anyway.

[Anon is referring to this post, I believe.]

I mean, one of us certainly IS acting very entitled and weird about the media they like, and it ain't me. Like, I think you just have associated this piece of media with your own identity in an unhealthy way that makes you react to criticism of it with intense defensiveness. You don't own Dungeon Meshi. You aren't Marcille. Dungeon Meshi is NOT a yuri manga; it's a beautiful manga with either sapphic queerbait or a woefully underdeveloped queer relationship at its center.

Maybe if you had an argument besides "it does no good" to criticize it, but you don't. So.

Smh, it's a "dangerous path" - I'm screenshotting that bc I know it'll make my wife laugh. Like, friendo, wanting a piece of media to be better isn't dangerous. But calling someone selfish and hurtful for criticizing media while offering no clarifications as to who I've hurt or how (any fellow sapphics bleeding out in here? Or is it just me with my bonkers-heavy period??)... it's overstepping a social boundary in a bizarre way.

Like, I'm sorry that I'm better at media analysis than you (not actually sorry - I am being petty! :D), but I actually have studied queerbaiting!! I am willing to bet I have done more research than you! (Are you from twitter? You have that vibe. - Again, pettiness.)

... and I spend every day with my wife (the best writer I know; I'm so honored to share stories with her), talking of nothing but our shared special interest all day - i.e. media analysis. (I honestly don't know what neurotypical couples talk about lol)

And I've done enough research to know that one of the side effects of queerbaiting is that fans are often in denial about it and then get REAL MAD when someone points it out. I was there for the Sherlock/Supernatural fandom. Shit was crazy. (Not saying Super-who-lock bc my man Russell Davies was like MAKE THOSE BOYS SMOOCH! 😎)

Also like, my apologies to Ryoko Kui - I really do love Dungeon Meshi - but like, I'm just better at writing and illustrating queer rep than she is. I make real gay protagonists who do gay shit and are gay, and I will never queerbait my audience. Womp womp.

Also, honestly, even if I turn out to be wrong about the queerbaiting by the end of the series, this message was still rude and entitled and weird. We have a lot of issues facing our queer community that endanger real people; someone calling a story queerbaiting mistakenly is not one of them.

[firebirdsdaughter]

I respect your right…

… To interpret this honestly incredibly vague character writing/story telling in this way. I respect it.

You're wrong, but I respect it.

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I really wish some of the actresses who have voiced Disney Princesses would stop comparing their princess to the previous ones and claim how she was the "first" one to have *gasp* independence and strength *gasp*. Have they ever watched a Disney movie outside of their own?

[honourablejester]

I’m scrolling back through the exu: calamity tags, and I’m a year and a half late for this, but I’m honestly a little appalled at the results. Vex, darling, no offense, I love you, but really?

Laerryn’s opening scene was her having a bitch fight with her ex-husband. She cast haste on herself entering a party purely so she could get down the stairs without having to talk to anyone. She used one of her best friends as a guinea pig and got him stuck in an interdimensional tree, and then covered it up. She built a massive magical engine that would rewrite magic and fly a city to the heavens. She did not, at any point, tell anyone in the city this. Literally neck deep in the apocalypse, she was still trying to get that engine off the ground, evil gods be damned, because she has one shot at this, and how fucking dare the Betrayer Gods try to hijack her apogee solstice. She kneejerk semi-knowingly fired the shot that ended the world because a tree stabbed her husband. Staring down the barrel of said end of the world, she has half a fucking hour to redo her life’s work in an attempt to save it, and she coolly shrugs that off with a ‘plenty of time’. She sacrificed her whole city, as well as the entire fucking continent it was on, because the gods had pissed her off now, and she was going to use that same life’s work to take a chunk of their plan very permanently off the board. Asmodeus himself came to yell at her for it, and she basically brushed him off.

Like, I love Vex, I do, but in terms of girlboss? You can’t beat the girl who looked at the gods and went ‘fuck this tower of babel shit, I’m gonna beam myself into your house’. And then followed that up with ‘and if you try to mess with me, I’m gonna beam you into quite literal oblivion’.

Like, she didn’t even try to become immortal first. It wasn’t about becoming a god. It was about ‘if I rip a strand of magic off the surface of the world to park my house on top of your house, which of us is even the boss here?’. The gods ain’t shit.

(And then they kind of are, but hey. Your girl still goes down swinging).

Like, I know there’s only a percent in the difference here. But. This shouldn’t have even been a contest.

reminder: vote for the character who is the most girlboss, not who your favorite is (unless they are one in the same)

[ashterblaster]

bro i literally loathe critics of movies/shows when they don't actually have anything constructive to say besides "i hate X movie/show and here's why you should too" like no thanks, literally I'm not thanking you for not being able to genuinely review something lol

[paradoxo8y]

You enter in the florest hopping to find one of them, for you wish to make a deal. not to long after the tree line the florest itself finds you, a being with to many teeth and not enouh face speaks into your mind.

-What brings you to my florest mortal?

It's voice sonds like a milion of beings and nothing. You know it's to dangerous to look at them the fear will consume your mind.

- I wish for me and my children and their descents to posses riches like the many kings and queens beyond the trees.

You speak surelly, a dangerous game is being played with the creature.

- Is that so? - Their voices amused. - For as long as you pay the price all your family can have the wellness of royalty.

- What's the price? - You ask

The thing laughs at your foolish question. You was dismised as the fae dissapear in the dark.

It's not long into you starts to receive money, all the things can be buyied, your descends have fresh water and more food than all the family ancestors have ever seen.

But the riches come with a price, as the fae have warned, all of you need to work for them, the payment starts to get lower and lower, after your death they still need to make things for the fae.

Breaking the agreement will only curse them further, now yours grandsons work 9 to 5 all weeks to gain the minimun wage, they can't fail or the water will be cut, if they stop paying the faeries there is no food.

Your soul canot rest for you have cursed your bloodline into mindless work in schange of the most basic of necessities.

[essektheylyss]

Yes OBVIOUSLY I am still thinking about this (who the fuck did you think I was) and the thing is, it's quite possible this was already a matter of theory and dogma in the Dynasty. In 97, Essek specifies, "there are so many mysteries, around the beacons, around dunamis, what it's capable of," and I would presume from that that the precise nature of it was not known, nor was it something that had been honed in upon enough in research and study to be considered much more than a matter of spiritual doctrine.

But Caleb describes the foundational aspect of dunamis and the amount of time it's been around with a lot of firmness, especially considering Caleb in particular has no use for gods nor was he raised in an environment that might make him more sympathetic toward giving religious views any weight even as a basis for rebuttal. It would be very easy for the Dynasty to make this claim as a matter of dogma, and given how Essek has, even in disdain, reflected religious views in the Dynasty fairly evenly when describing them, it would not have the same effect coming from him.

Knowing that this description is from Caleb's mouth (and that he very narrowly convinces himself not to give a full lecture on this, meaning he does have a full lecture on it), means that it's probably a piece of information that he's been studying at length and has put research and observation in to narrow in upon.

Anyway, kicking my feet giggling over six years of dunamantic wizard research.

It took me like two hours to process that Caleb's description of dunamis actually was somewhat new information and then go back to grab the transcription because, uh, both "form of magic that exists between the fabric of all of forces of power" and "one of the oldest and most fundamental forces" are far more confidently firm descriptions than we ever got in campaign 2.

Was I actually roughly correct about what dunamis was??? HELLO???

VINDICATION?!?!

[gwendolynnderolo]

critical role ships as hozier songs

vax / keyleth : francesca

percy / vex : work song

pike / scanlan : foreigner's god

fjord / jester : nobody

beau / yasha : as it was

caleb / essek : from eden

imogen / laudna : NFWMB

orym / dorian : like real people do

ashton / fearne : dinner & diatribes

specific lyrics that i feel like represent the pairings under the cut!

vax / keyleth : francesca

how could you think, darling, i'd scare so easily?

my life was a storm, since i was born, how could i fear any hurricane?

if i could hold you for a minute, darling, i'd go through it again

it was too soon, when that part of you was ripped away

i would not change it each time, heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i

percy / vex : work song

when my time comes around, lay me gently in the cold dark earth, no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her

and i was burning up a fever, i didn't care much how long i lived

but i swear, i thought i dreamed her, she never asked me once about the wrong i did

if the lord don't forgive me, i'd still have my baby and my babe would have me

in the low lamplight, i was free, heaven and hell were words to me

pike / scanlan : foreigner's god

she moved with shameless wonder, the perfect creature rarely seen

her eyes look sharp and steady into the empty parts of me

wondering who i copy, mustering some tender charm

breaking if i try conveying, the broken love i make to her

fjord / jester : nobody

i'd be appalled if i saw you ever try to be a saint, i wouldn't fall for someone i thought couldn't misbehave

but i've had no love like your love from nobody

if i had the choice between hearing either noise, the excitement of a thousand, or the soothing of your voice

and on the other side, why should we deny the truth? we could have less to worry about, honey, i won't lie to you

beau / yasha : as it was

and in a few days i will be there, love, whatever here that's left of me is yours, just as it was

the lights were as bright as my baby, but your love was unmoved

tell me if, somehow, some of it remains, how long you would wait for me and how long i've been away

the shape that i'm in now, your shape in the doorway, make your good love known to me or just tell me about your day

and the nights were as dark as my baby, and half as beautiful too

caleb / essek : from eden

there's something tragic about you, something so magic about you, don't you agree?

honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago

innocence died screaming, honey, ask me, i should know

there's something broken about this, but i might be hoping about this

a rope in hand for your other man to hang from a tree

imogen / laudna : NFWMB

give your heart and soul to charity, cause the rest of you, the best of you, honey, belongs to me

ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves?

if i was born as a blackthorn tree, i'd wanna be felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies

ain't it the life of you, your lightning of the blaze?

orym / dorian : like real people do

i will not ask you where you came from, i will not ask and neither should you

i know that look, dear, eyes always seeking, was there in someone that dug long ago

honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips, we should just kiss like real people do

ashton / fearne : dinner & diatribes

i knew well from our first hookup, the look of mischief in your eyes

your friends are a fate that befell me, hell is the talking type, i'd suffer hell if you'd tell me what you'd do to me tonight

honey, i laugh when it sinks in, a pillar i am, upright

now that the evening is slowing, now that the end's in sight, honey, it's easier knowing what you'd do to me tonight

oh, let there be hotel complaints and grievances raised and that kind of love