#doctor makes the most sense to me considering the context so thats why i went all white but... now im not so sure ...

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just wanted to make a color ref for Brain Therapist Magneto from 309 but i needed lights too for some reason

bonus The Flats Only Version

[gayspock]

  ALRIGT PART 2 O EGG DOCTOR WHO S11 TALK 

ONE thing i mut ay aout this sseaosn is that... i know theres another episode  to come,  (witchinders? witchhunters?) that’s history-based, but thus far? taking into account pretty  much everything, in new who: these history episodes have been... some of my FAVOURITE, and i know thats just. Rosa and Demons of Punjab but thwere’s something so... distinct about them?

what i think honestly.... again- i will sya, along wit the episodes, im also listening to the Run fancast in between to try and gather my thoughts- is that as Travis succinctly put it at some point or other... its bc theyre not using hsitory as flavour, and rather theyre taking the setting more into account, and considering its stakes.  

AND THERE ARE DEFFO OTHER EPISODES THAT DO THAT like, the only fires of pompeii,  and human nature / family of blood   and aguably  vincent and the doctor, - and lo and behold, those are also  some of my most favourite episodes, especially in comparison to other history episodes. and i think.. its EXACLTY because of the fact theyre, like, not being fun and cavalier with the handling of, like, the past in like a . this is just!!!!! flavour!! this is just colour but heyre also showing.... some horribl consequences and actually integrating it into the pisode, if that makes? literally any sense whatseoever.

LIKE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY. nothing wrong with simply having them go back in time, for a cool kinda vibe but it always feels such a shame to not... exploit that? AND - you know, as i think about it.. i do sometimes wonder, like? man, do they even GO back in timee that much bc like. sometimes it feels like they never really do but . like man hmm. theres certain episodes where i think like- the snowmen (though i do adore victorian!clara, and have 10mil reason why he hsould have been the companion) and that vampires of venice and deep breath and  et ceterea, et cetera and thoe are all. FINE episodes (with a capital F, i n and e) but like rally i think. they could, with tweaks, be taken from their context and be put somewher else  without much loss

whereass......  the historical element is much more integrated and i dont think. given some nuances you could take it ou, and maybe that motly bc and- also, okay! elephant in the room, but... fuckn....again, thoe god damn mother fucker fan alway bitch about how thi season is “too pc” and all that bollocks,but rosa and d.o.p? are both the BEST episodes of this season so far imo-  and  okay.. i was admittedly WORRIED when i heard dw wa like. going into some of those subjects- and its not bc  i dont WANT it to, im fine with it, but i was worried it wouldnt handle them delicately which would be a massie. unignorable thing for me but they did it  and............ they showed racism, man.

like . i always kind of. hate that part in the shakespeare code where hess like @ martha “just dont worry bout it” because that. okay thats already such an insensitive thing to asay but like. listen it jut makes u realise that.... like.. they dont touch upon that stuff- and PART O ME ALWAYS IS LIKE. LIKE. fine dw is like a show that just isnt built for that conversation- and thats fine, sometimes thats the case, and its inappropriate and should be reserved for much btter platforms to facilitate what needs to be said- but.. LIKE. AH I SO HARD TO DESCIBE BC . im torn on whether i want tosee that myself, bc its definitely not right to turn a blind eye bu .. LISTEN.

POINT IS, I THINK. like they did it w.. like they explored actual history well, and the actualhumanity of people in those situations rather than merely passing through and the struggles ppl went through at certain times and i can respect that shit and like. honestly demons of punjab too like... im not...likefuckn england man. shitshow coutnry. im fucking happy, even if the cunts hated that shit, that they SHOWED even some insight to that given. this fuckn cuntry you know. lol. you know how th

AND I THINK WHAT ALSO MADE ROSA AND D.O.P STANDOUTS FOR THIS SEASON WHERE... the fact they were .. uhh... MUCH MORE INTERESTING? 

AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT, IS- is like... i already mentioned: i dont think theyre exploring the doctor enough a they should, and i know its more companion based which is good but we can definitely have both and... I DONT ALWAYS AGREE WITH .. TRAV&TYBEE FROM THE FANCAST BUT WHA. again they discussed was about how- she really isnt.. GETTING the opportunities she deserves, and she isnt really existing as the doctor and shes smart and shes capable but it feels like theyre reeling her authority in which is weird- and its weird - and....

many of the episodes thus far have also felt. Kinda eh!   LIKE. OKAY. BY FAR... MY LEAST FAVOURITE WAS TSURANGA CONUNDRUM.  WHICH I DIDNT LIKE ON MANY LEVELS. but eh a lotof them are just FINE and even rosa&d.o.p... like- though unconventional, and though they did push the boat out into new ground in terms of like. “before this we usually just ignore race, and go into the show colourblind” (not ignoring bill, bcause quite clearly that was always a topic with her, but ... in terms of a more indepth llook into the problem becausewhilst, yes, the doctor fucking clocking a racist for bill was indeed  satisfying im always a little iffy on whether that really did do anything, exct serve as a HELL YEAH PUNCH racists, which is- WHICH IS GOOD AND IM GOING ON A LONG TANGENT HERE, but i dont think it reallyactually talks, or offers any conversation on the topic, and is shallow in a weird way and idkif it should be applauded as much as it is esp. as it like... fuckn white man doing it still??)   BUT ANYWAYS ALTHOUGH THOSE DID . KINDA PUSH IT IN TERMS OF DCOTOR WHO ON THAT, IM WONDERING A LITTLE ... like..

in terms of , like, what makes docto who doctor who? not a lt has been... very standout, and there hasnt been. any REMARKABLE... decision or cnsequence, thats fuckn haunting and. although very much, those two episodes especially are a good look into some aspects of humanity i uess, i dont think theres ever any... LIKE WHAT DOCTOR WHO USUALLY DOES UIE WELL, IS ISS CAMPY AND ITS FUCKN  . KINDA WEIRD BUt it does... LIKE IM THINKING BAST BELOW, whilst thats a controvesial episode i think in terms of its quality i personally always liked it bc its so. quintessential of doctor who where its . REAL SIMPLE but it is.... its such a . decision to make in terms of morality, and thats- LIKE, THE DOCTOR HERSELF HASNT HAD HER CHANCE! LIKE ITS ALL BOILT DOWN T THAT SITUATION OFF THEM NOT... GIVING HER THE MOMENTS SHE DESERVES,,,,

 and theres also very itte. fun and cool time stuff going on and the sci fi is very lacking and. LIKE AGAIN, IT DOSNT FEEL LIKE DOCTOR WHO- AND THAS FINE... IN THAT ITS DIFFERENT, BC THAS WHAT DOCTOR WHO DOES, BUT ISNT IT. losing kind of all sight, wilst still being- whilst still being safe in the fact that they dont.. take any ... BIG BIG LEAPS DOES THAT MAKE SENSE LIKE THOSE EPISODES. THAT I LIKE. ARE GOOD BUT LIE- 

theres very much.... a lack  of sstandout-stanouts LIKE YOU KNOW HOW. EVERY season has fucking RINGERS that just bring it to the fucking tabl and then episodes that arent BAD but theyre like. Good! :£ and . I THINK THATS WHAT A LOT OF TH. THIS SEASON HAS KIND OF BEEN IN A WAY, and ther ehast ... LIKE LITERALLY NOT A SIINGLE FOE HAS BEEN. CAPITVATING AT ALL THUS FAR FOR ME. AND OCNSSQUENCE HAS BEEN LACKING I THA KAES SENSE LIKE THEY... like its WEIRD bc . despite rosa being on episode where like. i was genuinly very scared for ryan especially like. listen it feels like... in a LOT of these stories theyve just been skirting along side and it makes it fele-  it makes it feel- MEANINGLESS?  to some degree if hat makes sense and though they are good stories and it maks sense and. its GOOD that they didnt even change anything in d.o.p because that was the whole point, but when every episode is LIKE that its like... like. i dont know like there just havent been any iconic foess thus far, or anythin that relly defins thi and..

EP1 had te champion guy, who was functional but nothing too remarkablee... epi 2 arguably didnt even have a villain at all... epi 3/’s villain was  one note, and thats sth else i could get into,  but  dont consider him iconic (but i guess that was due to again the context... epi 4  was . spidters. yuh. and epi 5 was  that and epi 6 was . yEAH AND 

OKAY. OKAY. EPI 5. TC. THAT COULLD HAVE BEEN A GOOD VILLAIN I IT WASNT FOR THAT DESIGN (and this actually. seeing as ive brought up that ancast i listen to a lot, i will say i have to oppose both trav&tyb for their opinion of th ,. bECAUSSSE I CANT) LIKE. ALRIGHT. I THINK SOMETHING LIEK THAT COULD HAVE BEEN GENUINELY SINSITER .AND I THINK IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT BETTEIF IT TOOK THAT DARKER TONE, BECAUSE THE CUTE GREMLIN LIKE CREATURE SIMPLY JUT... the visual of that, jutaposed with the fact an apparently insanely prestigious woman just acrificed her life to ave them all  isnt... it doent MESH and in my lst post i mentioned the tonal issues because what this reminds m is, yep!! SLITHEEN bc those episodes in s1 could have been so good if. UH. not for the fart jokes nd it isnt to that . absolutely sdif s9d NIGHTMARE extent but the.. FUCKN. ITS JUST  A FUCKN GREMLIN LIKE-  consider the alternativ,e the worse part o this episode, and the . dude whos pregnant thing oay just cut that out entirely bc thats totally detached from everything thats going on and was such a very clarly shoehorned in way to like thro w a wrecnh in the works. LIKE CT THAT OUT. INSTEAD TAKE THE DARKER TRAKE- AND WHILST I DONT ALWAYS AGREE WITH THAT, GIVEN WHAT THEYRE DOING HERE... LIKE ITS JUST THE MORE APPROPRIATE OPTION.

LIKE IF U WANTED THE GREMLIN? GO WITH SOMETHING GOOFIER. AND IM NOT ASAYING U CANT DEFY CONVENTION, OR HAVE HUMOUR IN DARK SOTRIES, AND ARKNESS IN HUMOROUS STORIES BUT... you have to do that elegantly, because theres a reason why that kind of thing is unconventional, and prasised when its done right- bc its hard to o- and if u cant do it then dont do th. LIKE I HAD A BIG ISSE WITH HAT BUT ALSO OTHER THINGS IN THAT EPISODE SUCH AS. uhhhhh INTRODUCING THINGS JAND THEN DROPPING THEM BUT DECIDING TO STILL EXPLORE PRGNANT MAN BECAUSE WHY WHY WH

[theantisocialcritic]

Archive Project - March 12, 2014 - Mr. Peobody and Sherman Review

For the past couple of Animated Features i've seen in theaters there has been a trailer for this "thing" called Box Trolls. This movie is apparently being made by the production house behind Coraline and ParaNorman. That fact alone, more than the trailer itself, makes me want to go see this movie. Whoever these "Laika" people are they are insanely talented with stop-motion animated. The insane level of detail that goes into their movies is terrifying to comprehend. So with that in mind, the philosophy for trying to sell this movie to audiences was to apparently show the movie's production… instead of the plot or characters. They just released a second trailer for this too… and this one also doesn't tell us anything about the box or characters. It works almost as a before and after shot. All the cool things they bragged about in the last trailer are shown in full force and it LOOKS good. It strikes me that there is a lack of confidence that people would be interested in the story they have to tell given how odd it looks. This assumption wouldn't be too out there as ParaNorman didn't actually do well when it was released, sadly. Maybe i'm wrong, heck I want to go see the movie cause I know it's full of a lot of talent. Who knows… ONTO THE REVEIW!!! ————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————— Mr. Peabody and Sherman, 2014. Rob Minkoff 92 Minutes Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMl2tTVwsZA ————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————— Famed animator Jay Ward is a critical figure in the history of cartoon animation. His work in the 60s brought forth a lot of major television cartoons and helped bring animation, which had previously largely been reserved to theaters due to it's high production costs, into the homes of everyday people. His work during this time comprises a list of some of animation's deepest roots: Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do Right, Fractured Fairytales and of course Peabody's Improbable History. In the latter of the list: Mr. Peabody is the world's most intelligent dog. He adopts a human boy in a witty role reversal of the common "Boy and His Dog" trope and then uses his intellect to build a time machine known as the WABAC machine to give as a gift to his boy, Sherman. Peabody's Improbable History was usually incorporated into Jay Ward's Rocky and His Friends, a half hour collection of animations from his catalog that ran into the mid-1960s which was later renamed The Bullwinkle Show. Peabody's Improbable History died with Rocky and Bullwinkle and was never successfully revived. Flash forward to the 2010s. Director Rob Minkoff, famed for his masterpiece The Lion King, decides he wants to do a passion project for one of his inspirational childhood cartoons. He manages to get the rights, the funding and does it. The result is an updated version of Peabody's Improbable History, titled Mr. Peabody and Sherman. I will give this movie credit where it was due. I went into the movie expecting it to be bad. The trailers didn't impress me at all and I wasn't excited to see one of the cartoons I loved as a child repurposed into disposable children's entertainment. Upon seeing it I can now say this: Mr. Peabody and Sherman was not as bad as I was assuming it was going to be. It however isn't a great, lasting or even very memorable film though. Its just really dull and inconsistent. One of my biggest fears going into the film was that the characters were going to get butchered and made stupid. Mr. Peabody sounded ultimately dumb as a character in the way he was described and Sherman looked like an idiot, hyper active kid with ADHD and voiced by a terrible child actor. Surprisingly  most of those things never FULLY came into fruition. I mean you can definitely tell Sherman is played by a kid who has never voice acted before but the things that would have bothered me weren't sharp enough to bother me. The opening scenes of the film play out as a… oddly morbid and dark, but clear homage to the original episode of Peabody's Improbable History with a lot of the same story beats being reenacted into horrible 3rd dimensional animation (i'll get back to that..). Even some of the cinematography is meant to evoke the original show which is facisnating to behold. This strikes me as a reassuring pat on the back to fans that the people behind this did their homework and care enough to try to make this for fans, by fans. Which I would appreciate, if I considered this film to be anything special Something that really bothers me though is the way the story plays out. There are a lot of plot threads that pop up that don't make any sense in the context of the movie. For example, it's implied throughout the movie that Peabody and Sherman as going through effectively, daddy issues given that Peabody can't admit he loves his Sherman and such. But that defeats the entire purpose of why Peabody adopted Sherman in the first place; he did it so that he could give Sherman the love and support he never got as a child. From the way they interact in the first scenes and throughout the movie, its clear that they have a healthy relationship with each other. Peabody takes care of Sherman, provides him with everything he can and teaches him everything he can. What is the point of sticking daddy issues into the mix? Especially when another story plot deals with Peabody having to prove to the government that he is a good father figure, which by rights he already appears to be. The ONLY evidence that Peabody might be a bad father is that Sherman bits a kid a school for picking on him which is implied to be somewhat justified…? It just feels like outside of the main story involving time travel, all of the treads are messy and inconsistent. Also they try to evoke parallels Doctor Who by making the WABAC perform and evoke visual similarities to a TARDIS… Who wants to be original with time travel when they could just invoke pop culture imagery more for less effort? Also the logic behind the time travel doesn't make any sense.. It didn't in the original show either but that was part of the joke.   I must also complain about he sound design in this. It was horrible… Theres a scene early on in which Peabody and Sherman are riding on top of a wave down a sewer and the sound effects, other than being much quieter than they should have been, sounded like they were panning wave sounds up and down. It sounded cheap and didn't evoke what should have been the appropriate sounds for this scene. Overall, three works really strike me about this movie. Those words are: "Missing The Point". Peabody's Improbable History was a fun show, not because it was well animated or slick, but because it was well written. The people who made this show had limited time and money to make these cartoons and couldn't afford the same animation houses that made classics like Tom and Jerry or Looney Tunes. They had to compensate for that by making the writing pick up the slack for everything else. It had to be fun and witty and it succeeded in doing so. Peabody's Improbable History was intelligent and was meant to teach kids about history in silly ways. Mr. Peabody and Sherman doesn't teach kids very much, other than a historically inaccurate retelling to the French Revolution. This movie has it way too easy. With the ease of computers nowadays entire animated movies can be made quickly and cheaply. Thats why so many 3D animated movies are awful nowadays. 2D animations and shop motion ones take a lot more work and have a different feel to them. It feels like with those that there are people working on them. When you get a modern 3D animated movie in the hands of people who aren't creative or innovative enough to make something interesting with it like Pixar, Dreamworks or Disney are then the end result is garbage like Ice Age 4 and The Nut Job… I would have at least preferred this movie if the people behind it made it 2D to be more respectful to the source material. Heck, Rob Minkoff made the best 2D animated movie of all time! He could have made something great! Thankfully, Peabody's Improbable History isn't some great thing that needed to be preserved creatively. It wasn't something great like RoboCop or Total Recall that didn't need a reboot. I'd be all for it if Cartoon Network or Nick managed to secure the rights to reboot the Rocky and Bullwinkle show in a new format if the right people were behind it. This movie didn't ruin anything by being dull. Considering some of the other horrible movies based on the Rock and Bullwinkle show that have been released like Rock and Bullwinkle… Dudley Do Right.. and Boris and Natasha… I think I can forgive this film for a lot!   My Recommendation: The original episodes are Peabody's Improbable History are still floating around Youtube nowadays. The original 5 minute episode tells the exact same story as the movie. No I don't support internet Piracy, so I wouldn't recommend that you check out the original 5 Minute episode on youtube which can be found in the link below. I would not recommend you click that link and watch it instead of paying to see the movie in theaters. Do so at your own risk! :P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owB6zFSZbng ————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————— Mr. Peabody and Sherman is now in theaters. Thank you for reading! Live long and prosper!

[putris-et-mulier]

I had a hard time growing up with my father cause he does what we'd call tough love I guess, but I'm pretty sure a lot of it was abuse. But I always wanted to have kids and I am really good with em, people always point it out cause theres this idea guys arent supposed to be good with kids, that is ridiculous. But I think I just wanna prove I'd be a better father than him... All the discussion here about abortion and reasons to be a parent and wanting to be kinda savior to your kids it really 1/2

it really made me reconsider why I want to have kids. I don’t think proving I’d be a good dad is enough reason and also seems like a burden to put on the kid… idk if this makes sense. I wouldn’t ask a girl to abort cause thats her decision and I’m bi so I also think a lot about adoption. If I happen to have kids I will try my best to be a good dad but now I think I will wait and try to work out my issues first… that I don’t anything to my father and I dont have to live to prove him wrong.

Firstly, you definitely need to work on those issues before you have children in any fashion, especially adoption, because not wanting disability doesn’t protect your children from becoming disabled

Secondly, you might want to consider adopting older NTAB children because so many don’t get adopted and if they do become disabled they will still have NTAB conditioning so it won’t be like raising a child from a foreign culture but even then you have to make sure it’s the right choice for you

Thirdly, you don’t have to prove anything.

As someone who has always been in and out of hospitals and doctors offices for 30 years I can tell you that male nurses are by far the best and most any female nurse that has worked with one will tell you the same.

There is this misconception that men can’t be carrying or compassion or safe but men who go into that line of work or just sincerely want to be fathers like mine are the absolute best. I know it takes a unique person to be like this, male or female, but in this case I think masculine conditioning is actually beneficial.

Cis women are expected to bear pain better than cis men despite what the social rhetoric says and because they are conditioned to hide pain so often they have less empathy for other people in pain. They are also expected to be in those positions so they tend to be there because it’s expected, not because they actually care.

For anyone out there male or non-binary who is interested in becoming a nurse or caretaker or aides in classrooms and at disabled camps or special ed teacher, or anything involving disabled kids, please pursue this interest!

I have MD and it’s very rare in females so when I went to MDA camp there were just a few of us girls in a cabin but many other ones for the male children. Before McDonald’s bought it and used it as a way to make money off of experimenting on disabled children (I haven’t mentioned that in a while so a lot of you may not know the story) anyway, before that the counselors were all teenagers. There was an adult staff but they were there to supervise all of us, having teenage NTAB counselors be the only ones that took care of us or live with us was absolutely amazing.

We didn’t feel like we were being monitored constantly because everyone was a teenager which meant they were young and cool, everybody wants to be a teenager when you’re a kid. They also treated us like we were just kids, not disabled kids. We were cute and we were just there to have fun around our own people so they were there primarily as counselors, no one had formal training or anything so they hadn’t been taught not to listen to us yet. They all knew first-aid and were told about the conditions but they didn’t know what to do to take care of us so they asked and they listened. It was like this magical place until McDonald’s House™ bought us but things weren’t quite as good for my male peers. But let me put my epiphany in context.

Every single night the teenagers had a huge party. They took shifts on who would stay with us at night so everyone spent at least half their nights getting absolutely wasted and having casual sex in the woods.

There was always one night when the campers all had a “dance” and the counselors were always excited to give us a good time because we were so adorably excited to have our own party with them. And the counselors off nighttime shift those nights partied heavier than ever and those who didn’t want to were more than happy to just sleep with us. They weren’t buzz skills, they were helping people party.

It was the closest thing to a utopia I’ve ever experienced.

None of this would be allowed to go on anymore and it wouldn’t have been at that time either if the adults knew what was going on but we were all in it together, we were all technically kids. Even though our counselors were also kids we were always the safest when they were running things. The type of person who is going to even be interested in doing something like this let alone doing it to that extent is still that type of person even if they are away from home. They partied hard, really hard, and since they had the freedom to do so they took responsibility. Everyone had equal time at the parties and none of them resented us because we weren’t a responsibility, we were just too young to party so everyone who actually wanted some sleep was happy to be there in the cabins with us at night, it was especially fun for us in the girls cabin because each night we had different counselors telling us all the gossip so we ended up knowing everyone’s dirty laundry.

There were a very few teenage campers but they were “allowed” to go to the parties because they weren’t crippled kids, they were other teenagers. This also encouraged the older kids with MD to feel like capable human beings and so they would help look after all of us kids which is an experience every disabled child should have. They were cool because they were teenagers but they were also one of us, they weren’t one of them.

None of them did this because anyone was trying to socialize them or “make them feel important” by giving them “responsibilities” they did it because they wanted to. Everyone was in on it together and everyone wanted to have the best time possible so they chipped in during so they could party harder at night. It probably goes without saying that it was an amazing example for those of us who were younger.

We were observant so we always knew when someone was being forced or “assigned” to look after us but these guys weren’t, they treated us like little brothers and sisters because our bond came organically. We actually had role models that were one of us, going to the camp was one of the first times that a lot of kids realized that they could have the chance to be actual teenagers.

It’s kind of funny, they were young enough that they didn’t have a hard time bouncing back from a night of drinking or going without sleep but it made mornings easier for us children because a lot of them were waking up with something that felt like a bit of chronic illness themselves so they couldn’t have forced us to use all of our spoons first thing in the morning even if they wanted to.

But one night a party had gotten too hardy and so there was a shortage of capable counselors the next morning and the shortage was in the male cabins, the girls could always hang. Our counselors split up to go help get all the kids up which took a lot of time. The counselors that were best taking care of us physically split up amongst all of the cabins and that morning we had some of the female counselors from the male cabins come to help us instead of all of our usual ones.

I got a girl I eventually got an innocent childhood crush on, she was always “one of the boys” but she was so confident that no one would have described her like that, she was just herself and that made her a badass. She was also beautiful but I did have legitimate non-shallow reasons!

I was a lot stronger then so I was taking off all of my pajamas as quickly as I could because we all knew about the situation so I was trying to get undressed as quickly as possible so she could help one of the younger kids but she stopped me from taking my shirt off.

She said that I could keep it on while she was helping me into my pants so I wouldn’t be completely naked. I laughed to let her know it was no big deal and told her that I didn’t mind. That’s what I learned to say to the nurses throughout my life to make them a little less resentful about me but it didn’t work on her.

She looked extremely frustrated and I realized years later she wasn’t frustrated with me, per se, she was frustrated with what I had said. She said, “there’s no reason you have to be completely naked in front of everyone, most people don’t do that.”  I didn’t know what to do because I only learned to make “normal” people feel as comfortable as possible so I tried to tell her it was fine but she cut me off and said, “You know that I work in one of the boys cabins even though I’m a girl? It’s because there aren’t a lot of guy counselors so none of the boys get any modesty. I only help change one thing at a time so the boys don’t feel completely embarrassed and they still get to feel like boys.”

That was language I understood even if the concept blew me away and it’s something that comes to mind quite often.

I suddenly noticed that there were usually only people around us that had vaginas. That had to be weird for the guys. I then noticed that that they were treated like girls, not like NTAB boys. I’ve always wondered if it was any different for the boys who like other boys, because I figured that must make them more uncomfortable.

Disabled people are conditioned to be asexual but a heteronormative asexual. We are expected to get “crushes” and it’s completely safe because we can’t have sex. Why medical professionals think you can’t have sex because you sit down a lot I have no idea.

Imagine how little representation or participation socially that  gender and sexual minority children get, it’s a million times worse when they are disabled. There has been and always will be a huge need for people to work in caretaking positions that aren’t cis women.

[lilietsblog]

Strike Witches episode 1: first impression

so im gonna try strike witches: the unknown anime i chose to not familiarize myself with the premise beyond 'something like fighter pilots i think?' that i picked up by osmosis

oh hey look a discarded doll. def war is hell vibes here

cant say im a fan of the visuals from the first several seconds, the color scheme and everything seems kinda bland? the only reason im making this observation is bc i had to pause to let it load tho

oh look Very Noticable CGI

(i have a headache and am vaguely nauseous and basically am Very Cranky as a result)

man, there aren't even characters yet. it's been almost two minuets and there still aren't people for me to relate too that's a crime by which i dont mean that literally but just 'this might not be the thing i want to watch right now'

oh hey monsters okay this is better than just straight up war is hell between humans omfg in 1939 subtle 'we wanna play with ww2 era toys but without bringing up the fact japan was on the side of nazi germany' i assume sure im onboard if thats the premise

magitech??? magitech!!!

that's. their legs. in those things. are they evoking Baba Yaga and her travels in a stupa bc thats okay panty shots i think imma quit at the end of this episode

oh i. just realized this is the movie that actually makes it a bit better and gives me more hope lets try the actual first episode first

ok the first shot is of the sky and not a discarded doll that's already better

holy shit whatever this video player is it allows to load external captions from pc or url. technology progresses at an incredible pace

i love that the fighter planes are clearly shown attacking the vortex first 9u9

opening has so many girls wearing shoes but no pants. im just. this entire device's entire point is clearly to fanservice that does not mean this is bad character-wise yet ofc. i watched and liked fucking rosario+vampire. this show has a chance yet. lets see what its got

the op song is nice its also very straightforward about aesthetic of this show being 'girls without pants in absolutely non-sexual situaitons' and i can respect that

and oh look it actually does start with characters interacting right after exposition that's what im talking about

okay so now might be a good time to mention that the first context i heard of strike witches was uh. misogynist porn. like the kind that doesnt go for 'look at these relatable characters being kinky' but for 'consider: what if powerful girls got hurt instead'. so thats the context in my brain and i want to fucking overwrite it

military uniforms+panties are definitely an aesthetic and im incredibly amused by it okay every single girl here doesnt wear pants sure that actually looks like a swimsuit rather than panties and thats nice

also they are characterizing the protagonist! like i know thats not much to ask for but im going into this straight off blogging about madoka and this is just such a relief! she is kind and brave and plucky and talks gently to a scared kitten and I love her also she Does Not Think Things Through shes like the typical shonen protagonist but a girl. im in

Yoshika her name is Yoshika

and her motivation is her dad but eh sure whatever I kind of like the touch of 'it was classified military information' not sure why

theres nothing about Yoshika that qualifies her other than her personality and magic powers huh

yep thats a swimsuit aww shes a healer!

I love that the military observers rush to help as soon as they see something is off theres work and then theres helping emergencies

oh!!!! her mom and grandma are around!!! and teaching her!!! im happy!!!

Yoshika why is all that a 'but' to 'you should learn to control your power' i dont think there was any subtext of 'you shouldnt even try' there? or was it? maybe i should just trust her for now

awww Yoshika actually doesn't want to go to war <3 but this woman thinks she will because she wants to help people and she'll help people the most there I I like this ;~; I'm so happy I like this I love Yoshika's 'fuck war' instinct I love her drive to help everyone and in fact the trope of magical healer almost killing themselves to help a patient (despite it being professionally inadvisable) is actually the thing i made my very first rp character sooo :> you know. stuff something is fishy about that letter. its no coincidence it was sent just now... I love Sakamoto and her A+ social skills HA HA HA HA HA also huh... she's not in on whatever's up with that letter

Yoshika so uh alright she'll take her without enlisting her huh interesting but uh what about school I guess military and witches can override all that and it kind of makes sense to me thematically

'Britannia' gee how familiar that name sounds and i dont mean geographically

so hm could Yoshika be a military doctor without actually enlisting? how do the formalities work there i like that Sakamoto doesnt question her dislike of all things military like its unexpected but mostly bc Sakamoto's got a one track mind that has a hard time expecting anything other than what she wants to happen and beyond that its like 'sure ok a conscientous objector got it' even though its weird how there would be conscientous objectors to fighting MONSTERS its not like theres an alternative to not fight I mean also clearly Yoshika is a kid and theres room left for that in other characters' treatment of her opinions and I love that they dont get Offended that she doesn't understand and Have Proper Respect well Sakamoto doesn't at least not sure about how other people will react

man that raccoon on the road sure was convenient though. like i first thought it was Sakamoto's deliberate tactic to gauge Yoshiko's powers. she was opening her eye to i guess do just that visually and then the raccoon appeared and it just felt very natural that one follows from the other? is this foreshadowing or are the writers of this anime just unfamiliar with the concept of 'subtle' i dont mind if its the latter tbh

(im writing a ton of reflection bc the episode broke after i tried to rewind a little and i decided to download it after all, and its doing that)

so far, this show seeems nicely straightforward and fast paced. like, really straightforward. yoshiko's introduction? saving a kitten. making a ww2 era anime without difficult shit? monsters attacked in 1939. motivations and revelations are handled with all the subtlety of a hammer to the face, from the raccoon to the letter. even fanservice has the same charming quality that makes me actually be okay with the entire point of their outfits being gratuitous panty shots. making sense and having pretense is for the weak. this anime knows what it wants to be and is going straight for that. i respect that approach

also its p clear that what it wants is to be character driven and its been Delivering on that since its only half episode one and i already Love two characters personally and also some supporting cast (Yoshiko's entire family)

and like you know that in some other show GASP MIGHT MY DAD BE STILL ALIVE would be a reveal saved for like. the halfway point. but here its literally the starting point spurring everything into action bc all other motivation was just too slow to get the character where she was supposed to go. good job yo

there's this trope where the main character doesn't want to go into the main conflict (Refusal of the Call)... and very often it's handled by either 1) letting them wallow until everything goes to shit showing how wrong they were or 2) immediately conveniently wrecking everything so they have no choice now I uh. am really glad this show went a different way if just joining the conflict isnt a good enough motivation GET A BETTER ONE and IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE ANGST (and it doesn't have to be romance, either!!! why are those two the only things writers seem to be able to think of jfc)

...okay I was more like two thirds through the episode rather than half but my points stand

okay so I think what just happened was Yoshiko realized the parallel between herself and her dad leaving and got scared and her response was to comfort other people and I love that <3

I love that Sakamoto doesn't have a doubt in her mind that Yoshiko isn't going to be useless and will definitely help and also comes to her to discuss this explicitly <3

man I love Sakamoto and her absolute lack of social graces and sense of when enough is enough

and the fact that Yoshiko is working chores now and seems to enjoy it too <3

and it's when it's established that she's part of the team that Sakamoto starts showing off <3 she clearly has a dedicated well thought out campaign of convincing Yoshiko going on and its borne out not of manipulation but of clear conviction that she is right and she just has to show the girl what she doesnt know yet <3

ahaha of course showing off worked <3

so I paused and imma make a bet with myself on whether Sakamoto is going to tell her 'if you liked that you can join' right now or leave that unsaid subtly my bet is that she is, bc subtlety is an entirely foreign concept to this wonderful human being, and if i lose im going to make my bed right now not even waiting for the end of the episode let's see

oh she starts with education huh, this is not widely known? i had no idea anyway lets see if she says the thing

I love that it's her dad and it's this kind thing of 'this is what he said he was going to do, and he did' <3

huh so that was slightly more subtlety than I expected, she offered her to try them rather than trying to recruit her directly so I lost the bet gotta go make the bed now

BAM DONE YAY GOOD SELF CARE

hey more main characters!!!! I love all of you already!!! you have personality and discuss things that make sense!!! including their outfits!!! I love them!!!! the parasol girl is my favorite but also the tiny girl and the red-haired girl they are all my favorites!!!

omfg a month of travel and half a day early Yoshiko gets impatient I love her

YOU ARE A NONCOMBATANT she said with the steely confidence of a commanding officer <3

I love so much that Sakamoto respects Yoshiko's boundaries re: fighting???

OMG THE ENDING SONG I LOVE IT

I love the upbeat and airy tone this show manages to have despite the premise??? like I had trepidations at the start bc I dislike doom&gloom-heaviness of 'war is hell' narratives and I'm not a WW2 affictionado. but instead of shiny boom boom toys and angst it's all character adorableness and so much sky??? even the lack of pants ends up feeling like freedom this is the anime we all deserve